Patents Examined by Christopher S Kelley
  • Patent number: 12231686
    Abstract: Video content frequently seen in gaming content and having a higher probability of being coded in transform skip mode is coded separately from remaining portions of a video coding block before being combined with regular coded portions. This enables more efficient coding of video by reducing the switching between regular coding modes and transform skip modes. The regular coded portion and the transform skip coded portion are combined in an encoder. At a corresponding decoder, inverse operations occur, such that the transform skipped residual portions are decoded and the regularly coded portions are decoded before the portions are combined for a resultant decoded video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Fabrice LeLeannec, Tangi Poirier, Karam Naser, Ya Chen, Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Gagan Bihari Rath
  • Patent number: 12223850
    Abstract: A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that an evacuation slide deployment path is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to identify a region within the captured image data that corresponds to the evacuation slide deployment path, determine whether the evacuation slide deployment path will generate a failed deployment outcome, and produce a warning associated with the evacuation slide deployment path in response to determining that the evacuation slide deployment path will generate the failed deployment outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Pesik, Jonathan Boer
  • Patent number: 12225240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. An image encoding method according to the present invention may comprise generating a transform block by performing at least one of transform and quantization; grouping at least one coefficient included in the transform block into at least one coefficient group (CG); scanning at least one coefficient included in the coefficient group; and encoding the at least one coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Jung Won Kang, Hyun Suk Ko, Jin Ho Lee, Dong San Jun, Ha Hyun Lee, Seung Hyun Cho, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Soo Choi, Yung Lyul Lee, Jun Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 12219123
    Abstract: A method for rendering data of a three-dimensional image adapted to an eye position and a display system are provided. The method is used to render the three-dimensional image to be displayed in a three-dimensional space. In the method, a three-dimensional image data used to describe the three-dimensional image is obtained. The eye position of a user is detected. The ray-tracing information between the eye position and each lens unit of a multi-optical element module forms a region of visibility (RoV) that may cover a portion of the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional space. When coordinating the physical characteristics of a display panel and the multi-optical element module, a plurality of elemental images can be obtained. The elemental images form an integral image that records the three-dimensional image data adapted to the eye position, and the integral image is used to reconstruct the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LIXEL INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Chih-Hung Ting, Kai-Chieh Chang, Hsin-You Hou, Chih-Wei Shih, Wei-An Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12219161
    Abstract: An electronic device for encoding a picture is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that are in electronic communication with the processor. The instructions are executable to encode a step-wise temporal sub-layer access (STSA) sample grouping. The instructions are further executable to send and/or store the STSA sample grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 12212732
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising. An obtainment unit obtains a first circular fisheye image accompanied by a first missing region in which no pixel value is present. A generation unit generates a first equidistant cylindrical projection image by performing first equidistant cylindrical transformation processing based on the first circular fisheye image. The generation unit generates the first equidistant cylindrical projection image such that a first corresponding region corresponding to the first missing region has a pixel value in the first equidistant cylindrical projection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Kobayashi, Toshitaka Aiba, Yuki Tsuihiji
  • Patent number: 12198386
    Abstract: A vehicle external environment imaging apparatus includes imaging devices and a controller. The imaging devices are disposed on a vehicle to perform imaging of a vehicle external environment. The controller generates information regarding a distance or a direction of a vehicle-external imaging target with imaging images of the imaging devices. At least two imaging devices are disposed on the vehicle to be able to perform duplicated imaging of a common imaging region. The controller generates, on the basis of a distance and a direction in an imaging image obtained by a first one of the at least two imaging devices, correction information regarding a distance, a direction or both of the vehicle-external imaging target based on an imaging position which is to be used in a monocular process on an imaging image of at least one the at least two imaging devices that is different from the first one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Patent number: 12194923
    Abstract: A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing a hitch ball of a trailer hitch of the vehicle. The system determines a position of the hitch ball within frames of image data, and determines an angle based on a lateral offset distance of the camera relative to the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle and a lateral offset distance of the hitch ball relative to the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle. The system determines height of the hitch ball based on the determined angle and the lateral offset distance of the camera and the lateral offset distance of the hitch ball. The system determines a hitch-ball ground position based on the determined height of the hitch ball. The system utilizes the determined height of the hitch ball and the determined hitch-ball ground position during a hitching maneuver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12200190
    Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to determine a reference picture listed in a first reference picture list and a reference picture listed in a second reference picture list, for a coding block. The apparatus may be configured to determine whether to perform bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) for the coding block based at least in part on whether a distance between a picture associated with the coding block and the reference picture listed in the first reference picture list differs from a distance between the picture associated with the coding block and the reference picture listed in the second reference picture list. The apparatus may be configured to decode the coding block based on the determination of whether to perform BDOF for the coding block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGTAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Yuwen He, Hua Yang
  • Patent number: 12187201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a management method of an assistance system for a windscreen of a cab of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a camera assembly including at least one camera located on the top of the windscreen with an angle between 25° and 75° with respect to the windscreen, for providing a captured image of a wide angle field of view located in front of the vehicle, said wide angle field of view comprising a first front field of vision, a second field of vision of a front-view and a third rear field of the vision, the method comprising: Determining a state of the windscreen using the at least one camera and Processing the captured image, according to the state of the windscreen, to operate the windscreen system on the windscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventor: Nicolas Berne
  • Patent number: 12188759
    Abstract: The specification provides a depth imaging method and device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: controlling an emission module comprising a light emitting device to emit at least two speckle patterns that change temporally to a target object; controlling an acquisition module comprising a light sensor to acquire reflected speckle patterns of the at least two speckle patterns reflected by the target object; and performing spatial-temporal stereo matching by using the reflected speckle patterns and the at least two reference speckle patterns, to calculate offsets of pixel points between speckles of the at least two reference speckle patterns and speckles of the reflected speckle patterns, and calculating depth values of the pixel points according to the offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Orbbec Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhua Xu, Zhenzhong Xiao, Bin Xu, Yushan Yu
  • Patent number: 12192438
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotating stereoscopic display device and a display control method. A rotating stereoscopic display device includes a base, a drive assembly arranged on the base, and a display panel capable of rotating driven by the drive assembly, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of display areas, the plurality of display areas comprising at least a first display area, at least a second display area and at least a third display area, pixel densities in the first display area, the second display area and the third display area decrease in turn, and at least one of the second display area and the third display area is arranged between the first display area and an edge of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Li, Longhui Wang, Xuefeng Wang, Jinghua Miao
  • Patent number: 12178403
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing and rendering light fields for head-mounted displays are disclosed. A mediated-reality visualization system includes a head-mounted display assembly comprising a frame configured to be mounted to a user's head and a display device coupled to the frame. An imaging assembly separate and spaced apart from the head-mounted display assembly is configured to capture light-field data. A computing device in communication with the imaging assembly and the display device is configured to receive light-field data from the imaging assembly and render one or more virtual cameras. Images from the one or more virtual cameras are presented to a user via the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Joshua R. Smith, Samuel R. Browd, Rufus Griffin Nicoll, James Andrew Youngquist
  • Patent number: 12180686
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method provide visual representation of an area of interest proximate to a work vehicle (e.g., a loader) during operative movement. A first vehicle portion comprises a frame, and a second vehicle portion (e.g., front-mounted bucket) is moveable relative to the first portion, and may for example obscure the area of interest from view during at least part of a trajectory of bucket movement. At least two imaging devices are mounted on the work vehicle, at least one of which has a field of view including the area of interest at any given time throughout the trajectory of bucket movement. Image data is provided to a display unit representing the area of interest and based on inputs from one or more of the imaging devices, wherein a display of the area of interest is substantially maintained thereon throughout bucket movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Giovanni A. Wuisan, Rachel Bruflodt, Derek K. Pickett, Tianshuang Gao, Drake A. VanDerZyl
  • Patent number: 12184969
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing user avatars. In some examples, guidance is provided to a user while capturing image data for use in generating a user-specific avatar. In some examples, a user interface allows a user to intuitively customize a user avatar. In some examples, avatars are generated for a messaging session based on an avatar model for a user of the messaging application. In some examples, an avatar editing interface updates a user avatar in response to gestures and based on the type of gesture and the avatar feature that is selected for editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Guillaume Barlier, Sebastian Bauer, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Aurelio Guzman, Tiffany S. Jon, Johnnie B. Manzari, Nicole R. Ryan, Nicolas Scapel, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 12177609
    Abstract: A communication apparatus (10) includes: a communication unit (11) configured to transmit sensor information detected using at least two or more sensors, the two or more sensors being adapted to detect states of a mobile body in directions different from one another with the mobile body being a base point; a moving state recognition unit (12) configured to recognize a moving state; a peripheral state recognition unit (13) configured to recognize a peripheral state of the mobile body; and a communication control unit (14) configured to determine a priority level of each of the two or more sensors based on the moving state and the peripheral state and perform communication control so that the sensor information detected by the sensor having a high priority level is transmittable in quality higher than that of the sensor information detected by the sensor having a low priority level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Takanori Iwai
  • Patent number: 12170029
    Abstract: A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that an evacuation slide deployment path is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to identify a region within the captured image data that corresponds to the evacuation slide deployment path, determine whether the evacuation slide deployment path will generate a failed deployment outcome, and produce a warning associated with the evacuation slide deployment path in response to determining that the evacuation slide deployment path will generate the failed deployment outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Pesik, Jonathan Boer
  • Patent number: 12157416
    Abstract: A system for enhancing occupant awareness for a vehicle includes a camera system for capturing images of an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display for displaying information to the occupant of the vehicle and a controller in electrical communication with the camera system and the display. The controller is programmed to determine an activation state of the system. The controller is further programmed to capture an image of the environment surrounding the vehicle using the camera system in response to determining that the activation state is the activated state. The image has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the image includes a trailer connected to the vehicle and the second portion of the image. The controller is further programmed to display the second portion of the image to the occupant using the display based at least in part on the first portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Naserian, Allan Kenneth Lewis, Apral Singh Hara
  • Patent number: 12157417
    Abstract: A camera monitor system including a first mirror replacement assembly including a housing supporting a rear facing camera and a rear facing range sensor, a controller in communication with the mirror replacement assembly, the controller including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions for identifying at least one object in an image feed from the camera and determining an angular position of the object using image analysis, identifying a distance of the at least one object from the mirror replacement assembly using the range sensor; and fusing the distance and the angular position of the object into a single data set, and a display connected to the controller and configured to display a mirror replacement view including at least a portion of the image feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: STONERIDGE ELECTRONICS AB
    Inventors: Liang Ma, Troy Otis Cooprider, Dominik Marx
  • Patent number: 12145508
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for displaying a scene for a vehicle towing a trailer. A method includes: determining, by the processor, an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle; determining, by the processor, a simulated trailer based on the angle of the trailer; determining, by the processor, a projection matrix based on the simulated trailer; generating, by the processor, scene data based on image data from a camera of the vehicle and image data from a camera of the trailer using the projection matrix; and generating, by the processor, display data to display the scene to an occupant of the vehicle based on the scene data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Yovav Cohen Tene