Patents Examined by Jimmy S Lee
  • Patent number: 10560644
    Abstract: An image processing method, including: obtaining image data of a photographed original image, and obtaining ambient infrared intensity I that is used when the original image is photographed; obtaining infrared image data corresponding to I according to a preset correspondence between tested infrared intensity and infrared image data; obtaining corrected image data according to the image data of the original image and the infrared image data corresponding to I; and obtaining a corresponding corrected image according to the corrected image data, and outputting the corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangyong Ge, Yali Wang
  • Patent number: 10514253
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes an illumination device irradiating an object with a first and a second pattern, a camera taking image data of the object, a motor displacing the object, and a processor measuring the object, obtaining a first value of the object based on a first number of image data taken with the first pattern at a first number of phases at a first position, obtaining a gain and/or offset based on the first number of image data, obtaining a second value of the object based on the gain and/or offset and a second number of image data taken with the second pattern at a second number of phases at a second position, obtaining height data of the object based on the first and the second value, and obtaining the second value with an average of the gain and/or offset of pixels adjacent to each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CKD Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohyama, Norihiko Sakaida, Takahiro Mamiya, Hiroyuki Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 10506204
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for state detection and voice guided setup for a video doorbell unit. A video doorbell unit that does not include a visual display can store prompt data that can be used to generate audio output to guide a user or other entity through a setup process using state detected by one or more state sensors of the video doorbell unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Digital Life, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Wu, Shankaran Narayanan, John Dyal
  • Patent number: 10506224
    Abstract: A holographic three dimensional imaging projecting medical apparatus is provided, including: a three dimensional imaging device, having a projecting mechanism and an image forming mechanism, the projecting mechanism including a housing and a projecting unit, the projecting unit projecting a plurality of projected images through the housing to the image forming mechanism, to form a three dimensional image within an image forming space of the image forming mechanism, the housing having a plurality of reflection portions, each of the plurality of reflection portions having a through hole and a plurality of light reflecting sheets disposed around the through hole, the projecting unit attached to the housing; a motion detector, detecting an operating gesture and generating a control signal corresponding to the operating gesture; and a processor, receiving the control signal and controlling the three dimensional image according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chin-Lun Lai, Yu-Mei Chang
  • Patent number: 10491842
    Abstract: Each of pixels disposed in a matrix form on a substrate includes a photoelectric conversion unit that converts incident light into a signal charge, a reading electrode that reads the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion unit, and a vertical transfer electrode that constitutes a vertical transfer unit. A plurality of first pixels, and a plurality of second pixels disposed adjacent to the first pixels are alternately disposed for each row, and also alternately disposed for each column to form a checkered pattern. The reading electrode of each of the pixels is disposed such that a plurality of signal charges read from the identical photoelectric conversion unit contain a dark current generated under the common reading electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10477184
    Abstract: A photography system includes a digital camera and a depth and position detection device. The digital camera is configured to capture a digital image of a subject. The depth and position detection device scans the subject and determines three-dimensional locations of the subject and any other objects within the field of view. The depth and position detection device also determines locations of body points of the subject. The depth and position information can then be mapped to the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Surma, Jolinda K. Conzemius
  • Patent number: 10440354
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a light field display control method and apparatus and a light field display device. The light field display control method comprises: determining a partial depth distribution sub-region of content according to at least depth distribution information of the content; and tilting a first lenslet with respect to an original plane of a lenslet array of a light field display device according to at least a display depth of field (DoF) range of the light field display device and the depth distribution sub-region, wherein the first lenslet is a lenslet that is in the lenslet array and affects display of a first object, and the first object is a part, which is located in the depth distribution sub-region, of the content. The present application can improve display quality of an object, which is located in a partial depth distribution sub-region, of content to be displayed or content being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Du, Liang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10425636
    Abstract: A near-to-eye display (NED) device comprises a light sensor, a processor, a first imager to generate a left image of an object for the user's left optical sensor, and a second imager to generate a right image of the object for the user's right optical sensor. The device further comprises at least one light-transmissive optical component arranged to receive concurrently the left image and the right image, the at least one light-transmissive optical component further arranged to direct a first portion of each of the left and right images to the left and right optical sensors, respectively, of the user while directing a second portion of each of the left and right images to the light sensor. The at least one processor detects a binocular misalignment between the left and right images based on output of the light sensor and to control the imagers to correct for the misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 10390046
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for coding significant coefficient information for a video block in a transform skip mode. The transform skip mode may provide a choice of a two-dimensional transform mode, a horizontal one-dimensional transform mode, a vertical one-dimensional transform mode, or a no transform mode. In other cases, the transform skip mode may provide a choice between a two-dimensional transform mode and a no transform mode. The techniques include selecting a transform skip mode for a video block, and coding significant coefficient information for the video block using a coding procedure defined based at least in part on the selected transform skip mode. Specifically, the techniques include using different coding procedures to code one or more of a position of a last non-zero coefficient and a significance map for the video block in the transform skip mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajan Laxman Joshi, Joel Sole Rojals, Xianglin Wang, Marta Karczewicz, Vadim Seregin
  • Patent number: 10382753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a simplified pipeline for Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) and Adaptive Loop Filtering (ALF) in the in-loop decoding of a video encoder and a video decoder. According to the present invention, filter parameter setting regions and filtering processing windows are aligned, to reduce the required amount of memory for parameter sets necessary for delayed filtering. This is preferably achieved by a displacement of the filter parameter setting regions with respect to LCU boundaries in at least one (preferably: vertical) or both vertical and horizontal directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Matthias Narroschke
  • Patent number: 10348997
    Abstract: A security video monitoring client system and method of presenting feeds within the same are disclosed. Out-of-process renderer components executing outside the client program provide an important performance advantage, particularly as to the number of video feeds to decode and/or render that can be decoded. This external thread execution strategy likewise facilitates fault isolation, shielding the client from undesired effects arising from the termination, restarting, and/or any other action to be taken as a result of anomalous operation of any one or more out-of-process renderer components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Genetec Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-David Trepanier
  • Patent number: 10325350
    Abstract: Image capture systems and methods may include one or more video capture devices capable of capturing one or more video frames. The video frames may include geographic position data and orientation data associated therewith, and may be stored on one or more non-transient computer readable medium. The computer system may marshal each video frame to one or more processors from a bank of processors for geo-referencing and overlaying of geographic information system (GIS) data on the video frames in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
    Inventor: Stephen Schultz
  • Patent number: 10318798
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for detecting non-visible content of an object in a non-contact manner. The device includes a light source configured to emit light toward a surface of an object over a period of time. The device also includes an optical sensing component configured to receive a pattern of light from the surface of the object, and to record the received pattern at plural points in time. In addition, the device includes a processing component configured to determine temporal changes in the pattern during the plural points in time, and to detect whether motion is present in the object based on determined temporal changes in the pattern, where the motion represents a frequency source of non-visible content in the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.
    Inventors: Zigurts K. Majumdar, Paul C. D'Angio, Michael A. Papazoglou, Allan Steinhardt, Christopher Hutchens
  • Patent number: 10298945
    Abstract: Regions based on which an interpolation method of a fractional-accuracy pixel is switched are optimized, and the interpolation method is switched for each of the divided regions, thereby reducing residual energy of inter-frame prediction with motion compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Matsuo, Yukihiro Bandoh, Seishi Takamura, Hirohisa Jozawa
  • Patent number: 10264239
    Abstract: Method for producing a digital photo comprising pixels, wherein at least some of the pixels comprise position information, the method comprising of: taking a photo with a known geometry of the optical system with which the photo is taken; recording the position from which the photo has been taken; recording the direction in which the photo has been taken; providing a three-dimensional model comprising points which are comprised by at least an outer surface of an object in the field of view of the position where the photo has been taken, wherein the points comprise position information; relating a pixel on the one hand and a corresponding point in the three-dimensional model on the other; and recording, in a manner associated with the pixel, the position information of the corresponding pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cyclomedia Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Bart Beers, Franciscus van den Heuvel
  • Patent number: 10250877
    Abstract: A method is described for reconstructing a current block of a current image from at least one block of a reconstructed reference image at a different size from the size of the current image. The method comprises the steps: motion compensate the reference block with at least one interpolation filter that depends on the size of said reference image and on the size of said current image, decode, for the current block, a residue block, and reconstruct the current block from the residue block and from the motion compensated reference block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Philippe Bordes, Pierre Andrivon, Philippe Salmon
  • Patent number: 10230934
    Abstract: Depth map correction using lookup tables is described. In an example depth maps may be generated that measure a depth to an object using differences in phase between light transmitted from a camera which illuminates the object and light received at the camera which has been reflected from the object. In various embodiments depth maps may be subject to errors caused by received light undergoing multiple reflections before being received by the camera. In an example a correction for an estimated depth of an object may be computed and stored in a lookup table which maps the amplitude and phase of the received light to a depth correction. In an example the amplitudes and frequencies of each modulation frequency may be to access lookup table which stores corrections for the depth of an object and which allows an accurate depth map to be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TEHCNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Eyal Krupka
  • Patent number: 10215706
    Abstract: A system is described for obtaining images of a gemstone, and performing quantitative analysis on the images to obtain measures of properties of the gemstone. The system comprises a support structure for supporting the gemstone at an observation position. An illumination structure is arranged to illuminate the gemstone. The illumination structure comprises a plurality of radially dispersed directional light sources directed towards the observation position, the support structure and illumination system being rotatable relative to one another around a rotation axis so that the gemstone can be illuminated by one or more of the directional light sources at each of a plurality of rotational positions, the axis of rotation being normal to a selected facet of the gemstone. An imaging device is directed towards the gemstone for obtaining images of the gemstone at each of the rotational positions, the imaging device having an imaging axis parallel to or coincident with the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: De Beers UK Ltd.
    Inventor: James Gordon Charters Smith
  • Patent number: 10176591
    Abstract: A system for determining the absolute position of a first object with respect to a second object includes a scalar element attached to the first object and a measuring device attached to the second object. The scalar element comprises a series of coded regions. The coded region represents a number designating a position along an axis of the scalar element. The measuring device includes a two-dimensional optical sensor array configured to capture an image of a portion of the scalar element. The system also includes a processor configured to receive the image and determine an absolute position of the first object with respect to the second object based on at least one coded region of the series of coded regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Sage Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Elmar Swiegot, Alan Shinn, Chiko Fan, David King, Elias Elias
  • Patent number: 10171799
    Abstract: This parallax image display device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires a right-eye image and a left-eye image used for generating a parallax image enabling a stereoscopic view, an information volume distribution calculator that calculates an information volume distribution of the right-eye image and an information volume distribution of the left-eye image, and a parallax image generator that generates the parallax image from the right-eye image and the left-eye image on the basis of the information volume distribution of the right-eye image and the information volume distribution of the left-eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono