Patents Examined by Neil Mikeska
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Patent number: 9363907Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle electronic apparatus including a main body that includes a panel attaching/detaching part, and a panel that is attached to and detached from the panel attaching/detaching part. The panel attaching/detaching part is provided with a lock mechanism and a holding lever, the lock mechanism being arranged to lock the panel to the main body, the holding lever being rotatable and being arranged to hold the panel when the holding lever is rotated to a holding position. The panel is moved in a predetermined direction with respect to the main body such that locking of the panel to the main body by the lock mechanism is released. When the panel is moved in the predetermined direction such that the locking is released, the holding lever is rotated to the holding position due to inertia such that the panel is held by the holding lever.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Asaya Hondo, Hideki Itoh, Hisahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9350926Abstract: A night driving assistant system uses a tablet to wirelessly control an infrared camera in a motor vehicle. An infrared camera system is detachably fixed to the motor vehicle and captures the infrared thermal images of the road scene while the motor vehicle is moving and outputs the video signals of the captured infrared thermal images. A magnetic base is positioned under the chassis of the infrared camera system and attaches the infrared camera system to the motor vehicle. A tablet is detachably mounted inside the motor vehicle, connecting wirelessly with the infrared camera system and displaying video signals transmitted from the infrared camera system. By manipulating the tablet, functions can be realized such as operating the infrared camera system, recognizing a human/animal, triggering Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation, record/store/redisplay videos as well as processing multi-functions like split-screen display etc.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Guangzhou SAT Infrared Technology Co. Ltd.Inventor: Jiping Wu
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Patent number: 9325547Abstract: A preamble identifier flag in a reserved portion of a data field synchronization segment in a digital television (DTV) data field identifies the presence of preamble training data in a forward error correction (FEC) encoded portion of the DTV data field. The data field synchronization segment is not FEC encoded, thereby allowing detection of the preamble identifier flag without FEC decoding. The detection at a receiver of the preamble identifier flag in a DTV data field allows receiver elements, such as an equalizer and a FEC decoder, to more readily obtain and utilize the preamble training data, thereby enhancing reception and/or simplifying receiver design.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Ivonete Markman, Wen Gao, Richard W. Citta
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Patent number: 9319689Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for encoding a video by using a data unit of a hierarchical structure, and a method and a device for decoding the same. A video encoding device includes: a hierarchical encoder configured to encode a picture of a video based on a data unit of a hierarchical structure; and an entropy coder configured to determine a context model used for entropy coding of a symbol based on hierarchical information of a data unit to which the symbol of the encoded picture belongs, and to entropy encode the symbol using the determined context model.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Hae-kyung Jung, Min-su Cheon
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Patent number: 9319695Abstract: A moving image output device includes a moving image acquisition unit to acquire moving image data which represents a moving image as a collection of a plurality of images, a image generation unit to generate each piece of image data which represents each image of the moving image by processing the moving image data acquired by the moving image acquisition unit, an image output unit to sequentially output each piece of image data generated by the image generation unit according to a set time interval, and an interval setting unit to set to the image output unit a first time interval, and temporarily setting to the image output unit a second time interval which is longer than the first time interval as for image data for which the image generation by the image generation unit fails to occur in time with the sequential image output with the first time interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Toshiro Ohbitsu
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Patent number: 9319702Abstract: An apparatus having a plurality of processors is disclosed. The processors may be configured to (i) gather a plurality of statistics by encoding a current picture in a video signal, (ii) calculate a plurality of complexity values in response to both the statistics and a plurality of coefficients and (iii) partition a next picture in the video signal into a plurality of slices in response to the complexity values such that each of the slices has a similar coding complexity. The statistics generally characterize how the current picture was encoded. The coefficients may correspond to a plurality of coding modes.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Dariusz Dzik
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Patent number: 9313506Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for encoding a video by using a data unit of a hierarchical structure, and a method and a device for decoding the same. A video encoding device includes: a hierarchical encoder configured to encode a picture of a video based on a data unit of a hierarchical structure; and an entropy coder configured to determine a context model used for entropy coding of a symbol based on hierarchical information of a data unit to which the symbol of the encoded picture belongs, and to entropy encode the symbol using the determined context model.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Hae-kyung Jung, Min-su Cheon
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Patent number: 9313507Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for encoding a video by using a data unit of a hierarchical structure, and a method and a device for decoding the same. A video encoding device includes: a hierarchical encoder configured to encode a picture of a video based on a data unit of a hierarchical structure; and an entropy coder configured to determine a context model used for entropy coding of a symbol based on hierarchical information of a data unit to which the symbol of the encoded picture belongs, and to entropy encode the symbol using the determined context model.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Hae-kyung Jung, Min-su Cheon
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Patent number: 9288472Abstract: An image processing device comprising: an image acquisition device; a parallax acquisition device; a first data transform device; an operation processing device; and a second data transform device transforming third frequency component data and fourth frequency component data respectively corresponding to the third image and the fourth image calculated by the operation processing device into data on a real space and for respectively selecting pixels at positions corresponding to the target pixels as one pixel of the third image and one pixel of the fourth image.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi Aoki, Katsutoshi Izawa
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Patent number: 9288473Abstract: A creating apparatus includes a capturing unit, extracting units, and a creating unit. The capturing unit captures a plurality of video signals of images imaged at positions that are different by parallax. The extracting unit extracts a display time-period from at least one of the video signals from among the video signals. The creating unit creates, for a display time-period, a stereoscopic video signal by using the video signals of the images imaged at the positions that are different by parallax. Furthermore, the creating unit creates, for a time other than the display time-period, a stereoscopic video signal having a certain depth by using one of the video signals from among the video signals of the images imaged at the positions that are different by parallax.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kazumi Doi, Teruyuki Sato
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Patent number: 9282275Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a heat sink in the housing, a heat pipe including a curved portion toward the heat sink, and a fan including a cutout portion accommodating the curved portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Akifumi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Hamada, Seiji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9277189Abstract: A function of being controlled by a second monitor camera controller is added to a first monitor camera controller which controls a plurality of monitor cameras. The second monitor camera controller is caused to recognize the first monitor camera controller as a monitor camera. The first monitor camera controller synthesizes videos from the monitor cameras as one video, and transmits the synthetic video to the second monitor camera controller. Control of the monitor cameras or acquisition of videos is conducted by controlling the first monitor camera controller recognized as a monitor camera by use of a control function of a part or all of pan, tilt and zoom.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromi Nishiura, Toshihiro Kato
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Patent number: 9253063Abstract: A method, a system and a computer device for initiating bi-directional compression of a video stream in a packet switched network, based on delay tolerance of a service or application. A video frame recompression (VFR) utility determines an end-to-end (E2E) delay tolerance retrieved from a Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) report. The VFR utility then determines the actual expected delay based on a deep inspection of packet headers. The VFR utility utilizes a processing opportunity delay (which determines whether the E2E delay tolerance is greater than the actual expected delay) to reprocess video content comprising Intra-coded (I) pictures/frames and Predicted (P) frames to improve compression efficiency. The VFR utility may also utilize a complexity ratio which is a ratio of the I-Frame rate and the P-Frame rate to select frames for compression. The VFR utility recompresses video content by replacing P-Frames with B-Frames.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Harsha Hegde, Tarun Agarwal
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Patent number: 9241160Abstract: Processing a reference picture is described. A reference processing unit enables signaling of parameters such as motion model parameters, interpolation filter parameters, intensity compensation parameters, and denoising filter parameters. Methods for estimating the various parameters are also discussed. Processing improves quality of a reference picture prior to its use for prediction of a subsequent picture and thus improves the prediction.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Yuwen He, Yan Ye, Alexandros Tourapis
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Patent number: 9225987Abstract: A method of encoding a video includes: splitting a picture into a maximum coding unit; for the maximum coding unit, determining coding units having a tree structure including coding units of coded depths and determining encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths by performing encoding based on coding units according to depths, the coding units according to depths obtained by hierarchically splitting the maximum coding unit as a depth deepens; and outputting information about a maximum coding unit size and, for the maximum coding unit, information indicating an order of split information and skip mode information which is selectively determined for the coding units according to depths, information about the encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths including the split information and the skip mode information which are arranged according to the order, and encoded video data.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Il-koo Kim, Jung-hye Min, Hae-kyung Jung, Sun-il Lee, Min-su Cheon
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Patent number: 9210432Abstract: Blocks of a frame of a video stream can be encoded using lossless inter-frame prediction encoding. The compression ratio of lossless inter-frame encoding can be improved by first examining the magnitude of a motion vector used to perform inter-frame prediction. If the magnitude of the motion vector is small, the residual generated by the inter-prediction can be entropy coded and included in the encoded bitstream. If the magnitude of the motion vector is greater than a threshold, the residual can be encoded using lossy encoding and then decoded and subtracted from the original residual. The resulting difference residual is encoded using lossless encoding and included in the output bitstream along with the lossy encoded residual, permitting the block to be decoded with no loss at a decoder.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Qunshan Gu, Yaowu Xu
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Patent number: 9204141Abstract: An eyewear device which adjusts a transmitted light amount to a left eye and a right eye of a viewer to perform an assistance operation, which assists the viewer in viewing images so that the viewer stereoscopically perceives the images, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a synchronization signal in synchronization with display of the images; and a controller which analyzes a signal configuration of the synchronization signal after power supply is started for the assistance operation, and switches a control mode between a first control mode and a second control mode, which is different from the first control mode, based on an analysis result of the signal configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuo Saigo, Kazuhiro Mihara, Masashi Imai, Norikazu Kaneshiro
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Patent number: 9188644Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for, and method operating latency measurement including an event generation device that generates an initial event used to measure system latency. A component test system receives the event and in response outputs a test component output signal and a zero-latency indicator. An electronics system including a multifunction display unit receives the test component output signal and displays a visible element on the multifunction display unit. A camera generates a series of recorded images, where each recorded image contains an image of the zero-latency indicator and an image of the visible element. A processor then determines the system latency by determining a time difference in the series of recorded images between a representation of an occurrence of the event in the image of the zero-latency indicator and a representation of the occurrence of the event in the image of the visible element.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: William Brendan Blanton, Robert Crenshaw Allen, Thomas Alfred DuBois
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Patent number: 9179145Abstract: Techniques for video decoding include cross-layer prediction from a base layer to an SNR or spatial enhancement layer of spatial intra prediction mode information. In one example embodiment, the Most Probable Mode (MPM) for intra prediction of an enhancement layer block is predicted from the spatially corresponding base layer block.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Vidyo, Inc.Inventors: Danny Hong, Jill Boyce
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Patent number: 9161015Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images, which are images of the same subject captured from different viewpoints; an image offset correction unit configured to modify the plurality of images obtained by the image obtaining unit on the basis of parameters for correcting image offset and generate a correction image for each of the obtained images; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate, as an evaluation value, an integration value, for an entire screen, of an error amount indicating a degree at which association in a parallax direction among the plurality of correction images generated by the image offset correction unit is not possible; and an update unit configured to change a parameter that is necessary for association in the parallax direction among the parameters so as to update the parameter so that the evaluation value becomes a minimum.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Myokan, Takayuki Yoshigahara, Kiyoto Someya