Patents Examined by Peter D Le
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Patent number: 10277906Abstract: A system and method for characterizing the sensitivity of image data to compression. After a video signal is transformed to the frequency domain, statistical data regarding a video signal or frame of a video signal can be calculated. In one alternate, a contour map of the original signal can be calculated and the parameters of the contour map can be recorded. The same signal can be compressed and then upscaled and a second contour map can be calculated and the parameters of the second contour map can be recorded. Based on the difference between the first and second contour maps, a sensitivity of the video to compression can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Sean T. McCarthy
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Patent number: 10264277Abstract: Actually rendered portions of a renderable portion of a first view of a multi-view signal are introduced into a prediction loop of a multi-view encoder to form a reference signal for the block-based prediction of the encoder's view predictor may improve the prediction and thereby increasing the coding efficiency. The introduction may be performed by completely inserting the renderable portion into the prediction loop to form new reference pictures with their own reference picture indices in addition to reference pictures obtained by the reconstructed version of the multi-view signal of the block-based prediction. Alternatively, the actually rendered portion may be introduced into the prediction loop completely, but with replacing the normal prediction reference signal, i.e. the normally reconstructed signal as obtained by block-based prediction.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLCInventors: Sebastian Bosse, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand, Heribert Brust
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Patent number: 10264252Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
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Patent number: 10257469Abstract: Systems and methods for linking neighborhood cameras and recording video from cameras that monitor public areas proximate neighborhood homes are provided. Some methods can include providing a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings, detecting an alarm event in a first security system of the plurality of security systems, and responsive to detecting the alarm event in the first security system, instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: ADEMCO INC.Inventors: Lewin A. Edwards, Jonathan Klinger, Mike Garavuso
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Patent number: 10244214Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a projector and a camera. The projector includes a light source unit and a projector lens barrel unit. The camera includes a camera lens barrel unit. As viewed in a direction that is orthogonal to a direction toward which an optical axis of the projector travels, the projector lens barrel unit is arranged to overlap with the camera lens barrel unit, and the light source unit is arranged so as not to overlap with the camera. A duct via which air to be blown to the light source travels is arranged in such a manner that the air travels in a direction orthogonal to the direction toward which the optical axis of the projector travels.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruhiko Nakatsu
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Patent number: 10244255Abstract: A method and apparatus for coding video information are disclosed. In one example, the method may involve: identifying one or more prediction modes for a fixed-rate codec, each prediction mode having a rate-distortion cost; and selecting, for a current block, a prediction mode that has the lowest rate-distortion cost from among the one more prediction modes not previously selected. The method may involve: (i) determining whether the selected prediction mode would result in overflow or underflow of a buffer of the fixed-rate codec; and (ii) determining whether the selected prediction mode would result in remaining bits in the slice being insufficient to code remaining blocks of the slice. The method may involve utilizing a fallback mode to code the current block in response to each of the selected one or more prediction modes resulting in at least one of conditions (i) and (ii) being true.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Natan Haim Jacobson, Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai, Rajan Laxman Joshi
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Patent number: 10244228Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, systems, and methods related to data capture of objects and/or an environment. In one embodiment, a user can capture time-indexed three-dimensional (3D) depth data using one or more portable data capture devices that can capture time indexed color images of a scene with depth information and location and orientation data. In addition, the data capture devices may be configured to captured a spherical view of the environment around the data capture device.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Aemass, Inc.Inventor: Marshall Reed Millett
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Patent number: 10225467Abstract: A system and method of capturing view-point-encoded 360° video data with a 360° camera includes capturing a frame of video including a substantially 360° view and contemporaneously receiving position information from one or more mobile electronic devices such as cellphones linked to the camera. The position information identifies a viewpoint associated with each mobile electronic device. The camera records the captured video frame and the received position information together such that one or more of the viewpoints may be selected during later playback.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Justin Eltoft, Michael Gunn
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Patent number: 10223885Abstract: A camera arrangement comprising a camera head, an illumination arrangement, and a dome. The camera head is arranged inside the dome, and the illumination arrangement is arranged on an outside of the dome.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Axis ABInventors: Stefan Larsson, Andreas Hertzman
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Patent number: 10212355Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for dual mode imaging under different lighting conditions. A sensor is configured to image a target. A dual-mode illumination source is configured to illuminate the target while the sensor images the target. The dual-mode illumination source is configured to illuminate the target using a first wavelength of light under a first lighting condition and to illuminate the target using a second wavelength of light under a second lighting condition. The system may be used in an optical tracking system to track the motion of an object.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY, INC.Inventors: William Whitehouse, Eric Foxlin, Thomas Calloway, John Popoolapade
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Patent number: 10209674Abstract: A floating image display device includes an image display unit that displays a display image based on a first image signal, a floating-image-formation optical system that forms an image in air as a floating image from the display image, a guide image display unit that displays a guide image based on a second image signal nearby the floating image to be visually recognized on the same plane as the floating image as viewed from a viewer, and an image control unit that supplies the first image signal and the second image signal respectively to the image display unit and the guide image display unit. The image control unit supplies an image signal as the second image signal to the guide image display unit after the image signal undergoes at least one of a process of adding blurring, a process of lowering luminance and a process of lowering contrast.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetsugu Suginohara
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Patent number: 10205947Abstract: An apparatus of encoding an image can include an intra prediction unit that determines an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit and generates one or more prediction blocks using the intra prediction mode, an inter prediction unit that determines motion information and generates a prediction block using the motion information, a transform unit that transforms residual signals generated using an original block and the prediction block to generate a transformed block, a quantization unit that determines a quantization parameter and quantizes the transformed block using a quantization matrix and the quantization parameter to generate a quantized block, a scanning unit that determines a scan pattern and applies the scan pattern to the quantized block to generate one-dimensional coefficient information, and an entropy coding unit the entropy-codes one-dimensional coefficient information from the scanning unit, intra prediction information from the intra prediction unit, and motion information from theType: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: INFOBRIDGE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
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Patent number: 10194077Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a camera assembly, in which a first camera and a second camera capture images (36, 42). Respective fields of view of the two cameras overlap at least in a partial region (24). At least in an image (36) captured by the first camera, at least one contamination region (38) including a plurality of pixels is detected within the partial region (24). Thereupon, data values specifying the respective transparency of the pixels in the at least one contamination region (38) are varied with respect to respective reference values of transparency, wherein those reference values increase in the partial region (24) towards an edge (28) of the respective images upon superimposition of the images. Furthermore, the invention relates to a camera assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Connaught Electronics Ltd.Inventors: Michael Burke, Patrick Eoghan Denny
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Patent number: 10194142Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a display driving apparatus and method for a pixel array, the apparatus for pixel display of pixel units of a display device, which comprises a pixel array including a first view pixel unit and a second view pixel unit alternately arranged in the row direction, said pixel array includes in each row sub-pixels corresponding to one color, each of the first and second view pixel units comprises a plurality of physical pixel units cyclically arranged in the column direction, and each physical pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels, the apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit for obtaining an input signal of each sub-pixel in the first and second view pixel units; a setting unit for setting a sampling region on the pixel array for each sub-pixel in the first and second view pixel units; and a calculating unit for determining an output signal of each sub-pixel based on the sampling region of each sub-pixel, the physical pixel unit overlapping the sampling region aType: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
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Patent number: 10184898Abstract: Imaging device is provided with lower lighting device, side lighting device, and camera; light is emitted to suction nozzle from below by the lower lighting device, and light is emitted onto the suction nozzle from a sideways direction by the side lighting device. Light emitted from the lower lighting device arrives at the camera via a first light path (the path between the two dotted lines); light emitted from the side lighting device arrives at the camera via a second light path (the path between the two dotted lines). Further, light emitted from the lower lighting device is blocked by light-blocking blocks so as not to arrive at the camera along the second light path.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumi Hoshikawa, Kenji Shimosaka
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Patent number: 10185138Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment an imaging system is provided. The system includes a lens tube; a first polarizing filter; and a second polarizing filter; wherein the first polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter are adjacent each other, and wherein a polarizing imparted by the first polarizing filter is different from a polarizing imparted by the second polarizing filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kosugi, Shuzo Sato, Eiji Otani, Mitsuru Sato
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Patent number: 10161803Abstract: An infrared detector useful in, e.g., infrared cameras, includes a substrate having an array of infrared detectors and a readout integrated circuit interconnected with the array disposed on an upper surface thereof, for one or more embodiments. A generally planar window is spaced above the array, the window being substantially transparent to infrared light. A mesa is bonded to the window. The mesa has closed marginal side walls disposed between an outer periphery of a lower surface of the window and an outer periphery of the upper surface of the substrate and defines a closed cavity between the window and the array that encloses the array. A solder seal bonds the mesa to the substrate so as to seal the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Carlson, Alex Matson, Andrew Sharpe, Davey Beard, Paul Schweikert, Robert Simes
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Patent number: 10154778Abstract: An endoscopic processor includes a video signal input unit to which a video signal of an image of a subject is input, a release signal input unit to which a release signal performed by a user is input, a target area detector that detects a target area in which an amount of characteristics is greater than a predetermined threshold with respect to each frame image in the input video signal, a zoom processor that generates an enlarged image of the target area detected by the target area detector, a storage that associates and holds the enlarged image generated by the zoom processor and a frame image from which the target area has been detected, and an output unit that externally outputs, from the storage, the frame image that corresponds to a timing at which the release signal was input to the release signal input unit, and the enlarged image.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Mai Ojima, Kyoko Honda, Yugo Koizumi
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Patent number: 10152641Abstract: A portable computing device equipped with an image capture device captures an image of a vehicle dashboard of a vehicle. Then, the portable computing device identifies the location of one or more components of the vehicle dashboard in the captured image. Based on the location of the one or more components, the portable computing device segments the captured image to obtain an image of each of the one or more components. Further, the portable computing device processes the images of the one or more components using one or more machine learning models to determine a reading associated with each of the one or more components. An accuracy of the readings is verified and responsively, the portable computing device inputs the readings in respective data fields of an electronic form. The readings associated with the one or more components of the vehicle dashboard represent data associated with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Jack Cooper Logistics, LLCInventors: Andrea Amico, Mohit Prabhushankar
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Patent number: 10148964Abstract: A communication system is configured to automatically adapt an image sequence in response to movement of a camera used to capture the image sequence. The adaptation includes a reduction in the data size of the image sequence and can occur in real-time as the image sequence is captured. The adaptation further includes restoration of the data size of the image in response to a reduction in movement of the camera. This approach allows for the communication of quality images shortly after movement of the has been reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: UJET, Inc.Inventors: Eli Chen, Anand Janefalkar