Patents Examined by Marly S Camargo
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Patent number: 10841523Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for reading out data at a high speed. The data output circuit includes a line memory configured to latch a digital signal, and output the latched digital signal to a pair of column lines in response to an output control signal, a precharge circuit configured to precharge the pair of column lines with a first precharge voltage level in response to a first precharge signal, a charge circuit configured to charge the pair of column lines with a voltage, a charge controller configured to charge the charge circuit with a second precharge voltage level in response to a second precharge signal, and a sense amplifier configured to amplify an output voltage of the charge circuit in response to a sensing enable signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Tae Gyu Kim
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Patent number: 10819970Abstract: A camera system is configured to capture video content with 360 degree views of an environment. The camera array comprises a housing including a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant, and a fourth quadrant, wherein each of the first quadrant, the second quadrant, the third quadrant, and the fourth quadrant form a plurality of apertures, a chassis bottom that is removably coupled to the housing, and a plurality of camera modules, each camera module comprising a processor, a memory, a sensor, and a lens, wherein each of the camera modules is removably coupled to one of the plurality of apertures in the housing, wherein the first quadrant, the second quadrant, the third quadrant, and the fourth quadrant each include a subset of the plurality of camera modules. Each of the plurality of camera modules includes a heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Arthur Van Hoff, Thomas M. Annau, Jens Christensen, Koji Gardiner, Punit Govenji, James Dunn
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Patent number: 10809488Abstract: An optical image capturing module is provided, including a circuit assembly and a lens assembly. The circuit assembly may include a circuit substrate, a plurality of image sensor elements, a plurality of signal transmission elements, and a multi-lens frame. The image sensor elements may be connected to the circuit substrate. The signal transmission elements may be electrically connected between the circuit substrate and the image sensor elements. The multi-lens frame may be manufactured integrally and be covered on the circuit substrate and the image sensing elements. The signal transmission elements may be embedded in the multi-lens frame. The lens assembly may include a lens base, an auto-focus lens assembly, and a driving assembly. The lens base may be fixed to a multi-lens frame. The auto-focus lens assembly may have at least two lenses with refractive power.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Ablility Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10805581Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of first pixel groups each having a main sensitivity to light of a corresponding one of a plurality of wavelength bands, and a second pixel group having the main sensitivity to a wavelength band including the plurality of wavelength bands. Each of the plurality of first pixel groups and the second pixel group includes a plurality of polarization pixel groups having the main sensitivity to each of polarization components having three or more polarization azimuths. A ratio of the number of pixels in the plurality of polarization pixel groups in the second pixel group to a total number of pixels on the image sensor is larger than a ratio of the number of pixels in the plurality of polarization pixel groups in each of the plurality of first pixel groups to the total number of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keita Nakamura
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Patent number: 10798323Abstract: In an active pixel sensor comprising a photodiode Dp, a memory node MN and a readout node SN, the memory node being provided to contain the charge generated by the photodiode at the end of an integration period allowing an integration in global shutter mode and a correlated double sampling, it is envisaged to carry out, in each integration period, at least one transfer {circle around (2)} of charge from the photodiode to the memory node followed by clipping {circle around (3)} of the amount of charge contained in the memory node at an intermediate voltage t1 after the start of the integration period but before a last transfer of charge {circle around (4)} to the memory node at the end of the integration period. The pixels are subsequently read out, row by row, by correlated double sampling CDS.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TELEDYNE E2V SEMICONDUCTORS SASInventors: Frédéric Mayer, Frédéric Barbier, Stéphane Gesset
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Patent number: 10785423Abstract: An image sensor comprises: a plurality of pixels each including a sensor portion that generates pulses at a frequency corresponding to a frequency at which photons are incident; counters that count a number of pulses generated by each of the sensor portions; and a detector that detects whether or not a count value obtained by any of the counters has reached a first threshold. The counters are reset based on a result of detection performed by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Ikedo
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Patent number: 10785398Abstract: A mobile video camera apparatus is provided having a mobile video camera device that includes a housing, a handle with a base engagement portion, a camera including an image sensor, a lens, and an encoder, a battery, a recording activation switch, an input relay connected to the camera, wherein activation of the recording activation switch by a user energizes the input relay, and the input relay provides a signal to the camera to begin recording data, a wireless communication device coupleable to the camera device for transmitting encoded data from the camera to the video management system and for receiving configuration commands from the video management system. The apparatus further including a base having a handle mount for receiving and securing the base engagement portion to the base, wherein the handle mount includes a tool-less coupling mechanism for securing and unsecuring the mobile video camera device to the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Inventor: Dieter B. Bukolt
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Patent number: 10778892Abstract: Provided are a camera having a compact configuration and high operability, a setting method of the camera, and a setting program of the camera. A touch sensor 130 is provided on a top surface of an operation dial 110. In a case where the top surface of the operation dial 110 is touched, an exposure mode of the camera is switched according to a touched region on the top surface. An operation target of the operation dial 110 is set according to the set exposure mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Atsushi Misawa, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa
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Patent number: 10778903Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that can leave information related to gradations on a high brightness side and a low brightness side as far as possible even in a case where a scene has a wide dynamic range and a histogram of a captured image is biased.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tomonori Masuda
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Patent number: 10771684Abstract: A computing device includes one or more camera systems, each camera system including software and/or hardware to provide various different camera-related capabilities. The camera system maintains one or more profiles, each profile identifying different capabilities of the camera system that the computing device is configured to use concurrently. The one or more profiles are provided to a program on the computing device, allowing the program to know which capabilities the computing device is configured to use concurrently. If a profile provided by the camera system indicates that the computing device is configured to use certain capabilities concurrently (e.g., capturing images and recording video at certain resolutions), then the program allows a user to select options for using those capabilities concurrently. However, if no such profile exists, the program does not allow a user to select options for using those capabilities concurrently.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sang Kun Choe, Leonard D. Zuvela, Mei L. Wilson
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Patent number: 10771707Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire attention information regarding an attention target of a user; and a zoom control unit configured to perform zoom control of a camera on the basis of non-zoom control of the camera and the attention information when the non-zoom control is performed on the basis of the attention information.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
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Patent number: 10764512Abstract: A camera device is provided. The camera device includes: a first imaging section, a second imaging section, a third imaging section, and a processor. The first imaging section, second imaging section, and third imaging section capture a first image, a second image, and a third image of a scene with a first field of view (FOV), a second FOV, and a third FOV. The processor is configured to generate a first output image by performing a first image-fusion process on the first image, the second image, and a third image in response to a zooming factor of the camera device being between a first zooming factor and a second zooming factor, wherein the first FOV is wider than the second FOV, and the second FOV is wider than the third FOV, and the second zooming factor is greater than the first zooming factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Ping-Han Lee, Te-Hao Chang
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Patent number: 10764498Abstract: The invention generates an image having a sense of speed in conformity with each of a plurality of subjects in an image so as to generate an image in which a subject that the user wishes is made stationary. An apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of pieces of image data captured consecutively; an identifying unit which identifies a subject in the image data; and a generating unit which generates a first composite image in which at least two pieces of image data, among the plurality of pieces of image data, are composed in accordance with a motion of a first subject, and a second composite image in which at least two pieces of image data are composed in accordance with a motion of a second subject whose motion is different to the motion of the first subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Nishiyama
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Patent number: 10764492Abstract: To provide an image sensor capable of guaranteeing consistency between acquired image information and picked-up image information. An image sensor 30 includes an image information processing unit 4 that forms integrated information in which image sensor identification information capable of identifying the image sensor 30 and image information obtained by an analog/digital conversion unit 25 are associated with each other, and an image information output unit 24 that outputs the integrated information to an external unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seichi Otsuki, Shigeyuki Baba, Shigeki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10755418Abstract: A background blurred method includes steps as follows: obtaining a color image, an IR light frame image and an IR dark frame image, and calculating a differential image between the IR light frame image and the IR dark frame image to generate a binary image; obtaining a foreground image of the binary image; calculating an IR brightness mean value of the foreground image of the differential image; and filtering the color image to generate a background blurred image according to the IR brightness mean value.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.Inventors: Zhong-Yi Qiu, Wen-Tsung Huang, Kai Liu
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Patent number: 10757332Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for compensating for camera motion during an autofocus operation. An example device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be configured to measure a plurality of focus values. Each focus value is measured at a different focal length. The processor also may be configured to detect that a camera motion exists for the measurement of one or more of the plurality of focus values. The processor further may be configured to determine a focal length based on the plurality of measured focus values and the detected camera motion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wen-Chun Feng, Micha Galor Gluskin, Yu Cheng Hsieh
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Patent number: 10754149Abstract: Techniques for correcting image data in a lens shading correction circuit include accessing numerical constants associated with channels of a captured image represented by a pixel array from a memory. The techniques further include calculating lens shading correction factors for the captured image for each pixel of a channel in the pixel array according to the x-y pixel position of the pixel based on a lens shading correction formula and the numerical constants. For the channel in the pixel array, the correction formula applies different subsets of the numerical constants to different radial portions of the pixel array. The techniques also includes performing lens shading correction for the captured image based on the calculated lens shading correction factors to produce corrected image data, and storing the corrected image data in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: AMD (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Hui Zhou, Yang Ling
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Patent number: 10742920Abstract: An image sensor includes: a readout circuit that reads out a signal to a signal line, the signal being generated by an electric charge resulting from a photoelectric conversion; a storage circuit including an analog/digital converter that converts a first voltage signal based on an electric current from a first power supply circuit into a digital signal and a first storage unit that stores the first voltage signal converted into a digital signal by the analog/digital converter; and a first electric current source that supplies the signal line with an electric current generated by the first voltage signal stored in the first storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Komai, Wataru Funamizu, Masahiro Juen
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Patent number: 10735659Abstract: Various embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may be used to provide a surveillance camera that generates native video image frames in the appropriate FOV (orientation) that corresponds to the orientation in which the surveillance camera is installed when the video image frames are captured. The surveillance cameras implemented in accordance with embodiments of the disclosure may facilitate installation that provides a desired FOV in a particular orientation, generate video image frames that natively correspond to the desired FOV, and allow user interaction and video analytics to be performed on the FOV-matched video image frames.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.Inventors: Pieter Messely, Dwight T. Dumpert
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Patent number: 10735683Abstract: A low-power image sensor includes a plurality of light-sensitive pixel cells, a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and image processing circuitry. The image sensor can be disposed in multiple semiconductor layers such that the pixel cells are disposed in a first layer and various other components are disposed in the second layer or between the first layer and the second layer. The image sensor is configured such that the analog output of a pixel cell is sampled by a first ADC and a second ADC within respective first and second dynamic ranges, the second dynamic range being greater than the first dynamic range. The first ADC and the second ADC sample the analog output with different sampling resolutions. The digital outputs of the first ADC and the second ADC are subsequently used by an image processor to generate a pixel value for an image frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.Inventor: Lester Joseph Kozlowski