Patents Examined by Justin B Sanders
  • Patent number: 10504616
    Abstract: An example of a display system includes a sensor, a projector, and control means. The sensor senses user information for calculating a state regarding sleep of a user. The user information is, for example, biological information such as pulse. The projector projects and displays a predetermined image. The projector, for example, projects the image upward to project and display the image on the ceiling. The control means controls the projector in accordance with a state regarding sleep, which is calculated on the basis of the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eizi Kawai, Masahiro Kondo, Kazuhiro Hosoi
  • Patent number: 10484578
    Abstract: Method and system for synchronizing video output towards a single display frequency comprising providing a shared reference signal for synchronizing, at the single display frequency, video output between two or more image generator processors each driving at least one independent video card. Each of the video cards supports on-the-fly image refresh rate adaptation based on responsiveness from the corresponding image generator processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CAE Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Berube, Jean-Sébastien Dion
  • Patent number: 10477172
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus which is capable of preventing an image which would be a hindrance to viewing printed material from being projected on the printed material. Based on input image data, a projection unit projects a projected image. Whether or not the printed material is placed on a screen at a projection destination of light projected by the projection unit is determined. The projection unit is controlled based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Koike
  • Patent number: 10462407
    Abstract: Provided is a display method of displaying, on a display device, video of video data where luminance of video is defined by a first EOTF corresponding to HDR. The method includes: acquiring the video data; performing first conversion where the luminance of the video is converted to a luminance corresponding to a dynamic range of a third EOTF, where, with regard to a second EOTF that is part of the first EOTF and is the part of a luminance range where the peak luminance indicated by the peak luminance information included in the acquired video data is maximum luminance, the dynamic range of luminance of the second EOTF is reduced with maximum luminance of the second EOTF matching displayable luminance of the display device, while maintaining the relative relationship of luminance of the second EOTF; and displaying the video on the display device using the result of the first conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Takashi Higashida, Yoshihiro Mori, Haruyasu Hirakawa, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 10442368
    Abstract: A recessed portion positioned on a vehicle rear side with respect to a lens of a camera and recessed in an inner side direction from an outer surface of a mirror housing is provided on the mirror housing. A flow rectifying surface, which forms a flow of traveling wind toward the recessed portion, is provided on the mirror housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Okabe, Noriyuki Tsutsumi, Takaaki Nagai, Yuji Horikawa, Yoshihiro Maeno
  • Patent number: 10440853
    Abstract: A vehicle display system presents a display device in a motor vehicle provided with multiple seating positions and an interior headliner. The vehicle display system comprises a display device, a display device mounting bracket attached to the display device, the mounting bracket having a pair of pivots, each of the pivots being orthogonal to the other, and a plurality of mounting positions provided on the motor vehicle interior headliner. The display device is viewable by any one or any combination of a rearward facing second seating row occupant, a forward facing second seating row occupant, and a forward facing third seating row occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Phillip Kerry Muldowney
  • Patent number: 10429567
    Abstract: A multi-view pixel directional backlight module and a naked-eye 3D display device are provided. The multi-view pixel directional backlight module includes at least two rectangular light guide plates closely stacked together. A light-emerging surface of the rectangular light guide plate is provided with multiple pixel arrays. Light emitted by pixels in a same pixel array is pointed to a same viewing angle, and different pixel arrays have different viewing angles. At least one side of each rectangular light guide plate is provided with a light source group. Light emitted by the light source group enters the corresponding light guide plate, then emerges from pixels of respective pixel arrays on the light-emerging surface of the light guide plate, and is totally reflected at positions other than positions of the pixels within the light guide plate. Each of the pixels is a nano-diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: SUZHOU UNIVERSITY, SUZHOU SVG OPTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wenqiang Wan, Linsen Chen, Yimin Lou, Donglin Pu, Ming Zhu, Pengfei Zhu, Su Shen, Yan Ye
  • Patent number: 10419791
    Abstract: An information providing system, reception apparatus, and methods thereof are provided for providing content data. The method for providing content includes generating the content data. A digital television pre-broadcast signal, including the content data, is generated. At least one portion of the digital television pre-broadcast signal is extracted. The at least one portion of the digital television pre-broadcast signal is packaged into one or more Internet Protocol (IP) data packets. A digital television broadcast signal, including the remainder of the digital television pre-broadcast signal, is generated. The one or more IP data packets is provided via a communication network. The digital television broadcast signal is provided on a predetermined radio frequency (RF) channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Frederick J. Zustak, Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore
  • Patent number: 10409143
    Abstract: An example system, including a projector unit, an all-in-one computer attachable to the projector unit, a camera communicatively coupled to the all-in-one computer, and a touch sensitive mat communicatively coupled to the all-in-one computer. The projector unit projects an image on to the touch sensitive mat, and the touch sensitive mat comprises an optical pattern used to track a handheld device interacting with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Bradley Short, Roya Susan Akhavain, Jeff Borra
  • Patent number: 10412354
    Abstract: Provided are a projection type display device and a projection control method capable of accurately performing information presentation to an operator of a vehicle even in an image light shielded state where image light to be projected onto a projection surface is shielded by an object. An HUD 10 that is mounted in a construction machine 100 having a windshield 5 notifies, in a case where it is detected that image light to be projected onto the windshield 5 is in an image light shielded state where at least a part of the image light is shielded by an object, such as part of the body of an operator of a vehicle, the presence of the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koudai Fujita
  • Patent number: 10412320
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and a system for switching display from a first video source to a second video source. The system receives a source switch indication request for switching the display from the first video source to the second video source identified by source identification of the second video source. Further the system synchronizes the source switch indication request using frame sync of the first video source and the second video sources and mask the interface signals of the first video source to generate output interface signals corresponding to the second video source. The display is then driven by the output interface signals of the second video source thereby enabling seamless switching of the display without using frame buffer, thereby rendering the video stream from multiple video sources without any tearing artifacts or display glitches and still optimizing the switching latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventor: Kodavalla Vijay Kumar
  • Patent number: 10409290
    Abstract: A method for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility with the aid of a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, and pieces of information about the present vehicle position being transmitted to a central control unit. Certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy, overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with a trajectory being determined by the central control unit, and the trajectory being adapted in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Mielenz
  • Patent number: 10382735
    Abstract: Given existing color remapping information (CRI) messaging variables, methods are described to communicate color volume information for a targeted display to a downstream receiver. Bits 7:0 of the 32-bit colour_remap_id are used to extract a first value. If the first value is not a reserved value, then the first value is used as an index to a look-up table to generate a first luminance value for a targeted display, otherwise a second value is generated based on bits 31:9 in the colour_remap_id messaging variable and the first luminance value for a targeted display is generated based on the second value. The methods may be applied to communicate via CRI messaging a minimum luminance value, a maximum luminance value, and color primaries information of the targeted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Walter J. Husak, Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 10368017
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data and noise information including one of positional information on a reading circuit in which blinking defect noise caused by the reading circuit occurs and positional information on each of pixels; and a correction unit configured to set the image data acquired by the acquisition unit as correction target image data, and correct a pixel value of a pixel of interest of the correction target image data based on the noise information and reference image data that is based on image data acquired at a time different from the correction target image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Maruyama, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10362284
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously displaying, in plural spatially distinct zones via a multi-view display, differentiated content is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a plurality of spatially distinct zones are defined, differentiated content is assigned to the zones, a location for at least some of plural landing spots of beamlets projected by multi-view pixels of the multi-view display is estimated, the spatially distinct zone in which each said landing spots resides is determined, and beamlets associated with said some landing spots are driven to cause an appropriate content portion to be viewable at said some landing spots, as a function of location in a particular spatially distinct zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: David Steven Thompson, Paul Henry Dietz, Albert Han Ng
  • Patent number: 10362283
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a virtual cinema and an implementation method thereof. The implementation method of the virtual cinema comprises: arranging a virtual screen, and playing a video content thereon; and projecting ambient light varying with the video content around the virtual screen. By projecting ambient light varying with the video content around the virtual screen while displaying the video content to the user through the virtual screen, the sense of reality is enhanced, thereby solving the problem that the user experience is affected because the ambient light is not considered enough in the existed virtual cinema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ruisheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10349021
    Abstract: A projection device and a projection system including the projection device are disclosed. The projection system includes an electronic device and the projection device. The electronic device provides a wireless signal. The projection device includes a wireless connection unit, a light sensor, a projection unit, an image control unit and a lamp base power interface. The wireless connection unit receives the wireless signal so as to provide an image control signal. The light sensor senses ambient light so as to provide a sensing control signal. The projection unit receives an image signal so as to project an image. The image control unit receives the image control signal and the sensing control signal so as to provide the image signal. The lamp base power interface electrically connects an external lamp stand power source to the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chang Chien, Pei-Yu Li
  • Patent number: 10341536
    Abstract: Disclosed are an imaging device, a control method therefor, and an imaging system capable of allowing efficient use by multiple users and achieving improvement of a rate of operation. An imaging device which photoelectrically reads fluorescence or chemiluminescence emitted from an object to image the object includes a control unit which receives first control information for controlling a first function and second control information for controlling a second function from a plurality of external terminals and performs control based on the received first and second control information. The control unit recognizes the execution states of the first function and the second function in each external terminal based on the first and second control information output from each external terminal, restricts simultaneous processing of the first function in the plurality of external terminals, and performs parallel processing of the first function and the second function in the plurality of external terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Takamatsu, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 10334214
    Abstract: Apparatus, such as can be included in an electronic device, performs a method for operating apparatus configured for combined vibratory and projection functions. The apparatus includes a mirror configured to reflect a projected image and a motor. The mirror is coupled as a counterweight to the motor to configure the apparatus for a vibratory function. The motor is further configured to translate and rotate the mirror about a first axis to align the mirror with a projector to reflect the projected image during a projection function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: David K. Lim, William R. Groves, Jiri Slaby, Jason P. Wojack
  • Patent number: 10325925
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention relate to a display substrate and a method for producing the same, as well as a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiping Dong, Lei Zhang, Haibo Guo