Patents Examined by Tat C Chio
  • Patent number: 11979657
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide power efficient object detection for electronic devices. Power efficient object detection can be provided in order to allow extended tracking of objects by portable devices such as battery powered devices. In one or more implementations, a recommendation engine including a machine learning model and/or a rule-based recommendation process may be provided that has been trained to output a sensor recommendation indicating at least one sensor for object tracking. The sensor recommendation can indicate which of several sensors to operate to track a particular object and/or an accuracy level for operating the recommended sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Anselm Grundhoefer
  • Patent number: 11949872
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, a procedure of deriving indexes for inverse luma mapping and/or chroma residual scaling can be simplified, and linear LMCS can be applied. Therefore, the complexity of LMCS can be reduced, and the efficiency of video/image coding can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11943438
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present invention includes: a step for dividing the current picture into a plurality of tiles; a step for decoding division information indicating a slice defining method; and a step for determining a first slice on the basis of the division information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11936846
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding a first flag indicating whether a node having a parent node different from a parent node of a current node is to be referred to in encoding of the current node included in an n-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data; selecting a coding table from N coding tables according to occupancy states of neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is to be referred to; and selecting a coding table from M coding tables according to the occupancy states of the neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is not to be referred to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang, Chung Dean Han, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11928195
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate, and a side member which surrounds a space between the first plate and the second plate, a display, an antenna array disposed in the housing or in part of the housing, an image sensor, a wireless communication device electrically coupled to the antenna array, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to obtain and receive at least one image using the image sensor, recognize an object in the at least one image, transmit a sequence of directional beams in at least one second direction, using the antenna array, receive a sequence of reflected waves reflected by the object, using the antenna array, and recognize the object, based at least in part on the recognized object and the sequence of the reflected waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunkee Min, Bokun Choi, Jongmu Choi, Sunkee Lee
  • Patent number: 11922697
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data generated by a capture device and an activation signal generated by at least one of a plurality of sensors. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform computer vision on the video frames to detect objects, perform a classification of the objects, present a control signal in response to receiving the activation signal, determine whether there is a match between the classification and an object class and generate a calibration signal in response to the match. The computer vision may determine which zone that the objects have been detected in. Each zone may comprise a coverage region of one of the sensors. The calibration signal may adjust parameters of the sensors that correspond to the zone with the objects that do not have the match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventor: Ruian Xu
  • Patent number: 11910133
    Abstract: An endoscope image-capturing device includes: a first case inside of which is sealed; an image sensor arranged inside the first case; an electro-optic conversion element arranged outside the first case and configured to convert an image signal output from the image sensor into an optical signal; and a sealing member sealing the electro-optic conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kei Tomatsu
  • Patent number: 11895341
    Abstract: A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments comprises the steps of: encoding point cloud data including geometry data and attribute data; and transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data. A point cloud data reception method according to embodiments comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including point cloud data including geometry data and attribute data; and decoding the point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunmook Oh, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 11889116
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for volumetric visual content and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the volumetric visual content. The encoder is configured to convert a 3D representation of the visual volumetric content into a 2D image based representation. The encoder is further configured to scale the patch in 2D space independent of any scaling in 3D space. Auxiliary information is signaled for use in identifying 2D scaled or unscaled patches in an image frame, mapping the patches into 3D space, and adjusting for any scaling factors applied at the encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis
  • Patent number: 11882363
    Abstract: A control apparatus controls one or more image capturing units. The apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to, based on an image of a plurality of objects captured by the image capturing units, obtain positions of the plurality of objects; and a generation unit configured to, based on at least the image, the positions of the plurality of objects and the orientation of the image capturing units, generate a control command for changing the orientation of the image capturing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takamasa Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 11882303
    Abstract: A method for transmitting point cloud data according to embodiments may encode and transmit point cloud data. A method for receiving point cloud data according to embodiments may receive and decode point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyejung Hur, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 11877087
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a method for remote monitoring of electrical equipment includes acquiring a set of data points, each data point representing a temperature associated with a piece of electrical equipment or a component thereof, assigning each data point to one or more groups of data points, and defining an alarm metric for each group. Each group's alarm metric may be defined independently of other group's metrics. The defined alarm metrics are used to determine the health of the electrical equipment. The data may be determined from virtual probes within an infrared sensor and/or received from RFID devices containing temperature sensor, which are attached to or near the equipment to be monitored, for example. The methods described herein do not require conversion of sensor data into temperature values, and thus obviate the need for expensive sensors and/or computationally demanding conversion, compensation, and calibration routines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NeoGenesys, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall Douglas Thompson
  • Patent number: 11876976
    Abstract: Sensor information is received (S41) at a host device from a mobile device. A pose of the mobile device is then determined by the host device based on the received sensor information. The pose of the mobile device is compared with pose information (S42) of previous poses of the mobile device, each previous pose of the mobile device being associated with a performance level of the system for data transmitted from the host device and received and output at the mobile device having that previous pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventor: Matthew Parks
  • Patent number: 11875544
    Abstract: Systems and methods include an infrared camera configured to capture an infrared image of a scene, a visible light camera configured to capture a visible light image of the scene, and a logic device configured to simultaneously capture a pair of images of the scene comprising the infrared image of the scene and the visible image of the scene, align the pair of images so that a pixel location in one of the pair of images has a corresponding pixel location in the other image, classify the visible image, annotate the infrared image based, at least in part, on the classification of the visible image, and add the annotated infrared image to a neural network training dataset for use in training a neural network for infrared image classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin A. Richards, Andres Prieto-Moreno
  • Patent number: 11871019
    Abstract: An image decoding method for decoding a bitstream including a coded signal resulting from coding tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, the method including decoding the coded signal, wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, information used for an other slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice, and when the normal slice starts from a position other than a beginning of a first tile, a second tile coded next to the first tile does not start from the dependent slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Matthias Narroschke, Thomas Wedi
  • Patent number: 11870970
    Abstract: Disclosed are an eye lens, glasses, a head-mounted display, and a VR system. The eye lens comprises: a first lens portion and a second lens portion, the first lens portion is connected to the second lens portion, and the field angle of the first lens portion and the field angle of the second lens portion form an overall field angle of the eye lens. The present invention solves the technical problem of a large number of lenses and narrow field angles caused by coaxial arrangement of multiple lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PIMAX TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zhibin Weng
  • Patent number: 11863772
    Abstract: An image includes a plurality of rows of largest coding units (LCUs). Encoding the image includes determining whether or not wavefront parallel processing is enabled, and partitioning the plurality of rows of LCUs to comprise a normal slice and a group of dependent slices. The normal slice includes at least one LCU, and the group of dependent slices includes at least one LCU and consists of every dependent slice that uses information from a slice header of the normal slice for encoding. Based on the determination that wavefront parallel processing is enabled, the partitioning of the plurality of rows of LCUs is restricted such that a last LCU in the group of dependent slices belongs in a same row as a first LCU of the normal slice when the first LCU of the normal slice is not a first LCU of the row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Matthias Narroschke, Thomas Wedi
  • Patent number: 11843794
    Abstract: An encoded bitstream of entropy encoded video data is received by a video decoder. The encoded bitstream represents syntax elements of a sequence of coding blocks. The sequence of coding blocks is recovered by processing a bin sequences associated with each coding block in a processing pipeline, wherein a defined amount of time is allocated to process each coding block in the processing pipeline. The encoded bitstream is arithmetically decoded to produce each bin sequence. The arithmetic decoder is time-wise decoupled from the processing pipeline by storing a plurality of the bin sequences in a buffer memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhukar Budagavi, Mehmet Umut Demircin
  • Patent number: 11838547
    Abstract: The present principles relate to a method and device method for encoding depth values of orthogonally projected points of a point cloud onto a projection plane. The present principles also relate to a method and device for decoding a point cloud, a computer readable program and a video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Celine Guede, Joan Llach Pinsach, Kangying Cai
  • Patent number: 11831973
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for adjusting camera settings based on event data. An example method can include obtaining, via an image capture device of a mobile device, an image depicting at least a portion of an environment; determining a match between one or more visual features extracted from the image and one or more visual features associated with a keyframe; and based on the match, adjusting one or more settings of the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wesley James Holland, Seyfullah Halit Oguz