Patents Examined by Daquan Zhao
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Patent number: 11514307Abstract: A learning apparatus includes a first learning unit, a learning data generator, and a second learning unit. The first learning unit implements a learning process for a first classifier such that a class applicable degree of a candidate class corresponding to a correct answer class becomes the maximum as compared with class applicable degrees of other candidate classes. The learning data generator performs a classification process for a classification target using the first classifier already subjected to the learning process, converts class applicable degrees of a plurality of candidate classes, which are output by the first classifier already subjected to the learning process into a dimensionally compressed value based on a predetermined compression rule, and generates second learning data in which the identification target is associated with the dimensionally compressed value. The second learning unit implements a learning process for a second classifier using the second learning data.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyoko Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11516550Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for generating an interactive digital video content item, a digital video content item is accessed. Subject recognition is performed on the digital video content item, wherein the subject recognition automatically identifies a visual subject within the digital video content item. Responsive to identifying the visual subject, an interactive region is applied to visual subject within the digital video content item, wherein the interactive region enables presentation of content related to the visual subject in response to a user interaction with the interactive region during presentation of the digital video content item.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Richard Rabbat, Ernestine Fu
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Patent number: 11509839Abstract: A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and ‘meta data’ concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and ‘meta data’ external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: DIVX, LLCInventors: Jason Braness, Jerome Rota, Eric William Grab, Jerald Donaldson, Heather Hitchcock, Damien Chavarria, Michael John Floyd, Brian T. Fudge, Adam H. Li
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Patent number: 11508412Abstract: A video image editing device or the like, capable of editing a wraparound video image generated by using a plurality of video images captured by multi-viewpoint cameras to be comfortably viewable by viewers, is provided. Based on information about the positions and the sizes of X subjects, a polynomial expression regarding the position of the subject and a polynomial expression regarding the size of the subject are generated. Correction or interpolation of the positions of the H subjects is performed by a polynomial approximation curve using the polynomial expression regarding the position of the subject, correction or interpolation of the sizes of the N subjects is performed by a polynomial approximation curve using the polynomial expression regarding the size of the subject, and the sizes of the N subjects are expanded or contracted with an expansion/contraction parameter p.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Takeda, Dan Mikami, Yoshinori Kusachi
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Patent number: 11509826Abstract: An imaging device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an imaging section that captures a video, a static image file generation section that extracts a first frame from a plurality of frames constituting the video and generates a static image file, a video file generation section that divides the video in accordance with the generation of the static image file to generate a plurality of video files, and a storage section that stores the static image file in association with a first video file that includes the first frame among the plurality of video files.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsu Wada, Kenkichi Hayashi, Koichi Tanaka, Yukinori Nishiyama, Tetsuya Fujikawa
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Patent number: 11501875Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable media for obtaining the informed consent of a patient for a medical procedure. Specifically, a video describing a medical procedure may be provided to the patient through a client device having two display portions. As the video is playing in a first portion, the client device may capture the patient watching the video and display the captured image on the second portion. The entire display of the client device may be recorded, providing a record that the patient has watched the video describing the medical procedure and consents to the medical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: inFormed Consent LLCInventors: Daniel R. Kloster, Jason Blake Penrod
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Patent number: 11503244Abstract: Systems and methods to position and play content. The system renders a first content segment to an output device at an accelerated speed for the first content segment. Next, the system receives a request to play the first content segment from the beginning of the first content segment at a normal speed for the first content segment. Next, the system automatically positions to the beginning of the first content segment based on position information that is associated with the first content segment. Finally, the system renders the first content segment to the output device from the beginning of the first content segment at a normal speed for the first content segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: OPENTV, INC.Inventor: Joel Zdepski
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Patent number: 11494428Abstract: Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: DIVX, LLCInventors: Kourosh Soroushian, Shaiwal Priyadarshi, Jason Braness, Roland Osborne, William Frantz, Jerome Vashisht-Rota, Daniel Salmonsen, John Funnell, Michael Floyd
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Patent number: 11496722Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a multiscopic image capture system, a plurality of images depicting a scene. The method includes determining, by application of a neural network based on the plurality of images, a disparity map of the scene. The neural network includes a plurality of layers, and the layers include a rectification layer. The method include determining a matching error of the disparity map based on differences between corresponding pixels of two or more images associated with the disparity map. The method includes back-propagating the matching error to the rectification layer of the neural network. Back-propagating the matching error includes updating one or more weights applied to the rectification layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventor: Guy Satat
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Patent number: 11482243Abstract: A system including a key moments engine (KME) and a method for automatically identifying and ranking key moments in a media asset. The KME extracts an audio stream from the media asset and stores the audio stream as an audio file. The KME divides the audio file into sub-second audio segments. The KME computes an audio signal level for each of the sub-second audio segments and generates an array of audio signal levels for the audio file. The KME generates clusters of the audio signal levels from the array of audio signal levels. The KME dynamically determines threshold levels for classifying the audio signal levels in the array using the clusters. The KME identifies the key moments from the classified audio signal levels and computes a rank for each of the identified key moments based on ranking criteria.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: PRIME FOCUS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Suhas Kodandaram Jamadagni, Muralidhar Kolar Sridhar, Nagaraju Surisetty, Adrish Bera
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Automatically modifying display presentations to programmatically accommodate for visual impairments
Patent number: 11482133Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for identifying one or more visual impairments of a user, mapping the visual impairments to one or more accessibility solutions, (e.g., program code entries) and dynamically modifying a display presentation based at least in part on the identified accessibility solutions.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Optum Services (Ireland) LimitedInventors: Sarah Noreen O'Reilly, Michael Keane, Gareth M. Crossan, Patrick G. Mooney -
Patent number: 11482256Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods video recording and video replaying. The method may include obtaining video data from a video recording device. The method may also include generating an index item corresponding to the video data if the video data includes a key frame, wherein the index item includes an index position of the video recording device corresponding to the key frame, and an offset address used to determine an address where the key frame is stored. The method may further include storing an index table including at least the index item in a video.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Changhong Qin, Shengguo Cao, Shouyi Wang
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Patent number: 11467392Abstract: An endoscope processor includes: an acquisition circuit configured to acquire display size information on a display that is connected to the endoscope processor; a display condition setting circuit configured to set, according to the acquired display size information and properties of an imager of an endoscope that is connected to the endoscope processor, a monitor shift value representing an amount of shift between a first image and a second image corresponding to first image data and second image data, respectively, the first image data and the second image data each having parallax with respect to a same subject; and an image processor configured to shift the first image and the second image to generate display image data to be output to the display using the set monitor shift value.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Mizoguchi, Yasushi Namii
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Patent number: 11468916Abstract: 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: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Junji Shiokawa, Hiroo Okamoto
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Patent number: 11455731Abstract: Embodiments are directed to video segmentation based on detected video features. More specifically, a segmentation of a video is computed by determining candidate boundaries from detected feature boundaries from one or more feature tracks; modeling different segmentation options by constructing a graph with nodes that represent candidate boundaries, edges that represent candidate segments, and edge weights that represent cut costs; and computing the video segmentation by solving a shortest path problem to find the path through the edges (segmentation) that minimizes the sum of edge weights along the path (cut costs). A representation of the video segmentation is presented, for example, using interactive tiles or a video timeline that represent(s) the video segments in the segmentation.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Hijung Shin, Cristin Ailidh Fraser, Aseem Agarwala, Lubomira Dontcheva, Joel Richard Brandt, Jovan Popović
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Patent number: 11456369Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein that facilitate temporally synchronizing, in real time, a separately sourced high quality audio segment of a live event with a video segment that is generated by a recording device associated with a member of the audience. An A-V Synchronization Application may synchronize a video segment of a live event that is generated from a personal electronic device of an audience member with a high quality audio segment that is separately sourced and generated by professional sound recording equipment at the live event. The result of the temporal synchronization is a high fidelity digital audio visual recording of the live event. In various, the audience member may stream, in real-time, the high fidelity digital audio visual recording to an additional electronic device at a different geo-location. In some examples, narrative audio segments may be also included as part of the high fidelity digital audio visual recording.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: BYGGE TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Neil C. Marck, Anthony Sharick
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Patent number: 11451863Abstract: Provided is a method including providing a first audio content object that includes a plurality of audio content segments to a set of user computing devices. Each audio content segment of the plurality of audio content segments is associated with a first version. The method also includes obtaining a second version of a first audio content segment and updating the first version of the first audio content segment to the second version to generate a second audio content object that includes the second version of the first audio content segment and at least a first version of a second audio content segment. The method also includes providing the second audio content object to at least a first portion of the set of user computing devices and indicating a version history of the first audio content segment to at least the first portion of the set of user computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Spooler Media, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Benjamin, Henry Blodget, James O. Boggs, Andrew Bowers, Kerry Donahue
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Patent number: 11450112Abstract: Embodiments are directed to segmentation and hierarchical clustering of video. In an example implementation, a video is ingested to generate a multi-level hierarchical segmentation of the video. In some embodiments, the finest level identifies a smallest interaction unit of the video—semantically defined video segments of unequal duration called clip atoms. Clip atom boundaries are detected in various ways. For example, speech boundaries are detected from audio of the video, and scene boundaries are detected from video frames of the video. The detected boundaries are used to define the clip atoms, which are hierarchically clustered to form a multi-level hierarchical representation of the video. In some cases, the hierarchical segmentation identifies a static, pre-computed, hierarchical set of video segments, where each level of the hierarchical segmentation identifies a complete set (i.e., covering the entire range of the video) of disjoint (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Hijung Shin, Xue Bai, Aseem Agarwala, Joel R. Brandt, Jovan Popović, Lubomira Dontcheva, Dingzeyu Li, Joy Oakyung Kim, Seth Walker
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Patent number: 11451805Abstract: A buffer device stores, in relation to a first area and a second area, which are partial areas respectively located on an identical line of an encoding target frame, and a third area, which is a partial area on the line below the identical line, reference image data for each search range of a reference frame that is referred to during motion search processing executed in order of the first area, the second area, and the third area, the buffer device including a memory for storing the reference image data, and a buffer control unit which, when the motion search processing is executed on the second area, executes control so that among the reference image data included in a first search range that is referred to during the motion search processing of the first area, the reference image data included in a third search range that is referred to during the motion search processing of the third area are left in the memory without being deleted.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Omori, Takayuki Onishi, Hiroe Iwasaki, Atsushi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11428933Abstract: A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic performance content (e.g., a live performance) to viewers in a venue. The LF display system in the venue includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. The array of LF modules create a performance volume (e.g., a stage) for displaying the performance content in the venue. The array of LF modules displays the performance content to viewers in viewing volumes. The LF display system can be included in a LF presentation network. The LF presentation network allows holographic performance content to be recorded at one location and displayed (concurrently or non-concurrently) at another location. The LF presentation network includes a network system to manage the digital rights of the holographic performance content.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm