Patents Examined by John W. Miller
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Patent number: 12047622Abstract: Techniques, systems, and methods are disclosed to generate messaging to view content on media devices based on predictive factors. Information may be received to trigger one or more predictive factors and then generate a candidate set of offers to view content at a media device based on the information. Based on the one or more predictive factors, confidence values may be determined for each offer in the candidate set of offers. The candidate set of offers may be ranked based on the associated confidence values. Subsequently, presentation of at least one offer of the candidate set of offers may be caused to display in a user interface screen on the media device based on the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc.Inventors: Pratik Hasmukh Patel, David Stuart Luks, Thomas William Becker, Bryan Stephen Scappini, Doug Mittendorf, Richard Lee, Kevin P. Smith
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Patent number: 12047639Abstract: Example video ingestion cables, display systems, and methods for harmonizing video formats for video ingestion are provided. An example video ingestion cable includes a first video interface connector cable to receive a first video feed formatted according to a first video format, a second video interface connector cable to receive a second video feed formatted according to a second video format, a format conversion circuit to convert the first video feed or the second video feed to a harmonized video format, and an output interface connector to transmit one of the first video feed and the second video feed as an output video feed formatted according to the harmonized video format to a display device. An example display system includes first and second video ingestion cables and a video ingestion circuit to select an input video feed for display.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chi Wai So, Owen Patrick Columbus, David Quijano, Stacy L. Wolff
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Patent number: 12043165Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a high-resolution projection headlight for a motor vehicle. The high-resolution projection headlight has an active LED pixel matrix light source which comprises an LED matrix monolithically integrated into a semiconductor chip with a plurality of light diode-based pixels and a driver circuit for separately controlling each individual pixel within the LED matrix. A current digital image of a sequence of images is continuously rasterized by means of a graphical controller from graphical data with at least one graphical object (50) and is provided for image reproduction with the projection headlight. A value for a thermal loading of the LED pixel matrix light source is continuously determined. During the rasterizing of a current digital image, surface areas (52) of the graphical objects (50) to be projected are at least partially masked with a masking (60, 61) and modulated, provided that the value for thermal loading exceeds a limit value.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: PSA AUTOMOBILES SAInventor: Philipp Roeckl
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Patent number: 12041221Abstract: A camera module evaluating apparatus includes a mobile device including a camera module, a transparent display device configured to display an object, a chart positioned farther from the mobile device than the transparent display device and configured to display a long-distance object, and a test device configured to perform an autofocusing (AF) test operation on the camera module when the camera module captures an image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minhyuk Lee, Kichrl Park, Kaeul Lee, Jisu Han
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Patent number: 12041347Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to power video conferencing and remote collaboration with subsymbolic and symbolic artificial intelligence. The autonomous video conferencing systems of this disclosure include one main smart camera and multiple peripheral smart cameras, optionally coupled with one or more smart sensors. Each smart camera is equipped with a vision pipeline supported by machine learning to detect objects and their interactions as well as related changes in gesture and posture, and a virtual director adapted to apply a predetermined rule set consistent with television studio production principles. The main camera is adapted to select and update a focus video stream in real time under the direction of its virtual director and stream the updated focus stream to a user computer. Methods for creating an automated television studio production for a variety of conferencing spaces and special-purpose scenarios with virtual director assistance are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: HUDDLY ASInventors: Jon Tore Hafstad, Aida C. Lopez, Elena You, Kai Alexander Wig, Lars Erling Stensen, Mona Kleven Lauritzen, Stian Selbek, Tamás Becsei, Niklas Schmidt, Therese Byhring, Vebjørn Boge Nilssen, Patrik Kvarme Hansen, Knut Helge Teppan, Stein Ove Eriksen, Vegard Hammer, Bendik Kvamstad, Jan Tore Korneliussen, Håvard Pederson Alstad, Oleg Jakobsen
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Patent number: 12041310Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concepts disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods of providing in-flight entertainment related content. A content server may upload first content to in-seat client terminals for local storage and subsequent playback. The content server may upload second content to overhead client terminals for local storage and subsequent playback. Each client terminal may synchronize to a defined reference point for initiating playback of the first content and of the second content. Each client terminal may operate independently of each other and the content server subsequent to initiation of the playback. Subsequent to the initiation of the playback and in response to a system disruption to the playback at a client terminal, the client terminal may resume the playback of the corresponding content at the client terminal at a point at which the disruption occurred. The resumption may be independent of the playback in other client terminals.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Steven C. Atkins, Robert V. Troxel, Jeffrey B. Whitney
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Patent number: 12041393Abstract: A projector controlling method including projecting, by a projector, a projection image by using first setting values with the projector attached to a base apparatus that specifies the direction in which the projector projects projection light and the position where the projector is installed, changing the settings of the projector from the first setting values to second setting values when the projector is detached from the base apparatus, and changing the settings of the projector from the second setting values to the first setting values when the projector detects that the projector is attached to the base apparatus, and the set of first setting values and the set of second setting values each including a parameter relating to geometric correction of the projection image.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Eisuke Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12041300Abstract: The invention provides a method of media content delivery, where the time taken to deliver each chunk of content is measured, from which the stability or consistency of delivery times are calculated. The amount of data buffered at the user's device awaiting decoding and play-back can then be adjusted (such as by playing out the content slower or quicker), in order to achieve a good compromise between continuous play-out and low end-to-end delay, taking into consideration the current network characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited companyInventors: Michael Nilsson, Paul Farrow
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Patent number: 12035896Abstract: A device and method for color correction of two camera systems each having an imaging device and an illumination source. The camera systems are separately white balanced with the imaging device outside a scene. Their white balance gains and color correction matrices are saved. Based on the measurements, combined white balance gains and combined color correction matrices are computed and saved. Thereafter, with the imaging devices in a scene, performing white balancing by measuring the R, G, and B values of both imaging devices together, and then white balancing by measuring the R, G, and B values of each separate imaging device with the other camera system's light off. Comparisons are made of each camera's scene measurements against the combined scene measurements. If they are significantly different, the combined light set of white balance gain and color correction matrix is applied to digital signal processing paths of each camera system.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Perry Hedges, Bruce Laurence Kennedy, Michael Dominik Steiner
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Patent number: 12035001Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a sequence of actions performed using a first interface on a first client device may be identified. A first negative signal probability may be determined based upon the sequence of actions. The first negative signal probability may correspond to a probability of receiving a negative signal associated with a first content item from the first client device responsive to presenting the first content item via the first interface on the first client device. The first interface on the first client device may be controlled based upon the first negative signal probability.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Oren Shlomo Somekh, Natalia Silberstein, Yaroslav Fyodorov, Fiana Raiber, Oleg Zendel, Ali Tabaja
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Patent number: 12035005Abstract: An automatic flagging of sensitive portions of a digital dataset for media production includes receiving the digital dataset comprising at least one of audio data, video data, or audio-video data for producing at least one media program. A processor identifies sensitive portions of the digital dataset likely to be in one or more defined content classifications, based at least in part on comparing unclassified portions of the digital dataset with classified portions of the prior media production using an algorithm, and generates a plurality of sensitivity tags each signifying a sensitivity assessment for a corresponding one of the sensitive portions. The processor may save the plurality of sensitivity tags each correlated to its corresponding one of the sensitive portions in a computer memory for use by a media production or localization team.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hitesh Pau, Geoffrey P. Murillo, Rajiv R. Lund, Anshul Kumar, Tasha T. Mehta, Alejandro Bringas, Tarundeep Kaur, Ty Y. Tanita
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Apparatus and methodology for aiming point and aiming device 6DOF detection using image registration
Patent number: 12026912Abstract: A system and a method for determining aiming point and/or six degrees of freedom of an aiming device. The system include the aiming device, a camera mounted thereon, and a computing device. The aiming point is an intersection between a line of interest (LOI) of the aiming device and surface of an aimed object. A parallel auxiliary line (PAL) is a line starting from the camera and parallel to the LOI. The PAL is a point (PAL-T) in a template image captured by the first camera. The computing device is configured to: provide a reference image; map the template image to the reference image; project the PAL-T to the reference image using the mapping relation to obtain a reference point (PAL-R); determine 3D coordinates PAL-3D of the PAL-R; and determine 3D coordinates of the aiming point based on the PAL-3D and a relationship between the LOI and the PAL.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Inventors: Wen Li, Ming Yang -
Patent number: 12028582Abstract: Techniques of providing an interactive programming guide with a personalized lineup are disclosed. In some embodiments, a profile is accessed, and a personalized lineup is determined based on the profile. The personalized lineup may include a corresponding media content identification assigned to each one of a plurality of sequential time slots, where each media content identification identifies media content for the corresponding time slot. A first interactive programming guide may be caused to be displayed on a first media content device associated with the profile, where the first interactive programming guide includes the personalized lineup.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: GRACENOTE, INC.Inventors: Wilson Harron, Oscar Celma Herrada, Irene Zhu, Markus K. Cremer
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Patent number: 12019360Abstract: A chromaticity adjusting method of a projector includes a first light source for emitting blue light and a second light source for emitting yellow light including red light and green light. A chromaticity value of the blue light is acquired and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light is obtained. The second target chromaticity value is determined based on the first target chromaticity value, the chromaticity value of the blue light, and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light. Light quantities of the first and second light sources are controlled based on the second target chromaticity value. Signal levels of the red, green, and blue color components included in the video signal are controlled according to the difference between the first target chromaticity value and the second target chromaticity value.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Kaoru Ito
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Patent number: 12022241Abstract: An image projection method includes projecting an image including a plurality of adjustment points on a screen, determining positions of the plurality of adjustment points on the screen, determining whether each of a plurality of sides connecting the adjustment points adjacent to each other is a linear line or a curved line, obtaining geometrically-corrected image by performing geometric correction on the image in a range corresponding to an area defined by the plurality of sides including the linear line and the curved line based on the plurality of sides defining the area, and projecting the geometrically-corrected image on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Chihiro Sudo
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Patent number: 12022218Abstract: One example described herein includes the digital image sensor having a pixel cell with a photodiode and a quantizer circuit coupled to the pixel cell. The quantizer circuit includes a charge storage device that generates a voltage based on electric charge from the photodiode. The quantizer circuit also includes a single-input comparator that can switch from a first output state to a second output state in response to a ramp signal provided by a ramp generator. The quantizer circuit further includes a memory switch that can cause a counter value from a digital counter to be stored in a digital memory in response to the single-input comparator switching from the first output state to the second output state. The counter value can serve as a digital pixel value associated with the pixel cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Song Chen, Xinqiao Liu, Tsung-Hsun Tsai
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Patent number: 12011142Abstract: This electronic endoscope system includes an evaluation unit that evaluates an extent of a lesion by processing an image inside an organ image-captured by an electronic endoscope. The evaluation unit includes: an image evaluation value calculation unit that calculates an image evaluation value for the captured image; a lesion evaluation unit that calculates a representative evaluation value of image evaluation values from the image evaluation value for each of a plurality of spaces to evaluate the spread of the lesion; and a lesion evaluation adjustment unit that sets, for an empty section for which a representative evaluation value is not generated, as an estimated representative evaluation value, one image evaluation value for a non-empty section, or a representative evaluation value obtained on the basis of the image evaluation value, and that assigns the estimated representative evaluation value to the empty section.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: HOYA CORPORATIONInventor: Ryohey Koizumi
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Patent number: 12008814Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatus for adjusting areas of interest for motion detection in camera scenes. A method includes obtaining a map of false motion event detections using a first area of interest; identifying an overlap area between the map of false detections and the first area of interest; determining a second area of interest that includes portions of the first area of interest and excludes at least a part of the overlap area; obtaining a map of true motion event detections using the first area of interest; determining whether true detections using the second area of interest compared to true detections using the first area of interest satisfies performance criteria; and in response to determining that true detections using the second area of interest compared to true detections using the first area of interest satisfies performance criteria, providing the second area of interest for use in detecting events.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLCInventors: Narayanan Ramanathan, Gang Qian, Eduardo Romera Carmena, Donald Gerard Madden, Allison Beach
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Patent number: 12010431Abstract: A method for calibrating a camera group includes: controlling a first and second cameras to capture first and second images of a first scene, the first camera having a first field of view (FOV), the second camera having a second FOV overlapping the first FOV in a first overlap region; the first scene including a calibration target in the first overlap region; computing a first relative pose based on the first and second images; controlling the second camera and a third camera to capture third and fourth images of a second scene, the third camera having a third FOV overlapping the second FOV in a second overlap region, the second scene including a calibration target in the second overlap region; computing a second relative pose based on the third and fourth images; and computing a third relative pose based on the first and second relative poses.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: PACKSIZE LLCInventors: Carlo Dal Mutto, Giulio Marin
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Patent number: 12003800Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed. An example system disclosed herein includes meter data analyzer circuitry to determine an audience estimate for streaming media based on media data measured by a media meter, the media meter to measure the streaming media based on an identification of the streaming media in ambient audio collected by a microphone of the media meter, and data analyzer circuitry to calculate at least one headphone adjustment factor based on a first determined proportion of an audience that listens to streaming media via headphones and a second determined proportion of the audience that listens to streaming media without headphones.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh