Patents Examined by Behrooz M Senfi
  • Patent number: 11765336
    Abstract: Viewpoint-related information is associated with a captured image, a plurality of viewpoint images, or a synthesized image, the captured image being generated by capturing an image of a subject with a single image sensor through a plurality of monocular optical systems with optical paths independent of each other, the plurality of viewpoint images being extracted from the captured image and having each of the plurality of monocular optical systems as a viewpoint, the synthesized image being obtained by synthesizing the plurality of viewpoint images respectively corresponding to the plurality of monocular optical systems, and the viewpoint-related information being used to specify a region of the plurality of viewpoint images in the captured image. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, image-capturing apparatus, electronic devices, interchangeable lenses or camera systems in which a plurality of monocular lenses is extended, information processing methods, programs, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Hayasaka, Katsuhisa Ito
  • Patent number: 11756307
    Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil
  • Patent number: 11758138
    Abstract: Provided is a method of decoding motion information characterized in that information for determining motion-related information includes spatial information and time information, wherein the spatial information indicates a direction of spatial prediction candidates used for sub-units from among spatial prediction candidates located on a left side and an upper side of a current prediction unit, and the time information indicates a reference prediction unit of a previous picture used for prediction of the current prediction unit. Further, an encoding apparatus or a decoding apparatus capable of performing the above described encoding or decoding method may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Jung-hye Min, Na-rae Choi
  • Patent number: 11750839
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud coding. In a method, when parallel octree coding is enabled for occupancy codes of nodes in an octree partitioning structure of the point cloud, syntax information of the point cloud is decoded from a coded bitstream and a bitstream offset of an octree depth is determined. The syntax information indicates a bitstream length of the octree depth at which the parallel octree coding is enabled. Parallel decoding is performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes of the octree depth based on the bitstream offset and the bitstream length of the octree depth. Further, the point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11750795
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. A eye and/or head tracking system may use a camera to capture images of a viewer of the display. Control circuitry in the electronic device may use the captured images from the eye and/or head tracking system to determine which viewing zones are occupied by the viewer's eyes. The control circuitry may disable or dim viewing zones that are not occupied by the viewer's eyes in order to conserve power. An unoccupied viewing zone and an adjacent, occupied viewing zone may display the same image to increase sharpness in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Ping-Yen Chou, Byoungsuk Kim, Chaohao Wang, Yi Huang, Michael J. Rockwell, Seung Wook Kim, Pretesh A. Mascarenhas
  • Patent number: 11738696
    Abstract: A device may be included for sensing the vehicle surroundings of a vehicle. When mounted, the device has an underside facing the carriageway and an upper side facing away from the carriageway. The device comprises a fixture and a swivel arm that is movable relative to the fixture and connected thereto. The fixture has a fastening portion for fastening the device to a body part of the vehicle. The swivel arm comprises a camera for a lane-keeping function and an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Johannes Kirchhoff, Alex Hessel
  • Patent number: 11743571
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a display, a processor electrically coupled with the camera and the display, and a memory electrically coupled with the processor. The memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed, instruct the processor to, when a photographing request signal is received, estimate a motion of a subject within an image that is acquired by the camera, when the motion of the subject within the image acquired by the camera is not recognized, control the camera to capture a first type image by applying a first photographing condition, and when the motion of the subject within the image acquired by the camera is recognized, control the camera to capture a second type image by applying a second photographing condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na-Woong Han, Ki Hyoung Son, Kyungjun Lee, Hyunyeul Lee
  • Patent number: 11743498
    Abstract: A method of point cloud geometry decoding in a point cloud decoder can include receiving a bitstream including a slice of a coded point cloud frame, and reconstructing an octree representing a geometry of points in a bounding box of the slice where a current node of the octree is partitioned with a quadtree (QT) partition or a binary tree (BT) partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Sehoon Yea, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11736726
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud compression and decompression. In a method, an octree partitioning structure for a bounding box of a point cloud is determined. Whether parallel encoding is to be performed on occupancy codes of nodes in a range of one or more partitioning depths in the octree partitioning structure is determined. The parallel encoding on the occupancy codes of the nodes is performed in response to the parallel encoding being determined to be performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of the one or more partitioning depths in the octree partitioning structure. A coded bitstream is generated based on the encoded occupancy codes of the nodes. The coded bitstream includes syntax information that indicates whether parallel decoding is to be performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11729368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display design wherein the space between the pixels of a display panel, the black matrix, is not magnified together with other content. The visibility of particularly smaller objects such as e.g. letters is thus increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PSHOLIX AG
    Inventor: Rolf-Dieter Naske
  • Patent number: 11729420
    Abstract: Disclosed are an intra-prediction method using filtering and an apparatus using the method. An image-decoding method comprises: a step of filtering an n upper reference pixel of a block to be predicted and neighboring pixels of the n upper reference pixel so as to obtain the filtered n upper reference pixel; and a step of filtering an n left reference pixel of a block to be predicted and neighboring pixels of the n left reference pixel so as to obtain the filtered n left reference pixel. According to the present invention, intra-prediction may be efficiently performed to improve image-encoding/decoding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjoon Jeon, Seungwook Park, Jaehyun Lim, Jungsun Kim, Joonyoung Park, Younghee Choi, Jaewon Sung, Byeongmoon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11722684
    Abstract: An image decoder has circuitry coupled to a memory. The circuitry splits a current image block into a plurality of partitions. The circuitry predicts a first motion vector from a set of uni-prediction motion vector candidates for a first partition of the plurality of partitions, and decodes the first partition using the first motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li, Kiyofumi Abe, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 11722686
    Abstract: A method of video decoding performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture. The method further includes determining a block size of a current block coded in the intra sub-partition (ISP) coding mode. The method further includes determining a direction and number of partitions of the current block based on the determined block size. Th method further includes decoding the current block based on the determined direction and number of partitions of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Liang Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11708035
    Abstract: A vehicular imaging system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a camera device disposed at a body portion of the vehicle. The camera device includes structure that supports a camera and that is movable between a stowed position, where the structure and camera are within the body portion, and an extended position, where the structure and camera are extended outward from the body portion so that the camera is positioned with a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The structure includes a plurality of individually movable elements that are disposed adjacent one another and that cooperate to form the outer surface. The individually movable elements, when moved relative to the body portion of the vehicle, cooperate to extend and retract the camera. The camera, when the structure is in the extended position, captures image data and provides captured image data to the ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventor: Anthony J. LaCross
  • Patent number: 11711545
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a method for point cloud coding. In the method, whether decoding of occupancy codes of nodes in a range of octree partition depths in an octree partitioning structure of a point cloud reaches a minimum octree partition depth at which parallel decoding is enabled is determined. Arithmetic coding information for decoding the occupancy codes of the nodes in the minimum octree partition depth is stored based on the decoding of the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of octree partition depths reaching the minimum octree partition depth. The parallel decoding is performed on occupancy codes of the nodes in each of the at least one remaining octree partitions depth based on the stored arithmetic coding information. The point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes in the range of octree partition depths in the octree partitioning structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11711525
    Abstract: Different implementations are described for determining one or more illumination compensation parameters for a current block being encoded by a video encoder or decoded by a video decoder, based on the selection of one or more neighboring samples. The selection of the one or more neighboring samples is based on information used to reconstruct a plurality of neighboring reconstructed blocks. The selection may be based on the motion information, such as motion vector and reference picture information. In one example, only samples from neighboring reconstructed blocks that have (1) the same reference picture index and/or (2) a motion vector close to the motion vector of the current block is selected. In another example, if the current block derives or inherits some motion information from a top or left neighboring block, then only the top or left neighboring samples are selected for IC parameter calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Bordes, Franck Galpin, Fabien Racape
  • Patent number: 11706448
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a deterioration in image quality. The image processing apparatus includes a threshold value setting unit which sets a threshold value for identifying a feature of neighboring pixels of a current block in an intra prediction process in encoding of image data according to a bit depth of the image data and a filtering processing unit which performs a filtering process on the neighboring pixels by using a filter according to the feature of the neighboring pixels identified by using the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi Sato
  • Patent number: 11700439
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a lens holder accommodating a lens and an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB). The lens holder includes a plurality of posts protruding from an attaching portion of the lens holder. The imager PCB includes an imager disposed at a first side of the imager PCB, and includes a plurality of apertures therethrough. The attaching portion of the lens holder is positioned at the imager PCB such that the posts protrude through the apertures of the imager PCB. The posts are movable within the apertures while the lens is adjusted relative to the imager to align the lens relative to the imager. With the lens aligned relative to the imager, the posts are heated to deform within the apertures, whereby the deformed posts harden upon cooling to secure the lens holder relative to the imager PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin E. Skrocki, Robert A. Devota, Matthew C. Sesti, Donald W. Mersino
  • Patent number: 11700363
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display, including a display panel and a lenticular plate is provided. The display panel has multiple pixels arranged in an array. The lenticular plate has multiple lenticulars. Each of the lenticulars extends along an extending direction, and the lenticulars are arranged along a periodical direction. The pixels are divided into multiple group. The lenticular plate transmits lights emitted by the pixels of different groups towards multiple different viewing zones, so as to form a stereoscopic vision. In the periodical direction, a pitch of the pixels of the same group is greater than a pitch of the lenticulars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi-Jung Chiu
  • Patent number: 11688091
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a real-time ranging method of a common-virtual-axis three-dimensional (3D) camera based on YOLOv3-tiny, including: acquiring, by the common-virtual-axis 3D camera, a far image and a near image on a same optical axis; processing image data of the near image and image data of the far image by using a YOLOv3-tiny target-recognition neural-network acceleration algorithm; determining, according to the processed image data, two target recognition frames corresponding to a preset recognized object on the far image and the near image; performing curvature scale space (CSS) corner recognition on image data in the target recognition frames; obtaining an average value of distances from far and near corners to a center point of the image data in each of the target recognition frames according to recognized corner coordinates; and substituting the obtained average value into an optical relation of the common-virtual-axis 3D camera, to obtain distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUHAI TIMELINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Wang, Jitong Xin, Fangcong Wang, Luojia Shi