Patents Assigned to Monument Peak Ventures, LLC
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Patent number: 10778936Abstract: An electronic device, such as a digital camera, includes a deletion mode whereby a camera/electronic device user can delete captured images or data files that have already been transferred in order to make room in the electronic device or digital camera memory for capturing further images. In one embodiment, a digital camera keeps track of which images have already been transferred to an external storage device and presents those to the user as potential images to be deleted. In another embodiment, the user is presented with a “delete all transferred images” which when selected deletes all the captured images that have already been transferred. In still another embodiment, deletion criteria are used to prioritize which images are deleted first.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Keith Stoll Karn, Thomas A. Napoli, Frank W. Armstrong
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Patent number: 10728490Abstract: A digital video camera comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions to implement a method for trimming a digital video sequence. The method includes: selecting a digital video sequence; initiating a trimming operation; accepting user input to select a start frame and an end frame for a trimmed digital video sequence, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select between a start frame selection mode and an end frame selection mode, and the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the frames of the selected digital video sequence; and trimming the selected video sequence to include the frames between the selected start frame and the selected end frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Alison Rose Boncha, Theresa Kathryn Guarrera, Noah Joseph Stupak, Keith Stoll Karn
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Patent number: 10425612Abstract: A digital video camera comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions to implement a method for trimming a digital video sequence. The method includes: selecting a digital video sequence; initiating a trimming operation; accepting user input to select a start frame and an end frame for a trimmed digital video sequence, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select between a start frame selection mode and an end frame selection mode, and the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the frames of the selected digital video sequence; and trimming the selected video sequence to include the frames between the selected start frame and the selected end frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Alison Rose Boncha, Theresa Kathryn Guarrera, Noah Joseph Stupak, Keith Stoll Karn
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Patent number: 10419714Abstract: An electronic device, such as a digital camera, includes a deletion mode whereby a camera/electronic device user can delete captured images or data files that have already been transferred in order to make room in the electronic device or digital camera memory for capturing further images. In one embodiment, a digital camera keeps track of which images have already been transferred to an external storage device and presents those to the user as potential images to be deleted. In another embodiment, the user is presented with a “delete all transferred images” which when selected deletes all the captured images that have already been transferred. In still another embodiment, deletion criteria are used to prioritize which images are deleted first.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Keith Stoll Karn, Thomas A. Napoli, Frank W. Armstrong
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Patent number: 10412296Abstract: A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Wayne E. Prentice, Robert J. Parada, Tetsuji Uezono, Kenichi Nakajima, William V. Fintel
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Patent number: 10289273Abstract: A digital image display device comprising: a display screen; a processor; a network connection for receiving digital media assets provided by a plurality of individuals; an image memory; a user interface for receiving input from a user of the digital image display device; and a program memory. The program memory stores instructions to execute the steps of: receiving a digital media asset; displaying the received digital media asset on the display screen; determining an asset classification for the displayed digital media asset; selecting a set of classified feedback message choices responsive to the determined asset classification; displaying the selected set of feedback message choices, receiving input from the user to select a particular feedback message choice; and providing an indication of the selected feedback message to the individual who provided the displayed digital media asset.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Ting-Yee Liao, Kenneth Alan Parulski, Timothy L. Nichols
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Patent number: 10270972Abstract: A method and device for adapting a display image on a hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device. The device includes a camera for capturing a digital video and/or still image of a user, means for adjusting the captured digital image in response to poor image capture angle of said image capture device so as to create a modified captured digital image; and means for transmitting said modified captured digital image over a wireless communication network to a second hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: John N. Border, Ronald S. Cok, Amy D. Enge, Andrew F. Kurtz, Joseph A. Manico, Lynn Schilling-Benz, Peter O. Stubler, Frances C. Williams
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Patent number: 10192033Abstract: A method for capturing images of an individual to determine wellness for such individual, including establishing baseline physiological data for the individual, and baseline capture condition data for the individual; detecting and identifying the presence of the individual in the image capture environment; providing semantic data associated with the individual; capturing one or more images of the individual during a capture event and determining the capture conditions present during the capture event; using the event capture conditions, the baseline physiological data for the individual and the baseline capture condition data to determine the acceptability of event captured images; and using the acceptable images and the semantic data in determining the wellness of the individual.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Kevin M. Gobeyn, Donald E. Olson, John N. Border
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Patent number: 10187543Abstract: Portable communication devices transmit digital images and their location information to a central server. If a particular location is often photographed it can be designated as a hot spot. Thereafter, if a communication device is currently transmitting from within a vicinity of the hot spot, based on the location data received from the communication device, notification data can be transmitted to the communication device for notifying the user of the hot spot. The notification data can include directional information for the user to access on the communication device for enabling the user to find the hot spot.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Tomi Lahcanski, Dustin L. Winters
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Patent number: 10142536Abstract: A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Wayne E. Prentice, Robert J. Parada, Tetsuji Uezono, Kenichi Nakajima, William V. Fintel
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Patent number: 9979683Abstract: A system and method for creating an electronic icon containing information unique to a particular user including information allowing access with respect to a particular digital media file having the icon associated therewith over a communication network by a third party.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Dale F. McIntyre, Kenneth Parulski
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Patent number: 9955071Abstract: A method produces an improved high resolution image. This method includes capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image and combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image. The method further includes reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image at a low resolution setting of the image capture device; interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; and calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image. The method also includes combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image and using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventor: Aaron T. Deever
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Patent number: 9936157Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a an electronic device such as a digital camera 300 that includes a deletion mode whereby a camera/electronic device user can delete captured images or data files that have already been transferred in order to make room in the electronic device or digital camera memory for capturing further images. In one embodiment a digital camera keep track of which images have already been transferred to an external storage device and presents those to the user as potential images to be deleted. In another embodiment, the user is presented with a “delete all transferred images” which when selected deletes all the captured images that have already been transferred. In still another embodiment, a deletion criteria is used to prioritize which images are deleted first.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Keith Stoll Karn, Thomas A. Napoli, Frank W. Armstrong
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Patent number: 9864872Abstract: A captured digital image is stored in memory together with metadata derived from a location signal only if the location metadata is determined not to be within one or more predefined exclusion zones. A GPS receiver module can be implemented to obtain the location signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventor: Dustin L. Winters
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Patent number: 9848158Abstract: A digital video camera comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions to implement a method for trimming a digital video sequence. The method includes: selecting a digital video sequence; initiating a trimming operation; accepting user input to select a start frame and an end frame for a trimmed digital video sequence, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select between a start frame selection mode and an end frame selection mode, and the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the frames of the selected digital video sequence; and trimming the selected video sequence to include the frames between the selected start frame and the selected end frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Alison Rose Boncha, Theresa Kathryn Guarrera, Noah Joseph Stupak, Keith Stoll Karn
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Patent number: 9819852Abstract: A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Wayne E. Prentice, Robert J. Parada, Tetsuji Uezono, Kenichi Nakajima, William V. Fintel
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Patent number: 9798741Abstract: A method for browsing a collection of digital images on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of digital images; interactively user selecting a digital image using a user interface; determining a plurality of subsets of the digital images, wherein each subset shares a common category with the selected digital image; and displaying the subsets of digital images on the soft-copy display, together with the selected digital image.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Peter Thomas Fry, John Denis Piper, Graham Robert Kiddle, Hani Muammar, Alan Payne
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Patent number: 9661218Abstract: A method produces an improved high resolution image. This method includes capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image and combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image. The method further includes reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image at a low resolution setting of the image capture device; interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; and calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image. The method also includes combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image and using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventor: Aaron T. Deever
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Patent number: 9653081Abstract: A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capable of identifying various types of networking protocols that are used to transfer the image data. The processing unit attaches auxiliary information to each image before images are stored in a memory. The display circuit displays images according to the image data received. The digital media frame further contains a user input device, which allows a user to alter the image display sequence. The user input device is an input device other than a keyboard or a cursor control device.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: M. Krishna Bandaru, Robert E. Siegel
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Patent number: RE47458Abstract: A method of processing a digital image having a predetermined color pattern, includes converting the predetermined color pattern of the digital image into a converted digital image having a different desired color pattern; and using algorithms adapted for use with the desired color pattern for processing the converted digital image.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLCInventors: Russell J. Palum, Bruce H. Pillman