Patents Examined by Peet Dhillon
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Patent number: 11070715Abstract: An image shift amount calculation apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains a pair of images having parallax; a generation unit that generates, from the pair of images, an image pair for each of a plurality of hierarchal levels having different resolutions; and a calculation unit calculates an image shift amount for an image pair in a predetermined first hierarchal level among the plurality of hierarchal levels, determines, on the basis of the image shift amount in the first hierarchal level, a second hierarchal level, among the plurality of hierarchal levels, where the calculation of the image shift amount is to end, and calculates an image shift amount of the image pair in the second hierarchal level using the image shift amount in the first hierarchal level.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kiyokatsu Ikemoto
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Patent number: 11070769Abstract: A collaborative security camera system includes a primary vehicle including a sensor to obtain data related to an object, and a first controller. The first controller classifies the object as suspicious activity or non-suspicious activity based on the obtained object data, determines a moving path of the object in response to the object being classified as suspicious activity, and broadcasts a signal including the moving path of the object if the object is classified as suspicious activity. The collaborative security camera system also includes a secondary vehicle including a sensor configured to obtain image data related to the object, and a second controller. The second controller receives the broadcasted signal, determines if the secondary vehicle is within the moving path, and captures image data of the object if the secondary vehicle is proximate the moving path.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Masashi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11061214Abstract: A cell observation apparatus includes an image formation optical system control unit 51 which sets an initial scanning range of the focal position based on information relating to a thickness of a cell, forms an image of the cell at each of a plurality of focal positions within a set initial scanning range, subsequently acquires an image captured by an imaging unit 40 for each of the plurality of focal positions, estimates the thickness of the cell based on the image, updates the initial scanning range of the focal position based on the estimated thickness of the cell, and forms an image of the cell at each of a plurality of focal positions within the updated scanning range.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kenta Matsubara
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Patent number: 11044395Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a representation of an environment (U) of a vehicle (1) including the steps of: capturing respective images by means of a first camera (2) and a second camera (2) generating a virtual image (31) of a virtual camera (3) from the images, wherein at least a first perspective, in which the environment (U) of the vehicle (1) is represented from a bird's eye perspective, for a first virtual camera position (33) and a second perspective, in which exclusively an area of the environment (U) of the vehicle (1) rearwards related to the vehicle (1) is represented, for a second virtual camera position (44) of the virtual camera (3) are selectable for the virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Inventor: Arturo Crespo De La Vina
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Patent number: 11036459Abstract: Video data, e.g., screen content video data may be palette coded. A palette table including one or more color indices may be produced. A color index may correspond to one color. A palette index map may be created that maps one or more pixels of the video data to a color index in the palette table, or a color that may be explicitly coded. A palette index map prediction data may be generated that includes data that indicates values in the palette index map associated with at least some portions of the video data that are generated in a traverse scan order in which a scan line is scanned in an opposite direction of a preceding parallel scan line.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VID Scale, Inc.Inventors: Chia-Ming Tsai, Xiaoyu Xiu, Yan Ye, Yuwen He
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Patent number: 11039050Abstract: A monitoring camera apparatus includes a main circuit board, a sensing circuit board, an adjusting mechanism and a spiral flexible board. The main circuit board includes an image processor. The sensing circuit board includes an image sensor. The adjusting mechanism is connected to the sensing circuit board for adjusting position of the sensing circuit board and/or a lens of the monitoring camera apparatus, so as to vary a rotary angle and an inclined angle of the sensing circuit board relative to the main circuit board. The spiral flexible board has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end and the second end are respectively connected to the main circuit board and the sensing circuit board, so that image information acquired by the image sensor can be transmitted to the image processor via the spiral flexible board.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.Inventors: Chien-Ming Yeh, Hsin-Chin Chen
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Patent number: 11039129Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for signaling and processing information indicating simplified depth coding (SDC) for depth intra-prediction and depth inter-prediction modes in a 3D video coding process, such as a process defined by the 3D-HEVC extension to HEVC. In some examples, the disclosure describes techniques for unifying the signaling of SDC for depth intra-prediction and depth inter-prediction modes in 3D video coding. The signaling of SDC can be unified so that a video encoder or video decoder uses the same syntax element for signaling SDC for both the depth intra-prediction mode and the depth inter-prediction mode. Also, in some examples, a video coder may signal and/or process a residual value generated in the SDC mode using the same syntax structure, or same type of syntax structure, for both the depth intra-prediction mode and depth inter-prediction mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Ying Chen
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Patent number: 11029211Abstract: Flight based infrared imaging systems and related techniques, and in particular UAS based thermal imaging systems, are provided to improve the monitoring capabilities of such systems over conventional infrared monitoring systems. An infrared imaging system is configured to compensate for various environmental effects (e.g., position and/or strength of the sun, atmospheric effects) to provide high resolution and accuracy radiometric measurements of targets imaged by the infrared imaging system. An infrared imaging system is alternatively configured to monitor and determine environmental conditions, modify data received from infrared imaging systems and other systems, modify flight paths and other commands, and/or create a representation of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Frank, Theodore R. Hoelter, Nicholas Högasten, Austin A. Richards, Michael Kent, Julie R. Moreira, Pierre Boulanger, Raymond Valdes, Jonathan Li
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Patent number: 11032547Abstract: This invention suppresses color shifts caused by quantization parameters used when encoding RAW image. An apparatus comprises a calculator which finds a color temperature of RAW image of a target frame, and calculates a gain value for each of color components in order to apply white balancing to the RAW image, a generator which generates a plurality of planes, each plane constituted by data of a single color component, from the RAW image, an adjusting unit which adjusts the white balance of each plane on the basis of the calculated gain, an encoder which encodes each plane by frequency-transforming, quantizing, and encoding each plane, and a controller which switches between encoding the plurality of planes generated by the generating unit or encoding the plurality of planes adjusted by the adjusting unit, on the basis of quantization parameters.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Oishi
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Patent number: 11017649Abstract: A dynamic alarm priority system includes plural kinds of alarm devices, an alarm signal being generated when the alarm device is triggered; a plurality of image capture devices, correspondingly coupled to the alarm devices respectively, the triggered alarm device activating the corresponding image capture device to capture an alarm image; an interface device that receives the alarm signal; an assignment device coupled to receive the alarm signals, which are assigned priorities in order of time, thereby generating an initial alarm signal sequence; and an object detection device that performs object detection on the alarm image to determine whether an associated object is detected in the alarm image. The assignment device dynamically modifies the initial alarm signal sequence according to an object detection result from the object detection device, thereby generating an updated alarm signal sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Climax Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-Kai Chen
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Patent number: 11010915Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic container auto-configuration. A 3D-depth camera captures 3D image data of a shipping container located in a predefined search space during a shipping container loading session. An auto-configuration application determines a representative container point cloud and (a) loads an initial pre-configuration file that defines a digital bounding box having dimensions representative of the predefined search space and an initial front board area; (b) applies the digital bounding box to the container point cloud to remove front board interference data from the container point cloud based on the initial front board area; (c) generates a refined front board area based on the shipping container type; (d) generates an adjusted digital bounding box based on the refined front board area; and (e) generates an auto-configuration result comprising the adjusted digital bounding box containing at least a portion of the container point cloud.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Lichen Wang, Yan Zhang, Kevin J. O'Connell
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Patent number: 10986285Abstract: An occulting device includes a sensor capable of capturing an image, a photochromic film disposed in a field of view of the sensor, and a projector disposed adjacent the photochromic film and capable of darkening portions of the film.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Inventor: Zackarias Papadelias
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Patent number: 10963743Abstract: Implementations include receiving a predicted value and confidence level from a first ML model, and determining that the confidence level is below a threshold, and in response: providing an encoding based on input data and non-textual information to the first ML model, the encoding representing characteristics of the input data relative to the predicted value, the characteristics including respective gradients of features of the input data, injecting the encoding into a textual knowledge graph that corresponds to a domain of the first ML model to provide an encoded knowledge graph, receiving supplemental data based on the encoded knowledge graph, and providing a supplemental predicted value from a second ML model based on the input data and the supplemental data, the second ML model having a higher number of features than the first ML model, and the supplemental predicted value having a supplemental confidence level that exceeds the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Freddy Lecue, Chahrazed Bouhini
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Patent number: 10944969Abstract: An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yao-Jen Chang, Chun-Lung Lin, Ching-Chieh Lin, Jih-Sheng Tu, Chao-Hsiung Hung
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Patent number: 10942345Abstract: An image acquisition method in which a pulsed illumination beam emitted from a light source is scanned while being focused at a sample, signal light generated as a result of a non-linear optical process at each scanning position is detected, and an image of the sample is generated on a basis of the detected signal light, the image acquisition method including: acquiring a mixed image, which includes in-focus signal light generated at a focal position of the illumination beam in the sample and which also includes out-of-focus signal light; acquiring an image of the out-of-focus signal light on a basis of a plurality of mixed images having mutually different intensities of the out-of-focus signal light; and acquiring an image of the in-focus signal light by subtracting the image of the out-of-focus signal light acquired, from the mixed image acquired.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Doi
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Patent number: 10917615Abstract: An endoscope system includes: a capsule endoscope that is capable of being introduced into a subject and that wirelessly transmits image data obtained by capturing an image inside the subject; a plurality of receiving devices each of which receives and records the image data wirelessly transmitted by the capsule endoscope, each of the receiving devices including a receiver configured to receive, by using wireless communication, identification information for identifying the capsule endoscope, a recorder configured to record the image data, and a first controller configured to establish wireless communication with the capsule endoscope according to a reception result of the receiver and record, in the recorder, the image data transmitted from the capsule endoscope by associating the image data with the identification information of the capsule endoscope; and a workstation that is connected to the plurality of the receiving devices, the workstation including a processor comprising hardware.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Makino, Katsuyoshi Taniguchi
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Patent number: 10917579Abstract: A data collection method and system for a drone aircraft. The system includes a data collection device, an extension mechanism having one end connected to the drone aircraft and an opposite free end connected to the data collection device, and a control system for controlling operation of the extension mechanism. The extension mechanism is extendable from a retracted position in which the data collection device is stowed in or maintained proximate to the drone aircraft to one or more extended positions in which the data collection device is extended away from the drone aircraft, and is also retractable to bring the data collection device back to the retracted position. The control system controls operation of the extension mechanism to position the data collection device to a desired position beyond a given obstacle to enable the data collection device to capture data relating to an object or region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: American Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Babcock, Reese A. Mozer, Vijay Somandepalli
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Patent number: 10909364Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure may include an imaging system that includes a plurality of uncooled cameras configured to detect the presence of gas within a scene imaged. The plurality of cameras may include at least one broadband camera and at least one narrowband camera. The narrowband camera may include a filter or image data from the narrowband camera may be filtered to the band desired. The images captured by the broadband and narrowband cameras may be processed and/or analyzed to determine the presence of gas within the scene. An image may be generated incorporating the image data of the broadband and narrowband cameras and the presence of gas may be indicated within the image.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Austin A. Richards, Nicholas Högasten
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Patent number: 10904539Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit receives an input image, removes high frequency ingredients by low pass filtering an encoded luma pixel value in the input image during intra prediction, and generates a prediction block by predicting a chroma pixel value by using a low pass filter (LPF) LM chroma mode for applying an LM chroma mode, which is an extended chroma mode technique for generating a prediction block by predicting the chroma pixel value by applying a correlation between color planes to the luma pixel value having removed therefrom the high frequency ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION(UIF), YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoon Sik Choe, Jang Won Choi
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Patent number: 10885755Abstract: A method for heat-based control of a surveillance system is provided. The method may include detecting a first pattern of heat transferred from a heat source based on a first sensor dataset corresponding to a first event, determining an expected pattern of heat to be transferred from the heat source during a second event based on the first pattern of heat transfer, and generating a surveillance model based on the expected pattern of heat transfer. The method may further include detecting a second pattern of heat transferred from the heat source based on a second sensor dataset corresponding to the second event, detecting the heat source during the second event with respect to the second pattern of heat transfer, and determining a threat level corresponding to a security risk posed by the heat source with respect to the environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Roxana Monge Nunez, Shikhar Kwatra, Franz F. Liebinger Portela, Edgar A. Zamora Duran, Sarbajit K. Rakshit