Patents Examined by Paulos M. Natnael
  • Patent number: 9883237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing information related to an advertisement included in a broadcast over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Enswers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Lee, Joon-pyo Lee
  • Patent number: 9877000
    Abstract: Disclosed are a self-adaptive adjustment method and device of a projector, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a luminance average value of a current picture, and calculating an absolute value of a difference between the luminance average value and a preset normal luminance average value; simultaneously adjusting the projection luminance and the image luminance if the absolute value is greater than or equal to a first preset threshold value; only continuously adjusting the projection luminance if the absolute value is greater than or equal to a second preset threshold value and less than the first preset threshold value; only adjusting the image luminance if the absolute value is greater than or equal to a third preset threshold value and less than the second preset threshold value; forbidding the luminance adjustment if the absolute value is less than the third preset threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xia Fan
  • Patent number: 9869856
    Abstract: An illumination device including a light source device, a rotary diffusion plate, which includes a first surface, a second surface, a diffusion section disposed on the first surface, and a detection section disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and to which light from the light source device is input, a light collecting optical system to which light from the diffusion section is input, a detector adapted to detect light from the detection section, and a control device adapted to control the light source device in accordance with a signal output from the detector. The detection section is disposed at a position different from a position where the light from the light source device enters the diffusion section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomu Inoue, Akira Miyamae, Shigehiro Yanase, Hiroyuki Shindo
  • Patent number: 9871991
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices, processes and systems for configuration of a display device. In one embodiment, a method for configuring operation of a display device includes receiving a configuration change from a control device, wherein the configuration change includes one or more changes for presentation of a overlay element for the display device and configuring settings for presentation of a overlay element, wherein the configuration change corresponds to a release of one or more features previously included and inaccessible to settings for presentation of the overlay element by the display device. The method also includes presenting an overlay element based on the configuring, wherein the overlay element is presented by the display device as an overlay to displayed image content. Overlay elements can include a navigation bar, an animation, a poster display, sticker display, and an application home screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: Jamdeo Canada Ltd., Hisense USA Corp., Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense International Co.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Alexander De Paz, Salvador Soto, Saulo Dourado, Fuqu Wu, Dean Britto
  • Patent number: 9869848
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and apparatuses that include a focusable lens, as well as methods for focusing the optical lens. The focusable lens system includes a single element lens having a concave refractive surface characterized by a first radius of curvature and a convex refractive surface characterized by a second radius of curvature larger than the first radius of curvature. A detector element generates electrical signals representative of infrared rays refracted by the single element lens and incident on the detector element, and an aperture stop is disposed around an optical axis of the optical system and secured in a constant position relative to the detector element, the aperture stop configured to limit a cone angle of rays refracted by the single element lens. They system also includes image processing circuitry configured to generate digital pixilation data based on electrical signals generated by the detector element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Southerland, Mark E. Durham, Patrick J. Cronkite
  • Patent number: 9866828
    Abstract: A video timing test equipment for measuring light integration time of a camera. The video timing test equipment may comprise: a control unit and shutter timing test unit. The control unit may generate input timing signals adjustable by a user. The shutter timing test unit may comprise light emitting diodes (LEDs), infrared light emitting diodes (IR LEDs), and an output controller. The output controller may regulate the illumination of the LEDs and IR LEDs based on the input timing signals. The shutter timing test unit may also comprise a UTC time display, edge time display, and pulse width display. The UTC time display may depict a UTC time as to when light integration begins or ends. The edge time display may depict an offset time associated with the start or end of light integration. The pulse width display may depict the duration of light integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: James Higdon, Jason Witzel
  • Patent number: 9860505
    Abstract: Display with an appropriate luminance dynamic range is realizable on a receiving side. A gamma curve is applied to input video data having a level range from 0% to 100%*N (N: a number larger than 1) to obtain transmission video data. This transmission video data is transmitted together with auxiliary information used for converting a high-luminance level on the receiving side. A high-level side level range of the transmission video data is converted on the receiving side such that a maximum level becomes a predetermined level based on the auxiliary information received together with the transmission video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 9854212
    Abstract: A projection system includes first and second illumination sources and a homogenizer component. The first illumination source has a first numerical aperture value. The second illumination source has a second numerical aperture value lower than the first numerical aperture value. The homogenizer component on the illumination path is configured to receive light from both the first and second illumination sources. A projection lens in the imagining path is configured to receive an image data stream that includes a sequence of image frames having an image frame period. The first and second illumination sources are configured for modulation at a rate equivalent to the image frame period. One or more active irises may perform the modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: RealD Inc.
    Inventors: Miller H. Schuck, Peter Lude, David A. Coleman
  • Patent number: 9854213
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source portion; a light source control portion that controls an amount of light emitted by the light source portion; a feature amount acquisition portion that inputs image data and calculates an image feature amount of the input image data; an amount of light acquisition portion that acquires a set amount of light of the light source portion based on an image feature amount; a correction value acquisition portion that acquires a correction value based on the set amount of light; and an amount of light correction processing portion that corrects the set amount of light by using the correction value acquired by the correction value acquisition portion. The light source control portion controls the amount of light of the light source based on the set amount of light that is corrected by the amount of light correction processing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Nobori
  • Patent number: 9838680
    Abstract: The method includes: processing a PSNR of each segment of each sample video, determining an ePSNR predictive model according to preset parameters obtained after processing and mean opinion scores of all sample videos, and determining an enhanced mean opinion score eMOS predictive model according to the predictive model. Then, for any video that needs to be evaluated, QoE of the video that needs to be evaluated may be determined according to only the enhanced MOS predictive model and an ePSNR determined according to the ePSNR predictive model. In comparison with a prior-art method for determining QoE in which only a mean value of PERNs of all frames is considered, in this process of measuring quality of experience of a mobile video service, as many as factors that affect a PSNR of a video are considered. Therefore, accurate measurement of quality of experience of an HAS video service can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolin Deng, Guanglin Han, Zesong Fei, Wei Bai
  • Patent number: 9838674
    Abstract: A display including an optical element disposed on a pixel array of a display panel; an optimal viewing distance control device configured to adjust primary view images seen through both eyes of a viewer to a first view image and second view image based on a viewer's position information sensed by a sensor, to automatically adjust other view images between the primary view images to view images separated at regular intervals, and to produce a view map using the adjusted primary view images and the adjusted other view images between the primary view images; a 3D formatter configured to map pixel data of a multi-view image based on the view map received from the optimal viewing distance control device; and a display panel driving circuit configured to write the pixel data of the multi-view image received from the 3D formatter to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongho Cho, Keongjin Lee
  • Patent number: 9831968
    Abstract: A digital switching signal sequence is realized as a previously digitized, high-pass filtered white noise signal of a predetermined length T, with a high-pass cut-off frequency which lies above the frequency where the loudness threshold characteristic in silence of the human hearing has its highest sensitivity, if possible. The switching signal sequence is employed for switching purposes (206), e.g., for switching between two information signals (201, 207).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUT FÜR RUNDFUNKTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Link
  • Patent number: 9825826
    Abstract: A receiver is configured to be coupled to a television and data service provider headend via a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network. The receiver comprises front-end circuitry operable to receive a signal that carries a plurality of television and/or data channels, and digitize the received signal to generate a digitized signal. The receiver comprises channelizer circuitry operable to select a first portion of the digitized signal, and select a second portion of the digitized signal. The receiver comprises processing circuitry operable to process the selected second portion of the digitized signal to recover information carried in the plurality of channels. The receiver comprises monitoring circuitry operable to analyze the selected first portion of the digitized signal to measure a characteristic of the received signal; and control the transmission of network management messages back to the headend based on the measured characteristic of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Gallagher, Patrick Tierney, Jun Huang
  • Patent number: 9826279
    Abstract: Media content is received in a windows management application. The media content is from a set of content including zero or more television signal content and zero or more application content. The media content is incorporated into a television signal containing a window configuration. The television signal is then sent from the windows management application to a television where it is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Putterman, Brad Dietrich, Gregory Peters, Richard Bullwinkle
  • Patent number: 9807339
    Abstract: A system for the conversion of video from one frame rate to a different frame rate. The system includes the application of graphical element and text detection and processing in frame rate up conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xu Chen, Petrus J. L. Van Beek
  • Patent number: 9807382
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting defective camera arrays, optic arrays and/or sensors are described. One embodiment includes capturing image data using a camera array; dividing the captured images into a plurality of corresponding image regions; identifying the presence of localized defects in any of the cameras by evaluating the image regions in the captured images; and detecting a defective camera array using the image processing system when the number of localized defects in a specific set of image regions exceeds a predetermined threshold, where the specific set of image regions is formed by: a common corresponding image region from at least a subset of the captured images; and any additional image region in a given image that contains at least one pixel located within a predetermined maximum parallax shift distance along an epipolar line from a pixel within said common corresponding image region within the given image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: FotoNation Cayman Limited
    Inventors: Jacques Duparre, Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, Dan Lelescu, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina
  • Patent number: 9807359
    Abstract: A system and method for advanced lens geometry fitting is provided for projecting images using a projector with a non-planar lens. An initial estimate of intrinsic parameters of the projector can be determined, for example from a list; an initial estimate of extrinsic parameters of the projector can be determined based on the initial estimate of intrinsic parameters. The intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters can be optimized together by starting with a simple lens model and iteratively adding nonlinear terms, an error function evaluated at each iteration, for example for each set of intrinsic parameters in the list and the corresponding extrinsic parameters. As the values of the error function converges the optimized intrinsic parameters and the optimized extrinsic parameters can be used to generate images that are projected by the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Moule, Eliezer Azi Ben-Lavi, Derek Scott, Daniel Thomson Urquhart
  • Patent number: 9800924
    Abstract: An image display device including a display; a first external interface configured to receive a first image signal input from a first external device connected to the image display device; a second external interface 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 external interface and the second external interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Choi, Gowoon Choi
  • Patent number: 9792667
    Abstract: A pair of cameras having an overlapping field of view is aligned based on images captured by image sensors of the pair of cameras. A pixel shift is identified between the images. Based on the identified pixel shift, a calibration is applied to one or both of the pair of cameras. To determine the pixel shift, the camera applies correlation methods including edge matching. Calibrating the pair of cameras may include adjusting a read window on an image sensor. The pixel shift can also be used to determine a time lag, which can be used to synchronize subsequent image captures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Yajie Sun, Timothy Macmillan, Elizabeth Torres Edwards, Sumit Chawla
  • Patent number: 9785041
    Abstract: A discharge lamp driving device includes a discharge lamp driving unit configured to supply a driving current to a discharge lamp including electrodes, a controller configured to control the discharge lamp driving unit, and a voltage detection unit configured to detect an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp, in which the controller controls the discharge lamp driving unit so that the driving current includes a hybrid period in which a first period for supplying an AC current with a first frequency to the discharge lamp and a second period for supplying a DC current to the discharge lamp are alternately repeated, in which the first frequency includes a plurality of different frequencies, and in which the controller changes the first frequency on the basis of at least one of the detected inter-electrode voltage and driving power supplied to the discharge lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Junichi Suzuki, Satoshi Kito