Patents Examined by Noam Reisner
  • Patent number: 11044413
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus that is capable of photographing a proper exposure image by utilizing light control performance of a flash at the maximum even in photographing under a minute flash emission amount. The light emitting apparatus is connected with an image pickup apparatus communicably. The light emitting apparatus includes a receiving unit and a sending unit. The receiving unit receives a request from the image pickup apparatus. The sending unit sends information about a first emission amount lower limit value that is settable by the image pickup apparatus as an emission amount lower limit value to the image pickup apparatus in a case where the receiving unit receives the request from the image pickup apparatus in a first emission mode in which light is emitted at a time of photographing with an emission amount set by the image pickup apparatus in a case where automatic light control is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Shu
  • Patent number: 11042075
    Abstract: A photography system includes a lighting system configured to provide a lighting scene that is diffused and is artistically desirable. The system includes an array of light panels configured to simulate a wall of windows that receive natural, diffused, and consistent sunlight, such as a large window facing the north. The light panels can operate in various modes of operation, such as a continuous light mode a strobe light mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterfly, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Peterson, Michael Surma
  • Patent number: 11041822
    Abstract: A sensing element includes a conductive substrate, a zinc oxide seed layer, a plurality of zinc oxide nanorods, a film with an electrical double layer, and an organic sensing layer. The zinc oxide seed layer is located on the conductive substrate. The zinc oxide nanorods extend from the zinc oxide seed layer. The film with the electrical double layer covers the zinc oxide nanorods. The organic sensing layer is located on the film with the electrical double layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Wen Zan, Chuang-Chuang Tsai, Yu-Nung Mao, Hung-Chuan Liu, Zong-Xuan Li, Wei-Tsung Chen
  • Patent number: 11027668
    Abstract: A camera monitoring system includes: a housing rotatable around a coupling shaft of a base part disposed in a vehicle; a camera disposed on one end of the housing; a cam plate disposed inside the housing and fixed to the base part; a link including a first end moving along a guide part of the cam plate and a second end to rotate the camera when the housing rotates; a driving part for applying a driving force to rotate the housing; and a control part to determine a folded state of the housing by controlling the driving force applied from the driving part based on a vehicle speed, and to rotate the camera simultaneously with the housing based on the folded state of the housing so as to maintain a previously set angle of a camera view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, AMOTECH CO., LTD., HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Jong Uk Kim, Geon Pyo Kim
  • Patent number: 11003057
    Abstract: A camera support apparatus includes a telescopically collapsible monopod, a pad sized and shaped to be set on by a user, especially a user in a wheelchair and a center mount assembly having a magnet that is selectively interconnectably joined between the pad and the monopod. When used with a wheelchair, the wheelchair preferably includes a magnetically attachable side mount to secure the monopod to the side when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: Gerald F Buttimer
  • Patent number: 11002762
    Abstract: A passive slide screw load pull tuner structure can be used on-wafer, in millimeter-wave frequencies from 20 to 110 GHz. It uses a short external (not extended) slabline, mounted sloped and allowing direct contact with the wafer probe, thus permitting the tuning probe to come as close to the wafer probe as physically possible; this minimizes the insertion loss between tuner and DUT and, thus, generates the maximum possible tuning range of a passive electro-mechanical impedance tuner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: Christos Tsironis
  • Patent number: 10996090
    Abstract: A measuring device has a flowmeter, an inlet tube and an outlet tube. The flowmeter has a measuring tube that is connected to the inlet tube and to the outlet tube. To provide a measuring device that allows for measurements using a flowmeter, in particular of the liquid components of medium in the measuring tube, independent of whether the medium is made to flow or is stagnant, wherein the measuring tube is completely filled at least with the liquid components of the medium when the medium is stagnant the inlet tube, the measuring tube and the outlet tube form a siphon, wherein the siphon is designed and aligned in respect to the vector of the gravitational field of the earth so that, when a medium initially flows through the siphon and then the flowing of the medium stops, the measuring tube is completely filled with the stagnant medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventor: Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn
  • Patent number: 10996546
    Abstract: A support rod for holding an accessory component relative to a motion picture camera in a variable position along a longitudinal axis of the support rod has at least one outwardly open recess. The support rod has a set back contact region in the recess that is accessible from the outside for the electrical contacting of the accessory component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Michael Haubmann, Christian Tschida
  • Patent number: 10976641
    Abstract: A blade driving device includes an opening forming member, and a plurality of groups of blades that are pivotably disposed in a ring form around an opening portion of the opening forming member. The plurality of groups of blades include a first group of blades and a second group of blades, in a process of changing from a first circular light passage opening formed by the first group to a second circular light passage opening formed by the second group, the first group that is adjacent to the second group and has finished forming the first circular light passage opening remains in the opening portion, thereby acting to substantially suppressing warp, in an optical axis direction, of the second group that forms the second circular light passage opening on an inner side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahito Yoshizawa, Mitsuo Shibata
  • Patent number: 10962862
    Abstract: A push type camera device in a mobile terminal can be pushed to protrude out of the mobile terminal for photographing or be hidden in the mobile terminal. The push type camera device includes a slide assembly, a fixing bracket, a resilient assembly, and a camera assembly. The fixing bracket is fixed and located in the mobile terminal. The slide assembly is slidably mounted on the fixing bracket. The resilient assembly connects the slide assembly and the fixing bracket, and is configured for fixing or supporting the slide assembly. The camera assembly is arranged on the slide assembly. The camera assembly can be pushed to protrude out of or back into the mobile terminal by sliding the slide assembly relative to the fixing bracket. A mobile terminal having the push type camera device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Yue Wang, Xiao-Yi Qiu, He Zhou, Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 10955730
    Abstract: A multi-configuration mounting system has been disclosed. The multi-configuration mounting system comprises an adapter configured to couple to a first device, and a receptacle defining an opening within a surface of the adapter. The receptacle receives a tab of a clip housing that secures a second device, thereby forming an interference fit between the tab and the receptacle to couple the second device to the first device via the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Yap, Joshua T. Druker
  • Patent number: 10955476
    Abstract: Disclosures of the present invention describe an unlimited multiplexing testing system for press type switch, which mainly consists of a main board, a plurality of fixing bases, a test controlling module, a first interface unit, a button punching module, and a host device. Particularly, this novel unlimited multiplexing testing system is able to apply at least one button punching test procedure to a great quantity of mechanical switch components, keyboards or computer mice, thereby completing any one type of standard button punching test, such as life cycle test, loading test or endurance test. On the other hand, this unlimited multiplexing testing system can also be adopted for achieving any one of the foregoing standard button punching tests on the mechanical switch components, keyboards and computer mice, simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yi Tsai, Che-Yen Huang, Ying-Che Tseng, Shi-Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 10945673
    Abstract: The disclosure demonstrates an attachment apparatus for optically coupling a mobile device camera to a lens of a medical examination device. The device incudes an attachment body wherein the proximal side of the attachment body is attached to a mobile device via a magnetic array that may be positioned in at least two different positions. The distal side of the attachment device includes an array of magnets to connect with the lens of a medical device. In one or more of the magnetic arrays at least one pair of axially magnetized magnets are positioned in antiparallel arrangement relative to each other to reduce the expanse of a magnetic field while at the same time increasing the magnetic field strength close to the magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: 3GEN, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Paul Lozano-Buhl, Gregory Edward Mote
  • Patent number: 10928459
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery detection circuit and a battery management system. The battery detection circuit includes a positive relay, a negative relay, a first positive sampling unit, a first negative sampling unit, a second positive sampling unit, a second negative sampling unit, and a reference voltage terminal, wherein: all of the first positive sampling unit, the first negative sampling unit, the second positive sampling unit, the second negative sampling unit and a power battery pack to be detected are connected to the reference voltage terminal. With the battery detection circuit and the battery management system of the present disclosure, both the cost of the battery detection circuit and the complexity of the structure of the battery detection circuit can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhanyu Sun, Zhimin Dan, Yizhen Hou, Jiechao Luo, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10928711
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a body, electronic components contained in the body, and two finger members. The two finger members movable relative to the body between an extended state and a collapsed state. In the extended state, the two finger members extend outward from the body for receipt by a mount of an external support. In the collapsed state, the two finger members are collapsed toward the body. In the extended state, the two finger members may extend parallel with each other for receipt in parallel slots of the mount of the external support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Vitale, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Huy Phuong Nguyen, Marco Marroquin, Nicholas D. Woodman, Kielan C. Crow
  • Patent number: 10921350
    Abstract: A voltage testing system. The voltage testing system includes a pair of probes, each having a housing with a first end and a second end, wherein the pair of probes are electrically connected by a wire affixed to the first end of each of the pair of probes. A prong extends from the second end of the pair of probes, wherein a pin extends therethrough. The pin is electrically conductive, such that the pin is in communication with a fuse and a plurality of lights within the housing. The pin can be spring-biased such that a connection is formed between the fuse and the pin when the force is applied to the pin. The fuse can sever the electrical connection when a set current is transmitted through the fuse, such that a user is protected from excessive currents. The plurality of lights illuminate in response to receiving a preset voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventor: Paul Clark
  • Patent number: 10914778
    Abstract: A transformer testing device (10) comprises outputs (31-33) for detachably connecting the transformer testing device to windings of multiple phases of a transformer (50). The transformer testing device (10) further comprises a plurality of sources (21-23), each of which is designed to generate a test signal. The transformer testing device (10) also comprises a switching matrix (40) that is connected between the plurality of sources (21-23) and the outputs (31-33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OMICRON ELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Flax, Markus Pütter
  • Patent number: 10914611
    Abstract: A system includes a magnet having an axis of rotation, the magnet being configured to produce a magnetic field. The system further includes a plurality of magnetoresistive sensor elements, each of the magnetoresistive sensor elements having a magnetic free layer configured to generate a vortex magnetization pattern in the magnetic free layer, and the magnetoresistive sensor elements being configured to produce output signals in response to the magnetic field. A rotation angle of a rotating element to which the magnet is coupled may be determined using the plurality of output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Stephan Marauska, Edwin Schapendonk, Jörg Kock, Dennis Helmboldt, Ralf van Otten, Jaap Ruigrok
  • Patent number: 10907992
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor includes a stator element, and rotor element. The stator element has a stator transmitting coil and a stator receiving coil. The rotor element is mounted rotatably about a rotation axis relative to the stator element, and has a rotor receiving coil and a rotor transmitting coil electrically connected with each other. The rotor receiving coil is inductively coupled to the stator transmitting coil such that an electromagnetic field produced by the stator transmitting coil induces a current in the rotor receiving coil that flows through the rotor transmitting coil and causes the rotor transmitting coil to produce a further electromagnetic field. The stator receiving coil is inductively coupled to the rotor transmitting coil such that the inductive coupling is configured with reference to a rotational angle between the stator element and the rotor element so that the further electromagnetic field induces at least one angle-dependent alternating voltage in the stator receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Utermoehlen, Andreas Merz
  • Patent number: 10908482
    Abstract: An action camera system is disclosed that comprises an action camera and a mount where the mount is configured to detachably couple the camera. The mount comprises a battery, a base, a body, and a vertical support. The base can be attached to a helmet, a harness, an armband, a board, or a ski pole. The battery powers the action camera when it is attached to the mount. The action camera comprises two lenses with a separate image sensor or film frame for each lens. The action camera may be connected to the mount via a folding extension. The action camera communicates wirelessly with a smartphone or a control device. The smartphone can be attached to an armband. A ski pole mount may comprise a computer, a display, and user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Pathway Innovations and Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ji Shen