Patents Examined by James T Boylan
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Patent number: 11960105Abstract: Provided herein is a stereoscopic display device including: a display layer for displaying multi-view images having at least three viewpoints into stereoscopic images; a transparent layer arranged on one side of the display layer; and a parallax barrier layer arranged on one side of the transparent layer and including a light blocking part for blocking light and a slit for transmitting light, wherein a pixel structure of the display layer is an RG-BG pentile subpixel structure or an RG-BW pentile subpixel structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Hyunin Chung
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Patent number: 11962906Abstract: An image processing system may include a first image sensor, a second image sensor, and an image processing device. The image processing device may be configured to obtain a first image and a second image by respectively processing the first image data and the second image data. The image processing device may output an image based on the first image when a zoom factor of the output image is lower than a first reference value, generate a correction image by correcting locations of second reference coordinates of the second image based on first reference coordinates of the first image when the zoom factor of the output image is between the first reference value and the second reference value, and may output an image based on the second image when the zoom factor exceeds the second reference value.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Jin Park, Jeehong Lee, Seongyeong Jeong, Duck-soo Kim
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Patent number: 11943449Abstract: A video decoding device for decoding video using inter prediction includes entropy decoding means for decoding an inter-PU partition type syntax; and decoding control means for making the entropy decoding means decode the inter-PU (Prediction Unit) partition type syntax of a CU (Coding Unit) to be decoded, based on whether the prediction mode of the CU to be decoded is an inter prediction mode and whether a size of the CU to be decoded is equal to a predetermined minimum inter-PU size.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Senzaki, Yuzo Senda, Keiichi Chono, Hirofumi Aoki
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Patent number: 11924555Abstract: An apparatus comprising a light projector, a sensor and a processor. The light projector may be configured to toggle a light pattern. The sensor may be configured to generate pixel data. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, extract IR images with the light pattern, IR images without the light pattern and RGB images from the video frames, generate a control signal in response to the IR images with the light pattern and the RGB images, calculate an IR interference measurement in response to the IR images without the light pattern and the RGB images and select a mode of operation for an IR channel control and an RGB channel control in response to the IR interference measurement. The control signal may be configured to adjust an exposure for the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ambarella International LPInventors: Jian Tang, Tao Liu, Jingyang Qiu
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Patent number: 11910089Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting point of view (POV) aberrations in scanning folded cameras and multi-cameras including such scanning folded cameras. In a Tele folded camera that includes an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, the OPFE is tilted in one or two directions to direct the Tele folded camera towards a POV of a scene, a Tele image or a stream of Tele images is captured from the POV, the Tele image having POV aberrations and the POV aberrations are digitally corrected to obtain an aberration-corrected image or stream of images.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Corephotonics Lid.Inventors: Itamar Azoulai, Gal Safra, Anat Werbner, Ela Yehudayi, Paz Ilan, Nadav Geva, Noy Cohen, Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Ruthy Katz
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Patent number: 11902640Abstract: A display system comprising a bell with a lateral wall and a ceiling, delimiting between them an internal volume with an opening opposite the ceiling, a depressurizing arrangement configured to produce a depressurization in the internal volume, an image capturing device at the ceiling, a display screen, and a processing unit receiving an image from the image capturing device and sending the image to the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SASInventors: Jean-Pascal Caturla, Jean-Luc Vialatte, Michel Dos Reis, François Lefebvre Albaret, Julien Nouvet, Ivan Garcia Hallo, Robert Ray Thompson
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Patent number: 11889986Abstract: There is provided herein a flexible electronic circuit board for a tip section of a multi-camera endoscope, the circuit board comprising a front camera surface configured to carry a forward looking camera, a first side camera surface configured to carry a first side looking camera, a second side camera surface configured to carry a second side looking camera, one or more front illuminator surfaces a configured to carry one or more front illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the forward looking camera, one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the first side looking camera and one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the second side looking camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: EndoChoice, Inc.Inventors: Yaniv Kirma, Moshe Levi, Amram Aizenfeld
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Patent number: 11889066Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, an improved compression efficiency is achieved by letting a block-wise picture codec support a set of intra-prediction modes according to which the intra-prediction signal for a current block of a picture is determined by applying a set of neighboring samples of the current block onto a neural network. A second aspect of the present application is that, additionally or alternatively to the spending of neural network-based intra-prediction modes, the mode selection may be rendered more effective by the usage of a neural network dedicated to determine a rank or a probability value for each of the set of intra-prediction modes by applying a set of neighboring samples thereonto with the rank or probability value being used for the selection of one intra-prediction mode out of the plurality of intra-prediction modes including or coinciding with the set of intra-prediction modes.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jonathan Pfaff, Philipp Helle, Dominique Maniry, Thomas Wiegard, Wojciech Samek, Stephan Kaltenstadler, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Mischa Siekmann, Martin Winken
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Patent number: 11882354Abstract: An iris image acquisition system for expanding an iris recognition range is proposed. The iris image acquisition system for expanding the iris recognition range enables that a direction, zoom, and focusing of an iris photographing camera for photographing an iris image of a distant subject are controlled quickly and easily without high-level information processing and arithmetic processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KT&C CO., LTDInventors: Ki Seok Ko, Jeong Geun Kim, Jong Bae Park, Hyuk Sub Kwon
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Patent number: 11881017Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining turbidity of water using machine learning. One of the methods includes obtaining, by a camera, an image of water; detecting, using a blob detector, a plurality of blobs in the image that represent particles suspended in the water; determining a distribution of the plurality of blobs; determining, from the distribution of the plurality of blobs, a measurement associated with turbidity of the water; and providing a signal associated with the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Harrison Pham, Kathy Sun, Alex Ryan Edwards
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Patent number: 11880965Abstract: A method for obtaining a Fourier ptychography image using a smartphone comprises the steps of: (a) sequentially providing illumination of different angles to the sample by sequentially displaying, according to a first pattern composed of point light sources at different positions, the point light sources of the first pattern on a display of the smartphone; (b) obtaining an image for each illumination angle of the sample using a camera of the smartphone whenever illumination of different angles is provided by the point light sources of the first pattern; and (c) restoring a first Fourier ptychography image using a plurality of images for each illumination angle obtained using the camera of the smartphone.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Seung Ah Lee, Kyung Chul Lee, Kyungwon Lee, Jaewoo Jung, Se Hee Lee
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Patent number: 11869273Abstract: An object recognition system of the present disclosure includes: a light source section that irradiates a subject with dot light having a predetermined pattern; an event detection sensor that receives the dot light having the predetermined pattern reflected by the subject and detects, as an event, that a change in luminance of a pixel exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a signal processor that performs, in a case where a plurality of successive pixels in a pixel array section of the event detection sensor detects occurrence of an event in a certain period, processing of removing the event as noise, the plurality of successive pixels being equal to or greater than a predetermined number of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Kenta Endo
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Patent number: 11831919Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
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Patent number: 11818450Abstract: A camera system includes a light source having a peak emission wavelength at room temperature in a near-infrared region, and an imaging device including a photoelectric conversion element that converts near-infrared light into an electric charge. An external quantum efficiency of the photoelectric conversion element has a first peak at a first wavelength longer than the peak emission wavelength, and the external quantum efficiency at the first wavelength is higher than the external quantum efficiency at the peak emission wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Iijima, Masaya Hirade, Yuko Kishimoto
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Patent number: 11809134Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus of automatic optical inspection using scanning holography. The apparatus for automatic optical inspection using scanning holography includes: a hologram capturer that takes a hologram of an object existing on an objective plate using a scanning hologram camera; a depth position/rotation angle extractor that extracts a depth position and a rotation angle about an objective surface of the objective plate on the basis of the hologram or the detected monitoring-light; a rotated coordinate system generator that generates a rotated coordinate system corresponding to the objective surface using the depth position and the rotation angle; and a hologram restorer that obtains an image of the object by restoring the hologram in a plane formed in a depth direction of the rotated coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: CUBIXEL CO., LTD.Inventor: Tae Geun Kim
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Patent number: 11810280Abstract: A system and method for constructing a digital composite image of a three-dimensional biological sample. The system includes an optical system that captures images of cells and tissue presented on a specimen slide. The system systematically acquires a stack of images at different segments across the specimen slide. For each segment, the system dynamically calculates an optimal focal plane. Once an optimal focal plane is determined for each of the stacks of images, the system generates a composite image by copying the sharpest objects from each of the optimal focal planes.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: CDx Medical IP, Inc.Inventors: Mark Rutenberg, Richard Scott, Robert Tjon, Paul Seltzer
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Patent number: 11805221Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein describe a divided-aperture infrared spectral imaging (DAISI) system that is adapted to acquire multiple IR images of a scene with a single-shot (also referred to as a snapshot). The plurality of acquired images having different wavelength compositions that are obtained generally simultaneously. The system includes at least two optical channels that are spatially and spectrally different from one another. Each of the at least two optical channels are configured to transfer IR radiation incident on the optical system towards an optical FPA unit comprising at least two detector arrays. One of the at least two detector arrays comprises a cooled mid-wavelength infra-red FPA. The system further comprises at least one temperature reference source or surface that is used to dynamically calibrate the two detector arrays and compensate for a temperature difference between the two detector arrays.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: REBELLION PHOTONICS, INC.Inventors: Robert Timothy Kester, Nathan Adrian Hagen
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Patent number: 11800205Abstract: Provided is a camera system to obtain high resolution imagery on multiple regions of interest even when the regions of interest are ate different focal depths and in different viewing directions. Embodiments include a high speed camera that operates by reflecting a beam of interest corresponding to a scene of interest into a high-speed passive sensor from a dynamic optical modulator. Embodiments described herein provide a foveating camera design that distributes resolution onto regions of interest by imaging reflections off a scanning micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) mirror. MEMS mirrors are used herein to modulate viewing direction. Embodiments include a camera capturing reflections off of a tiny, fast moving mirror.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATEDInventors: Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Zaid Tasneem, Dingkang Wang, Huikai Xie, Brevin Jeffery Tilmon
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Patent number: 11763490Abstract: Method of aligning an imaging device with respect to an object, the imaging device comprising two or more optical channels, is disclosed. The method may include aiming the two or more optical channels at corresponding overlapping zones of the object such that the two or more optical channels are oriented at different angles relative to each other and off-axis relative to a central axis of the imaging device. The method may additionally include guiding or focusing the imaging device relative to the object using composite images created by combining separate images from the two or more optical channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Optos plcInventors: Brendan Hamel-Bissell, Benjamin Adam Jacobson, Clint Suson, Clark Pentico, Andre E. Adams, Tushar M. Ranchod
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Patent number: 11758247Abstract: A depth acquisition device includes memory and processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light emitted from a light source and measured by imaging with the infrared light reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating a distance to the subject as a depth for each pixel based on an intensity received by the pixel; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, a substantially same scene with a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same timing as those of imaging the infrared light image; detecting, from the visible light image, an edge region including an edge along a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the visible light image; and correcting, in the depth image, a depth of a target region corresponding to the edge region in the depth image.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTDInventors: Takeo Azuma, Satoshi Sato, Nobuhiko Wakai, Kohsuke Yoshioka, Noritaka Shimizu, Yoshinao Kawai, Takaaki Amada, Yoko Kawai, Takeshi Murai, Hiroki Takeuchi