Patents Assigned to ImmerVision, Inc.
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Patent number: 11962746Abstract: A stereoscopic vision system uses at least two cameras having different parameters to image a scene and create stereoscopic views. The different parameters of the two cameras can be intrinsic or extrinsic, including, for example, the distortion profile of the lens in the cameras, the field of view of the lens, the orientation of the cameras, the positions of the cameras, the color spectrum of the cameras, the frame rate of the cameras, the exposure time of the cameras, the gain of the cameras, the aperture size of the lenses, or the like. An image processing apparatus is then used to process the images from the at least two different cameras to provide optimal stereoscopic vision to a display.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Pascale Nini, Xiaojun Du, Valentin Bataille, Jhinseok Lee
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Publication number: 20240037719Abstract: A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Patrice ROULET, Pierre KONEN, Jocelyn PARENT, Simon THIBAULT, Xavier DALLAIRE, Xiaojun DU, Ebrahim MORTAZY
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Patent number: 11867898Abstract: A method for designing an optical system for providing reliable, robust and successful realization of a distortion variation function is presented. In a preferred embodiment, the proposed distortion variation optical system includes at least two non-symmetrical elements, which are moving in the transverse direction. The proposed freeform lens contains two transmissive refractive surfaces. The freeform elements designed with this method have preferably a flat surface and a non-symmetrical freeform surface. The two plano-surfaces are preferably made to face each other, so that a miniature camera can be offered. The value of the non-symmetrical freeform surface is used to produce variable optical power when the two freeform elements undergo a relative movement in the vertical direction. Using this method, an optical system with an active distortion, smaller form factor, and better imaging quality can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: IMMERVISION, INCInventors: Zhenfeng Zhuang, Jocelyn Parent, Patrice Roulet, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Valentin Bataille, Kevin Miao, Manuel Magini, Marie-Pier Bellemare, Viacheslav Natashyn, Xiaojun Du, Shirley Chan, Marcia Griffith, Sophie Gigliotti, Ebrahim Mortazy
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Patent number: 11790495Abstract: A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Pierre Konen, Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Xiaojun Du, Ebrahim Mortazy
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Patent number: 11734793Abstract: An optical apparatus captures images of a wide-angle scene with a single camera having a continuous panomorph zoom distortion profile. When combined with a processing unit, the hybrid zoom system creates an output image with constant resolution while allowing continuous adjustment in the magnification and field of view of the image without interpolation like a digital zoom system or without any moving parts like an optical zoom system.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini
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Patent number: 11659287Abstract: A method to design miniature wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses by using on-purpose distortion to have shorter focal length than usual for a given image sensor size and a desired image projection. This results in optical systems having miniaturization ratio, defined as the ratio between the total track length and the image footprint diameter, smaller than 0.8. The resulting image from these systems having on-purpose distortion can then be processed with a processor to remove the on-purpose distortion and to output an image with the targeted distortion profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Pierre Konen, Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Zhenfeng Zhuang
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Patent number: 11561391Abstract: A method for designing an optical system for providing reliable, robust and successful realization of a distortion variation function is presented. In a preferred embodiment, the proposed distortion variation optical system includes at least two non-symmetrical elements, which are moving in the transverse direction. The proposed freeform lens contains two transmissive refractive surfaces. The freeform elements designed with this method have preferably a flat surface and a non-symmetrical freeform surface. The two plano-surfaces are preferably made to face each other, so that a miniature camera can be offered. The value of the non-symmetrical freeform surface is used to produce variable optical power when the two freeform elements undergo a relative movement in the vertical direction. Using this method, an optical system with an active distortion, smaller form factor, and better imaging quality can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Zhenfeng Zhuang, Jocelyn Parent, Patrice Roulet, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Valentin Bataille, Kevin Miao, Manuel Magini, Marie-Pier Bellemare, Viacheslav Natashyn, Xiaojun Du, Shirley Chan, Marcia Griffith, Sophie Gigliotti, Ebrahim Mortazy
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Patent number: 11528464Abstract: A stereoscopic vision system uses at least two cameras having different parameters to image a scene and create stereoscopic views. The different parameters of the two cameras can be intrinsic or extrinsic, including, for example, the distortion profile of the lens in the cameras, the field of view of the lens, the orientation of the cameras, the positions of the cameras, the color spectrum of the cameras, the frame rate of the cameras, the exposure time of the cameras, the gain of the cameras, the aperture size of the lenses, or the like. An image processing apparatus is then used to process the images from the at least two different cameras to provide optimal stereoscopic vision to a display.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Pascale Nini, Xiaojun Du, Valentin Batalle, Jhinseok Lee
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Patent number: 11475546Abstract: A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Pierre Konen, Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Xiaojun Du, Ebrahim Mortazy
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Patent number: 11189011Abstract: An optical apparatus captures images of a wide-angle scene with a single camera having a continuous panomorph zoom distortion profile. When combined with a processing unit, the hybrid zoom system creates an output image with constant resolution while allowing continuous adjustment in the magnification and field of view of the image without interpolation like a digital zoom system or without any moving parts like an optical zoom system.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini
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Patent number: 11172092Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with the invention allow automatic recording, sharing, and communicating of different parameters associated with images and their imager to define a specific system behavior of a display device or an algorithm unit. Examples of information include imager parameters, environment parameters, image processing and enhancement parameters, coordinates of a section of wide-angle scene image content, display parameters, defined user experience, defined system behavior or any information to be recorded, shared, and communicated. To avoid loss of information, the information is encoded directly in the picture using a marker. This way, the information is robustly transferred from the imager to the display unit. According to the information, the final image can be automatically corrected and enhanced before display, different associated parameters can be displayed on final image or be used with another output.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini, Jocelyn Parent, Patrice Roulet, Simon Thibault, Hu Zhang, Marie-Eve Gosselin, Valentin Bataille, Xiaojun Du
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Patent number: 10958834Abstract: The present invention is a system for assembling panoramic images of a scene captured by a panoramic image capture device having a decoding unit configured to read image content data from the image capture device, an information reading unit configured to extract device parameters about the capture device, and an image processing unit configured to assemble an output image using the image content data and the device parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Xiaojun Du, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Jocelyn Parent, Pascale Nini, Alessandro Gasparini, Valentin Bataille, Jhinseok Lee
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Patent number: 10924623Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with the invention allow automatic recording, sharing, and communicating of different parameters associated with images and their imager to define a specific system behavior of a display device or an algorithm unit. Examples of information include imager parameters, environment parameters, image processing and enhancement parameters, coordinates of a section of wide-angle scene image content, display parameters, defined user experience, defined system behavior or any information to be recorded, shared, and communicated. To avoid loss of information, the information is encoded directly in the picture using a marker. This way, the information is robustly transferred from the imager to the display unit. According to the information, the final image can be automatically corrected and enhanced before display, different associated parameters can be displayed on final image or be used with another output.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventors: Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini, Jocelyn Parent, Patrice Roulet, Simon Thibault, Hu Zhang, Marie-Eve Gosselin, Valentin Bataille, Xiaojun Du
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Patent number: 10893196Abstract: A panoramic camera is provided with an orientation sensor to record orientation along with a panoramic image. The display or print image is selected from the captured panoramic image, a warped, non-scale-correct image. The selection of the display image is done using the orientation sensor. The orientation sensor data can be recorded with the panoramic image as metadata. The orientation sensor can also be used to control an external display and/or panoramic image selection during browsing.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.Inventor: Jean-Claude Artonne
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Patent number: 10795120Abstract: A miniature wide-angle imaging lens has a miniaturization ratio, of a total track length from the center of a first surface to a focal plane by an image circle diameter, with a value less than 3.0. The imaging lens includes, starting from an object side of the lens, a first group of at least three optical elements, a second group including an aperture stop and an optical element immediately in front of or behind the aperture stop, and a third group of at least two optical elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Patrice Roulet, Hu Zhang, Pascale Nini, Pierre Konen
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Patent number: 10748243Abstract: An image distortion transformation method for transforming an original image by an imager having an original distortion profile to a transformed image optimized for a distortion processing unit includes inputting the original image from the imager into the transformation unit, inputting an original image distortion profile into the original distortion profile memory of the transformation unit, and inputting a target distortion profile into the target distortion profile memory of the transformation unit. The target distortion profile is different from the original distortion profile. The method further includes transforming the original image into a transformed image by transforming the distortion profile of the original image from the original image distortion profile to the target image distortion profile, and outputting the transformed image from the transformation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Xiaojun Du, Jocelyn Parent, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Pascale Nini, Valentin Bataille, Jhinseok Lee, Hu Zhang
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Patent number: 10694102Abstract: The present invention is a system for capturing and assembling panoramic image data having a panoramic image capture device with image assembly parameters and configured to capture image content data, an encoding device coupled to the panoramic image capture device and configured to combine the image content data and the image assembly parameters into a panoramic image file, and a decoding device configured to receive the panoramic image file and assemble, based on the image assembly parameters, at least a portion of the image content data into an output image.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Xiaojun Du, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Jocelyn Parent, Pascale Nini, Alessandro Gasparini, Valentin Bataille, Jhinseok Lee
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Patent number: 10666923Abstract: A stereoscopic vision system uses at least two cameras having different parameters to image a scene and create stereoscopic views. The different parameters of the two cameras can be intrinsic or extrinsic, including, for example, the distortion profile of the lens in the cameras, the field of view of the lens, the orientation of the cameras, the positions of the cameras, the color spectrum of the cameras, the frame rate of the cameras, the exposure time of the cameras, the gain of the cameras, the aperture size of the lenses, or the like. An image processing apparatus is then used to process the images from the at least two different cameras to provide optimal stereoscopic vision to a display.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Pascale Nini, Xiaojun Du, Valentin Bataille, Jhinseok Lee
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Patent number: 10607315Abstract: The present invention relate to an optical apparatus to capture images of a wide-angle scene with a single camera having a continuous panomorph zoom distortion profile. When combined with a processing unit, the hybrid zoom system creates an output image with constant resolution while allowing continuous adjustment in the magnification and field of view of the image without interpolation like a digital zoom system or without any moving parts like an optical zoom system.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini
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Patent number: 10516799Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with the invention allow automatic recording, sharing, and communicating of different parameters associated with images and their imager to define a specific system behavior of a display device or an algorithm unit. Examples of information include imager parameters, environment parameters, image processing and enhancement parameters, coordinates of a section of wide-angle scene image content, display parameters, defined user experience, defined system behavior or any information to be recorded, shared, and communicated. To avoid loss of information, the information is encoded directly in the picture using a marker. This way, the information is robustly transferred from the imager to the display unit. According to the information, the final image can be automatically corrected and enhanced before display, different associated parameters can be displayed on final image or be used with another output.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.Inventors: Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini, Jocelyn Parent, Patrice Roulet, Simon Thibault, Hu Zhang, Marie-Eve Gosselin, Valentin Bataille, Xiaojun Du