Patents Examined by Phuoc H Doan
  • Patent number: 10972879
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes: a display, an input device for accepting a first operation instruction; a communication device for connection with a server and another terminal; and a control unit for receiving first contents from the server via the communication device according to the first operation instruction, determining whether connection with another terminal is established or not, transmitting the first contents to another terminal via the communication device when a determination is made that connection with another terminal is established, and causing the display to show the first contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junji Suetsugu, Tatsuya Sakai, Toshio Akabane
  • Patent number: 10963049
    Abstract: A notification control method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a state of flow detecting circuit configured to detect a state of flow of a user from brain waves of the user from user data and a notification control circuit configured to cause a physical notification to be displayed based on the detected state of flow of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nebula Alam, Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz, Shaila Pervin
  • Patent number: 10964019
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting udder disease based on machine learning methods and complementary supporting techniques are presented. Included are methods for assembling time sequences of images of each animal of a herd or set for subsequent use in per-animal image analysis for disease detection. Methods presented also include image pre-processing methods used prior to image analysis, resulting in contrast and resolution optimization such as appropriate image intensity level adjust wilt and resolution down sampling for more rapid and more accurate disease detection. Combinatorial techniques for compositing whole-udder images or udder-quarter images from partial images captures are described. Methods are provided for power usage optimization in regard to computing resources used in the computing-intensive AI analysis methods. Location-based and animal history-based detection refinements are incorporated into described systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: EIO DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Cory Spencer, Damir Wallener, Jeff Sember
  • Patent number: 10964074
    Abstract: A system for processing medical image data stores high information content volumetric (HICV) data reconstructed from different medical imaging devices. Images normally requiring differing image imaging parameters can instead be created by processing of the HICV data, importantly without access to the original reconstruction algorithms or machine. The invention also allows different medical images to be harmonized for ready comparison or according to a desired image sequence for particular diagnostic purpose without any need to rescan the patient or to enforce cumbersome universal protocol standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Timothy Szczykutowicz
  • Patent number: 10955519
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include devices configured for wireless communication with a mobile computing device having GPS capability that allow a user to record the user's current location with the user's mobile computing device without having to physically access the mobile computing device. Such devices can allow a user to mark or record a location or waypoint to a mobile computing device, such as a GPS-enabled mobile phone, using a wireless remote and software configured to enable communication with the mobile computing device. Such devices can enable a user to mark and record locations for navigation without having to physically touch and operate the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Steel Shad Fishing Company LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Price
  • Patent number: 10949697
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognition section, a translation section, an image processing section, a selection acceptance section, and a control section. The character recognition section performs character recognition processing on image data. The translation section translates an original text obtained through the character recognition processing performed by the character recognition section into a predetermined language and creates a translated text. The image processing section generates a replaced image in which a text portion of an original image shown in the image data is replaced from the original text by the translated text. The selection acceptance section accepts an instruction of selecting, as an output target, either one or both of the original image shown in the image data and the replaced image. The control section performs, in accordance with the accepted instruction, processing of outputting an output target image selected as the output target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ariyoshi Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 10949974
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for automatically performing disease detection using image processing. The technique includes receiving, from image capture devices, a first image depicting a first set of plants of a first unit and a second image depicting a second set of plants of a second unit. One or more metrics associated with the first and second sets of the plants are measured based at least on the images. At least one difference in the first and second sets of the plants is detected based at least on differences in the measurement for the one or more metrics associated with the first set of the plants and the second set of the plants. In response to detecting the at least one difference, additional images of the plants are requested from the one or more image capture devices to detect the presence of plant disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: IUNU, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Charles King, Ethan Takla, Yajie Sun
  • Patent number: 10943152
    Abstract: An approach is provided for detecting a presence of a physical divider on a road segment. The approach, for example, involves receiving sensor data from a vehicle traveling a road segment. The sensor data indicates a distance from the vehicle to the physical divider, a cross-sensor consistency of detecting the physical divider between at least two sensors of the vehicle, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves determining that the sensor data indicates the presence of the physical divider based on determining that the distance is within distance criteria, the cross-sensor consistency is within consistency criteria, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves updating data provided by a physical divider signal from the vehicle to indicate the presence of the physical divider on the road segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Alex Averbuch, Leon Stenneth
  • Patent number: 10943119
    Abstract: A system and a method for performing viewer gaze analysis are provided. The method includes detecting at least one item worn by a user of a wearable computing device, detecting at least one gaze of a viewer towards the at least one item worn by the user, and providing at least one recommendation for the user based on the at least one gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pranay Kumar Samanta, Pradeep Kumar Botu, Pratibha Raj Patel
  • Patent number: 10932744
    Abstract: A method for determining respiratory induced blood mass change from a four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) includes receiving a 4D CT image set which contains a first three-dimensional computed tomographic image (3D CT) and a second 3D CT image. The method includes executing a deformable image registration (DIR) function on the received 4D CT image set, and determining a displacement vector field indicative of the lung motion induced by patient respiration. The method further includes segmenting the received 3D CT images into a first segmented image and a second segmented. The method includes determining the change in blood mass between the first 3D CT image and the second 3D CT image from the DIR solution, the segmented images, and measured CT densities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Edward Castillo, Thomas Guerrero
  • Patent number: 10918181
    Abstract: A case for a communication device such as a cell phone, said case including a tool such as a weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventor: John B. Adrain
  • Patent number: 10909727
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute for the point cloud. To compress the attribute information, multiple levels of detail are generated based on spatial information. Also, attribute values are predicted based on the level of details. A decoder follows a similar prediction process based on level of details. Also, attribute correction values may be determined to correct predicted attribute values and may be used by a decoder to decompress a point cloud compressed using level of detail attribute compression. In some embodiments, an update operation is performed to smooth attribute correction values taking into account an influence factor of respective points in a given level of detail on attributes in other levels of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim, Fabrice A. Robinet, Valery G. Valentin, Yeping Su
  • Patent number: 10909726
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. In some embodiments, an encoder may be configured to further compress points omitted from the image based representation. Also, in some embodiments, a decoder may be configured to decode points compressed outside of an image based representation or in a separate image based representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Valery G. Valentin, Fabrice A. Robinet, Alexandros Tourapis, Yeping Su, Jungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10895595
    Abstract: An electronic component handler includes: a placing plate on which an electronic component can be placed; a camera which picks up an image of the placing plate; a light source of a laser beam which casts the laser beam on the placing plate; and a processor for determining whether the electronic component is placed on the placing plate or not and which controls working of the camera and the light source of the laser beam when the processor carries out determination. When determining whether the electronic component is placed on the placing plate or not, the processor causes the camera to pick up an image of the placing plate in a state where the light source of the laser beam is casting the laser beam on the placing plate, and determines whether the electronic component is placed or not, based on a boundary of luminance in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventor: Takahito Sanekata
  • Patent number: 10887428
    Abstract: A method for allocating a service request from a mobile object is provided. The method includes receiving the service request and a route of the mobile object, determining estimated arrival times of the mobile object in a plurality of regions based on the route, the plurality of regions being associated with a plurality of regional servers, respectively, determining a region among the plurality of regions based on the estimated arrival times of the mobile object in the plurality of regions and an estimated time for fulfilling the service request, and transmitting the service request to a regional server corresponding to the determined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yecheng Zhao, BaekGyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10878545
    Abstract: Captured images acquired by a plurality of imaging units are output to a captured image combining unit, which generates a composite image by joining the captured images in accordance with composite setting information generated by a composite setting information generation unit. A specific region information generation unit generates specific region information indicating the specific region corresponding to a specific imaging region in the composite image. In accordance with the specific region information, the captured image combining unit can easily perform an invalidation or emphasizing process, for example, on the image corresponding to the specific imaging region. The specific region information is also associated with the composite image generated by the captured image combining unit, so that reproduction control on the specific region corresponding to the specific imaging region in the composite image can be performed at the time of reproduction or the like of the composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Ogawa, Mitsuru Katsumata, Hirofumi Shimada, Yuta Murata, Takehiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10878580
    Abstract: A method of LiDAR-based vehicle tracking for a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs is disclosed. The one or more programs include instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform the following steps including: calculating the probability of a cluster pair that belongs to a same vehicle using tracking information from a previous frame and spatial information from current frame, determining that the clusters of the cluster pair are merged into one by taking both spatial information and tracking information into consideration, and merging the clusters into a single, complete cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Xue Mei, Chenyang Li
  • Patent number: 10867414
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. A point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to determine distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed point cloud. Additionally, the point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to select attribute values for a reconstructed point cloud such that distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed version of the original point cloud is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Yeping Su, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim, Valery G. Valentin, Fabrice A. Robinet
  • Patent number: 10859469
    Abstract: A tire deformation calculator includes a processor. The processor (i) detects a contour of a side face of a tire attached to a wheel of a vehicle in a captured image; (ii) calculates load deformation of the contour of the side face, the load corresponding to a weight of the vehicle; (iii) identifies a circular or polygonal shape or pattern on a plane parallel to the contour of the side face; (iv) determines a conversion value for converting the identified shape or pattern in the captured image to a perfect circle or a regular polygon; (v) calculates a predetermined value indicating the load deformation of the tire in the captured image based on the conversion value; and (vi) calculates the load deformation based on the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Asahi Ebe, Takashi Yamada, Toru Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10853664
    Abstract: Provided is a detection method of a detection device. The detection device detects at least one object from an image by using depth information about the image obtained by a camera. The detection device identifies whether said at least one object is a person through three-dimensional (3D) head model matching, which matches a head candidate area of said at least one object with a 3D head model. The detection device calculates a feature for detection of a situation by using said at least one object when it is identified that said at least one object is the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: S-1 CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Sun Ju, Hwijun Kim, Hyang Sook Choi