Patents Examined by Gelek W Topgyal
  • Patent number: 11631435
    Abstract: Media items captured by a media capture device may include and/or be associated with values of a clock-change identifier. The values of the clock-change identifier may be set based on when and how many times the time of the media capture device was changed. Based on a capture-time of a media item being incorrect, other media items with the same value of the clock-change identifier may be determined to be incorrect. Capture-times of the other media items may be corrected based on capture-time correction of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Otto Sievert
  • Patent number: 11630022
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed to provide a quantification of a gas leak based on an image of a gas plume generated by the leak. An image location that corresponds to the origin of the gas leak is determined. An exit border is disposed on the image based on the image location that corresponds to the origin of the gas leak. A gas leak rate is computed based at least on gas concentration values of the pixels that overlap the exit border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
    Inventor: Hugo Hedberg
  • Patent number: 11614628
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system is configured to direct a plurality of parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images into a viewer's eye. The parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images provide different parallax views of a virtual object, and impinge on the pupil from different angles. In the aggregate, the wavefronts of light forming the images approximate a continuous divergent wavefront and provide selectable accommodation cues for the user, depending on the amount of parallax disparity between the intra-pupil images. The amount of parallax disparity is selected using a light source that outputs light for different images from different locations, with spatial differences in the locations of the light output providing differences in the paths that the light takes to the eye, which in turn provide different amounts of parallax disparity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Robert Konrad, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian T. Schowengerdt, Michal Beau Dennison Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11587591
    Abstract: A video is provided to viewers using a web-based platform without restricted audio, such as a copyrighted soundtrack. To do so, a video comprising at least two audio layers is received. The audio layers can include separate and distinct audio layers or a mix of audio from separate sources. A restricted audio element is identified in a first audio layer and a speech element is identified in a second audio layer. A stitched text string can be generated by performing speech-to-text on both audio layers and removing the text corresponding to the restricted audio element of the second audio layer. When playing back the video, a portion of the video is muted based on the restricted audio element. A voice synthesizer is employed to generate audible sound during the muted portion using the stitched text string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Haro, Ellis Shui-Man Luk, Selcuk Kopru
  • Patent number: 11568900
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for indicating video editing decisions may include an inclusion marker element, an exclusion marker element, and a selection marker element. The inclusion marker element may indicate a segment of a video that has been marked for inclusion in a video edit. The exclusion marker element may indicate a segment of the video has been marked for exclusion from the video edit. The selection marker element may indicate a segment of the video has been selected for inclusion in the video edit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Achddou, Renaud Cousin, Nicolas Duponchel, Jean-Baptiste Noel
  • Patent number: 11551722
    Abstract: Systems and processes are provided for interactive reassignment of character names in an audio video program including a tuner configured for receiving and demodulating a video signal to extract the audio video program, a user input operative to receive a user request to substitute an original character name within the audio video program with an alternative character name, a memory configured to buffer the audio video program to generate a delayed audio video program, a processor configured to detect the original character name within the audio video program and to replace the original character name with the alternative character name within the delayed audio video program to generate a modified audio video program, and a loudspeaker configured to reproduce the alternative character name in response to the modified audio video program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Sriram Prakash
  • Patent number: 11548165
    Abstract: A tactile sensor including a camera positioned to capture images of marks. An elastically deformable skin including an outer surface having attributes and an undersurface having pins, ridges, or both. Each undersurface pin or ridge includes a mark. A processor detects displacement of the marks in captured images and compares the displaced positions of the marks in the captured images to stored sets of prelearned positions of marks, based on a distance function, to determine a quality of match value for each set of the prelearned positions of marks. A best quality matched prelearned pattern of forces is determined using a user selected function, to calculate a best matching set of the prelearned positions of marks. Identify a pattern of forces acting on the elastically deformable skin based on the determined best matched prelearned pattern of forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: William Yerazunis, Scott Jordan
  • Patent number: 11544932
    Abstract: A media summary is generated to include portions of media items. The portions of media items identified for inclusion in the media summary is determined based on the length of the media summary and classification of content depicted within the media items. Classification of content depicted within the media items includes number of smiles depicted within the media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Anaïs Oulès, Guillaume Oulès
  • Patent number: 11540022
    Abstract: Techniques segmenting a video using tags without modifying video data thereof are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, each tag is created to define a portion of the video, wherein the tags can be modified, edited, looped, reordered or restored to a create an impression other than that if the video was played back sequentially. The tags are so structured in a table included in a tagging file that can be shared or published electronically or modified or updated by others. Further the table may be modified to include one or more conditional or commercial tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Rodica Schileru
  • Patent number: 11538500
    Abstract: One or more video creation configuration parameters may be selected based on user input. A plurality of remote computing devices may be selected based at least in part on the video creation configuration parameters. A respective video creation request message may be transmitted to each of the remote computing devices. A plurality of video creation response messages may be received from the remote computing device. Each response message may include a respective input video. An aggregate video may be rendered based on the input videos and stored on a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Omgiva, LLC
    Inventors: Amar Singh, Shyam Somanadh
  • Patent number: 11508165
    Abstract: Digital mirror systems for vehicles and methods of operating the same are disclosed. An example vehicle control system includes: a driver monitoring system including a head position determiner to determine at least one of a location of a head, an orientation of the head, or an eye gaze point of the head; a digital mirror system including a region-of-interest (ROI) detector to identify an ROI based on the at least one of the location of the head, the orientation of the head, or the eye gaze point of the head, and a cropper to extract a portion of a first image corresponding to the ROI to form a second image, the first image representing an area exterior to the vehicle; and a display within an interior area of the vehicle to present the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instmments Incorporated
    Inventors: Mayank Mangla, Shashank Dabral
  • Patent number: 11496814
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for providing additional information to a handheld device (HHD) about a displayed point of interest in video programming displayed on a multimedia display. A image of the video programming captured by a HHD camera can be used at a remote server to identify the video programming by matching it with archived programming. If identified, additional information related to the video programming can be obtained/provided. A region within a particular frame of displayed video programming can be selected at the HHD to access additional information about a point of interest associated with the region. The additional information can be displayed on the HHD or a secondary display, in response to selecting the region to access the additional information from a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Flick Intelligence, LLC
    Inventors: Luis M. Ortiz, Richard H. Krukar, Kermit D. Lopez
  • Patent number: 11486724
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel methods for generating a navigation presentation that displays a device navigating a route on a map. The method of some embodiments uses a virtual camera that, based on detected changes in the navigation context, dynamically modifies the way it captures portions of the map to produce different navigation scenes in the navigation presentation. To generate the navigation scenes, the method of some embodiments (1) identifies different sets of attributes that describe the different navigation contexts at different times during the navigation presentation, and (2) uses these different sets of attributes to identify different styles for operating the virtual camera. In some embodiments, the method uses an identified style to specify the virtual camera's positional attributes, which, in turn, define the portions of the map that the virtual camera identifies for rendering to produce several navigation scenes for a period of time (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin M. Strawn, Adam B. Findley, Nathan L. Fillhardt, Brian J. Andrich, Usama M. Hajj, Tadayasu Sasada
  • Patent number: 11477431
    Abstract: A method includes emitting a pattern of transmitted light into a three-dimensional environment from an optical transmitter and receiving reflected light from the pattern of transmitted light at an optical receiver. The method includes identifying light-sensitive pixels of that are stimulated by from the pattern of reflected light and generating an up-sampled matrix with subsections that correspond to light-sensitive pixels. The method includes sparsely populating subsections of the up-sampled matrix with a pattern of non-zero entries and imaging the three-dimensional environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
    Inventor: Andreas Assmann
  • Patent number: 11463659
    Abstract: A monitoring system of an embodiment includes an acquirer, an extractor, an encryption processor, and a generator. The acquirer is configured to acquire, from one or more monitoring cameras that capture an image of a work area in which presented information to be input is input to an input terminal, a captured image captured by the one or more monitoring cameras. The extractor is configured to extract the information to be input from the captured image acquired by the acquirer. The encryption processor is configured to encrypt the information to be input extracted by the extractor. The generator is configured to generate a replaced image in which the information to be input is made invisible, the replaced image comprising a partial image that displays information encrypted by the encryption processor at a position of the information to be input in the captured image acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11430486
    Abstract: A list of supplemental media items may be provided to potentially include one or more supplemental media items in a sequence of media items. For example, a list of B-roll footage may be provided to a user creating a video edit, and the video edit may be modified to include the B-roll footage selected by the user. The list of B-roll footage may include B-roll footage that is suggested for inclusion in the video edit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Oulès, Anaïs Oulès, Jonathan Leland Thorn, Joshua Druker
  • Patent number: 11430483
    Abstract: A system for playing audio/video includes a set of triggering objects. Each triggering object has a respective computer readable image. The system further includes a camera for capturing images within a zone of interactivity, an audiovisual output device, and a set of stored responses. Each response corresponds to at least one of the triggering objects. The system further includes a computing device connected to the camera and to the audiovisual output device. The computing device is configured to i) determine when a first one of the triggering objects and/or a second one of the triggering objects is within the zone of interactivity; ii) identify a first pre-produced audiovisual response corresponding to the first one of the triggering objects and identify a second pre-produced audiovisual response corresponding to the second one of the triggering objects; and iv) concatenate the first pre-produced audiovisual response and the second pre-produced audiovisual response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Daniel Licht
  • Patent number: 11417367
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide techniques for reviewing content, such as reviewing video on a mobile device. A computing device with a touch screen interface, e.g., a tablet computer, executes a reviewing tool, e.g., a computer program, that causes the device to display video content and information about the video content. The tool provides an interface for selecting video, images, and information, for review and for annotation. The tool uses remote and/or local data to display video, images, and information for review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Rob Bredow, Rene Limberger, Sam Richards
  • Patent number: 11410437
    Abstract: A system and method for removing false positives during determination of a presence of at least one rear seat passenger of a vehicle that include activating an image system to capture images of rear seats of the vehicle to determine the presence of the at least one rear seat passenger. The system and method additionally include deactivating the image system to cease capturing images of the rear seats of the vehicle. The system and method also include reactivating the image system to capture images of the rear seats of the vehicle to determine the presence of the at least one rear seat passenger. The system and method further include presenting a user interface notification that includes a video feed of the rear seats of the vehicle based on the determined presence of the at least one rear seat passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Stuart Masakazu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11409794
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling deformation on an image, and a hardware device are provided. In the method for controlling deformation on an image, a to-be-processed image is acquired; an audio file is acquired; the audio file is played and a first attribute value of the audio file corresponding to a current time point is acquired; an extent of the deformation on the image is determined based on the first attribute value; and deformation processing is performed on the to-be-processed image based on the extent of the deformation on the image. With the method for controlling deformation on an image, the extent of the deformation on the image is controlled based on the attribute value of the audio file, thereby solving the technical problem in the conventional technology that the special effects of deformation cannot be flexibly generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanhao Shen, Xu Fan, Guangyao Ni, Hui Yang