Patents Examined by Daquan Zhao
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Patent number: 10313658Abstract: A vehicle-mounted stereo camera device that achieves high-precision distance detection is provided. The provided vehicle-mounted stereo camera device includes a left camera and right camera disposed on a vehicle via a holder to cause visual fields to overlap each other, a stereo processor that calculates a distance to a body outside the vehicle based on images captured by the left camera and right camera and on positions on the vehicle, first and second geomagnetic sensors respectively disposed near the left camera and right camera, and a third geomagnetic sensor disposed on the holder. The stereo processor compares a geomagnetic value detected by the first or second geomagnetic sensor with a geomagnetic value detected by the third geomagnetic sensor, detects a displacement amount of the left camera or right camera, and changes a cutout position in the image captured by the left camera or right camera based on the displacement amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Yatsuri, Norikazu Yamamoto, Mitsuru Kashihara, Yuichi Suzuki, Ken Ishida
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Patent number: 10303953Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating person tracking and data security in machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting, by a camera associated with one or more trackers, a person within a physical vicinity, where detecting includes capturing one or more images the person. The method may further include tracking, by the one or more trackers, the person based on the one or more images of the person, where tracking includes collect tracking data relating to the person. The method may further include selecting a tracker of the one or more trackers as a preferred tracker based on the tracking data.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mayuresh M. Varerkar, Barnan Das, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Sherine Abdelhak, Sachin Godse, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Altug Koker, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Dukhwan Kim, Feng Chen, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
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Patent number: 10298994Abstract: A mobile device running a mobile application accesses a remote content receiver to request the remote content receiver to retrieve a particular recording timer, and upon receiving the recording timer from the remote content receiver, establishes a radio communication link with a second mobile device and transfers the recording timer to the second mobile device over the established radio communication link. The radio communication link is preferably the Near Field Communication (NFC) link.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.Inventors: Christofer Hardy, Thomas Allan Yarborough
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Patent number: 10291960Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for processing content recording requests. The method includes producing a prioritized set of recording requests from all pending recording requests, analyzing the prioritized set of requests with respect to available resources, and producing a list of content requests to be excluded from a recording schedule due to resource constraints. Content recording is performed based on results of the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventor: Brian Duane Clevenger
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Patent number: 10291879Abstract: A playback method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is performed by a Blu-ray device connected to a display device. The playback method includes obtaining, from a recording medium, output control information of content recorded on the recording medium; obtaining, from the recording medium, a video signal of the content recorded on the recording medium; and (a) outputting the obtained video signal to the display device without converting image quality of the video signal, when the obtained output control information does not restrict output of content using a first copyright protection technology, and (b) converting the image quality of the obtained video signal and outputting the video signal to the display device, when the obtained output control information restricts output of content using the first copyright protection technology and output using the first copyright protection technology is performed according to a type of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Kaoru Murase, Masaya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10291904Abstract: An installation process for a sensor associated with a passenger conveyance system, the process including at least partially automatically calibrating a sensor coordinate system to a world coordinate system via a calibration matrix, wherein the sensor coordinate system is at least partially obtained using a depth map.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Alan Matthew Finn, Hui Fang, Arthur Hsu
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Patent number: 10284808Abstract: Systems and methods can support a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus can include a data processor that is associated with a data capturing device on a stationary object and/or a movable object. The data processor can receive data in a data flow from one or more data sources, wherein the data flow is configured based on a time sequence. Then, the data processor can receive a control signal, which is associated with a first timestamp, wherein the first timestamp indicates a first time. Furthermore, the data processor can determine a first data segment by applying the first timestamp on the data flow, wherein the first data segment is associated with a time period in the time sequence that includes the first time.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheldon Schwartz, Tao Wang, Mingyu Wang, Zisheng Cao
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Patent number: 10277960Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for seeding video programs with episodic interactive items improve computer performance by averting tracking loss. The system includes a scene map table that maintains a scene record for every scene in the video. The scene record contains boundary information for the scene and linking information to companion scenes that are visually similar. When a developer tags an episodic item in the video for interactivity, the scene record for the scene where the item is tagged is accessed in the scene map table. The boundary information from this scene record is used to track the item across the scene without tracking loss and the linking information from this scene record is used to access scene records for companion scenes, allowing the item to be tracked across the companion scenes without tracking loss.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Tap Media Labs, Inc.Inventors: Steven Owen Markel, Theo Chitayat, John Mark Robinson
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Patent number: 10270967Abstract: An image capture system and methods for auto-recording media data are herein disclosed. A method includes receiving an activity type selection, selecting an activity-specific monitor based on the activity type selection, and capturing media data. The activity-specific monitor defines one or more auto-recording conditions that, when satisfied, cause the image capture system to begin recording media data. The method includes executing the activity-specific monitor, the activity-specific monitor: receiving current sensor data from the one or more sensors; determining whether the one or more auto-recording conditions defined by the activity-specific monitor are met by the current sensor data; and outputting a notification indicating that the one or more auto-recording conditions are met when the auto-recording conditions are met.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan Leland Thorn
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Patent number: 10261305Abstract: The invention relates to a device (II) for three-dimensional focusing in a microscope (I) with a given resolution, comprising: —a detector (119) making it possible to determine, in a given measuring plane, a phase and intensity image of an electromagnetic field resulting from the interaction of an incident light wave with a reference object (105) situated in a reference medium with a given index and having a complex refractive index, the real part and/or the imaginary part of which differs from the real part and/or the imaginary part, respectively, of the refractive index of the reference medium; —computation means (121) making it possible to determine a three-dimensional position variation of the reference object (105) from at least one phase and intensity image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Aix-MarseilleInventors: Jérôme Wenger, Pierre Dominique Bon, Serge Olivier Pierre Monneret
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Patent number: 10262692Abstract: It is provided a method for a computerized, server autonomously producing a TV show of a sports game in a scene. The method includes receiving from several video cameras a stream of video images of the scene for capturing a panoramic view of the scene, analyzing the stream of video images for allowing definition of several frame streams, determining location data of the frame streams accordingly, and rendering an active frame stream with images imaging a respective portion of the panoramic view of the scene. The method includes also transmitting for broadcasting a stream of image frames imaging the respective portion of the panoramic view. The step of analyzing the stream of video images includes identifying a playing object, tracking the playing, object and identifying players. The method also includes calibrating the cameras using points in the playing field.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: PIXELLOT LTD.Inventors: Miki Tamir, Gal Oz, Tal Ridnik
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Patent number: 10262690Abstract: Reduction in reproduction quality is suppressed in an imaging device that images a sound and a moving image. A frame rate converter converts a frame rate of a frame captured outside a predetermined period among a plurality of frames captured at a predetermined frame rate to a low frame rate lower than the predetermined frame rate. A duplication unit duplicates an original sound signal recorded over the predetermined period to generate a plurality of duplicated sound signals each of which is identical to the original sound signal. The audio signal processing unit performs different signal processing on each of the plurality of duplicated sound signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomonobu Hayakawa, Shinji Negishi
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Patent number: 10255951Abstract: A playback device includes: an attribute reader that reads out first attribute information, indicating whether a dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is a first dynamic range or a second dynamic range, from a management information file recorded in the recording medium in a manner correlated with the video stream; a decoder that generates decoded video information by reading the video stream out from the recording medium and decoding the video stream; and an outputter that, in a case where the first attribute information that has been read out indicates the second dynamic range, outputs the decoded video information, along with maximum luminance information indicating a maximum luminance of the video stream in accordance with the second dynamic range.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma, Tomoki Ogawa
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Patent number: 10249341Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for synchronizing audiovisual content with inertial outputs for content reproduced on a mobile content device include, in response to a vibration of the mobile content device, receiving a recorded audio signal and a corresponding recorded inertial signal generated by the vibration. The recorded signals are each processed to determine a timestamp for a corresponding peak in each of the recorded signals. A time distance between the timestamp of the recorded audio signal and the timestamp of the recorded inertial signal is determine and inertial signals for content reproduced on the mobile content device are shifted by an amount of time equal to the determined time distance between the timestamp of the recorded audio signal and the timestamp of the recorded inertial signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Julien Fleureau, Fabien Danieau, Khanh-Duy Le
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Patent number: 10242710Abstract: A system for performing automatic cinemagraph creation is described herein. The system comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to receive series of images. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor is to segment the series of images, select the most fitting times and mask, and apply the times and masks to the series of images to generate a cinemagraph.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jonathan Abramson, Gilad Baruch
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Patent number: 10237513Abstract: Systems and methods can support a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus can include a data processor that is associated with a data capturing device on a stationary object and/or a movable object. The data processor can receive data in a data flow from one or more data sources, wherein the data flow is configured based on a time sequence. Then, the data processor can receive a control signal, which is associated with a first timestamp, wherein the first timestamp indicates a first time. Furthermore, the data processor can determine a first data segment by applying the first timestamp on the data flow, wherein the first data segment is associated with a time period in the time sequence that includes the first time.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheldon Schwartz, Tao Wang, Mingyu Wang, Zisheng Cao
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Patent number: 10227042Abstract: A camera surround view system for a vehicle includes at least one vehicle camera, which provides camera images. The camera images are processed by a data processing unit in order to produce a live video image stream, which is displayed on a display unit. The camera surround view system loads local cloud information data regarding an object shown in the live video image stream from a data network and displays the obtained local cloud information data as an overlay in the displayed live video image stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: CONTI TEMIC MICROELECTRONIC GMBHInventor: Markus Friebe
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Patent number: 10229714Abstract: A time slice video providing apparatus includes a video receiving unit configured to receive multiple videos recorded by multiple cameras, a selection unit configured to select a region of interest from at least one of the multiple videos, a coordinate restoring unit configured to restore multi-dimensional center coordinates based on the selected region of interest and positional relationship information between the multiple cameras, and a generation unit configured to extract each image from the multiple videos based on the restored multi-dimensional center coordinates and generate a time slice video using each of the extracted images.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventor: Hyoung-Chul Shin
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Patent number: 10220783Abstract: A vehicle-mounted stereo camera device that achieves high-precision distance detection is provided, including a left camera and a right camera disposed to cause visual fields to overlap each other, a first enclosure and a second enclosure that enclose the left camera and the right camera and have portions within the visual fields of the left camera and the right camera, respectively, and a stereo processor that calculates a distance to a body outside the vehicle based on images captured by the left camera and the right camera and on positions of the left camera and the right camera on the vehicle. The stereo processor detects displacement amounts of the left camera and the right camera based on amounts of change in positions of the first enclosure and the second enclosure within the visual fields of the left camera and the right camera, and changes a cutout position in the images captured by the left camera and the right camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Yatsuri, Norikazu Yamamoto, Mitsuru Kashihara, Yuichi Suzuki, Ken Ishida
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Patent number: 10225477Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a first display panel unit for executing display toward a user side; a second display panel unit for executing display toward a subject side; an imaging processing unit for subjecting incident light from the subject side to photoelectric conversion to obtain a captured image signal; a recording processing unit for executing a recording process to a recording medium regarding the captured image signal obtained at the imaging processing unit; and a control unit for controlling the display states of the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit for each of a plurality of various types of operation periods changing along with the operation of the imaging processing unit or the recording processing unit, and executing display control wherein the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit can have different display content during at least a single operation period.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Miho Akita, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Sho Tanaka