Patents Examined by Nguyen T Truong
  • Patent number: 11432376
    Abstract: A heating device for off-vehicle information acquisition means, which has high heating efficiency, which is thin, and which has a high degree of freedom for layout of a heating element is provided. A heating device (100), which is arranged inside a vehicle, heats a window glass portion (Wa) located in an information acquisition path (5) of an off-vehicle information acquisition means (50) for acquiring information outside the vehicle. The heating device (100) comprises a hood (10) provided inside the vehicle below the information acquisition path (5) of the off-vehicle information acquisition means (50) and a heating element (20) provided on the surface of the hood (10) or inside the hood (10) and having a PTC heater layer (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11425425
    Abstract: Disclosed here are methods, systems, and devices for measuring visual quality degradation of digital content caused by an encoding process. There is received first data for a digital content item, which is not encoded by the encoding process, and second data for the digital content item, which is encoded by the encoding process. For a given artefact type, the first data and the second data are processed to obtain a first quality metric measuring visual quality degradation in the digital content item attributable to the given artefact type caused by the encoding process. A stored mapping corresponding to the given artefact type is applied to the first quality metric to obtain a second quality metric which measures visual quality degradation in the digital content item attributable to the given artefact type caused by the encoding process and approximates subjective assessment of the digital content item by a human visual system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MK Systems USA Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Kypreos
  • Patent number: 11423557
    Abstract: A depth processor and a three-dimensional image device. The depth processor comprises at least two input ports, an input switch, a data processing engine and at least one output port. The input port is used for receiving a first image, wherein the first image at least comprises a structured light image collected by a structured light depth camera. The input switch is connected to the output port, and is used for letting some or all of first images that come from the input ports pass. The data processing engine is connected to the input switch, and is used for processing the first image output via the input switch, so as to output a second image, wherein the second image at least comprises a depth image. The output port is connected to the data processing engine, and is used for outputting the second image to a main device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Xueyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11412135
    Abstract: A bowl-shaped photographic stage and photographic system is provided that produces consistent diffused lighting of an object or subject that is virtually shadow free for obtaining rotational views of the object in a time efficient manner. The bowl-shaped photographic stage may be used with a camera array, or a single camera may be moved around the circumference of the photographic stage to obtain a series of images needed to form a rotational view of an object or subject. Alternatively, the bowl-shaped photographic stage may be rotated to pass by a single fixed camera to obtain a series of images needed to form a rotational view of an object or subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: OVAD CUSTOM STAGES, LLC
    Inventor: Davo Scheich
  • Patent number: 11407530
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the quality of images captured by a remote sensing overhead platform such as a satellite. Sensor shifting is employed in an open-loop fashion to compensate for relative motion of the remote sensing overhead platform to the Earth. Control signals are generated for the sensor shift mechanism by an orbital motion compensation calculation that uses the predicted ephemeris (including orbit dynamics) and image geometry (overhead platform to target). Optionally, the calculation may use attitude and rate errors that are determined from on-board sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DigitalGlobe, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor Solanyk
  • Patent number: 11402337
    Abstract: Video inspection systems are disclosed. In one embodiment a video camera for use in a pipe inspection system includes a camera head including an outer housing, a camera module assembly including video and non-video sensors, a processing circuit, and a data link receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Martin, Mark S. Olsson, Alexander L. Warren
  • Patent number: 11397339
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining centring is disclosed. At least two calibrated images of the head which are captured simultaneously from different viewing directions are provided, and geometric parameters which describe the position of the eyes are determined by geometric position determination. A three-dimensional data set describing geometric parameters of the frame front is provided; the geometric parameters of the frame front and the geometric parameters describing the position of the eyes are brought into relation to each other with a rigid transformation; and the centring parameters are calculated from the geometric parameters describing the frame front and those describing the position of the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventor: Claudia Nieuwenhuis
  • Patent number: 11385762
    Abstract: A device for displaying AR markings comprising a top and a base, with the top rotatably attached to the base, and the base configured to be held by a hand or placed on a fixed surface. The AR markings are positioned on the top such that when the top rotates with respect to the base, so do the AR markings. When the AR markings are scanned by an appropriate scanning and display device, such as a smart phone, a 3d image associated with the AR markings will be displayed on the display device as an augmented reality projection. When the top rotates with respect to the base, so too does the augmented reality projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Johnston, Louis Anthony Romero
  • Patent number: 11385471
    Abstract: A system for providing two spaced-apart parallel light beams wherein the space between the two spaced-apart parallel light beams is adjustable, the system including: a first beam splitter configured for reflecting a light beam from a light source to create a first light beam; a second beam splitter configured for reflecting a transmitted light beam from the light beam from the light source to create a second light beam; a third beam splitter configured for transmitting the first light beam and reflecting the first light beam to create a third light beam, the first beam splitter and the third beam splitter are disposed along a first central axis; a fourth beam splitter configured for transmitting the second light beam and reflecting the second light beam to create a fourth light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Pengfei Wu, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11388482
    Abstract: A display control system to generate a virtual environment in a vehicle includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to receive an input that corresponds to a selection of a video to be displayed on one or more display mediums provided in the vehicle. A relevance factor is determined between a current travel route of the vehicle and a travel route associated with the selected video. The relevance factor is determined in an event the vehicle is in motion along the current travel route. One or more video parameters of the selected video are adjusted based on the determined relevance factor. Display of at least the selected video on the one or more display mediums is controlled in the vehicle in motion in accordance with the adjusted one or more video parameters of the selected video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prabakaran Ramalingam, Awadh Bihari Mohan
  • Patent number: 11381815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to efficient signaling of an intra prediction mode for predicting a current block in intra prediction coding. According to an aspect of the present invention, a video encoding apparatus divides dozens of intra modes into groups, selects a group to which an actual intra mode of the current block to be encoded belongs, and signals a value corresponding to the group. The video decoding apparatus acquires information on the group to which the actual intra mode of the current block belongs from a bit-stream and then evaluates intra modes belonging to the group to select a final intra mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-yeon Lim, Sun-young Lee, Se-hoon Son, Jae-seob Shin, Hyeong-duck Kim, Gyeong-taek Lee
  • Patent number: 11381804
    Abstract: An approach for projecting light may be implemented using a acousto-optical depth switch that uses surface acoustic waves produced along a substrate to guide image light to different areas. The surface acoustic waves may be generated on a substrate using a transducer. Surface acoustic waves of different frequencies can guide image light onto different optical elements at different physical positions. The optical elements may be configured to show objects in an image at different distances from a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: William Hudson Welch, Jeremy A. Grata, Marwan Hussein
  • Patent number: 11371929
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices, systems and applications for camera-less, high-throughput three-dimensional imaging of particles in motion. In some aspects, a system includes a particle motion device to allow particles to move along a travel path; an optical illumination system to produce an asymmetric illumination area of light in a region of the travel path of a particle that scans over a plurality of sections of the particle at multiple time points while the particle is moving; an optical detection system optically interfaced with the particle motion device to obtain optical signal data associated with different parts of the particle corresponding to the particle's volume during motion in the travel path; and a data processing unit to process the optical signal data obtained by the optical detection system and produce data including information indicative of 3D features of the particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yu-Hwa Lo, Yuanyuan Han
  • Patent number: 11371888
    Abstract: A polarization and color sensitive pixel device and a focal plane array made therefrom. Each incorporates a thick color/polarization filter stack and microlens array for visible (0.4-0.75 micron), near infrared (0.75-3 micron), mid infrared (3-8 micron) and long wave infrared (8-15 micron) imaging. A thick pixel filter has a thickness of between about one to 10× the operational wavelength, while a thick focal plane array filter is on the order of or larger than the size or up to 10× the pitch of the pixels in the focal plane array. The optical filters can be precisely fabricated on a wafer. A filter array can be mounted directly on top of an image sensor to create a polarization camera. Alternatively, the optical filters can be fabricated directly on the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventor: Stanley Pau
  • Patent number: 11371927
    Abstract: A method for optically examining a plurality of microscopic samples. The samples are channeled one after the other by means of a flow into at least one flow channel in which the samples advance along a flow direction. The samples are illuminated, and light emitted from the samples is detected and analyzed. A device for carrying out the method in which samples are illuminated in that at least one light sheet with a light sheet plane is directed onto the at least one flow channel, wherein the light sheet is oriented so as to intersect the at least one flow channel in an intersection region, and the normal of the light sheet plane forms an angle differing from null together with the flow direction in the intersection region. The light emitted from the sample is registered by an imaging optical detection unit, and the focal plane of said optical detection unit lies in the intersection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kalkbrenner, Joerg Siebenmorgen, Thomas Ohrt
  • Patent number: 11375245
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, streaming of a live video to trigger-associated recipients in response to triggers in an environment may be facilitated. In some embodiments, one or more triggers may be detected in an environment, and one or more actions associated with the detected triggers may be performed. As an example, where such associated actions include streaming a live video of the environment to one or more recipients, the recipients may be selected as candidates to receive the live video stream based on the recipients being part of a recipient list associated with a detected trigger. In some embodiments, although a first recipient of the recipient list may initially be selected to receive the live video stream, the live video may be streamed to a second recipient of the recipient list based on the first recipient being unavailable to receive the live video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Michael Saia, Tyler Maiman
  • Patent number: 11368716
    Abstract: An image encoding device (1) includes the cross-component intra predictor (171a) generates a predicted chroma block through cross-component intra prediction in which a chroma block to be encoded is predicted by referring to, as the neighbouring decoded pixels adjacent to the chroma block, decoded luminance pixels and decoded chroma pixels, a candidate generator (181) configured to generate candidates for an orthogonal transform type to be applied to orthogonal transform processing on prediction residuals that represent errors between the predicted chroma block and the chroma block; and a transformer (121) configured to perform the orthogonal transform processing on the chroma prediction residuals by using an orthogonal transform type selected from among the candidates generated by the candidate generator (181).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura, Atsuro Ichigaya, Shimpei Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11368715
    Abstract: A video encoder and video decoder may code video data using intra prediction and a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) mode. The BDPCM mode may include a vertical mode and a horizontal mode. The video encoder and video decoder may be configured to align the direction of an intra prediction mode to the direction of a BDPCM mode for both luma and chroma blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alican Nalci, Luong Pham Van, Marta Karczewicz, Geert Van der Auwera, Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Hilmi Enes Egilmez
  • Patent number: 11359912
    Abstract: A time-of-flight identification system and method for warehousing and freight transportation are provided by assembling an optical identification device in a container. The optical identification device includes a first, a second, and a third image capturing units, a beam receiving and calibrating unit, an estimation and processing unit, a transmission module and a power supply module. The optical identification device is connected to a monitoring device via signals; wherein the optical identification device is used to perform multi-segment space flight time identification method for logistics managers or inventory personnel to check whether inventory personnel correctly store the goods in storage space inside the container; to improve space utilization rate for the container. The present invention can be installed in: truck container, refrigerated truck container, truck rear cargo container, port centralized container, so as to promote cargo management efficiency and safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: MKDWELL (Jiaxing) Electronics Technology Co., Ltd., MKD Technology Inc., MKDWELL LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Chia Huang, Hsin-Chi Hou, Chien-Ta Lee
  • Patent number: 11356702
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in a method of decoding a video signal, provides a method including checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; acquiring a transform index indicating transform types applied to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the current block from among a plurality of predefined transform types from the video signal when the transform skip is not applied to the current block; and performing an inverse primary transform on the current block using the transform types indicated by the transform index, wherein the transform types applied to the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of the current block are determined from among transform types defined according to an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the transform index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar, Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim