Patents Examined by Sath V Perungavoor
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Patent number: 11650044Abstract: Using the same image sensor to capture both a two-dimensional (2D) image of a three-dimensional (3D) object and 3D depth measurements for the object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor generates a multi-bit output in the 2D mode and a binary output in the 3D mode to generate timestamps. Strong ambient light is rejected by switching the image sensor to a 3D logarithmic mode from a 3D linear mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Inventor: Yibing Michelle Wang
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Patent number: 11652973Abstract: A three dimensional system including rendering with variable displacement.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: VEFXi CorporationInventors: Craig Peterson, Markus Roberts, Sergey Lomov, Manuel Muro, Pat Doyle
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Patent number: 11653019Abstract: Disclosed are an image coding and decoding methods, an image processing device, and a computer storage medium. The image coding method comprises: obtaining a dynamic range of a copy parameter of a current coding sampling value segment according to a size of a reference area; and coding the copy parameter according to the dynamic range to generate a video bitstream containing information about the size of the reference area and information about the copy parameter. The decoding method comprises: parsing a video bitstream to obtain a dynamic range of a copy parameter of a decoding sampling value segment; and decoding the copy parameter according to the dynamic range.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: ZTE CORPORATION, TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Tao Lin, Ming Li, Ping Wu, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
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Patent number: 11643015Abstract: An exterior rearview device for an automotive vehicle includes a cover body with a cover body opening where the cover covers a front part of at least one reflective means, display or camera accommodated in the cover body. The exterior rearview device also contains a light module having a base body, a lens attachable to the base body and a selected functional device selected from at least two different functional devices each of which is adapted to achieve a specific light function. The base body is attachable to the cover body such that, in an attached state, the lens is arranged in the cover body opening, and the selected functional device is attachable to the base body such that, in the attached state, light from the light module passes through the lens to fulfil the specific light function of the selected functional device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company LimitedInventors: Joel James Gough, Gary Sinelli, John Scharfenkamp
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Patent number: 11639134Abstract: A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head having an interior mirror reflective element. The mirror reflective element has a mirror transflector that transmits near-IR light incident thereon, transmits visible light incident thereon and reflects visible light incident thereon. The mirror assembly includes a camera disposed within the mirror head and viewing through the mirror transflector. The camera includes an imaging sensor having a quantum efficiency (QE) of at least 15% for near-infrared (near-IR) light having a wavelength of 940 nm. The mirror assembly further includes first, second and third near-IR illumination sources disposed within the mirror head and operable to emit near-IR light that passes through the mirror transflector. The near-IR illumination sources are at respective angles relative to a planar front surface of the mirror reflective element and, when powered, illuminate respective in-cabin regions for a driver monitoring function or an occupant detection function.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Gregory A. Huizen, Justin E. Sobecki, Austen C. Peterson, Ian A. McCabe, Rodney K. Blank, Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 11640672Abstract: A system for scanning a body to create scan data comprises a processor, a range camera capable of capturing at least a first set of depth images of the body rotated to 0 degrees, and at least a second set of depth images of the body rotated to x degrees, wherein x is >0 degrees, and x<360 degrees. a set of computer instructions are executable on a processor capable of synchronizing scan data and body measurements with a server.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: STYKU LLCInventor: Raj Sareen
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Patent number: 11623585Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly disposed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle to collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle. The sensor pods may be disposed at elevated locations around the vehicle to reduce obstacles within the sensor pods fields of view.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Derek Adams, Daniel Glenn Johnson, Christopher William Labadie, Ryan McMichael, Daniel Miller, Peter Thomas Mitros, Anubhav Thakur, Joseph Patrick Warga, Austin In-Jei Yi
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Patent number: 11619483Abstract: Using the same image sensor to capture both a two-dimensional (2D) image of a three-dimensional (3D) object and 3D depth measurements for the object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor generates a multi-bit output in the 2D mode and a binary output in the 3D mode to generate timestamps. Strong ambient light is rejected by switching the image sensor to a 3D logarithmic mode from a 3D linear mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventor: Yibing Michelle Wang
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Patent number: 11613208Abstract: A trailering assist system for a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and having a field of view rearward of the vehicle, the field of view encompassing at least a portion of a trailer rearward of the vehicle. The camera captures image data, which is representative of at least a front profile of the trailer, which includes a trailer coupler of the trailer. An ECU includes an image processor that processes image data captured by the camera. The ECU, responsive to image processing of captured image data, determines a location of the front profile of the trailer relative to the vehicle. Responsive to determining the location of the front profile, the ECU determines a plurality of outline landmarks that represent a shape of the front profile of the trailer. Based on the determined outline landmarks, the ECU determines a location of the trailer coupler.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Akbar Assa, Shweta Suresh Daga, Brijendra Kumar Bharti, Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan, Jyothi P. Gali, Anoop S. Mann, Alexander Velichko
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Patent number: 11607111Abstract: A medical signal processing apparatus processes image signals input from an imaging device. The image signals corresponds to a result of examining a subject, and the imaging device sequentially outputs the image signals from multiple pixels arrayed in a matrix according to a raster to the medical signal processing apparatus. The medical image signal processing apparatus includes: a signal divider configured to divide the image signals according to the raster sequentially output from the imaging device into first divided image signals each according to a pixel group consisting of multiple pixels arrayed in connected multiple columns; and a plurality of pre-processors configured to process, in parallel, sets of pixel information of the multiple first divided image signals divided by the signal divider.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Manabu Koiso
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Patent number: 11607997Abstract: A method for assembling a mirror reflective element sub-assembly for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes providing a support fixture having locator pins disposed at apertures thereof and protruding therefrom. The locator pins are received through corresponding apertures of a heater pad and through corresponding apertures of a back plate to align the back plate at the heater pad at the support fixture. A mirror reflective element is attached at the back plate and heater pad construction, and that construction is disposed at a laser ablation fixture, whereby the locator pins of the laser ablation fixture are received through the apertures of the back plate to align the construction at the laser ablation fixture. After an indicator icon is laser ablated through the mirror reflector, the construction is removed from the laser ablation fixture, and an indicator module is snap attached at a receiving portion of the back plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Kenneth C. Peterson, Matthew S. Van Oeveren, Jeffrey R. Westbrook
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Patent number: 11603048Abstract: The technology includes a roof pod system for a vehicle configured to operate in one or more partly or fully autonomous self-driving modes. The roof pod system is arranged to sit above the roof of the vehicle, for instance at least 10-50 mm above the roof surface. The roof pod may be supported by a set of legs such as cross-rails. The roof pod system incorporates various sensors and related equipment to assist with self-driving operation. Some sensors may be arranged in the main housing of the roof pod, while others can be located in a dome-type structure extending above the main housing. A cabling harness assembly runs wiring and other links between the roof pod and the vehicle chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Albert Shane, Andreas Bauer, Scott Cardimen, James Bellis, Jonathan Sive, Miklos Szentkiralyi, Joshua Newby
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Patent number: 11593660Abstract: The proposed model is a Variational Autoencoder having a learnable prior that is parametrized with a Tensor Train (VAE-TTLP). The VAE-TTLP can be used to generate new objects, such as molecules, that have specific properties and that can have specific biological activity (when a molecule). The VAE-TTLP can be trained in a way with the Tensor Train so that the provided data may omit one or more properties of the object, and still result in an object with a desired property.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: INSILICO MEDICINE IP LIMITEDInventors: Aleksandr Aliper, Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs, Alexander Zhebrak, Daniil Polykovskiy, Maksim Kuznetsov, Yan Ivanenkov, Mark Veselov, Vladimir Aladinskiy, Evgeny Putin, Yuriy Volkov, Arip Asadulaev
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Patent number: 11584309Abstract: An approach to arrange sensors needed for automated driving, especially where semitrailer trucks are operating in an autonomous convoy with one automated or semi-automated truck following another. The sensors are fitted to a location adjacent to or within the exterior rearview mirrors, on each of the left- and right-hand side of the tractor. The sensors provide overlapping fields of view looking forward of the vehicle and to both the left and right hand sides at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Locomation, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Joseph Russell, Brad Allen Dranko, Owen J. Bawden, Tekin Mericli
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Patent number: 11584308Abstract: An approach to arrange sensors needed for automated driving, especially where semitrailer trucks are operating in an autonomous convoy with one automated or semi-automated truck following another. The sensors are fitted to a location adjacent to or within the exterior rearview mirrors, on each of the left- and right-hand side of the tractor. The sensors provide overlapping fields of view looking forward of the vehicle and to both the left and right hand sides at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Locomation, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Joseph Russell, Brad Allen Dranko, Owen J. Bawden, Tekin Mericli
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Patent number: 11580695Abstract: A method for a sensor-based and memory-based representation of a surroundings of a vehicle. The vehicle includes an imaging sensor for detecting the surroundings. The method includes: detecting a sequence of images; determining distance data on the basis of the detected images and/or of a distance sensor of the vehicle, the distance data comprising distances between the vehicle and objects in the surroundings of the vehicle; generating a three-dimensional structure of a surroundings model on the basis of the distance data; recognizing at least one object in the surroundings of the vehicle on the basis of the detected images, in particular by a neural network; loading a synthetic object model on the basis of the recognized object; adapting the generated three-dimensional structure of the surroundings model on the basis of the synthetic object model and on the basis of the distance data; and displaying the adapted surroundings model.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dirk Raproeger, Lidia Rosario Torres Lopez, Paul Robert Herzog, Paul-Sebastian Lauer, Uwe Brosch
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Patent number: 11577649Abstract: An active outside rear view system for a vehicle includes a support structure mounted to an exterior surface of the vehicle. A rear view device is movably affixed to the support structure. A linkage extends from a first end to a second end, where the first end of the linkage is movably affixed to an aerodynamic enclosure and the second end of the linkage is movably affixed to the support structure. An actuator is engaged with the linkage and moves the aerodynamic enclosure between at least a first position and a second position different from the first position. The aerodynamic enclosure is independently movable relative to the rear view device and the support structure. The aerodynamic first position and the second position provide differing aerodynamic characteristics to the active outside rear view system.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: David C. Caples
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Patent number: 11582375Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for enhanced pointing angle validation. A device may generate a collimated beam using a light source emitting a light beam through a fiducial target in an optical instrument. The device may capture an image fiducial target using a camera, wherein the camera is mounted on a mounting datum that is orthogonal to the collimated beam. The device may determine a pointing angle associated with camera based on the captured image of the fiducial target. The device may compare a location of the fiducial target in the image to an optical center of the camera. The device may determine a validation status of camera based on the location of the fiducial target in the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ARGO AI, LLCInventors: Richard S. D'Alo, Christopher N. St. John
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Patent number: 11572018Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head disposed at a mounting structure and having a mirror casing and a mirror reflective element. An indicator module is disposed at a rear portion of the mirror reflective element and includes a housing having an indicating portion and a connector portion, a circuit board disposed in the indicating portion and having circuitry and a light source. The circuitry includes electrically conductive terminals extending from the circuit board and disposed at the connector portion of the housing. An electrical connector has a connecting end that is received in the connector portion of the housing to electrically connect to the electrically conductive terminals. An anti-backout element is disposed at the connector portion. With the electrical connector received in the connector portion, the anti-backout element is positioned at the electrical connector to preclude backing out of the electrical connector from the connector portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jeremy R. Shooks, Neil A. Bergsma, Matthew S. VanOeveren, Michael J. Galdys
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Patent number: 11563933Abstract: Techniques are described for video encoding and decoding using reference picture resampling with switchable filters. One example involves obtaining a current picture and a reference picture, identifying filter index information for a current block of the current picture, and determining that a first picture size value of the current picture and a second picture size value of the reference picture are different. Based on the determining that the first picture size value of the current picture and the second picture size value of the reference picture are different, performing a resampling process using a default filter index in place of a current filter index identified by the filter index information. Additional examples can use the current filter index identified by the filter index information in subsequent blocks. In various examples, the current filter index can be derived or signaled.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Vadim Seregin, Muhammed Zeyd Coban