Patents Examined by Kristin Dobbs
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Patent number: 11165994Abstract: A method of displaying surveillance video streams is provided that includes receiving surveillance video streams generated by a plurality of video cameras, and displaying a selected subset of the surveillance video streams in a summary view on at least one display device, wherein, for each surveillance video stream in the summary view, only a relevant portion of each frame in the surveillance video stream is displayed, and wherein a relevant portion is a subset of a frame for at least some of the surveillance video streams in the summary view.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Goksel Dedeoglu, Darnell Janssen Moore
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Patent number: 11109842Abstract: Various embodiments include a system and method that enhance the visualization of selected individual images from a real-time scan. The method can include acquiring ultrasound image data at an ultrasound system. The method may include processing the acquired ultrasound image data according to cine sequence processing parameters to generate a cine sequence. The cine sequence includes a plurality of frames, each of the frames having a first resolution. The method can include receiving a trigger. The method may include processing the acquired ultrasound image data according to still image processing parameters in response to the trigger to generate a still image. The still image has a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Erwin Fosodeder, Helmut Brandl, David Puehringer
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Patent number: 11094137Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a system is described comprising a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components comprise a reception component configured to receive two-dimensional images, and a three-dimensional data derivation component configured to employ one or more three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) neural network models to derive three-dimensional data for the two-dimensional images.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Matterport, Inc.Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Matthew Tschudy Bell, Waleed K. Abdulla, Peter Kyuhee Hahn
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Patent number: 11057630Abstract: 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: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLCInventors: Philipp Helle, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Simon Oudin, Benjamin Bross
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Patent number: 11044415Abstract: An image processing device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires the image from an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle, a light determining unit that determines a state of a light mounted on the vehicle, and an adjusting unit that adjusts a relationship between a luminance at an object to be captured by the imaging unit, and a pixel value in the image. The adjusting unit is configured to set, when the light determining unit determines the state of the light is in the low-beam state, the illuminance where the pixel value is at the lower limit, to be lower than that of a case when the light determining unit determines the state of the light is in the high-beam state.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzuru Koshisaka, Kazuyoshi Akiba
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Patent number: 10994655Abstract: An in-vehicle video system includes cameras that capture rear and side areas of a vehicle body, monitors that display video images captured by the cameras on screens thereof, and an ECU that shapes the video images that are displayed on the monitors. The cameras are accommodated in housings that are provided on left and right sides of a vehicle body, and side turn signal lamps are provided individually on external surfaces of the housings. The ECU controls a video image processing circuit so that the video images of the rear and side areas of the vehicle body are displayed on two portions of the screen of the monitor at different compression ratios and that the compression ratios change according to vehicle information.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Naoki Tatara
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Patent number: 10970562Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar (12a) located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means (14) located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar (12a) detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means (3) synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means (14) and the images created with four cameras (7a-7d) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (40b). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar (12a) is included within a region of the bird's-eye image (40b) on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means (14).Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Michiguchi, Tatsuto Ryugo, Kenji Okano, Yukiko Kanno
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Patent number: 10958877Abstract: The invention relates to systems and method for inhibiting or causing automated actions based on estimated person locations comprising multiple video sources configured to detect the location of one or more persons wherein at least one video source is calibrated for a known location and pose. The invention further comprises at least one processor operably connected to a calibrated video source wherein said processor aggregates possible person locations. These systems and method may be useful for initiating or interrupting the automated activity of equipment in the presence of personnel.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Helmerich & Payne Technologies, LLCInventors: Peter A. Torrione, Kenneth D. Morton, Jr.
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Patent number: 10911693Abstract: Guidance systems and associated methods are disclosed. One method comprises: receiving macroscan data prior to an operation; defining a body information model from the macroscan data; positioning a navigation component in the body during the operation; generating microscan data with the navigation component; correlating a location in the macroscan data with a location in the microscan data in the body information model; and/or modifying the body information model by combining an image in the microscan data with an image in the macroscan data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Niraj P. Rauniyar, Timothy P. Harrah, Peter J. Pereira, William M. Asselin, Michael S. H. Chu, Brandon W. Craft, Adam P. Nodiff, Chad Schneider, William Stanhope, Eric Wong, Kimberly DeGraaf
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Patent number: 10909770Abstract: Systems and methods for building a three-dimensional composite scene are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the systems and methods may include the use of a three-dimensional capture device that captures a plurality of three-dimensional images of an environment. Some embodiments may further include elements concerning aligning and/or mapping the captured images. Various embodiments may further include elements concerning reconstructing the environment from which the images were captured. The methods disclosed herein may be performed by a program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium when executed the program is executed a processor.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Matterport, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Bell, David Gausebeck, Michael Beebe
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Patent number: 10896513Abstract: Provided is a security management device for tracking a terminal located indoors. The security management device display on a map a position of the at least one wireless network camera and information about a terminal located in a range capable of wireless communication with the at least one wireless network camera, control a wireless network camera to track a position of the terminal based on the information about the terminal while the terminal is in a range capable of wireless communication with the wireless network camera, and control the wireless network camera to send identification information of the terminal to a neighboring wireless network camera when the terminal moves out of the range capable of wireless communication with the wireless network camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Bong Cho, Jeong Woong Park
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Patent number: 10887663Abstract: Methods and systems for smooth switching of video sources. One method includes the steps of: Inferring that first and second network paths share a common link that has insufficient bandwidth to carry both the respective first and second incoming high-definition uncompressed videos (HD-UVs) generated by first and second real-time video encoders (RT-VEs). And synchronizing a smooth switching between the first and second incoming HD-UVs by: indicating the first and second RT-VEs to increase their first and second compression ratios to ratios that enable the common link to carry both the first and second compressed videos; indicating a video switcher to perform the smooth switching between the first and second corresponding outgoing HD-UVs; indicating the first RT-VE to stop sending the first compressed video after the smooth switching; and indicating the second RT-VE to decrease the second compression ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Valens Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: Eyran Lida
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Patent number: 10884226Abstract: The invention relates to a method for scanning microscopy wherein a specimen is scanned simultaneously with a plurality of illumination spots of an excitation light. The light emitted by one specimen location irradiated with one illumination spot is detected independently of the light emitted by another specimen location illuminated with another illumination spot. A microscopic image of the specimen can be compiled from the emitted light detected for the different specimen locations. The method provides that the intensities of the different illumination spots are set independently of one another, and in that the illumination spots are guided over the specimen one after another in a scan line. The invention additionally relates to a scanning microscope.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Helge Eggert, Michael Hilbert
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Patent number: 10887662Abstract: Methods and systems for compression that maintains parameters related to uncompressed video (PRTUV) while changing video compression ratios on-the-fly. One embodiment of a system includes: A video transmitter that receives incoming high-definition uncompressed video (HD-UV) characterized by certain PRTUV. The video transmitter compresses the incoming HD-UV into a first compressed video of ratio between 1:1 and 5:1, and sends it over a communication link to a receiver that decompresses the video to an outgoing HD-UV. When the video transmitter receives a command to smoothly change on-the-fly the compression to a second compressed video of ratio between 2:1 and 10:1, it makes the change without interrupting the continuous flow of the incoming HD-UV. Wherein the outgoing HD-UV maintains the PRTUV before, during, and after the change from the first compressed video to the second compressed video.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Valens Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: Eyran Lida
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Patent number: 10846882Abstract: An embodiment of a calibration element for an analytical microscope is described that comprises a substantially non-periodic pattern of features that exhibit contrast when illuminated by a light beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLCInventors: Francis J. Deck, Carla S. Draper, Alan Ronemus, William Robert Keefe
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Patent number: 10848731Abstract: This application generally relates to capturing and aligning panoramic image and depth data. In one embodiment, a device is provided that comprises a housing and a plurality of cameras configured to capture two-dimensional images, wherein the cameras are arranged at different positions on the housing and have different azimuth orientations relative to a center point such that the cameras have a collective field-of-view spanning up to 360° horizontally. The device further comprises a plurality of depth detection components configured to capture depth data, wherein the depth detection components are arranged at different positions on the housing and have different azimuth orientations relative to the center point such that the depth detection components have the collective field-of-view spanning up to 360° horizontally.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Matterport, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Simek, David Gausebeck, Matthew Tschudy Bell
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Patent number: 10827187Abstract: 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: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLCInventors: Philipp Helle, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Simon Oudin, Benjamin Bross
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Patent number: 10812811Abstract: 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: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLCInventors: Philipp Helle, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Simon Oudin, Benjamin Bross
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Patent number: 10802390Abstract: The present disclosure relates to omnipolar imaging for generating a substantially 360 degree by 180 degree stereo spherical view. The omnipolar imaging device comprises at least three wide angle lenses facing in a first direction and at least three wide angle lenses facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, each lens connected to an image sensor. The lens are positioned so as to capture the substantially 360 degree by 180 degree view. The method of rendering the view comprises, for each pixel in an output image, selecting one set of lenses, i.e. the first set of lenses or the second set of lenses, selecting one lens from the selected set of lenses, and rendering the pixel in an output image from a corresponding point in an input image of the selected lens.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SUOMETRY INC.Inventors: Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture, Sebastien Roy
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Patent number: 10782250Abstract: A dosage hybrid inspection system includes a plurality of cameras selectively installed in sides of a rotating plate and a counter-rotating plate configured to vacuum suction a dosage along a circumference thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Inventor: Yong-Kwan Shin