Patents Examined by Patrick Demosky
  • Patent number: 11012593
    Abstract: A fault tolerant display displays safety information on a display shared with an infotainment system even if the processor or software of the infotainment system is unresponsive. The display can be a streaming video from a rear view camera mounted on a vehicle. The safety displayed can be triggered by placing the vehicle in reverse. Failure of the infotainment software and/or processor can be detected by a policy enforcing module that switches to a backup display that streams video directly from the camera in the event of failure of the infotainment processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Beckert, Phillip G. Hays, Steven P. Maillet, Andrew W. Lovitt
  • Patent number: 10021394
    Abstract: A computing device selects, from among a set of hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters in a video parameter set and a set of HRD parameters in a sequence parameter set, a set of HRD parameters applicable to a particular operation point of a bitstream. The computing device performs, based at least in part on the set of HRD parameters applicable to the particular operation point, an HRD operation on a bitstream subset associated with the particular operation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 9860532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motion compensation performed under an inter-frame prediction. A fractional sample interpolation is applied on retrieved samples to generate fractional samples. The fractional sample interpolation comprises a plurality of filtering operations, and all of filtered results from the filtering operations are truncated down to a predetermined bit depth independent of the bit depth of the samples stored in the reference picture memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Frank Jan Bossen
  • Patent number: 9759667
    Abstract: A system for inspecting a dynamoelectric machine is provided. The dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor, a stator and a radial gap existing between the rotor and the stator. The system includes a sled configured for insertion into the radial gap between the rotor and the stator. The sled is configured to transport an optical device along the radial gap. The optical device obtains an image of the radial gap, a portion of the rotor and a portion of the stator. The sled is configured for attachment to a push rod and the push rod is used to move the sled and optical device along the radial gap. The system is configured for entry into a single end of the dynamoelectric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Aleksander Miasnikov, Jason Royal Gammans, Richard Michael Hatley, Sean Michael McDonnell, Antonio Ernesto Giannattasio
  • Patent number: 9736344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3D stereoscopic camera module, the module including an upper case, and left and right cameras arranged on the upper case, each formed at a pre-determined space apart, wherein the left and right cameras include at least three or more coils arranged at an inner surface of the upper case, a housing arranged inside the upper case and mounted therein with a lens, at least three or more magnets mounted at the housing to face the coils, and an image sensor converting an optical signal of an image captured by the lens to an electrical signal, whereby a convergence angle can be easily controlled and an excellent short-distanced 3D stereoscopic shooting can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 9736458
    Abstract: A capture device is equipped with a stereo camera, and generates a plurality of demosaiced images of different sizes in which the left and right frame images have been reduced in stepwise fashion. A virtual composite image is generated that includes the plurality of demosaiced images, in which the pixel rows of the rows are pixel rows having undergone one round of connection. A host terminal sends to the capture device a data request signal designating a plurality of areas within the composite image, having a shared range in the longitudinal direction. The capture device clips out the designated areas, and sends to the host terminal a stream of a new composite image comprising only the clipped out areas. The host terminal cuts this into separate images, which are expanded into consecutive addresses in a main memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ohba, Hiroyuki Segawa, Hideyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 9693053
    Abstract: A video encoding device uses motion-compensated inter-frame prediction by dividing an image into blocks, each block a predetermined size, designating a first component value of a plurality of component values of a motion vector (MV) between an encoding target block and a neighboring block, designating a second component value, and encoding each first and second component values; a first component encoding means encodes a difference value of a first component and a second component encoding means, which obtains a probability of occurrence of a candidate value for the second component value of the MV of the encoding target block, based on a difference value between the first component value of the neighboring block MV and the first component value of the encoding target block MV and the second component value of the neighboring block MV, specifies a codeword of the second component value, encoding it based on the occurrence probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Bandoh, Shohei Matsuo, Seishi Takamura, Hirohisa Jozawa
  • Patent number: 9596387
    Abstract: A vehicular camera system includes an imager assembly that can include an imager disposed on an imager circuit board and a lens positioned to direct light to the imager. A main circuit board is operatively connected to the imager circuit board. The main circuit board can include at least one processor for processing images captured by the imager. The main circuit board has an opening, and at least a portion of the imager assembly extends through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Garrett Achenbach, Brian J. Winden, Christopher L. Van Dan Elzen
  • Patent number: 9570111
    Abstract: A method for clustering images includes acquiring initial image data including a scene of interest. A 3D model is constructed of the scene of interest based on the acquired initial image data. Additional image data including the scene of interest is acquired. The additional image data is fitted to the 3D model. A line-of-sight of the additional image data is estimated based on the fitting to the 3D model. The additional image data is clustered according to the estimated line-of-sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arup Acharya, Kirk A. Beaty, Puneet Jain, Justin G. Manweiler
  • Patent number: 9564175
    Abstract: A method for clustering images includes acquiring initial image data including a scene of interest. A 3D model is constructed of the scene of interest based on the acquired initial image data. Additional image data including the scene of interest is acquired. The additional image data is fitted to the 3D model. A line-of-sight of the additional image data is estimated based on the fitting to the 3D model. The additional image data is clustered according to the estimated line-of-sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arup Acharya, Kirk A. Beaty, Puneet Jain, Justin G. Manweiler
  • Patent number: 9560380
    Abstract: A method of coding at least one image comprising the steps of splitting the image into a plurality of blocks, of grouping said blocks into a predetermined number of subsets of blocks, of coding each of said subsets of blocks in parallel, the blocks of a subset considered being coded according to a predetermined sequential order of traversal. The coding step comprises, for a current block of a subset considered, the sub-step of predictive coding of said current block with respect to at least one previously coded and decoded block, and the sub-step of entropy coding of said current block on the basis of at least one probability of appearance of a symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Felix Henry, Stephane Pateux
  • Patent number: 9426466
    Abstract: A device for coding video data includes a video coder configured to: determine for a chroma transform block (TB) a sub-sampling format for the chroma TB; based on the sub-sampling format for the chroma TB, identify one or more corresponding luma TBs; determine, for each of the one or more corresponding luma TBs, if the corresponding luma TB is coded using a transform skip mode; and, based on a number of the one or more corresponding luma TBs coded using the transform skip mode being greater than or equal to a threshold value, determine that the chroma TB is coded in the transform skip mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Geert Van der Auwera, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 9411140
    Abstract: A method and system for calibrating an optical device having a spatial optical modulator (6) and including: an optical lens (8) of a large numerical aperture, capable of receiving an incident beam and/or collecting an optical beam reflected by a sample; a camera (14) disposed in a plane optically conjugate with the focal plane of the lens (8); and a spatial optical modulator (6) disposed on the optical beam upstream of the camera (14). The method includes the following steps consisting in: acquiring three-dimensional images of the PSF in terms of intensity in a plane conjugate with the focal plane of the lens (8), reconstructing the profile in terms of amplitude and/or phase of the beam using a phase diversity algorithm, and determining the respective influence functions of a plurality of elements P1, . . . , PN of the spatial optical modulator (6) on the profile in terms of the amplitude A and/or phase ? of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE
    Inventors: Delphine Debarre, Thibault Vieille, Emmanuel Beaurepaire, Jean-Louis Martin
  • Patent number: 9291550
    Abstract: A device and method for drug detection with instantaneous results by utilizing a handheld spectroscopic analysis device in an oral, nasal, and upper respiratory examination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventors: Nicholas Wing, Brian Manhire
  • Patent number: 9286723
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes obtaining a digital image of an object. A coordinate-space position of a digital camera is defined in relation to the digital object for the digital image. A coordinate-space region around the coordinate-space position is defined. The coordinate-space region is associated with the digital image based on the coordinate-space position defined for the digital image. A digital image of a room is obtained. A three-dimensional representation of the digital image of the room is created according to the coordinate system based on the positional information of another digital camera that obtained the digital image of the room. An object proxy is located in the three-dimensional representation of the digital image. A coordinate-space region of the room of the object proxy is mapped with a substantially matching coordinate-space region of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventor: Parag Tope
  • Patent number: 9218090
    Abstract: A projector includes an infrared generator, an infrared camera, an infrared control module, and a controller. The infrared generator provides an infrared curtain on a screen that the projector projects an image. The infrared camera detects a selection of an icon on a control strip located within the infrared curtain. The infrared control module is in communication with the infrared generator and the infrared camera, and determines a coordinate position within the infrared curtain associated with the selection of the icon on the control strip. The controller is in communication with the infrared control module, and determines a command for the projector based on the coordinate position of the selection of the icon, and executes the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Krishnakumar, Bruce C. Montag
  • Patent number: 9148650
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for multithreaded visual odometry by acquired with a single camera on-board a vehicle; using 2D-3D correspondences for continuous pose estimation; and combining the pose estimation with 2D-2D epipolar search to replenish 3D points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Manmohan Chandraker, Shiyu Song