Patents Assigned to GoPro, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12333767
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for color space representation. Unlike television and other passively viewed content, action cameras enable the user to take an active role in content generation/modification. Ideally, image content can be transferred from action cameras to post-processing devices with minimal signal loss (noise introduction), however existing device ecosystems are often bottlenecked by commodity codecs and/or intermediary networks. Various embodiments of the present disclosure use an improved “transport” compression technique to preserve desirable signal codeword and noise codeword relationships for color space representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: David Newman
  • Patent number: 12335325
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for just-in-time streaming media. Existing content delivery networks are optimized for providing mass media to many consumers. This delivery model is poorly suited to user-specific content. Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure create a program instance that can service a client's media requests from their archival data. In one specific implementation, the archival data is stored segments that are ready for streaming; a content server may provide either a consolidated file or a media “quasi-stream” from the same storage object(s). The quasi-stream supports progressive playback (media playback as it is being downloaded.) The program instance provides the client device the illusion of a static file system, however client requested access to HTTP file downloads are provided in packets that are transmuxed/transcoded from archival data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Dennedy, Rahul Iyengar, Cedric Fernandes
  • Patent number: 12326650
    Abstract: Accessory lens structures for cameras are described. For example, an image capture device may include a mother lens assembly including a first stack of lenses; an image sensor positioned at a first end of the mother lens assembly and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the first stack of lenses; a conversion lens assembly including a second stack of lenses, wherein the second stack of lenses is afocal; and a conversion lens mounting apparatus configured to removably attach the conversion lens assembly to the image capture device in a position over a second end of the mother lens assembly, opposite from the image sensor, such that light incident on an outer lens of the second stack of lenses will be refracted through the second stack of lenses and the first stack of lenses to the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Peiqian Zhao, Jonathan Stern, Ingrid A. Cotoros
  • Patent number: 12328492
    Abstract: An integrated image sensor and lens assembly may include a lens barrel, a collet, and a lens mount. The lens barrel may be coupled to the collet which is coupled to the lens mount. The lens barrel and the collet may each include a fastening structure reciprocal to each other. Alternatively, the collet and the lens mount may each include a fastening structure reciprocal to each other. The optical distance between the set of lenses and the image sensor may be tuned such that the focal plane of the lenses coincides with the image plane. The fastening structures allow the lens barrel to be adjusted relative to the lens mount in order to shift the focal plane in a direction along the optical axis to compensate for focal shifts occurring during assembly/cure and/or temperature cycling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 12328515
    Abstract: Image processing using various video and still flows is described. The resolution and bit depth at each stage of the image processing are described. In some examples, image scalers are used to resize image resolution. In some examples, a warp engine is used to distort per frame images to apply image stabilization, zoom, or a user digital lens. An image processing pipeline includes a double data rate (DDR) memory buffer that supports lossy compression with a constant 50% compression. In some examples, the image processing pipeline includes a DDR memory buffer that is uncompressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent Vacquerie
  • Patent number: 12321084
    Abstract: A camera housing includes a first surface and a second surface noncoplanar with the first surface. A first interconnect mechanism is coupled to the first surface and rotatable between a collapsed position and an extended position. In the collapsed position, protrusions of the first interconnect mechanism extend parallel to the first surface. In the extended position, the protrusions of the first interconnect mechanism extend in a perpendicular manner away from the first surface. A second interconnect mechanism is coupled to the second surface and rotatable between a collapsed position and an extended position. In the collapsed position, protrusions of the second interconnect mechanism include coplanar surfaces and extend adjacent to the second surface. In the extended position, the protrusions of the second interconnect mechanism extend in a perpendicular manner away from the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Bessy Wen-Han Liang, Nicholas D. Woodman, Nicholas Vitale, Huy Phuong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12316932
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes a heat sensitive assembly configured to support a battery. The image capture apparatus includes a heatsink spaced a distance from the heat sensitive assembly and a heat generating component that is spaced a distance from the heat sensitive assembly and the heatsink. The image capture apparatus includes a heat conductor that extends from the heat generating component to the heat sensitive assembly or the heatsink, and the heat conductor moves heat from the heat generating component to the heat sensitive assembly or the heatsink. The image capture apparatus includes an actuation mechanism that moves the heat conductor between the heat sensitive assembly and the heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Vitale
  • Patent number: 12313958
    Abstract: An image capture device includes a housing defining a receptacle having a housing electrical interface and a mechanical coupling mechanism coupled to or connected with the housing at a location of the receptacle. The image capture device includes an interchangeable lens module that releases connection with the mechanical coupling mechanism. The interchangeable lens module including a module electrical interface and an imaging sensor. A collar rotatable about the interchangeable lens module and lockable to the mechanical coupling mechanism to secure the interchangeable lens module to the housing and couple the module electrical interface to the housing electrical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Nicholas Vitale, Herman Wong, Adrian Santos
  • Patent number: 12301969
    Abstract: The present teachings provide an image head with a housing, an integrated sensor and lens assembly (ISLA), a port, and componentry. The housing has a front side a rear side located opposite the front side; a top side located between the front side and the rear side; and a bottom side located opposite the top side and between the front side and the rear side. The ISLA extends from the front side and is configured to detect images. The port is located on the rear side that is configured to electrically connect the image head to a base when the image head is inserted into the base. The internal componentry has a printed circuit board in communication with an integrated sensor of the ISLA and a memory located on the printed circuit board and configured to store the images. The internal componentry controls the image head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Santos, Nicholas Vitale, Joseph Tucker
  • Patent number: 12299934
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for piggyback camera calibration. Existing piggybacked capture techniques use a “beauty camera” and an “action camera” to capture raw footage. The user directly applies the EIS stabilization track of a piggybacked action camera to the cinematic footage to create desired stable footage. Unfortunately, since the action camera may have been slightly offset from the cinematic video camera, the EIS stabilization data will only roughly approximate the necessary corrections. In other words, the user must manually fine tune the corrections. The disclosed embodiments use a calibration sequence to estimate a physical offset between the beauty camera and the action camera. Then, the estimated physical offset can be used to calculate an offset camera orientation for stabilizing the beauty camera. The foregoing process can be performed in-the-field before actual capture. This allows the user to check their set-up and fix any issues before capturing the desired footage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Russell, Robert McIntosh
  • Patent number: 12302000
    Abstract: A video may be captured by an image capture device in motion. A horizon-leveled view of the video may be generated by providing a punchout of the video. The punchout of the video may compensate for rotation of the image capture device during capture of the video. The placement of the punchout of the video may be changed based on different rotational positions of to provide a view in which a horizon depicted within the video is leveled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz, Jonathan Leland Thorn
  • Patent number: 12302028
    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: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Woodman, Sumit Chawla, Loic Segapelli, Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 12294762
    Abstract: A video and an object to be inserted into visual content of the video may be obtained. Trajectory of an image capture device during capture of the video may be used to determine placement of the object within the visual content. The visual content may be modified to include the object based on the placement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Rawia Mhiri Ep Hakim, Guillaume Abbe, Jean-Baptiste Noël
  • Patent number: 12292670
    Abstract: A camera is configured for use with a removable camera lens cover, which can be secured to or removed from the camera by a user without the use of a tool set. The mechanism which allows the lens cover to be secured to and removed from the camera includes a set of wires embedded into the lens cover and a set of wedges protruding from the lens wall of the camera. To secure the lens cover to the camera, the lens cover is placed onto the front of the camera and rotated until the wires align with corresponding wedges, securing the wires underneath the tapered surface of the wedges. To remove the lens cover from the camera, a force is applied outward and normal to the lens cover, causing the wires to flex outward and enabling the rotation and removal of the lens cover from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Way Chet Lim, Andrew Liu, Margaret Birmingham Mittan, Daniel Lee Sobel
  • Patent number: 12289522
    Abstract: A video may be captured by an image capture device in motion. A stabilization trajectory for the video may reflect stabilization rotational positions to compensate for at least some of the motion of the image capture device. The stabilization trajectory may have a stabilization trajectory length. The stabilization of the visual content may be assessed based on the stabilization trajectory length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxim Karpushin, Vincent Riaute, Thomas Derbanne
  • Patent number: D1079788
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Phuong Nguyen, Senka Agic Bergman, Daniel J. Coster
  • Patent number: D1078826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Zhijun Guo
  • Patent number: D1077016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Adrian Santos
  • Patent number: D1077027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Huy Phuong Nguyen
  • Patent number: D1077034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Scott Alberstein, Bessy Liang, Huy Phuong Nguyen, Daniel J. Coster, Nicholas D. Woodman, Jesse Patterson