Patents Examined by Christopher S Kelley
  • Patent number: 11483575
    Abstract: A video coder that constrains the total number of regular bins used for entropy coding syntax elements of a current block is provided. The video coder entropy encodes or decodes the syntax elements selectively as either regular bins using context modeling or as bypass bins without context modeling. A constraint is specified to limit a total number of regular bins used for entropy coding the syntax elements of the current block. There may be no constraint limiting a number of regular bins specific to an individual syntax element of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HFI Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Ta Hsiang, Tzu-Der Chuang, Ching-Yeh Chen
  • Patent number: 11477372
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing method including adjusting a light exposure time of an image acquisition unit by using a target image converted to be output in a desired output mode among a plurality of output modes; and displaying target images acquired according to the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Lim, Dong Gyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11472290
    Abstract: A vehicle arrangement includes a display device for displaying at least one item of information on a display surface for at least one person being transported by the vehicle, a detection device for detecting disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface, and a further component which is compensating the detected disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface at least partially by at least one of movement relative to the display surface and alteration of its external shape. A vehicle includes at least one such vehicle arrangement, and a method provides a display in or on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.
    Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Christian Schär, Maximilian Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 11475680
    Abstract: A cargo sensor system incorporates an optical cargo sensor to supply images to a convolutional neural network. In preferred embodiments, the neural network is implemented using a processor in a sensor module, and is trained by a machine learning system to determine the load state of the cargo container. Some embodiments also include a secondary sensor, such as a laser-ranging Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor, that verifies the cargo reading determined by the optical cargo sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Spireon, Inc.
    Inventor: Sait C. Saydag
  • Patent number: 11477476
    Abstract: An example method includes obtaining values of luma motion vectors for a plurality of luma sub-blocks of a current block of the video data selected for coding using affine motion compensation; determining, based on values of luma motion vectors of a sub-set of the plurality of luma sub-blocks, a value of a chroma motion vector for a chroma sub-block that corresponds to the plurality of luma sub-blocks; predicting, using affine motion compensation, respective samples of each luma sub-block of the plurality of luma sub-blocks based on respective values of the luma motion vectors; and predicting, using affine motion compensation, sample the chroma sub-block based on the value of the chroma motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei-Jung Chien, Han Huang, Marta Karczewicz, Luong Pham Van, Vadim Seregin
  • Patent number: 11477484
    Abstract: An example method of decoding video data includes obtaining, from a coded video bitstream and for a current block of the video data, an indication of an intra-prediction mode that identifies an initial predictive block; filtering, in parallel, samples in a current line of a plurality of lines of the initial predictive block based on filtered values of samples in a preceding line of the plurality of lines and unfiltered values of samples in the current line to generate filtered values for samples for the current line; and reconstructing, using intra prediction, values of samples of the current block based on the filtered values of the samples of the current initial predictive block and residual data for the current block that represents a difference between the filtered values of the samples of the current initial predictive block and the values of samples of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amir Said, Xin Zhao, Wei-Jung Chien, Jianle Chen, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 11465569
    Abstract: A support for a camera on a motor vehicle, including at least a main body with a guide and a bracket element which is pivotable relative to the main body and is connected to the main body via at least one guide rail, and which extends along an extent between a first end and a second end, wherein the camera may be arranged on the second end, wherein the first end is arranged on the guide, wherein the bracket element is pivotably connected to the at least one guide rail between the first end and the second end, and wherein, when the bracket element is pivoted, the first end is displaceable along the guide and the bracket element is displaceable along the at least one guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Grünig, Sebastian Wehl
  • Patent number: 11463732
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a new mechanism of video exportation which ensures that the process is done faster and that a single video can be exported to two or more destination at the same time. This document explains the steps involved in the creation of the video, processes involved in encoding, rendering, transmission/exportation, and playing the video. Figures are used in explaining or illustrating the flow of processes and showing the different devices used in accomplishing various activities in the exporting processes. The application will receive commands to perform the exporting from the destination. Overall, the application will be able to facilitate faster exportation of a video, almost twice the basic speed of the known video exportation systems and to multiple destinations unlike in exportation by the basic applications in use today.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Evergreen Groupe, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Cohn, Alexander Osborne
  • Patent number: 11462047
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided having a camera under a display. The electronic device includes a display screen having display pixels and openings separating the display pixels, and a camera located proximate to the display and configured to obtain image data through the openings separating the display pixels. The image data includes near field image data and far field image data. The camera includes a first lens and an imaging sensor assembly. The imaging sensor assembly is configured to detect near field image data at the display screen and far field image data spaced from the display screen. The electronic device also includes a processor that is configured to capture the near field image data in a first mode, capture the far field image data in a second mode, and identify a user of the electronic device based on the near field image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Mengnan Wang, Daryl C. Cromer, John W. Nicholson, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 11458908
    Abstract: A display device for the interior of a vehicle includes a display unit designed for optically displaying information, and a movement device swivel unit designed to swivel the display unit about a swivel axis, in particular controllably, between a non-use position parallel to a roof liner of the vehicle and a use position, in particular swivelled away from the roof liner of the vehicle, and to retain the display unit, in particular controllably, in the non-use position and/or in the use position. The swivel unit has two pairs of coupled-together first and second levers, wherein, for a swivelling of the levers of a pair in relation to one another and about the first ends thereof, the first ends thereof are connected to one another such that they can swivel about respective swivel axes, and are attached directly or indirectly to the display unit. The second ends can be attached directly or indirectly to the roof liner of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Huf, Harald Lathwesen, Martin Unger
  • Patent number: 11454798
    Abstract: A microscopy method for three-dimensionally imaging an object, including imaging the object along a beam path into a first image on a first image plane. A first microlens array is arranged on the first image plane, and a second microlens array with the same pitch is arranged downstream of the first array. The two arrays laterally segment the first image and image same into a second image in which the segments are spaced apart and separated by gaps. On a pupil plane downstream of the microlens array, a provided phase mask generates a spot for each segment of the second image according to a pixel diffusion function. A detector detects the shape and structure of the spot, and a controller ascertains a lateral intensity distribution and depth specification from the shape and/or structure of the spot for each segment and generates a depth-resolved image of the object therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Kleppe, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 11445131
    Abstract: An imager array may be provided as part of an imaging system. The imager array may include a plurality of infrared imaging modules. Each infrared imaging module may include a plurality of infrared sensors associated with an optical element. The infrared imaging modules may be oriented, for example, substantially in a plane facing the same direction and configured to detect images from the same scene. Such images may be processed in accordance with various techniques to provide images of infrared radiation. The infrared imaging modules may include filters or lens coatings to selectively detect desired ranges of infrared radiation. Such arrangements of infrared imaging modules in an imager array may be used to advantageous effect in a variety of different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Teledyne FLIR, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Högasten, Mark Nussmeier, Eric A. Kurth, Theodore R. Hoelter, Katrin Strandemar, Pierre Boulanger, Barbara Sharp
  • Patent number: 11443431
    Abstract: The disclosed method encompasses using an augmented reality device to blend in augmentation information including for example atlas information. The atlas information may be display separately from or in addition to a patient image (planning image). In order to display the atlas information in a proper position relative to the patient image, data the two data sets are registered to one another. This registration can serve for generating a diversity of atlas-based image supplements, for example alternatively or additionally to the foregoing for displaying a segmentation of the patient image in the augmented reality image. The disclosed method is usable in a medical environment such as for surgery or radiotherapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Sven Flossmann, Samuel Kerschbaumer, Nils Frielinghaus, Christoffer Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11438486
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for sensing a scene. In one aspect, a device may illuminate the scene using a sequence of two or more periods. Each period may include a transmission portion during which a plurality of light pulses are emitted onto the scene. Each period may include a non-transmission portion corresponding to an absence of emitted light. The device may receive, during each transmission portion, a plurality of light pulses reflected from the scene. The device may continuously accumulate photoelectric charge indicative of the received light pulses during an entirety of the sequence. The device may transfer the accumulated photoelectric charge to a readout circuit after an end of the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Biay-Cheng Hseih, Sergiu Radu Goma
  • Patent number: 11430199
    Abstract: A vehicle mounted imaging system tracks and resolves image using an object image regions of interest at a higher resolution than that which can be provided by typical wide-angle optics. The imaging system includes an object identification camera, a sampling camera, and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices obtain a full-frame image from the object identification camera and identify at least one region of interest within the full frame image. The one or more computing devices then configure the sampling camera to capture images of a sampling area containing the region of interest, wherein the sampling area consists of some, but not all, of a field of view of the sampling camera. Using a super-image resolution technique, the one or more computing devices create a high-resolution image of the region of interest from a plurality of images captured by the sampling camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ducote, Ian Muldoon, Romain Clement
  • Patent number: 11425309
    Abstract: An image capture method and apparatus obtains a preview image in a capture preview window, segments the preview image into N image blocks based on N objects included in the preview image, where N is a positive integer, determines M image blocks whose definitions do not meet a preset definition criterion from the N image blocks, where M is a positive integer less than or equal to N, adjusts an exposure parameter of each of the M image blocks, outputs prompt information when the definitions of the M image blocks meet the preset definition criterion. Prompt information prompts a user to capture the image, receives a capture instruction from the user, and captures the preview image in the capture preview window based on an adjusted exposure parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Ding, Chen Dong
  • Patent number: 11423640
    Abstract: A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KORRUS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Harrison, Shruti Koparkar, Mark Reynoso, Paul Pickard, Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Gary Vick, Andrew Villegas
  • Patent number: 11418778
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for controlling intra prediction for decoding of a video sequence are provided. The method includes, based on a reference line index signaling, to a decoder, a first reference line nearest to a coding unit, among a plurality of reference lines adjacent to the coding unit, applying intra smoothing on only the first reference line, based on the intra smoothing being applied only on the first reference line, applying intra prediction on the coding unit, and based on the intra prediction being applied on the coding unit, applying a position-dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) on only the first reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11412134
    Abstract: Video recording system assemblies are adapted to facilitate capture of 360° images. According to one example, a video recording system assembly may include a frame, including a first vertical mount located at a first vertical end, a second vertical mount located at a second vertical end opposite from the first vertical end, and a horizontal mount located between the first vertical mount and the second vertical mount. At least one digital video camera and/or camera enclosure may be coupled to the first vertical mount. Similarly, at least one digital video camera and/or camera enclosure may be coupled to the second vertical mount. Six digital video cameras and/or camera enclosures may be coupled to the horizontal mount in a triangular configuration, with two digital video cameras and/or camera enclosures on each side. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LADUMA, INC.
    Inventors: Dorian T. G. Tolman, Skyler Alan Baird
  • Patent number: 11405601
    Abstract: A device includes a first lens. The device also includes a first polarized image sensor coupled with the first lens and configured to capture, from a first perspective, a first set of image data in a plurality of polarization orientations. The device also includes a second lens disposed apart from the first lens. The device further includes a second polarized image sensor coupled with the second lens and configured to capture, from a second perspective different from the first perspective, a second set of image data in the plurality of polarization orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Charles McEldowney