Patents Examined by Obafemi Sosanya
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Patent number: 9937795Abstract: A vehicle implementing vehicle operation assistance information management for autonomous vehicle control transfer may identify a vehicle operation assistance information item indicating a location of an expected vehicle operation control transfer, and may, on a condition that an immanency for the vehicle operation assistance information item is within a maximum relevant immanence, determine an urgency based on the immanency, and present a representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item, which may include controlling a primary graphical display portion of the vehicle to present a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item, controlling a secondary graphical display portion of the vehicle to present the graphical representation, or a combination thereof. The vehicle may, control an auditory presentation device of the vehicle to present an auditory representation of the vehicle operation assistance information item.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Heather Konet, Roy Goudy, Andrew Christensen
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Patent number: 9940529Abstract: A parking space recognition apparatus includes an onboard camera, a wireless receiver, and a parking space determination portion. The onboard camera is mounted to a first vehicle and captures a peripheral image around the first vehicle. The wireless receiver is mounted to the first vehicle and receives a parking-space related information that is transmitted from an outside of the first vehicle. The parking space determination portion is mounted to the first vehicle and determines a parking space to park the first vehicle on a basis of the peripheral image and the parking-space related information.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuu Maeda, Naoki Kawasaki, Osamu Shimomura, Junichiro Funabashi
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Patent number: 9936201Abstract: In an example, a method of coding video data may include selecting, as part of an entropy coding process, a context for a syntax element associated with a current coding unit (CU) based on information relating to CU depth of one or more neighboring CUs relative to the current CU. The syntax element may represent whether the current CU is split into sub-CUs. The method may include entropy coding the syntax element based on the selected context.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xiang Li, Li Zhang, Jianle Chen, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 9930310Abstract: A method of altering audio output from an electronic device based on image data is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring image data and determining one or more characteristics of the image data. Such characteristics may include sharpness, brightness, motion, magnification, zoom setting, and so forth, as well as variation in any of the preceding characteristics. The method may also include producing audio output, wherein at least one characteristic of the audio output is determined based on one or more of the image data characteristics. Various audio output characteristics that may be varied based on the video data characteristics may include, for instance, pitch, reverberation, tempo, volume, filter frequency response, added sound effects, or the like. Additional methods, devices, and manufactures are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aram Lindahl, Kelvin Chiu
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Patent number: 9924078Abstract: An image-capturing device contains a housing and a camera accommodated in the housing in particular for continuous image capturing and the generation of corresponding image data. Accordingly, the camera is a thermal-imaging camera for capturing thermal images. At least one part of the housing lying in the field of view of the thermal-imaging camera or a part of the housing embodied as an optical lens is constructed such that the part is at least substantially transparent in the infrared range and nontransparent, in particular opaque, in the optically visible range. According to one particular embodiment, the image-capturing device is configured as a person-counting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Dieter Wieser
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Patent number: 9918026Abstract: Photo-detector device for electro-optical sensors, comprising at least a detection and conversion circuit, or pixel (20), having at least a photo-sensitive reception mean (26) and a reset control terminal (11), which is able to drive an element to control the charge dissipation (23) of the photo-sensitive reception mean (26). The pixel (20) is able to convert the current generated by the photo-sensitive reception mean (26) into a voltage signal on a read-out terminal (28). The photo-detector device also comprises a circuit for controlling the reset voltage (40), able to generate a suitable input signal to the reset control terminal (11) by connecting it alternatively to a reset terminal (42) or to an external reference terminal (47), the input signal to said external reference terminal (47) is the type that can be programmed from outside. Furthermore, the circuit for controlling the reset voltage (40) can be shared between a subset of detection and control circuits (20).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: EYE-TECH SRLInventor: Monica Vatteroni
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Patent number: 9912949Abstract: Provided is a method extracts a merge index from a bit stream, constructs a merge candidate list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates, selects a merge predictor among merge candidates using the merge index, and sets motion information of the merge predictor as motion information of the current prediction unit. The temporal merge candidate includes a reference picture index and a motion vector, and a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate block of a temporal merge candidate picture is set as the motion vector of the temporal merge candidate. Accordingly, the coding efficiency of the motion information is improved by including various merge candidates. Also, the computational complexity of an encoder and a decoder is reduced maintaining improvement of coding efficiency by adaptively storing motion information of reference picture and adaptively generating a temporal merge candidate.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: INFOBRIDGE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
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Patent number: 9912963Abstract: In a picture coding device for coding picture signals including a brightness signal and a color-difference signal in a block unit using intra-prediction and coding information regarding an intra-prediction mode, when aspect ratios of pixels of the brightness signal and the color-difference signal are different from each other, a bitstream generator converts a mode number of a first intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are equal to each other into a scaled mode number and derives a second intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Motoharu Ueda, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura
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Patent number: 9903715Abstract: A measuring system for marking a known target point in a coordinate system includes a mobile marking unit and a geodetic measuring device. The measuring device has a sighting unit, angle measurement functionality, and a camera for capturing a camera image. The measuring system has a database storing a target point position, an output unit that presents the camera image, and a control and processing unit. The measuring system has presentation functionality that presents a spatial deviation between the marking unit and target point positions on the output unit in first and second directions using, respectively, using first and second deviation displays. The first deviation display indicates a distance of the target point position from a plane defined by the measuring device and the marking unit. The second deviation display indicates a distance of the target point position from a normal to the plane defined by the marking unit position.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Norbert Kotzur, Jürgen Mayer
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Patent number: 9891584Abstract: Apparatus and methods for coherent diffractive imaging with arbitrary angle of illumination incidence utilize a method of fast remapping of a detected diffraction intensity pattern from a detector pixel array (initial grid) to a uniform spatial frequency grid (final grid) chosen to allow for FFT on the remapped pattern. This is accomplished by remapping the initial grid to an intermediate grid chosen to result in a final grid that is linear in spatial frequency. The initial grid is remapped (generally by interpolation) to the intermediate grid that is calculated to correspond to the final grid. In general, the initial grid (x,y) is uniform in space, the intermediate grid ({tilde over (x)},{tilde over (y)}) is non-uniform in spatial frequency, and the final grid ({tilde over (f)}x,{tilde over (f)}y) is uniform in spatial frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a bodyInventors: Bosheng Zhang, Matthew D. Seaberg, Daniel E. Adams, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane
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Patent number: 9894388Abstract: The present invention discloses an inter-frame predictive coding method and a coder. Inter-frame predictive coding is sequentially performed on frames in multiple groups of pictures by using a group of pictures as a unit; a correlation between the reference B frame and a GPB frame in the same group of pictures is used; and when the maximum depth of the CTU in the same position in the GPB frame is smaller, a quantity of mode decisions performed on the CTU in the reference B frame may be relatively small, so that an objective of reducing complexity of an inter-frame predictive coding process of the reference B frame is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Liu, Qingrui Han
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Patent number: 9894361Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving an encoded video frame, decompressing the received encoded video frame, extracting a first quantization parameter (QP) from the decompressed video frame, and acquiring a delta QP based on the first QP. The method also includes acquiring a second QP based on the delta QP and the first QP, compressing the decompressed video frame based on the second QP, and providing the compressed video frame. The first QP corresponds to quantization settings originally used for compressing the encoded video frame. And the second QP corresponds to quantization settings for compressing the decompressed video frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Miguel Melnyk, Andrew Penner, Jeremy Tidemann
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Patent number: 9892488Abstract: Various examples are directed to an image processing system comprising a mounting assembly, a first image sensor, a second image sensor, and a third image sensor. A processor may be programmed to receive, from the first image sensor, a first frame, receive, from the third image sensor, a third frame, and identify a first optical flow from the first frame to the third frame. Based at least in part on the first optical flow, the processor may generate a translation kernel describing a first translation from a first position of the first frame to a destination position, and apply the translation kernel to generate a translated first frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ilya Vladimirovich Brailovskiy, Ilia Vitsnudel
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Patent number: 9888256Abstract: Methods and apparatus that allow encoding of video data in pipelined encoder architectures with reduced encoding performance penalty. The methods and apparatus encode video data without the need to flush the data pipeline and re-encode macroblocks, thus saving time and resulting in an increase in the encoder's throughput. In one embodiment, macroblocks are encoded in a data pipeline to form a first video slice of a plurality of video slices. Once a macroblock overshoot condition occurs, the overshooting macroblock is determined and a second video slice is formed that includes at least one of the overshooting macroblock and the encoded macroblocks without re-encoding the included overshooting macroblock and encoded macroblocks. For example, a second video slice may be formed from the overshooting macroblock, and any remaining encoded macroblocks, that do not form the first video slice.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Ihab M. A. Amer, Khaled Mammou, Edward Harold, Lei Zhang, Steven Lok-Man Doo, Jonathon Walter Riley
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Patent number: 9879467Abstract: A discreet mirrored cabinet is disclosed. Items can be secured inside by a locking mechanism, and security is enhanced by concealing the locked cabinet behind a mirror. The cabinet may include additional features such as an automated camera for capturing images when items are added or removed from the cabinet, and electric power can be provided to, for example, charge electronic device while they are securely stored in the locked cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: MIRRORCACHE LLCInventors: Frederick William Hasselback, Scott Thomas Ware
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Patent number: 9874993Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides a digital sign with a video camera. The digital sign and video camera are connected via a communications medium to a central computer. The central computer provides a way of changing the images displayed on the digital sign and of disseminating the video from the video camera either through real time forwarding/viewing or recording the real time video stream and playing back the recorded video to a user. The central computer also provides a user interface where an authorized user, which would normally include an authorized governmental entity, can view the video stream and unilaterally interrupt the normally displayed image (or series of images) with an emergency notification message that would display on the digital sign.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Texas Emergency Network, LLCInventors: Curtis E. Ford, Drew Cartwright
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Patent number: 9860489Abstract: A surveillance system is disclosed that includes one or more data acquisition devices, an image database, and a processing system. The data acquisition devices are configured to acquire surveillance data from one or more geographic locations, and the image database stores image data for the one or more geographic locations. The processing system is configured to electronically display an image of one or more of the geographic locations using the image data stored in the image database. The processing system is further configured to accept input through a user interface to allow graphical manipulation of the displayed image in three-dimensional space to select a view of the geographical location that is to be subject to surveillance by the data acquisition devices. The displayed image selected by the user is employed to generate acquisition parameters for controlling the one or more data acquisition devices to surveil the geographical location corresponding to the displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Andrew Joseph Martignoni, III, James Louis Paunicka
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Patent number: 9854164Abstract: An image capture device includes two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses, one or more components to optically direct light, and a single image sensor. The two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses face substantially opposing directions. A field of view of each of the lenses is greater than one hundred and eighty degrees. Facing the lenses in substantially opposing directions results in an overlapping region of image capture of substantially a three hundred and sixty degree horizontal field of view and a two hundred and seventy degree (or more) vertical field of view. The one or more components optically direct light so that optically directed light from both of the two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses strikes a single surface of a single image sensor. The single image sensor converts an optical signal into an electronic signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Inventors: Dmitry Kozko, Ivan Onuchin
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Patent number: 9838667Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a display unit; a display control unit; an object image detection unit; a distance information acquisition unit; and a binocular vision suitability determination unit, wherein the display control unit displays a second guide frame of a larger size than the first guide frame on the display unit in addition to the first guide frame, and, in a case where the object image detection unit detects at least one other object image different from the object image determined to be suitable for the binocular vision by the binocular vision suitability determination unit from the second guide frame, the display control unit matches the second guide frame to the at least one other object image.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Koudai Fujita
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Patent number: 9832396Abstract: A method for thermally imaging a moving workpiece of a gas turbine engine comprises identifying a plurality of geometric features to construct a composite image. The geometric features include at least one integral thermal feature of the moving workpiece, and at least one artificial feature applied to the workpiece for diagnostic purposes. One of the plurality of geometric features is identified as a master feature, and the remainder of the plurality of geometric features are located relative to the master feature with relative actual coordinates. A pixel location of the master feature is identified or each image, and the remainder of the plurality of geometric features are located relative to the master feature with relative pixel coordinates. Offset, rotation, and scaling of the secondary images are varied to minimize a relative difference between the relative pixel coordinates and the relative actual coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Charles W. Haldeman, Andrew Consiglio, Christopher J. Lehane, Mark F. Zelesky