Patents Examined by Daquan Zhao
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Patent number: 10735717Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each vehicle orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations, for example by comparing these representations to previously stored information about the sensor targets and generating a correction based on differences, the correction applied to post-calibration sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventor: Nick Semansky
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Patent number: 10729502Abstract: Systems and methods for generating surgical summary footage are disclosed. A system may include at least one processor configured to implement a method including accessing particular surgical footage containing a first group of frames associated with at least one intraoperative surgical event and a second group of frames not associated with surgical activity. The method may include accessing historical data based on historical surgical footage of prior surgical procedures, wherein the historical data includes information that distinguishes portions of surgical footage into frames associated with intraoperative surgical events and frames not associated with surgical activity. The method may include distinguishing in the particular surgical footage the first group from the second group based on the information and, upon request of a user, presenting to the user an aggregate of the first group of the particular surgical footage while omitting presentation to the user of the second group.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: THEATOR INC.Inventors: Tamir Wolf, Dotan Asselmann
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Patent number: 10733749Abstract: An apparatus for supervising a vicinity of a vehicle includes: an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a parallax calculation unit that performs a sub pixel estimation based on the plurality of images to calculate a parallax value; a parallax offset calculation unit that calculates a parallax offset value based on the parallax value under a condition where a decimal part S of the parallax value is within a predetermined range; and a parallax correction unit that corrects the parallax value using the parallax offset value.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiko Terada, Naohide Uchida, Hirotake Ishigami, Hiroaki Ito
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Patent number: 10726876Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for replaying a video that includes positions of a video recording device. The method includes obtaining a target position of the video recording device corresponding to a target scene. The method further includes based on the target position, searching an index table associated with the video to determine a target index position of the video recording device, wherein the index table indexes a plurality of positions of the video recording device. The method further includes determining an offset address in the index table corresponding to the target index position. The method further includes obtaining a video clip including the target scene based on the offset address. The method still further includes replaying the target scene in the video clip.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Changhong Qin, Shengguo Cao, Shouyi Wang
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Patent number: 10714143Abstract: Assistance information related to a tier framework may describe signaling for extractable and decodable sub-sequences based on pictures interdependencies. This may allow a video application to efficiently select pictures when performing a given trick mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Arturo A. Rodriguez, Kevin Alistair Murray, Scott Christopher Labrozzi
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Patent number: 10712924Abstract: A system for monitoring the movement of objects, structures, models of structures, cables and the like provides for the acquisition of images with an optical sensing device such as a video camera fixedly mounted at a selected distance from the item studied, in which the images are arranged into frames divided into pixels which are characterized by an intensity reflected or emitted over a selected time interval, and a data processing system to calculate a physical displacement as function of time of the item being studied or a portion of the item being studied based on an output from the video camera, and in some embodiments the system visually distinguishes one or more locations in the frame to indicate a difference in the phase of motion for multiple objects appearing in the frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Jeffrey R. Hay
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Patent number: 10706890Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating cinematic space-time view synthesis in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by one or more cameras, multiple images at multiple positions or multiple points in times, where the multiple images represent multiple views of an object or a scene, where the one or more cameras are coupled to one or more processors of a computing device. The method further includes synthesizing, by a neural network, the multiple images into a single image including a middle image of the multiple images and representing an intermediary view of the multiple views.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Gowri Somanath, Oscar Nestares
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Patent number: 10701363Abstract: Two or more video signals are received at respective two or more peer-level storage nodes. Discrete wavelet transformations are performed on the two or more video signals via the two or more peer-level storage nodes. Temporally stationary background data is determined from the discrete wavelet transformations at each of the two or more peer-level storage nodes. Redundancies are determined using the temporally stationary background data, the redundancies indicating an overlap between the two or more video signals. A storage size of two or more video signals is reduced by not storing the redundancies on at least one of the peer-level storage nodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventor: Mehmet Fatih Erden
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Patent number: 10701332Abstract: An image processing system that generates a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images acquired by capturing an image of an image capturing target region from a plurality of directions using a plurality of cameras includes a storage control unit that stores, in a storage unit, visibility information about an element of a three-dimensional shape model of an object whose image is captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras, an acquisition unit that acquires viewpoint information indicating one or more virtual viewpoints, and an image generation unit that generates one or more virtual viewpoint images corresponding to the one or more virtual viewpoints identified by the viewpoint information, based on the plurality of captured images, the three-dimensional shape model, and the visibility information stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasufumi Takama
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Patent number: 10701365Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for manually or automatically identifying delineating scenes in media content. Scene categorization parameters setting forth thematic and/or cinematic criteria are used to analyze frames or groups of pictures (GOPs) making up the media content. Those frames or GOPs having one or more characteristics that meet the thematic and/or cinematic criteria may be deemed to belong or be a part of a particular scene in the media content. Downstream applications or processes can be optimized based on the scene segmentation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mark Arana, Jared McPhillen
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Patent number: 10692537Abstract: A method to author music. The method includes generating, based on a collection of media clips stored on a device, an audio component for an audio/video (A/V) presentation, determining a plurality of locations within the audio component where a beat, onset, segment boundary, or stinger occurs within the audio component, selecting a particular location in the plurality of locations as a transition location, generating, based the collection of media clips and the transition location within the audio component, a video component for the A/V presentation, and generating the A/V presentation based on the audio component and the video component.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aaron M. Eppolito, Conner Stuart Richardson, Wendy L. DeVore
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Patent number: 10678187Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a large area lens-free imaging device. One example is a lens-free device for imaging one or more objects. The lens-free device includes a light source positioned for illuminating at least one object. The lens-free device also includes a detector positioned for recording interference patterns of the illuminated at least one object. The light source includes a plurality of light emitters that are positioned and configured to create a controlled light wavefront for performing lens-free imaging.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: IMEC VZWInventors: Richard Stahl, Tom Claes, Xavier Rottenberg, Geert Vanmeerbeeck, Andy Lambrechts
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Patent number: 10677596Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Patent number: 10679674Abstract: In order to provide a recording and reproducing device that allows a user to select and manage arbitrary play lists, a unit of management for managing all registered play list information and an upper management hierarchical level are added. The unit of management is adapted to be handled on the same level with unified information that indicates a reproduction range of all AV data. User-defined unified information is adapted to be handled on the added management hierarchical level. The user-defined unified information is formed to allow arbitrary reproduction ranges contained on a lower hierarchical level to be registered.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Junji Shiokawa, Hiroo Okamoto
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Patent number: 10674222Abstract: In various embodiments, a subtitle application generates a subtitle list for a trailer. In operation, the subtitle application performs matching operation(s) between trailer audio associated with a trailer and source audio associated with an audiovisual program. The subtitle application then maps a subtitle associated with the source audio from a source timeline associated with the source audio to a trailer timeline associated with the trailer audio to generate a mapped subtitle. Subsequently, the subtitle application generates a trailer subtitle list based on the mapped subtitle and at least one additional mapped subtitle. Because the subtitle application generates the trailer subtitle list based on audio comparisons, the subtitle application ensures that the proper subtitles are included in the trailer subtitle list without requiring a subtitler to view the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.Inventors: Murthy Parthasarathi, Yadong Wang, Boney Sekh
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Patent number: 10653305Abstract: An image processing system includes an image sensor receiving light beams to output an output signal corresponding to a horizontal scan period and an image processor electronically connecting to the image sensor and including a signal interceptor and a calculating unit. The image processor transforms the output signal to generate a combining signal. The signal interceptor intercepts a first part of the combining signal corresponding to a first clock period of the horizontal scan period to obtain a first signal and intercepts a second part of the combining signal corresponding to a second clock period of the horizontal scan period to obtain a second signal. The calculating unit calculates the first signal and the second signal to obtain an image pixel data according to a differential calculation. The number of clocks of the first clock period is the same as the number of clocks of the second clock period.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: OPCOM INC.Inventor: Chih-Yu Ting
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Patent number: 10650859Abstract: A system includes a recorder configured to record audio and/or video of a subject of interest and output a recording of the subject of interest and a non-contact sensor associated with the recorder. The non-contact sensor is constructed and arranged to measure movement and/or vibration of the subject of interest from substantially the same perspective and at the same time as the recorder. The system includes a controller configured to transform the measured movement and/or vibration of the subject of interest measured by the non-contact sensor into a tactile data stream for sending to a haptic display device for playback with the recording of the subject of interest by the recorder and providing haptic effects corresponding to the measured movement and/or vibration to a user of the haptic display device in synchronization with the recording.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Ullrich, Robert Lacroix
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Patent number: 10636451Abstract: Aspects of encoding and decoding video content are provided. An encoding system detects a scene change by identifying a first picture among a sequence of pictures that corresponds to a last picture of a first scene, identifying a second picture among the sequence of pictures that corresponds to a first picture of a second scene, and determining that one or more pictures that are between the first picture and the second picture in the sequence of pictures correspond to an input transition scene between the first scene and the second scene. The encoded video content indicates an existence of the input transition scene and information for reproducing a transition scene. A decoding system generates the transition scene that corresponds to the input transition scene based on the received indication of the existence of the input transition scene and the information for reproducing the transition scene.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, Xiang Li
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Patent number: 10635914Abstract: A system for testing a camera for vision system for a vehicle includes providing a camera having a field of view and providing and disposing a test structure in the field of view of the camera and between the camera and a target. The test structure includes at least one optic and is capable of directing a principal axis of the at least one optic toward multiple respective regions of the target. The camera views the target via the at least one optic. Image data is captured with the camera. The captured image data is representative of images of the target including the multiple regions of the target as captured when the at least one optic has its principal axis directed toward the respective regions of the target. The image data captured by the camera is processed to determine the focus at each of the multiple regions of the target.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Matthew C. Sesti, David F. Olson, Robert A. Devota, John R. Garcia, Donald W. Mersino
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Patent number: 10629242Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for recording user activity on a computer. The method includes creating a video file for a video sequence of a user interface of an application of the computer. Video frames may be recorded in the video file, wherein a video frame comprises data indicative of the visual representation of the user interface and corresponding timestamp, wherein the data of the video frame is parsable.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michal Bodziony, Artur M. Gruszecki, Tomasz Kazalski, Rafal Korczyk, Tomasz Sekman