Patents Examined by Allen C. Wong
  • Patent number: 12383209
    Abstract: A rollover detection system, method and storage medium are provided. The system includes an image acquiring module, an image processing module, a rollover detection subsystem, and an alert module. The image acquiring module is configured to acquire an infrared optical signal of a to-be-monitored object and an analog electrical signal of the infrared optical signal. The image processing module is configured to process the infrared optical signal and the analog electrical signal to obtain a digitalized infrared thermal image. The rollover detection subsystem is configured to perform a rollover detection on a to-be-monitored object according to the infrared thermal image, and determine a rollover detection result. The alert module is configured to generate alert information when the rollover detection result is that a rollover event occurred, push the alert information to an associated application, and synchronize the alert information and a rollover image to the cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LUXSHARE PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guanhsiung Wang
  • Patent number: 12385228
    Abstract: The work machine control method includes displaying, on a display device, a display screen including information related to the work machine and executing at least one of a first switching process and a second switching process. The first switching process is a process in which the display screen to be displayed on the display device is switched, in accordance with switching from the enabled state to the disabled state according to an operation state of a disabling operation unit, from a camera screen that includes a captured image of a monitoring area around the work machine to a basic screen that does not include the captured image. The second switching process is a process in which the display screen to be displayed on the display device is switched, in accordance with switching from the disabled state to the enabled state according to the operation state of the disabling operation unit, from the basic screen to the camera screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Tamura, Daisuke Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 12382075
    Abstract: A method and system for decoding a coded video sequence may include obtaining the coded video sequence, and decoding the coded video sequence. A a value of a temporal sublayer identifier of a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in the coded video sequence is constrained to be less than or equal to a value of vps_max_sublayers_minus1, that specifies a maximum number of temporal sublayers that may be present in a layer in each coded video sequence referring to the video parameter set (VPS), in the VPS referred to by the VCL NAL unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Shan Liu, Stephan Wenger
  • Patent number: 12372771
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems for actively monitoring an opto-fluidic instrument for vibrational disturbances and correcting images obtained during the detected disturbances. In various embodiments, an optical imaging system may acquire Z-stack images of samples supported by an XY-stage. Vibrations can cause individual stacks to be sheared, i.e., to not be co-located with respect to neighboring Z-stacks. In various embodiments, an offset between the measured positions and the expected positions of the sheared stacks may be computed, and a determination as to whether to correct or reacquire the Z-stack images may be made based at least in part on the computed offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Joseph Monkowski, Elijah Roberts, Benjamin Pruitt
  • Patent number: 12375819
    Abstract: An illumination device irradiates a field of view with pulsed illumination light. In a multi-tap type image sensor, one pixel has a plurality of FD (floating diffusion) regions. A camera controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor. A pulse exposure region, which is one of the plurality of FD regions, is allocated to generation of a slice image, and a continuous exposure region, which is another one of the plurality of FD regions, is allocated to generation of a normal image. The image sensor generates the slice image by performing multiple exposure of reflected light of the pulsed illumination light from the field of view using the pulse exposure region, and generates the normal image by performing exposure using the continuous exposure region in a section where the pulse exposure region is not used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hoshi, Yasuo Nakamura, Koji Itaba
  • Patent number: 12367683
    Abstract: An example device for processing image data includes a memory configured to store image data; and a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: obtain an image to be processed; obtain a first auxiliary value for the image and a second auxiliary value for the image; generate an input component including the first auxiliary value and the second auxiliary value arranged in a pattern according to a stride of a neural network; and provide the image and the input component to the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amin Ansari, Sai Madhuraj Jadhav, Yunxiao Shi
  • Patent number: 12356078
    Abstract: An imaging system may include a plurality of networked imagers arranged in a geometric arrangement with respective fields of view covering part or all of a panoramic geometry, at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) in communication with the networked imagers configured to generate orientation data indicating orientations of the plurality of networked imagers, and at least one processor in communication with the networked imagers and the at least one IMU. The at least one processor may be configured to receive a plurality of images from the plurality of networked imagers and combine the plurality of images into at least one combined image by positioning pixels of each of the plurality of images relative to pixels of the remaining plurality of images, associating the positioned pixels with the orientation data, and merging the oriented pixels of each of the plurality of images into the at least one combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: BOUNCE IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Francisco Aguilar, Sietse Dijkstra
  • Patent number: 12342990
    Abstract: A method of generating a color image using a monochromatic image sensor. The method includes sequentially illuminating a surface in a plurality of colors, one color at a time. The monochromatic image sensor captures a plurality of image frames of the surface based on the plurality of colors. The plurality of image frames are identified, and at least one feature in the target of the plurality of image frames is highlighted. Color intensities of the plurality of image frames are normalized. A color intensity map of the target for each of the plurality of image frames is generated. A correlation score is determined by comparing each color intensity map of the plurality of image frames. The color image is generated based on the correlation score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirsten Viering, George Wilfred Duval, Louis J. Barbato
  • Patent number: 12348725
    Abstract: An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; writing, into the sequence parameter set, reference list description defining information for defining a plurality of reference list descriptions corresponding to the buffer descriptions; and writing, into a first header of each processing unit which is included in a coded bitstream, buffer description selecting information for specifying a selected buffer description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Viktor Wahadaniah, Chong Soon Lim, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hai Wei Sun, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 12348774
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for multiscale inter-prediction for dynamic point cloud compression is provided. The electronic device receives a set of reference point cloud frames and a current point cloud frame. The electronic device generates reference frame data comprising a feature set for each reference point cloud frame and a first set of features for the current point cloud frame. The electronic device predicts a second set of features for the current point cloud frame, using a first neural network predictor, based on the reference frame data. The electronic device computes a set of residual features based on the first set of features and the second set of features. The electronic device generates a set of quantized residual features based on the set of residual features and a bitstream of encoded point cloud data for the current 3D point cloud frame based on the set of quantized residual features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Pranav Aniruddha Kadam, Alexandre Zaghetto, Danillo Bracco Graziosi, Ali Tabatabai
  • Patent number: 12328427
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular, a method for inter prediction for a block in a frame of a video signal includes: constructing a history-based motion information candidate list, wherein the list is an ordered list comprising N history-based motion information candidates Hk containing motion information of N preceding blocks preceding the block, wherein each history-based motion information candidate comprises: one or more motion vectors (MVs), one or more reference picture indices corresponding to the MVs, and an interpolation filter index; adding one or more history-based motion information candidates from the history-based motion information candidate list into a motion information candidate list for the block; and deriving motion information for the block based on the motion information candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev, Sergey Yurievich Ikonin, Roman Igorevich Chernyak, Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina, Huanbang Chen
  • Patent number: 12321134
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and a holographic display apparatus. The display device includes a display panel including a first linear polarizer located on a light-emitting side, so that the display panel emits linearly polarized image light; and a phase modulation panel disposed on the light-emitting side of the display panel and configured to perform phase modulation on the linearly polarized image light. The holographic display apparatus includes the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Xibin Shao, Lingdan Bo, Yingying Qu, Dongchuan Chen, Zhe Li, Peng Li, Yanping Liao, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 12317004
    Abstract: Disclosed is a street light controller and concealed video surveillance system having a zoom lens mounted in a lamp head for securement to a modern street light having a NEMA socket. The video surveillance device is a single, compact unit consisting of a zoom camera with an internal recorder, microwave radio, and a control processor. The control processor allows for live video from a zoom camera, which can be transferred across a microwave network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Special Services Group, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Goblirsch, Andrew J. Ashworth
  • Patent number: 12301846
    Abstract: A decoding method includes: decoding, from a bitstream, cropping information indicating an amount of cropping corresponding to an amount of padding of a first subpicture that is a subpicture (i) which is among a plurality of subpictures constituting a picture, (ii) in which at least one end of the subpicture is included in at least one end of the picture, (iii) to which at least one subpicture is adjacent on a side opposite to the at least one end of the subpicture, and (iv) which is padded so that a size of the subpicture reaches an integer multiple of a preconfigured coding unit size in at least one direction; decoding the first subpicture from the bitstream; and cropping the first subpicture according to the amount of cropping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 12296755
    Abstract: A mounting structure (X), comprising: a cover (5) provided on an inboard side of a pillar (P) of a vehicle, and having an opening (15) facing inboard; an illuminating device (9) configured to illuminate interior of the vehicle via the opening; and an imaging device (11) configured to capture an image of the interior of the vehicle via the opening, wherein the illuminating device and imaging device are provided with respective working ends facing the interior of the vehicle which are positioned one above and inboard of another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kodai Usuki, Hiroyuki Sukigara, Tadayoshi Iwase, Hiromi Sato, Arata Isobe, Yoshito Terayama
  • Patent number: 12299917
    Abstract: Various examples of systems and methods are provided for imaging calibration for slide processing. In one example, among others, a system for processing microscope slides includes a light source; an imaging device comprising a lens; and a slide positioner that can position the ground-glass portion of a slide between the light source and lens. Processing circuitry of the system can acquire an image of at least a section of the ground-glass portion at an initial position; analyze contrast of adjacent pixels with respect to a defined contrast characteristic; iteratively advance the lens and acquire additional images based upon analysis of contrast of adjacent pixels with respect to the defined contrast characteristic; and identify an optimal focal location of the lens based upon the defined contrast characteristic. Subsequent image acquisition via the lens can be based at least in part upon the optimal focal location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Zomedica Inc.
    Inventors: William Eugene Campbell, Negin Ghassemian
  • Patent number: 12294738
    Abstract: A video encoding method includes determining a base motion vector list that includes a dual-prediction base motion vector group including a first base motion vector and a second base motion vector, determining two motion vector offsets according to a preset offset set, determining motion vectors of a current image block according to the first base motion vector, the second base motion vector, and the two motion vector offsets, and performing prediction on the current image block according to the motion vectors of the current image block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaozhen Zheng, Suhong Wang, Shanshe Wang, Siwei Ma, Weiran Li
  • Patent number: 12284339
    Abstract: A device for encoding/decoding the image according to the present invention includes an intra prediction module configured to: determine an intra prediction mode of a current block; determine a scanning order of multiple sub blocks in the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode; and perform intra prediction of the current block on the basis of the determined scanning order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Sim, Ho Chan Ryu, Yong Jo Ahn
  • Patent number: 12284393
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling temporal sub-layer information for coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, a range of a value of a third syntax element in a sequence parameter set is determined based on whether the sequence parameter set refers to a video parameter set, wherein the third syntax element specifies a maximum number of temporal sub-layers that is present in each coded video sequence referring to the sequence parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12273556
    Abstract: To improve a coding efficiency. There are included a PU level search unit configured to search for a motion vector for each prediction block by using a matching process. and a sub-block level search unit configured to search for a motion vector of each of sub-blocks in the prediction block, wherein a precision of a local search by the PU level search unit is lower than a precision of a local search by the sub-block level search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoyuki Yamamoto