Patents Examined by Behrooz M Senfi
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Patent number: 11778163Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a display to output an image, a parallax optical element configured to provide light corresponding to the image to a plurality of viewpoints, an input interface configured to receive an input to calibrate the parallax optical element by a user who observes a pattern image from a reference viewpoint among the plurality of viewpoints, and a processor configured to output the pattern image generated by rendering a calibration pattern toward the reference viewpoint, adjust at least one of a pitch parameter, a slanted angle parameter, and a position offset parameter of the parallax optical element based on the input, and output, by the display, the pattern image adjusted by re-rendering the calibration pattern based on an adjusted parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chansol Hwang, Byong Min Kang, Jinho Lee
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Patent number: 11778340Abstract: An example method includes receiving a single frame comprising a first set of pixel data that includes a fluorescence scene component and a second set of pixel data that includes a combination of a visible color component scene and the fluorescence scene component; and generating, based on the first set of pixel data that includes the fluorescence scene component and the second set of pixel data that includes the combination of the visible color component scene and the fluorescence scene component, a display scene.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Ian E. McDowall
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Patent number: 11765338Abstract: A method, a system, a processing device and a computer storage medium for evaluating a viewpoint density are provided. The method includes: acquiring a quantity of viewpoints of a display panel; comparing a size of an image spot radius of each viewpoint and image point spacing between the viewpoint and an adjacent viewpoint, and selecting one viewpoint as a reference viewpoint, calculating a crosstalk value between another viewpoint except the reference viewpoint and the reference viewpoint; and evaluating a viewpoint density for the auto-stereoscopic display according to the comparison of the size of the image spot radius of each viewpoint and the image point spacing between the viewpoint and the adjacent viewpoint and the calculated crosstalk value between the another viewpoint and the reference viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinye Zhu, Jian Gao, Junxing Yang, Tao Hong, Jing Liu, Jing Yu, Tianyang Han
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Patent number: 11765336Abstract: Viewpoint-related information is associated with a captured image, a plurality of viewpoint images, or a synthesized image, the captured image being generated by capturing an image of a subject with a single image sensor through a plurality of monocular optical systems with optical paths independent of each other, the plurality of viewpoint images being extracted from the captured image and having each of the plurality of monocular optical systems as a viewpoint, the synthesized image being obtained by synthesizing the plurality of viewpoint images respectively corresponding to the plurality of monocular optical systems, and the viewpoint-related information being used to specify a region of the plurality of viewpoint images in the captured image. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, image-capturing apparatus, electronic devices, interchangeable lenses or camera systems in which a plurality of monocular lenses is extended, information processing methods, programs, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kengo Hayasaka, Katsuhisa Ito
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Patent number: 11756307Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil
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Patent number: 11758138Abstract: Provided is a method of decoding motion information characterized in that information for determining motion-related information includes spatial information and time information, wherein the spatial information indicates a direction of spatial prediction candidates used for sub-units from among spatial prediction candidates located on a left side and an upper side of a current prediction unit, and the time information indicates a reference prediction unit of a previous picture used for prediction of the current prediction unit. Further, an encoding apparatus or a decoding apparatus capable of performing the above described encoding or decoding method may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Jung-hye Min, Na-rae Choi
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Patent number: 11750839Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud coding. In a method, when parallel octree coding is enabled for occupancy codes of nodes in an octree partitioning structure of the point cloud, syntax information of the point cloud is decoded from a coded bitstream and a bitstream offset of an octree depth is determined. The syntax information indicates a bitstream length of the octree depth at which the parallel octree coding is enabled. Parallel decoding is performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes of the octree depth based on the bitstream offset and the bitstream length of the octree depth. Further, the point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11750795Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. A eye and/or head tracking system may use a camera to capture images of a viewer of the display. Control circuitry in the electronic device may use the captured images from the eye and/or head tracking system to determine which viewing zones are occupied by the viewer's eyes. The control circuitry may disable or dim viewing zones that are not occupied by the viewer's eyes in order to conserve power. An unoccupied viewing zone and an adjacent, occupied viewing zone may display the same image to increase sharpness in the display.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Ping-Yen Chou, Byoungsuk Kim, Chaohao Wang, Yi Huang, Michael J. Rockwell, Seung Wook Kim, Pretesh A. Mascarenhas
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Patent number: 11738696Abstract: A device may be included for sensing the vehicle surroundings of a vehicle. When mounted, the device has an underside facing the carriageway and an upper side facing away from the carriageway. The device comprises a fixture and a swivel arm that is movable relative to the fixture and connected thereto. The fixture has a fastening portion for fastening the device to a body part of the vehicle. The swivel arm comprises a camera for a lane-keeping function and an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Johannes Kirchhoff, Alex Hessel
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Patent number: 11743571Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a display, a processor electrically coupled with the camera and the display, and a memory electrically coupled with the processor. The memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed, instruct the processor to, when a photographing request signal is received, estimate a motion of a subject within an image that is acquired by the camera, when the motion of the subject within the image acquired by the camera is not recognized, control the camera to capture a first type image by applying a first photographing condition, and when the motion of the subject within the image acquired by the camera is recognized, control the camera to capture a second type image by applying a second photographing condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Na-Woong Han, Ki Hyoung Son, Kyungjun Lee, Hyunyeul Lee
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Patent number: 11743498Abstract: A method of point cloud geometry decoding in a point cloud decoder can include receiving a bitstream including a slice of a coded point cloud frame, and reconstructing an octree representing a geometry of points in a bounding box of the slice where a current node of the octree is partitioned with a quadtree (QT) partition or a binary tree (BT) partition.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Sehoon Yea, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11736726Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud compression and decompression. In a method, an octree partitioning structure for a bounding box of a point cloud is determined. Whether parallel encoding is to be performed on occupancy codes of nodes in a range of one or more partitioning depths in the octree partitioning structure is determined. The parallel encoding on the occupancy codes of the nodes is performed in response to the parallel encoding being determined to be performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of the one or more partitioning depths in the octree partitioning structure. A coded bitstream is generated based on the encoded occupancy codes of the nodes. The coded bitstream includes syntax information that indicates whether parallel decoding is to be performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11729368Abstract: The invention relates to a display design wherein the space between the pixels of a display panel, the black matrix, is not magnified together with other content. The visibility of particularly smaller objects such as e.g. letters is thus increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: PSHOLIX AGInventor: Rolf-Dieter Naske
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Patent number: 11729420Abstract: Disclosed are an intra-prediction method using filtering and an apparatus using the method. An image-decoding method comprises: a step of filtering an n upper reference pixel of a block to be predicted and neighboring pixels of the n upper reference pixel so as to obtain the filtered n upper reference pixel; and a step of filtering an n left reference pixel of a block to be predicted and neighboring pixels of the n left reference pixel so as to obtain the filtered n left reference pixel. According to the present invention, intra-prediction may be efficiently performed to improve image-encoding/decoding efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yongjoon Jeon, Seungwook Park, Jaehyun Lim, Jungsun Kim, Joonyoung Park, Younghee Choi, Jaewon Sung, Byeongmoon Jeon
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Patent number: 11722684Abstract: An image decoder has circuitry coupled to a memory. The circuitry splits a current image block into a plurality of partitions. The circuitry predicts a first motion vector from a set of uni-prediction motion vector candidates for a first partition of the plurality of partitions, and decodes the first partition using the first motion vector.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Chong Soon Lim, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li, Kiyofumi Abe, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi
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Patent number: 11722686Abstract: A method of video decoding performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture. The method further includes determining a block size of a current block coded in the intra sub-partition (ISP) coding mode. The method further includes determining a direction and number of partitions of the current block based on the determined block size. Th method further includes decoding the current block based on the determined direction and number of partitions of the current block.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Xin Zhao, Liang Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11708035Abstract: A vehicular imaging system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a camera device disposed at a body portion of the vehicle. The camera device includes structure that supports a camera and that is movable between a stowed position, where the structure and camera are within the body portion, and an extended position, where the structure and camera are extended outward from the body portion so that the camera is positioned with a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The structure includes a plurality of individually movable elements that are disposed adjacent one another and that cooperate to form the outer surface. The individually movable elements, when moved relative to the body portion of the vehicle, cooperate to extend and retract the camera. The camera, when the structure is in the extended position, captures image data and provides captured image data to the ECU.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Inventor: Anthony J. LaCross
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Patent number: 11711545Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a method for point cloud coding. In the method, whether decoding of occupancy codes of nodes in a range of octree partition depths in an octree partitioning structure of a point cloud reaches a minimum octree partition depth at which parallel decoding is enabled is determined. Arithmetic coding information for decoding the occupancy codes of the nodes in the minimum octree partition depth is stored based on the decoding of the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of octree partition depths reaching the minimum octree partition depth. The parallel decoding is performed on occupancy codes of the nodes in each of the at least one remaining octree partitions depth based on the stored arithmetic coding information. The point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of octree partition depths in the octree partitioning structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11711525Abstract: Different implementations are described for determining one or more illumination compensation parameters for a current block being encoded by a video encoder or decoded by a video decoder, based on the selection of one or more neighboring samples. The selection of the one or more neighboring samples is based on information used to reconstruct a plurality of neighboring reconstructed blocks. The selection may be based on the motion information, such as motion vector and reference picture information. In one example, only samples from neighboring reconstructed blocks that have (1) the same reference picture index and/or (2) a motion vector close to the motion vector of the current block is selected. In another example, if the current block derives or inherits some motion information from a top or left neighboring block, then only the top or left neighboring samples are selected for IC parameter calculation.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Bordes, Franck Galpin, Fabien Racape
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Patent number: 11706448Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a deterioration in image quality. The image processing apparatus includes a threshold value setting unit which sets a threshold value for identifying a feature of neighboring pixels of a current block in an intra prediction process in encoding of image data according to a bit depth of the image data and a filtering processing unit which performs a filtering process on the neighboring pixels by using a filter according to the feature of the neighboring pixels identified by using the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazushi Sato