Patents Examined by Li Liu
  • Patent number: 11973537
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed that utilize a particular delay modulation technique (i.e., Miller coding) to encode 25 Gb/s data for inclusion with the 50 Gb/s NRZ data in a downstream broadcast transmission from an optical line terminal (OLT) to a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) through an optical distribution network (ODN). The specific Miller coding technique allows for a secondary data stream, operating at half the rate of the NRZ data) to supplement the primary 50 Gb/s NRZ transmission, since both signals are recovered using the same clocking circuitry at the ONU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Doutje Van Veen, Vincent Houtsma
  • Patent number: 11969212
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for making a determination about a cataract in an eye in ambient lighting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Melissa Bailey, Charles Bosworth
  • Patent number: 11967992
    Abstract: A data transmission method in an optical transport network includes: mapping first-type service data to a payload block at a specific location in a plurality of consecutive payload blocks, where the plurality of consecutive payload blocks occupy a payload area of an optical data unit (ODU) frame; mapping second-type service data to a payload block at any location in the plurality of consecutive payload blocks other than the at least one specific location; mapping the ODU frame to an optical transport unit (OTU) frame or a flexible OTN (FlexO) frame; and sending the OTU frame or the FlexO frame. In an applicable scenario, service data is transmitted in a hybrid manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Su, Qiuyou Wu
  • Patent number: 11967984
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a Control Plane Triggered (CPT) Optical Protection Switching (OPS) policy are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes performing a first route switching procedure for switching routes between an originating node and a terminating node. The first route switching procedure is configured to operate at a first priority level according to an Optical Protection Switching (OPS) policy. The method also includes performing a second route switching procedure for switching routes between the originating node and the terminating node. The second route switching procedure is configured to operate at a second priority level according to a second protection policy, wherein the second priority level is higher than the first priority level. Also, the method includes reverting back to a home path according to the first route switching procedure after one or more faults, defects, or degradations have been cleared from the home path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar Gupta, Vikas Chander, Manish Aggarwal, Parmita Kandiyal
  • Patent number: 11963658
    Abstract: Systems and methods of presenting an image of a portion of a surgical scene on a display device associated with an endoscope include receiving, from the endoscope, a source image representing a view of the surgical scene as captured using the endoscope. The systems and methods further include devices configured to, by one or more processing devices, apply a distortion correction to at least a portion of the source image to generate a modified image, wherein the modified image includes a central region, and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, wherein a first degree of distortion correction in the central region is higher than a second degree of distortion correction in the peripheral region. The systems and methods further include devices configured to present the modified image on the display device associated with the endoscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Jason Paul Watson
  • Patent number: 11967991
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system (DAS) for multi-carrier and multi-frequency band based on an O-RAN standard in an open radio access network (O-RAN)-based mobile communication network is provided. The DAS includes an O-RAN remote unit (RU) connected to a fronthaul network according to an O-RAN split option specification of base station transceiver systems (BTSs), and comprising a plurality of O-RAN RUs to accommodate a plurality of carriers and a plurality of frequency bands, and a channel combiner to which outputs of the plurality of O-RAN RUs are combined. The channel combiner is an analog combiner. The DAS further includes an optical distribution unit (ODU) connected to the analog combiner, and a radio unit (RU) connected to the ODU. The RU includes an optical receiving unit (ORU), a high power amplifier (HPA), a low noise amplifier (LNA), and a duplexer or filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ADRF KOREA, Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Youn Chun, Chan Ki Cho
  • Patent number: 11968033
    Abstract: Optical transmission system transmits WDM signal from first node to second node via optical fiber. The optical transmission system includes: first OCM that detects optical power of each wavelength channel of the WDM signal in the first node; second OCM that detects optical power of each wavelength channel of the WDM signal in the second node; first processor that calculates linear SNR of each wavelength channel based on the optical power of each wavelength channel detected by the second OCM; second processor that calculates non-linear SNR of each wavelength channel based on the optical power of each wavelength channel detected by the first OCM; third processor that calculates GSNR for each wavelength channel using the linear SNR and the non-linear SNR; and fourth processor that controls transmission power of each wavelength channel of the WDM signal based on the GSNR of each wavelength channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yamauchi, Takafumi Terahara, Goji Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11962344
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for obtaining a transmitter test parameter, and a storage medium. The method includes: performing waveform sampling on an optical signal sent by a transmitter, to obtain a sampled electrical signal, obtaining a first noise amount associated with the sampled electrical signal based on a preset initial noise ratio parameter and a level amplitude of the sampled electrical signal, and obtaining a second noise amount associated with an ideal electrical signal based on the initial noise ratio parameter and a level amplitude of the ideal electrical signal. According to the application, a noise amount associated with a level amplitude of a sampled electrical signal is obtained without limiting a type of a receiver that performs a consistency test on a transmitter by using a transmitter test parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo Zhang, Lei Zhou, Borui Li, Shengping Li
  • Patent number: 11956015
    Abstract: A communication signal multiplexing apparatus includes first and second optical receivers, with the second optical receiver configured to receive an optical analog radio signal and to convert it into a corresponding electrical analog radio signal having a carrier frequency and the first optical receiver configured to receive an optical digital communication signal and to convert it into a corresponding electrical digital communication signal having a frequency spectrum. Further, a first electrical filter apparatus is configured to receive the electrical digital communication signal, and comprises a low-pass filter having a cut-off frequency lower than the carrier frequency of the electrical analog radio signal, and applies the low-pass filter to the electrical digital communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Giulio Bottari, Luca Giorgi, Filippo Ponzini
  • Patent number: 11948326
    Abstract: An electronic device mounted on a fixed or a movable apparatusapparatus is provided. The electronic device may comprise an image signal processor (ISP) for at least one camera; a neural processing unit (NPU), including a plurality of processing elements (PEs), configured to: process an operation of an artificial neural network model trained to detect or track at least one object, based on an input feature map generated from at least one image, which is acquired via the ISP from the at least one camera, and output an inference result; and a signal generator generating a signal applicable to the at least one camera or the ISP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DEEPX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ha Joon Yu, You Jun Kim, Lok Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11949452
    Abstract: The invention provides a computing device for determining and conveying a bandwidth coverage of an optical communication modality within a space, wherein the space comprises at least one optical transmitter arranged for communicating over said optical communication modality; wherein the computing device comprises a controller configured to: obtain configuration data characterizing a configuration of said space; obtain lighting data characterizing the at least one optical transmitter; determine the bandwidth coverage of the optical communication modality within the space based on the configuration data and the lighting data; wherein the computing device comprises an output interface configured to: convey a signal indicative of the bandwidth coverage of the optical communication modality within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Michel Germe, Muhammad Hassan
  • Patent number: 11941777
    Abstract: A picture processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: detecting, in response to an image editing trigger operation, a target processing part in a to-be-processed picture; determining an image region comprising the target processing part, in the to-be-processed picture; and zooming in on the image region, on an image editing interface. Hence, according to the embodiments, when an image editing operation is triggered, the target processing part on the to-be-processed picture can be quickly positioned, and be zoomed in on the image editing interface, so that a user can conveniently perform image editing on the target processing part, and the picture processing efficiency is improved to a certain extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanghui Chen, Jingyu Ji, Li Zou
  • Patent number: 11941779
    Abstract: A dynamic positioning control system having a transparent or semi-transparent substrate, an image processor, and one or more image-generating elements operatively connected to the image processor configured to simultaneously generate a plurality of images within an overall image-generating-capable field area of the substrate is provided. A dynamic positioning control system having a transparent or semi-transparent substrate, a dimming controller, and a plurality of electrodes operatively connected to the dimming controller configured to dim one or more areas on or within the substrate within an overall electrochromic dimming-capable field area is also provided. The image processor and the dimming controller may be separate elements or may be a single controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Arnold Chase
  • Patent number: 11941789
    Abstract: An image is processed using a combination of techniques, particularly, in which low frequency information is processed using multiple tone control and high frequency information is processed using local tone mapping. An image is divided into a plurality of blocks including a given block. Low frequency information and high frequency information of the given block are separated. The low frequency information is processed using multiple tone control. The high frequency information is processed using local tone mapping. A processed image is then produced based on the processed low frequency information and based on the processed high frequency information, the processed image corresponding to the image captured using the image sensor. The processed image is then output for storage or display. Processing the low frequency information can include using a gain curve and bilinear interpolation. Processing the high frequency information can include using an edge preservation filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Matthieu Guérin, Bruno César Douady
  • Patent number: 11943571
    Abstract: Consistent with some disclosed embodiments, an optical switch includes: a scheduler; and a buffer for buffering an optical packet including, arranged in a circuit, a clock generator for generating a clock signal, an optical unbalanced Mach Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) and a fiber delay line (FDL) having an FDL length, wherein the optical packet has an optical packet signal, wherein the scheduler is configured to insert the optical packet into the buffer and to determine a number of circulations of the optical packet through the circuit, wherein the MZI modulates the clock signal based on the optical packet signal to create a reshaped optical packet after each circulation of the optical packet through the circuit, and wherein the FDL introduces a delay in the optical packet proportional to the FDL length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEWPHOTONICS Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosef Ben-Ezra, Yaniv Ben-Haim
  • Patent number: 11943466
    Abstract: A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 11928805
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 11929784
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion compensating apparatus, including: a signal light generating unit which generates, from predetermined signal light, signal light having a phase correlation centered on a degenerate frequency of a phase sensitive amplifier; a dispersion compensation transmission path which compensates for a wavelength dispersion of the predetermined signal light included in the signal light; a filter which compensates for a residual wavelength dispersion after compensation by the dispersion compensation transmission path of the predetermined signal light included in the signal light; a phase sensitive amplifier which amplifies the signal light input via the dispersion compensation transmission path and the filter; a residual wavelength dispersion calculating unit which calculates a residual wavelength dispersion amount based on a measurement result of output light amplified by the phase sensitive amplifier; and a filter control unit which controls the filter so as to add a wavelength dispersion that can
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Shimizu, Takushi Kazama, Takayuki Kobayashi, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11929786
    Abstract: This optical communication device (1) is provided with: a plurality of light-receiving elements (11) configured to receive communication light, the plurality of light-receiving elements being provided so as to correspond to a plurality of channels; and a controller (15) configured to perform control to invalidate output from a light-receiving element that has received high-intensity light higher in light intensity than a predetermined value among the plurality of light-receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Shimadzu Corporation, JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Naoki Nishimura, Takao Sawa
  • Patent number: 11928797
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device, and a method for controlling same. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electronic device, and a method for controlling same, which can secure high visibility of a subject by acquiring, from an original image, a plurality of sub images having a smaller bit number than the original image, and acquiring a synthesized image on the basis of information about the shapes of objects included in the plurality of sub images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehee Lee, Jihye Kim, Sahng-Gyu Park, Seunghoon Han