Patents Examined by Girumsew Wendmagegn
  • Precision multi-view display
    Patent number: 11483542
    Abstract: A precision multi-view (MV) display system can accurately and simultaneously display different content to different viewers over a wide field of view. The MV display system may include features that enable individual MV display devices to be easily and efficiently tiled to form a larger MV display. A graphical interface enables a user to graphically specify viewing zones and associate content that will be visible in those zones in a simple manner. A calibration procedure enables the specification of content at precise viewing locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, William Jerry Duncan, Matthew Steele Lathrop, David Steven Thompson
  • Systems and methods for visualizing and analyzing a rail surface
    Patent number: 11479281
    Abstract: A system for analyzing a railroad track comprises a transport device, a camera coupled to the transport device, an electronic display device, a memory device, and one or more processors. The camera is disposed adjacent to a rail of the railroad track and generates image data reproducible as one or more images of at least a portion of a surface of the rail. The processors can produce an image of the rail surface, which includes a plurality of elongated portions. The image is analyzed to identify any defects that exist within each elongated portion of the rail surface. The processors determine a value of a metric for each elongated portion of the rail surface. The metric is associated with the identified defects. The electronic display device displays a graph indicative of the metric for each elongated portion, the image of the rail surface, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ensco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dick, Zhipeng Liu, Samson Yilma
  • Embedding interactive content into a shareable online video
    Patent number: 11475920
    Abstract: Technologies for implementing embedding interactive content into a shareable online video. The technologies include an authoring tool including a graphical user interface (GUI). The tool can be used to input an edit decision list (EDL) file and a video file that has a video. The GUI can provide a view of specific scenes of the video according to the EDL file and the video file. The GUI can also provide interactive features. Through the GUI and/or the tool, a selection of a scene of the specific scenes can be inputted as well as a selection of an interactive feature from the interactive features can be inputted. Then, the tool can embed the selected interactive feature into the selected scene at a selected specific spatial location in the selected scene. The tool can also output the video file with the embedded interactive feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BON2 MFDIA SERVICES LLC
    Inventor: Ntana Bantu Key
  • Generating a secure random number by determining a change in parameters of digital content in subsequent frames via graphics processing circuitry
    Patent number: 11477020
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium that include accessing a frame buffer of a GPU, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a first frame of displayed data from a source, the source being an image or video-based feed including an object, identifying the object in the first frame from the source, the object associated with a first value of a parameter, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a second frame of the displayed data from the source, identifying the object in the second frame from the source, the object associated with a second value of the parameter, determining an entropy of the object based on a difference between the first parameter value and the second parameter value, generating a random number based on the entropy of the object, and generating an encryption for encrypting data based on the generated random number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MOBEUS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dharmendra Etwaru, David Casper
  • Emergency assistance method and device for a firearm
    Patent number: 11470277
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an attachment for a firearm that communicates with remote device or person such as emergency services. One embodiment of the present invention is selectively interconnected to a picatinny rail, weaver rail, or other mounting means, and the embodiment includes a button that allows a user to initiate communication with emergency services without removing his or her hands from the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Solid Proof Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul Sakiewicz, William Dean Beye, II, Albert Tuertscher
  • Looping audio-visual file generation based on audio and video analysis
    Patent number: 11456017
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include receiving a video loop portion included in a video file and receiving an audio loop portion included in an audio file. The method can include analyzing at least a portion of the audio file based on a musical characteristic and identifying a plurality of segment locations within the audio file based on the analyzing where the plurality of segment locations define a plurality of audio segments of the audio file. The method can also include modifying the video loop portion based on one of the plurality of segment locations in the audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Plom, Jason J. Mante, Ryan Swigart, Mikhail Kaplinskiy
  • System and method for creating a video summary based on video relevancy
    Patent number: 11445273
    Abstract: System and method for creating a video summary are disclosed. The system includes a registration module configured to register multiple users on a platform, a video input module configured to receive videos, a transcript input module configured to receive multimedia transcripts, a video analysis module configured to analyse the videos, a transcript analysis module configured to analyse the multimedia transcript, a video summary module configured to create the video summary of the videos integrating with the multimedia transcripts, a video storage module configured to store the video summary, a video review module configured to enable the users to create a review, a video editing module configured to edit the video summary to create a new video summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CLIPr Co.
    Inventors: Humphrey Chen, Cindy Chin, Aaron Sloman
  • Image processing device and method for operating image processing device
    Patent number: 11445160
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a multimedia intellectual property (IP) block which processes image data including a first component and a second component; a memory; and a frame buffer compressor (FBC) which compresses the image data to generate compressed data and stores the compressed data in the memory. The frame buffer compressor includes a logic circuit which controls a compression sequence of the first component and the second component of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Jun, Kil Whan Lee
  • System and method for generating a compression invariant motion timeline
    Patent number: 11430488
    Abstract: The present invention generates a compression invariant motion timeline for a video. For each second in the video, the method uses an identification procedure to determine a stored key frame size, a frame counter, and an accumulated size of frames. The method then calculates and stores a motion value for the second using the stored key frame size, the frame counter, and the accumulated size of frames. The motion values for each second may be used to construct a timeline for the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: COGNYTE TECHNOLOGIES ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventor: Zvi Figov
  • Interface for indicating video editing decisions
    Patent number: 11430484
    Abstract: A video edit may include one or more segments of a video. A graphical user interface may convey information that indicates video editing decisions made to generate the video edit. The graphical user interface may include a timeline element to represent the length of the video and one or more inclusion elements to visually indicate the segment(s) of the video included in the video edit. The graphical user interface may convey information on the segment(s) of the video that have been automatically included in the video edit and the segment(s) of the video that have been manually included in the video edit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Fortunato, Evan Kosowski, Rachael Irene Hines Thompson, Thomas Achddou, Pablo Lema, Shinichi Kogi, Jean-Baptiste Noël, Renaud Cousin, Nicolas Duponchel
  • System and method for managing service and non-service related activities associated with a waste collection, disposal and/or recycling vehicle
    Patent number: 11425340
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. Optical sensors are integrated into the in-cab monitor as well as the onboard computer, digital video recorder and other external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: WM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Barry S. Skolnick
  • Vehicle imaging device, image processing method, and image processing program
    Patent number: 11412151
    Abstract: A measurement unit measures a first generation time of a first vanishing point of a plurality of radially diverging motion vectors generated in a front image region and a second generation time of a second vanishing point of a plurality of converging motion vectors generated in the front image region within a predetermined period of time in a state in which an image rotation unit adjusts positions of the front image region and a rear image region in a circumferential direction. The image rotation unit keeps the positions of the front image region and the rear image region in the circumferential direction when the first generation time measured by the measurement unit is longer than the second generation time, and rotates the captured image to reverse the front image region and the rear image region when the first generation time is not longer than the second generation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Takashi Himukashi, Yu Hojo
  • Smart sensor and its system for autonomous system
    Patent number: 11412203
    Abstract: This invention relates to a sensor and sensor platform, for an autonomous system. The sensor and its platform sense, perform signal or data processing, and make the decision locally at the point of sensing. More specifically, the sensor along with its platform simulates the human-like or human capacity to make decisions by combing the data from several sensors that detect different data sets, and combine them in a series of data processes that allows autonomous decisions to be made. Additionally, the sensor platform combines multiple sensors in one metasensor with the functionality of multiple sensors placed on a common carrier or platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Banpil Photonics, Inc.
    Inventor: Achyut Kumar Dutta
  • Video processing method, video playing method, devices and storage medium
    Patent number: 11404090
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention provided a video processing method, a video playing method, devices thereof, and a storage medium. The video processing method is applied to a terminal device and can include that a video-frame tagging operation is detected during recording of a video. The video-frame tagging operation can tag a video frame in a recorded video at different times during recording of the video. The video frame can be tagged at different times during recording of the video according to the video-frame tagging operation. A final recorded video is generated based on the tagged video frame and an untagged video frame. The video frame is tagged through the detected video-frame tagging operation and the final recorded video is generated, so that a wonderful moment in the video can be rapidly located based on the tag of the video frame during video playback, and user experience may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Jiakang Deng, Binbin Lin, Yu Zhao
  • Imaging device and imaging method
    Patent number: 11405561
    Abstract: An imaging device that images a disease site as a subject includes a camera body, a light unit that is provided in the camera body and includes a first light source and a second light source that have different characteristics, and a filter unit that includes at least one independent filter capable of being positioned on and retracted from an optical axis of the camera body. The imaging device performs continuous imaging by imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the first light source and, via a first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis and, thereafter, imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the second light source and, via a second mode that differs from the first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Nobuhiro Aoki, Shigeki Mineo
  • Audio processing apparatus and method of controlling audio processing apparatus
    Patent number: 11398252
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes an audio file recovery unit configured to recover an audio file related to a video file. With video data of the video file and audio data of the audio file recorded at different speed rates from each other, the audio file recovery unit recovers the audio file so that an end position of the audio data coincides with an end position of the video data in playback of the audio data and the video data at a speed rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Mizutani
  • Systems and methods for creating video summaries
    Patent number: 11398093
    Abstract: Video information defining video content may be accessed. Highlight moments within the video content may be identified. Flexible video segments may be determined based on the highlight moments. Individual flexible video segments may include one or more of the highlight moments and a flexible portion of the video content. The flexible portion of the video content may be characterized by a minimum segment duration, a target segment duration, and a maximum segment duration. A duration allocated to the video content may be determined. One or more of the flexible video segments may be selected based on the duration and one or more of the minimum segment duration, the target segment duration, and/or the maximum segment duration of the selected flexible video segments. A video summary including the selected flexible video segments may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Noel
  • Dental surface imaging apparatus using laser projection
    Patent number: 11382559
    Abstract: An intra-oral imaging apparatus for obtaining a contour image of a tooth has a fringe pattern generator energizable to emit a fringe pattern illumination. The fringe pattern generator has (i) at least one structured light source that is energizable to emit a patterned light beam; (ii) at least one reflective element in the path of the emitted patterned light beam and actuable to rotate about an axis to scan the emitted patterned light beam along a tooth surface as fringe pattern illumination. A detector is configured to acquire one or more images of the fringe pattern illumination from the tooth surface. A control logic processor is configured to control the fringe pattern generator for illuminating the tooth and to obtain and process the one or more images acquired by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Zhaohua Liu, Tan Wang
  • Apparatus and methods for watermarking using starting phase modulation
    Patent number: 11375224
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermarking using starting phase modulation. An example apparatus includes memory, and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least determine a first analyzed phase value for a watermark component of a watermarked media signal at a first time, determine a sum of differences for analyzed phase values with respect to a first one of a plurality of possible starting phase values, the analyzed phase values associated with the watermarked media signal, the analyzed phase values including the first analyzed phase value, in response to the sum of differences satisfying a threshold, decode a first data value corresponding to the first one of the possible starting phase values, and determine a watermark payload based on the first data value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Topchy, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Jeremey M. Davis
  • System and method of reducing ambient background light in a pulse-illuminated image
    Patent number: 11375174
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing background light in an image are disclosed. The system includes a sensor and a processor. An illuminator may illuminate a scene with emitted light. The sensor outputs one or more images in response to received light. The processor processes images from the sensor to reduce or eliminate ambient light in a captured image. The processor may do this by causing the sensor to capture a first image of the scene, where the first image includes background light and portions of the emitted light reflected or scattered from the scene. The processor also causes the sensor to capture a second image of the scene, where the second image includes background light with no contribution from the emitted light. The processor subtracts the second image from the first image to produce a third image of the scene predominately illuminated by the emitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: nLIGHT, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Banks, Bodo Schmidt, Lorenzo N. Venneri