Size Change Patents (Class 348/581)
  • Patent number: 11941780
    Abstract: Machine learning is used to generate a first mipmap of a texture having a first compression based on a second mipmap of the same texture and having a second compression without using compression or decompression in generating the first mipmap. The first mipmap can then be used to render a computer graphics object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Joshua Scott Hobson
  • Patent number: 11928581
    Abstract: A method of compressing kernels comprising detecting a plurality of replicated kernels. The plurality of replicated kernels comprise kernels. The method also comprises generating a composite kernel from the replicated kernels. The composite kernel comprises kernel data and meta data indicative of the rotations applied to the composite kernel data. The method also comprises storing a composite kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Daren Croxford, Jayavarapu Srinivasa Rao, Sharjeel Saeed
  • Patent number: 11889131
    Abstract: Disclosed are a video processing device, a video processing method, a monitor apparatus, a computer device, and a computer-readable medium. The video processing device includes: a receiver, a normalization processor, a selector and an image processor. The receiver is configured to receive an original video image. The normalization processor includes a plurality of normalization sub-circuits each configured to perform format adjustment on the original video image to generate a video image in a target format. Different normalization sub-circuits perform the format adjustment in different manners. The selector is configured to output the video image generated by at least one of the normalization sub-circuits to the image processor according to a received selection instruction; and the image processor is configured to generate an image to be displayed from the received video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Congrui Wu, Xitong Ma
  • Patent number: 11842572
    Abstract: Device, system, and method of computer vision, object tracking, and image analysis; particularly suitable or configured for analysis of images or videos of tennis. A device includes two adjacent and co-located cameras, oriented at an angle of 20 to 120 degrees relative to each other, capturing a combined field-of-view that covers at least 75 percent of an entirety of a tennis court. A processor analyzes the captured images or video using computer-vision algorithms, and detects a ball bounce event and its properties. Insights are generated with regard to the performance of one or more of the participating players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BASELINE VISION LTD.
    Inventor: Michael Chojnacki
  • Patent number: 11831948
    Abstract: Provided are an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics cognitive functions, such as cognition and judgment, of the human brain using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning and applications thereof. More particularly, provided is a device including a memory storing least one program and a first video, a display, and at least one processor configured to display the first video on at least one portion of the display by executing the at least one program, wherein the at least one program includes instructions for: comparing an aspect ratio of the first video with an aspect ratio of an area in which the first video is to be displayed, generating a second video corresponding to the aspect ratio of the area by using the first video when the aspect ratio of the first video is different from the aspect ratio of the area, and displaying the second video in the area, wherein the generating of the second video is performed by inputting at least one frame of the first video to an AI neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chanwon Seo, Yehoon Kim, Sojung Yun
  • Patent number: 11722631
    Abstract: A camera system captures an image in a source aspect ratio and applies a transformation to the input image to scale and warp the input image to generate an output image having a target aspect ratio different than the source aspect ratio. The output image has the same field of view as the input image, maintains image resolution, and limits distortion to levels that do not substantially affect the viewing experience. In one embodiment, the output image is non-linearly warped relative to the input image such that a distortion in the output image relative to the input image is greater in a corner region of the output image than a center region of the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Woodman, Sumit Chawla, Loic Segapelli, Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 11570367
    Abstract: A method for displaying an intelligent zoom recommendation in an electronic device includes displaying a scene comprising a plurality of objects in a preview frame of at least one imaging sensor of the electronic device. The method also includes determining a preference for each of the objects by mapping each of the objects into a preference database of the electronic device. The method further includes determining a position of each of the objects in the preview frame of the at least one imaging sensor of the electronic device. Additionally, the method includes selecting at least one object from the plurality of objects based on the preference and the position of each of the objects. The method also includes displaying at least one graphical indication to zoom the at least one selected object in the preview frame of the at least one imaging sensor of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Santhosh Kumar Banadakoppa Narayanaswamy, Kiran Nanjunda Iyer, Sai Krishna Kasibhotla, Biplab Ch Das, Moneish Kumar
  • Patent number: 11457273
    Abstract: Provided are an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics cognitive functions, such as cognition and judgment, of the human brain using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning and applications thereof. More particularly, provided is a device including a memory storing least one program and a first video, a display, and at least one processor configured to display the first video on at least one portion of the display by executing the at least one program, wherein the at least one program includes instructions for: comparing an aspect ratio of the first video with an aspect ratio of an area in which the first video is to be displayed, generating a second video corresponding to the aspect ratio of the area by using the first video when the aspect ratio of the first video is different from the aspect ratio of the area, and displaying the second video in the area, wherein the generating of the second video is performed by inputting at least one frame of the first video to an AI neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chanwon Seo, Yehoon Kim, Sojung Yun
  • Patent number: 11412180
    Abstract: One example method includes joining, using a computing device, a video conference hosted by a video conference provider, the video conference having a plurality of participants; accessing, by the computing device, presentation content during the video conference, the presentation content comprising one or more content items and one or more video filters, at least one of the one or more video filters corresponding to one of the content items; receiving a selection of a first item of the one or more content items; accessing a first video filter of the one or more video filters, the first video filter corresponding to the content item; receiving a video feed from a video source; generating a composite video feed comprising the first content item and the first video feed, the composite video feed based on the video filter; and providing, via the video conference provider, the composite video feed to one or more video conference participants via the video conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Ross Mayfield
  • Patent number: 11412294
    Abstract: Provided are an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics cognitive functions, such as cognition and judgment, of the human brain using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning and applications thereof. More particularly, provided is a device including a memory storing least one program and a first video, a display, and at least one processor configured to display the first video on at least one portion of the display by executing the at least one program, wherein the at least one program includes instructions for: comparing an aspect ratio of the first video with an aspect ratio of an area in which the first video is to be displayed, generating a second video corresponding to the aspect ratio of the area by using the first video when the aspect ratio of the first video is different from the aspect ratio of the area, and displaying the second video in the area, wherein the generating of the second video is performed by inputting at least one frame of the first video to an AI neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chanwon Seo, Yehoon Kim, Sojung Yun
  • Patent number: 11330195
    Abstract: A video capturing system for a sporting event includes a master clock; a plurality of cameras; and a logging device. The plurality of cameras are arranged to capture different views of participants of the sporting event. Each of the plurality of cameras is configured to capture video of participants of the sporting event. Each of the plurality of cameras includes a clock for tracking time. A logging device includes a processor, a memory, and a clock. The clock of the logging device is time-synchronized with the clocks of the plurality of cameras and the master clock. The logging device is electronically communicable with the plurality of cameras to at least time synchronize the clocks of the plurality of cameras and the master clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Mark Griswold
  • Patent number: 11321378
    Abstract: When retrieving information relating to another user of a different SNS, the CVR of an SNS can be effectively increased by displaying a social graph. According to the invention, by means of a social graph display program (API), user identifying information corresponding to user-to-user relationship information meeting predetermined conditions can be extracted by searching a database of information related to the other users of application programs A-C, in accordance with identifying information of a user A who has made a friend request. Thus the application program A displays, as candidates for the friend request, users corresponding to user identifying information returned from the social graph display program (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji Yanashima, Yoshinobu Kinugasa
  • Patent number: 11132163
    Abstract: Rotation between landscape and portrait modes or vice versa may be supported in wireless display interfaces coupled to a platform by having the platform sense rotation change in the platform or in the display. This enables counter rotation of the frame buffer or rotated rendering of the content to ensure that content is presented upright to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Srikanth Kambhatla
  • Patent number: 11037518
    Abstract: A display driver is disclosed that includes: an external interface circuit having input modes as interface modes to input display data. The display driver keeps the scan driving of a display panel stopped during a predetermined period until the driving of the display panel by display data input in the interface mode after switching is enabled in case that the interface mode of the external interface circuit is switched in the middle of driving the display panel based on display data input through the external interface circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Go Toyoda, Takashi Nose, Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Akihito Kumamoto
  • Patent number: 11024012
    Abstract: An electronic device may include scaling circuitry to scale input pixel data to a greater resolution. The directional scaling circuitry may include first interpolation circuitry to receive best mode data, including one or more angles corresponding to content of the image and interpolate first pixel values at first pixel positions diagonally offset from input pixel positions of the input pixel data based on the best mode data and input pixel values corresponding to the input pixel positions. The directional scaling circuitry may also include second interpolation circuitry to receive the best mode data and the input pixel values and interpolate second pixel values at second pixel positions horizontally or vertically offset from the input pixel positions based at least in part on the best mode data and the input pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Yun Gong
  • Patent number: 11010946
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to detect a location to place an advertisement in a media asset, the method comprising, identifying a plurality of points in a video frame of a media asset, detecting a color associated with each point of the plurality of points, calculating a change in color between each point of the plurality of points, comparing the change in color between each point of the plurality of points with a threshold, identifying, based on the comparing, an area within the frame that constitutes a surface; and selecting an advertisement to be placed on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Susanto Sen, Radhika Dewan, Vikram Makam Gupta
  • Patent number: 10943330
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to an image processing apparatus comprising a filter to convert a first image data signal into an output image data signal. The filter is configured to resample the first image data signal, having a first sample rate, by a resampling factor, such that the output image data signal has an output sample rate that is different to the first sample rate. The filter is also configured to apply a phase alteration to the first image data signal to compensate a group delay in the first image data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apical Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexey Kornienko, Yury Khrustalev
  • Patent number: 10937174
    Abstract: An image processing device is an image processing device configured to edit and output a video having been input. The image processing device includes a feature portion detecting unit configured to detect a feature portion from a frame incorporated in the video having been input, and a setting unit and an image generating unit configured to cause a playback speed of a frame incorporated in the video having been input and including the feature portion detected to be different from a playback speed of a frame including no feature portion detected, and output the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nao Tokui, Ryuhji Kitaura
  • Patent number: 10923116
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for placing secondary content into a break of unknown duration in a stream of primary content. In one aspect the described techniques may include receiving information indicative of a break in streaming of the primary content, such as metadata data that is inserted into the stream of primary content, for example, on a client device. A duration of the stream of the primary content may be obtained. Secondary content may be played, for example during a break in the streaming of the primary content. Upon detecting that the duration of the stream of the primary content has increased to a second duration, for example, in response to the client device receiving additional primary content, the primary content may be streamed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Patent number: 10911708
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including an image pickup device provided in an insertion portion, and configured to pick up an image of a subject to output a binary image signal; a multilevel modulation unit configured to output, through a predetermined transmission path, a multilevel signal obtained by performing multilevel modulation on the binary image signal; and a memory configured to store endoscope information on signal transmission; and a processor including a multilevel demodulation unit configured to receive the multilevel signal through the predetermined transmission path, and obtain and output the binary image signal by multilevel demodulation; and a controller configured to read the endoscope information from the memory, and determine a multilevel number in the multilevel modulation by the multilevel modulation unit based on the endoscope information read to control the multilevel modulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 10796409
    Abstract: An application processor includes a reconfigurable hardware scaler which includes dedicated circuits configured to perform different scaling techniques, respectively and a shared circuit configured to be shared by the dedicated circuits. One of the different scaling techniques is performed by one of the dedicated circuits and the shared circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Chul Yoon, Ha Na Yang
  • Patent number: 10679542
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for detecting a presentation of media content on a display device are provided. In accordance with some implementations, methods for detecting a presentation of media content on a display device are provided, the methods comprising: detecting, using a light sensor, light levels in the light sensor's surroundings; generating a signal representing the light levels; detecting, using a hardware processor, at least one variation in light levels indicative of a presentation of a video scene based on the signal; detecting at least one variation in light levels indicative of a scene change subsequent to the video scene based on the signal; and determining that media content is being presented on a display device in response to detecting the variation in light levels indicative of the presentation of the video scene and the variation in light levels indicative of the scene change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Zbigniew Skolicki
  • Patent number: 10594623
    Abstract: Systems and methods to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers. A bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage is formed based on the established and executed market-driven variable price offering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li
  • Patent number: 10567655
    Abstract: A method for extracting vibrational modes of a structure includes: receiving a plurality of video frames, each of the video frames including a plurality of pixels; decomposing each of the video frames on a plurality of spatial scales in accordance with complex steerable pyramid filters to obtain a filter response for each of the spatial scales; computing a plurality of local phases of the pixels of each frame; removing a temporal mean from each frame to obtain a plurality of factored vibration motion functions; performing principal component analysis on the factored vibration motion functions to obtain principal components; blind source separating the principal components to compute a plurality of modal coordinates; computing frequency and damping ratios in accordance with the modal coordinates; and outputting the computed frequency and damping ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Yongchao Yang, Garrett Kenyon, Charles Farrar, David Mascarenas
  • Patent number: 10558700
    Abstract: When retrieving information relating to another user of a different SNS, the CVR of an SNS can be effectively increased by displaying a social graph. According to the invention, by means of a social graph display program (API), user identifying information corresponding to user-to-user relationship information meeting predetermined conditions can be extracted by searching a database of information related to the other users of application programs A-C, in accordance with identifying information of a user A who has made a friend request. Thus the application program A displays, as candidates for the friend request, users corresponding to user identifying information returned from the social graph display program (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji Yanashima, Yoshinobu Kinugasa
  • Patent number: 10528315
    Abstract: Rotation between landscape and portrait modes or vice versa may be supported in wireless display interfaces coupled to a platform by having the platform sense rotation change in the platform or in the display. This enables counter rotation of the frame buffer or rotated rendering of the content to ensure that content is presented upright to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Srikanth Kambhatla
  • Patent number: 10319337
    Abstract: An information processing device capable of connecting to a display device using a function expansion unit includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: calculate a data transfer rate of the display device from a resolution to be used in the display device; and display, based on a data transfer rate at a given resolution calculated by the calculation unit, a ratio of the data transfer rate of the display device to an allowable data transfer rate, so as to be visibly recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited
    Inventor: Noriyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 10261939
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one embodiment, a processor system is disclosed having a SIMD processor device that has a plurality of subsidiary processing elements that are controlled to process multiple data concurrently. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the SIMD processor is a vector processor (VPU) having a plurality of vector Arithmetic Units (AUs) as subsidiary processing elements, and the VPU executes an instruction to transfer table information from a global memory of the VPU to a plurality of local memories accessible by each AU. The VPU also executes an instruction that results in each processing element performing a table lookup from a table stored at its local memory. In response to the instruction, this table lookup uses a portion of a lookup value to access information from the table, and uses another portion of the lookup information to calculate an interpolated resultant based upon the accessed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo G. Dehner, Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath, Peter Z. Rashev
  • Patent number: 10230970
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method of video processing is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo A. Rodriguez, Anil Kumar Katti, Hsiang-Yeh Hwang
  • Patent number: 10194389
    Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus including a first processor configured to acquire sensor data from at least one sensor, wherein the first processor provides the acquired sensor data and a cycle information to a second processor, and wherein the cycle information includes information indicating a sampling cycle corresponding to a timing at which the sensor data is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Suga
  • Patent number: 10037592
    Abstract: A system and method for improving the detail of an input digital signal, such as a signal comprising a two dimensional image, can be implemented by computing first and second order gradients of the input signal. These gradients can be represented as quaternions. The logarithm of the quaternions can be used to determine the magnitude and orientation of gradient vectors in the input signal. This gradient magnitude and gradient orientation information can be used to construct an output digital signal that has greater detail than the input digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Mindaptiv LLC
    Inventors: John J Kolb, V, Kenneth Granville
  • Patent number: 10037325
    Abstract: When retrieving information relating to another user of a different SNS, the CVR of an SNS can be effectively increased by displaying a social graph. According to the invention, by means of a social graph display program (API), user identifying information corresponding to user-to-user relationship information meeting predetermined conditions can be extracted by searching a database of information related to the other users of application programs A-C, in accordance with identifying information of a user A who has made a friend request. Thus the application program A displays, as candidates for the friend request, users corresponding to user identifying information returned from the social graph display program (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji Yanashima, Yoshinobu Kinugasa
  • Patent number: 9916639
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating enhanced display characteristics based on viewer state are provided. A media device may process an indication of a first state of a first viewer of a display device that is coupled to the media device. The indication of the first state of the first viewer may be captured at a time corresponding to the display device displaying first content with a first set of one or more size characteristics. The media device may determine a display adjustment based at least in part on the indication of the first state of the first viewer. The media device may cause the display device to display second content in accordance with the display adjustment so that the display device displays at least a portion of the second content with a second set of one or more size characteristics that is different from the first set of one or more size characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Andrew Thurling
  • Patent number: 9843812
    Abstract: A video transmission system and the method of operation thereof includes: a video transmission unit for receiving a first video frame from an input device, the first video frame having base frame parameters; dividing a color gamut into uniform regions for collecting color data from pixels of the base frame parameters; collecting pixel statistics from each of the uniform regions from the base frame parameters; determining chroma partition coordinates from the pixel statistics; deriving a search pattern of search points based on the chroma partition coordinates; and selecting the search point from the search pattern for color mapping of the first video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Cheung Auyeung
  • Patent number: 9786034
    Abstract: A method of scaling image data, includes receiving image data at a processor in at least two channels, the image data having a first resolution for the a channel and a second, lower resolution for other channels, using known pixel values of the first resolution pixels to generate an interpolation function to be applied to second resolution pixels co-located with a subset of the first resolution pixels, and applying the interpolation function to the second resolution pixels to find the unknown pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Pixelworks, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil Woodall
  • Patent number: 9781469
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium having computer instructions to present a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, and cause the single presentation device to present a user interface for one of the plurality of unassociated media programs responsive to detecting a request for the user interface. Each of the plurality of unassociated media programs can be viewable only with a viewing apparatus. The viewing apparatus can be configured for viewing one of the unassociated media programs at a time. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventors: Troy C. Meuninck, William A. Brown, Nadia Morris, Virginia Ng, James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Patent number: 9723393
    Abstract: A wireless headset receives audio data wirelessly from a television receiver and outputs audio to the user through earphones. The wireless headset includes an inertial sensor that detects an orientation of the user's head. If the orientation of the user's head indicates that the user is sleeping, then wireless headset turns off the wireless receiver, thereby saving battery life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Phuc H. Nguyen, Christopher William Bruhn
  • Patent number: 9723257
    Abstract: Video conversion technology, in which a first stream of video content is accessed and multiple, different layers are extracted from the first stream of the video content. Each of the multiple, different layers are separately processed to convert the multiple, different layers into modified layers that each have a higher resolution. The modified layers are reassembled into a second stream of the video content that has a higher resolution than the first stream of the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: William Evans Butterworth, Roger Raymond Dwinell, Valerie McMahon
  • Patent number: 9710046
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a power saving method thereof. The power saving method of a display apparatus includes acquiring an image by photographing surroundings of the display apparatus, detecting a human body region contained in the image by analyzing the acquired image, and entering a power saving mode by determining there is no user viewing the display apparatus if the human body region is not detected in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Woo Woo, Jun Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 9684948
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating enhanced display characteristics based on viewer state are provided. A media device may process an indication of a first state of a first viewer of a display device that is coupled to the media device. The indication of the first state of the first viewer may be captured at a time corresponding to the display device displaying first content with a first set of one or more size characteristics. The media device may determine a display adjustment based at least in part on the indication of the first state of the first viewer. The media device may cause the display device to display second content in accordance with the display adjustment so that the display device displays at least a portion of the second content with a second set of one or more size characteristics that is different from the first set of one or more size characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ECHOSTAR UK HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventor: Andrew Thurling
  • Patent number: 9639936
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that is capable of storing a look-up table having association information for associating at least one first image with at least one second image that is different from the first image, a constraint condition storage unit that is capable of storing a constraint condition, which is to be satisfied by at least one of an input image, the association information and an output image, an image accepting unit that accepts at least one image, a mapping unit that acquires at least one second image associated with the at least one image accepted by the image accepting unit, so as to match the constraint condition, using the association information, and an image output unit that outputs an output image configured by the at least one second image acquired by the mapping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: I-CUBED RESERACH CENTER INC.
    Inventor: Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 9477965
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatic detection of insertion zones within pre-recorded video material are provided. The apparatus includes a video analysis unit configured to automatically determine at least one candidate insertion zone within the pre-recorded video material suitable for receiving additional material to be inserted and configured to generate zone meta data defining attributes of the insertion zone, and an insertion module configured to receive additional material for insertion and arranged to generate an output representative of the pre-recorded video material with the additional material placed on an insertion zone such that the additional material adopts the image attributes of the insertion zone as the pre-recorded video material is played. The automatic determination of at least one insertion zone is based on one or more of feature shape, size, duration, movement, color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MirriAd Advertising Limited
    Inventors: Mark Popkiewicz, Janko Mrsic-Flogel, Philip McLauchlan
  • Patent number: 9471217
    Abstract: A display management method and system of a mobile terminal that provides the user with indications of the currently running applications and activation and deactivation progresses of the applications. A first execution screen of a first application is displayed, and an input signal is detected for activating a second application. A second execution screen is displayed corresponding to the second application in response to the input signal. The second execution screen includes at least one of a first intermediate image obtained by downsizing an image contained within the first execution screen, a second intermediate image obtained by downsizing an image contained within the second execution screen, and a task window containing at least the downsized first and second intermediate images in a sequential order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Woo Shin, Bong Won Lee, In Won Jong, Paihonensami Viktor
  • Patent number: 9424624
    Abstract: Systems and methods for upscaling graphics resolution are provided. The systems and methods may selectively upscale graphics frames having a first resolution to a second resolution by various scaling methods. Depending on a variety of factors, at least a first mode of upscaling and a second mode of upscaling may provide for improved upscaling on a variety of graphics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Hayden Wyman, Jaewon Shin
  • Patent number: 9401007
    Abstract: An image providing system includes: a terminal to run at least one application, to request an image from a service device, to determine whether the application supports all screen densities, to extract and transmit a resolution value of an area for displaying the image when all screen densities are supported, and to extract and transmit screen density information supported in the application when not all screen densities are supported; a service device to resize the image to match at least one resolution, to check a resolution value of the terminal and provide the image resized to match the checked resolution value to the terminal when the image is requested from the terminal, and when only screen density information is transmitted from the terminal, to calculate a resolution value from the screen density information and provide the image resized to match the calculated resolution value to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Mok Sohn
  • Patent number: 9311695
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided including the steps of generating a first band image through high-pass filter processing to a source image having an image of a subject falling thereon; generating a reduction image through reduction of the source image; performing low-pass filter processing to the reduction image to generate a low-pass image; magnifying the low-pass image to generate a magnified low-pass image; generating a second band image based on the source image, the first band image, and the magnified low-pass image; generating a third band image through performing of band-pass filter processing to the reduction image; and performing image processing to the source image with each of the band images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wataru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9215380
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a storage unit that stores therein output control information used for setting an output environment of an external output device; a detecting unit that acquires information indicating the output environment of the external output device; a first control unit that determines the output environment acquired by the detecting unit by referring to the output control information stored in the storage unit; and a second control unit that operates the external output device in accordance with the output environment determined by the first control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Patent number: 9105112
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to power management within an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, a display buffer receives image data through a data transfer interconnect. A data transfer interconnect is powered down based on the received image data being greater than a threshold amount of data. The display buffer transmits at least a portion of the image data to one or more outputs, and in response to the transmitting, the data transfer interconnect is powered up. In some embodiments, the display buffer includes a plurality of line buffers, each configured to store a respective image source line. In such an embodiment, a display pipe configured to render images to be displayed includes the display buffer, and the powering down is performed in response to the received image data including two or more image source lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Holland, Hao Chen, Albert Kuo
  • Patent number: 9091854
    Abstract: A micro mirror structure and a projection apparatus using the same are provided. The micro mirror structure suitable for being used in a digital micro mirror device of a projection apparatus. The micro mirror structure includes a micro mirror, a pair of main posts and a pair of landing posts. The micro mirror is configured to swing about a swinging hinge, wherein the swinging hinge is extended along a first axis parallel to a first side of the micro mirror and the length of the swinging hinge is greater than the length of the first side of the micro mirror. The main posts are respectively disposed on two opposite ends of the swinging hinge for supporting the swinging hinge and the micro mirror. The pair of landing posts are respectively disposed at two opposing sides of swinging hinge along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuet-Wing Li, Kuan-Hsu Fan-Chiang
  • Patent number: 9001274
    Abstract: An image processing method for processing an input image is provided. The image processing method includes: performing a plurality of first imaging processing operations on the input image to generate a first image; and performing a plurality of second imaging processing operations on the first image. Each of the first imaging processing operations is along a first direction, and the plurality of first imaging processing operations include a first scaling operation for increasing resolution. Each of the second imaging processing operations is along a second direction different from the first direction, and the plurality of second imaging processing operations include a second scaling operation for increasing resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Teng-Yi Lin, Wei-Fu Chen, Wei-Jen Lo