Patents Examined by Jeffery Williams
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Patent number: 11794935Abstract: A pharmaceutical filling system for a high volume pharmacy is described. The system can include a spill detection subsystem and method. The system can include a cameras to take images that a processed to determine presence of a spilled pharmaceutical. A mirror portion is provided so that the camera can take images of the entire field of the filling area. The mirror portion can be a concave mirror that increases the field of view of the camera. A light panel can illuminate the field of view to allow the camera to take high speed images. A controller can receive a series of at least two images captured by the camera and determine whether an object in the captured images is a spilled pharmaceutical.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.Inventor: Jerry W. Christopher
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Patent number: 11796372Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus includes at least one test table on which a droplet is disposed, at least one profile measurement portion disposed adjacent to the at least one test table to measure a surface profile of the at least one test table and a surface profile of the droplet disposed on the at least one test table, and a controller electrically connected to the at least one profile measurement portion to measure a volume of the droplet from a difference between the surface profile of the at least one test table and the surface profile of the droplet disposed on the at least one test table.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jeongwon Han
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Patent number: 11788894Abstract: Apparatus and methods for detecting a characteristic of a ground engaging product on earth working equipment are described. The apparatus is operable to: measure a temperature profile at a ground engaging product location; compare the measured temperature profile with an expected temperature profile for that ground engaging product; and indicate a characteristic of the ground engaging product based on the comparison. Thermal inserts for use with ground engaging products on earth working equipment are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ESCO GROUP LLCInventors: Jason W. Betournay, Noah D. Cowgill, Steven D. Hyde, Christopher M. Carpenter, John M. Anderton
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Patent number: 11792526Abstract: A method of decoding an image, includes obtaining at least one offset for a picture, deriving a variable for scaling for the picture based on the at least one offset, and performing inter prediction based on the variable for scaling for the picture. The at least one offset is defined with a direction of scaling.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
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Patent number: 11792356Abstract: The present technology is directed to determining an accuracy of an infrared (IR) camera, and more particularly, validating a distortion accuracy of an IR camera. The present technology can receive one or more images of a calibration harp captured by the IR camera, wherein the one or more images include a plurality of lines corresponding to a plurality of strings of the calibration harp. The present technology can further determine a degree of distortion of the plurality of lines based on a distortion error coefficient, wherein the distortion error coefficient is computed based on edge points of the plurality of lines on the one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Yongjun Wang, Marco Antonio Gaxiola Michel, Daniel Chou
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Patent number: 11792525Abstract: A method of decoding an image, includes obtaining at least one offset for a picture, deriving a variable for scaling for the picture based on the at least one offset, and performing inter prediction based on the variable for scaling for the picture. The at least one offset is defined with a direction of scaling.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
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Patent number: 11785244Abstract: A method of decoding a video signal according to the present invention may include: determining whether or not change in brightness is present between a current video including a current block and a reference video of the current video; when it is determined that change in brightness is present between the current video and the reference video, determining weight prediction parameter candidates of the current block; determining a weight prediction parameter of the current block on the basis of index information specifying any of the weight prediction parameter candidates; and performing prediction for the current block on the basis of the weight prediction parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Hee Moon, Sung Won Lim, Dong Jae Won
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Patent number: 11785229Abstract: A further coding efficiency increase may be achieved if for a current block of a picture, for which the bit stream signals one of supported partitioning patterns, a reversal of the partitioning by block merging is avoided. In particular, if the signaled one of the supported partitioning patterns specifies a subdivision of the block into two or more further blocks, a removal of certain coding parameter candidates for all further blocks, except a first further block of the further blocks in a coding order, is performed. Particularly, those coding parameter candidates are removed from the set of coding parameter candidates for the respective further block, the coding parameters of which are the same as coding parameters associated with any of the further blocks which, when being merged with the respective further block, would result in one of the supported partitioning pattern. This avoids redundancy between partitioning coding and merging coding.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLCInventors: Philipp Helle, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Simon Oudin, Benjamin Bross
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Patent number: 11778158Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
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Patent number: 11770558Abstract: Methods and apparatus for stereoscopic image encoding and decoding are described. Left and right eye images are encoded following an entropy reduction operation being applied to one of the eye images when there is a difference between the left and right images of an image pair. Information about regions of negative parallax within the entropy reduced image of an image pair is encoded along with the images. Upon decoding a sharpening filter is applied to the image in an image pair which was subjected to the entropy reduction operation. In addition edge enhancement filtering is performed on the regions of the recovered entropy reduced image which are identified in the encoded image data as regions of negative parallax. Interleaving of left and right eye images at the input of the encoder combined with entropy reduction allows for efficient encoding, storage, and transmission of 3D images.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Nevermind Capital LLCInventors: David Michael Cole, Alan McKay Moss, David Roller, Jr.
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Mode-dependent coefficient scanning and directional transforms for different colour sampling formats
Patent number: 11770519Abstract: A method of coding 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 video data comprises predicting luminance and/or chrominance samples of an image from other respective reference samples derived from the same image according to a prediction mode associated with a sample to be predicted, the prediction mode being selected for each of a plurality of blocks of samples, from a set of two or more candidate prediction modes; detecting differences between the samples and the respective predicted samples; selecting a frequency-separation transform from two or more candidate frequency separation transforms according to the prediction mode associated with a current block of samples using a mapping between transform and prediction mode, the mapping between different, as between chrominance and luminance samples, for at least the 4:4:4 format; and encoding the detected differences by frequency-separating the differences, using the selected frequency-separation transform.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: James Alexander Gamei, Nicholas Ian Saunders, Karl James Sharman, Paul James Silcock -
Patent number: 11763190Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for interactive machine learning. The method includes iteratively performing a process including steps of identifying a solution to a given problem; processing, based on determining that the identified solution is a possible solution to the given problem, the possible solution by running a machine learning application using the possible solution; selecting a processed solution based on a plurality of processed solutions at least a portion of which are from different iterations of the process; and determining whether to exit the process with the selected solution for the given problem based on an exit condition. Performing the process includes receiving, via a user interface for an interactive application, inputs into the interactive application to use in performing at least part of one of the steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Balanced Media Technology, LLCInventor: Corey Clark
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Patent number: 11761792Abstract: A method is provided that includes generating a visual environment for interactive development of a machine learning (ML) model. The method includes accessing observations of data each of which includes values of independent variables and a dependent variable, and performing an interactive exploratory data analysis (EDA) of the values of a set of the independent variables. The method includes performing an interactive feature construction and selection based on the interactive EDA, and in which select independent variables are selected as or transformed into a set of features for use in building a ML model to predict the dependent variable. The method includes building the ML model using a ML algorithm, the set of features, and a training set produced from the set of features and observations of the data. And the method includes outputting the ML model for deployment to predict the dependent variable for additional observations of the data.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Seema Chopra, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Arvind Sundararaman, Kaustubh Kaluskar
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Patent number: 11743470Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing motion compensation by using motion vector prediction. To this end, a method of decoding an image may include: generating multiple motion vector candidate lists according to an inter-prediction direction of a current block; deriving multiple motion vectors for the current block by using the multiple motion vector candidate lists; determining multiple prediction blocks for the current block by using the multiple motion vectors; and obtaining a final prediction block for the current block based on the multiple prediction blocks.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sung Chang Lim, Jung Won Kang, Ha Hyun Lee, Dong San Jun, Hyun Suk Ko, Jin Ho Lee, Seung Hyun Cho, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Soo Choi
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Patent number: 11733043Abstract: A target reflector search device. This device comprises an emitting unit for emitting an emission fan, a motorized device for moving the emission fan over a spatial region, and a receiving unit for reflected portions of the emission fan within a fan-shaped acquisition region, and a locating unit for determining a location of the reflection. An optoelectronic detector of the receiving unit is formed as a position-resolving optoelectronic detector having a linear arrangement of a plurality of pixels, each formed as an SPAD array, and the receiving unit comprises an optical system having an imaging fixed-focus optical unit, wherein the optical system and the optoelectronic detector are arranged and configured in such a way that portions of the optical radiation reflected from a point in the acquisition region are expanded on the sensitivity surface of the optoelectronic detector in such a way that blurry imaging takes place.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBHInventors: Jürg Hinderling, Simon Bestler, Peter Kipfer, Andreas Walser, Markus Geser
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Patent number: 11727665Abstract: A method and system for temporal frequency analysis for identification of unmanned aircraft systems. The method includes obtaining a sequence of video image frames and providing a pixel from an output frame of the video; generating a fluctuating pixel value vector; examining the fluctuating pixel value vector over a period of time; obtaining the frequency information present in the pixel fluctuations; summing the frequency coefficients for the vectorized pixel values from the fluctuating pixel value vector; obtaining an image representing a two dimensional space based on the summed center frequency coefficients; generating a series of still frames equal to a summation of the center frequency coefficients for pixel variations; and combining the temporal information into spatial locations in a matrix to provide a single image containing the spatial and temporal information present in the sequence of video image frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Bryana Lynn Woo, Gabriel Carlisle Birch, Jaclynn Javonna Stubbs, Camron G. Kouhestani
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Patent number: 11729405Abstract: A method for video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, parameters of a cross-component linear model (CCLM) based on two or four chroma samples and/or corresponding luma samples; and performing the conversion based on the determining.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11711523Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for sharing a candidate list. A method of generating a merging candidate list for a predictive block may include: producing, on the basis of a coding block including a predictive block on which a parallel merging process is performed, at least one of a spatial merging candidate and a temporal merging candidate of the predictive block; and generating a single merging candidate list for the coding block on the basis of the produced merging candidate. Thus, it is possible to increase processing speeds for coding and decoding by performing inter-picture prediction in parallel on a plurality of predictive blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITYInventors: Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
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Patent number: 11704869Abstract: Determining GPS coordinates of some image point(s) positions in at least two images using a processor configured by program instructions. Receiving position information of some of the positions where an image capture device captured an image. Determining geometry by triangulating various registration objects in the images. Determining GPS coordinates of the image point(s) positions in at least one of the images. Saving GPS coordinates to memory. This system and method may be used to determine GPS coordinates of objects in an image.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Inventors: Leonid I. Rudin, Ping Yu
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Patent number: 11706403Abstract: Based on viewing tracking data, a viewer's view direction to a three-dimensional (3D) scene depicted by a first video image is determined. The first video image has been streamed in a video stream to the streaming client device before the first time point and rendered with the streaming client device to the viewer at the first time point. Based on the viewer's view direction, a target view portion is identified in a second video image to be streamed in the video stream to the streaming client device to be rendered at a second time point subsequent to the first time point. The target view portion is encoded into the video stream with a higher target spatiotemporal resolution than that used to encode remaining non-target view portions in the second video image.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventor: Ajit Ninan