Patents Examined by Christopher S Kelley
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Patent number: 11595619Abstract: A teleoperations system may be used to selectively override conditions detected by an autonomous vehicle to enable the autonomous vehicle to effectively ignore detected conditions that are identified as false positives by the teleoperations system. Furthermore, a teleoperations system may be used to generate commands that an autonomous vehicle validates prior to executing to confirm that the commands do not violate any vehicle constraints for the autonomous vehicle. Still further, an autonomous vehicle may be capable of dynamically varying the video quality of one or more camera feeds that are streamed to a teleoperations system over a bandwidth-constrained wireless network based upon a current context of the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Gwennael Herve Jonathan Gate, Dmitriy Kislovskiy, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov, Nathaniel Gist, IV
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Patent number: 11589031Abstract: An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sameh Khamis, Yinda Zhang, Christoph Rhemann, Julien Valentin, Adarsh Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Michael Schoenberg, Shahram Izadi, Thomas Funkhouser, Sean Fanello
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Patent number: 11589051Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for video signal processing. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include determining an input length and an output length of a non-separable transform based on a height and a width of a current block; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and the output length of a non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to coefficients by a number of the input length in the current block, wherein the height and the width of a current block is greater than or equal to 8, wherein, if each of the height and the width of a current block is equal to 8, the input length of the non-separable transform is determined as 8.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
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Patent number: 11577645Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a front portion of a vehicle, a display screen and a processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The processor performs first, second and third image manipulations on first, second and third portions of the image data to generate first, second and third region manipulated image data. The display screen displays first, second and third images derived from the manipulated image data at respective display regions. The displayed images are discontinuous at a first seam between first and second display regions and discontinuous at a second seam between first and third display regions. An object present in first and second regions of the view of the camera is displayed as discontinuous at the first seam and an object present in the first and third regions of the view of the camera is displayed as discontinuous at the second seam.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Yuesheng Lu
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Patent number: 11571110Abstract: An optical device may include an optical fiber having a fixed end and a free end a first actuator positioned at a actuator position between the fixed end and the free end and configured to apply a first force on the actuator position of the optical fiber such that a movement of the free end of the optical fiber in a first direction is caused, wherein the first direction is orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber; and a deformable rod disposed adjacent to the optical fiber, and having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to a first rod position of the optical fiber and the second end is connected to a second rod position of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: VPIX Medical IncorporationInventors: Kyungmin Hwang, Ki Hun Jeong
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Patent number: 11567293Abstract: An autofocus device includes a stage, a magnifying optical system, a light source device, an iris which is arranged at a position opposite to a sample of the magnifying optical system and configured to limit a light beam emitted from the light source device, and an AF camera which receives, via the magnifying optical system, a reflected light beam which is reflected from a reflection surface after the light beam reaches a glass member via the iris and the magnifying optical system. The light source device emits the light beam at a non-zero angle relative to the axis of the magnifying optical system. The control unit adjusts the position of the stage so as to match the position of a captured image of a shield with a target position. With such a configuration, it is possible to achieve the autofocus at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: RIKENInventors: Masato Yasui, Michio Hiroshima, Masahiro Ueda
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Patent number: 11561581Abstract: A virtual display apparatus includes: a flexible display component layer having a light exit surface and a non-light exit surface opposite to the light exit surface; a lens layer disposed at the light exit surface of the flexible display component layer, and configured to converge light; a curvature adjustment layer disposed on the non-light exit surface of the flexible display component layer. The lens layer has a first surface facing the flexible display component layer, and the first surface of the lens layer and the light exit surface of the flexible display component layer have a gap therebetween. The curvature adjustment layer is configured to deform in response to at least one deformation signal, so as to adjust distances between the first surface of the lens layer and different positions of the light exit surface of the flexible display component layer along a thickness direction of the lens layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Mingchao Wang, Xuewei Zhang
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Patent number: 11560091Abstract: Provided is a night vision output device comprising: an optical pulse output unit for outputting pulsed light at specific periods; a photographing unit having an image sensor for forming a plurality of images by using pulsed light reflected by an external object; a display unit for outputting a final image formed by synthesizing the plurality of images; and a control unit for calculating distance information of an object displayed in each pixel by using data of a brightness ratio for a distance and a brightness ratio for each pixel of the final image, wherein, in one frame, the control unit controls the image sensor such that the image sensor is activated while having different delay times on the basis of an output termination time of the pulsed light.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kwanhyung Kim, Hyunjoon Kim, Sangguel Oh, Dongryeol Lee, Salkmann Ji, Samnyol Hong
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Patent number: 11562509Abstract: In some examples, a method of decoding a point cloud includes decoding an initial QP value from an attribute parameter set. The method also includes determining a first QP value for a first component of an attribute of point cloud data from the initial QP value. The method further includes determining a QP offset value for a second component of the attribute of the point cloud data and determining a second QP value for the second component of the attribute from the first QP value and from the QP offset value. The method includes decoding the point cloud data based on the first QP value and further based on the second QP value.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Bappaditya Ray, Geert Van der Auwera, Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 11558643Abstract: In some examples, a method of decoding a point cloud includes determining a first slice QP value for a first component of an attribute in a slice of point cloud data. The method also includes decoding a first delta QP value for the first component of the attribute for a region in the slice and determining a first region QP value for the first component of the attribute in the region from the first slice QP value and from the first delta QP value. The method further includes decoding a second delta QP value for the second component of the attribute for the region and determining a second region QP value for the second component of the attribute in the region from the second delta QP value. The method includes decoding the point cloud data based on the first and second region QP values.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Bappaditya Ray, Geert Van der Auwera, Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 11553189Abstract: A method of decoding JVET video that includes receiving a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units, and parsing said bitstream to generate at least one predictor based on an intra prediction mode signaled in the bitstream, the intra prediction mode selected from a plurality of intra prediction modes for calculating a prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit. A number of intra prediction modes available for coding the coding unit are reduced by replacing two or more non-weighted intra prediction modes by a weighted intra prediction mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Yue Yu, Limin Wang, Krit Panusopone
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Patent number: 11546611Abstract: Provided is a method of coding blocks of video data representing an image using an encoder, the method including identifying, by the encoder, a first region of the image and a second region of the image, a sum of a first number of pixels in the first region and a second number of pixels in the second region being equal to a total number of pixels of the image, and allocating, by the encoder, a first number of bits including base bits for encoding the first region, and a second number of bits including base bits and enhancement bits for encoding the second region, a sum of the first number of bits and the second number of bits being equal to a total number of bits for encoding all of the pixels, wherein the second region is encoded with a greater number of bits per pixel than the first region.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai, Jalil Kamali
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Patent number: 11539960Abstract: A method for encoding including executing game logic built on a game engine of a video game at a cloud gaming server to generate video frames. The method including executing scene change logic to predict a scene change in the video frames based on game state collected during execution of the game logic. The method including identifying a range of video frames that is predicted to include the scene change. The method including generating a scene change hint using the scene change logic, wherein the scene change hint identifies the range of video frames, wherein the range of video frames includes a first video frame. The method including delivering the first video frame to an encoder. The method including sending the scene change hint from the scene change logic to the encoder. The method including encoding the first video frame as an I-frame based on the scene change hint.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Cerny, Kelvin M. Yong
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Patent number: 11531303Abstract: A video display system for providing vision correction for multiple users may include a display device having a holographic layer and a vision correction layer. The system may also include a processor coupled to the display device to receive a first prescription corresponding to a first user and a second prescription corresponding to a second user, and to modulate the display device so that the first user at a first angle and the second user at a second angle can view a non-distorted image from the display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: EAGLEMAE VENTURES LLCInventors: Robert A. Callagy, James J. Caprio
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Patent number: 11533480Abstract: An apparatus and a method filters reconstructed images, in particular, video images, with adaptive multiplicative filters. The apparatus and method groups the multiplier coefficients of the filter into at least two groups; determines the value of each multiplier coefficient in a first group so as to be allowed to assume any value in a first set of allowed values of multiplier coefficients, determines the value of each multiplier coefficient in a second group so as to be allowed to assume any value in a second set of allowed values of multiplier coefficients, and filters the set of samples of an image with the filter. At least one of the first and second sets has at least one value that is not in the other set.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Zhijie Zhao, Anand Meher Kotra, Jianle Chen
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Patent number: 11527007Abstract: A camera is provided that has an image sensor having a plurality of pixel elements for recording image data of an object stream moved in a direction of movement relative to the camera and having objects of a height, and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine the height of a respective object with reference to the image data. The image sensor here is an event-based image sensor and the control and evaluation unit is configured to detect a measurement series of points in time at which pixel elements adjacent in the direction of movement consecutively register an event to determine a speed of an object image of the object on the image sensor from said measurement series and from this the height.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SICK AGInventors: Romain Müller, Florian Schneider
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Patent number: 11518395Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for cross-validating a second sensor with a first sensor. Cross-validating the second sensor may include obtaining sensor readings from the first sensor and comparing the sensor readings from the first sensor with sensor readings obtained from the second sensor. In particular, the comparison of the sensor readings may include comparing state information about a vehicle detected by the first sensor and the second sensor. In addition, comparing the sensor readings may include obtaining a first image from the first sensor, obtaining a second image from the second sensor, and then comparing various characteristics of the images. One characteristic that may be compared are object labels applied to the vehicle detected by the first and second sensor. The first and second sensors may be different types of sensors.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Christopher Paul Urmson
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Patent number: 11523090Abstract: A method and a motion data extraction and vectorization system (MDEVS) extract and vectorize motion data of an object in motion with optimized data storage and data transmission bandwidth. The MDEVS includes an image sensor, a motion data processor, and a storage unit. The image sensor captures video data including a series of image frames of the object in motion. The motion data processor detects an object in motion from consecutive image frames, extracts motion data of the detected object in motion from each image frame, and generates a matrix of vectors defining the object in motion for each image frame using the extracted motion data. The motion data includes, for example, image data of the object, trajectory data, relative physical dimensions, a type of the object, time stamp of each image frame, etc. The storage unit maintains the generated matrix of vectors for local storage, transmission, and analysis.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: The Chamberlain Group LLCInventors: Fred Cheng, Herman Yau
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Patent number: 11523046Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for generating a focus corrected image of a sample disposed on a sample holder of an imaging system is disclosed. The imaging system includes an image sensor and a lens moveable relative to the image sensor between a first position and a second position. A characteristic map of the lens is developed that associates coordinates of each pixel of an image generated by the imaging sensor with one of a first plurality of locations of the lens between the first position and the second position. An image generator develops an output pixel of a focus-corrected image of a sample from a plurality of images of the sample acquired when the lens is positioned at a corresponding one of a second plurality of locations of the lens between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLCInventors: Dihui Hong, Stephen Rhein, Avrum Cohen, Steve Luke
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Patent number: 11516454Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting metadata for omnidirectional content including a plurality of viewpoints. The method comprises identifying the metadata for the omnidirectional content including the plurality of viewpoints; and transmitting the identified metadata, wherein the metadata includes information about an identifier (ID) of a viewpoint group including at least one viewpoint of the plurality of viewpoints, and wherein the at least one viewpoint in the viewpoint group shares a common reference coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eric Yip, Hyunkoo Yang, Youngwan So, Jaehyeon Bae