Patents Examined by Tung T. Vo
  • Patent number: 11487044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a trench cross-section reference line setting device, comprising: a trench reference line setting body unit (100) for setting a trench cross-section reference line, wherein the trench reference line setting body unit (100) has a sensor unit (10) at the center thereof, two horizontal units (20) orthogonal to each other on the upper surface thereof, and three laser light source units (30) and a grid photographing unit (110?), respectively, on the side surfaces thereof; a reference line setting tripod unit (200) rotatably coupled to the trench reference line setting body unit (100) and having a posture adjusting unit (230) and a height adjusting unit (250); and a trench stratum analysis server (300) for receiving a fault image photographed by the grid photographing unit (110?) of the trench reference line setting body unit (100) and creating a stratum map of a trench cross-section structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCES AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Yong Sik Gihm, Kwangmin Jin, Jin Hyuck Choi
  • Patent number: 11490064
    Abstract: A method of depth estimation utilizing heterogeneous cameras, comprising, homogenizing a first camera image and a second camera image based on a first camera calibration dataset and a second camera calibration dataset respectively, wherein the first camera image and second camera image are distortion corrected and are zoom compensated, determining an initial image pair rectification transformation matrix of the homogenized first camera image and the homogenized second camera image, determining a delta image pair rectification transformation matrix based on the initial image pair rectification transformation matrix, determining, a final image pair rectification transformation matrix based on the initial image pair rectification transformation matrix and the delta image pair rectification transformation matrix resulting in a final rectified image pair and disparity mapping the final rectified image pair based on a depth net regression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Zuoguan Wang, Jizhang Shan
  • Patent number: 11483533
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving immersive media content; creating foreground information for rendering foreground video content of the immersive media content; receiving a first point-of-view (PoV) of a first viewer operating a first display device; generating a background video content from the immersive media content; sending the foreground information to the first display device; and sending a first portion of the background video content to the first display device, wherein the first portion is based on the first PoV. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tan Xu, Eric Zavesky, Allyson King, Jianxiong Dong, David Crawford Gibbon
  • Patent number: 11474372
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a multi-view display that includes several pixels. The apparatus includes a parallax barrier that overlays the several pixels of the multi-view display. The parallax barrier includes several barrier rows that are arrayed in a first dimension, where each barrier row includes several barriers arrayed in a second dimension. Each of the barriers are separated from adjacent barriers in the barrier row by an aperture. Each barrier row is offset from adjacent barrier rows by a macro offset distance in the second dimension. A portion of each barrier is offset by a micro offset distance in the second dimension, where the micro offset distance is smaller than the macro offset distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nigel A. Clarke
  • Patent number: 11470302
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a communication unit. The display panel is configured to display an image. An optical element is configured to define a propagation direction of image light emitted from the display panel. The communication unit is configured to receive a captured image of first eye and second eye different from the first eye, of a user. The controller causes the display panel to display a calibration image. The controller is configured so that, based on cornea images of different parts of the calibration image in the captured image that are viewed with the first eye and the second eye of the user, respectively, a parallax image is displayed on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Hayashi, Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11470344
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for selecting a motion vector (MV) to use in frame-rate up conversion (FRUC) coding of a block of video. In one embodiment, a first set of motion vector candidates is identified for FRUC prediction of the block. A search center is defined based on the first set of motion vector candidates, and a search window is determined, the search window having a selected width and being centered on the search center. A search for a selected MV is performed within the search window. In some embodiments, an initial set of MVs is processed with a clustering algorithm to generate a smaller number of MVs that are used as the first set. The selected MV may be subject to a motion refinement search, which may also be performed over a constrained search range. In additional embodiments, search iterations are constrained to limit complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: VID SCALE, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Xiu, Yuwen He, Yan Ye
  • Patent number: 11461883
    Abstract: Systems and method for correcting images including artifacts due to dirty camera lenses of electronic device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Sagi Katz, David Ben Ezra
  • Patent number: 11459735
    Abstract: A display control system includes a work machine and a display control device. The work machine includes work equipment, a depth detection device configured to detect a depth in a detection range and provided at a position where the work equipment does not interfere with the detection range, and a posture detection device configured to detect a posture of the work machine. The display control device includes a map generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional map representing a shape around the work machine based on depth information generated by the depth detection device and posture information generated by the posture detection device, a depth image generation unit configured to generate a depth image representing a depth of a range including a position of the work equipment in the three-dimensional map, and a display control unit configured to output a display signal to display the depth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takahama, Yukinori Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11460807
    Abstract: A gating and a 3D holographic display device are provided. The grating includes grating electrodes and spacing pillars disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. The grating electrodes extend along a first direction and are arranged along a second direction. Along a plane parallel to the first substrate, positions of spacing pillars are referred to as matrix points. The spacing pillars correspond to the matrix points; the matrix points include multiple first matrix point units arranged as an array. A minimum repeating unit of the matrix points includes four first matrix point units located at four vertices of a first quadrilateral. Two adjacent sides of the first quadrilateral are defined as a first unit vector and a second unit vector, respectively; and an angle between the first unit vector and the second unit vector is ?1, and 0°??1?90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11454534
    Abstract: A method of optical and microwave synergistic retrieval of aboveground biomass, the method including: 1) obtaining an observation value of aboveground biomass (AGB) of a sample plot; 2) pre-processing laser radar (LiDAR) data, optical remote sensing data and microwave remote sensing data covering a research region, to yield crown height model (CHM) data, surface reflectance data and a backscattering coefficient, respectively; 3) extracting different LiDAR variables, extracting a plurality of optical characteristic vegetation indexes, and extracting a plurality of microwave characteristic variables; 4) establishing a multiple stepwise linear regression model of the biomass; 5) taking the biomass value of the LiDAR data coverage region as a training set and a verification sample set, and selecting samples for modeling and verification; 6) screening out the optical and microwave characteristic variables; and 7) constructing an optical model, a microwave model, and an optical and microwave synergistic model of AG
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenfeng Shao, Linjing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11446098
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a detector that includes an array of pixels configured to detect light reflected by a surgical device and generate a first signal. The first signal includes a first dataset representative of a visible image of the surgical device. The surgical system also includes a processor configured to receive the first signal and a second signal representative of one or more operating parameters of the surgical device. The processor is also configured to generate a modified image of the surgical device that includes information related to one or more operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Swayze, Joshua Young, Geoffrey S. Strobl, Andrew Beckman
  • Patent number: 11446113
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a surgery support system, a display control device, and a display control method in which a plurality of images can be displayed in an easy-to-see and efficient manner. An information processing device generates a composite image by compositing images output from a plurality of electronic instruments including a medical instrument, and adds, to the composite image, metadata related to division of the composite image. The display control device controls a display device to display, in the virtual three-dimensional space, divided images obtained by dividing the composite image into a plurality of divided regions on the basis of the metadata. The present disclosure can be applied to an endoscopic surgical system, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakamura, Shinji Katsuki, Mitsuaki Shiraga, Manabu Hatakenaka
  • Patent number: 11451757
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that automatically determines, based on camera calibration data and trajectory data associated with a projectile in a game, a plurality of camera angles. The technology may also automatically generate, based on the plurality of camera angles, a camera path for a volumetric content replay of a three-dimensional (3D) region of interest around a highlight moment in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Wenlong Li, Doron T Houminer, Chen Ling, Diego Prilusky
  • Patent number: 11451764
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device by which individual images can be displayed simultaneously to a plurality of observers. In this process, projectors can be used that project the colors from which the images are assembled following one another periodically in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Matthias Bues, Benjamin Wingert
  • Patent number: 11449004
    Abstract: A holographic display and method for operating the holographic display can include: a holographic display operable in a plurality of modes, a computing system, and a sensor. The holographic display can option include a user interface device. Views displayed by the display can optionally be processed or modified based on a viewer pose relative to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Looking Glass Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis Hornstein, Kyle Appelgate, Lee Shiu Pong, Shi Yun Liu, Shawn Michael Frayne
  • Patent number: 11442269
    Abstract: A 3D display device includes a display panel, an optical element, a second communication module, and a controller. The display panel is mounted on a moving body and configured to display a parallax image. The optical element is configured to define a propagation direction of image light emitted from the display panel. The second communication module is configured to receive a motion signal indicating a parameter of a motion of the moving body. The controller is configured to cause the display panel to display the parallax image based on the parameter indicated by the motion signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Sunao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11438575
    Abstract: An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR CORPORATE COLLABORATION
    Inventors: Byeung Woo Jeon, Bong Soo Jung, Kwang Hyun Won
  • Patent number: 11427988
    Abstract: A captured image acquisition unit acquires an image captured by an imaging device provided at a place of a work machine where a bucket is included in an imaging range. A posture acquisition unit acquires posture information of the bucket. A topography acquisition unit acquires topographical information indicating a three-dimensional shape of a construction target of the work machine. A projected image generation unit generates, based on the posture information of the bucket and the topographical information, a projected image obtained by projecting teeth of the bucket on the construction target. A display control unit outputs a display signal for displaying by superimposing the projected image on a place where at least the bucket appears, in the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takahama, Yukinori Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11425362
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes a case, a transparent display screen and one or more light sources. The case includes a chamber, one side of which is a front plate, the front plate is transparent, the transparent display screen is received inside the chamber and directly faces the front plate, the light sources are arranged inside the chamber and give off light towards the transparent display screen, and a picture displayed on the transparent display screen forms a reflection at the transparent display screen or at a bottom of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Liu, Song Cheng, Zilong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11425363
    Abstract: A system and method can include receiving a set of views, encoding the set of views, and displaying the set of views such that they are perceived as a holographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Looking Glass Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Appelgate, Evan Kahn, Alexis Hornstein, Shawn Michael Frayne, Matthew Collins, Char Stiles