Patents Examined by Peng Ke
  • Patent number: RE47947
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first finite spatial filter having image resolution anisotropy, and a calculation unit configured to compute a second spatial filter by convolving a finite filter with respect to the first spatial filter, the finite filter having a sum of elements being 0 and at least two of the elements being non-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Hirai, Hiroyasu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: RE47966
    Abstract: A digital image processing apparatus, and a controlling method thereof are provided. The digital image processing apparatus displaying first content and second content generated with respect to the first content includes: a sensing unit that senses a movement of the digital image processing apparatus; a movement detecting unit that determines a movement of the digital image processing apparatus based on a sensed signal from the sensing unit; and a display control unit that controls display of the first and second contents, wherein the display control unit controls a single reproduction of the first content or a simultaneous reproduction of the first and second contents based on the determination of the movement detecting unit. A user may easily and intuitively manage various contents by using the digital image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-ra Jang
  • Patent number: RE48017
    Abstract: A viewing system for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, includes an image capture unit, a computing unit, and a reproducing unit. The image capture unit includes a lens, which has an optical axis, and a digital image sensing unit, and is configured to be attached to the vehicle such that a viewing area on the side of the vehicle is sensed with at least one part of a first legally-prescribed field of view and with at least one part of a second legally-prescribed field of view. The lens is disposed with respect to the digital image sensing unit such that the optical axis extends through the part of the first legally-prescribed field of view that is reproduced on the digital image sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MEKRA Lang GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Lang, Manuel Kunz
  • Patent number: RE48030
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for tagged data and rectangular data conversions. The system and method receive tagged input data that is in a non-rectangular format and that uses a hierarchical arrangement of tags to indicate data relationships. The tagged input data is displayed in a graphical interface, and the graphical interface is used to create a mapping specification from the tagged input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Anthony L. Friebel, Thomas Warren Cox
  • Patent number: RE48126
    Abstract: A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record to navigate the content in the same manner as occurred on the visual browser, thereby synchronizing to a state equivalent to that of the visual browser. The creation of the historical record may be performed by using a script to trap events, where the script contains code that records the trapped events. The synchronization technique may be used with a multi-modal application that permits the mode of input/output (I/O) to be changed between visual and voice browsers. When the mode is changed from visual to voice, the record of events captured by the visual browser is provided to the voice browser, thereby allowing the I/O mode to change seamlessly from visual to voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: GULA CONSULTING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventors: Inderpal Singh Mumick, Sandeep Sibal
  • Patent number: RE48221
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system comprising a handheld device and at least one display. The handheld device is adapted for performing at least one action in a physical 3D environment; wherein the at least one display is adapted for visually representing the physical 3D environment; and where the handheld device is adapted for remotely controlling the view with which the 3D environment is represented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: 3SHAPE A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Öjelund, David Fischer, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
  • Patent number: RE48383
    Abstract: A device and method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus method, for efficiently modifying a size and aspect ratio of a video image, is disclosed. The device includes an on-screen display (OSD) generator providing an on-screen display (OSD) on a display for programming a size and an aspect ratio of a video image, and a video processor modifying a displayed video image in accordance with the size and aspect ratio of the displayed video image programmed by a user. Herein, the video processor modifies the video image from a center point of the video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Tae Jin Park, Woo Hyun Paik, Ick Hwan Kim, Sang Chul Bae, Su Dong Hong
  • Patent number: RE48437
    Abstract: One example embodiment includes a method for indexing online references of an entity. The method includes identifying one or more channels of the Internet to be searched for references to an entity and identifying one or more signals to be evaluated within each of the one or more channels. The method also includes crawling the Internet for online references to the entity, wherein crawling the Internet comprises searching the one or more channels of the Internet for references to the entity and evaluating the one or more signals. The method further includes constructing a reverse index of the references, wherein the reverse index is based on each channel in which a reference is found and the one or more signals evaluated for the reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BrightEdge Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lemuel S. Park, Jimmy Yu
  • Patent number: RE48507
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating distribution of application programming interfaces (APIs) in a social hub are described herein. The social API hub enables users (i.e., API consumers) to access (e.g., search, test, and/or otherwise utilize or consume) APIs that other users (i.e., API developers) submitted to the hub in a standardized manner. Additionally, users can wrap submitted APIs in a standard description format and add various add-ons on top of an existing API infrastructure in order to provide additional functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KONG, INC.
    Inventors: Marco Palladino, Augusto Marietti, Michele Zonca
  • Patent number: RE49010
    Abstract: Disclosed is an auto-focusing apparatus having an asymmetric supporting structure, which includes a first frame having a magnet; a second frame having an AF coil for moving the first frame in an optical axis direction; a first ball group located between the first frame and the second frame and having a number of balls arranged along the optical axis direction; and a second ball group located between the first frame and the second frame at a position different from the first ball group and having a number of balls arranged along the optical axis direction. The first ball group include two first support balls having a greater size than the other balls in the first ball group, and the second ball group includes two second support balls having a greater size than the other balls in the second ball group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: JAHWA electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Seung Kim, In Soo Kim
  • Patent number: RE49039
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques to automatically focus a digital camera. In one or more embodiments, a mobile electronics device may comprise a digital camera having a lens component and lens position component. A display may be coupled to the digital camera to reproduce an image with a first focal point. The digital camera may also include a focal point selection module coupled to the display to select a second focal point for the image and a focus control module coupled to the focal point selection module and the lens position component to provide focus control signals to the lens position component to focus the lens component on the second focal point. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Crowley, Jeff Finkelstein, Richard Dellinger
  • Patent number: RE49077
    Abstract: A video communication system comprising at least one video data transmission unit for sending or receiving video data over a data network is disclosed, as well as a corresponding video data transmission method. The transmission unit comprising an image acquiring circuitry or an image reconstruction circuitry for acquiring or reconstruction an image frame or image field, a video processing unit for processing at least part of the video data and a communication unit for sending or receiving at least part of the data. At least two of the image acquiring circuitry or image reconstruction circuitry, the video processing unit and the communication unit are arranged for simultaneously handling different parts of a same image frame or image same field of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ESATURNUS
    Inventors: Thomas Koninckx, Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Robert Koninckx
  • Patent number: RE49212
    Abstract: A digital image processing apparatus, and a controlling method thereof are provided. The digital image processing apparatus displaying first content and second content generated with respect to the first content includes: a sensing unit that senses a movement of the digital image processing apparatus; a movement detecting unit that determines a movement of the digital image processing apparatus based on a sensed signal from the sensing unit; and a display control unit that controls display of the first and second contents, wherein the display control unit controls a single reproduction of the first content or a simultaneous reproduction of the first and second contents based on the determination of the movement detecting unit. A user may easily and intuitively manage various contents by using the digital image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-ra Jang
  • Patent number: RE49245
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory; a touch screen; a first camera having a first capturing angle; a second camera having a second capturing angle that is wider than the first capturing angle; and a controller. The controller is configured to: cause the touch screen to display a first preview image of the first camera, a second preview image of the second camera, or both the first and second preview images overlapping each other; cause the memory to store a first image taken by the first camera in response to a first capture command received while the first preview image is displayed; and cause the memory to store both the first image and a second image taken by the second camera when a wide-angle capturing condition is satisfied while at least one of the first preview image or the second preview image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungjin Kim, Yunmi Kwon, Kiseon Lee, Taehyeong Kim
  • Patent number: RE49392
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring network connection quality utilizes software installed on a user computer to monitor a first network connection to a target server used for a desired activity and a second network connection to a benchmark server. Various network quality metrics are recorded and compared for each of the connections and displayed on a visual display so that the user may easily and accurately judge the health of the connection to the target server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AAA INTERNET PUBLISHING, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Michael Norman Bartlett
  • Patent number: RE49524
    Abstract: An image processor includes a frame buffer configured to collect an image data of pixels and configured to generate frame data, a display controller configured to generate the frame update command based on a vertical synchronizing signal and a frame per second signal representing a number of activating of the frame update signal in a second and an operating part configured to generate the vertical synchronizing signal and the image data. When the frame data is generated, the frame buffer activates a frame update signal in response to a frame update command and outputs the frame data. When the frame per second signal is less than a predetermined threshold voltage, the operating part sets a lower limit of a range of a frequency to a predetermined minimum frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Min Park
  • Patent number: RE49532
    Abstract: An energy storing system, which includes a plurality of weights; a first storing unit and a second storing unit, wherein the first storing unit is arranged below the second storing unit and each of the storing units includes a guiding track on which weights can be placed and along which weights can be moved, wherein each of these guiding tracks includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion is arranged below the first portion; and a loading unit configured to lift at least one weight from the first storing unit to the second storing unit during a first period thereby converting electrical energy to potential energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Mohammed Abdulaziz Al-Khamis
  • Patent number: RE49722
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating distribution of application programming interfaces (APIs) in a social hub are described herein. The social API hub enables users (i.e., API consumers) to access (e.g., search, test, and/or otherwise utilize or consume) APIs that other users (i.e., API developers) submitted to the hub in a standardized manner. Additionally, users can wrap submitted APIs in a standard description format and add various add-ons on top of an existing API infrastructure in order to provide additional functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KONG INC.
    Inventors: Marco Palladino, Augusto Marietti, Michele Zonca
  • Patent number: RE49782
    Abstract: A shift register includes: an input unit, configured to provide an input signal to a first node; a pull-up unit, configured to provide a voltage of a first supply voltage terminal to an output terminal; a pull-up control unit, configured to provide the voltage of the first supply voltage terminal or a voltage of a second supply voltage terminal to a second node; a pull-down unit, configured to provide a third clock signal from a third clock signal terminal to the output terminal; a pull-down control unit, configured to provide the voltage of the first supply voltage terminal to the first node; a first noise reduction unit, configured to reduce electrical leakage of the input unit to the first node; and a second noise reduction unit, configured to reduce electrical leakage of the pull-down control unit to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Can Zheng
  • Patent number: RE49878
    Abstract: A transparent display system is provided where broadcast talent (or presenter) can see interactive content, tool palettes, prompts (and the like) as well as their own sketches and annotations, but a viewing audience sees only the broadcast talent and content intended for the viewing audience with the talent's annotation thereof. A transparent scattering screen together with optical filtering or gating of a first optical property of the light (e.g., polarization-based or wavelength-based) is used such that the first property of the light is projected onto the screen so the talent can see the projection, and a camera-side filter blocks the first property of the light so it is not seen by the camera. Simultaneously, a broadcast talent (or presenter) is illuminated by light having properties other than the first property, which allows the talent image to pass through the screen and the camera-side filter allowing the talent to be seen by camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Quinn Smithwick, Samuel J. Reisner