Patents Assigned to Logitech Europe S.A.
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Publication number: 20230367110Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to generating lighting in an efficient way while in the outdoors. The designs are meant to maximize the amount of light generated, by the smallest assembly that is rugged to use in general outdoor activities and water sports. Further designs are related to hands-free mounting capabilities on outdoor equipment such as bikes, surfboards, snowboards and other similar equipment. Additional features include various filters, waterproofing, recharging or lighting differences which provide greater visual or photographic advantages to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Wei Cao, Simon Shi, Yoy Dai, Scott Gant
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Patent number: 11815787Abstract: Webcams may include a camera housing having a front cover. The front cover may define a lens aperture and a mounting aperture. A rear surface of the front cover may include a living hinge having a protruding nub. The webcams may include a privacy shutter having a cover member and a generally cylindrical post extending from a rear surface of the cover member at a location offset from a center of the cover member. The post may be disposed within the mounting aperture. A peripheral surface of the post may define a first notch and a second notch positioned opposite one another. The protruding nub may be seated within the first notch when the privacy shutter is in a closed position and seated within the second notch when in an open position. The cover member may cover the lens aperture when the privacy shutter is in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Drew Putterman, Kyle Chung
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Patent number: 11812211Abstract: A microphone includes a housing. The microphone includes a windscreen coupled with the housing. The windscreen and the housing define a central volume. The microphone includes an audio module within the central volume. The audio module includes a receiver capsule, a carrier unit coupled with the receiver capsule, and a counterweight coupled with the carrier unit. The microphone includes a suspension element that is coupled with the housing and carrier unit to suspend the audio module within the central volume. The suspension element includes an inner body that contacts the carrier unit. The suspension element includes first and second flanges extending outward from the inner body. The first and second flange are fixedly coupled with the housing. A cross-section of the first and second flange includes an arched region that extends at least partially to an inner wall of the housing. The arched regions are oriented in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Clayton Christopher Williamson, Tzyy-Woei Richard Sung, Adam Kirk Bennett, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto, Aron Michael Rosenberg
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Patent number: 11800056Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to video-conferencing systems, and more particularly, to advanced camera devices with integrated background differentiation capabilities, such as background removal, background replacement, and/or background blur capabilities, which are suitable for use in a video-conferencing application. Generally, the camera devices described herein use a combination of integrated hardware and software to differentiate between the desired portion of a video stream and the undesired portion of the video stream to-be-replaced. The background differentiation and/or background replacement methods disclosed herein are generally performed, using a camera device, before encoding the video stream for transmission of the video stream therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Joseph Yao-Hua Chu, Ting Chia Hsu, Jeffrey Phillip Fisher
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Patent number: 11798760Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a keyboard key structure, a light guide for the keyboard key structure, and a computer key mechanism. The keyboard key structure can include a substrate; a key switch where the bottom of the key switch is configured to be coupled to the substrate; a keycap including a transparent region; a light guide coupled to the side of the key switch, the light guide comprising: a bottom surface and a top surface that is wider than and parallel to the bottom surface; a light emitting element coupled to the substrate and configured under the bottom surface of the light guide such that the light emitting element, the light guide, and the transparent region of the key cap are in a collinear arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Fu-Kai Hsu, Yung-Lin Chen, Feng-Hao Lin
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Patent number: 11796761Abstract: A static lens system is disclosed and includes the following in one embodiment: a lens assembly housing defining a front opening; an imaging sensor; a lens assembly disposed within the lens assembly housing and comprising: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens elements, the sixth lens element being adjacent to the imaging sensor and the first lens element being adjacent to the front opening; wherein the first through third and sixth lens elements are concave lenses have a negative focal length and the fourth and fifth lens elements are concave lens and have a positive focal length.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Hsu Ting Chia, Ian Chen
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Patent number: 11800213Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides for advanced single camera video conferencing systems and methods related thereto. The advanced single camera video conferencing system features a hybrid optical/digital camera, herein a camera device, having a controller that is configured to execute one or more of the methods set forth herein. In one embodiment, a method includes optically framing a first portion of a video conferencing environment to provide an actual field-of-view, digitally framing a second portion of the video conferencing environment to provide an apparent field-of-view that is encompassed within the actual field-of-view, generating a video stream of the apparent field-of-view, surveying the actual field-of-view to generate survey data, and detecting changes in the survey data over time. The method may be performed using a single camera device using a single image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LOGITECH EUROPE S.A.Inventors: Oleg Ostap, Henry Levak, John Scott Skeehan
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Patent number: 11800048Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally relate to methods and video system components that have integrated background differentiation capabilities that allow for background replacement and/or background modification. In some embodiments, undesired portions of video data generated in a video environment are separated from desired portions of the video data by taking advantage of the illumination and decay of the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, provided from an illuminator, over a distance. Due to the decay of intensity with distance, the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the undesired background has a lower intensity when received by the sensor than the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the desired foreground. The difference in the detected intensity at the one or more wavelengths can then be used to separate and/or modify the undesired background from the desired foreground for use in a video feed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Joseph Yao-Hua Chu, Jeffrey Phillip Fisher, Ting Chia Hsu
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Patent number: 11789490Abstract: A camera mounting system comprises a clip body configured to be coupled to a rear surface of the display monitor. The camera mounting system further comprises a bracket assembly that includes a first portion configured to be coupled to the camera and comprising a base and a lip extending from the base. The base is configured to be supported on a top surface of the display monitor and the lip is configured to contact a front surface of the display monitor and limit movement of the bracket assembly in a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the front surface of the display monitor. The bracket assembly also includes second portion coupled to the first portion and configured to be releasably coupled to the clip body with the clip body coupled to the rear surface of the monitor in order to prevent movement of the bracket assembly in the first horizontal direction and prevent rotation of the base relative to the display monitor.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Daphne Li, Drew Putterman, Chia-Jung Lin
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Patent number: 11785389Abstract: In some embodiments, a system comprises a host computing device and an audio device including at least one speaker and a plurality of microphones, the audio device being wirelessly and communicatively coupled to the host computing device. The host computing device can include one or more processors and one or more machine-readable, non-transitory storage mediums that include instructions configured to cause the one or more processors of the host computing device to perform operations including: receiving user environment data by one or more sensors of the host computing device; determining a characterization profile of a surrounding environment of the user based on the user environment data; and sending the characterization profile to the audio device, the characterization profile configured to cause the audio device to adapt an audio cardioid pattern of the plurality of microphones on the audio device based on the characterization profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: John Chen, Ganesh Kandiga, Karthikayan Vellaikkannu, Hari Chakravarthula
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Patent number: 11763643Abstract: In some embodiments, a video doorbell system includes a video doorbell device on an exterior surface of a structure and a chime kit within an interior of the structure. A transformer can be coupled in-series via electrical conductors with the video doorbell device and the chime kit. The chime kit can include an energy storage device that is charged via the electrical conductors. When a user activates a button on the video doorbell device power control circuitry within the video doorbell device can transmit a signal on the electrical conductors. Button detection circuitry within the chime kit can detect the signal and respond by transferring power from the energy storage device to a chime. While the chime is activated the transformer can continuously supply the video doorbell device with power.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Aron Rosenberg, John M. Long, Nick Stoughton
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Patent number: D999773Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Wai Bun Choi, Lan Szu-Ting, Mark Starrett, Benjamin Ehrenberg, Ram Chaturabul, Kelly Kim, Tania Alvarez Moreno
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Patent number: D1000442Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Nicholas Jinkinson, Marcel Twohig, Stone Wang, Jasper Phua, Olivia Hildebrand
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Patent number: D1001782Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventor: Jeremy Paul Burgess
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Patent number: D1002583Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Michael Joseph Roy, Victor Manuel Sanchez
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Patent number: D1002616Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Lin, Blaithin Crampton, Marcel Twohig, Anish Shakthi Ovia Selvan, Anatoliy Polyanker, Jingyan Ma, Ming Feng Hsieh, Olivia Hildebrand
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Patent number: D1002617Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Nicholas Jinkinson, Marcel Twohig, Stone Wang, Jasper Phua, Olivia Hildebrand
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Patent number: D1002618Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Maxime Dubreucq, Ram Chaturabul, Libao Wu, Jules Moretti, David Day, Nicolas Metral, Noirin Curran
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Patent number: D1004589Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Tanyel Yalazoglu, Sylvain Sauvage, Martin Caspar Rüegg, Jasper Phua
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Patent number: D1004671Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Drew Putterman, Tom Tang, Ricardo Filipe Figueiroa Monteiro