Patents by Inventor Alexander Bruce Gentles

Alexander Bruce Gentles has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Camera-level image processing
    Patent number: 10580149
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for performing image processing at a camera-level. For example, a camera service may run on top of a camera hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and may be configured to perform image processing such as applying a blurring algorithm, applying a color filter and/or other video effects. An application may pass metadata to the camera service via an application programming interface (API) and the camera service may use the metadata to determine parameters for the image processing. The camera service may apply the blurring algorithm for a first period of time before transitioning to unblurred image data over a second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guhan Lakshminarayanan, Alexander Bruce Gentles, Naushirwan Navroze Patuck, Christopher Hong-Wen Tserng, Vinod Kancharla Prasad, Reto Koradi, Kunal Patel
  • Camera-level image processing
    Patent number: 10510153
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for performing image processing at a camera-level. For example, a camera service may run on top of a camera hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and may be configured to perform image processing such as applying a blurring algorithm, applying a color filter and/or other video effects. An application may pass metadata to the camera service via an application programming interface (API) and the camera service may use the metadata to determine parameters for the image processing. The camera service may apply the blurring algorithm for a first period of time before transitioning to unblurred image data over a second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Bruce Gentles, Naushirwan Navroze Patuck, Christopher Hong-Wen Tserng, Vinod Kancharla Prasad, Reto Koradi, Guhan Lakshminarayanan, Kunal Patel