Patents Examined by Chiawei Chen
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Patent number: 11985404Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed on the housing; a first sensing coil, disposed on the housing, for generating a first induced voltage by interacting with the first coil; a first circuit board connected to the first coil and the first sensing coil; and a first amplifier, disposed on the first circuit board, for amplifying the first induced voltage of the first sensing coil and outputting a first amplified signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae Bong Park, Sang Ok Park
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Patent number: 11985422Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dual-lens movement control method, which includes steps as follows. The tracking target is detected through the wide-angle lens, and the final tracking range is calculated; the magnification and the position are determined according to the final tracking range; the separate mode or the alignment mode is determined according to the magnification and the position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: AVer Information Inc.Inventors: Te-Yu Liu, Shih-Fu Tsai, Kuo-Hao Huang
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Patent number: 11972596Abstract: An intelligent smog-penetrating optical imaging detection device and a method of thereof, and belongs to the technical field of photoelectric imaging. The intensity information, the spectrum information, and the polarization information of light are organically combined, the three functions of intensity imaging, spectrum imaging and polarization imaging can be achieved, traditional imaging detection is beneficially supplemented, smog can be penetrated, the image contrast of imaging is improved, and therefore the working distance is increased. The intensity information reflects the detection distance, the target shape, the target size and the like; the spectrum information reflects material components, surface morphology and the like of a space target; the polarization information reflects the material and roughness of the target and the contrast with the background; and the intensity, spectrum and polarization three-dimensional information is jointly applied, the image contrast can be increased by 2-3 times.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Changchun University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Qiang Fu, Meng Zhang, Yingchao Li, Yong Zhu, Haodong Shi, Shuai Yang, Zhuang Liu, Chao Wang
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Patent number: 11968443Abstract: A remote control unit for controlling a motion picture camera comprises a grip section at a first side for holding the remote control unit, an extension section at a second side and a display section extending from the grip section to the second side. The display section comprises a display at a front side thereof, which is oriented orthogonal to a viewing axis. The extension section projects away from the display section. The extension section comprises an operating side facing away from the grip section, at which side a rotatable operating element for setting control commands is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik Gmbh & Co. BetriebsInventor: Hendrik Voss
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Patent number: 11968444Abstract: A control apparatus capable of setting a suitable correction parameter while reducing user's troublesome.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Azusa Oka, Mitsuru Tada
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Patent number: 11968445Abstract: A control apparatus includes at least one processor configured to acquire information corresponding to a position at which an observer stares, wherein the information indicates a shift in the position, and control a display unit to display an indicator corresponding to the position, wherein, in a case where a shift in the position is continuously smaller than a first threshold a first number of times, a display position of the indicator is not shifted.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihito Tamaki
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Patent number: 11956553Abstract: An image sensor device has a first number of first pixels disposed in a substrate and a second number of second pixels disposed in the substrate. The first number is substantially equal to the second number. A light-blocking structure disposed over the first pixels and the second pixels. The light-blocking structure defines a plurality of first openings and second openings through which light can pass. The first openings are disposed over the first pixels. The second openings are disposed over the second pixels. The second openings are smaller than the first openings. A microcontroller is configured to turn on different ones of the second pixels at different points in time.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun-Wei Cheng, Chun-Hao Chou, Kuo-Cheng Lee, Hsin-Chi Chen
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Patent number: 11948958Abstract: The solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric converter, a first separator, and a second separator. The photoelectric converter is configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. The first separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a first trench formed from a first surface side. The second separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a second trench formed from a second surface side facing a first surface. The present technology is applicable to an individual imaging element mounted on, e.g., a camera and configured to acquire an image of an object.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Honda, Tetsuya Uchida, Toshifumi Wakano, Yusuke Tanaka, Yoshiharu Kudoh, Hirotoshi Nomura, Tomoyuki Hirano, Shinichi Yoshida, Yoichi Ueda, Kosuke Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11943519Abstract: Provided is an information processing device coupled to a device which a user operates with a hand of the user and on the surface of which a plurality of sensors that each output information associated with a spatial positional relation with the surface of the hand of the user are arranged, the information processing device being configured to receive output from each of the sensors included in the device and generate an image in which an image element having been drawn with a pixel value determined on the basis of a value represented by the output from each of the sensors is arranged at a position corresponding to a position at which each of the sensors is arranged, on a mapping space obtained by plane-unfolding a portion that constitutes the surface of the device and on which the sensors are arranged, Further, the information processing device is configured to, upon receipt of input of the generated image, estimate information associated with the position of each of joints of the hand of the user who operatType: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hideki Mori
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Patent number: 11932531Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip structure including a MEMS actuator. The MEMS actuator includes an anchor having a first plurality of branches extending outward from a central region of the anchor. The first plurality of branches respectively include a first plurality of fingers. A proof mass surrounds the anchor and includes a second plurality of branches extending inward from an interior sidewall of the proof mass. The second plurality of branches respectively include a second plurality of fingers interleaved with the first plurality of fingers as viewed in a top-view. One or more curved cantilevers are coupled between the proof mass and a frame wrapping around the proof mass. The one or more curved cantilevers have curved outer surfaces having one or more inflection points as viewed in the top-view.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventor: Ting-Jung Chen
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Patent number: 11937012Abstract: To reduce increased consumption of the recording capacity of a recording medium to record generated image data, an imaging device includes an imaging element and an image processor that receive subject light through an opening in a housing and generate image data, a recording controller that records the image data generated by the imaging processor onto a memory card, a lens cover movable to a position at which the lens cover covers the opening to restrict the subject light from entering the imaging element, and a determiner that detects a position of the lens cover based on the image data generated by the imaging processor and determines whether the lens cover covers the opening. The recording controller stops recording the image data onto the memory card when the determiner determines that the lens cover covers the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuzo Nakano, Taizo Takiguchi
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Patent number: 11924573Abstract: Some embodiments provide a Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) comprising 3D vertically-stacked photosensor array and readout circuitry. In some embodiments, an imaging array comprises a plurality of single-bit or multi-bit jots, and readout circuitry in electrical communication with the imaging array and configured to quantize, for each jot, an analog signal corresponding to the electrical signal of the jot, wherein the imaging system is configured as a 3D vertically integrated circuit with the imaging array stacked vertically above the readout circuitry. The imaging array may be configured as an array of clusters with respect to the readout circuitry, each cluster configured as an array of n by m jots. The imaging array may include a further image processing circuitry layer disposed below the readout circuitry layer. Neighboring layers may be implemented on separate substrates and/or in a common substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Eric R. Fossum, Saleh Masoodian
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Patent number: 11924528Abstract: An image acquisition apparatus includes a first image sensor configured to obtain a first image based on detection of a light of a first wavelength band; a second image sensor configured to obtain a second image based on detection of a light of a second wavelength band that is wider than the first wavelength band; and a processor configured to obtain a third image having a spatial resolution corresponding to the first image and a color gamut corresponding to the second image based on the first image and the second image. The image acquisition apparatus may provide an image with a high spatial resolution and a wide color gamut.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Woo-Shik Kim
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Patent number: 11917295Abstract: An example electronic device includes a camera module, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to: obtain a magnification input corresponding to a first magnification; acquire first image data corresponding to a second magnification, which is different from the first magnification, from among image data obtained by an image sensor of a first camera module, based on the obtaining of the magnification input; determine second image data corresponding to at least a part of the acquired first image data; perform shaking correction on the generated second image data; and display a preview image having the first magnification on the display, based on the second image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wonseok Song, Sehyun Lee, Hongseob Shin, Bohee Lee, Yookyung Lee
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Patent number: 11917234Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to an electronic device including a display device and an image sensor. The device may include a processor configured to cause the display device to output an illumination image in response to a command to capture one or more digital images of a scene. The processor can also be configured to cause the image sensor to receive the one or more digital images of the scene while the illumination image is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Stepan Moskovchenko
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Patent number: 11917314Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion portion, a reset gate for controlling removal of a charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a charge accumulation portion, an accumulation gate for controlling a transfer of the charge from the photoelectric conversion portion to the charge accumulation portion, and a readout gate for controlling readout of the charge from the charge accumulation portion. The reset gate removes the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion by excitation light. The accumulation gate transfers the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion by fluorescence to the charge accumulation portion. The readout gate performs control for reading out the charge after the charge transfer is performed n times. The number n of the charge transfers is set for each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Ryo Takiguchi, Shinya Ito, Makoto Iwashita, Mitsuaki Kageyama
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Patent number: 11902639Abstract: According to certain embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing, a window frame disposed in the housing and providing at least one opening exposing an inside of the housing to an outside of the housing, at least one window coupled to the window frame to close the at least one opening, and at least one optical module disposed inside the housing and configured to receive external light incident through the at least one window. The at least one window may include an inner surface facing the inside of the housing, a side surface facing an inner wall of the at least one opening, and a first inclined surface connecting the side surface to the inner surface. The first inclined surface may be inclined with respect to the inner surface and the side surface and may be bonded to the inner wall. Other various embodiments are possible as well.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Moohyun Baek, Youngchul Lee
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Patent number: 11902664Abstract: A cellular telephone comprising a flat monitor screen that tilts and maneuvers in a 360° degree rotation while remaining within the inner frame/body of said cellular telephone or while in the course of protracting outward extending from with the inner body of said cellular telephone or while in the course of retracting inward back inside the inner body of said cellular telephone. One embodiment of said cellular telephone comprises a flat monitor screen camera that tilts and maneuvers in synchronization with said cellular telephone monitor screen in a 360° degree rotation while remaining within the frame/body of said cellular telephone or while in the course of protracting extending outwards extending from within the inner body of said cellular telephone. Another embodiment of said cellular telephone comprising a flat speaker/transmitter button that protracts outward ‘creating’ a (four) level speaker/transmitter pyramid that also retracts inward reverting back to its original origin.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Adam Artell Locke
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Patent number: 11902662Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to image stabilization technology, and provide an image stabilization method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method is applied in a terminal equipped with at least two camera modules corresponding to different focal length ranges. The method includes: obtaining a first image outputted from a first camera module of the at least two camera modules and a second image outputted from a second camera module of the at least two camera modules; processing, in a zooming process, the first image and the second image in a predetermined processing scheme to obtain a target image, the predetermined processing scheme including an electric image stabilization process and a zooming process, the zooming process being a process of switching from the first camera module to the second camera module; and displaying the target image on a viewfinder screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Yuhu Jia
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Patent number: 11889175Abstract: An image processing pipeline including a still or video camera includes a first neural network arranged to process and provide a neural network based result for at least one of an image capture setting, sensor processing, global post processing, local post processing, and portfolio post processing. A second neural network is arranged to receive the neural network result and further provide at least one of an image capture setting, sensor processing, global post processing, local post processing, and portfolio post processing, wherein at least one of the first and second neural networks generate data on local processors supported by the still or video camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SPECTRUM OPTIX INC.Inventors: Kevin Gordon, Colin D'Amore, Martin Humphreys