Patents Examined by Joseph G. Ustaris
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Patent number: 11516444Abstract: A switchgear includes a modular optical monitoring system for examining switchgear switching positions and at least one isolating switch accommodated in an encapsulated housing. The encapsulated housing is disposed in an installation housing. The encapsulated housing has a first transparent window in one region and a fiber-optic system leads from an outer side of the installation housing to the first transparent window.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Kay Czeromin
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Patent number: 11516440Abstract: A method for modal analysis of bridge structures based on surveillance videos is provided. A plurality of continuous cameras are utilized for realizing high-precision surveillance for the structure of the bridge. Firstly, a plurality of regions are selected in the viewing angle of each of the cameras, and a conversion relation between images of the regions and actual displacements is calculated; next, displacements on the images shot by the cameras are converted into actual displacements of targets, so as to obtain displacements of the targets relative to the cameras; displacements of the adjacent cameras are sequentially passed according to a difference value from the ground of an abutment, so as to obtain displacements of all camera bodies; and finally, the displacements of all the targets relative to the ground of the abutment are calculated, and the structural mode of the bridge is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiaowei Ye, Zhexun Li, Tao Jin
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Patent number: 11509895Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method using a pixel value range constituting an image is disclosed, wherein the image decoding method using a pixel value range constituting an image comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream; acquiring information of a pixel value range forming a first unit image included in the received bitstream; and decoding the first unit image on the basis of the acquired information of the pixel value range. Therefore, compression efficiency can be improved in an image encoding or decoding process.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang UniversityInventors: Ki Baek Kim, Je Chang Jeong
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Patent number: 11509800Abstract: A thermoelectric element is provided between an on-board camera and a windshield. The on-board camera incorporates a temperature sensor, heat is caused to be transferred from the on-board camera to the windshield when a temperature of the on-board camera is equal to or greater than a threshold, and when the temperature of the on-board camera is lower than the threshold, a space formed by the on-board camera and the windshield is warmed by heat generated by the thermoelectric element itself, whereby condensation on the windshield is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiko Katayama, Nariaki Takehara, Noritaka Kokido
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Patent number: 11509878Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to perform media processing. A media processing entity includes at least one processor in communication with a memory, wherein the memory stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform receiving, from a remote computing device, multi-view multimedia data comprising a hierarchical track structure comprising at least a first track comprising first media data at a first level of the hierarchical track structure, and metadata associated with a second track at a second level in the hierarchical track structure that is different than the first level of the first track. The instructions further cause the processor to perform processing the first media data of the first track based on the metadata associated with the second track to generate second media data for the second track.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Xin Wang, Lulin Chen
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Patent number: 11506874Abstract: Optical imaging systems configured to image object space in multiple fields-of-view (FOVs)—front and lateral FOVs—and form corresponding images that are co-oriented and co-directional regardless of mutual repositioning of the object and imaging systems. Images formed with such optical systems in which FFOV— and LFOV-image portions are co-directional. Co-directionality of formed images is achieved due to direct imaging with a system utilizing a specific involute reflective surface or as a result of radial spatial redistribution of irradiance of an initial image(s), formed with a system devoid of an involute reflective surface, while maintaining aspect ratios of dimensions of corresponding pixels of initial and transformed images. Methodology of transformation of images utilizing radial redistribution of image irradiance.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: OMNISCIENT IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Bhaskar Banerjee, Brian Scaramella, Richard Pfisterer, Scott Ellis
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Patent number: 11496748Abstract: A method of video decoding includes retrieving, from a coded video bitstream for a current block encoded in an intra prediction mode, a reference line index indicating a reference line from a plurality of reference lines that include a zero reference line. The method includes determining whether the current block is encoded in a non-angular intra prediction mode. The method includes, in response to the block being encoded in the non-angular intra prediction mode, determining whether the reference line index indicates a non-zero reference line from the plurality of reference lines. The method includes in response to determining that the reference line index is the non-zero reference line, (i) enabling non-angular intra prediction modes for the non-zero reference line, and (ii) decoding the current block with at least one reference sample from the non-zero reference line.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11496724Abstract: A display processor and computer-implemented method are provided for processing three-dimensional [3D] image data for display on a 3D display. The 3D display is arranged for emitting a series of views of the 3D image data which enables stereoscopic viewing of the 3D image data at multiple viewing positions. The series of views may be displayed on the 3D display using overscan. The degree of overscan may be determined as a function of one or more depth range parameters, the one or more depth range parameters characterizing, at least in part, a degree of depth perceived by a viewer when the series of views is displayed on the 3D display.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: ULTRA-D COÖPERATIEF U.A.Inventors: Bart Gerard Bernard Barenbrug, Peter Roelen
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Patent number: 11463680Abstract: Generating a three-dimensional (3D) map of an environment includes receiving, via a 3D-scanner that is mounted on a moveable platform, a 3D-scan of the environment while the moveable platform moves through the environment. The method further includes receiving via a two-dimensional (2D) scanner that is mounted on the moveable platform, a portion of a 2D-map of the environment, and receiving first coordinates of the scan position in the 2D-map. The method further includes associating the scan position with the portion of the 2D-map as a virtual landmark. In response to the movable platform being brought back at the virtual landmark, a displacement vector for the 2D-map is determined based on a difference between the first coordinates and a second coordinates that are determined for the scan position. A revised scan position is calculated based on the displacement vector, and the revised scan position is used to register the 3D-scan.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Oliver Zweigle, Aleksej Frank, Ahmad Ramadneh, Mufassar Waheed
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Patent number: 11464149Abstract: A component mounting includes an external monitoring camera that images an outside work area that is an area outside of the component mounting machine at which an operator performs work with respect to the component mounting machine. The outside work area of the component mounting machine includes at least an area where a feeder is set, and a monitoring target is at least a state during and after completion of setting the feeder on the component mounting machine and during and after completion of setting component supply tape on the feeder. By looking at a recorded image or a real time image displayed on a display device by using the external monitoring camera to capture an outside work area of the component mounting machine, it is possible to check the state of the monitoring target on which an operator performed work in the outside work area of the component mounter.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi Kawai, Fumitaka Maeda
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Patent number: 11431987Abstract: A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture. The method further includes determining whether a block size of an inter coded current block in the current picture is below a block size threshold. The method further includes, in response to determining that the current block is below the block size threshold, determining whether the inter coded current block is associated with a fractional motion vector (MV). The method further includes in response to determining that the inter coded current block is associated with a fractional MV, retrieving one or more reference samples in accordance with a reference sample reduction process. The method further includes decoding the current block based on the retrieved one or more reference samples.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Meng Xu, Xiang Li, Xiaozhong Xu, Guichun Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11423662Abstract: A device for removing or killing weeds, comprising a first image capturing apparatus for capturing a first ground image, a data processing unit connected thereto and an agricultural machine controlled by the data processing unit, which is designed for the targeted removal or killing of weeds, wherein the data processing apparatus is configured to receive the first ground image from the first image capturing apparatus, to receive manually determined position data from at least one connected terminal, which indicate the position of weeds and/or crops and/or ground structures, e.g. rows of plants, which have been detected in the first ground image by one or more users, and, on the basis of the position data, to control the agricultural machine in such a way that it removes or kills the weeds in a targeted manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: AVENTUM GMBH, ANDREAS SCHNEEMAYERInventors: Albert Neumann, Andreas Schneemayer
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Patent number: 11417013Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for iteratively mapping a layout of an environment. The implementations include receiving a visual stream from a camera installed in the environment, wherein the visual stream depicts a view of the environment, and wherein positional parameters of the camera and dimensions of the environment are set to arbitrary values. The implementations include monitoring a plurality of persons in the visual stream. For each person in the plurality of persons, the implementations further includes identifying a respective path that the person moves along in the view, updating the dimensions of the environment captured in the view, based on an estimated height of the person and movement speed along the respective path, and updating the positional parameters of the camera based on the updated dimensions of the environment. The implementations further includes mapping a layout of the environment captured in the view of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Sensormatic Electornics, LLCInventor: Michael C. Stewart
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Patent number: 11412776Abstract: A smoking path simulation system includes a case, the robotic arm fixedly provided in the case and a cigarette holder mounted at a working end of the robotic arm, and further includes a feeding device, a cigarette tapping device and a cigarette lighting device provided in the case and located at a periphery of the robotic arm, as well as an image acquisition device mounted at the working end of the robotic arm. With the smoking path simulation system, an action path of smoking a cigarette by a consumer may be simulated, and consistency of the simulated action paths may be guaranteed, thus effectively improving precision of test of indexes of a cigarette-combustion performance, such as cigarette-combustion ash integration characteristics, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Han Zheng, Jianbo Zhan, Hao Wang, Zhenhua Yu, Ying Zhang, Geng Li, Tingting Yu, Liang Cheng, Liwei Li, Tao Wang, Xu Wang, Haiyan Ding, Jiao Xie, Baoshan Yue, Jiang Yu
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Patent number: 11418701Abstract: At least one embodiment of a method of auto-setting a video content analysis module configured to analyse representation of predetermined targets in images of a scene captured by a video-camera, the method comprising: obtaining a quality indicator of images captured by the video-camera, the quality indicator being determined as a function of the video content analysis module; obtaining characteristics of representations of the predetermined targets in images of the scene captured by the video-camera; and for each setting of a set of settings of the video content analysis module, estimating a performance indicator of the video content analysis module according to the considered setting, the performance indicator being determined as a function of at least the obtained quality indicator and the obtained characteristics; based on the estimated performance indicators, selecting a setting for the video content analysis module; and setting the video content analysis module according to the selected setting.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Johann Citerin, Gérald Kergourlay, Falk Tannhauser, Pierre Visa
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Patent number: 11412907Abstract: A cleaner performing autonomous traveling includes a main body, first and second cameras photographing the periphery of the main body, and a controller controlling the first and second cameras to capture an image according to preset order, wherein a direction in which the first camera is directed and a direction in which the second camera is directed form a predetermined angle, and the controller generates three-dimensional (3D) coordinate information related to an object located near the main body using images obtained in the first and second cameras.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yongmin Shin, Ilsoo Cho
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Patent number: 11417127Abstract: A method for observation of a sample, the sample comprising microorganisms immersed in a nontransparent culture medium, the culture medium being favorable to the development of the microorganisms, and the sample being arranged between a light source and an image sensor, includes illuminating the sample with the light source, the light source emitting light propagating along an axis of propagation; acquiring an image of the sample by the image sensor; and, from the image acquired, characterizing the microorganisms. Light travels along the microorganisms through the culture medium to the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Thomas Bordy, Cedric Allier, Pierre Marcoux
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Patent number: 11412121Abstract: [SUMMARY] [OBJECT] To provide a vehicle-mounted camera capable of achieving both of miniaturization and high functionality. [MEANS FOR SOLVING] The vehicle-mounted camera includes an optical unit, a frame, a cover member, a holder, and a pair of screw members. The frame includes a front wall portion having a flat plate shape and extending along a plane orthogonal to an axis, and a pair of first through-hole portions provided to the front wall portion. The cover member includes a pair of second through-hole portions adjacent to the pair of first through-hole portions in a forward direction of the axis. The holder includes a holding portion that holds the optical unit, a pair of columnar portions that protrude in the forward direction and are inserted into the pair of first through-hole portions and the pair of second through-hole portions from a rearward direction of the axis, and a pair of screw hole portions formed toward the rearward direction from distal end portions of the pair of columnar portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Toshihiro Tokito
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Patent number: 11394928Abstract: A device for inserting and securing a video doorbell system inside a metal container that is securely fitted along the side of a door and can only be opened when door is opened. The device comprises a metal container measured to hold specified video doorbell systems inside WITH an opening that exposes the camera and doorbell button ONLY (FIG. 1). The metal container is attached to two u-shaped thin but durable metal hooks that snap together and cling to the side of a door snugly. The device also has cylinder tubes at the ends of each hook to decrease the ability to pull the device away from the door (anti-theft). The device also avoids property damage from permanent mounting using screws.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Doorbell Boa Operating LLCInventor: James Pritchett
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Patent number: 11394883Abstract: An electronic device including first and second housings rotated on a hinge unit, a display exposed to an outside through the first and second housings, first and second cameras disposed respectively in the first and second housings, at least one sensor, and at least one processor, is provided. The at least one processor is configured to obtain first and second images using the first camera and second cameras, respectively, generate a first panoramic image based on the first and second images, detect a rotation of at least one of the first housing or the second housing through the hinge unit using the at least one sensor, obtain at least one image using at least one of the first or second cameras while the at least one housing rotates, and generate a second panoramic image based on the first panoramic image and the at least one image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dang Tung Nguyen, Van Manh Le, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Ngoc Duc Ngo, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Xuan Tai Ngo, Cong Duy Dinh, Minh Khang Do