Patents Examined by Gelek W Topgyal
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Patent number: 10832568Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for transferring image data taken by an on-vehicle camera. The image data and nearby-vehicle information on a vehicle are received, where the image data and the nearby-vehicle information are successively transferred from each of a plurality of vehicles capable of making a communication with each other. Furthermore, information on a line of vehicles is generated based on the nearby-vehicle information. The image data is then associated with the information on the line of vehicles. Display data may then be generated using the image data. Furthermore, the display data may be presented on a display device in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Konno, Masakuni Okada, Akira Saitoh, Hiroki Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 10819955Abstract: An aircraft (11) includes an enclosure and a system for surveilling areas of interest inside the enclosure. The enclosure includes a transverse aisle (13) and a longitudinal aisle (15) that intersect at an intersection zone (19), a first access door (14) being located at one end of the transverse aisle (13) and a second access door (22) being located at one end of the longitudinal aisle. In addition, the surveillance system includes a panoramic camera (17) with a panoramic field of view, the camera being positioned at the intersection zone (19) such that an area of interest associated with the first access door (14) and an area of interest associated with the second access door is located within the field of view of the panoramic camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: LATECOEREInventors: Gerard Boucourt, Xavier Carrier, Laurent Groux
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Patent number: 10809204Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting or observing a material web, a process of inspecting the material web and a method for operating the apparatus for inspecting or observing the material web are provided. The apparatus has a guiding device through which the material web is guided and a camera including a field of view and configured to record an image of the front side within the field of view. An incident light transmitter is configured to illuminate the front side with incident light, and a background panel is arranged on the rear side of the material web within the field of view. The background panel includes a diffuser plate, a light guide plate, a reflecting surface, and a light source configured to couple light into the light guide plate which is configured to uncouple the light to illuminate the rear side of the material web with transmitted light.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Texmag GmbH VertriebsgesellschaftInventor: Lars Zwerger
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Patent number: 10795140Abstract: In order to generate rasterized images of a sample, a pixel size of image points of a rasterized image is set and photons emitted out of the sample which were detected, and for each of which a position of an effective local excitation of the sample for emitting the respective detected photon has been recorded are assigned to that image point of the rasterized image into which the position of the effective local excitation recorded for the respective detected photon falls. To set the pixel size of the image points to an optimized pixel size, the positions of the effective local excitation of the sample for emitting the detected photons are evaluated.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBHInventors: Andreas Schoenle, Lars Kastrup
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Patent number: 10785467Abstract: A 3D sensing device includes a base, an infrared emitting module, a first infrared receiver, a second infrared receiver, a color camera module, a first moving member, a second moving member, a first driving member, and a second driving member. The first moving member and the second moving member are slidably mounted on the base. The first driving member and the second riving member respectively drive the first moving member and the second moving member to slide along the base. The infrared emitting module is mounted on the first moving member. The color camera module is located between the first infrared receiver and the infrared emitter. The second infrared receiver is mounted on the second moving member. The first moving member and the second moving member respectively move the infrared emitting module and the second infrared receiver along the base relative to the first infrared receiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.Inventors: Shin-Wen Chen, Ye-Quang Chen, Jing-Wei Li, Sheng-Jie Ding, Chia-Wei Chen
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Patent number: 10777228Abstract: Feature information characterize features of video clips may be obtained. A given video clip may be selected as a segment of a video edit. Other video clips may be iteratively selected as other segments of the video edit based on the feature information of the video clips and recommended feature information of the segments. Recommended feature information of a particular segment may be obtained by processing feature information of a previously selected video clip through a trained recurrent neural network. Video edit information defining the video edit may be generated. The video edit may include the selected video clips as the segments of the video edit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Samuel Wilson
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Patent number: 10755542Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a surveillance system operable to generate surveillance data based on a sensor input to at least one sensor device. A plurality of electromagnetic waves is generated for transmission to an administrator system of the surveillance system via a guided wave transceiver, where the plurality of electromagnetic waves includes a surveillance data signal generated based on the surveillance data. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Pamela A. M. Bogdan, George Blandino, Ken Liu, Leon Lubranski, Eric Myburgh, Tracy Van Brakle
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Patent number: 10748578Abstract: A digital content package includes first content comprising a video feature such as a motion picture or the like, and a user-selectable application configured to operate as follows. When activated using an icon off of a menu screen, the application records an identifier for scenes (discrete portions) of the first content that are selected by a user to generate a playlist. The user may select the scenes by indicating a start and end of each scene. The application saves the playlist locally, then uploads to a server. Via a user account at the server, a user may publish the playlist to a user-created distribution list, webpage, or other electronic publication, and modify the playlist by deleting or reordering scenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kim Lau, Jacob Frautschi, Massimiliano Gasparri, Randy Lee, Patrick Harman
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Patent number: 10738616Abstract: A maintenance apparatus includes a flexible carriage configured to anchor between adjacent airfoils of a turbine assembly. The maintenance apparatus includes a maintenance tool operably coupled with the flexible carriage. The maintenance tool is configured to one or more of generate image data representative of one or more surfaces of the turbine assembly or repair the one or more surfaces of the turbine assembly. The maintenance apparatus comprises one or more motors operably coupled with the maintenance tool and configured to move the maintenance tool relative to the flexible carriage.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Don Mark Lipkin, Scott Michael Oppenheimer, Mark Zajkowski, Todd Danko
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Patent number: 10739157Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adam B. Findley, Nathan L. Fillhardt, Justin M. Strawn, Brian J. Andrich, Usama M. Hajj, Tadayasu Sasada
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Patent number: 10720188Abstract: A method includes receiving a plurality of images at an encoder device. The plurality of images is encoded by the encoder device to generate an output video stream. The output video stream includes a plurality of encoded video frames corresponding to the plurality of images. While receiving the plurality of images and while generating the output video stream, the encoder device receives a notification that a particular image of the plurality of images satisfies a thumbnail generation condition based on stream analysis of one or more of the plurality of images. The output video stream is sent concurrently with a supplemental data package to a media server. The supplemental data package comprises a thumbnail and metadata associated with the thumbnail, the thumbnail generated from the particular image responsive to receiving the notification.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: WOWZA MEDIA SYSTEMS, LLCInventor: Robert Elsner
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Patent number: 10715873Abstract: A system and method for operating the same includes a memory and a controller that stores content in the memory to form stored content. The controller receives a display request for displaying content from a user device through a network. The display request comprises a user device identifier. The controller determines a timeslot corresponding to the display request, retrieves a content list corresponding to stored content, reorders the content list in response to the timeslot and the user device identifier to form a reordered list and communicates the reordered list to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Sui-Ky Ringo Ling, Raynold M. Kahn
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Patent number: 10666868Abstract: An aerial vehicle platform includes an aerial vehicle, a gimbal coupled to the aerial vehicle, and a camera mounted to the gimbal. An attitude sensing system includes an inertial measurement unit to sense attitude and an attitude adjustment module to generate an attitude adjustment for adjusting the sensed attitude to compensate for drift error.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Gubler, Garance Bruneau, Axel Murguet, Pascal Gohl
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Patent number: 10659721Abstract: A method of processing a sequence of coded video frames conveyed by a digital data stream, where each frame represents an image, includes receiving the sequence of coded video frames at a recording device, determining a frame interval between presentation of an ith coded frame of the sequence and an (i+1)th coded frame of the sequence, calculating a stream time stamp for the ith coded frame, and calculating a stream time stamp for the (i+1)th coded video frame based on the stream time stamp for the ith coded video frame and the previously determined frame interval.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Muralidharan Narayanan, Christopher S. Del Sordo, Surya P. Maheswaram, Krishna Prasad Panje, Ernest G. Schmitt, Yaxi Zhang
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Patent number: 10643662Abstract: Provided is a mobile augmented reality video editing system including a real image input section configured to receive a real image through an image sensor, a spatial recognizer configured to separately recognize the ground surface and a space within the real image, an object extraction and display section configured to extract and display objects in the real image, an editing tool display section configured to display video editing tools to a user, a video processor configured to delete an object touched for deletion by the user among the extracted and displayed objects in the real image and correct horizontal lines constituting a region of the deleted object by substituting each of the horizontal lines with a pixel value of the same height in an adjacent space, and a screen display section configured to display the real image corrected by the video processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HY3D CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Ho Lee, Hong Sik Ko, Jeong Uk Lee, Yoon Young Yang, Sang Yeon Park, Se Yoon Lee
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Patent number: 10628486Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for partitioning videos. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a partition of a video into one or more shots. Features are generated for each shot, including visual features and audio features. The generated features for each shot are provided as input to a partitioning neural network that is configured to process the generated features to generate a partitioning neural network output. The partition of the video into one or more chapters is determined based on the partitioning neural network output, where a chapter is a sequence of consecutive shots that are determined to be taken at one or more locations that are semantically related.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Hang Chu, Michael Nechyba, Andrew C. Gallagher, Utsav Prabhu
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Patent number: 10628772Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging system for use in commercial trailer loading is disclosed. The method and apparatus may be configured to determine a load-efficiency score for a trailer in a variety of ways. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus may determine the score by receiving a set of point cloud data based on 3D image data, analyzing the set of point cloud data, generating a set of data slices based on the set of point cloud data each data slice corresponding to a portion of the 3D image data, estimating a set of missing data points in each data slice in the set of data slices, and calculating a load-efficiency score based on the generated set of data slices and estimated set of missing data points.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLCInventors: Adithya H. Krishnamurthy, Justin F. Barish, Miroslav Trajkovic
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Patent number: 10622019Abstract: A method and system for creating and editing video and/or audio tracks is described. The method includes providing at least one artist, venue, and track available for selection and providing at least one clip associated with the at least one artist, venue, and track. The method also includes allowing a user to create a custom track from the at least one clip. The system includes a plurality of video cameras for recording a live performance at a plurality of positions. The system also includes at least one server for storing a plurality of video clips created from the plurality of video cameras and an application stored on the at least one server for allowing a user to access the plurality of video clips via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Rose Trading LLCInventor: Michael Wayne Shore
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Patent number: 10602054Abstract: A method to record video with a video camera while respecting bystander privacy includes acquiring sensory data separate from the video, parsing the sensory data for evidence of a human being in a field of view of the video camera, and recording video with the video camera if no human being is detected in the field of view, based upon the sensory data.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jaeyeon Jung, Matthai Philipose
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Patent number: 10592199Abstract: Perspective-based dynamic audio volume adjustment. A method obtains multimedia content, the multimedia content including video frames of a scene and audio content for playing in conjunction with display of the video frames. The audio content includes audio portions corresponding to objects in the scene. Based on a selection of a viewing perspective from which to view the scene, the method determines an audio mix for the audio portions given the selected viewing perspective. Determining the audio mix includes determining, for each object of the objects in the scene, a respective audio volume level for an audio portion, of the audio portions, corresponding to the object. The respective audio volume level is based at least in part on a position of the object relative to the selected viewing perspective.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit