Patents Examined by Edemio Navas, Jr.
  • Parking guidance camera apparatus and method of installing the same
    Patent number: 10798273
    Abstract: A parking guidance camera apparatus is provided. An elastic pad of a pan tilt gimbal is in close contact with or separated from a lower surface of a pan tilt camera module in a main body housing to fix or release the tilt camera module. An outer portion of an operation lever is hinge-coupled to a holder to be vertically tilted in a state in which the elastic pad is seated on an upper surface of the outer portion of the operation lever in the main body housing. An upper portion of a fixing knob is screw-coupled to an inner portion of the operation lever to vertically tilt the operation lever according to a rotating direction thereof so that the elastic pad is in close contact with or separated from the pan tilt camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: IDIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Kyu Song
  • Imaging device
    Patent number: 10793085
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a lens barrel for supporting, while enclosing, one or more lenses; an imaging element for detecting light that passes through the lens; a lens holder for supporting the lens barrel; an elastic body that is disposed so as to bias the lens barrel relative to the lens holder; and an upper case that is formed so as to enable connection with an external member. The lens holder and the upper case are formed integrally. In such an imaging device, the lens holder and the upper case are formed integrally, and thus when compared to a configuration wherein the lens holder and the upper case are structured separately, the number of components can be reduced, thereby enabling a reduction in costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Nakamura
  • Medical support system, information terminal apparatus, patient image data acquisition method and patient information acquisition method
    Patent number: 10790051
    Abstract: A medical support system supporting medical services even at a remote location, by a first information terminal apparatus operated by a doctor that gives medical examination to a patient and a second information terminal apparatus by which a helper can photograph an image of the patient at a location away from the doctor sharing information about the patient, the medical support system including: the first information terminal apparatus configured to transmit information that is information corresponding to request information from the helper and is photographing condition information for the helper to photograph the patient; and the second information terminal apparatus configured to acquire information about the photographing condition information received from the first information terminal apparatus to photograph the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Toyoda, Masaru Ikeda, Hideaki Yoshida, Kazuhiko Osa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Method for deriving a motion vector
    Patent number: 10771816
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes creating a first list of motion vectors from at least one neighboring block in a current frame of the video and creating a second list of motion vectors from at least one previous block in a temporally earlier frame of the video. A third list of motion vectors is created based upon the first list and the second list. Based upon receiving a motion vector competition control parameter selecting one of the motion vectors from the third list, wherein the second list of motion vectors is further based upon a flooring function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • System for securing delivered packages
    Patent number: 10769875
    Abstract: A system for use to secure delivered packages can include a box, at least one electromechanically operated security door securing access to the box and a control panel for receiving input to release the electromechanically secured door from the box. Communications components, alarms and cameras can also be associated with the box to facilitate its security and operation for package receipt (delivery) and security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventors: Marc T. Arellano, Luis M. Ortiz, Thomas Romero
  • Systems and methods for measuring physiochemical properties of interfaces using droplets or bubbles
    Patent number: 10753842
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for measurement of surface properties using a mobile device are described, the surface properties including interfacial (surface) tension, contact angle (static, advancing, or receding), solid surface energy, and rolling or sliding angle on an inclined surface. The system has a support adapted to receive a mobile device with a camera and a processor. A structure is coupled to the support that is adapted to removably receive measurement components. The measurement components are configurable to place a droplet or a bubble within a field of view of the camera. Software on the mobile device is configured to operate the camera to take an image of the droplet or the bubble within the field of view of the camera, and to determine one or more physical properties of the droplet or the bubble based on an analysis of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Inventor: Alidad Amirfazli
  • Video-segment identification systems and methods
    Patent number: 10750211
    Abstract: Summarization segments of an encoded video can be efficiently identified, without the need to decode the encoded video to obtain image data, by analyzing encoded-buffer-size deltas, each indicating an encoded-buffer-size difference between a pair of intra-coded frames of an encoded video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: REALNETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Milko Boic
  • Systems and methods for automatic video recording
    Patent number: 10750133
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically triggering a video recording in response to detecting a predetermined condition or a security event are provided. Some methods can include receiving a video data stream from a surveillance camera, analyzing the video data stream to determine whether an individual depicted within the video data stream exhibits fear or duress, and automatically storing the video data stream in response to detecting that the individual depicted within the video data stream exhibits the fear or the duress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaozhi Cui, YunBin Chen, Tao Song
  • Method for obtaining combined depth image, and depth camera
    Patent number: 10713804
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a combined depth map, and a depth camera. The method is applicable to a processor in the depth camera. The depth camera includes the processor, at least one light emitting element, and at least two time-of-flight (ToF) sensors, and the composite irradiation range of the at least one light emitting element convers the composite field of view of the at least two ToF sensors. The light emitting elements in the depth camera modulate light signals with the same modulation signal and then transmit the modulated light signals; the ToF sensors demodulate, by using same demodulation signal corresponding to the modulation signal, the received modulated light signal reflected back by an object, so as to generate depth data; and the processor performs data fusion processing on all the received depth data, so as to obtain a combined depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingxiong Wang, Hui Mao, Linjie Shen, Hai Yu, Shiliang Pu
  • Method and apparatus for inter prediction using motion vector candidate based on temporal motion prediction
    Patent number: 10708614
    Abstract: An inter prediction method according to the present invention comprises: a step for deriving reference motion information related to a unit to be decoded in a current picture; and a step for performing motion compensation for the unit to be decoded, using the reference motion information that has been derived. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong, Suk Hee Cho, Jong Ho Kim, Ha Hyun Lee, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim, Chie Teuk Ahn
  • Illumination device for illuminating an exterior space adjacent a mobile object
    Patent number: 10688912
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a predetermined range illumination section capable of illuminating a predetermined range with illumination light emitted from a mobile object; and an eye direction detection section for detecting the direction of the eyes of a driver of the mobile object and/or the direction of the face of the driver. The predetermined range illumination section controls the distribution of the illumination light or the on/off of the illumination light based on the direction of the eyes of the driver and/or the direction of the face of the driver, detected by the eye direction detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makio Kurashige
  • Depth information extracting device and method
    Patent number: 10690484
    Abstract: A depth information extracting device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a projecting unit that discontinuously projects IR (InfraRed) light of a predetermined pattern; a camera unit that captures images; and a signal processing unit that performs depth information extraction and RGB image information extraction by using the images captured by the camera unit, wherein the signal processing unit extracts depth information by using an image received during a first time interval and extracts RGB image information by using an image received during a second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung Wook Lee, Gi Seok Lee, Sung Ki Jung
  • Multi-level significance map scanning
    Patent number: 10681362
    Abstract: Methods of encoding and decoding for video data are described in which multi-level significance maps are used in the encoding and decoding processes. The significant-coefficient flags that form the significance map are grouped into contiguous groups, and a significant-coefficient-group flag signifies for each group whether that group contains no non-zero significant-coefficient flags. A multi-level scan order may be used in which significant-coefficient flags are scanned group-by-group. The group scan order specifies the order in which the groups are processed, and the scan order specifies the order in which individual significant-coefficient flags within the group are processed. The bitstream may interleave the significant-coefficient-group flags and their corresponding significant-coefficient flags, if any.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Dake He, Nguyen Nguyen, Tianying Ji
  • 3D video encoding and decoding methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 10681333
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to encoding and decoding stereoscopic (3D) image data, e.g., left and right eye images, are described. Various pre-encoding and post-decoding operations are described in conjunction with difference based encoding and decoding techniques. In some embodiments left and right eye image data is subject to scaling, transform operation(s) and cropping prior to encoding. In addition, in some embodiments decoded left and right eye image data is subject to scaling, transform operations(s) and filling operations prior to being output to a display device. Transform information and/or scaling information may be included in a bitstream communicating encoded left and right eye images. The amount of scaling can be the same for an entire scene and/or program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NextVR Inc.
    Inventors: David Cole, Alan McKay Moss
  • Post processing to improve motion detection results
    Patent number: 10672132
    Abstract: These techniques detect and compare amounts of motion of objects within video footage having sources of apparent motion. In an embodiment, for each frame of a video, a computer subtracts a background from the frame, converts the frame from grayscale to monochrome, and isolates regions of interest (ROIs) in the frame. For each frame, the computer identifies identifiable objects in the ROIs, selects selectable objects from the identifiable objects that have a percentage of motion that is within a particular range, and merges, into merged objects, subsets of the selectable objects that are separated by no more than a particular distance. Based on the merging, metadata is generated for any of: an object of the merged objects, the frame, or the video. The metadata may have a bounding rectangle, a bounding polygon, a frame timestamp, a frame identifier, or an object(s)'s identifier or percentage of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Luis Mendoza Azanza, Susan Mavris
  • Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images using adaptive motion vector resolution
    Patent number: 10659804
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for improving the encoding efficiency by adaptively changing the resolution of the motion vector in the inter prediction encoding and inter prediction decoding of a video. The apparatus includes: a predicted motion vector calculator for calculating a predicted motion vector of a current block to be encoded using motion vectors of one or more surrounding blocks; and a skip mode encoder for encoding a result of performing a prediction of the current block and information indicating that the current block is a skip block when the predicted motion vector satisfies a skip condition, wherein at least one motion vector among the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks and the motion vector of the current block has a resolution different from resolutions of the other motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunyeon Kim, Jeongyeon Lim, Joohee Moon, Yunglyul Lee, Haekwang Kim, Byeungwoo Jeon, Juock Lee, Dongwon Kim
  • Rolling shutter synchronization
    Patent number: 10659683
    Abstract: A camera system configuration generates 2D or 3D images capable of being stitched together to create panoramic images. The configuration detects a communication coupling of at least two cameras for capturing a sequence of images. The cameras themselves are configured such that their rolling shutters mitigate field of view artifacts from adjacent cameras (2D panoramas) and adjacent 3D camera pairs (3D panoramas) by allowing for the substantially temporally-aligned capture of light in overlap regions between adjacent cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Time compressing video content
    Patent number: 10629241
    Abstract: Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Visible World, LLC
    Inventors: Bala Iyer, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
  • Encoding device and encoding method with setting and encoding of reference information
    Patent number: 10623765
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an encoding device and an encoding method capable of reducing the amount of information relating to information that specifies a reference image. An encoding unit generates a predicted image using a reference image. A transmission unit transmits inter_ref_pic_set_prediction_flag representing whether reference image specifying information specifying the reference image of a prior image that is an image prior to a current coding image in coding order is used as the reference image specifying information of the current coding image in a case where the current coding image is an image other than a first image of a GOP (Group of Picture). The present technology, for example, can be applied to an encoding device of an HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Shuo Lu, Kazushi Sato
  • Encoding data arrays
    Patent number: 10616585
    Abstract: When encoding an array of data elements of a stream of arrays of data elements, a number of bits used in the output bitstream to encode a previous array of data elements in the stream of arrays of data elements is estimated based on an amount of intermediate data generated for that previous array of data elements by the encoding process. A value of an encoding parameter to use when encoding the array of data elements being encoded is then selected based on the estimated number of bits used in the output bitstream to encode the previous array of data elements and a target output bit rate for the output bitstream produced when encoding the stream of arrays of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Jonas Christensson Cremon, Hui Chen, Dominic Hugo Symes