Patents Examined by Loi H Tran
  • Patent number: 11721368
    Abstract: A radiographic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor and an image processor. The hardware processor obtains moving image data captured by a radiographic imaging apparatus, causes a display to display a moving image based on the moving image data, and specifies a part of the moving image data that is to be output to an external device. The image processor performs image processing on the part of the moving image data. The hardware processor outputs, to the external device, the part of the moving image data on which the image processing has been performed by the image processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Taneda
  • Patent number: 11722634
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for night lapse video capture are disclosed. The apparatus includes an image sensor, a processor, a denoiser, and an encoder. The image sensor is configured to capture image data. The image data includes a first image that is temporally precedent to a second image. The processor is configured to process the image using an image processing pipeline. The denoiser is configured to perform denoising based on a motion estimation that is based on a comparison of a portion of the first image and a portion of the second image. The encoder is configured to encode the denoised image in a video format. The encoder is configured to output a video file in the video format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ojas Gandhi, Anandhakumar Chinnaiyan, Naveen Chinya Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 11714485
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclose an electronic device including a camera, at least one mmWave antenna module, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire image information of a surrounding environment via the camera; acquire signal information resulting from a signal emitted from the at least one mmWave antenna module by the surrounding environment; and track a position of the user, based on at least one of the image information acquired via the camera and the signal information acquired via the at least one mmWave antenna module. Various other embodiments derived from the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junwhon Uhm, Jaewon Kim, Minhyuk Nam, Yunguk Lee
  • Patent number: 11711557
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed enabling smart search functionalities utilizing key scene changes appearing in video content. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or process of, while engaged in playback of the video content, receiving a user command at a playback device to shift a current playback position of the video content to a default search playback position (PPDS). In response to receipt of the user command, the playback device searches a time window encompassing the default search playback position (PPDS) for a key scene change in the video content. If locating a key scene change within the time window, the playback device shifts playback of the video content to a playback position corresponding to the key scene change (PPST). Otherwise, the playback device shifts playback of the video content to the default search playback position (PPDS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Yatish Jayant Naik Raikar, Soham Sahabhaumik, Rakesh Ramesh, Karthik Mahabaleshwar Hegde
  • Patent number: 11700285
    Abstract: Methods and systems for filtering video content items are described herein. The system identifies a plurality of video content items that are linked to respective image content items. The system determines, for each of the plurality of video content items, whether a video content item corresponds to a respective image content item. The system causes to be provided information identifying the plurality of video content items. For each video content item of the plurality of video content items that corresponds to a respective image content item, the system causes to be provided an indicator that correspondence has been verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishchit Mahajan, Nainika Aggarwal, Dennis Antony Varkey, Ankur Anil Aher
  • Patent number: 11699462
    Abstract: A method of providing edited media content is described. The method comprises: generating captured content and a representation of the captured content, the representation of the captured content having a smaller size than the captured content; providing the captured content over a first network path across a network and the representation of the captured content over a second network path across the network, the first network path having a higher latency than the second network path; generating an edited version of the received representation of the captured content; and providing an edited version of the captured content, the editing of the captured content being based on the editing of the representation of the captured content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Luke Hooper, Robert Mark Stefan Porter
  • Patent number: 11699463
    Abstract: Provided are a video processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a medium. The method includes that a candidate slice information set of an original video is determined based on video information of the original video, the original video is segmented into a plurality of video segments based on each piece of candidate slice information in the candidate slice information set, the plurality of video segments is input into an evaluation model to determine a piece of probability information of each piece of candidate slice information, and target slice information of the original video is determined based on the piece of probability information corresponding to each piece of candidate slice information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Xinyao Wang, Yufei Wang, Longyin Wen
  • Patent number: 11695807
    Abstract: Methods and systems for filtering video content items are described herein. The system identifies a plurality of video content items that are linked to respective image content items. The system determines, for each of the plurality of video content items, whether a video content item corresponds to a respective image content item. In response to the determining, the system causes to be provided information identifying the plurality of video content items excluding video content items that do not correspond to respective image content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishchit Mahajan, Nainika Aggarwal, Dennis Antony Varkey, Ankur Anil Aher
  • Patent number: 11681753
    Abstract: A geotagged video spatial indexing method for video retrieval based on a two-dimensional (2D) temporal grid is disclosed and includes: generating the 2D temporal grid by using the earliest start time, the latest end time of all geotagged video clips and a temporal resolution; calculating row and column number information of each geotagged video clip based on its start time and end time; generating a spatial point for each geotagged video clip based on the row and column number information and obtaining a spatial point set; generating a R-tree spatial index structure corresponding to the spatial point set using a R-tree spatial index method; and locating the corresponding cell in a temporal grid based on retrieval conditions, generating a spatial point based on row and column number information of the grid cell, and finding the spatial point in the R-tree spatial index structure to get the geotagged video corresponding thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HENAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhigang Han, Caihui Cui, Feng Liu, Hongquan Song, Haiying Wang, Fen Qin
  • Patent number: 11676639
    Abstract: An intelligent sports video and data generating system using AI detection engines in Sports Detection Devices, broadcasting commands that incorporate global time stamp information to a plurality of the Sports Detection Devices, such that the recorded sports action data can be time-aligned with video data, wherein an automatically spliced together video or data set can be generated based on the parameters of an input query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: William G. Near, Jason W. Evans
  • Patent number: 11670159
    Abstract: A system for monitoring event related data including a sensor data analyzer, an event analyzer and an actuator is disclosed. The sensor data analyzer detects events based on sensor data, the event analyzer couples to the sensor data analyzer and estimates the size of the detected entire events based on event related data of the detected events from the sensor data analyzer, and the actuator couples to the sensor data analyzer and the event analyzer and actuates a predetermined device based on the estimated size of the detected entire events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tani, Takeshi Arikuma
  • Patent number: 11657850
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automating virtual placements in video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Aly Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Raffay Hamid, Yongjun Wu, Yash Chaturvedi, Steven James Cox, Travis Silvers, Amit S. Jain, Amjad Y. A. Abu Jbara, Prasanth Saraswatula
  • Patent number: 11638871
    Abstract: A recorded experience in a virtual worlds system may be played back by one or more servers instantiating a new instance of a scene using one or more processors of the one or more servers and playing back the recorded experience in the new instance by modeling objects of a recorded initial scene state of the recorded experience in the new instance and updating the recorded initial scene state based on subsequent recorded changes over a time period, a recorded experience file includes the recorded initial scene state and the subsequent recorded changes and is stored in one or more memories of the one or more servers. One or more client devices are in communication with the one or more servers to participate in the new instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Utherverse Gaming LLC
    Inventors: Brian Shuster, Aaron Burch
  • Patent number: 11636881
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for presenting a user interface in association with video content features. A video content feature is rendered on at least one display. A current scene in the video content feature is determined. Cast members are determined who have appeared in the current scene from a beginning of the current scene up to a current time in the current scene. A user interface is rendered on at least one display. The user interface includes selectable cast member components that each include an image of a cast member, a name of the cast member, and a name of a respective character performed by the cast member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent D. Aliverti, Kintan D. Brahmbhatt, Adam Carlson, James L. Dantzler, Jordan M. Timmermann, Douglas M. Treder, Brian M. Wilson, Kelvin C. Young, Michael John Wyman
  • Patent number: 11632531
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for synchronization and presentation of multiple 3D content streams. Example methods may include determining a first content stream of 3D content to send to a user device, where movement of the user device causes presentation of different portions of the 3D content at the user device, and determining a first position of the user device. Some methods may include causing presentation of a first portion of the first content stream at the user device, where the first portion corresponds to the first position, determining a second content stream of 3D content, where movement of the user device causes presentation of different portions of the 3D content at the user device, and causing presentation of a second portion of the second content stream at the user device, where the second portion corresponds to the first position of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Norman Bryan, Paul Martin, Samuel Leiber, Brent Allen Colson
  • Patent number: 11627118
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using inter-device communications and user permissions to capture and transmit digital images of users who have opted in for other computing devices capturing their images at an event. For example, the disclosed systems can receive registration information corresponding to a user attending an event, including whether the user opts in to having digital images of the user captured during the event. During the event, the disclosed systems can provide the current location of the user to other computing devices at the event. Upon detecting a trigger, one or more of the computing devices can capture (and encrypt) a digital image of the user and provide the digital image for access by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Terrano
  • Patent number: 11610608
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recording personalized digital images on film are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a length of film, a film recorder, and a server. The system may be configured to record in a first frame of the length of film one or more digital images associated with a first user. The system may further be configured to record in a second frame of the length of film one or more digital images with a second user. As a result, the length of film may include a plurality of frames having respective sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users, and at least two frames of the length of film may include sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users that are different from one-another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Projectagram LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Randolph Whitehouse, Guy Shahine
  • Patent number: 11606532
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for receiving, by one or more processors, a video comprising one or more shots in a first aspect ratio; detecting a first shot of the one or more shots, the first shot comprising a sequence of frames; and identifying an object that appears throughout a continuous portion of frames of the sequence of frames in the first shot. A visual presentation of the object in the first shot is automatically modified and a modified video comprising the one or more shots in a second aspect ratio is generated based on the automatically modified visual presentation of the object in the first shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Brandt, Giles Goodwin, Jared Iwata, Ian Wehrman
  • Patent number: 11600300
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for generating a dynamic image, an electronic device for the same and a storage medium for the same. The electronic device obtains a video based on a trigger operation. The electronic device obtains images of the video by separating the images an audio data of the video. The images include first images and second images. The electronic device obtains target images by processing the first images. Each of the target images does not contain the target object. The electronic device generates the dynamic image based on the images and the target images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ke Gao
  • Patent number: 11576739
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for detecting image degradation during a surgical procedure are provided. A method includes receiving images of a surgical instrument; obtaining baseline images of an edge of the surgical instrument; comparing a characteristic of the images of the surgical instrument to a characteristic of the baseline images of the edge of the surgical instrument, the images of the surgical instrument being received subsequent to obtaining the baseline images of the edge of the surgical instrument and being received while the surgical instrument is disposed at a surgical site in a patient; determining whether the images of the surgical instrument are degraded, based on the comparing of the characteristic of the images of the surgical instrument and the characteristic of the baseline images of the surgical instrument; and generating an image degradation notification, in response to a determination that the images of the surgical instrument are degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Dwight Meglan