Patents Examined by Huy T. Nguyen
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Patent number: 10242451Abstract: To perform an ideal calibration operation, a start switch started manually or by an on-vehicle camera calibration device, a start switching device started by an operation of the start switch and projection devices installed in an outer periphery of a vehicle body, including at least one or more light sources irradiating the surroundings of the vehicle body with light are provided, in which whether a calibration operation is possible or not is determined based on references on a road surface projected by the projection devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahisa Aoyagi, Koji Iida, Noritaka Kokido
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Patent number: 10244168Abstract: A system for video capture and delivery is disclosed. The system comprises a camera with multiple sensors to capture video at a first location, and to stitch images corresponding to the multiple sensors to produce a panoramic video having at least a 100 degrees field of view; and a cloud-based server to process the panoramic video for delivery to a plurality of client devices, and to stream the processed video to the plurality of client devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Altia Systems, Inc.Inventors: Naveed Alam, Yashket Gupta, Ram Natarajan, Oliver Gunasekara, Aurangzeb Khan, Lars Herlitz, Atif Sarwari
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Patent number: 10235573Abstract: Techniques for performing low-fidelity always-on A/V monitoring are provided. In one embodiment, an always-on A/V monitoring system can record audio or video footage of an area of interest on a continuous basis while operating in a low-fidelity recording mode, where the recorded audio or video footage has a quality level that is sufficient to detect one or more events that have meaning to the system or a user, but is insufficient to recognize details with respect to the area of interest that would be considered private to an individual appearing in, or associated with, the recorded audio or video footage.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Sensory, IncorporatedInventors: Bryan Pellom, Todd F. Mozer
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Patent number: 10230889Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle includes: a photographic-device mounting portion to which a photographic device is mounted; a communicator that communicates with the photographic device; and an authentication processor that performs authentication on the photographic device by using the communicator and that determines whether or not the photographic device is a legitimate device that satisfies a predetermined aerial photography requirement. Upon determining that the photographic device is not a legitimate device, the authentication processor performs operation limitation on a predetermined function of the unmanned aerial vehicle so that the photographic device is incapable of performing aerial photography.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Masashi Okada
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Patent number: 10230969Abstract: Various embodiments describe data compression that implements vector quantization. A computer system generates a codebook for the vector quantization by iteratively clustering vectors representative of data that should be compressed. The iterative clustering uses geometric reasoning to avoid distance computations between vectors as appropriate, thereby reducing the latency associated with generating the codebook. Further, the system encodes the vectors based on the codebook. To do so, the computer system generates hashes of the vectors by applying locality sensitive hashing to these vectors. The hashes are compared and matched with hashes of codebook vectors. The computer system represents the vectors based on the matched codebook vectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Viswanathan Swaminathan, Saayan Mitra, Haoliang Wang
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Patent number: 10229545Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal of a watch type and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a display unit, a sensing unit, a communication unit configured to transmit/receive a signal with a vehicle accident recording device, and a controller controlling the display unit, the sensing unit and the communication unit, wherein if a state change of a user is sensed, an image request signal for requesting an image is transmitted to the vehicle accident recording device, wherein the image corresponds to at least one of a moving image and a still image corresponding to a first time point of sensing the state change, and wherein if the image is received from the vehicle accident recording device, a notification indicating that the image is received is provided. Accordingly, a photographed image is received from a vehicle accident recording device in case of sensing user's state change.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Sooyon Chung
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Patent number: 10220766Abstract: A method for capturing objects in the environment of a vehicle includes generating a first light pattern in the environment of the vehicle using a light-emitting apparatus of the vehicle; generating a second light pattern in the environment of the vehicle using an alter light-emitting apparatus of an alter vehicle; transmitting generation parameters of the second light pattern from the alter vehicle to the vehicle; optically capturing the first light pattern and the second light pattern using a capturing module of the vehicle; and generating a depth image of at least part of the environment of the vehicle on the basis of the captured light patterns and the transmitted generation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Sebastian Soehner, Christian Schneider
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Patent number: 10223384Abstract: A drive recorder sends to a server a moving image file showing a situation of surroundings of vehicle in a moment at which large acceleration occurred. The server determines, based on moving image file, whether or not to prohibit from being overwritten moving image file showing surroundings of vehicle in a moment at which an event occurred. Based on a determination result determined by the server, the drive recorder prohibits from being overwritten an image data set showing the moment 1) at which the event occurred or 2) optionally before and/or after the event occurred including the moment at which the event occurred. Thus, the drive recorder can surely prohibit the image data set to be prohibited from being overwritten. Moreover, it is possible to effectively use a storage area of a memory by allowing overwriting image data set that does not necessarily need to be prohibited from being overwritten.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LimitedInventor: Kohei Ono
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Patent number: 10212451Abstract: A method for RDO (Rate-Distortion Optimization) based on fit-curves contains at least the following steps: calculating a first fit-curve and a second fit-curve according to information regarding a first frame; carrying information regarding a second frame into the first and second fit-curves to calculate fit distortions and fit bit counts; calculating costs according to the fit distortions and the fit bit counts; determining the best block-division mode for the second frame according to the costs; and dividing the second frame into blocks according to the best block-division mode and encoding the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: ChuanChuan Zhu
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Patent number: 10204656Abstract: Provided are video processing architectures and techniques configured to generate looping video. The video processing architectures and techniques automatically produce a looping video from a fixed-length video clip. Embodiments of the video processing architectures and techniques determine a lower-resolution version of the fixed-length video clip, and detect a presence of edges within image frames in the lower-resolution version. A pair of image frames having similar edges is identified as a pair of candidates for a transition point (i.e., a start frame and an end frame) at which the looping video can repeat. Using start and end frames having similar edges mitigates teleporting of objects displayed in the looping video. In some cases, teleporting during repeating is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: ADOBE INC.Inventors: Geoffrey Oxholm, Elya Shechtman, Oliver Wang
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Patent number: 10200562Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and generate image data; a display configured to display information including an image corresponding to the image data; a first recording slot mounting a first recording medium for recording the image data; a second recording slot mounting a second recording medium for recording the image data; a recording controller configured to set a recording mode between: an automatic switching mode in which recording of the image data is performed by repeatedly switching between the first and the second recording media in a predetermined order; and a simultaneous recording mode in which recording of the image data to the first and the second recording media is simultaneously performed; and a display controller configured to display setting mode information relating to the recording mode set by the recording controller in a different display mode for each recording mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Takahashi, Keiji Kunishige, Katsuhisa Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 10200706Abstract: Efficient decoding of video content that may involve intra block copy operations, such as copying pixel data from one region of a frame to another region of the same frame is described. For example, a method to decode the video content may involve identifying the video frame in which intra block copy operation is to be performed, prior to the intra block copy operation being initiated. A video decoder may prefetch the pixel data from the source region to a local buffer with low memory latency such that the source pixel data to be copied into the destination blocks in the video frame is readily available. Thus, costly, and time consuming memory access may be avoided, and in turn a video decoding pipeline may operate smoothly without any stalling.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. LimitedInventor: Timothy Moore Hellman
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Patent number: 10194128Abstract: An example method includes causing playback of a video, receiving a first input during playback of the video, and receiving a second input during playback of the video. In such methods, the second input is separate from the first input. The method also includes determining a length of time extending from the end of the first input to the beginning of the second input. The method further includes generating a digital content item including at least a video file corresponding to the video, and a sequential data list. The sequential data list includes a duration of the first input followed by a duration of the second input. The sequential data list also includes the length of time listed between the duration of the first input and the duration of the second input.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Rogers, Sohrab Andaz, Jason Kita Choi, Yun Sup Hong
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Patent number: 10185881Abstract: A method is disclosed for detecting and classifying one or more traffic lights. The method may include converting an RGB frame to an HSV frame. The HSV frame may be filtered by at least one threshold value to obtain at least one saturation frame. At least one contour may be extracted from the at least one saturation frame. Accordingly, a first portion of the RGB may be cropped in order to encompass an area including the at least one contour. The first portion may then be classified by an artificial neural network to determined whether the first portion corresponds to a not-a-traffic-light class, a red-traffic-light class, a green-traffic-light class, a yellow-traffic-light class, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Maryam Moosaei, Madeline J Goh, Vidya Nariyambut Murali, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 10181337Abstract: There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Itaru Shimizu, Ryosuke Nomura
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Patent number: 10178365Abstract: A method for combining a plurality of video files with a tune and a recording medium storing an executable program for implementing the method. The method comprises transmitting a service request from an electronic device to a synchronizing server, wherein the service request includes meta information of a plurality of video files, a display order of the plurality of video files, and meta information of a tune, detecting a plurality of beats from the tune; and selecting, from the plurality of beats, a set of beats that synchronize with the plurality of the video files; and transmitting a service response from the synchronizing server to the electronic device, wherein the service response includes time frames associated with the set of beats.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: VID INC.Inventors: Jagpal Singh, Maciej Dziedziela
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Patent number: 10168865Abstract: A method of controlling a display apparatus for generating a symbol. The method includes displaying a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of functions on a display, and in response to one of the plurality of images being selected by a user, determining a symbol corresponding to the selected image, matching a function corresponding to the selected image with the symbol, and storing the matched symbol with a correlation to the selected image.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seok-hyun Kim, Bong-hyun Cho, Su-gyeong Hyeon
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Patent number: 10168883Abstract: A method for configuring user profiles associated with multiple hierarchical levels, including identifying multiple hierarchical levels in an organization to be configured, concurrently displaying multiple interface components corresponding respectively to the hierarchical levels, each interface component configured to receive user input for the respective hierarchical level, configuring data of a first user profile associated with a first hierarchical level based on a first value specified by user input, and configuring data of a second user profile associated with a second hierarchical level based on a second value specified by user input.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Anadi Upadhyaya
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Patent number: 10170154Abstract: A method for dividing one 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or a 12K video segment into two equal segments using a mathematical aspect ratio calculation which by combining two equal 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or 12K video segments to create one symmetrically mirrored 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or a 12K video segment to make one three second to thirty minute video to be up loaded and played within video glasses, 3D software and 3D video glasses, 3D parallax software, micro SD memory cards, HD televsions, 3D televisions, virtual reality software and hardware, mobile media applications, computers and all video streaming internet applications including widescreen cinema standard and IMAX theatrical projections.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Virtual Dreamware, LLCInventor: William King
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Patent number: 10164842Abstract: Techniques for providing visualization and analysis of performance data are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for providing visualization and analysis of performance data. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a mobile communications network. The one or more processors may be configured to provide a user interface at a mobile device for a user to view network performance data associated with the mobile communications network. The one or more processors may further be configured provide one or more user-selectable options to a user at a mobile device to view the network performance data. The one or more processors may also be configured to dynamically filter the network performance data based on the one or more user-selectable options.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.Inventors: Edoardo Rizzi, Sameh Yamany