Patents Examined by Joseph G. Ustaris
  • Decoders and methods thereof for managing pictures in video decoding process
    Patent number: 10893288
    Abstract: The solution presented herein defines from which previously decoded picture to retrieve the values for calculating POC of the current picture regardless of how many temporal layers have been decoded. That is achieved by determining the POC of the current picture, to be used by the decoder, as a sum of a syntax element pic_order_cnt_lsb and most significant bits of the POC, PicOrderCntMsb, of the current picture, wherein the PicOrderCntMsb of the current picture is derived using at least a prevPicOrderCntMsb and a prevPicOrderCntLsb and the prevPicOrderCntMsb is set equal to the most significant bits of the POC of a previous reference picture in decoding order that has a layer identity equal to zero and prevPicOrderCntLsb is set equal to the value of the least significant bits of the POC of a previous reference picture in decoding order that has a layer identity equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Rickard Sjöberg, Per Wennersten
  • Image processing device, image processing system, image processing method, and computer program product
    Patent number: 10873719
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a display device, a video display controller configured to display video data imaged by an imaging device in a predetermined display region to be displayed by the display device, and a region display controller configured to display a plurality of display elements representing determination regions based on a plurality of types of determination functions with respect to the video data in the display region by superimposing the plurality of display elements on the video data in aspects different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Keiji Ohmura, Takeshi Hasegawa
  • Method for partitioning block and decoding device
    Patent number: 10863196
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for partitioning a block and a decoding device. A method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: partitioning one prediction unit, in which an intra prediction is performed in a predetermined intra prediction mode, into a plurality of transform units; and performing the intra prediction for each of the plurality of the transform units on the basis of the predetermined intra prediction mode. Thus, the invention increases the image encoding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Seungwook Park, Jaewon Sung, Joonyoung Park, Byeongmoon Jeon, Jaehyun Lim, Yongjoon Jeon, Younghee Choi
  • Intra prediction mode-based image processing method and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 10848759
    Abstract: An intra prediction mode-based image processing method includes: obtaining, on the basis of the intra prediction mode of a current block, a first prediction sample value and a second prediction sample value by using a reference sample neighboring the current block; and generating a prediction sample for the current block by linear interpolation of the first prediction sample value and the second prediction sample value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Heo, Yongjoon Jeon, Sunmi Yoo, Eunyong Son, Junghak Nam
  • Photographic assembly and unmanned aerial vehicle having same
    Patent number: 10843816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of aircrafts and provides a photographic assembly applied to an aircraft, where the aircraft includes a vehicle body. The photographic assembly includes: a vibration absorption member, a frame provided at the periphery of the vehicle body and connected to the vehicle body through a vibration absorption member, a gimbal connected to the frame and a camera connected to the gimbal. The frame of the photographic assembly in embodiments of the present invention can be mounted on unmanned aerial vehicle bodies of different specifications and the frame is sleeved over the vehicle body, so that the structure of the vehicle body can be designed compactly. The embodiments of the present invention further provide an unmanned aerial vehicle having the photographic assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Feng Ni
  • Switch box for security system having a public view monitor
    Patent number: 10834333
    Abstract: A multiple input multi-media switch box allowing for communication between video surveillance cameras, a multi-media player, and a public view monitor for seamless transitions between frames and or advertising media is disclosed. The switch box displays a first video surveillance content on the PVM for a predetermined time, the converter switch freezes the last frame on the first video surveillance image and displays advertising media while buffering the new input from a second video surveillance, then the converter switch releases and displays the new input from the second video surveillance video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Innotech Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Moshe Luski, Devin Benjamin
  • 2D block image encoding
    Patent number: 10812829
    Abstract: A coder (e.g., an encoder or decoder) implements coding of two dimensional blocks of image data using two dimensional differential pulse code modulation (2D DPCM). The coder may switch between DPCM and other types of coding, such as transform coding on a block by block basis. The 2D DPCM may obtain a reconstructed pixel within the two dimensional bloc and code a second, different, pixel within the two dimensional block using the reconstructed pixel. The coder may also create a bitstream of entropy encoded residuals that supports hybrid implicit/explicit specification of coding parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
    Inventor: Alexander Garland MacInnis
  • Dual sensed locating systems and methods
    Patent number: 10809408
    Abstract: Utility locators for providing information about hidden or buried pipes or other cavities are disclosed. A locator may be configured to provide positional information associated with the buried utility based on signals received from a line trace signal and a sonde signal and present the positional information on a visual display or other output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.
    Inventors: Mark S. Olsson, Michael J. Martin
  • Volume dimensioning system calibration systems and methods
    Patent number: 10805603
    Abstract: Various corporate, industry, and regulatory guidelines, best practices and standards are used in establishing acceptable levels of accuracy for volume dimensioning systems used in commerce. A volume dimensioning system can determine at least one distortion value that is indicative of an amount of distortion present in the system and responsive to the amount of distortion, autonomously alter or adjust the units of accuracy of information reported by the system. Such alteration or adjustment of units of accuracy may be performed based on an assessment of the distortion relative to a number of distortion thresholds. Responsive to the assessment, the volume dimensioning system can adjust a unit of accuracy in a representation of volume dimensioning related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.
    Inventors: Franck Laffargue, Serge Thuries, H. Sprague Ackley
  • Calibration targets for microscope imaging
    Patent number: 10802261
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to optical microscope calibration devices that can be used with optical microscopes to adjust the microscope imaging parameters so that images of samples can be obtained below the diffraction limit. The microscope calibration devices include at least one calibration target. Each calibration target includes a number of features with dimensions below the diffraction limit of a microscope objective. Separate color component diffraction limited images of one of the calibration targets are obtained for a particular magnification. The color component images can be combined and image processed to obtain a focused and non-distorted image of the calibration target. The parameters used to obtain the focused and non-distorted image of the calibration target can be used to obtain focused and non-distorted images of a sample for the same magnification by using the same parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventor: Paul Carlyle Goodwin
  • Image processing system, image processing device, and image processing program
    Patent number: 10805546
    Abstract: An image processing system (SYS) specifies an arrangement situation of a workpiece (W) provided by a line (L). The image processing system (SYS) specifies a normal (V) with respect to a set measurement point (Wp) of the workpiece (W) according to the specified arrangement situation of the workpiece (W), and changes a position and posture of the two-dimensional camera (310) so that the specified normal (V) matches an optical axis of the two-dimensional camera (310) (S1). The image processing system (SYS) changes a distance between the two-dimensional camera (310) and the measurement point (Wp) so that the specified normal (V) matches the optical axis of the two-dimensional camera (310), to focus the two-dimensional camera (310) on the measurement point (Wp).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoo Iida, Yuki Taniyasu
  • Shape measurement system and shape measurement method
    Patent number: 10794687
    Abstract: Provided are a system and a method capable of accurately measuring consecutive shapes of a measurement target even when an imaging means, which captures images of the shape of the measurement target, is moved along the measurement target while irradiating the measurement target with light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Taniguchi, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Encoding and decoding architectures for format compatible 3D video delivery
    Patent number: 10798412
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding architectures for 3D video delivery are described, such as 2D compatible 3D video delivery and frame compatible 3D video delivery. The architectures include pre-processing stages to pre-process the output of a base layer video encoder and/or decoder and input the pre-processed output into an enhancement layer video encoder and/or decoder of one or more enhancement layers. Multiplexing methods of how to combine the base and enhancement layer videos are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandros Tourapis, Peshala V. Pahalawatta, Athanasios Leontaris, Kevin J. Stec, Walter J. Husak
  • Apparatus for augmenting human vision
    Patent number: 10791304
    Abstract: The functional effect of having additional color-sensing cone types in the human eye is implemented by an encoding of some spectral information differently for the left and right eyes. This different encoding for identical features seen by the left and right eyes is interpreted as a perceptively different feature by the human brain, allowing additional spectral information to be conveyed through the limited tristimulus sensitivity of the human eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mikhail A. Kats, Bradley Gundlach
  • Image coding method and image decoding method
    Patent number: 10778969
    Abstract: An image coding method for coding a current block, by assigning two or more reference picture indexes to one or more reference pictures that are different from a current picture which includes the current block, and the image coding method comprises the following when the two or more reference picture indexes are used to code the current block: determining whether or not reference pictures identified by two or more reference picture indexes are identical to each other; and switching, based on a result of the determining, between whether or not a prediction direction for coding the current block in a predetermined coding mode is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Hisao Sasai
  • Displaying event video on a device
    Patent number: 10777055
    Abstract: A security device registered to a client device used by a user generates an event message and event video. A network-connected device or the client device determines, based on one or more of characteristics of the event message, event video, location of the client device, connection information of the client device, connection information of the security device, an area boundary, and a connection threshold whether to automatically populate the event video on the client device in full-screen or partial-screen view. Based on this determination, device command is generated controlling display of the event video on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jessica Star
  • Imaging apparatus and vehicle
    Patent number: 10766431
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus (10) including an imaging optical system (20), an image sensor (31), one or more circuit boards including at least one of the image sensor and an electronic component mounted thereon, a housing (11) including an opening that exposes the imaging optical system to a subject and supporting the imaging optical system, the image sensor, and the one or more circuit boards, a signal terminals (41) that transmit an image signal of the subject image captured by the image sensor to an outside of the housing, and a heat transfer unit (44) having heat conductivity connected to the plurality of terminals, the heat transfer unit that transfers heat generated from at least one of the image sensor and the electronic component to the plurality of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Koshiba, Hiroshi Okada, Makoto Suzuki
  • Vehicle display device
    Patent number: 10759347
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a tubular member disposed such that an opening edge thereof faces a driver side, a projection unit that projects light toward an inner space of the tubular member, a semitransparent mirror that is disposed in the inner space of the tubular member and reflects light projected from the projection unit toward the driver side to cause a virtual image to be displayed, an image display unit that is disposed on a side opposite to the driver side with respect to the semitransparent mirror in the tubular member and displays an image, and a design unit that is disposed between the image display unit and the semitransparent mirror in the inner space of the tubular member and has a stereoscopic shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Nakano
  • Method and apparatus for processing image data
    Patent number: 10757426
    Abstract: The invention concerns scaling color difference components prior to encoding in order to extend the dynamic range. In one embodiment the color difference components are encoded prior to quantization. In another embodiment the color difference components are encoded after quantization. A decoder is configured to process data representative of the gain factor for a decoding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lopez, Fabrice Leleannec, Yannick Olivier, David Touze
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 10743023
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an inter-prediction section that generates a set of reference pixels of fractional pixel positions from a reference image for motion compensation and searches an image to be encoded for a motion vector by using the set of generated reference pixels and an encoding section that encodes the image to be encoded on a basis of a result of searching for the motion vector by the inter-prediction section. The inter-prediction section includes a reference pixel at a fractional pixel position further inward than a first predetermined distance from a boundary of a partial region corresponding to a slice or a tile, in the set of reference pixels that are used for searching the partial region for a motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Morigami, Takefumi Nagumo, Hironari Sakurai, Shuo Lu