Patents Examined by David N. Werner
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Patent number: 11303873Abstract: A system and method for displaying image data comprise receiving 2D video data, generating, from the video data, a first plurality of intensity values of virtual primaries of a first virtual color gamut and a second plurality intensity values of a second virtual color gamut, the first plurality of intensity values being below a luminance threshold and approximating a predefined color gamut and the second plurality of intensity values being above the luminance threshold, converting the first plurality of intensity values into a third plurality of intensity values of predefined primaries of a first projection head of a display system and the second plurality of intensity values into a fourth plurality of intensity values of predefined primaries of a second projection head of the display system, and dynamically adjusting pixel levels of spatial modulators of the display system based on the third plurality and the fourth plurality of intensity values.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Ashley Nicole Penna, Trevor Davies, Martin J. Richards
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Patent number: 11303790Abstract: Hand-held devices combine smartphones and electronic binoculars. In “in-phone” embodiments, binocular functionality is integrated directly into the housing or body of a smartphone modified in accordance with the invention. In “in-case” embodiments, the binoculars are integrated into a case to receive a smartphone which may be of conventional design. In “in-module” embodiments, electronic binoculars are integrated into a separate housing adapted for attachment to a phone or case. In all embodiments, components within the phone may be used for image manipulation, image storage, and/or sending and receiving/streaming stereoscopic/3D/live/video motion imagery. The imagery gathering devices may be supported on or in one of the longer side edges of the phone or case, whereas the display magnifying eyepieces are preferably associated with the opposing longer side edge of the phone or case. As such, in use, a user holds the phone or case in a generally horizontal plane during use as binoculars.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Inventor: John G. Posa
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Patent number: 11295589Abstract: Provided is a surveillance system including a communication module configured to receive a plurality of pieces of image data obtained by a plurality of camera modules, receive a multiple image data request from a client terminal, and transmit a multiple image data response including multiple image data to the client terminal; and a processer configured to generate the multiple image data by scaling the plurality of pieces of image data in response to the multiple image data request and combining a plurality of pieces of scaled image data, wherein the plurality of camera modules share one internet protocol (IP) address.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Bong Cho, Il Hwang Cha
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Patent number: 11290701Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that includes obtaining three-dimensional image content having first and second images. The first and second images include first and second numbers of pixels. The first and second images are arranged according to a shared coordinate system to portray different perspectives of a common scene. A first portion of pixels are removed from the first image based on a filtering of the first image, resulting in a first remaining number of pixels. A second portion of pixels are removed from the second image based on positions of the first portion of pixels in the shared coordinate system, resulting in a second remaining number of pixels. The first remaining portion of pixels is combined with the second remaining portion of pixels to form a transport frame for delivery to a media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Pierre Costa, Ahmad Ansari
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Patent number: 11263261Abstract: A method and apparatus for characteristic-based video processing include: in response to receiving a region of a picture of a video sequence, determining a characteristic in the region, the region being independent of other regions of the picture for video coding; determining a class associated with the region based on the characteristic, the class being selected from a plurality of classes; and encoding the region using a parameter set associated with the class, the parameter set being selected from a plurality of parameter sets for video coding at different quality levels.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Shaolin Xie, Minghai Qin, Yen-kuang Chen, Tae Meon Bae, Qinggang Zhou
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Patent number: 11252382Abstract: A 3 MOS camera includes a first prism that causes a first image sensor to receive IR light of light from an observation part, a second prism that causes a second image sensor to receive visible light of A % (A: a predetermined real number) of the light from the observation part, a third prism that causes a third image sensor to receive remaining visible light of (100?A) % of the light from the observation part, and a video signal processor that combines a color video signal based on imaging outputs of the second image sensor and the third image sensor and an IR video signal based on an imaging output of the first image sensor and outputs the combined signal to a monitor, the second image sensor and the third image sensor being respectively bonded to positions optically shifted by substantially one pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kiniwa, Yota Hashimoto, Yuuichi Takenaga
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Patent number: 11250679Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for categorizing motion events. In one aspect, a method is performed at a camera device. The method includes: (1) capturing a plurality of video frames via the image sensor, the plurality of video frames corresponding to a scene in a field of view of the camera; (2) sending the video frames to the remote server system in real-time; (3) while sending the video frames to the remote server system in real-time: (a) determining that motion has occurred within the scene; (b) in response to determining that motion has occurred within the scene, characterizing the motion as a motion event; and (c) generating motion event metadata for the motion event; and (4) sending the generated motion event metadata to the remote server system concurrently with the video frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason N. Laska, Wei Hua, Prateek Reddy, Akshay R. Bapat, Lawrence W. Neal
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Patent number: 11244474Abstract: A sample positioning system is disclosed. The system may include an imaging detector. The system may further include a controller communicatively coupled to the imaging detector and a sample stage, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to: receive a current position of a field of view of the imaging detector; receive a target position of the sample; receive locations of reference features along a path; direct the sample stage to translate the sample along the path; direct the imaging detector to capture images of the reference features along the path; determine positioning errors of the sample stage along the path based on the images of the reference features; and adjust at least one of a velocity of the sample stage or the path to the target location based on the positioning errors during translation.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: KLA CorporationInventor: Asaf Granot
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Patent number: 11233944Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method for achieving a bullet time capturing effect and a panoramic camera. The method comprises: acquiring a panoramic video captured when a panoramic camera rotates around a capture target; acquiring from within the panoramic video hemispherical images close to the side of the capture target; splicing the hemispherical images to generate a spliced image; and fixing a viewpoint of the spliced image, thus achieving a bullet time capturing effect. According to the present invention, only one panoramic camera is needed to be able to capture the bullet time capturing effect, so that the capturing cost of the bullet time capturing effect in the present invention is low. Meanwhile, since the bullet time capturing effect is obtained by means of a panoramic video being captured when a panoramic camera rotates around a capture target and processing being carried out on the panoramic video, the precision is high.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: ARASHI VISION INC.Inventors: Cong Chen, Wenjie Jiang, Jingkang Liu
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Patent number: 11215806Abstract: A method for imaging a sample using a microscope having an illumination unit, an imaging lens system and an image sensor, includes: illuminating an area of the sample; imaging and magnifying the sample onto the image sensor and capturing the image using a predetermined number of pixels; providing a plurality of different comparison sample areas; for each comparison sample area, performing a reference measurement, wherein the comparison sample areas are illuminated, imaged and magnified onto the image sensor and captured with the predetermined number of image pixels as a reference image; determining a brightness-correction image with the predetermined number of image pixels by determining the value for each image pixel of the brightness-correction image from the values of allocated image pixels of the reference images, and correcting the image of the area of the sample captured based on the brightness-correction image and outputting it as a corrected image.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventor: Thorsten Heupel
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Patent number: 11218681Abstract: An apparatus for generating an image comprises a receiver (101) which receives 3D image data providing an incomplete representation of a scene. A receiver (107) receives a target view vector indicative of a target viewpoint in the scene for the image and a reference source (109) provides a reference view vector indicative of a reference viewpoint for the scene. A modifier (111) generates a rendering view vector indicative of a rendering viewpoint as a function of the target viewpoint and the reference viewpoint for the scene. An image generator (105) generates the image in response to the rendering view vector and the 3D image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Bart Kroon, Wiebe De Haan
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Patent number: 11197019Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry performs: obtaining first motion vector information of a first partition; obtaining second motion vector information of a second partition; deriving a set of prediction samples for the first partition; and encoding the first partition using the set. When the difference between the motion vector information is not greater than a value, the circuitry reflects a second set of samples to a first set of samples. The first set has been predicted for the first partition using the first motion vector information, and the second set has been predicted for a first range using the second motion vector information. When the difference is greater than the value, the circuitry reflects, to the first set of samples, a third set of samples predicted for a second range larger than the first range using the second motion vector information.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Ru Ling Liao, Jing Ya Li
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Patent number: 11176383Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a hazard in a facility include the use of one or more cameras coupled with a hazard detection server. The hazard detection server is adapted to analyze images from the cameras, determine probabilities of hazards being present in the images, and provide an alert to a manager or workers when the probabilities exceed a hazard threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.Inventors: Pablo Criado-Perez, Sheri Wilbanks
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Patent number: 11170241Abstract: A device (10) for determining a state of attentiveness of a driver of a vehicle (1) is disclosed. The device includes an image capture unit (11) onboard said vehicle (1), said image capture unit (11) being suitable for capturing at least one image of a detection area (D) located in said vehicle (1), and an image processing unit (15) suitable for receiving said captured image and programmed to determine the state of attentiveness of the driver (4), according to the detection of the presence of a distracting object in one of the hands of the driver (4), which hand being located in the detection area (D).Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCEInventor: Frédéric Autran
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Patent number: 11165958Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; adding the generated prediction image to a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Therefore, the performance of image data compression can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
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Patent number: 11156334Abstract: The present invention relates to an illumination system for a vehicle, including at least a first projection device for projecting at least one pixelated light source defining at least a first projection envelope and at least a second projection device for projecting at least one pixelated light beam defining at least a second projection envelope and configured to project at least one pictogram, wherein at least a first projection envelope and the at least a second projection envelope have at least one area of overlap.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: Xavier Morel, Weicheng Luo
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Patent number: 11156821Abstract: A high-illumination numerical aperture-based large field-of-view high-resolution microimaging device, and a method for iterative reconstruction, the device comprising an LED array (1), a stage (2), a condenser (3), a microscopic objective (5), a tube lens (6), and a camera (7), the LED array (1) being arranged on the forward focal plane of the condenser (3). Light emitted by the i-th lit LED unit (8) of the LED array (1) passes through the condenser (3) and converges to become parallel light illuminating a specimen (4) to be examined, which is placed on the stage (2); part of the diffracted light passing through the specimen (4) is collected by the microscopic objective (5), converged by the tube lens (6), and reaches the imaging plane of the camera (7), forming an intensity image recorded by the camera (1). The present device and method ensure controllable programming of the illumination direction, while also ensuring an illumination-numerical-aperture up to 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qian Chen, Chao Zuo, Jiasong Sun, Shijie Feng, Yuzhen Zhang, Guohua Gu
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Patent number: 11153580Abstract: Encoded video data representing partial video images is decoded from a first video stream such as a HEVC bitstream. The first video stream comprises video images divided into a spatial array of independently decodable slices. The first video stream comprises network abstraction layer units that each contain video content data for a respective one of the slices preceded by a header that comprises parameters relating to the respective one of the slices in relation to the first video stream. Previously prepared information such as meta data about positions of parameters in the network abstraction layer units or a plurality of different versions of the network abstraction layer units for different partial image sizes (different picture sizes) is used.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V.Inventors: Menno Bangma, Ray Van Brandenburg, Arjen Veenhuizen
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Patent number: 11153527Abstract: A weatherproof television cover of pliable material having a rear side and upper and lower flaps and at least one air vent cover. Adhesive material associated with the upper and lower flaps securely encloses and fastens the weatherproof television cover around a television and accompanying arm of various television wall mounts.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sealoc Texas, Inc.Inventors: Richard Franklin Webster, Wesley Clark Mazurek
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Patent number: 11140370Abstract: An image processing device 100 comprises: an acquisition unit 110 that acquires a color image captured in accordance with incident light including visible light and near-infrared light, said color image including a first area and a second area that is captured with reduced near-infrared light in the incident light compared with the first area; an estimation unit f120 that estimates spectral characteristics of the incident light on the basis of color information of the acquired color image, and information modeling the spectral characteristics of the incident lights; a generation unit 130 that generates a visible light image and a near-infrared image on the basis of the estimated spectral characteristics; and a correction unit 140 that corrects the generated visible image and near-infrared image on the basis of the color information of the second area in the color image.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masato Tsukada