Patents Examined by Mohammed A Rahaman
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Patent number: 10875468Abstract: An in-vehicle monitoring module included in a monitoring system includes a detector, a service operator, a controller, and a housing. The detector detects conditions in an inside of a vehicle. The service operator is provided to the vehicle. The controller can perform processing of determining the type of an event occurring in the inside of the vehicle based on the conditions in the inside of the vehicle detected by the detector, controlling the service operator based on the determined type of the event, and causing the service operator to perform an operation corresponding to the type of the event. The housing is provided with the detector, the service operator, and the controller to serve as a unit and provided on a roof member of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Saito, Shinichi Okamoto, Koji Ishii, Yoshiyuki Furuya, Antony Wambugu Ngahu
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Patent number: 10110873Abstract: A backward depth mapping method for stereoscopic image synthesis includes: providing a first coordinate and a first depth value of a pixel of a virtual view in a stereoscopic image; calculating a second coordinate and a second depth value of a pixel of reference view, which is obtained by mapping the virtual view, based on the first coordinate and the first depth value of the pixel of the virtual view; calculating an error value corresponding to the first depth value based on the second coordinate and second depth value; and determining a third depth value of the pixel of the virtual view based on the error value. As a result, it is possible to avoid the virtual view producing a crack and the pixel of the background from appearing at the crack of the foreground.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: National Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Yu-Lun Liu, Hsueh-Ming Hang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai
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Patent number: 10092165Abstract: A system for controlling a display of image data is presented including a first imaging unit for capturing a first set of images and a second imaging unit for capturing a second set of images. The system also includes a display unit configured to display the image data in a picture-in-picture mode, such that the display unit displays the first set of images in a first panel having a first size and the second set of images in a second panel having a second size, where the first size is greater than the second size.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: James M. Power
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Patent number: 10083343Abstract: At least some example embodiments disclose a method and apparatus for facial recognition. The facial recognition method includes detecting initial landmarks from a facial image, first normalizing the facial image using the initial landmarks, updating a position of at least one of intermediate landmarks based on the first normalizing, the intermediate landmarks being landmarks transformed from the initial landmarks through the first normalizing, second normalizing the facial image after the updating and recognizing a face using a feature of the second normalized facial image.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sungjoo Suh, Wonjun Hwang, Wonjun Kim, Jaejoon Han
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Patent number: 10085020Abstract: A method, a filtering control device, a computer program and a computer program product for processing a first picture in a sample adaptive filtering procedure are disclosed. The first picture is reconstructed from video data. The filtering control device obtains an offset magnitude from the video data. The offset magnitude indicates a magnitude of a sample adaptive offset to be applied in the sample adaptive filtering procedure. The filtering control device obtains an offset sign from the video data. The offset sign indicates a sign of the sample adaptive offset. The filtering control device determines the sample adaptive offset based on the offset magnitude and the offset sign. Moreover, the filtering control device processes, in the sample adaptive filtering procedure, at least a portion of the first picture while applying the sample adaptive offset.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Kenneth Andersson, Rickard Sjöberg, Per Wennersten
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Determining threats based on information from road-based devices in a transportation-related context
Patent number: 10079929Abstract: Techniques for ability enhancement are described. Some embodiments provide an ability enhancement facilitator system (“AEFS”) configured to enhance a user's ability to operate or function in a transportation-related context as a pedestrian or a vehicle operator. In one embodiment, the AEFS is configured perform vehicular threat detection based on information received at a road-based device, such as a sensor or processor that is deployed at the side of a road. An example AEFS receives, at a road-based device, information about a first vehicle that is proximate to the road-based device. The AEFS analyzes the received information to determine threat information, such as that the vehicle may collide with the user. The AEFS then informs the user of the determined threat information, such as by transmitting a warning to a wearable device configured to present the warning to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Victoria Y. H. Wood, Charles Whitmer, Paramvir Bahl, Douglas C. Burger, Ranveer Chandra, William H. Gates, III, Paul Holman, Jordin T. Kare, Craig J. Mundie, Tim Paek, Desney S. Tan, Lin Zhong, Matthew G. Dyor -
Patent number: 10075709Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are described including determining a prediction residual for a channel of video data; and determining, using the first channel's prediction residual, a prediction residual for a second channel of the video data. Further, a prediction residual for a third channel of the video data may be determined using the second channel's prediction residual.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Lidong Xu, Yi-Jen Chiu, Yu Han, Wenhao Zhang
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Patent number: 10057568Abstract: A video decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video bitstream having a sequence of video pictures, wherein at least one video picture is encoded in a plurality of slices, wherein each slice comprises a sequence of raster scan order blocks which can be decoded independently of another slice.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: ARM LimitedInventor: Dominic Hugo Symes
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Patent number: 10048480Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) microscope includes various insertable components that facilitate multiple imaging and measurement capabilities. These capabilities include Nomarski imaging, polarized light imaging, quantitative differential interference contrast (q-DIC) imaging, motorized polarized light imaging, phase-shifting interferometry (PSI), and vertical-scanning interferometry (VSI).Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Zeta Instruments, Inc.Inventors: James Jianguo Xu, Ken Kinsun Lee, Rusmin Kudinar, Ronny Soetarman, Hung Phi Nguyen, Zhen Hou
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Patent number: 10051289Abstract: A video coder configured to perform sample adaptive offset filtering can determine a center value for a set of pixels based on values of pixels in the set, divide bands of pixels values into groups based on the center value, and determine offset values for the bands based on the groups.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: In Suk Chong, Sanjeev Kumar, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 10044966Abstract: A master device transmits received image data to a mobile phone terminal and includes a storage unit that stores sensor setting information including at least sensitivity or a threshold value of a sensor, the mobile phone terminal includes a display and input unit, displays the image data transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, requests the master device to provide the sensor setting information when receiving a predetermined operation, displays the sensor setting information transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, and transmits the changed sensor setting information to the master device when receiving an operation of changing the sensor setting information, and the master device updates the sensor setting information stored in the storage unit using the sensor setting information after changing transmitted from the mobile phone terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keizo Sato, Mitsuru Kawamura
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Patent number: 10034004Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes: an image accepting unit that accepts a first image; a transmission-side correspondence table storage unit in which a transmission-side correspondence table is stored, the transmission-side correspondence table having multiple pieces of transmission-side correspondence information for associating a first image block with a second image block; a preprocessing unit that acquires one or more blocks from the first image, acquires one or more second image blocks respectively corresponding to the one or more blocks, and constructs a second image from the one or more second image blocks; and a transmitting unit that transmits the second image.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: I-CUBED RESEARCH CENTER INC.Inventor: Tetsujiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10027976Abstract: A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for a current sample set of a picture that the sample set is to be merged and has no prediction residual encoded and inserted into the bitstream. A common flag may signalize whether the coding parameters associated with a current sample set are to be set according to a merge candidate or to be retrieved from the bitstream, and whether the current sample set of the picture is to be reconstructed based on a prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set, without any residual data, or to be reconstructed by refining the prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set by means of residual data within the bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLCInventors: Heiko Schwarz, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Philipp Helle, Simon Oudin, Jan Stegemann, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
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Patent number: 10027526Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wired communications are disclosed. A method for transmitting a data stream through a wired communications channel includes encoding the data stream to produce a first baseband modulating signal I(t) and a second baseband modulating signal Q(t) whose amplitudes together represent a time series of complex symbols (I, Q) each selected from a two-dimensional (2-D) constellation of symbols distributed on the phase plane about the origin such that at least one of the baseband modulating signals has a substantially non-zero mean amplitude, modulating the baseband signals I(t) and Q(t) to produce a modulated signal, wherein the I(t) and Q(t) components of the modulated signals are generally fixed in quadrature, and providing the modulated signal to a wired communications channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.Inventors: Stephanie M. Bench, Roger B. Shaffer
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Patent number: 10021375Abstract: A display device producing multi-views comprising: a display panel including a plurality of pixels in a matrix, wherein pixels corresponding to the multi-views, respectively, constitute a pixel group in a slanted direction with respect to a vertical direction, and wherein the multi-views are three or more views; a multi-view point producing panel including a barrier region or a lenticular lens array in the slanted direction having a pitch corresponding to the pixel group; and a driving circuit configured to reduce a grey level of an image data signal of at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels, which is at a side boundary of the pixel group causing a three-dimensional (3D) crosstalk (C/T), and output an image data signal having a reduced grey level to the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ho-Jae Kim, Sang-Hun Park, Kyung-Ki Kim
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Patent number: 10015485Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are described including determining a prediction residual for a channel of video data; and determining, using the first channel's prediction residual, a prediction residual for a second channel of the video data. Further, a prediction residual for a third channel of the video data may be determined using the second channel's prediction residual.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Lidong Xu, Yi-Jen Chiu, Yu Han, Wenhao Zhang
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Patent number: 10009603Abstract: A 2D and/or 3D video processing device comprising a camera and a display captures images of a viewer as the viewer observes displayed 2D and/or 3D video content in a viewport. Face and/or eye tracking of viewer images is utilized to generate a different viewport. Current and different viewports may comprise 2D and/or 3D video content from a single source or from different sources. The sources of 2D and/or 3D content may be scrolled, zoomed and/or navigated through for generating the different viewport. Content for the different viewport may be processed. Images of a viewer's positions, angles and/or movements of face, facial expression, eyes and/or physical gestures are captured by the camera and interpreted by face and/or eye tracking. The different viewport may be generated for navigating through 3D content and/or for rotating a 3D object. The 2D and/or 3D video processing device communicates via wire, wireless and/or optical interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Marcus Kellerman, Xuemin Chen, Samir Hulyalkar, Ilya Klebanov
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Patent number: 10007980Abstract: An inspection method and apparatus comprising, a step of reflecting linearly-polarized light having a predetermined wavelength using an non-polarizing beam splitter after transmitting the linearly-polarized light through a half-wave plate, irradiating a sample with the linearly-polarized light having a polarization plane of a predetermined angle, causing the light reflected by the sample to be incident to an image capturing sensor through a lens, the non-polarizing beam splitter, and an analyzer, and acquiring an optical image of a pattern formed on the sample; acquiring a plurality of optical images by changing an angle of the analyzer or the half-wave plate, and obtaining an angle of the analyzer or the half-wave plate such that a value of (?/?A) becomes a minimum; and a step of inspecting whether a defect of the pattern exists, wherein the pattern is a repetitive pattern having a period at a resolution limit or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.Inventors: Riki Ogawa, Masatoshi Hirono
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Patent number: 10003817Abstract: Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer (“DPB”) and reference picture lists (“RPLs”). In example implementations, rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs, state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine which pictures are expected to be available for reference from the signaled state information. For example, an encoder determines state information that identifies which pictures are available for use as reference pictures (optionally considering feedback information from a decoder about which pictures are available). The encoder sets syntax elements that represent the state information. In doing so, the encoder sets identifying information for a long-term reference picture (“LTRP”), where the identifying information is a value of picture order count least significant bits for the LTRB. The encoder then outputs the syntax elements as part of a bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Yongjun Wu
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Patent number: 10003808Abstract: An encoding apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an encoder configured to request for storage of an original frame; a frame processing unit configured to generate an encoded frame having the original framed encoded therein; and a frame memory configured to store the encoded frame. Here, the frame processing unit is configured to generate the original frame by encoding the encoded frame stored in the frame memory according to a request of the encoder, and the encoder is configured to perform encoding according to the original frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Seong-Mo Park, Kyung-Jin Byun, Nak-Woong Eum