Patents Examined by Noam Reisner
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Patent number: 11347133Abstract: There is provided an image capturing apparatus comprising an image sensor that outputs a plurality of parallax images in a single instance of shooting, the parallax images having different viewpoints. A shooting control unit carries out, using the image sensor, first shooting and a plurality of instances of second shooting. The plurality of instances of second shooting is carried out under a shooting condition in which a depth of field is shallower than in the first shooting. A generating unit generates a plurality of range images corresponding to the plurality of instances of second shooting. A detection unit detects an amount of positional skew, relative to a first image generated through the first shooting, of each of a plurality of second images generated through the plurality of instances of second shooting.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetoshi Tsubaki
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Patent number: 11346873Abstract: A capacitance detection device includes: a capacitor array having parallel-connected capacitors having different capacitances, and whose combined capacitance is changed by selectively switching the capacitors; a detection capacitor connected in series to the capacitor array; a switching control unit selectively switching the capacitors; a detection unit detecting an intermediate potential that is a potential of a capacitive voltage division of a power supply; an acquisition unit acquiring, as a reference combined capacitance, any of the combined capacitances in a vicinity where a magnitude relationship between the intermediate potential and a predetermined reference potential is inverted; a determination unit determining whether or not a detection target is present; a capacitance change unit controlling the switching control unit to change the reference combined capacitance; and a setting unit setting the determination threshold based on a difference between the intermediate potentials in the reference combinType: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventor: Hideya Kurachi
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Patent number: 11347075Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of camera shake reduction technology and discloses a suspension assembly of OIS, which comprises a printed circuit board and a spring plate movably disposed on the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board is electrically connected with the spring plate, the printed circuit board comprises a substrate plate and a bend portion extending downwards along any side edge of the substrate plate, a support component is attached to a bottom surface of the substrate plate, a plurality of conductive terminals are arranged on an outside surface of the bend portion, a plurality of reinforce components are arranged on an inside surface of the bend portion and corresponding to the plurality of conductive terminals one to one, and the plurality of reinforce components are placed at intervals and do not contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SAE MAGNETICS (H.K.) LTD.Inventors: Xianwen Feng, Ying Xiao
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Patent number: 11346766Abstract: Disclosed is a method for estimating deterioration of a steel support structure (180) supporting an offshore wind turbine (181). The steel support structure (180) being made of a first type of steel, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a first sensor (111) having one or more sensor elements, wherein a first sensor element of the one or more sensor elements is made of a type of steel corresponding to the first type of steel; (b) arranging the first sensor (111) in connection with said steel support structure (180); (c) inducing an electrical current through at least one of the one or more sensor elements; (d) monitoring the deterioration of a part of the first sensor (111) by in a first time interval measuring electrical properties of the first sensor (111) and storing the measurements as first data; (e) estimating the deterioration of the steel support structure (180) from the first data.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventor: Birit Buhr Jensen
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Patent number: 11338741Abstract: A vehicle camera mounting system includes, among other things, a first bracket portion that has a first attachment feature that is configured to be secured to an exterior of a vehicle. The first bracket portion extends laterally from the first attachment feature to a second attachment feature. The first attachment feature is provided by a plate that has apertures that are configured to receive fasteners that secure the first bracket portion to the vehicle. The second attachment feature is configured to mount to the vehicle at a location remote from the plate. The system further includes a camera assembly that is secured to the second attachment feature.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ORLACO PRODUCTS B.V.Inventor: Alfred van den Brink
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Patent number: 11323597Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a display unit cover configured to hold the display unit, a first plate configured to move integrally with the display unit cover, a second plate, a first shaft provided on the second plate and rotatably supporting the first plate, a third plate, a second shaft provided on the third plate, parallel to the first shaft, and rotatably supporting the second plate, a third shaft orthogonal to the second shaft and rotatably supporting the third plate, and a first guide member provided on the third plate and configured to restrict operation areas of the first plate and the second plate. Where the first shaft is closest to the third plate within the operation area of the second plate around the second shaft, the first guide member is closer to the display unit cover than the third plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hitoshi Kawahara
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Patent number: 11320401Abstract: The present invention provides an eddy current flaw detection device that sufficiently removes noise from a detection signal. A magnetic field is applied to a test object by a magnetic-field forming magnet. The magnetic flux density of a magnetic field generated by the magnetic-field forming magnet is set at a value in a predetermined range according to a distance between the magnetic-field forming magnet and a detection surface and the thickness of the test object.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Nihon Densokuki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Arai, Akihiro Shin, Takaaki Yamada, Hiroshi Azuma
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Patent number: 11313952Abstract: This technology relates to a system for preventing particle buildup on a sensor housing. The system may include a sensor housing including a first surface, a motor, and a spoiler edge. The motor may be configured to rotate the sensor housing around an axis. The spoiler edge may be positioned adjacent to the first surface and extended away from the first surface perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the sensor housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Simon Ellgas, Justin Matthew Andrade, Bryce Remesch
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Patent number: 11307053Abstract: A device with position detection includes: a first hall element; a second hall element; a differential amplifier configured to generate a subtraction voltage by differentially amplifying a first hall voltage generated by the first hall element and a second hall voltage generated by the second hall element; a summing amplifier configured to generate a sum voltage by summatively amplifying the first and second hall voltages; a comparer configured to compare a reference voltage with the subtraction voltage to generate an error voltage; and a current converter configured to generate a bias current provided to the first and second hall elements, based on the error voltage, wherein the device is configured to detect a position of a detection object based on the sum voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung Man Pang
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Patent number: 11300856Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described which provide a camera mount system. A camera mount is in communication with a positioning device. The positioning device has a compass, gyroscope, and emits an infrared light beam. The camera mount has a sensor that receives reflected and/or scattered infrared light from a moving target. The camera mount changes its orientation based on information from its sensor, and gyroscope and compass information from the positioning device.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TACTACAM LLCInventors: Jeff Peel, Benjamin Stern, Ben Thorud
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Patent number: 11293961Abstract: A capacitance detection device includes: a variable capacitance capacitor; an electrode constituting a detection target whose capacitance is to be detected; and a control circuit, in which the control circuit executes: manipulation processing of manipulating a capacitance of the variable capacitance capacitor to control an intermediate potential, which is a potential at a connection point between the variable capacitance capacitor and the electrode, to a reference potential, when a voltage of a voltage application device is applied to the electrode via the variable capacitance capacitor; and detection processing of detecting the capacitance of the detection target, based on the capacitance of the variable capacitance capacitor when being controlled to the reference potential.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Hideya Kurachi, Akira Takahashi
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Patent number: 11294143Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion is movably disposed on the fixed portion. The driving assembly is disposed on the fixed portion and drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chao-Hsi Wang, Chao-Chang Hu, Kuen-Wang Tsai, Chih-Wei Weng, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 11287615Abstract: A camera lens group including a first to a fifth lens arranged sequentially from the object side to image side is provided. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and object-side surface thereof is a convex surface; the second lens has a negative refractive power, and image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the third and the fourth lens each has a refractive power, and an object-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface; the fifth lens has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; an effective focal length f of the camera lens group and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an image plane of the camera lens group satisfy: 3.5<f/ImgH<4.5; and an effective focal length f1 of the first lens and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the camera lens group satisfy: 3<f1/EPD<4.5.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingbo He, Fujian Dai, Jianke Wenren
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Patent number: 11287604Abstract: A lens device includes: a movable lens capable of being moved in a direction of an optical axis; a target position information acquiring unit that acquires information of a target position of the movable lens; a target position information transmitting unit that transmits the information of the target position to a movable lens operation device including a movable operating member for moving the movable lens and an operating member driving unit that drives the operating member; and a movable lens driving unit that performs first driving for moving the movable lens based on a position of the operating member detected by an operating member position detection unit that detects the position of the operating member, and the operating member driving unit drives the operating member based on the information of the target position.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tetsu Wada
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Patent number: 11269239Abstract: A two-piece extendable L-plate provides clearance between a camera and a quick-release receiver securing the camera to a support permitting a camera having cables connected to the side of the camera's body to be secured in either a landscape or a portrait orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Really Right Stuff, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Johnson, Sr., Matthew L. Burk
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Patent number: 11272083Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a lens barrel unit including an imaging optical system, a first cylindrical member, a second cylindrical member movable relative to the first cylindrical member along a guide bar between a retracted position and a pop-up position, a diopter adjuster provided on the second cylindrical member, a first detector configured to detect that the second cylindrical member is located at the retracted position or the pop-up position, and a first display unit. The guide bar is formed inside a projection surface of the first display unit when viewed from an optical axis direction. The first detection unit is fixed onto the first cylindrical member, and the first detector is more distant from the lens barrel unit than a reference line that passes a center of the first cylindrical member when viewed from the optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taro Murakami, Kiyoshi Nitto, Nobuyoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11268831Abstract: A position detecting device includes a detector circuit detecting a detection signal including information on a position of a magnet from a coil disposed in a housing and opposing the magnet, which is disposed in a lens barrel; and a control circuit converting the detection signal into a count value, determining a conversion formula based on the count value and a velocity of change in the count value, and detecting a position value using the determined conversion formula.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Je Hyeon Yu, Jung Eun Youm, Ji Hwan Kim, Ja Hwi Cho
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Patent number: 11262325Abstract: A sensor semiconductor device comprises a transducer which comprises a capacitor with at least two electrodes. The transducer further comprises a polymer which is arranged between at least two electrodes of the capacitor, and a top surface of the transducer. The polymer is able to absorb water and the top surface is arranged such that it is exposed to the environment of the sensor semiconductor device. Furthermore, at least a part of the top surface is superhydrophobic and the sensor semiconductor device is capable of measuring the humidity of the environment of the sensor semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SCIOSENSE B.V.Inventors: Micha In't Zandt, Frederik Willem Maurits Vanhelmont, Nebojsa Nenadovic, Dimitri Soccol
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Patent number: 11262291Abstract: A method of detecting a locally generated corrosion of a first metal element when exposing the first metal element (2) to a corrosive environment. A first surface of the first metal element (2) is exposed to the corrosive environment. A sponge (3) is sandwiched between the first metal element (2) and a second metal element (4). The sponge (3) constituting in dry state an electrical insulator and constituting an electrical conductor when wetted in the corrosive environment. An electrical insulator together with the first metal element (2) encapsulates the second metal element (4) and the sponge (3) for preventing the second metal element (4) and the sponge (3) from being directly exposed to the corrosive environment. An impedance between the second metal element (4) and a ground electrode is measured, and a decrease in the impedance from an infinite impedance to a finite impedance caused by a pinhole being generated in the first metal element (2) is monitored.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: METRICORR APSInventor: Lars Vendelbo Nielsen
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Patent number: 11258928Abstract: A wearable camera includes a capturing portion configured to capture a subject around a user, a control portion configured to control capturing processing of the capturing portion and charging processing of a battery, an upper housing that is mountable to the user and accommodates the capturing portion and the control portion, and a lower housing that accommodates the battery for supplying power to the upper housing, is detachably attached to the upper housing, and has a contact terminal which is exposed to an outside and is used for charging the battery, wherein the lower housing is configured to be connected to a charging stand via the contact terminal such that the battery is charged in a state where the lower housing is attached to the upper housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Panasonic I-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Shinichi Murata, Yu Jojima, Noboru Takada, Masashi Nakamura, Koji Taniguchi