Patents Examined by Jeffery Williams
  • Patent number: 11593958
    Abstract: There are provided an imaging device, a distance measurement method, a distance measurement program, and a recording medium capable of accurately measuring a distance to a subject without depending on a color of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Patent number: 11587257
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to a camera calibration system for generating various types of calibration data by maneuvering a camera through a variety of different calibration test systems. The calibration data generated by the camera calibration system can be transmitted to the camera, which can locally store the calibration data. The calibration data can include spatial frequency response value data, which can be generated according to a spatial frequency response test that is performed by the camera calibration system. The calibration data can also include field of view values and distortion values that are generated according to a distortion test that is also performed by the camera calibration system. The camera calibration system can maneuver the camera through a variety of different calibration tests, as well as transmit any resulting calibration data to the camera for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Yonggang Ha
  • Patent number: 11579947
    Abstract: A method for use with a computing device. The method may include receiving a data set including a plurality of univariate data points and determining a target kernel bandwidth for a kernel density estimator (KDE). Determining the target kernel bandwidth may include computing a plurality of sample KDEs and selecting the target kernel bandwidth based on the sample KDEs. The method may further include computing the KDE for the data set using the target kernel bandwidth. For one or more tail regions of the data set, the method may further include computing one or more respective tail extensions. The method may further include computing and outputting a renormalized piecewise density estimator that, in each tail region, equals a renormalization of the respective tail extension for that tail region, and, outside the one or more tail regions, equals a renormalization of the KDE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Firas Hamze, Helmut Gottfried Katzgraber
  • Patent number: 11574144
    Abstract: Technologies relating to improving performance of a computer-implemented model that acts as a multi-class classifier are described herein. A chatbot includes the computer-implemented model, and the computer-implemented model receives natural language input from end users. A subset of the natural language inputs are identified as training examples that are to be used to update the computer-implemented model, wherein the natural language inputs are identified as the training examples based upon comparisons between scores for the natural language inputs output by different classifiers of the computer-implemented model. The training examples are labeled by a developer, and the computer-implemented model is updated based upon the labeled training examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Riham Mansour, Carol Hanna, Youssef Shahin, Omar Essam Serour, Ahmed Ashour
  • Patent number: 11570437
    Abstract: An encoder is provided that comprises a partitioner and an entropy coder. The partitioner is configured to receive a current block of the frame and obtain a list of candidate geometric partitioning (GP) lines. Each of the candidate GP lines is generated based on information of one or more candidate neighbor blocks of the current block. The partitioner is further configured to determine a final GP line that partitions the current block into two segments, select a GP line from the list of GP lines to obtain a selected GP line, and generate a GP parameter for the current block. The GP parameter includes an offset information indicating an offset between the final GP line and the selected GP line. The entropy coder is configured to encode the GP parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijie Zhao, Max Blaeser, Mathias Wien
  • Patent number: 11563962
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for encoding media content based on an ending delay of first media content and a startup delay of second media content. Second media content may be configured for transmission after first media content in a media content stream. The first media content may be associated with an ending delay corresponding to transmission and/or decoding of frames of the first media content. The second media content may be associated with a starting delay corresponding to transmission and/or decoding of frames of the second media content. The first media content and the second media content may be encoded using different encoding formats. Based on comparing the ending delay and starting delay to a threshold, encoding parameters may be selected, one or more frames may be removed from the first media content and/or the second media content, and/or buffers of one or more devices may be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Srinath V. Ramaswamy, Weidong Mao, Jason Press
  • Patent number: 11563989
    Abstract: A signal processing device is disclosed, which includes a plurality of channel receivers, a plurality of time code processors in one-to-one correspondence with the channel receivers, a timing generator, a signal processor and a transmitter, wherein each channel receiver is configured to parse an audio-video signal which has a data format defined by the SDI protocol and including a time code that characterizes time information. Each time code processor is configured to extract the time code from a parsed audio-video signal obtained by a corresponding channel receiver, and form first frame image data including a frame time code. The signal processor is configured to form an absolute frame output image based on multiple channels of the first frame of image data, frame time codes therein, and an internal clock signal generated by the timing generator. The transmitter is configured to transmit the absolute frame output image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xitong Ma, Lihua Geng, Congrui Wu, Yanfu Li, Xian Wang
  • Patent number: 11561295
    Abstract: The present application provides a position detecting method, device and storage medium for a vehicle ladar, where the method includes: detecting, through a ladar disposed on an autonomous vehicle, detection data of at least one wall of an interior room in which the autonomous vehicle is located, obtaining a point cloud image according to the detection data of the at least one wall, and judging, according to the point cloud image, whether an installation position of the ladar is accurate. According to the technical solution, it is possible to accurately detect whether the installation position of the ladar is accurate, provide a prerequisite for calibration of the installation position of the ladar, and improve detection accuracy of the ladar for obstacles around the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Nan Wu
  • Patent number: 11553168
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11550042
    Abstract: A laser radar system according to the present invention includes: a light source to output light having a first frequency in a first period and light having a second frequency in a second period; an optical splitter to split the lights, outputted from the light source, into signal light and local oscillator light; an optical modulator to modulate the signal light into pulsed light; an optical antenna to output the pulsed light into space and to receive, as reception light, the scattered light from a target; an optical heterodyne receiver to perform heterodyne detection on the reception light by using the local oscillator light; and a measurement unit to measure the distance to the target or the movement characteristics of the target by using the reception signal detected by the optical heterodyne receiver, wherein the optical heterodyne receiver performs the heterodyne detection on the first frequency of the reception light by using the second frequency of the local oscillator light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono
  • Patent number: 11543255
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are a computing system and a computer-implemented method related to predicting travel time by using adjacent travel time. The prediction may be based on correcting the nominal predictive travel time estimation using a relation between the predictive travel time estimation and the nominal predictive travel time estimation of a nearby commuting instance in a similar direction. This allows a reduced number of queries to the geographic information system, which may save time, costs and conserve communication resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alon Ouannou, Ravid Hadad, Gilia Bar, Olivier Uzan, Yonatan Zinkower
  • Patent number: 11546616
    Abstract: A method for video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, parameters of a cross-component linear model (CCLM) based on two or four chroma samples and/or corresponding luma samples; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11544377
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting abnormal application behavior include determining a vector representation of a first syscall graph that is generated by a first application, the vector representation including a representation of a distribution of subgraphs of the first syscall graph. The vector representation of the first syscall graph is compared to one or more second syscall graphs that are generated by respective second applications to determine respective similarity scores. It is determined that the first application is behaving abnormally based on the similarity scores, and a security action is performed responsive to the determination that the first application is behaving abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Bo Zong, Haifeng Chen, Lichen Wang
  • Patent number: 11546513
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A method for decoding a 360-degree image comprises 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; combining the generated prediction image with 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11539881
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A method for decoding a 360-degree image comprises 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; combining the generated prediction image with 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11539883
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A method for decoding a 360-degree image comprises 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; combining the generated prediction image with 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11536559
    Abstract: Examples of a light field metrology system for use with a display are disclosed. The light field metrology may capture images of a projected light field, and determine focus depths (or lateral focus positions) for various regions of the light field using the captured images. The determined focus depths (or lateral positions) may then be compared with intended focus depths (or lateral positions), to quantify the imperfections of the display. Based on the measured imperfections, an appropriate error correction may be performed on the light field to correct for the measured imperfections. The display can be an optical display element in a head mounted display, for example, an optical display element capable of generating multiple depth planes or a light field display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Samuel A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11533429
    Abstract: A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: 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; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11526849
    Abstract: A device may determine an association between a second set of parameters and a third set of parameters using a pseudoinversion network and a multiple regression procedure. The device may determine semantic embeddings based on a set of semantic descriptions of the second set of parameters. The device may determine a semantic similarity between parameters of the second set of parameters based on the semantic embeddings. The device may determine a consistency error based on the semantic similarity. The device may generate, using a regression-based learning model technique, a matrix representing an association between the second set of parameters and the third set of parameters based on the association and the consistency error. The device may perform an action based on the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Freddy Lecue, Mykhaylo Zayats, Benedikt Maximilian Johannes Golla
  • Patent number: 11523098
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to coding a multi-view signal, which includes processing a list of plurality of motion vector candidates associated with a coding block of a current picture in a dependent view of the multi-view signal. Such processing includes estimating a first motion vector based on a second motion vector associated with a reference block in a current picture of a reference view of the multi-view signal, the reference block corresponding to the coding block of the current picture in the dependent view. The first motion vector is added into the list, and an index is used that specifies at least one candidate from the list to be used for motion-compensated prediction. The coding block in the current picture is coded by performing the motion-compensated prediction based on the at least one candidate indicated by the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand