Patents Examined by Md N Haque
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Patent number: 10911645Abstract: An image processing device (3000) comprises an input unit (3020) and a presentation unit (3040). The input unit (3020) accepts an input of an operation for movement, on a captured image captured by a camera, of a first image which is superimposed on the captured image on the basis of a predetermined camera parameter indicating the position and attitude of the camera and which indicates a target object having a predetermined shape and a predetermined size set in a real space. The presentation unit (3040) presents the first image indicating the target object in a manner of view corresponding to a position on the captured image after the movement on the basis of the camera parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10904469Abstract: An imaging apparatus is provided and is configured in such a manner that a plurality of first pixels are connected to a first AD conversion unit, and a plurality of second pixels are connected to a second AD conversion unit whereby the imaging apparatus has a beneficial connection relationship between the pixels and the AD conversion units.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuuichirou Hatano, Katsuhito Sakurai, Atsushi Furubayashi
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Patent number: 10904416Abstract: A method of assembling a camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes providing a first housing portion, providing a printed circuit board (PCB), the PCB including circuitry, providing a mating connector at the PCB, disposing the PCB within the first housing portion, providing a second housing portion including a connector portion configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring, and disposing a coaxial connector at the connector portion of the second housing portion. The coaxial connector includes (i) a core connector element and (ii) a shield connector element that circumscribes the core connector element and that is spaced therefrom. Mating the second housing portion with the first housing portion, and electrically connecting a first end of the coaxial connector to the mating connector disposed at the PCB. The coaxial connector includes a second end for electrically connecting to the vehicle wiring when the camera assembly is installed at the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Jens Steigerwald, Nazar F. Bally, Marc Sigle, Achim Newiger
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Patent number: 10896324Abstract: A line-of-sight detection device includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data of a face of a subject irradiated with detection light emitted from at least one light source, a line-of-sight detection unit that detects a line of sight of the subject based on the image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data to generate a feature image of the face and an eyeglasses reflection image indicating a reflection image of the at least one light source on eyeglasses worn on the face, and a display controller that causes a display device to display the feature image and the eyeglasses reflection image in a different display form in a composite image in which the feature image and the eyeglasses reflection image are combined.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Shudo, Shuji Hakoshima
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Patent number: 10893282Abstract: Image coding and decoding technologies are described. For example, a sample adaptive offset (SAO) type parameter is decoded from a bitstream, and an SAO type for an SAO value to be added to a pixel value of a reconstructed image is determined from the SAO type parameter. A plurality of bins with variable length coding is decoded from the bitstream using bypass arithmetic coding with a fixed probability. The plurality of bins represents an integer indicating a magnitude of the SAO value. The integer indicating the magnitude of the SAO value is determined based on the plurality of bins decoded using bypass arithmetic coding with a fixed probability. The SAO value is determined using the determined integer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Velos Media, LLCInventors: Kengo Terada, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu
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Patent number: 10887513Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a kiosk design for an advanced photographic system. More specifically, the present inventive concept relates to a self-contained, automated photobooth kiosk. In embodiments of the present inventive concept, the photobooth kiosk is capable of taking a 360 degree panoramic photograph or sequence of photographs of a subject and surrounding background. For instance, a customer of the photobooth kiosk may stand in the center of the photobooth and have his or her picture taken with a plurality of specialized “machine vision” cameras, with the images sent to a central processor such as a computer for processing into a 360 degree panoramic photograph or video clip. After the photo-taking session, the customer may collect prints of the pictures at the kiosk, similar to presently available photobooths.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Inventor: Robert Frank Latorre
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Patent number: 10869030Abstract: A method is provided for coding at least one current image. The method includes: determining at least one parameter of a predetermining function, the function being able to transform a first subset of a set of previously decoded reference images into an approximation of a second subset of images of the set of reference images; applying the function according to the parameter determined to a third subset of the set of reference images, the third subset being different from the first subset, so as to obtain another set of previously decoded reference images; and coding the current image on the basis of the obtained set of reference images.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: ORANGEInventor: Felix Henry
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Patent number: 10863149Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute: acquiring image data; generating first interpolation image data associated with light having a red wavelength band, second interpolation image data associated with light having a green wavelength band, third interpolation image data associated with light having a blue wavelength band, and fourth interpolation image data associated with narrow band light; performing a color space conversion process for converting each of the first to the third interpolation image data to a luminance component and a color difference component; extracting a first specific frequency component included in the fourth interpolation image data; combining the converted luminance component with the extracted first specific frequency component; and generating color image data based on a combination result obtained by the combining and based on the color difference component.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Ioka, Wataru Oniki
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Patent number: 10861183Abstract: A method for planning an autonomous driving by using a V2X communication and an image processing under a road circumstance where both vehicles capable of the V2X communication and vehicles incapable of the V2X communication exist is provided. And the method includes steps of: (a) a computing device, corresponding to a subject autonomous vehicle, instructing a planning module to acquire recognition information on surrounding vehicles including (i) first vehicles capable of a V2X communication and (ii) second vehicles incapable of the V2X communication; (b) the computing device instructing the planning module to select an interfering vehicle among the surrounding vehicles; and (c) the computing device instructing the planning module to generate a potential interference prediction model, and to modify current optimized route information in order to evade a potential interfering action, to thereby generate updated optimized route information of the subject autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: StradVision, Inc.Inventors: Kye-Hyeon Kim, Yongjoong Kim, Hak-Kyoung Kim, Woonhyun Nam, SukHoon Boo, Myungchul Sung, Dongsoo Shin, Donghun Yeo, Wooju Ryu, Myeong-Chun Lee, Hyungsoo Lee, Taewoong Jang, Kyungjoong Jeong, Hongmo Je, Hojin Cho
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Patent number: 10859806Abstract: To easily obtain a magnified observation image in which a user's intention is reflected. A side-view image acquired by a side-view image capturing unit is displayed on a display unit. An arbitrary position designation by a user is received on the side-view image displayed on the display unit. A magnifying observation apparatus is controlled based on the received position.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Sekiya, Naoki Haga
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Patent number: 10849721Abstract: A digital dental tray system is described including a dental tray shaped to at least partially surround a plurality of teeth and a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) optical imaging elements attached to the dental tray. Each of the 3D optical imaging elements comprises a structured light projector to project a light pattern onto one or more teeth of the plurality of teeth and a camera to capture an image of the one or more teeth.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yossef Atiya, Avi Kopelman, Erez Lampert
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Patent number: 10841613Abstract: The present invention provides a unique intra prediction process which improves the efficiency of video coding. H.264/AVC uses reference pixels in a horizontal boundary located immediately above a target block to be predicted and reference pixels in a vertical boundary located immediately left of the target block. In the present invention, at least some of one of an array of horizontal boundary pixels and an array of vertical boundary pixels are retrieved. Then, the retrieved pixels are added to the other boundary pixels to extend the array thereof. Intra prediction is performed, based solely on the extended array of boundary pixels.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Frank Jan Bossen, Thiow Keng Tan
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Patent number: 10841517Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which pixels each including a photoelectric converter are arranged over rows and columns, output lines each connected to the pixels arranged on a corresponding column, and column circuits each connected to a corresponding output line. Each column circuit is configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode, in the first mode, the common circuit amplifies a single signal based on charges generated in the photoelectric converter of one pixel connected to the corresponding output line at a common gain to output a first pixel signal and a second pixel signal, and in the second mode, the column circuit amplifies the single signal at a first gain to output a first pixel signal and amplifies the single signal at a second gain lower than the first gain to output a second pixel signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirofumi Totsuka
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Patent number: 10841614Abstract: The present invention provides a unique intra prediction process which improves the efficiency of video coding. H.264/AVC uses reference pixels in a horizontal boundary located immediately above a target block to be predicted and reference pixels in a vertical boundary located immediately left of the target block. In the present invention, at least some of one of an array of horizontal boundary pixels and an array of vertical boundary pixels are retrieved. Then, the retrieved pixels are added to the other boundary pixels to extend the array thereof. Intra prediction is performed, based solely on the extended array of boundary pixels.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Frank Jan Bossen, Thiow Keng Tan
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Patent number: 10820789Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeki Ogata, Yoshitaka Kitaoka, Naoto Matsuo, Haruhiko Kohno, Kunihiko Hara
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Patent number: 10817729Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamic driving metric output platforms that utilize improved computer vision methods to determine vehicle metrics from video footage. A computing platform may receive video footage from a vehicle camera. The computing platform may determine that a reference marker in the video footage has reached a beginning and an end of a road marker based on brightness transitions, and may insert time stamps into the video accordingly. Based on the time stamps, the computing platform may determine an amount of time during which the reference marker covered the road marking. Based on a known length of the road marking and the amount of time during which the reference marker covered the road marking, the computing platform may determine a vehicle speed. The computing platform may generate driving metric output information, based on the vehicle speed, which may be displayed by an accident analysis platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Juan Carlos Aragon, Regina Madigan
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Patent number: 10819998Abstract: A method to be performed by a receiving apparatus for decoding an encoded bitstream representing a sequence of pictures of a video stream is provided. In the method, capabilities relating to level of decoding parallelism for the decoder are identified, a parameter indicative of the decoder's capabilities relating to level of decoding parallelism is kept, and for a set of levels of decoding parallelism, information relating to HEVC profile and HEVC level that the decoder is capable of decoding is kept. A method for encoding a bitstream representing a sequence of pictures of a video stream is also provided. In the method, a parameter is received from a transmitting apparatus that should decode the encoded bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Bo Burman, Rickard Sjöberg, Magnus Westerlund
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Patent number: 10812854Abstract: The present technology makes it possible for a conventional frame interpolation technology to handle moving image data captured with a high-speed frame shutter and having a high sharpness image component. Moving image data at a predetermined frame rate and a predetermined resolution is acquired. When a ratio of the predetermined frame rate to a camera shutter speed falls below a threshold value, filtering processing for raising the degree of correlation between adjacent frames is performed on the acquired moving image data. For example, the camera shutter speed is estimated on the basis of information on the frame rate and the resolution.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
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Patent number: 10803572Abstract: An appearance inspection apparatus radiates light from a light source to a flat inspection surface of an object to be inspected as diffused light with an illumination device, and photographs the inspection surface with a camera. The camera and the light source are arranged in a positional relationship that satisfies ??? at any positions on the inspection surface, where ? represents an angle formed between a straight line connecting an arbitrary position on the inspection surface to the camera and a line perpendicular to the inspection surface at that position, and ? represents an incident angle of the diffused light.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Umehara
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Patent number: 10805599Abstract: A display system includes a content generator, an HMD (Head Mounted Display), and a computing device. The content generator generates image/video information. The HMD obtains a viewing-angle range relative to a user. The computing device is coupled to the HMD. The computing device receives the image/video information and the viewing-angle range. The computing device controls the HMD to display a main screen and a sub-screen according to the image/video information. The computing device adjusts the transparency of the sub-screen by comparing the viewing-angle range with an important-angle range.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Chan-Yuan Hu, Chao-Kuang Yang