Patents Examined by Nathnael Aynalem
  • Patent number: 11863878
    Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments with luminance and chrominance emitted from a controlled light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Blanquart, John Richardson
  • Patent number: 11849103
    Abstract: An image display module includes a display that displays a parallax image projected to eyes of a user, a barrier that causes parallax between the eyes by defining a traveling direction of image light for the parallax image, and a controller that controls the display. The controller divides the display into a plurality of display control areas based on distortion of the parallax image projected, and controls, for each of the plurality of display control areas, a minimum repeat unit and an index for the parallax image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11843782
    Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform acquiring an input bitstream comprising metadata and video data, decoding the video data, determining whether the metadata comprises at least one flag signaling at least one component of a picture size of at least one picture of the video data, and signaling, in a case where it is determined that the metadata comprises the at least one flag, a display device to display the at least one picture from the video data according to the at least one flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11833977
    Abstract: A plate has a first region and a second region. A display unit is provided on a front surface of the plate and mounted in the first region of the plate. A housing provided on a rear surface of the plate and mounted in the second region of the plate, wherein the housing is also adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, and a rigidity of the first region of the plate is higher than a rigidity of the second region of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakamura, Takuya Ueda, Yukihiro Araki
  • Patent number: 11830255
    Abstract: A sign recognition system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is configured to, when image data of a sign is captured by a vehicular camera, recognize one or more characters, which are included in the sign and belong to at least one specified character type, from the image data, thus extracting, from the image data, the recognized one or more characters. The sign recognition system is also configured to store a sign dataset in a sign database; the sign dataset includes (i) an installation-position information item indicative of the installation position of the sign, and (ii) an attribute information item about the sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Usui, Tomoo Nomura
  • Patent number: 11827151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lateral image processing method, and the method includes recognizing areas in which amounts of image change are different from each other in an image captured by a camera; determining whether a car is in a driving state; and converting an image in one area in which an amount of image change is different according to the driving state of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Heon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11816905
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system that includes electronic circuitry and associated software, a driver monitoring camera disposed at the interior rearview mirror assembly and having a field of view of a driver region in a cabin of the vehicle, and an occupant monitoring camera disposed at the interior rearview mirror assembly and having a field of view of an occupant region in the cabin of the vehicle. The electronic circuitry of the ECU includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the driver monitoring camera and the occupant monitoring camera. The ECU, via processing at the ECU of image data captured by the driver monitoring camera, determines attentiveness of a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Nagender Reddy Kasarla, Sujith Gurram, Suresh Boddi
  • Patent number: 11813988
    Abstract: A display image is obtained by superimposing an image showing a vehicle on a captured image obtained by capturing an image on a rear side from the vehicle. For example, the image showing the vehicle is a computer graphics image. For example, a change is made in a superimposed positional relationship between the captured image and the image showing the vehicle in accordance with motion of a viewpoint of a driver. Since the display image is not only made from the captured image obtained by capturing an image on a rear side from the vehicle, but the display image is obtained by superimposing the image showing the vehicle on the captured image, it is possible to easily provide a sense of distance by motion parallax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nagata, Takashi Saitoh, Koji Aoyama, Kazuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11801749
    Abstract: A system, such as a driver assistance system, arranged to form images of outside a vehicle for viewing from an eye box region within the vehicle. The system comprises an image capture device, a picture generating unit and an optical element. The image capture device is arranged to be mounted to the vehicle. The image capture device is arranged to capture images outside the vehicle. The optical element is disposed in front of the replay plane. The optical element has a focal length. The distance between the replay plane and the optical element is less that the focal length of the optical element such that the optical element forms a virtual image of each picture for viewing from the eye box region. The picture generating unit may be a holographic projector. The holographic projector may be arranged to form pictures on a replay plane. Each picture may correspond to an image captured by the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Envisics Ltd
    Inventor: Alexander Cole
  • Patent number: 11800151
    Abstract: In a method to improve the coding efficiency of high-dynamic range (HDR) images, a decoder parses sequence processing set (SPS) data from an input coded bitstream to detect that an HDR extension syntax structure is present in the parsed SPS data. It extracts from the HDR extension syntax structure post-processing information that includes one or more of a color space enabled flag, a color enhancement enabled flag, an adaptive reshaping enabled flag, a dynamic range conversion flag, a color correction enabled flag, or an SDR viewable flag. It decodes the input bitstream to generate a preliminary output decoded signal, and generates a second output signal based on the preliminary output signal and the post-processing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Tao Chen, Walter J. Husak
  • Patent number: 11780371
    Abstract: A method for automatically panning a view for a commercial vehicle includes determining a plurality of estimated trailer angles. Each estimated trailer angle is determined using a distinct estimation method, and method assigns a confidence value to each estimated trailer angle in the plurality of estimated trailer angles. The method determines a weighted sum of the plurality of estimate trailer angles, and automatically pans the view based at least in part on the weighted sum and a current vehicle operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Stoneridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Sharma, Liang Ma, Troy Otis Cooprider
  • Patent number: 11752943
    Abstract: A method for automatically panning a view for a commercial vehicle includes receiving a video feed from at least one camera defining a field of view. A plurality of objects in the video feed, includes at least one wheel and at least one line, are identified. A path of each object in the plurality of objects is tracked through an image plane of the video feed. A trailer angle corresponding to each path is identified, the identified trailer angle is associated with the corresponding path, thereby generating a plurality of trailer angle measurements. The plurality of paths are down selected to a single path and identifying a single trailer angle measurement corresponding to the single path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: STONERIDGE, INC.
    Inventors: Liang Ma, Utkarsh Sharma, Saif Imran, Mohammad Gudarzi, Nguyen Phan, Wenpeng Wei
  • Patent number: 11750790
    Abstract: A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11745658
    Abstract: A method for providing visual information about at least part of an environment on a display device is disclosed. The method involves detecting a first vehicle travelling ahead by a sensor device, requesting and receiving the visual information about the environment, a view onto which is concealed partly by the first vehicle, capturing an image of a certain part of the environment including at least part of the first vehicle, and displaying the image of the certain part of the environment and the received visual information as a video stream embedded in the image on the display device. When it is determined that an object different from the first vehicle is present in the certain part of the environment and that the object cannot be driven over, the displaying of the visual information is modified so that the at least one object is clearly visible for a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Siav-Kuong Kuoch, Patrice Reilhac
  • Patent number: 11745660
    Abstract: A system for determining at least one pitch angle of a trailer relative to a towing vehicle, the system including a camera mounted on the towing vehicle and capable of acquiring images of the trailer in which lines of the trailer parallel to the axis of the trailer are visible, and a computer configured to perform the following steps: implementing a line-detection algorithm on at least one image of the trailer acquired by the camera, detecting in the image the lines of the trailer parallel to the trailer axis, corresponding to vanishing lines, and deducing from the vanishing lines a position of the vanishing point, and from the coordinates of the vanishing point, determining at least one pitch angle of the trailer with respect to the towing vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: David Guerrero, Boris Lugez
  • Patent number: 11743591
    Abstract: A multicamera panoramic imaging system having no parallax. In an example, the multicamera panoramic imaging system includes multiple discrete, imaging systems disposed in a side-by-side array, wherein a field of view of each discrete, imaging systems is conjoined with a field of view of each adjacent discrete imaging system, further wherein a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any one of the discrete imaging systems will be substantially parallel to a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any adjacent ones of the discrete imaging systems such that all of the substantially parallel stencils of chief rays appear to converge to a common point when viewed from object space. A method for forming an image of an object having no parallax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Circle Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Zakariya Niazi
  • Patent number: 11733524
    Abstract: A depth camera assembly for depth sensing of a local area includes an illumination source, an imaging device, and a controller. The illumination source illuminates a local area with light emitted in accordance with emission instructions generated by the controller. The illumination source includes an array of optical sources and an optical assembly. Operation of each optical source in the array is controllable based in part on the emission instructions. The optical assembly is configured to project the light into the local area. The imaging device captures one or more images of at least a portion of the light reflected from one or more objects in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the one or more objects based in part on the captured one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaoming Zhu, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 11729416
    Abstract: An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to determine a residual error based on coding unit information, and determine a candidate coding unit and an associated rate distortion cost based on the residual error. An embodiment may additionally or alternatively include technology to partition a first coding unit into two or more smaller coding units based on a partition message, accelerate processing of at least one of the two or more smaller coding units, and estimate motion fora frame based at least partially on results of the accelerated processing. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivasan Embar Raghukrishnan, James M. Holland, Sang-Hee Lee, Atthar H. Mohammed, Dmitry E. Ryzhov, Jason Tanner, Lidong Xu, Wenhao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11724649
    Abstract: A camera monitoring system and a method of controlling the same are provided. The camera monitoring system includes a camera assembly that captures an image of an outer side surface of a vehicle and a mirror assembly disposed to overlap at least a portion of the camera assembly. A driver performs deployment and folding of the camera assembly and the mirror assembly. A controller operates the driver in response to an input of the deployment or folding of the camera assembly and the mirror assembly and determines a failure of the camera assembly. The camera assembly and the mirror assembly are moved based on a single drive shaft, and the controller deploys or folds the camera assembly and the mirror assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Nak Kyoung Kong, Jong Min Park, Ki Hong Lee, Seung Sik Han, Seung Hyeok Chang, Yong Hwan Kim, Yeong Kook Cho, Chang Byung Ryu
  • Patent number: 11702010
    Abstract: A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a display device disposed in the mirror head and behind a reflective element. An actuator is operable to adjust the mirror head between a mirror mode orientation and a display mode orientation. Operation of the actuator moves a cam follower to cause a pin at the mirror head to travel along the groove to adjust orientation of the mirror head. With the mirror head in the mirror mode orientation, a first voltage is applied to adjust the mirror head out of the mirror mode orientation. A second voltage that is lower than the first voltage is then applied to adjust the mirror head toward the display mode orientation. A third voltage that is higher than the second voltage is then applied to adjust the mirror head into the display mode orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. LaCross, Gregory A. Huizen, Eric Peterson