Patents Examined by Antoinette Spinks
  • Patent number: 10158795
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to read, from another electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, information regarding a current operation mode of the another electronic apparatus, and a controller configured to select a user interface screen which is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the information regarding the operation mode read by the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Okazaki, Koji Ishii
  • Patent number: 10142566
    Abstract: An image acquisition system 1 includes: a light source 3 which outputs illumination light; an optical scanner 7 which scans a sample S with the illumination light; an optical scanner control unit 9; a detection optical system 15, 17 which focuses fluorescence from the sample S; an imaging device 19 which has a light receiving surface 19c in which a plurality of pixel rows 19d are arranged, and an imaging control section 19b, and which can perform signal readout of each of the plurality of pixel rows 19d from the light receiving surface 19c; and a calculation unit 21 which calculates an interval of signal readout between adjacent pixel rows 19d, based on a moving speed of an illuminated region on the light receiving surface 19c; the imaging control section 19b controls signal readout of each pixel row 19d, based on the interval of the signal readout thus calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Eiji Toda, Takuo Kameyama
  • Patent number: 10142536
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne E. Prentice, Robert J. Parada, Tetsuji Uezono, Kenichi Nakajima, William V. Fintel
  • Patent number: 10121089
    Abstract: An object information extraction apparatus (2000) includes an image acquisition unit (2020), a frequency determination unit (2040), and an information extraction unit (2060). The image acquisition unit (2020) acquires a plurality of images corresponding to a predetermined unit time of a video. The frequency determination unit (2040) generates frequency information for each of a plurality of partial areas included in each of a plurality of images. The information extraction unit (2060) extracts information of an object included in each partial area from each image corresponding to the number indicated by the frequency information for each partial region among a plurality of images corresponding to a predetermined unit time for each partial area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Oami
  • Patent number: 10116844
    Abstract: A camera module is provided, including a lens driving mechanism, a lens unit, a circuit board, and an image sensor. The lens unit is disposed on the lens driving mechanism. The image sensor is disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes a metal member, an insulation layer, and a metal wire. The insulation layer is disposed between the metal member and the metal wire, and the metal wire is electrically connected to the image sensor. The lens driving module can drive the lens unit to move relative to the image sensor. The image sensor can catch the light through the lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chen-Hsien Fan
  • Patent number: 10116320
    Abstract: In a first sensitivity level, an AD converter performs AD conversion selectively using, in accordance with the level of the analog signal, any one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal that have mutually different slopes, and in a second sensitivity level that is different from the first sensitivity level, the AD converter performs AD conversion only using a third reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Hashimoto, Daisuke Yoshida, Makoto Ise
  • Patent number: 10104326
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, driving method of the imaging apparatus, and an imaging system, are provided, wherein pixels output at least two image signals with different viable signal ranges, and the pixel signal with a larger signal range is converted to a digital signal during a first period, and the pixel signal with a smaller signal range is converted to a digital signal during a second period shorter than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Hashimoto, Takeru Suzuki, Daisuke Yoshida, Atsushi Furubayashi
  • Patent number: 10101777
    Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a display housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor; a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard operatively coupled to the processor, a retractable camera operatively coupled to the processor, and a socket mechanism that translates the retractable camera between a retracted state and an extended state; and a hinge that couples the display housing to the keyboard housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Ian Tucker, Ali Kathryn Ent, Cuong Huy Truong, Peter Carlson Rane
  • Patent number: 10104305
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an original image in which pixels with different exposure periods coexist; a corrected-image generating unit that generates corrected images individually for a plurality of pixel groups formed by classifying the pixels according to the exposure periods, the corrected images being generated by interpolating pixel values and executing exposure correction; and an HDR combining unit that combines the corrected images, wherein, in a case where the difference between the pixel value of a pixel belonging to one of the pixel groups, acquired by exposure, and the pixel value of a pixel belonging to another one of the pixel groups, generated by interpolation at the same position as the aforementioned pixel, is greater than a predetermined threshold, the HDR combining unit increases the combining ratio of the pixel in the corrected image belonging to the one of the pixel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhito Nemoto
  • Patent number: 10097802
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A calculation unit calculates a difference in a signal level, for each area, between a first image obtained by shooting a subject under a first shooting condition and a second image obtained by shooting the subject under a second shooting condition in which high-frequency components of an optical image of the subject are reduced compared to the first shooting condition. A mixing unit mixes a signal level of the first image and a signal level of the second image at a ratio based on the difference, so as to generate a third image. The mixing unit sets a ratio of the second image when the difference is a first value, to be larger than a ratio of the second image when the difference is a second value that is smaller than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Akahane
  • Patent number: 10091408
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that is formed of a wide-angle optical system and a telephoto optical system having a common optical axis; a directional sensor; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system and the directional sensor, in horizontal and vertical directions; and an image acquisition section that respectively acquires a wide-angle image, and a telephoto image, and a first target object is detected from a wide-angle image, the panning/tilting mechanism is controlled on the basis of information about a position of the detected first target object within the wide-angle image, and image recognition is performed on a telephoto image, when the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle image, thereby recognizing the first target object or a second target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10088671
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitted light volume adjusting apparatus including a first polarizing plate provided on an optical axis, the first polarizing plate being configured to transmit light in a first polarizing direction, a second polarizing plate provided on the optical axis at a back stage of the first polarizing plate, the second polarizing plate being configured to transmit light in a second polarizing direction, and a first actuator configured to rotate the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate around a direction of the optical axis as a rotation axis direction in a state in which a difference between polarizing axes, which is an angle formed by the first polarizing direction and the second polarizing direction, is kept constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisayuki Oguchi
  • Patent number: 10075661
    Abstract: An interpolation processing unit 31 performs an interpolation process of a decimated pixel in an image signal. A signal generation pixel determination unit 32 calculates a feature value of a pixel of interest from the image signal to which the interpolation process is performed by the interpolation processing unit 31, and determines whether the pixel of interest is a decimated pixel or a non-decimated pixel on the basis of the calculated feature value, and generates signal generation pixel determination information indicating a determination result. A signal generation control unit 34 performs control to stop signal generation operation of the pixel that is determined to be the decimated pixel by the signal generation pixel determination information generated by the signal generation pixel determination unit 32, at a time of subsequent generation of an image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Chida, Kazunori Kamio
  • Patent number: 10075645
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display control unit configured to display a plurality of items at least including a function name on a display screen, and a selection receiving unit configured to receive selection of one item among the plurality of displayed items. When a predetermined operation input is performed on the display screen, the display control unit displays both associated information associated with a function of the one selected item and associated information associated with functions of other items not selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayaka Tamura
  • Patent number: 10061384
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an eyeball position estimation unit that estimates an eyeball position of a user in a pupil-corneal reflection method on the basis of a captured image including an eye of the user captured when the eye of the user looking at a display surface is irradiated with light; a discrepancy estimation unit that estimates an amount of discrepancy between an eyeball position on the display surface and a visual field center of the display surface, the eyeball position being identified on the basis of the eyeball position; and an operation instruction unit that issues an operation instruction to adjust a position of a device including the display surface on the basis of the estimated amount of discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10061499
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide an interactive slider element for selecting a time-lapse amount for captured media content. A selection of the time-lapse amount can be received via the interactive slider element. A stabilized time-lapse media content item having the time-lapse amount associated with the selection can be generated based on the captured media content. The stabilized time-lapse media content item can be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Alexandre Karpenko
  • Patent number: 10057528
    Abstract: A circuit for reading a pixel matrix array comprises, for each column of pixels of the matrix array: voltage-to-delay converting circuits receiving, on an input, a voltage value representative of the voltage of a read conductor of a respective column of pixels of the matrix array and delivering as output a binary signal called a comparative signal, this signal switched at a time dependent on the input voltage value; frequency-multiplying circuits, one for each of the voltage-to-delay converting circuits, receiving as input a primary clock signal and delivering as output secondary clock signals of multiplied frequency; and binary counters, receiving, on a first input, a the secondary clock signal, and, on a second input, a the binary comparative signal and counting at a rate dictated by the secondary clock signal until the binary comparative signal switches. An image sensor comprising a matrix array of pixels, in particular active pixels, and a read circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: PYXALIS
    Inventor: Christian Liabeuf
  • Patent number: 10057482
    Abstract: A display unit having an image display area for displaying an image, an operation unit by which a predetermined area in the image display area is designated in a movable manner, and a filter unit performing filter processing on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated in the movable manner by the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to easily perform an operation of overlapping a plurality of filter effects, and a comparison of images based on the presence/absence of a filter effect, or different filter effects, without performing a complicated filter operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Miyakawa, Shigenori Fujio
  • Patent number: 10037596
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for in-vehicle optical image stabilization. In one embodiment, the system includes a first motion sensor rigidly attached to a video capture device mounted in a vehicle; a second motion sensor rigidly attached to an object in the vehicle, the object being within the field of view of the video capture device; and a controller. The controller is operatively connected to the first motion sensor, to the second motion sensor, and to a movable optical element in the video capture device. In one aspect, the first sensor provides a first output signal to the controller, the second sensor provides a second output signal to the controller; and the controller provides a compensation signal to the movable element determined by the first and second output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Inventors: Raymond Miller Karam, Oleg Obyedkov
  • Patent number: 10038860
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to capturing images of a scene area in a synchronized manner using a plurality of optical chains are described. In various embodiments image sensors corresponding to the plurality of optical chains of a camera are operated in rolling shutter mode to read out rows of pixel values corresponding to a current scan position when the image sensors have a row of pixel values corresponding to the current scan position. In some embodiments a scene area of interest is captured by initiating a scan and thus image capture of the scene area by one or more optical chains which are operated in a coordinated manner. In some embodiments a controller controls the plurality of image sensors to perform a read out of pixel values in a synchronized manner, e.g., with rows of pixel values being read out sequentially in accordance with operation of a rolling shutter implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Light Labs Inc.
    Inventor: Rajiv Laroia