Patents Examined by Frank F Huang
  • Patent number: 11852797
    Abstract: System for state monitoring of a microscope the system having at least one measuring sensor in each case for capturing at least one time-variable chemical and/or physical quantity, a camera for recording an image in a field of view and a processing unit. The at least one measuring sensor has a display area and displays thereon a measured value for the captured time-variable chemical and/or physical quantity. The camera is arranged so that the display areas of at least one measuring sensor are located in the field of view and the processing unit is configured to evaluate the image and to extract the display areas contained in the image therefrom. Also, a method for state monitoring of a microscope is disclosed, wherein at least one measuring sensor with a display area is provided in order to capture in each case at least one time-variable chemical and/or physical quantity, and an image is recorded. The image is recorded so that it contains the display areas of at least one measuring sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ohrt, Daniel Haase
  • Patent number: 11844609
    Abstract: A fingerprint capture system, a fingerprint capture device, an image processing apparatus, a fingerprint capture method, and a storage medium that can acquire a high quality fingerprint image are provided. A disclosed example includes: a capture unit that captures a fingerprint; an image processing unit that processes a transferred fingerprint image captured by the capture unit; a display unit on which the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is displayed; a recording unit where the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is recorded by the image processing unit; and an instruction unit that inputs, in the image processing unit, a record instruction that instructs the image processing unit to record the fingerprint image in the recording unit. The image processing unit records, in the recording unit, the fingerprint image displayed on the display unit at the time the record instruction is input by the instruction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyuki Higuchi, Yoshinori Koda
  • Patent number: 11839516
    Abstract: Medical imaging equipment and a medical imaging method are provided. The medical imaging equipment includes medical equipment, a controller, and a head-mounted display. The medical equipment is configured to investigate a body portion and output a first image signal corresponding to the body portion. The first image signal has a first resolution. The controller is coupled to the medical equipment to receive the first image signal and convert the first resolution of the first image signal to a second image signal having a second resolution. The head-mounted display is coupled to the controller to display a display image of the second image signal. The head-mounted display has a direction line. When the head-mounted display faces the body portion, the display image and the body portion are located along to the direction line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: I-Han Chen, Chen Hsiang Shih, Yi-Fa Wang, Chih-Yang Tsai, Chia-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11837061
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for receiving first video data comprising one or more frames having a scene with a person and perform a facial detection process on the first video data to detect a facial region in each frame having the scene with the person. Embodiments also include generating second video data from the first video data, the second video data to include a blurring effect applied to the facial region detected in the first video data, providing the second video data for display on one or more devices, and receiving a tag indication from at least one of the one or more devices, the tag indication to indicate a portion of the second video data having suspicious activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba, Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira
  • Patent number: 11831967
    Abstract: A viewfinder unit includes an optical member between a display and an eyepiece, a first member holding the optical member in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical member, an illumination device, a second member holding the illumination device, a sensor capable of picking up a photographer's eye image, and an opening wider than a display area of the display in an optical axis direction of the optical member. When the eyepiece is viewed in the optical axis direction, the illumination device is inside the opening and outside the display area. Part of a first area of the optical member, projecting from an outline of the first member in the optical axis direction, is inside the opening in the orthogonal direction, and at least one of the illumination device and the second member is in a second area surrounded by the outline and the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayasu Shigematsu
  • Patent number: 11813122
    Abstract: An immersive display for use in a robotic surgical system includes a support arm, a housing mounted to the support arm and configured to engage with a face of the user, at least two eyepiece assemblies disposed in the housing and configured to provide a three-dimensional display, and at least one sensor, wherein the sensor enables operation of the robotic surgical system, and wherein the support arm is actuatable to move the housing for ergonomic positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.
    Inventors: Kent Anderson, Joan Savall, Brent Nobles, Allegra Shum, Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Karen Shakespear Koenig
  • Patent number: 11813990
    Abstract: A virtual visor system is disclosed that includes a visor having a plurality of independently operable pixels that are selectively operated with a variable opacity. A camera captures images of the face of a driver or other passenger and, based on the captured images, a controller operates the visor to automatically and selectively darken a limited portion thereof to block the sun or other illumination source from striking the eyes of the driver, while leaving the remainder of the visor transparent. The virtual visor system advantageously updates the optical state with blocker patterns that including padding in excess of what is strictly necessary to block the sunlight. This padding advantageously provides robustness against errors, allows for a more relaxed response time, and minimizes frequent small changes to the position of the blocker in the optical state of the visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ryan Todd, Jason Zink, Andy Woodrich
  • Patent number: 11818334
    Abstract: A thermal image-based temperature measurement calibration method applicable to a thermal image device is provided. The method includes a capturing stage, a processing stage and a calibration stage. During the capturing stage, the thermal image device captures a monitored environment to obtain a measured thermal image. During the processing stage, a processor processes on the measured thermal image to obtain a target information, wherein the target information corresponds to a target in the monitored environment, and the target information includes a target image block and a target measured temperature corresponding to the target image block. During the calibration stage, the processor obtains a distance compensation value according to a pixel number of the target image block, and the processor performs a calibration operation to the target measured temperature at least according to the distance compensation value to obtain a calibrated temperature value corresponding to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cheng Da Ko, Hung-Sheng Lin, Chun-Te Chuang, Chih-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11808934
    Abstract: An optical telescope may include an array of optical lenslets in a common plane, and optical waveguides extending from respective optical lenslets and each having a common optical path delay. Further, at least one optical star coupler may be downstream from the optical waveguides, and an optical detector may be downstream from the at least one optical star coupler and having an optical image formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Elliott Ogden, Jonathan Tyler Nagy
  • Patent number: 11805222
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for visualizing infrared radiation strength includes obtaining infrared radiation (IR) image data transmitted by a light sensor; determining a radiation strength distribution and a module emitting mode corresponding to the IR image data; based on the radiation strength distribution and the module emitting mode, determining whether the IR image data meets a predetermined standard; when it is determined that the IR image data meets the predetermined standard, applying a gray processing to the IR image data to obtain a strength gray image; and applying color modulation to the strength gray image to generate a visual energy distribution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Biao Tian, Yuan-Fang Du
  • Patent number: 11804058
    Abstract: A system for detecting occupancy of a vehicle travelling in a direction of travel along a road. The system includes a roadside imaging device positioned on a roadside, and a first roadside light emitter, and a roadside vehicle detector. A processor is configured to receive a signal from the roadside vehicle detector, command the first roadside light emitter to emit light according to a first pattern for a first duration, command the roadside imaging device to capture images of the side of the vehicle, and compute a vehicle occupancy, in each of the captured images by determining one or more regions of interest in each of the captured images, and determining a number of visible occupants in the one or more regions of interest. The processor determines a most likely number of occupants based on each determined vehicle occupancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: INVISION AI, INC.
    Inventors: Karim Ali, Zhijie Wang, Seydi Zorlu, Arash Mohtat, Carlos Becker
  • Patent number: 11800146
    Abstract: A motion estimation method and a system in inter-frame prediction coding of 3D point cloud data: first, isometric sub-sampling is performed for points in pc_likely_world, then, the sampled points were divided into uniform small cubes, and the centroid of point cloud location information in each small cube was calculated, and the points closest to the centroid were found, and these points were put into pc_world_target. Finally, the corresponding point pc_world_ref is found in the reference frame, and the LMS algorithm is used to calculate the global motion matrix; by reserving the centroid points in each block, the method not only effectively removes the redundant points to reduce the computational complexity of the global motion matrix but also preserves the points that represent the characteristics of the point cloud to ensure the computational accuracy of the global motion matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hui Yuan, Tingting Wang, Tian Guo, Shuai Li
  • Patent number: 11800063
    Abstract: Event-related data based on an image that has been captured is generated. Coverage information relating to imaging range is compared to the event-related data. The cameras that can capture an image of the event, based on a comparing result, are listed so that an operator can select one of the listed cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Arikuma, Masahiro Tani
  • Patent number: 11789352
    Abstract: A vehicle, window for the vehicle and lens assembly. The window includes a first glass layer and a second glass layer separated from the first glass layer by a gap. An image sensor is disposed in the gap. A lens is disposed in the gap for focusing light passing through one of the first glass layer and the second glass layer onto the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jonglee Park, Myles Mallas Moore, Julien P. Mourou
  • Patent number: 11782254
    Abstract: A digital microscopy system includes a microscope with optics. The digital microscopy system also includes a digital camera operatively secured to the microscope such that the digital camera operates to acquire digital photographs through the optics of the microscope. A controller is communicatively connected to the digital camera, such that the computer receives the acquired digital photographs from the digital camera. The controller further executes computer-readable code upon which the computer operates a graphical display to present a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to present at least one of the acquired digital photographs and at least one stored sample image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: United Scope LLC
    Inventor: Lawrence Marmon
  • Patent number: 11779245
    Abstract: A fingerprint capture system, a fingerprint capture device, an image processing apparatus, a fingerprint capture method, and a storage medium that can acquire a high quality fingerprint image are provided. A disclosed example includes: a capture unit that captures a fingerprint; an image processing unit that processes a transferred fingerprint image captured by the capture unit; a display unit on which the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is displayed; a recording unit where the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is recorded by the image processing unit; and an instruction unit that inputs, in the image processing unit, a record instruction that instructs the image processing unit to record the fingerprint image in the recording unit. The image processing unit records, in the recording unit, the fingerprint image displayed on the display unit at the time the record instruction is input by the instruction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruyuki Higuchi, Yoshinori Koda
  • Patent number: 11770560
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a video signal processing method and device. Particularly, a method for decoding a video signal, may comprise the steps of: checking whether a transfer skip is applied to a current block; obtaining, from a video signal, a transform index for indicating a transform type set applied to the current block when the transform skip is not applied to the current block, wherein the transform type set includes transform types applied to the current block in horizontal and vertical directions; checking whether the transform type set includes DCT2; determining a region to which a primary transform is applied based on a checking result; and performing an inverse transform on the region to which the primary transform is applied in the horizontal and vertical directions using the transform types included in the transform type set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11763573
    Abstract: A vehicular control system includes a central control module vehicle, a plurality of vehicular cameras disposed at a vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle, and a plurality of radar sensors disposed at the vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The central control module receives vehicle data relating to operation of the vehicle. The central control module is operable to process (i) vehicle data, (ii) image data and (iii) radar data. The central control module at least in part controls at least one driver assistance system of the vehicle responsive to (i) processing at the central control module of vehicle data, (ii) processing at the central control module of image data captured by at least the forward-viewing vehicular camera and (iii) processing at the central control module of radar data captured by at least a front radar sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Niall R. Lynam, Axel Nix
  • Patent number: 11750909
    Abstract: Example refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example refrigerator includes a cabinet, an internal compartment disposed within the cabinet, a closing member operatively coupled to the cabinet providing selective access to the internal compartment, two cameras disposed in the compartment and positioned to capture images of different portions of the compartment, two light sources disposed in the compartment, and a controller communicatively coupled with the cameras and light sources and configured to control the light sources to provide two different illuminations for respective ones of the two cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Victor Henrique Sfoggia Carlotto, Michael Todd Moore, Sushanth Purandhar, Ryan Michael Post, Michael S. Richards
  • Patent number: 11740465
    Abstract: A head-mounted electronic device may include a display with an optical combiner. The combiner may include a waveguide with first and second output couplers. The first output coupler may couple a first portion of image light at visible wavelengths out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. The second output coupler may couple a second portion of the image light at near-infrared wavelengths out of the waveguide and towards the surrounding environment. The second portion of the image light may include an authentication code that is used by a secondary device to authenticate the head-mounted device and/or may include a pattern that serves to prevent camera equipment in the surrounding environment from capturing accurate facial recognition information from a user while wearing the head-mounted device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Dodson, Jonathan B. Pfeiffer