Patents Examined by Daquan Zhao
  • Patent number: 11451805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Omori, Takayuki Onishi, Hiroe Iwasaki, Atsushi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11428933
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm
  • Patent number: 11410539
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to real-time surveillance/monitoring of an environment using an Internet of Things (IoT) based integrated device. The integrated device comprises replaceable sensors and programmable image/video capturing device, that are communicatively connected to a processor. The processor correlates sensor data and data related to the images, audios and videos received from the replaceable sensors and the programmable image/video capturing device to validate occurrence of event in the environment. Later, information related to the validated events are transmitted to edge nodes, cloud servers, user devices or other sensor nodes for effective monitoring of occurred events. The integration of programmable image/video capturing device with the replaceable sensors helps in reducing chances of false event detection, as well as allows users to program the image capturing device for detection of various events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sixth Energy Technologies PVT Ltd.
    Inventor: Rangarajan Kasiviswanathan
  • Patent number: 11405579
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods related to Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) are described. For example, a removable storage device, such as a secure digital (SD) memory card or a micro SD card, can be configured to run a virtual camera agent. When the removable storage device is inserted into a digital camera to provide a storage capacity for the digital camera, the agent can convert the video captured by the digital camera into video captured by a virtual camera. The virtual camera can be configured to be in compliance with the camera requirements of a VSaaS platform. Thus, a digital camera not in compliance with the platform can still be used with the platform through the deployment of the virtual camera that is enabled by the removable storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Poorna Kale, Te-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 11397967
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Eric K. Barnum
  • Patent number: 11393211
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11393120
    Abstract: An automated log scaling system and associated methods are disclosed. In the system and methods, one or more imagers may capture depictions of respective first ends and/or second ends of a plurality of logs, and use the captured depictions to scale the plurality of logs. A diameter value for each end of the log may be determined using the captured depictions. Relative location values for each captured end may be determined and used to form a length of each log. Information captured in the images is used to identify the type of tree or species of tree for each log. At least one of the diameter values may be multiplied by the determined log length, and the resulting product value may be compared to values in a log scaling chart to determine a value for the log. The value of multiple logs may be used to form a load of logs for distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Datalog, LLC
    Inventor: David Stroble
  • Patent number: 11380431
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating decision support data for surgical videos are disclosed, the system may include at least on processor configured to implement a method. The method may include receiving video footage of a surgical procedure performed by a surgeon on a patient in an operating room and implementing a model on the received video footage to determine an existence of a surgical decision-making junction. The model may be trained to detect decision-making junctions using training data based on historical video footage depicting surgical situations. The method may include accessing, in a data structure, a correlation between an outcome and a specific action taken at the decision-making junction, and, based on the existence of the decision-making junction and the correlation, outputting a recommendation to at least one of a user device or a user interface related to the specific action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: THEATOR INC.
    Inventors: Tamir Wolf, Dotan Asselmann
  • Patent number: 11375151
    Abstract: A configuration is implemented that converts MMT format data to MPEG-2 TSV format data for recording onto medium, thereby permitting copy control in compliance with the initial copy control information. MMT format data with copy control information set therein is input and converted to MPEG-2 TS format data for re-cording onto information recording medium. The copy control information recorded in the service description table (MH-SDT) stipulated by the MMT format is acquired and, in accordance with predetermined conversion rules, used to generate the copy control information for recording to the program map table (PMT) stipulated by the MPEG-2 TS. For example, the EPN and CCI values to be recorded to the PMT are determined in accordance with the conversion rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Kenjiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 11363286
    Abstract: A method of video operations includes generating derivative byproducts related to encoded video captured of a scene, initializing a first operation based on the encoded video, and initializing a second operation different from the first operation based on the derivative byproducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Francois Morin
  • Patent number: 11363185
    Abstract: Methods, Systems, and Devices are disclosed for using drone imaging to capture images. Capture instructions are provided to a drone device to aid in image capture. The capture instructions may include factors-of-interest. The factors-of-interest may include subject faces derived from a collection of images stored at a user device such as a cell phone. The factors-of-interest may also include information derived from images associated with an event, geographical and temporal information associated with the event and social graph information received from a social network and used to determine subject faces to target for image capture by the drone device. The factors-of-interest may also include current geographical location information of one or more friends identified in the social graph. This information may also be used to locate subjects for image capture. The social graph information may also be used to distribute any images captured to subjects appearing in those images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ikorongo Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Hugh Blake Svendsen
  • Patent number: 11355153
    Abstract: A method for generating a loop video comprises: obtaining an input video including multiple frames with a first frame, with each of frames having multiple pixels; extracting a moving object corresponding to a moving pixel region in the first frame with the moving pixel region having at least two pixels; inputting multiple candidate periods to a target function respectively to calculate multiple errors of the moving pixel region; determining a start frame and a loop period of the moving pixel region for each error, with the loop period being associated with one of the candidate periods; generating multiple output frames according to start frames and loop periods; and generating an output frame sequence from the output frames according to a loop parameter, wherein the output frame sequence corresponds to the loop video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ke-Min Hu, Wei-Chao Chen, Trista Pei-Chun Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang
  • Patent number: 11343464
    Abstract: When one or multiple video files that correspond to at least a part of preset sections are read out from a storage unit, a length of time of a section overlap, which represents a time slot that overlaps the section among from one or more time slots over which the read video file(s) are recorded, is calculated, and the video file(s) that corresponds to the time code contained in the section overlap having been subjected to calculation are clipped and stored in a predetermined storage area, the medical video processing system can carry out, when the length of time of the section overlap (for example, 32 minutes and 10 seconds) exceeds a predetermined length of time (for example 30 minutes), a shortening process that shortens the length of time of the video file(s) to be stored in the predetermined storage area, down to a predetermined length of time or shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MEDI PLUS INC.
    Inventors: Naoya Sugano, Minsu Kwon
  • Patent number: 11335382
    Abstract: A decoding system decodes a video stream, which is encoded video information. The decoding system includes an attribute information acquirer that acquires first attribute information, indicating whether a dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is a first dynamic range or a second dynamic range that is wider than the first dynamic range, and a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video information. The decoding system also includes an outputter that, in a case where the first attribute information indicates the second dynamic range, outputs the decoded video information and maximum luminance information indicating a maximum luminance of the video stream in accordance with the second dynamic range. Further, in other cases, the outputter outputs the decoded video information and maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of all pictures in the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma, Tomoki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11336911
    Abstract: Provided is an image data processing method for preventing decrease of a decoding processing capability of an image processing device even if the image processing device is included in a game machine on which many moving pictures having low resolutions are displayed. First, decoding processing is designed (step S1). For example, it is designed in such a manner that a moving picture X is singly processed and that a moving picture Y and a moving picture Z having low vertical resolutions can be combined together to be subjected to decoding processing. Subsequently, each of the moving picture X, the moving picture Y, and the moving picture Z is encoded (step S2). Next, encoded data of the moving picture X is singly decoded, and the moving picture X is restored and displayed on a display unit of the image processing device at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AXELL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Morishige, Kazuki Kyakuno, Wataru Yokozeki
  • Patent number: 11315605
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for storing and providing a video. A method for storing a video is provided, including: acquiring frame storage information in a to-be-stored video, the frame storage information including information related to storage of a plurality of frames in the video; converting the video into a plurality of data blocks based on the frame storage information; and converting the frame storage information into a streaming media index file to characterize the video in association with the plurality of data blocks. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a method for providing a video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Qin Liu, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11308991
    Abstract: An image capture device for recording HDR (high dynamic range) image data obtained through image capture performs control so as to, when encoding HDR image data obtained by capturing an image with an image sensor, divide part of the HDR image data corresponding to a coding area to be encoded into a plurality of divided HDR image data, encode each of the plurality of divided HDR image data by using encoding means, and record the plurality of divided HDR image data that are encoded on a recording medium in a predetermined recording format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenobu Akiyoshi, Toru Kobayashi, Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11295782
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for editing video clips. The method includes displaying a preview of a video clip through a user interface. The method also includes adding a timed element to the video clip through the user interface. The method also includes adjusting a timing for the timed element through an adjustable timeline, the adjustable timeline based on a length of the video clip. The method also includes adjusting a location of the timed element in the video clip. The method also includes finalizing the video clip to include the timed element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Junsik Kim, Martin A. Ortega, Ian McIntyre Silber, Hyun Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 11297263
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DIVX, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Braness, Jerome Rota, Eric William Grab, Jerald Donaldson, Heather Hitchcock, Damien Chavarria, Michael John Floyd, Brian T. Fudge, Adam H. Li
  • Patent number: 11275496
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Hay