Patents Assigned to MINE ONE GMBH
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Patent number: 11995902Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) in videoconferencing and other applications; the capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams; and generation of a facial signature based on images of a given human user's or subject's face, or face and head, for accurate, reliable identification or authentication of a human user or subject, in a secure, difficult to forge manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: MINE ONE GmbHInventors: James A. McCombe, Rolf Herken, Brian W. Smith
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Patent number: 11960639Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) in videoconferencing and other applications, and capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MINE ONE GmbHInventors: James A. McCombe, Rolf Herken, Brian W. Smith
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Patent number: 11792511Abstract: Methods, devices, systems and computer software/program code products include techniques for creating a deep frame buffer, such techniques being implementable in conjunction with an apparatus comprising a main camera and an array of buddy cameras, the main camera and the buddy cameras being operable to capture images; and techniques for creating at least one depth buffer, such techniques being implementable in conjunction with an apparatus comprising at least two cameras.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. Mccombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11747893Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable efficient handling and remedying of unreliable sensor data, such as data captured by cameras in a virtual 3-dimensional (V3D) imaging or communications system; and enable, in a visual communications system involving a plurality of display devices usable by respective users, synchronization to a common space, and display of images by a receiving device in an orientation independent of the angle at which the receiving device is held.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: Brian W. Smith, James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11550387Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable efficiently finding stereo correspondence between a feature or set of features in a first image or signal, and a search domain in a second image or signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11501406Abstract: Methods, devices, systems and computer software/program code products improve the reliability of scene reconstruction through the use of a persistent store or cache to retain scene information observed across one or more previous frames.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11238564Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable generating reduced-noise image frames based on image frames received from a digital, camera pipeline; and enable efficient stereo image search between corresponding images generated by at least two cameras.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11189043Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable reconstruction of synthetic images of a scene from the perspective of a virtual camera having a selected virtual camera position, based on images of the scene captured by a number of actual, physical cameras.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 11106275Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) in videoconferencing and other applications, and capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Rolf Herken, Brian W. Smith
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Patent number: 10853625Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) in videoconferencing and other applications; the capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams; and generation of a facial signature based on images of a given human user's or subject's face, or lace and head, for accurate, reliable identification or authentication of a human user or subject, in a secure, difficult to forge manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A McCombe, Rolf Herken, Brian W. Smith
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Patent number: 10551913Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) videoconferencing and other applications, and capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Rolf Herken, Brian W. Smith
