View-finder (epo) Patents (Class 348/E5.047)
  • Patent number: 11750918
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for assisting in positioning a camera at different zoom levels. An example device may include a memory configured to store image data. The example device may further include a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being configured to process a first image stream associated with a scene, independently process a second image stream associated with a spatial portion of the scene wherein the second image stream is different from the first image stream, output the processed first image stream, and output during output of the processed first image stream a visual indication that indicates the spatial portion associated with the second image stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Cullum Baldwin, Pasi Parkkila
  • Patent number: 11632516
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MFIB Holdco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Qi Shan
  • Patent number: 10641586
    Abstract: A protection device for a laser system having at least one active laser and having at least one beam guide. Eye safety and/or protection for an exposed person is achieved using at least one additional laser as a warning laser which, operating in a visible spectral range, is used shortly before the active laser is used, and which, can cause at least one person to close his or her eyes and/or change his or her viewing direction away from the receptor point of the active laser beam on a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Jung, Thomas Riesbeck, Thomas Baumgaertel
  • Patent number: 10419674
    Abstract: An imaging device detects a shake detection signal and an amount of motion of an image within a photography screen when a panning assist mode is set. A search range of a face detection position of a subject is set, and a process of changing a calculation process of a subject vector is performed based on a face detection result. If the face detection position of the subject is acquired, a first calculation process in which a subject vector is calculated from motion vectors within a first detection range based on the face detection position is performed. If the face detection position of the subject is not acquired and a subject vector can be detected, a second calculation process n which a subject vector is calculated from the motion vectors within a second detection range based on a focus detection frame set within the photography screen is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10049094
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal including: a camera; a touch screen; and a controller that outputs to the touch screen a keypad that includes at least one graphic object of a first graphic object in conjunction with an optical character reader (OCR) function relating to the camera and a second graphic object in conjunction with a photographing function relating to the camera, in which the first and second graphic objects are together displayed on the keypad or one graphic object of the first and second graphic objects is displayed on the keypad, and in which, in a case where one graphic object of the first and second graphic objects is displayed on the keypad, based on application of a predetermined-type touch to the one graphic object, the controller changes one graphic object to the other graphic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Seol, Soyeon Yim
  • Patent number: 9990955
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus having an image sensing unit and a particular operation unit controls so as to start or to stop, in a case where the first recording mode is set, in accordance with an operation on the particular operation unit, a recording to a recording medium of a moving image captured by the imaging unit, and to control so as to record, in a case where the second recording mode is set, in accordance with an operation on the particular operation unit, while continuing recording to the recording medium of a moving image captured by the imaging unit, information indicating a start of a scene which is a portion of the moving image being recorded, or information indicating an end of a scene which is a portion of the moving image being recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michinori Nakajima, Koichi Okada, Kurumi Mori
  • Patent number: 9910335
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of pixel electrodes on a side of the first substrate facing towards the liquid crystal layer. Liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in a region corresponding to each of the plurality pixel electrodes are in a polymer network state, and the more a distance between the each of the plurality of pixel electrodes and a light source of an edge-lighting type light source module of the display panel is, the more an area occupied by a polymer network in the region corresponding to the each of the plurality of pixel electrodes is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Wang, Yanzhao Li, Changcheng Ju
  • Patent number: 9807318
    Abstract: A method for processing information from an IR detector of an IR camera, for an embodiment, comprises receiving a series of frames of data from said IR detector being operable to detect IR radiation from a scene, said frames of IR data representing detected IR radiation; performing a compression of said frames of IR data; wherein each data value together with calibration data uniquely represents measured IR radiation from the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventors: Malin Ingerhed, Göran Rohlin
  • Patent number: 9802527
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle headlight, comprising a housing (1) and modulatable light or IR radiation sources (4) which are arranged within the housing (1) and on a movable module support (5), and comprising an interface (2) for connection to an external vehicle processor (3), wherein an image sensor (6) for determining depth information from the backscatter radiation of the light or IR radiation sources (4) is arranged within the housing (1), and a processor (8) connected to the image sensor (6), which processor is connected via a modulator (9) to at least some of the modulatable light or IR radiation sources (4) arranged within the housing (1). It is proposed in accordance with the invention that the processor (8) is connected via a bidirectional data link (10) to the interface (2), and the image sensor (6) is arranged on the module support (5) or on an image sensor support triggered jointly with the module support (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Bluetechnix Group GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Oberhammer, Robert Hranitzky
  • Patent number: 9736357
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a visual line detecting section, a visual line judging section, a display control section, and a display changing section. The visual line judging section acquires a visual point position on the display screen corresponding to the visual line direction detected by the visual line detecting section, and judges whether or not the visual point position has entered into the a display region. The display changing section changes the display of at least one of a first display region and a second display region, if it is judged by the visual line judging section that the visual point position has entered into the second display region in the state where the visual point position is in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori Kudo
  • Patent number: 8565496
    Abstract: An image editing apparatus includes a subject information extracting unit configured to extract subject information of a subject from an image, and a subject frame setting unit configured to set a subject frame based on the subject information extracted by the subject information extracting unit. The image editing apparatus also includes a region instructions detecting unit configured to detect a user's instructions as to a region of the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and a region instructions frame setting unit configured to set a region instructions frame based on the user's instructions detected by the region instructions detecting unit. The image editing apparatus further includes a storage processing unit configured to store the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and the region instructions frame set by the region instructions frame setting unit, in a correlated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Sanno, Atsushi Inagaki, Hitoshi Ikeda, Yuichi Nakase, Chiyumi Niwa
  • Patent number: 8390440
    Abstract: A method for displaying a visual warning signal to warn a driver of a vehicle about a traffic situation that is determined to be critical. The visual warning signal displayed to the driver is based on sensor data furnished by at least one sensor unit that determines a line of sight of the driver. A display unit for displaying the visual warning signal is selected from a group of at least two separately controllable display units depending on the line of sight of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Krautter, Michael Dambier, Maria Rimini-Doering, Dietrich Manstetten
  • Patent number: 8327291
    Abstract: An on-vehicle display device includes: an image generation unit that generates a first image that can be viewed from a driver's seat side and a second image that can be viewed from a passenger's seat side; and a display monitor at which the first image and the second image are displayed within a screen, and the image generation unit does not include an image of an icon or a button, operation of which by a driver is restricted, in the first image, includes the image of the icon or the button in the second image, and constantly changes a display position of the icon or the button in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation
    Inventor: Junko Oguchi