Patents Examined by Omer Khalid
  • Patent number: 11806102
    Abstract: A system may comprise an image capture device to capture an image of a work site. The system may also comprise a processor to determine whether a tool disposed at the work site is energized and determine a first area of the captured image of the work site, including or adjacent to an image of a portion of the tool in the captured image. The processor may also determine a second area of the captured image including a remainder of the captured image that does not include the first area. Conditioned upon determining that the tool is energized, at least one of the first area and the second area of the captured image of the work site may be processed to indicate that the tool in the first area is being energized. The image of the work site with the first area and the second area may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Simon P. Dimaio, Brian D. Hoffman, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11798409
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for real-time vehicular parking enforcement are provided. The system can include a data processing system (“DPS”) comprising one or more processors and memory. The DPS can receive data captured by one or more cameras. The DPS can detect entry of a vehicle into the facility. The DPS can determine an identification number for the vehicle. The DPS can track the vehicle to a parking spot. The DPS can generate a parking event for the vehicle. The DPS can establish a timer for querying a transaction processing system. The DPS can query the transaction processing system for transaction information associated with the identification number. The DPS can generate a violation event for the vehicle. The DPS can classify the violation event. The DPS can overlay, on a digital map of the facility, an icon on the parking spot that indicates the classification of the violation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: László Leginusz
  • Patent number: 11776388
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for masking signals from multi-mode remote control devices. A method may include receiving, by a first device, a first key command from the first device or a second device operatively connected to the first device, the first key command indicative of a first infrared (IR) command code received by the first device or the second device. The method may include receiving a non-IR message and determining, based on the message, that the first key command is associated with a second IR command code for controlling a third device. The method may include preventing, based on the determination that the first key command is associated with the second IR command code for controlling the third device, the first key command from causing the first device or the second device to perform an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew L. Chaboud
  • Patent number: 11770505
    Abstract: The system includes a processor and memory. The processor is configured to receive sensor data set and video data set associated with a vehicle; determine, using a reduction model, a compressed video data set based at least in part on the sensor data set and the video data set; and transmit or store the compressed video data set. The memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11758091
    Abstract: Provided is a food monitoring apparatus including at least one light source configured to selectively radiate light of a first wavelength band and light of a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band to food, at least one image sensor configured to obtain a visible image of the food and a hyperspectral image of the food based on light scattered, emitted, or reflected from the food, and at least one processor configured to obtain first information of the food based on the visible image, and to obtain second information of the food based on the first information and the hyperspectral image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CHUNG ANG University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Suyeon Lee, Jeongsu Han, Unjeong Kim, Hyungbin Son, Junhoe Choi
  • Patent number: 11758099
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image blending method. The method includes projecting a plurality of images onto a projection surface, respectively, wherein an image of the first portion of the first image and an image of the first portion of the second image projected onto the projection surface overlap each other in the first overlapping area on the projection surface; the image parameters of all pixels of the first non-overlapping area and the second non-overlapping area are adjusted according to the position of the first non-overlapping area and the position of the second non-overlapping area, such that the black-level brightness of the first non-overlapping image in the first non-overlapping area of the first image and the black-level brightness of the second non-overlapping image in the second non-overlapping area of the second image are close to the black-level brightness of the first overlapping image in the first overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Jyun-Lin Cian, Chi-Wei Lin, Yung-Chiao Liu, Chien-Chun Peng
  • Patent number: 11758117
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a method for controlling projection of a projection module, a projection system and a storage medium. The method for controlling projection of the projection module includes: obtaining a projection environment where the projection module is located, and determining a position of a target person according to the projection environment; and planning the best projection position in the projection environment according to the projection environment and the position of the target person. The best projection position in the projection environment is planned according to the position of the target person, so that the projection picture projected by the projection module can be adaptively changed along the position of the target person to fit with the current status of the target person to improve the perception experience of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: IVIEW DISPLAYS (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Steve Yeung, Zhiqiang Gao, Wenxiang Li, Mingnei Ding
  • Patent number: 11748415
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device comprising a digital assistant, a user command, wherein the digital assistant is providing a current output; determining whether an attribute of the current output should be modified, wherein the determining is based on a content type of the current output and a request type of the command; and providing a response to the user command; wherein the providing comprises modifying, responsive to determining that an attribute should be modified, an attribute of the current output during provision of the response, wherein the modification and the attribute to be modified are based on the content type and the request type; and wherein the providing comprises continuing the current output with no modification responsive to determining that an attribute should not be modified. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Roderick Echols, Ryan Charles Knudson, Bradley Park Strazisar
  • Patent number: 11740693
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method for processing video streams is described. A plurality of video streams for transmission to a display device are received. The plurality of video streams have respective initial image quality levels. An estimated gaze location of a user of the display device is estimated. At least one video stream of the plurality of video streams is processed to have a modified image quality level based on the estimated gaze location. The modified image quality level is less than a corresponding initial image quality level. The plurality of video streams are transmitted to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brian T. Hawkins, Alexandros Neophytou, Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade
  • Patent number: 11729357
    Abstract: In order to reduce costs for endoscopic examinations and to enable new operating concepts, an image recording arrangement is provided in which an adapter that enables bi-directional communication between a camera control unit and an image generation unit which has an image sensor. A standardized data interface is configured between the camera control unit and the adapter. The adapter is defined for use with a specific type of image generation unit. Accordingly, the adapter has a communication apparatus which translates control and adjustment commands transmitted by the camera control unit into a format processable by the image generation unit and provides image data from the image sensor in a format processable by the camera control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Scholly Fiberoptic GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kuhn, Alexander Kohler
  • Patent number: 11711509
    Abstract: A video camera system including: one or more video cameras; a video recorder in communication with each of the one or more video cameras; a video analytics module, the video analytics module being a computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: obtaining video parameters of a plurality of video frames received at the video recorder, the plurality of video frames being transmitted from the one or more video cameras to the video recorder; determining an abnormality within the video parameters; and identifying a malfunctioning video camera of the one or more video cameras that produced the abnormality within the video parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Dobrowolski, Sylwester Mroz
  • Patent number: 11711886
    Abstract: A vehicular camera module includes a front camera housing portion having an imager, a lens having a plurality of optical elements, and an imager printed circuit board. The imager is disposed at a front side of the imager printed circuit board and the lens is optically aligned with the imager. A rear camera housing portion is mated with the front camera housing portion to form a camera housing. A thermal element is disposed between the imager printed circuit board and the camera housing. The thermal element has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of 13 ppm/° C. or less. With the vehicular camera module disposed at a vehicle, circuitry of the vehicular camera module is in electrical connection with a wire harness of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Steven V. Byrne, Yuesheng Lu, Rene Dreiocker, Jonathan D. Conger
  • Patent number: 11700418
    Abstract: An image display device includes a tuner configured to receive a RF broadcast signal; a display; a first input configured to receive a first image signal input from a first external device connected to the image display device; a second input configured to receive a second image signal input from a second external device connected to the image display device; and a controller coupled with the display, the first input and the second input. Further, the controller is configured to display, on the display, a plurality of icons including a first icon and a second icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Choi, Gowoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11677916
    Abstract: A system and method for altering the visual appearance of moving physical forms is disclosed. The moving physical forms may include solids, liquids, gasses and any combination thereof. The system and method may include video capturing devices for capturing video footage of the moving forms, a controller for altering the captured video footage of the moving forms, and video projecting devices for projecting the altered video footage back onto the moving forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: WET
    Inventors: Mark Fuller, James Doyle, Gautam Rangan, Scott Winslow, Isaiah Gernhardt, Ting Zhang
  • Patent number: 11665333
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a wearable apparatus is provided which may include a holographic film disposed on the wearable apparatus, an eye tracking device including an image sensor and an illuminator, and one or more processors. The processors may be configured to activate the illuminator to illuminate the holographic film and capture, with the image sensor, an image of at least a portion of the holographic film while the holographic film is illuminated. The processors may also be configured to determine a characteristic of the holographic film based on the image and determine, based on the characteristic, a location or an orientation of the image sensor relative to the holographic film. The processors may further be configured to change, based on the location or the orientation of the image sensor relative to the holographic film, at least one calibration parameter of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Daniel Tornéus, Torbjörn Sundberg, Magnus Arvidsson
  • Patent number: 11657535
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic camera calibration without using a robotic actuator or similar hardware. An electronic display screen projects an image of a simulated three-dimensional calibration pattern, such as a checkerboard, oriented in a particular pose. The camera captures an image of the calibration pattern that is displayed on the screen, and this image together with the transform of the simulated three-dimensional calibration pattern are used to calibrate the camera. Multiple different pictures of different poses are employed to determine the optimal set of poses that produces the lowest reprojection error. To aid in selecting different poses, i.e., spatial positions and orientations of the simulated three-dimensional calibration pattern, poses may be selected from only that portion of the camera's field of view which is expected to be typically used in operation of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Hu, Yuzhuo Ren, Niranjan Avadhanam, Ankit Pashiney
  • Patent number: 11651675
    Abstract: A safety device tester that verifies the operation of a safety device by identifying the safety device, placing the safety device in a test mode, and recording the operation of the safety device, and then storing the recording data in the cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Karen D. Lontka, Christoph Wienands
  • Patent number: 11647246
    Abstract: A remote control including a first transmitter disposed along a first end of a remote control and a second transmitter disposed along a second end opposite the first end. Each transmitter is capable of transmitting a signal to an electronic component. The remote control further includes a sensor configured to detect a characteristic. The remote control also includes a processor that can determine an orientation of the remote control based upon the detected characteristic, and a can power on one of the first transmitter and the second transmitter based upon the determined orientation of the remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventor: Phuc H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11636759
    Abstract: A traffic recording assembly includes a plurality of recording units that is each positionable on an emergency vehicle. Each of the recording units can be directed toward oncoming traffic when the emergency vehicle is positioned on the side of a roadway to respond to an emergency. Each of the recording units has video recording capabilities to identify vehicles that are not following traffic laws as they pass the emergency vehicle. Additionally, each of the recording units emits electromagnetic energy to detect the speed of the oncoming traffic. A base unit is positioned within the emergency vehicle to store the video and to store the speed of the oncoming traffic for subsequent prosecution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventor: Bobby Stokeley
  • Patent number: 11627386
    Abstract: An information capturing device includes a setting storage unit, a positioning unit, an audiovisual recording unit and a control unit. The setting storage unit stores a fence setting of a hotspot. The positioning unit, coupled to the setting storage unit, detects a current position, determines whether the current position is within a first geographic boundary defined by the fence setting, and outputs an activation notification when the current position is within the first geographic boundary. The control unit, coupled to the positioning unit and the audiovisual recording unit, activates the audiovisual recording according to the activation notification to perform audiovisual recording so as to capture environmental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min-Tai Chen