Patents Examined by Nigar Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11573124
    Abstract: A spectral image capturing method using a spectral camera control device installed in aircraft, the method comprising: a) setting an exposure time of the spectral camera so that a current exposure time is determined (S2), b) determining whether or not either an amount of attitude change or an amount of position change of the spectral camera per exposure time exceeds a predetermined threshold based on a spatial resolution of the spectral camera (S4), c1) when exceeding the predetermined threshold, resetting the current exposure time to be shorter (S5), c2) when not exceeding the predetermined threshold, not resetting the current exposure time to be shorter, and d) capturing a spectral image in a snapshot mode with the spectral camera using the reset exposure time, wherein when the transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in a stationary flight, steps b) to d) are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Patent number: 11567992
    Abstract: A system and method for capturing a plurality of videos and images with a camera of a mobile communication device, editing them and combining them in order to generate a video. The invention provides an application for capturing, editing and combining a plurality of videos and images of a real estate structure with the build-in camera of a mobile communication device and then generating a real estate video for a specific real estate listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Camilo Lopez
  • Patent number: 11562568
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for dynamically creating a composition reference video to support a user activity. In response to that a user selects a reference video for performing an activity, the computer system identifies a search query of a reference video. The computer system identifies personalized parameters of the user, based on a knowledge corpus user preferences of performing activities, and the search query. The computer system identifies appropriate videos and video transcripts in an online video repository and identifies textual contents through document and text search, based on a prediction about how the user is to perform the activity. The computer system draws series of images based on the textual contents. The computer system normalizes contents from the appropriate videos and the series of images and normalizes voices in the contents from the appropriate videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Russell Whitman, Mauro Marzorati, Jeremy R. Fox, Michael Bender, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11558579
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for synchronizing playback of audiovisual content among multiple speakers. In some embodiments, a first smart speaker receives a spread spectrum signal from a second smart speaker over an audio data channel. The first smart speaker despreads the spread spectrum signal based on a spreading code. The first smart speaker determines a time of receipt of the spread spectrum signal based on the despreading. The first smart speaker receives a time of transmission of the spread spectrum signal. The first smart speaker then calculates a playback delay based on the time of receipt and the time of transmission. Then the first smart speaker controls the playback of the audiovisual content based on the playback delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Caston Curtis, Mark Ely, Brian Thoft Moth Møller
  • Patent number: 11551723
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving a first group of video content items; (ii) identifying from among the first group of video content items, a second group of video content items having a threshold extent of similarity with each other; (iii) determining a quality score for each video content item of the second group; (iv) identifying from among the second group of video content items, a third group of video content items each having a quality score that exceeds a quality score threshold; and (v) based on the identifying of the third group, transmitting at least a portion of at least one video content item of the identified third group to a digital video-effect (DVE) system, wherein the system is configured for using the at least the portion of the at least one video content item of the identified third group to generate a video content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale T. Roberts, Michael Gubman
  • Patent number: 11551725
    Abstract: There is set forth a method and a system for recording and synchronizing audio and video signals. The audio signal and the video signal are stored together with time stamps from a respective associated system clock. The invention relates to an adaptation of the duration of the recorded audio sequence to the duration of an associated video sequence in order to level out differences in synchronization of the two system clocks. Alignment of the two system clocks is also introduced, which is based on a data transfer which has variable waiting times for the access to a transmission channel. This thus permits clock alignment with means as are available for example on a smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Werner, Axel Schmidt, Konstantin Septinus, Björn Wolter
  • Patent number: 11553241
    Abstract: A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11546559
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that realizes more suitable ease of use. To accomplish the purpose, there is provided an information processing device provided with a video input unit for acquiring image data from an optical image, a signal receiver unit for acquiring a position computation signal, a communication unit for transmitting the image data, a first memory unit for storing position information pertaining to a place to which the image data is not transmitted, and a control unit for controlling the execution of image data transmission on the basis of the position information acquired from the position calculation signal and the position information stored in the first storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shigetaka Kimura, Shinji Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11542035
    Abstract: A spectral camera control device, being installed, along with a spectral camera provided with a liquid crystal tunable filter, in an aircraft capable of stationary flight. The spectral camera control device causes the spectral camera to capture a spectral image in a snapshot mode each time a transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in stationary flight, and the spectral camera control device causes a plurality of spectral images to be captured in succession at a same transmission wavelength when an SN ratio of the captured spectral image is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Patent number: 11533450
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein generate content that quickly cycles between different-colored frames at a rapid rate that may be imperceptible to human viewers. The human eye tends to blend nearby frames together, so that a human viewer will see a full color spectrum even though only a single color is displayed at any given time. The video display may repeatedly cycle between individual color frames, thus providing video content that appears normal to a human viewer. However, a video recording device may capture only some of the color frames. Therefore, the video recorded by video recording devices may include undesirable color flicker or other color artifacts, which may deter unauthorized copying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Herbert
  • Patent number: 11527265
    Abstract: A system and a method for automatic video and/or audio redaction are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining an input video; obtaining at least one prespecified object, being a visual or an acoustic object or a descriptor thereof; analyzing the input video, to detect a matched object, being an object having descriptors similar to the descriptors of the at least one prespecified object; and generating a redacted video by removing or replacing the matched objects therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Briefcam Ltd.
    Inventors: Shmuel Peleg, Elhanan Hayim Elboher, Ariel Naim
  • Patent number: 11509856
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an image, and first NR information defining noise reduction processing using a first noise reduction processing method which an external apparatus can apply to the image. A generating unit generates, on the basis of the first NR information, second NR information defining noise reduction processing using a second noise reduction processing method which is different from the first noise reduction processing method. A noise reducing unit applies the noise reduction processing using the second noise reduction processing method to the image in accordance with the second NR information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Sudo
  • Patent number: 11503245
    Abstract: The controller of a digital camera executes copying of image data between memory cards loaded in the digital camera. The controller stores target medium information in a memory. The target medium information indicates, among the loaded memory cards, a memory card in which image data is recorded last or a memory card from which image data is read last. Based on the target medium information, the controller sets a copy direction. The copy direction indicates, among the loaded memory cards, a copy source memory card and a copy destination memory card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Abe
  • Patent number: 11488634
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for generating a summary video from a plurality of presentation attendee notes is provided. Embodiments of the disclosure may include collecting the plurality of attendee notes from a plurality of attendees of a presentation and then analyzing the collected plurality of notes to identify a plurality of common note topics. The identified plurality of common note topics may be correlated to a plurality of portions in a presentation video of the presentation which is used to generate the summary video by combining the correlated plurality of portions in the presentation video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11482018
    Abstract: A number-of-occupants detection system (1) includes an image correction unit (120) that generates a corrected image based on an image generated by an imaging unit (110) that images a vehicle traveling on a road having a plurality of lanes by executing correction processing on the image for reducing blurring of a subject captured in the image using a parameter according to a position where the vehicle travels, and a count unit (130) that counts the number of occupants of the vehicle using the corrected image generated by the image correction unit (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyuki Hayashi, Michihiko Yusa, Noboru Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11475746
    Abstract: During operation a first personal-area network will activate a first camera. The first camera may be manually activated, or triggered by an audio signal. The event that causes the first camera to activate will also cause the personal-area network to send an acoustic signature to other personal-area networks. Personal-area networks that receive the acoustic signature will modify audio triggers so that the acoustic signature can be better distinguished from other noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Mrowiec, Rafal Jan Kaminski, Andrzej Lichnerowicz, Mariusz R. Wawrowski
  • Patent number: 11470407
    Abstract: A method for acquiring an extract of a multimedia stream being broadcast on a user's display device, the method being implemented in an user terminal separate from the display device and comprising the following steps: upon reception of a user input for receiving an extract of the multimedia stream being broadcast on the display device, sending to the display device a first request for an identifier of the multimedia stream being broadcast; upon reception of the identifier of the multimedia stream being broadcast, sending to the content server a second request for receiving the multimedia stream extract, said second request including a timestamp of the user input, the identifier of the multimedia stream being broadcast and a duration of the multimedia stream extract; and receiving from the content server the multimedia stream extract or a link to obtain the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Caroline Da Fonseca, Yann Ruello, Christophe Rufin
  • Patent number: 11468914
    Abstract: Videos may be automatically generated using a set of video clip. Individual moments of interest may be identified within individual video clips of a set of video clips. A moment of interest may correspond to a point in time within a video clip. The point in time may be associated with one or more values of one or more attributes of the video clip. Individual moments of interest may be associated with individual portions of a video. The video may be generated using the set of video clips based on the associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Joven Matias, Ha Phan
  • Patent number: 11463748
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying relevance of a video are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: causing a video to be played on a device of a user; receiving, from the device, an instruction to share the video with another user, the instruction corresponding to a point-in-time in the video; identifying text in a transcript of the video based on the point-in-time; causing the identified text to be displayed on the device based on the instruction to share the video; receiving, from the device, an instruction to include user-approved text along with the video in the sharing of the video with the one or more other users, the user-approved text comprising at least a portion of the identified text; and causing the user-approved text to be displayed on a device of the other user in association with the video based on the instructions to share and include.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amita Sahasrabudhe, Christopher Ng, Pengfei Li, Jonathan L. Sherman-Presser, Mikhail Burshteyn, Shane Afsar, Yilin Li
  • Patent number: 11463760
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting still images and a video feed from an unmanned aerial vehicle to a ground station is disclosed. The system includes an aircraft including a digital video camera to capture still images and video frames of an object. A video encoder is coupled to the camera to provide a video output including video packets. A file server is coupled to the camera to provide a still image output including image data packets. A multiplexer is coupled to the video output and the still image output. The multiplexer produces a data transmission including the video packets and the image data packets. A transmitter sends the data transmission to the ground station. The ground station receives the data transmission and demultiplexes the packets into separate video and image data packets. The ground control station may select the ratio the video stream images in relation to the still image to be transmitted from the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Szarek, Thomas Omer, Jefferson C. Mcbride