Patents Examined by Heather R. Jones
  • Patent number: 11345288
    Abstract: A display system comprises: a shooting unit configured to shoot a periphery of a vehicle; a display unit configured to display an image shot by the shooting unit; and a display control unit configured to switch a display mode of display in the display unit between a first display mode for displaying a first display region and a second display mode for displaying a second display region that is different from the first display region. When the display mode is switched to the second display mode in a state in which a display range of the display unit has been adjusted in the first display mode, the display control unit displays the second display region regardless of the adjustment of the display range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Hayashida, Mutsuki Hirooka, Kenta Takenaka, Kei Oshida, Eiji Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11330226
    Abstract: A configuration capable of recording MMT format data on a medium as BDAV format data and performing copy control according to the original copy control information is achieved. The MMT format data, for which copy control information is set, is input and recorded on an information recording medium as BDAV format data. As record data, (a) a stream file including a packet string in which the MMT format data is stored, and (b) copy control information corresponding to the stream file, in which the copy control information corresponding to the MMT format data is reflected, are generated and recorded as an additional header of a packet included in the stream file or as another file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Kenjiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 11319086
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to aligning a taxi-assist camera such that each image frame of real-time video that the camera generates has a standard presentation format. The taxi-assist camera is configured to be mounted on an aircraft and oriented such that each image frame includes both a specific feature of the aircraft and of nearby objects external to the aircraft. The specific feature of the aircraft is detected and a location within the image frame of the specific feature is determined. The determined location within the image frame is compared with a reference location. A transformation operator is generated to transform the image frame such that the specific feature of the aircraft will be located within the image at a location corresponding to the reference location. The transformation operator is then applied to each of the image frames of the real-time video that the camera generates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Travis W. Fleck, Gerald L. Brown
  • Patent number: 11321949
    Abstract: A display control device includes a receiver configured to receive data indicating a movement of an object and data indicating a direction of a face or a body of the object, that are detected based on moving image data, and a display controller configured to output graphic data each representing a position of the object, a moving direction of the object, and the direction of the face or the body of the object, at each time point in the moving image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Yuya Tagami, Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Patent number: 11317139
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a control method. The method includes acquiring a playback instruction for a first video, the playback instruction including first identification information of a first thumbnail in a cover of the first video, the cover of the first video including a plurality of thumbnails, and each thumbnail corresponding to one of a plurality of scenes included in the first video; determining a first scene corresponding to the first thumbnail; and playing the first video from a position corresponding to the first scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Haibin Ke
  • Patent number: 11315600
    Abstract: Metadata about a movie is retrieved. The metadata includes a plurality of associated viewer responses from at least one previous audience viewing of the video. The plurality of associated viewer responses from the at least one previous audience viewing are associated with one or more segments of the video. A segment of the video associated with a type of viewer reaction based on emotion and sentiment recognition is identified. Additional media content based on the identified video segment is retrieved. A segment of the additional media content that exceeds a threshold of similarity with the segment of the video is determined. A video clip that includes the segment of the additional media content is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Enara C. Vijil, Seema Nagar, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 11301036
    Abstract: In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display to emit light in a first wavelength range, a camera to detect light in a second wavelength range, an eyepiece to distort light in the first wavelength range, and one or more light sources, disposed between the eyepiece and the display, to emit light in the second wavelength range. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display to emit light in a first wavelength range, one or more light sources to emit light in a second wavelength range, a camera to detect light in a second wavelength range, and an eyepiece to reflect and refract light in the first wavelength range while passing, without substantial distortion, light in the second wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Noah D. Bedard, Branko Petljanski, John N. Border, Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki, Qiong Huang
  • Patent number: 11290678
    Abstract: A system includes an outward facing video camera, a digital video recorder, a geolocation device, an interface, and a processor. The interface is configured to receive video data from the outward facing vehicle camera and receive location data from the geolocation device. The processor is configured to determine a digital video recorder storing state; disable transfer of video data to the digital video recorder in response to the digital video recorder storing state being a prohibited state; and enable transfer of the video data from the outward facing video camera to the digital video recorder for storage in response to the digital video recorder storing state being not the prohibited state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventor: Brett Hoye
  • Patent number: 11282213
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to evaluate moving objects undergoing periodic motion through the screening of a video recording of such objects in motion for frequency peaks in the spectral data, and to determine spatially where these frequencies occur in the scene depicted in the video recording, wherein a frequency spectrum is created for a subset of pixels or virtual pixels and a composite frequency spectrum table or graph is constructed of frequencies that are selected from among the larger group of frequencies represented by the frequency peaks of the spectral data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Hay, Mark William Slemp, Kenneth Ralph Piety
  • Patent number: 11277666
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to identify jump points indicative of potential time points from which to resume consumption of the media asset in response to receiving a request to skip a portion of a media asset being consumed. The jump points include a first jump point identified based on a content viewing profile and a second jump point identified based on a scene information associated with the media asset. A preview image is displayed at each of the identified jump points. Systems and methods are also described to pause the skipping operation at the identified jump points and provide a preview at the respective jump points. Systems and method are further described to identify jump points based on analysis of the portion of the media asset being skipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Charishma Chundi
  • Patent number: 11263460
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that include receiving, at a schema translator in communication with a master device, a video feed from a client device. The video feed may be relayed to the master device to allow a substantially simultaneous display of the video feed at the master device. A snapshot from a frame in the video feed may be acquired. An object in the snapshot may be identified during the video feed by a machine learning model and added to a list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: YEMBO, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary David Rattner, Tiana Marie Hayden, Noel Marie Murphy Kennebeck
  • Patent number: 11257523
    Abstract: A video production method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a follow-shot instruction in a case that reference video content is played on a video play interface, the follow-shot instruction including a reference video identifier; displaying a first video display region and a second video display region on a terminal screen; playing the reference video content in the first video display region, and recording displayed real-time video content in the second video display region; and generating a target video based on the recorded real-time video content and the reference video content. The first video display region and the second video display region are displayed on the terminal screen, the reference video content is played in the first video display region, and the displayed real-time video content is recorded in the second video display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ling Rui Cui, Hao Zhang, Yi Ting Zhou, Nan Liu, Fengkai Wu, Hui Fu Jiang, Sheng Fei Xia, Rong Li, Xin Wan Wu, Xu Bin Lu, Yi Fan Guo, Ran Zhang, Jinqian Li, Yi Xu
  • Patent number: 11257521
    Abstract: Video content may be captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The video content may include video frames that define visual content viewable as a function of progress through a progress length of the video content. Rotational position information may characterize rotational positions of the image capture device during the capture duration. Time-lapse video frames may be determined from the video frames of the video content based on a spatiotemporal metric. The spatiotemporal metric may characterize spatial smoothness and temporal regularity of the time-lapse video frames. The spatial smoothness may be determined based on the rotational positions of the image capture device corresponding to the time-lapse video frames, and the temporal regularity may be determined based on moments corresponding to the time-lapse video frames. Time-lapse video content may be generated based on the time-lapse video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Derbanne, César Douady, Maxim Karpushin
  • Patent number: 11256257
    Abstract: A method of camera control for a camera capturing images of a target includes a sequence of at least four steps. The first step determines in real time a location of a drone and a pose of a camera on the drone. The second step, which may occur before or after the first step, determines in real time a location of a reference object, the location of the reference object having a fixed relationship to a location of the target. The third step uses the determined locations to calculate a distance, characterized by magnitude and direction, between the target and the drone. The fourth step uses the calculated distance to control the pose of the camera such that an image captured by the camera includes the target. Controlling the pose of the camera does not require any analysis of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Berestov, Cheng-Yi Liu, Jianfei Chen
  • Patent number: 11252397
    Abstract: There is provided a file generation apparatus and a file generation method as well as a reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method by which a file for efficiently storing quality information of a depth-related image at least including a depth image can be generated. A segment file generation unit generates a file in which quality information representative of quality of a depth-related image including at least a depth image is disposed in a form divided for each kind. The present disclosure can be applied to a file generation apparatus of an information processing system or the like by which a segment file and an MPD file of a video content are distributed, for example, in a method that complies with MPEG-DASH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Katsumata, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Toshiya Hamada
  • Patent number: 11250284
    Abstract: A device for emitting radiation includes a reflector component and a clip. The reflector component has a top side, a bottom side, and a perimeter side. At least one aperture formed within the reflector component that extends from a top opening on the top side of the reflector component through to a bottom opening on the bottom side of the reflector component. The clip may be connected to the reflector component and has a flat side that is in contact with the bottom side of the reflector component. Portions of the substantially flat side of the clip are configured to be soldered to a circuit board having an emitter which extends at least partially through the aperture when the clip is soldered to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER US, INC.
    Inventors: Chakravarthi Mallikarjun Nagolu, Louis Lu, Jason Keto, Francis Joseph Judge
  • Patent number: 11244437
    Abstract: The complex motion associated with machines is a result of the superposition of various frequencies from the multiple component or elements inherent to the design of the machine. These motions can be captured remotely using position sensitive detectors which respond to specific wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Present embodiments include but are not limited to a video camera which is able to capture and record video data of an entire machine without contacting the machine, to visually study complex motions which vary both in time and spatially at different locations on the machine, wherein filters applied to the motion present in the video recording are used to identify frequencies of importance and to visualize their impact on the operation of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Hay, Mark William Slemp, Kenneth Ralph Piety
  • Patent number: 11233935
    Abstract: Image processing can include storing a first image of a scene captured by a first camera, storing a second image of the scene captured by a second camera, and storing a first user-composed image. The first user-composed image can be derived from at least one of: (a) the first image and (b) the second image. The image processing can further include: receiving a second command to edit the first user-composed image, editing the first user-composed image, and saving the edited first user-composed image as a second user-composed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cullum James Baldwin, Pasi Johannes Parkkila
  • Patent number: 11233961
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a movable lens that transfers an external light, an image sensor that includes a pixel array that generates an image signal based on the light and generates image data based on the image signal, and a processor that generates focus information for controlling a position of the movable lens and that generates a depth map based on calibration data and the image data. The calibration data include a value that depends on a position of the objective lens and a position of a pixel included in the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Kang, Youngjun Song, Seokjae Kang, Taeksun Kim, Dongki Min, Jongmin You, Jeehong Lee, Joonhyuk Im
  • Patent number: 11226617
    Abstract: A remote control, including: a body with a front, a top, and a side; a touch screen disposed on the front; and an operating lever disposed on the front. The front includes an upper edge and a side edge intersecting with the upper edge. The upper edge intersects with the top, and the side edge intersects with the side. The operating lever is located near the upper edge and the side edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumian Deng, Wenbo Li