Patents Examined by Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 12294760
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting display content and parameters on a display region are provided. A display manager can control a display environment including a plurality of display regions and can display content items in the display regions. The display manager can identify an event record placed via a client device located in a display zone corresponding to a display region of the display environment. The event record can correspond to an event associated with at least one of the respective content items. The display manager can determine to change a first content item displayed within the display region or a value of a parameter of the display region. The display manager can modify the display region by replacing the first content item with a second content item corresponding to the event associated with the event record or by adjusting the parameter of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: DK Crown Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Sawyer, Jordan Mendell
  • Patent number: 12294807
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure may improve compression and restoration capabilities by compensating for or removing a change in picture quality that occurs when a transmitting device transmits a video including an OSD (On Screen Display) in a wireless display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Dongsung Kim
  • Patent number: 12294779
    Abstract: An imaging device that includes a housing mounted on the head of a subject, a first camera that is held by the housing and captures an image of one eyeball of the subject, a second camera that is held by the housing and captures an image of the other eyeball of the subject, controller circuitry that synchronizes together the first image captured by the first camera and the second image captured by the second camera, and communication circuitry that externally transmits the synchronized first and second images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: J. MORITA MFG. CORP.
    Inventors: Yutaka Ito, Fuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 12273649
    Abstract: An optical sensor including a pixel matrix and an opaque layer is provided. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of unblocked pixels, a first pixel and a second pixel, which is arranged at a side of the first pixel in a row direction of the pixel matrix. The opaque layer covers upon a first region, which is a part of the first pixel, and upon a second region, which is a part of the second pixel, but does not cover upon the unblocked pixels, wherein the first region and the second region are symmetrically arranged in the row direction, and uncovered regions of the first pixel and the second pixel are arranged to be larger at a pixel edge than at a pixel center in a column direction of the pixel matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Jung-Tai Lin, En-Feng Hsu
  • Patent number: 12266125
    Abstract: A measurement method including generating first restoration information representing a Euclidean restoration result for a first region of a screen that is a non-planar surface based on a first image that is one of an image input to a first apparatus including a first lens and having known internal parameters relating to the first lens and an image output from the first apparatus, and a second image that is one of an image input to a second apparatus including a second lens and having known internal parameters relating to the second lens and an image output from the second apparatus, generating second restoration information representing a projection restoration result for a second region of the screen based on a third image that is one of an image input to a third apparatus including a third lens and having unknown internal parameters relating to the third lens and an image output from the third apparatus, and the first image, generating a three-dimensional projective transformation matrix for transforming th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Senshiki
  • Patent number: 12250468
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to microlensing for real-time sensing of stray light. An example device includes an image sensor that includes a plurality of light-sensitive pixels. The device also includes a first lens positioned over a first subset of light-sensitive pixels selected from the plurality of light-sensitive pixels. Further, the device includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine a first angle of incidence of a first light signal detected by the first subset of light-sensitive pixels. The controller is also configured to, based on the first determined angle of incidence, determine an amount of stray light incident on the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Frevert, Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia
  • Patent number: 12240384
    Abstract: A vehicular dual-state interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head that accommodates an electrochromic mirror reflective element. A video display device is disposed behind a viewable reflective region of the mirror reflective element. With the mirror assembly operating in a first state, the video display device does not display video images at the display screen and the driver of the vehicle views rearward via reflection at the viewable reflective region. With the mirror assembly operating in a second state, the video display device displays video images at the display screen for viewing by the driver. A touch sensor is disposed at an overhang region of the reflective element behind the front substrate and below the video display device. The video display device is operated responsive at least in part to a touch event at the first surface of the front substrate of the electrochromic mirror reflective element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark L. Larson, John T. Uken, Christopher R. Koetje
  • Patent number: 12240386
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system, responsive to detecting an object present exterior of the vehicle via processing of image data captured by the camera, determines location of the detected object relative to the vehicle. The vehicular vision system displays video images derived from the captured image data on a video display. The vehicular vision system generates a three-dimensional (3D) icon that includes a front face and a rear face opposing the front face with a length dimension between the faces. The 3D icon overlays the detected object and the front face faces toward a representation of the vehicle. Responsive to a chance in location of the object relative to the vehicle, the system adjusts the length dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Varekar, Kushal Sachdev
  • Patent number: 12238446
    Abstract: The techniques described herein implement an automated frame skipping approach used to generate a reduced set of frames for processing. In one example, the automated frame skipping approach is used to more efficiently generate a stitched map of a geographical area being surveilled by an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A stitched map is an image mosaic that is created using the reduced set of frames such that the geographical area being surveilled by the aerial vehicle is accurately depicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vanshika Shyamala Reddy, Nicholas Patrick Skacel, Son Bach Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12238454
    Abstract: A communication device transmits a video to a reception-side device connected via N communication lines. N is an integer of 2 or more. The communication device includes a controller. The controller spatially separates an image of one frame into N separate images. Then, the controller transmits the N separate images to the reception-side device in parallel via the N communication lines, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Rio Suda, Hirofumi Momose, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 12231789
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for dynamic fixed pattern correction for an image sensor. A current image and a previous image received in the image sensor is stored and a bias and gain is computed for the current image, wherein the computing includes processing the current image together with a current local average value, the previous image, and a previous local average value. A gain correction value and a bias correction value is generated based on the computing, and the gain correction value and bias correction value are combined with the current image to generate a corrected image. A Bayer image is generated, based on the generated corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jerramy Lee Gipson
  • Patent number: 12228721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting and/or calibrating a medical microscope, the following being implemented for at least one observer beam path of the medical microscope: capturing respective image representations of an object at different magnification levels of a zoom optical unit, and determining a zoom center using the captured image representations as a starting point, and i) capturing respective further image representations at different axis positions of at least one linear or rotational movement axis of the medical microscope, a rotation of the capture device relative to the at least one linear or rotational movement axis being determined using the captured further image representations as a starting point, and/or ii) capturing respective further image representations of the object in different focal planes and/or at different working distances in the case of an off-centered imaging optical unit, a rotation of the capture device being determined using the captured further image representa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Richard Bäumer, Marco Woerner
  • Patent number: 12223729
    Abstract: An order checking system includes video sensors configured to capture video footage of a monitored area located in proximity to a receipt/dispatch portal. A processing unit performs event analysis on the captured video footage, detects an entity and from a door opening event, an incoming delivery from a third-party supplier, identifies the third-party supplier and implements a check-in process for delivery persons associated therewith, detects an ingress/egress of merchandise through the receipt/dispatch portal and validates that detected delivered products matches with data regarding products that the third-party supplier should be delivering. A database stores at least a dataset of face images/logos for detecting faces/brands and a dataset of product images for identification of products. The database records an outcome of an order checking process and a check out of a delivery person at an end of a delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Everseen Limited
    Inventors: Calin Barburescu, Robert Preda, Alexandra Laicu, Ana Cristina Todoran, Paul Iusztin, Marius Badea, Laura Vasilie, Alexandru Hulea, Qintilian-Emanuel Vintila
  • Patent number: 12219268
    Abstract: An image capture device may process first frames from a first image sensor obtained at a first frame rate and store the processed first frames in a memory. The image capture device may obtain first camera control statistics based at least on partially processed second frames from a second image sensor obtained at a second frame rate. The image capture device may switch a capture mode to obtain third frames at the second frame rate from the first image sensor and to obtain fourth frames at the first frame rate from the second image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Matthieu Guérin
  • Patent number: 12212899
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first camera configured to capture a first image being displayed, a second camera configured to capture a second image being displayed, and a processor configured to generate a pair-wise homography transform for the first camera and the second camera, and map, based on the pair-wise homography transform, the second image from a second frame of reference of the second camera to a first frame of reference of the first camera. The processor is further configured to determine a first corrected quadrilateral for the first image and a second corrected quadrilateral for the second image in the first frame of reference, and project, based on the pair-wise homography transform, the second corrected quadrilateral from the first frame of reference to the second frame of reference. The quadrilaterals are then processed to warp respective images for geometric correction before projecting the images by respective projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shivam Srivastava, Jaime Rene De La Cruz Vazquez, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf
  • Patent number: 12204688
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, for each of multiple viewers of a light field display: identify a three-dimensional coordinate position of eyes; generate an image according to the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes; identify, based on the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes, a channel to which the generated image is to be output, of a plurality of channels associated with a plurality of light rays to be emitted from the light field display, respectively; and output the generated image to the identified channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kaku
  • Patent number: 12198384
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes an estimation unit, a control unit, and a SLAM unit. The estimation unit estimates whether motion of a moving object is pure rotation from a plurality of first monocular images acquired by a monocular camera mounted on the moving object. The control unit determines the translation amount for translating the monocular camera in a case in which the motion of the moving object is pure rotation. The SLAM unit estimates at least one of a location or an orientation of the monocular camera, and three-dimensional points of a subject of the monocular camera by monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), from the first monocular images and a second monocular image acquired by the monocular camera that is translated based on the translation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Misato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12190494
    Abstract: An image measurement apparatus includes: a setting section which sets a measurement element having a geometric shape; a storage section which stores in advance a correspondence relationship between a shape type or a size of the measurement element settable by the setting section, and positions and the number of contact target positions of the touch probe to be arranged with respect to the measurement element; and a control section which specifies a plurality of contact target positions of the touch probe based on a position of the measurement element on the workpiece image set by the setting section, the shape type or size of the measurement element, and the correspondence relationship stored in advance during the measurement execution by the touch probe, and relatively moves a stage or the touch probe to move the touch probe sequentially to the plurality of specified contact target positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Naruse
  • Patent number: 12192620
    Abstract: A system for opportunistic imaging includes an imaging device that generates data comprising a plurality of sequential image frames. The system also includes a control module that causes the imaging device to generate standard-resolution image frames at a standard-frame rate and a standard-resolution, such that there is a processing time lull between the generation of sequential standard-resolution image frames. The control module also causes the imaging device to generate one or more burst-resolution image frames at a burst-frame rate and a burst-resolution within the processing time lull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: RM ACQUISITION, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Zheng Li
  • Patent number: 12184013
    Abstract: A vehicle plug for transmitting power and signals between a vehicle and a trailer includes a power conductor and one or more video signal conductors. The power conductor is configured to provide power to one or more electrical components of the trailer, the one or more electrical components of the trailer includes one or more video cameras. The one or more video signal conductors are configured to receive video signals from the one or more video cameras of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kageta Tech LLC
    Inventor: Scott Kageta