Patents Examined by Kathleen M Walsh
  • Patent number: 11511681
    Abstract: A display device for the interior of a vehicle includes a display unit designed to optically display information, and a movement mechanism designed to transfer the display unit, controllably, between a non-usage position parallel to a roof liner of the vehicle and a usage position, swivelled away from the roof liner of the vehicle, and to retain the display unit, controllably, in the non-usage position and/or in the usage position. The movement mechanism is attached to the display unit: by first guide elements in order to define a swivel axis for swivelling the display unit at least between the non-usage position and the usage position; by second guide elements, each of which is or can be coupled to the display unit in a mechanical operative connection via a coupling lever of the display device; and by guide rails for attaching to the roof liner. The rails have a guide track for receiving the guide elements and for moving same therein along the guide track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Bruegl, Harald Lathwesen, Alexander Walter, Michael Wokrinek
  • Patent number: 11516454
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting metadata for omnidirectional content including a plurality of viewpoints. The method comprises identifying the metadata for the omnidirectional content including the plurality of viewpoints; and transmitting the identified metadata, wherein the metadata includes information about an identifier (ID) of a viewpoint group including at least one viewpoint of the plurality of viewpoints, and wherein the at least one viewpoint in the viewpoint group shares a common reference coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eric Yip, Hyunkoo Yang, Youngwan So, Jaehyeon Bae
  • Patent number: 11503340
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a new mechanism of video exportation which ensures that the process is done faster and that a single video can be exported to two or more destination at the same time. This document explains the steps involved in the creation of the video, processes involved in encoding, rendering, transmission/exportation, and playing the video. Figures are used in explaining or illustrating the flow of processes and showing the different devices used in accomplishing various activities in the exporting processes. The application will receive commands to perform the exporting from the destination. Overall, the application will be able to facilitate faster exportation of a video, almost twice the basic speed of the known video exportation systems and to multiple destinations unlike in exportation by the basic applications in use today.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Evergreen Groupe, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Cohn, Alexander Osborne
  • Patent number: 11488399
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a driver of a vehicle includes receiving, at a control, driver information based on the driver of the vehicle. A distraction workload of the driver is determined by the control based on the driver information and a driving workload of the driver is estimated by the control based on the driver information. An amount of driver attention is determined by the control based on the determined distraction workload and the determined driving workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sylvie Wacquant
  • Patent number: 11490128
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a deep neural network (DNN)-based reconstruction method and apparatus for compressive video sensing (CVS). The method divides a video signal into a key frame and a non-key frame. The key frame is reconstructed by using an existing image reconstruction method. The non-key frame is reconstructed by using a special DNN according to the present disclosure. The neural network includes an adaptive sampling module, a multi-hypothesis prediction module, and a residual reconstruction module. The neural network makes full use of a spatio-temporal correlation of the video signal to sample and reconstruct the video signal. This ensures low time complexity of an algorithm while improving reconstruction quality. Therefore, the method in the present disclosure is applicable to a video sensing system with limited resources on a sampling side and high requirements for reconstruction quality and real-time performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Dengyin Zhang, Chao Zhou, Can Chen, Junjiang Li, Zijie Liu
  • Patent number: 11474217
    Abstract: Time of flight device and method are provided. A light-emitting module emits a first light pulse to a sensing target, and a sensing unit receives and integrates a first reflected light pulse of the sensing target. A processing circuit reads an image parameter of the sensing target through a readout circuit. The light-emitting module emits a second light pulse to the sensing target, and the sensing unit receives a second reflected light pulse of the sensing target. The processing circuit obtains a distance parameter between the sensing target and the time of flight device according to a time when the readout circuit reads the second reflected light pulse of the sensing unit. The processing circuit obtains a reflectivity of the sensing target according to the image parameter and a look-up table, and obtains a corrected distance parameter of the sensing target by correcting the distance parameter according to the reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., LTD
    Inventors: Ping-Hung Yin, Jia-Shyang Wang
  • Patent number: 11472290
    Abstract: A vehicle arrangement includes a display device for displaying at least one item of information on a display surface for at least one person being transported by the vehicle, a detection device for detecting disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface, and a further component which is compensating the detected disturbance of the view of the person of the display surface at least partially by at least one of movement relative to the display surface and alteration of its external shape. A vehicle includes at least one such vehicle arrangement, and a method provides a display in or on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.
    Inventors: Alf Liesener, Stefanie Göttlicher, Christian Schär, Maximilian Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 11475680
    Abstract: A cargo sensor system incorporates an optical cargo sensor to supply images to a convolutional neural network. In preferred embodiments, the neural network is implemented using a processor in a sensor module, and is trained by a machine learning system to determine the load state of the cargo container. Some embodiments also include a secondary sensor, such as a laser-ranging Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor, that verifies the cargo reading determined by the optical cargo sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Spireon, Inc.
    Inventor: Sait C. Saydag
  • Patent number: 11465569
    Abstract: A support for a camera on a motor vehicle, including at least a main body with a guide and a bracket element which is pivotable relative to the main body and is connected to the main body via at least one guide rail, and which extends along an extent between a first end and a second end, wherein the camera may be arranged on the second end, wherein the first end is arranged on the guide, wherein the bracket element is pivotably connected to the at least one guide rail between the first end and the second end, and wherein, when the bracket element is pivoted, the first end is displaceable along the guide and the bracket element is displaceable along the at least one guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Grünig, Sebastian Wehl
  • Patent number: 11462047
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided having a camera under a display. The electronic device includes a display screen having display pixels and openings separating the display pixels, and a camera located proximate to the display and configured to obtain image data through the openings separating the display pixels. The image data includes near field image data and far field image data. The camera includes a first lens and an imaging sensor assembly. The imaging sensor assembly is configured to detect near field image data at the display screen and far field image data spaced from the display screen. The electronic device also includes a processor that is configured to capture the near field image data in a first mode, capture the far field image data in a second mode, and identify a user of the electronic device based on the near field image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Mengnan Wang, Daryl C. Cromer, John W. Nicholson, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 11463732
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a new mechanism of video exportation which ensures that the process is done faster and that a single video can be exported to two or more destination at the same time. This document explains the steps involved in the creation of the video, processes involved in encoding, rendering, transmission/exportation, and playing the video. Figures are used in explaining or illustrating the flow of processes and showing the different devices used in accomplishing various activities in the exporting processes. The application will receive commands to perform the exporting from the destination. Overall, the application will be able to facilitate faster exportation of a video, almost twice the basic speed of the known video exportation systems and to multiple destinations unlike in exportation by the basic applications in use today.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Evergreen Groupe, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Cohn, Alexander Osborne
  • Patent number: 11458908
    Abstract: A display device for the interior of a vehicle includes a display unit designed for optically displaying information, and a movement device swivel unit designed to swivel the display unit about a swivel axis, in particular controllably, between a non-use position parallel to a roof liner of the vehicle and a use position, in particular swivelled away from the roof liner of the vehicle, and to retain the display unit, in particular controllably, in the non-use position and/or in the use position. The swivel unit has two pairs of coupled-together first and second levers, wherein, for a swivelling of the levers of a pair in relation to one another and about the first ends thereof, the first ends thereof are connected to one another such that they can swivel about respective swivel axes, and are attached directly or indirectly to the display unit. The second ends can be attached directly or indirectly to the roof liner of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Huf, Harald Lathwesen, Martin Unger
  • Patent number: 11445196
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for determining a color difference component quantization parameter and a device using the method. Method for decoding an image can comprise the steps of: decoding a color difference component quantization parameter offset on the basis of size information of a transform unit; and calculating a color difference component quantization parameter index on the basis of the decoded color difference component quantization parameter offset. Therefore, the present invention enables effective quantization by applying different color difference component quantization parameters according to the size of the transform unit when executing the quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong, Jong Ho Kim, Ha Hyun Lee, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11432619
    Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure is a method comprising: receiving, from a camera, a video feed depicting a pair of feet and a scaling object; capturing, with the camera, images of the feet and the scaling object based on the video feed; identifying foot features in each captured image; determining camera positions for each captured image by triangulating the foot features; generating a point cloud in a three-dimensional space by positioning each foot feature in the three-dimensional space based on the camera positions; scaling the point cloud based on the scaling object; segmenting the point cloud into at least a right-foot cluster and a left-foot cluster; fitting a first three-dimensional morphable model to the right-foot cluster according to first foot parameters; and fitting a second three-dimensional morphable model to the left-foot cluster according to second foot parameters. Related systems, apparatus, and methods also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DIGITAL ANIMAL INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: Jamie Roy Sherrah, Michael Henson, William Ryan Smith
  • Patent number: 11438593
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for determining a color difference component quantization parameter and a device using the method. Method for decoding an image can comprise the steps of: decoding a color difference component quantization parameter offset on the basis of size information of a transform unit; and calculating a color difference component quantization parameter index on the basis of the decoded color difference component quantization parameter offset. Therefore, the present invention enables effective quantization by applying different color difference component quantization parameters according to the size of the transform unit when executing the quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong, Jong Ho Kim, Ha Hyun Lee, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11438572
    Abstract: An eye tracking system may comprise an image display configured to display an image of a surgical field to a user. The eye tracking system may also comprise a right eye tracker configured to measure data about a first gaze point of a right eye of the user. The right eye tracker may include a right stereo imaging device. The eye tracking system may also comprise a left eye tracker configured to measure data about a second gaze point of a left eye of the user. The left eye tracker may include a left stereo imaging device. The eye tracking system may also comprise at least one processor configured to process the data about the first gaze point and the second gaze point to determine a viewing location in the displayed image at which a three-dimensional gaze point of the user is directed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Anthony Michael Jarc
  • Patent number: 11388399
    Abstract: An image prediction method, apparatus, and system, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: (401) obtaining a split mode of a current node, where the current node is an image block in a coding tree unit in a current image; (402) determining, based on the split mode of the current node and a size of the current node, whether the current node satisfies a first condition; and (403) when it is determined that the current node satisfies the first condition, performing intra prediction on all coding blocks belonging to the current node, to obtain predictors of all the coding blocks belonging to the current node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yin Zhao, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen, Lian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11388316
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes: an image capture unit provided at the front of a vehicle and capturing images in front of the vehicle; a cover accommodating the image capture unit and having an opening located in front of a lens of the image capture unit; and a shield portion extending from an edge of the opening toward the inside of the cover and shielding at least part of a region between the edge of the opening and the image capture unit. The shield portion includes: a side rib extending rearward in a front-rear direction of the vehicle from a side edge of the opening in an inner surface of the cover; and a lower rib extending rearward in the front-rear direction of the vehicle from a lower edge of the opening in the inner surface of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Naoya Yamane
  • Patent number: 11381739
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are described for providing real-time capture, processing, and distribution of panoramic virtual reality (VR) content of a live event. One or more triggering events are identified and used to generate graphics and/or audio on client VR devices. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: capturing video of an event at an event venue with a plurality of cameras to produce a corresponding plurality of video streams; generating a virtual reality (VR) stream based on the plurality of video streams; transmitting the VR stream to a plurality of client VR devices, wherein the client VR devices are to render VR environments based on the VR stream; detecting a triggering event during the event; and transmitting an indication of the triggering event to the plurality of client VR devices, wherein a first client VR device is to generate first event-based graphics and/or first event-based audio in accordance with the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fai Yeung, Ling Yao, Sankar Jayaram, Uma Jayaram, Ritesh Kale, Ok Joon Kim, Shaun Carrigan
  • Patent number: 11368638
    Abstract: An imaging element includes: a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a two-dimensional matrix; and a color filter including a plurality of filters that have different spectral transmission characteristics from each other in each of a visible region and a near-infrared region and that are disposed on the plurality of pixels, each filter corresponding to each pixel, any one or more of the plurality of filters being configured to transmit light in the near-infrared region, the plurality of filters including a first same-color filter and a second same-color filter which have different transmission wavelength characteristics from each other in a same color wavelength band, have a region with a constant spectral transmittance in each of the visible region and the near-infrared region, and have different spectral transmittances from each other in at least one of the visible region and the near-infrared region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori Yoshizaki