Imaging System Patents (Class 250/370.08)
  • Patent number: 11874177
    Abstract: An image display device generates a temperature information image indicating, by a numerical value, a temperature of each pixel contained in a predetermined area including a position on a thermal image specified by a user, and causes a display to display the temperature information image while a temperature of a pixel corresponding to the position specified is displayed at a center of the temperature information image. The image display device sets a temperature range that has a predetermined temperature width and a center which is a temperature of a pixel corresponding to a position the temperature information image specified by the user, updates the temperature-color conversion information based on the set temperature range, regenerates the thermal image and the temperature information image based on the temperature-color conversion information updated, and causes the display to display the regenerated thermal image and the regenerated temperature information image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Nakamura, Ryuichi Okamoto, Masaki Mukai
  • Patent number: 11809161
    Abstract: A system for determining a light intensity field for use in manufacturing a 3D object from a volume of material. The system receives a 3D specification of a 3D geometry for the 3D object that specifies voxels within the volume that contain material that is to be part of the 3D object. The system employs a cost function for effectiveness of a light intensity field in manufacturing the 3D object. The cost function may be an adjoint of an Attenuated Radon Transform that models an energy dose that each voxel would receive during manufacture of the 3D object using the light intensity field. The system applies an optimization technique that employs the cost function to generate a measure of the effectiveness of possible light intensity fields and outputs an indication of a light intensity field that will be effective in manufacturing the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Maxim Shusteff, Kyle Champley, Erika Jo Fong, Hayden Taylor, Chi Chung Li, Trevor Rongey, Jr., Sui Man Luk, Heting Fu, Samira Feili, Joseph Toombs, Hossein Heidari
  • Patent number: 11808914
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present application discloses a method and equipment for transformation of point cloud coordinates of structure plane of deep-buried tunnel based on a target device. Before performing laser scanning on a measured surface, the embodiment of the present application makes the third plate surface close to the measured surface by adjusting the target device, and makes the bubbles of the first circular level and the second circular level in a centered state; respectively extracting point cloud coordinates of the three cross targets from the point cloud data, and acquiring the first tendency of the third plate surface from the digital display of three-dimensional electronic compass; determining the second tendency of the third plate surface according to the point cloud coordinates; converting the coordinates in the point cloud data to geodetic coordinates according to the first tendency and the second tendency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, South-Central Minzu University
    Inventors: Shili Qiu, Ping Li, Shaojun Li, Hao Zhang, Dingping Xu, Quan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11776673
    Abstract: A method includes capturing, by an image-capturing device, a one or more images of at least a portion of a pharmacy workstation. The method also includes identifying, by a processor in communication with the image capturing device, objects of interest in a first image of the one or more images and classifying, by the processor, the detected objects of interest using a convolutional neural network associated with the processor. The method also includes identifying, by the processor, a boundary defining an opening of a container in a second image of the one or more images. The method also includes updating, by the processor, an objects in container list based on a determination that at least one of the classified objects passed the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Myers, Ellen E. Seeser
  • Patent number: 11747947
    Abstract: A touch panel and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the touch panel includes a substrate, a first touch electrode line formed over the substrate and including a plurality of first touch electrodes which are electrically connected to each other, and a second touch electrode line formed to cross the first touch electrode line and being electrically insulated therefrom. The second touch electrode line can include a plurality of second touch electrodes which are electrically connected to each other. The touch panel can also include a plurality of connecting wires respectively connected to the first and second touch electrode lines. At least one of the first touch electrode line, the second touch electrode line, and the connecting wires can include at least one photosensitive conductive layer having a metal nanowire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Han Bae, Sung Ku Kang, Jin Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11670663
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an image sensing integrated chip. The image sensing integrated chip includes a semiconductor substrate having sidewalls defining one or more trenches on opposing sides of a region of the semiconductor substrate. One or more dielectrics are disposed within the one or more trenches. The semiconductor substrate has a plurality of flat surfaces arranged between the one or more trenches. Adjacent ones of the plurality of flat surfaces define a plurality of triangular shaped protrusions and alternative ones of the plurality of flat surfaces are substantially parallel to one another, as viewed along a cross-sectional view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tung-Ting Wu, Jhy-Jyi Sze, Yimin Huang
  • Patent number: 11619751
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a radiation detector comprising: an electronics layer comprising a first set of electric contacts and a second set of electric contacts; a radiation absorption layer configured to absorb radiation; a semiconductor substrate, portions of which extend into the radiation absorption layer in a direction of thickness thereof, the portions forming a first set of electrodes and a second set of electrodes; wherein the first set of electrodes and the second set of electrodes are interdigitated; wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises a p-n junction that separates first set of electrodes from the second set of electrodes; wherein the electronics layer and the semiconductor substrate are bonded such that the first set of electrodes are electrically connected to the first set of electric contacts and the second set of electrodes are electrically connected to the second set of electric contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11532652
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a counter electrode on the first surface; a first electrode on the second surface; a second electrode on the second surface, the second electrode being spaced from the first electrode; and an auxiliary electrode on the second surface between the first electrode and the second electrode. The auxiliary electrode is spaced from the first electrode and the second electrode, where a shortest distance between the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode is different from a shortest distance between the second electrode and the auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Takase, Takayoshi Yamada, Tokuhiko Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11527520
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a micro light emitting diode (LED) display device including a substrate having a plurality of thin film transistors thereon; a plurality of micro light emitting devices (LEDs) on an upper surface of the substrate, the micro LEDs each having a protecting film provided with a first contact hole to expose a portion of an upper surface of a corresponding micro LED; at least one insulating layer covering the micro LED, the insulating layer provided with a second contact hole to expose a portion of the upper surface of the corresponding micro LED; and a connection electrode in the first contact hole and the second contact hole configured to transfer signals to the micro LED, wherein the first contact hole is larger than the second contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Hwan Ju, Hyeon Ho Son, Jin Yeong Kim, Jung Eun Son, Hanchul Park, Hyunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11481883
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a switchgear includes: an infrared camera for acquiring an infrared image of a switchgear; a visible camera for acquiring a visible image of the switchgear; a processing unit; and an output unit. The processing unit maps a plurality of pixels in the visible image to a plurality of pixels in the infrared image. The plurality of pixels in the visible image includes a plurality of sub-sets of pixels, each sub-set including at least one pixel. Each sub-set of pixels in the visible image is mapped to a corresponding pixel in the infrared image. Each sub-set of pixels in the visible image and the corresponding pixel in the infrared image relates to image data of a same part of the switchgear. The processing unit determines a combined image from the plurality of pixels in the visible image mapped to the plurality of pixels in the infrared image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Stephan Wildermuth, Aydin Boyaci
  • Patent number: 11424115
    Abstract: The disclosure provides multimode configurable spectrometers, a method of operating a multimode configurable spectrometer, and an optical monitoring system. In one embodiment the multimode configurable spectrometer includes: (1) an optical sensor configured to receive an optical input and convert the optical input to electrical signals, wherein the optical sensor includes multiple active pixel regions for converting the optical input to the electrical signals, and (2) conversion circuitry, having multiple selectable converting circuits, that is configured to receive and convert the electrical signals to a digital output according to a selected one of the selectable converting circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Verity Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Arlos Bullock, John D. Corless, Richard J. Daignault, Jr., Mark Anthony Meloni, Mike Whelan
  • Patent number: 11357459
    Abstract: The radiation imaging apparatus according to the present invention is a radiation imaging apparatus arranged to detect radiation and receive power in a non-contact manner, the radiation imaging apparatus including a control unit configured to stop at least one of the non-contact power reception of and the non-contact power supply to the radiation imaging apparatus depending on the state of the radiation imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiya Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11348963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a digital X-ray detector and a thin-film transistor array substrate for the same. Disclosed is a thin-film transistor array substrate for a digital X-ray detector in which deterioration of electrical characteristics of a thin-film transistors made of an oxide semiconductor may be reduced or minimized and aging of a PIN diode caused by external moisture may be reduced or minimized. Further, disclosed is a digital X-ray detector including the array substrate. To this end, the array substrate includes a second protective layer having a variety of patterns so as to cover at least a portion of the PIN diode but not to cover the thin-film transistor. The second protective layer includes SiNx. Thus, a de-hydrogenation path from the thin-film transistor may be secured and an external moisture barrier effect for the PIN diode may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungjune Kim, Youngjin Yi, Younghun Han, Youngyoung Chang
  • Patent number: 11311261
    Abstract: A nuclear image processing method is provided. The method includes the following steps: inputting a normalized standard space nuclear image; selecting a voxel of the normalized standard space nuclear image and collecting the values of the neighbor voxels to form a voxel value set; conducting a data augmentation algorithm to generate a voxel distribution function; calculating an expected value of the distribution and calculating a first standard deviation of the portion over the expected value and a second standard deviation of the portion lower than the expected value; repeating the above steps to calculate the expected value, the first standard deviation and the second standard deviation of the necessary voxels, so as to form an image standardization template set including expected value template, first standard deviation template and the second standard deviation template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN
    Inventors: Ho-Hui Hsieh, Yu-Ching Ni
  • Patent number: 11277559
    Abstract: In one example, an image sensor module comprises one or more covers having at least a first opening and a second opening, a first lens mounted in the first opening and having a first field of view (FOV) centered at a first axis having a first orientation, a second lens mounted in the second opening and having a second FOV centered at a second axis having a second orientation different from the first orientation, a first image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the first lens, and a second image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the second lens. The first image sensor and the second image sensor are configured to provide, based on the detected light, image data of a combined FOV larger than each of the first FOV and the second FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon Lasiter, Evgeni Gousev, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Russell Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kebin Li, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11269005
    Abstract: A device for converting electrical energy, including at least one switching-type semiconductor component, a cooling path for cooling the semiconductor component, and a device for determining a degradation of the cooling path based on a current having a predetermined current intensity that flows through the component. The device provides that the semiconductor component includes an optically active semiconductor material, which generates light having a brightness that is dependent on a temperature of the semiconductor component when the semiconductor component is traversed by current having a predetermined current intensity, and the device for determining the degradation includes a brightness sensor for recording the brightness of the generated light. The device has the advantage that the device for determining the degradation and the component are inherently galvanically isolated, and the degradation can be determined at a high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Homoth, Jonathan Winkler
  • Patent number: 11243313
    Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a pixel array including conversion elements arranged in rows and columns on an optically transparent substrate, signal lines that outputs a signal generated by the conversion elements and that extends in a column direction, a first scintillator disposed near a first surface of the substrate, and a second scintillator disposed near a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface. The conversion elements include first conversion elements and second conversion elements. A light shielding layer is disposed between the first scintillator and the second conversion elements such that an amount of light that is received by the second conversion elements from the first scintillator is smaller than that received by the first conversion elements. A number of columns of the conversion elements is equal to a number of the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuro Takenaka, Shoshiro Saruta
  • Patent number: 11239331
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate and a method of fabricating same are provided. The thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate, a light shielding layer disposed on the substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the light shielding layer, an active layer disposed on the buffer layer, and a gate insulating layer disposed on the active layer. The gate insulating layer includes a stacked structure including a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Qian Ma, Xingyu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11237046
    Abstract: A photoelectric detection circuit and a photoelectric detector are provided. The photoelectric detection circuit includes a first sub-circuit and a second sub-circuit. The first sub-circuit includes a first photoelectric sensing element, and the second sub-circuit includes a second photoelectric sensing element, and an electrical characteristic of the first photoelectric sensing element is substantially identical to an electrical characteristic of the second photoelectric sensing element, and the second photoelectric sensing element is shielded to prevent light from being incident on the second photoelectric sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongming Shi, Zhanjie Ma, Hui Tian, Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 11226404
    Abstract: A method for operating a hand-held laser distance measurement device for contactless distance measurement in a calibration mode is based on a method in which a laser distance measurement unit of the laser distance measurement device is used to emit laser radiation to a target point, a camera of the laser distance measurement device is used to acquire at least one image of at least one target environment of the target point, and a screen of the laser distance measurement device is used to output a display of the image overlaid with a marker of the target point. A parallax error in the display of the image overlaid with the marker of the target point is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Giesen, Stefan Noe
  • Patent number: 11137503
    Abstract: An optical element for a radiation imaging apparatus includes an objective lens and receives incident radiation. A scintillator that receives the radiation to emit fluorescence light with a longer wavelength than the radiation is formed unitarily on a radiation incidence side substrate face of a lens-form substrate included in the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventor: Takashi Kameshima
  • Patent number: 11112509
    Abstract: A multi-functional and multi-modality radiation detector (10) is provided. The radiation detector (10) comprises at least two detector units (12a, 12b) having photosensitive pixels (14) and at least one scintillation device (20) optically coupled to the photosensitive pixels (14). The detector units (12a, 12b) are arranged next to each other on a substrate foil (24). Therein, the scintillation devices (20) of the detector units (12a, 12b) are spaced apart from each other, such that the radiation detector (10) is bendable. This allows the radiation detector (10) to be used in many different geometrical configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11061223
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods of reducing distortion in an image displayed on a near-eye display. Described herein is a display system including a light assembly configured to generate source light for a display image, a distortion correcting optics assembly, and a mirror scanning system configured to receive pre-distorted and collimated light and reflect and scan the pre-distorted and collimated light to provide an image on an image plane. The distortion correcting optics assembly delivers pre-distorted and collimated light to the mirror scanning system, the mirror scanning system is configured to undistort the pre-distorted light and transmit an undistorted image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Byron Taylor, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 11043512
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, a circuit, and a pixel electrode. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area. The circuit is disposed in the display area. The circuit includes a plurality of conductive layers, and each conductive layer contacts a corresponding inorganic layer arranged directly below the each conductive layer. The pixel electrode is arranged over the circuit and is electrically connected to at least one of the conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghyun Lee, Deukjong Kim
  • Patent number: 11011583
    Abstract: An image sensor may include a photodiode within a semiconductor substrate and configured to sense light in an infrared wavelength spectrum of light, a photoelectric conversion device on the semiconductor substrate and configured to sense light in a visible wavelength spectrum of light, and a filtering element configured to selectively transmit at least a portion of the infrared wavelength spectrum of light and the visible wavelength spectrum of light. The filtering element may include a plurality of color filters on the photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device may include a pair of electrodes facing each other and a photoelectric conversion layer between the pair of electrodes and configured to selectively absorb light in a visible wavelength spectrum of light. The filtering element may be between the semiconductor substrate and the photoelectric conversion device and may selectively absorb the infrared light and selectively transmit the visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gae Hwang Lee, Dong-Seok Leem, Kwang Hee Lee, Sung Young Yun, Yong Wan Jin
  • Patent number: 10976257
    Abstract: A pixel circuit that includes: a substrate body having a channel influenced by an electric field; an aperture in communication with the channel for receiving a fluorescent light input and moving electrons through the substrate body; and a plurality of sampling devices adapted to be switched on simultaneously to sample the moving electrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Euisik Yoon, Jihyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10922855
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one artifact calibration coefficient is provided. The method may include obtaining preliminary projection values of a first object. The radiation rays may be detected by at least one radiation detector. The method may further include generating a preliminary image of the first object based on the preliminary projection values of the first object and generating calibrated projection values of the first object based on the preliminary image. The method may further include determining a relationship between the preliminary projection values and the calibrated projection values. The method may further include, for each of the at least one radiation detector, determining a location of the radiation detector and determining an artifact calibration coefficient corresponding to the radiation detector based on the relationship between the preliminary projection values and the calibrated projection values and the location of the radiation detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianwei Fu
  • Patent number: 10918352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for scatter correction in an X-ray image, the X-ray image (30, 40) having a superimposed structured pattern, the device (1) comprising: an X-ray image receiving element (10); a pattern remover (11); and a first subtraction module (12); wherein the X-ray image receiving element (10) is configured to receive an X-ray image (30, 40) comprising a superimposed structured pattern (31); wherein the pattern remover (11) is configured to remove the structured pattern (31) from the X-ray image (30, 40) resulting in a pattern corrected X-ray image (43); wherein the first subtraction module (12) is configured to subtract the pattern corrected X-ray image (33, 43) from the X-ray image (40) resulting in a structured pattern image (32, 42); and wherein a contrast measurement unit (13) is configured to apply a local structure contrast measurement function to the structured pattern image (32, 42) resulting in a structure contrast image (34, 44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Hanns-Ingo Maack
  • Patent number: 10917626
    Abstract: An active illumination range camera operable to determine distances to features in a scene, and comprising an illumination system and imaging system simultaneously controllable to provide a FOI and a FOV that coincide at, and are substantially coextensive with, a region of interest (ROI) in a portion of the scene and track the ROI as it moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Onur Can Akkaya, Arrigo Benedetti, Cyrus Bamji
  • Patent number: 10868082
    Abstract: An imaging panel generates an image based on scintillation light that is obtained from X-rays transmitted through an object. The imaging panel includes, in a terminal area, a terminal-first insulating film that is made of the same material as that of a first insulating film on a TFT, and is separated on a part of a first conductive layer so as to have an opening; a terminal-semiconductor layer is provided above the terminal-first insulating film, and is made of the same material as that of at least a part of semiconductor layers of a photoelectric conversion layer; and a second conductive layer made of the same material as that of a conductive film connected with a photoelectric conversion element, is provided on the terminal-semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with the first conductive layer in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsunori Misaki
  • Patent number: 10785439
    Abstract: An image sensor comprising one or more processors and/or circuitry which functions as: a plurality of pixels each of which detects photons incident during a predetermined exposure period, counts a number of the photons, and outputs a first count value; a calculator that calculates a second count value per unit time based on the exposure period and the first count value; and a corrector that acquires a correction coefficient based on the second count value and corrects a detection error of the first count value using the correction coefficient, wherein the corrector acquires a larger value as the correction coefficient in a case where the second count value is a first value than in a case where the second count value is a second value which is smaller than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Ikedo
  • Patent number: 10757355
    Abstract: A system that may include (a) a radiation source that is constructed and arranged to illuminate an object with radiation during consecutive time frames of microsecond-scale duration, wherein radiation emitted during one time frame differs by energy from radiation transmitted during an adjacent time frame; and (b) a CMOS sensor that may include a readout circuit and CMOS pixels. Each CMOS pixel may include a radiation sensing element and in-pixel memory elements. Different in-pixel memory elements are constructed and arranged to sample a state of the radiation sensing element during different time frames of the consecutive time frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TOWER SEMICONDUCTORS LTD.
    Inventors: Amos Fenigstein, Tomer Leitner
  • Patent number: 10706527
    Abstract: A correction method according to an embodiment includes illuminating an object to be inspected by using critical illumination by illumination light L11 generated by a light source 11, concentrating light from the object to be inspected illuminated by the illumination light L11 and acquiring image data of the object to be inspected by detecting the concentrated light by a first detector 23, concentrating part of the illumination light L11, and acquiring image data of a brightness distribution of the illumination light L11 by detecting the concentrated illumination light L11 by a second detector 33, and correcting the image data of the object to be inspected based on the image data of the brightness distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LASERTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunehito Kohyama, Haruhiko Kusunose, Kiwamu Takehisa, Hiroki Miyai, Itaru Matsugu
  • Patent number: 10697904
    Abstract: An X-ray apparatus includes a two-dimensional pixel array having rectangular pixels outputting an electrical signal responsively to an incident X-ray photon. This array has a row direction oblique to a scan direction. When viewing in the scan direction, a pixel group is provided solely or repeatedly, the pixel group being composed of “M rows × N pieces” of pixels (M is a positive integer equal to or larger than 1, N is a positive integer equal to or larger than 2, and M and N have a relationship of prime numbers). The pixel group occupies a quadrangle whose diagonal line is parallel with the scan direction. In a memory space, the frame data from the pixels are converted to frame data in a Cartesian coordinate system having a row direction which is in parallel with the scan direction and a column direction orthogonal to the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: JOB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Yamakawa, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Masashi Yamasaki, Masahiro Okada
  • Patent number: 10679450
    Abstract: A contact image sensor can illuminate a portion of a banknote with one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), capture an image of the portion of the banknote with illumination reflected from or transmitted through the banknote, and generate a digital output signal that represents the captured image. A controller board can receive the digital output signal, generate one or more LED control signals, each LED control signal including changes in voltage to indicate times to switch a light emitting diode on or off, direct the one or more LED control signals to the contact image sensor, bypass digital LED control circuitry that is included with the contact image sensor, and switch the one or more LEDs in the contact image sensor on or off at the times indicated by the respective light emitting diode control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Slavko Seremet, Elsabe Coetzer
  • Patent number: 10663748
    Abstract: A system and method for using a laser, including using a coherent light source to generate a beam having a dominant wavelength wl; and providing along the beam's light path, at least one optical element having a surface upon which the beam impinges, whose roughness is between D and ½ wl?D where D is double the tolerance of the laser's dominant wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MARADIN TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Matan Naftali, Inbal Herer, Adi Baram, Menashe Yehiel
  • Patent number: 10579852
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification device and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The fingerprint identification device comprises first gate lines and read signal lines. The first gate lines and the read signal lines intersect with each other to define a plurality of fingerprint identification units, and each fingerprint identification unit is provided with a photosensitive element and a first transistor. The photosensitive element includes a first electrode layer, and a first doped semiconductor layer, a second doped semiconductor layer and a second electrode layer which are sequentially positioned on a surface of the first electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changfeng Li, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Xiaoliang Ding, Weijie Zhao, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Lei Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Jun Long
  • Patent number: 10542234
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes solar cells, an accumulation portion that accumulates power generated by the solar cells, an electronic apparatus main body portion that is operated by using power accumulated in the accumulation portion, and an operation control circuit that performs control so that, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion increases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is started if the voltage of the accumulation portion exceeds a first threshold voltage, and, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion decreases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is stopped if the voltage of the accumulation portion is less than a second threshold voltage which is smaller than the first threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Matsuda, Tohru Fuse, Akihiko Naya, Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10531058
    Abstract: A method and assembly produce color images of a scene captured by an image sensor exposed to visible light as well as IR radiation. A first image is captured with a first proportion of an iris aperture covered by an IR-cut filter. A first amount of radiation captured in the first image is determined and a second image captured with a second proportion of the iris covered by the IR-cut filter. A second amount of radiation captured in the second image is determined and a proportion of IR radiation is calculated in the scene based on the first amount of light, the second amount of light, the first IR-cut filter proportion, and the second IR-cut filter proportion. An IR contribution is removed from an image by using the calculated proportion of IR radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Jonas Hjelmström, Stefan Lundberg, Ingemar Larsson
  • Patent number: 10514471
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed at a detector element that includes a conductive shield electrode, or shield electrode layer that can assist in reducing breakdown and also improve the reliability of the detector element. The detector element includes a substrate layer that supports at least two electrodes and a semiconducting layer. A shield electrode layer is deposited or patterned adjacent at least one of the two electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: KA IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Karim S. Karim, Sina Ghanbarzadeh
  • Patent number: 10504879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component with at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip, comprising: a connection substrate, which has an assembly surface and electric contact structures, and a plurality of structured semiconductor units, each of which has a plurality of monolithically connected pixels with a respective active layer that emits light during operation, wherein: the semiconductor units are arranged at a lateral distance to one another on the assembly surface, the distance between adjacent semiconductor units is at least 5 ?m and maximally 55 ?m, and the pixels can be controlled in an electrically separated manner. The invention also relates to a method for producing said component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Martin, Norwin Von Malm
  • Patent number: 10470739
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for imaging protocol management are disclosed and described. An example imaging protocol manager includes an orchestrator, a baseliner, and a protocol application. The example orchestrator is to trigger a pull of a first imaging protocol. The example baseliner is configured to at least: process the first imaging protocol; and evaluate the first imaging protocol in comparison to a second imaging protocol from a protocol library to identify the first imaging protocol as at least one of a matching protocol, a new protocol, or a deviation with respect to the second imaging protocol, the deviation to be identified when the first imaging protocol is a partial match to the second imaging protocol. When the deviation is identified, the example baseliner is configured to remediate the deviation. When the first imaging protocol is identified as new, the example baseliner is to trigger storage of the first imaging protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Balaji Raman, Amitabh Mukherjee, Sunil Bondalakunta, Brijesh Chenan, Sanoj R
  • Patent number: 10436638
    Abstract: A light receiver (50) is provided having a plurality of avalanche photodiode elements (10) that are each biased by a bias above a breakdown voltage and that are thus operated in a Geiger mode to trigger a Geiger current on light reception. The avalanche photodiode elements (10) have a first connector (20, 22, 28a-b) and a second connector (20, 22, 28a-b). A first signal tapping circuit (12) for reading out the avalanche photodiode elements is connected to one of the connectors (20, 22, 28a-b). In this respect, a second signal tapping circuit (12) for reading out the avalanche photodiode elements (10) is connected to the other connector (20, 22, 28a-b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Klaus Clemens, Gottfried Hug, Stefan Seitz
  • Patent number: 10363002
    Abstract: Base substance thickness projection estimation values (124) and base substance thickness projection estimation error values (125) of M (M?N) base substances are estimated based on measured count projection values (121) using N energy windows for a subject. The base substance thickness projection estimated values (124) are updated such that a likelihood in accordance with a joint probability density of all of X-ray projection paths based on the base substance thickness projection estimated error values (125) increases. The obtained second base substance thickness projection assumed value (127) is subjected to back projection, thereby obtaining a base substance concentration image estimation value (128).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuma Yokoi
  • Patent number: 10359692
    Abstract: A laser illumination system and a method for eliminating laser speckles thereof are revealed. The laser illumination system includes laser module emitting a laser beam, a scanning unit for scanning the laser beam to form scanning beams, and a diffractive optical element which the scanning beams are passed through to form illuminating beams that are projected to an area to be illuminated or an object. Thus an image detecting unit can capture an image of the area or the object. The scanning beams are converted into the illuminating beams by the diffractive optical element that causes changes in spatial phase redistribution or light energy distribution thereof. One point in the area or on the object shows energy of partial light of at least two of the laser beams. Thus a laser speckle of the image can be eliminated by the superposition of the energy of the partial light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiao Chen
  • Patent number: 10335110
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing system includes the following. A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a two-dimensional array of radiation detecting elements and a control circuit which controls reading of image data from each of the radiation detecting elements based on a predetermined capturing sequence. An image processor has first gain data to correct gains of the radiation detecting elements, and generates a radiographic image based on the corrected image data. The control circuit of the radiographic image capturing apparatus is capable of varying at least one of a reverse bias voltage and a signal line voltage to be applied to the corresponding signal line. The control circuit reads a signal value from each of the radiation detecting elements, creates second gain data based on the read signal value, and corrects the radiographic image with the first gain data and the second gain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Kawana, Hideaki Tajima, Shugo Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 10314557
    Abstract: A radiography apparatus and a method for controlling the radiography apparatus are provided. The radiography apparatus includes a radiographer configured to acquire a first radiation image of a subject before a contrast reagent is injected into the subject, and acquire a second radiation image of the subject after the contrast reagent is injected into the subject. The radiography apparatus further includes an image processor configured to calculate a difference between data of a pixel of the first radiation image and data of a pixel of the second radiation image, for each of pixels of the first radiation image, and acquire an image of the subject based the difference for each of the pixels of the first radiation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Min Han, Dong-Goo Kang, Young Hun Sung
  • Patent number: 10278665
    Abstract: A method controls an X-ray apparatus which contains a base station and at least one X-ray detector, wherein status information about the at least one X-ray detector is obtained. The status information is deposited in a database of the base station and the X-ray apparatus is controlled on the basis of the status information from the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Benndorf, Franziska Dinse, Michael Fuhrmann, Jens Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10271814
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a changing unit which changes the sequence of a plurality of imaging examination information, based on a user operation, displayed based on an imaging sequence on an imaging control screen, and a control unit which controls at least one of a radiation detector and a radiation generation unit which are associated with imaging examination information as an imaging target based on the sequence changed by the changing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 10274618
    Abstract: A radiography apparatus includes: a radiation detector that includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a thin film transistor and which are two-dimensionally arranged, and data lines through which charge accumulated in the connected pixels is transmitted as an electric signal; and a first sample-and-hold unit and a second sample-and-hold unit that sample and hold the electric signal transmitted through the data line. In a case in which the charge accumulated in the pixel is read out, the radiography apparatus performs control such that the thin film transistor is turned off and the first sample-and-hold unit samples and holds a first electric signal transmitted through the data line; and the thin film transistor is turned on and the second sample-and-hold unit samples and holds a second electric signal transmitted through the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Nakamura