Patents Examined by Rowina Cattungal
  • Patent number: 9251561
    Abstract: When there is a shooting location of another panoramic image in a shooting direction of a panoramic image to be displayed, a marker setting unit associates a marker, indicating the presence of the another panoramic image in the shooting direction, with the panoramic image to be displayed. A mapping processing unit maps the panoramic image to be displayed, which has been associated with markers for the other panoramic images, into a three-dimensional (3D) panoramic space as textures. A 3D image generator generates a 3D panoramic image when the 3D panoramic space is viewed in a specified line of sight, with the shooting location of the panoramic image to be displayed being set as a viewpoint position. An interface receives an instruction from a user concerning the displayed 3D panoramic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Furumura, Takeshi Yamagishi, Shinichi Hirata
  • Patent number: 9253492
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a motion vector using a motion vector of a current block of a current picture, which indicates a region corresponding to the current block in a first reference picture and one of generating a motion vector predictor from a motion vector of the adjacent block having a motion vector referring to the first reference picture among adjacent blocks encoded before the current block and a motion vector of an adjacent block referring to a second reference picture other than the first reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tammy Lee, Vadim Seregin
  • Patent number: 9245307
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for projecting structured light patterns onto an Augmented Reality (AR) scene in order to track AR camera motion in AR systems. In some examples, structured light patterns may be projected onto the AR scene from a light source in the same plane as the AR camera in order to preserve a consistent reference point for detecting the structured light pattern. The AR camera may detect the structured light patterns and determine the location of the AR camera based on a distance analysis of the detected structured light patterns. Based on the changing locations of the AR camera, the system may track the movement of the AR camera as its location relative to the AR scene changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Mordehai Margalit
  • Patent number: 9214955
    Abstract: A Boolean entropy decoder including a decoding module, a buffer and an updating module is provided. The decoder sequentially generates a first boolean value, a second boolean value and a third boolean value. The first and second boolean values are generated during a same cycle. The decoding module requires a first bit amount while generating a first value corresponding to the first boolean value, and requires a second bit amount while generating a second value corresponding to the second boolean value. The buffer temporarily stores a bit segment in the bitstream to be provided to the decoding module. The updating module fetches a new bit segment according to the first bit amount and the second bit amount and updates the buffer. The decoding module selectively updates a value corresponding to the third boolean value after the buffer is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Ying-Chieh Tu, Jin-Mu Wu
  • Patent number: 9179148
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving a plurality of reference pixels, computing a plurality of filter coefficients based on differences between a reference pixel and neighboring reference pixels in the plurality of reference pixels, and combining the filter coefficients with the reference pixel and the neighboring reference pixels to generate a filtered value, wherein the filtered value is used for intra prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara University
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Lingzhi Liu, Changcai Lai, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9123155
    Abstract: A system and method for improving a surgeon's vision by overlaying augmented reality information onto a video image of the surgical site. A high definition video camera sends a video image in real time. Prior to the surgery, a pre-operative image is created from MRI, x-ray, ultrasound, or other method of diagnosis using imaging technology. The pre-operative image is stored within the computer. The computer processes the pre-operative image to decipher organs, anatomical geometries, vessels, tissue planes, orientation, and other structures. As the surgeon performs the surgery, the AR controller augments the real time video image with the processed pre-operative image and displays the augmented image on an interface to provide further guidance to the surgeon during the surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: James S. Cunningham, Peter M. Mueller, James D. Allen, IV
  • Patent number: 9102269
    Abstract: A field of view matching video display system may comprise a tracking device, a rear-facing camera, a processing device, and a display. The tracking device is configured to capture a first video image in a predefined area in the vehicle and provide a first video image signal. The rear-facing camera is configured to capture a second video image and provide a second video image signal. The processing device is configured to analyze the first video image obtained via the first video image signal to determine a head position of the driver, determine a first field of view for the driver based on the head position of the driver, generate a third video image that substantially corresponds with at least a portion of the first field of view of the driver, and provide a third video image signal. The display is configured to show the third video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon Waite, Marcin Klimecki
  • Patent number: 9049444
    Abstract: This disclosure describes apparatuses and methods of encoding coefficients associated with a block of video data. In one example, a method may comprise selecting a scan order for the coefficients based on an intra coding mode used to predict the block of video data and a transform block size used in transforming the block of video data, and generating a syntax element to communicate the selected scan order for the block of video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yunfei Zheng, Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Joel Sole Rojals, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 9025661
    Abstract: For a block of video data, a video encoder can signal to a video decoder a selected intra-prediction mode using a codeword that is mapped to a modified intra-prediction mode index. The video decoder can receive the codeword, determine the modified intra-prediction mode index corresponding to the codeword, determine most probable modes based on a context, map the modified intra-prediction mode index to an intra-prediction mode index by comparing the modified intra-prediction mode index to the mode indexes of the most probable modes, and determine the selected intra-prediction mode used to encode the block of video data based on the intra-prediction mode index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marta Karczewicz, Xianglin Wang, Wei-Jung Chien
  • Patent number: 9013584
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for providing border handling in motion compensated interpolation, wherein a camera model is used to detect areas of predominant movements in a displayable output, and for each reveal or conceal area: it is determined whether the reveal or conceal areas is due to a camera movement or an object movement. If the reveal or conceal areas is due to a camera movement. The camera model is used to arrive at interpolated pixel values for pixels within the corresponding area. If the reveal or conceal areas is not due to a camera movement, arriving at interpolated pixel values for pixels within the corresponding area without using the camera model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Petrides
  • Patent number: 9008175
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing the amount of additional data encoded with a block encoded using intra-predictive coding. Particularly, the techniques provide apparatus and methods of applying a smoothing filter to prediction samples used in intra-predictive coding. For example, in fixed mode-dependent intra-predictive coding, a video encoder may determine the type of smoothing filter applied to prediction samples based on block size and intra-prediction mode combination associated with the current block, where the combination is used to look up a filter in a first filter table. In adaptive mode-dependent intra-predictive coding, the encoder uses two filters, one from the first filter table and another from a second filter table, applies both filters, and determines which yields better results. When the second filter table filter yields better results, the encoder encodes a filtering indication. When a filter from the first filter table is used, no filtering indication is encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Geert Van Der Auwera, Xianglin Wang, Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Marta Karczewicz, Yunfei Zheng
  • Patent number: 8994791
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is disclosed a method and device for displaying a 3-dimensional image, which may provide an improved depth perception. The method according to present invention comprises: forming parallax images for left eye and right eye, each of the parallax images including a plurality of images corresponding to images at different depths for a same object; controlling a brightness of the images of each of the parallax images for the left eye and the right eye; and displaying the parallax images for the left eye and the right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sung Kyu Kim, Dong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 8994819
    Abstract: An optical detection system integrated within an electro-optical sighting and/or scanning system and a method to perform a rapid wide area search are disclosed. In one example, an integrated optics detection subsystem is configured with one-the-move processing methods to perform the optics defeat functions to during a wide area search or sector scan performed by the host electro-optical sighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Robert Jeffrey Bennett, Frederic W. Kingdon
  • Patent number: 8988528
    Abstract: A video processing device includes a video obtaining unit configured to obtain video data by capturing video of a specific area, a video accumulating unit configured to accumulate the video data obtained by the video obtaining unit, a data input unit configured to input event occurrence data indicating an event that has occurred in a video image corresponding to the video data obtained by the video obtaining unit and object specifying data for specifying an object relating to the event, and an addition processing unit configured to add the event occurrence data and object specifying data input by the data input unit to the video data accumulated in the video accumulating unit using a predetermined format through provision of link data for linking the video data to the event occurrence data and the object specifying data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Hikita
  • Patent number: 8937653
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a pigment amount calculating unit, a cell component identification processing unit, a target molecule expression portion extraction unit, a cell variant setting unit, a cell variant classification determining unit, and a display image generating unit. The pigment amount calculating unit calculates a pigment amount of a molecule target pigment for each pixel of a VS image. The cell component identification processing unit identifies a cell component based on the pigment amount. The target molecule expression portion extraction unit extracts expression portions of target molecules in the area of the cell component. The cell variant setting unit sets a cell variant including a combination of presence/absence of expressions of target molecules. The cell variant classification determining unit classifies a cell area in the VS image into a cell variant based on the combination of the expression portions of the target molecules included in the cell area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
    Inventors: Tatsuki Yamada, Futoshi Akiyama, Rie Horii
  • Patent number: 8934006
    Abstract: The present invention provides an intuitive and easy-to-operate graphical user interface environment for charged-particle microscopes. By restricting the operation items of charged-particle microscopes to the control button operations on GUI screen, excluding the charged-particle microscope specific technical terms, and unifying the observation conditions in the simple terminology with which the observation object can be intuitively understood, the operation environment which is intuitive and easy to understand for users not caring charged-particle microscopes is realized, and by restricting each of electron optical conditions in conjunction with the change of the observation condition to the fixed values and tabling them, it is possible to omit the operation workload of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Chino, Masaru Watahiki, Toru Iwaya
  • Patent number: 8913666
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for performing entropy encoding and decoding of video coefficients using a joint context model shared between transform units having different sizes. For example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having a first size of 32×32 and transform units having a second size of 16×16. Performing entropy coding using a joint context model shared between transform units having different sizes may reduce an amount of memory necessary to store contexts and probabilities, and reduce computational costs of maintaining context models. In one example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having the first size with coefficients zeroed out to generate a retained coefficient block having the second size and transform units having the second size. In another example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having the first size and transform units having the second size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel Sole Rojals, Rajan L. Joshi, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 8913122
    Abstract: Proper exposure is achieved within a short period of time even when image-acquisition elements are switched. Provided is an image-acquisition device for a microscope, which includes an optical-path branching section that branches light from an object into two optical paths; a first image-acquisition element and a second image-acquisition element that are respectively disposed in the two optical paths branching from the optical-path branching section and that acquire images of the light from the object under different image-acquisition conditions; and an exposure-time calculator that calculates an exposure time for the second image-acquisition element on the basis of an exposure time for the first image-acquisition element and a ratio of the image-acquisition conditions of the first and second image-acquisition elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakatsuka, Hiroshi Fujiki
  • Patent number: 8908775
    Abstract: The techniques for encoding video content are disclosed. In an online game environment, the techniques include obtaining information for a first and second successive frames of video content and information for a position of a virtual camera associated with each frame, determining virtual camera translation information based on the positions of the virtual camera, determining a projected movement between the frames of an object included in each frame, determining the portion of the first frame to be excluded from the second frame and a new portion of the second frame, and providing the determined encoded information for a reconstruction of the second frame based on the provided information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Norihisa Higa
  • Patent number: 8902988
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for performing entropy encoding and decoding of video coefficients using a joint context model shared between transform units having different sizes. For example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having a first size of 32×32 and transform units having a second size of 16×16. Performing entropy coding using a joint context model shared between transform units having different sizes may reduce an amount of memory necessary to store contexts and probabilities, and reduce computational costs of maintaining context models. In one example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having the first size with coefficients zeroed out to generate a retained coefficient block having the second size and transform units having the second size. In another example, the joint context model may be shared between transform units having the first size and transform units having the second size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel Sole Rojals, Rajan L. Joshi, Marta Karczewicz