Patents Examined by Jose M Mesa
  • Patent number: 12143727
    Abstract: A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroaki Ono, Osamu Kawamae, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Patent number: 12133017
    Abstract: A sensor data processing apparatus can be coupled to multiple image sensors of different types. The apparatus adjusts frame transmission rates based on the number of sensors and type of image data sourced by the sensors to optimize utilization of bandwidth on a number of transport channels. The apparatus can be configured to transport selected frames in the image data that are identified as critical frames at a higher rate than non-selected frames in the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Carl A. Woody, Tyler Layne Hook
  • Patent number: 12132972
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting a content type of content within a media stream. A computing device may receive a media stream and define a set of media segments that each represent a portion of the media stream. The computing device may identify a first media segment that includes a first boundary and a second media segment that includes a second boundary. The computing device may predict whether the subset of media segments that are positioned between the first media segment and the second media segment include content of a particular content type. The computing device may then transmit an indication of the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: VIZIO, INC.
    Inventor: Kiran Sanjeevan Cabeza
  • Patent number: 12114041
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes using a Wi-Fi module of a computing device to detect that an end-user has exited a monitored environment of the computing device, where the monitored environment comprises an Internet of Things (IoT) device communicatively coupled to the computing device over an IoT network. The method also involves in response to detecting that the end-user has exited the monitored environment, triggering a first IoT action at the IoT device. The method also involves after detecting that the end-user has exited the monitored environment and triggering the first IoT action, using the Wi-Fi module of the computing device to detect that the end-user has reentered the monitored environment. The method also involves in response to detecting that the end-user has reentered the monitored environment, triggering a second IoT action at the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Garner, David Stern
  • Patent number: 12106776
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store data corresponding to a media stream including video recorded at a first frame rate and multiple audio segments includes the multiple audio segments include one or more first audio segments indicated as having a first playback type and one or more second audio segments indicated as having a second playback type includes the device also includes one or more processors coupled to the memory and operably configured to initiate playback of the media stream includes the playback of the media stream includes playback of the video at a second frame rate that is different from the first frame rate, playback of the one or more first audio segments at a first playback speed corresponding to the first frame rate, and playback of the one or more second audio segments at a second playback speed corresponding to the second frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shubhobrata Dutta Choudhury, Aditya Mishra, Sai Krishna Bodapati, Sudheer Reddy Kesani
  • Patent number: 12096085
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces related to sources of video data. User interfaces enables users to configure and interact with the sources of video data, such as for displaying a live video feed and a recorded video from an external source of video data. In some embodiments, a device provides user interfaces for displaying video from a video source and controlling external devices related to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
  • Patent number: 12096070
    Abstract: A video editing method applied to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor and a human-machine interface, the processor is configured to execute a program to generate video data, and the human-machine interface is configured to receive an input signal. The video editing method includes: obtaining the video data; monitoring the input signal; setting an editing condition; and recording the video data to generate a video clip when the input signal meets the editing condition. A video editing system is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Chieh Li
  • Patent number: 12075927
    Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
  • Patent number: 12048187
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels arranged on the substrate in a display area that surrounds a transmissive area, a first insulating layer arranged on the substrate and including an opening that overlaps the transmissive area, a second insulating layer arranged on the first insulating layer and including a groove, an encapsulation substrate covering the plurality of pixels, and a filling layer arranged between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate in the transmissive area and overlapping the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonse Lee, Okkyung Park, Sukyoung Kim, Donghyeon Jang, Yujin Jeon
  • Patent number: 12042067
    Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
  • Patent number: 12041321
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining transition scenes in content and playing back transition scenes as overlays over one or more adjacent scenes. Transition scenes (also referred to as “pause scenes”) are slow-moving scenes, with minimal activity or characters, usually surrounded by two faster paced scenes, that may bore certain viewers such as children or mobile device users. The system may help the content move faster, while ensuring the transition scenes are not skipped. The system may receive content with three sequential scenes A, B, and C, and determine scene B is a transition scene between scene A and scene C. Scene B may be generated as an overlay to one of (or parts of both) scene A and scene C so that all three scenes are viewed but the runtime is shorter, and the content's pace is maintained. The system may also determine which scene to overlay, and determine a screen position for the overlay so as not to, e.g., obscure any characters or activity in the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Makam Gupta, Srikanth Channapragada
  • Patent number: 12041383
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed herein to perform intelligent determinations of non-linear (i.e., dynamic) image recording rates for the production of improved timelapse videos. The techniques described herein may be especially applicable to timelapse videos captured over long durations of time and/or with varying amounts of device motion/scene content change over the course of the captured video (e.g., when a user is walking, exercising, driving, etc. during the video's capture). By smoothly varying the image recording rate of the timelapse video in accordance with multi-temporal scale estimates of scene content change, the quality of the produced timelapse video may be improved (e.g., fewer long stretches of the video with too little action, as well as fewer stretches of the video where there is so much rapid action in the timelapse video that it is difficult for a viewer to perceive what is happening in the video).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe Seyve, Xuemei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12028583
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control section that performs control for displaying a list of text information provided to a motion picture in a state where a location at which the text information is not provided is also selectable, and a playback section that plays back the motion picture from a playback time point corresponding to a location selected on the displayed list in a case of playing back the motion picture to which the text information is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masakazu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12022170
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying personalized preview images during trick-play operations of a media asset based on user profile data and an importance of frames of the media asset. A request from a user to move a slider of a progress bar associated with a media asset is received while the media asset is being generated for display. A scene from the media asset that contains a play position indicated by the slider is identified and a frame that best matches user profile data of the user and importance data for the scene is identified. The identified frame is generated for display as an overlay over the displayed media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Makam Gupta, Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 12007680
    Abstract: An inventive device includes a multi-aperture imaging device comprising an image sensor; an array of adjacently arranged optical channels, each optical channel including an optic for projecting at least one partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor area of the image sensor arrangement, a beam deflection means for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels, and a focusing means for setting a focal position of the multi-aperture imaging device. The device further comprises a control means configured to control the focusing means and to receive image information from the image sensor; the control means being configured to control the multi-aperture imaging device into a sequence of focal positions so as to capture a corresponding sequence of image information of the total field of view and to produce, from the sequence of image information, a depth map for the captured total field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frank Wippermann, Jacques Duparré
  • Patent number: 12010389
    Abstract: A computerized system and method may provide a dynamic, adaptable, and robust framework for intelligent web-based video playing. A computerized system including a memory and a computer processor may arrange a plurality of video frames based on one or more data items associated with groups of pictures (GOPs) and/or video playing commands and/or settings, and render and/or play the arranged frames on an output display. Functionalities enabled by different embodiments of the invention include, for example: automatically adjusting a video playing speed according to a number of accumulated frames within a memory buffer; appending a memory buffer with frames included in another (e.g., separate) memory buffer based on a requested video playing direction; omitting frames from a video sequence (thus sparing the need to process omitted frames) based on quantifying their information content and/or distance from reference frames; and synchronizing video playing on different (e.g., remote) computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Qognify, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eran Nevo, Marina Beiser Klotsman, Gina Fahimipoor, Yaniv Toplian
  • Patent number: 12008970
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a mirror display, a three-dimensional camera positioned toward a front direction of the mirror display, and a controller configured to detect facial contours of a user from three-dimensional face images of the user photographed at at least two different time points by the three-dimensional camera, identify a change of the facial contours between the two time points based on the detected facial contours, and control the mirror display to display information about the change of the facial contours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunjoon Choo, Hyunsoo Jeong, Jonghwa Choi, Jongjin Ko, Kwangyoun Kim, Jangwoo Lee, Kyungah Chang
  • Patent number: 12003893
    Abstract: A method for configuring a computing device in a network of at least one remote device is disclosed. The method includes: storing, in a remote device, a configuration data archive relating to an existing computing device, wherein the remote device is at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera; determining, by a computing device to be configured, whether the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive; and transferring data from the configuration data archive to the computing device to be configured in response to a determination that the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: James Carey
  • Patent number: 11991423
    Abstract: The application provides a virtual video live streaming processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of virtual video live streaming technologies. The virtual video live streaming processing method includes: obtaining text data and determining to-be-synthesized video data corresponding to the text data; synthesizing a live video stream in real time according to the to-be-synthesized video data and pushing the live video stream to a live streaming client; determining target video data from the to-be-synthesized video data that has not been synthesized into a live video stream in response to a live streaming interruption request during receiving a live streaming interruption request; and synthesizing an interruption transition video stream according to the target video data and pushing the interruption transition video stream to the live streaming client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shaoming Zhu
  • Patent number: 11985395
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide one or more content summaries for one or more media assets, wherein it is determined that consumption associated with a profile of a media asset will begin at a first time and at a second time that is a period of time prior to the first time, it is caused to be provided one or more content summaries for the one or more media assets, wherein the one or more content summaries are selected based at least on a duration of the content summary, such that a duration of the content summary is not greater than the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Makam Gupta, Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah