Patents Examined by Pritham D. Prabhakher
  • Patent number: 11943552
    Abstract: A depth sensor and an image detecting system including the same are provided. The depth sensor includes a pixel that generates an image signal based on a sensed light. The pixel includes a first photo transistor that integrates first charges based on a first photo gate signal toggling during an integration period, a second photo transistor that integrates second charges based on a second photo gate signal toggling during the integration period, a first transfer transistor that transfers the first charges to a first floating diffusion node based on a first transfer gate signal, a second transfer transistor that transfers the second charges to a second floating diffusion node based on the first transfer gate signal, and a switch that is connected with the first photo transistor, the second photo transistor, the first transfer transistor, and the second transfer transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jungwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11936981
    Abstract: Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes operating a camera in a first mode, based on detection of an alarm condition at a location of the camera, adjusting the camera from the first mode to a second mode, including increasing a sensitivity setting of at least one sensor of the camera, and disabling use of object detection within the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary William Rose, Kevin Klemm
  • Patent number: 11936982
    Abstract: An image capture device includes a mechanical stabilization system is used in image signal processing. The mechanical image stabilization system has an operating bandwidth and includes a motor to control an orientation of an image sensor. A processing apparatus of the image capture device determines a temperature of the motor and adjusts a cutoff frequency of the operating bandwidth based on the temperature of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Enke, Stepan Moskovchenko, Benjamin P. Tankersley, Adam Fenn, Nenad Uzunovic
  • Patent number: 11934339
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for transmitting and receiving image data. The present implementations more specifically relate to repurposing non-video interfaces to receive image data. In some aspects, an image processing device may be coupled to an image source via an audio interface. For example, the audio interface may be an inter-IC sound (I2S) serial bus interface having at least a serial data input and a word select (WS) input. In some implementations, the serial data input may be coupled to receive image data from the image source and the WS input may be coupled to receive a WS signal that tracks a horizontal synchronization (HSYNC) signal associated with the image data. Accordingly, the image processing device may capture (or store) frames of received image data, where the beginning of each frame is aligned with an edge of the WS signal (and thus, the HSYNC signal).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Shi-Jie Li, Thavatchai Montreevat
  • Patent number: 11930259
    Abstract: One embodiment according to the technology of the present disclosure provides an optical element, an optical device, an imaging apparatus, and a manufacturing method of the optical element, for capturing a multispectral image. An optical element according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of optical filters including two or more optical filters that transmit light beams having at least partially different wavelength ranges, and a frame having an inclined surface portion with an optical axis center as an apex, in which the plurality of optical filters are installed on the inclined surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawanago, Naoki Nishimoto, Shuhei Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11924553
    Abstract: An orbital camera system has at least two extensions that extend from a hub to rotate a camera about a hub in a balanced and low vibration manner. In addition, the exemplary orbital camera system is versatile in configuration having extensions with hinges to allow variations in the configuration. The hub may be powered by a motor that provides smooth rotation even at low speeds. The hub is coupled to a down rod and the motor may be detachably attached to the down rod. A counterweight may be a battery or a battery station that enables detachable attachment of a battery thereto. An illumination light is coupled to the hub to provide uniform light over the imaging area. A focal element and/or a centering light emitter may be configured along the rotational axis for aid in placing an object to be imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua C. Yeo, Jonathan Hyams
  • Patent number: 11917287
    Abstract: A system for aligning an item along a path in an area comprising: a camera configured to capture an image containing part of the area and the item; a first transceiver connected to the camera to read the image from the camera; a second transceiver coupled to the first transceiver; a display connected to the second transceiver; wherein the first transceiver is configured to transmit the image to the second transceiver, the second transceiver is configured to transmit the image to the display in order to present the image on the screen of the display, and the transmitted image or the screen of the display includes a reference path, the reference path visible on the screen representing the path in the area; wherein the reference path is configured on the screen such that alignment of the reference path with the item in the image indicates alignment of the item in the area with the path in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VIRTUALINE PTY LTD
    Inventor: Matthew Wright
  • Patent number: 11910103
    Abstract: The application provides an electronic system and an image aggregation method thereof. The electronic system includes a plurality of image pickup devices and an image aggregation device coupled to the image pickup devices. The image aggregation device controls trigger of the image pickup devices. When the image pickup devices are triggered, the image pickup devices pickup a plurality of images and send to the image aggregation device. The image aggregation device flexibly selects the images pickup by the image pickup devices to flexibly aggregate into an aggregated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EYS3D MICROELECTRONICS, CO.
    Inventors: Hong-Yeh Hsieh, Ming-Hua Lin
  • Patent number: 11902656
    Abstract: Systems, video cameras, and methods for using audio sensors to control surveillance video capture are described. A video camera and audio sensor are deployed so that the audio sensor has an audio field that is at least partially outside the field of view of the video camera. The audio sensor collects audio data from the audio field and a controller for the video camera uses audio events from the audio data for modifying the video capture operations of the video camera. Video data is then captured based on the modified video capture operations, such as initiating video capture, changing the video capture rate, or changing the camera position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramanathan Muthiah, Akhilesh Yadav
  • Patent number: 11901391
    Abstract: An imaging device of an embodiment has a first substrate, a second substrate, a wire, and a trench. The first substrate has a pixel having a photodiode and a floating diffusion that holds a charge converted by the photodiode. The second substrate has a pixel circuit that reads a pixel signal based on the charge held in the floating diffusion in the pixel, and is stacked on the first substrate. The wire penetrates the first substrate and the second substrate in a stacking direction, and electrically connects the floating diffusion in the first substrate to an amplification transistor in the pixel circuit of the second substrate. The trench is formed at least in the second substrate, runs in parallel with the wire, and has a depth equal to or greater than the thickness of a semiconductor layer in the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Komoto, Masahiko Nakamizo, Toshiaki Ono, Tomonori Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11895390
    Abstract: Placement of a face depicted within a video may be determined. One or more stabilization options for the video may be obtained. Stabilization option(s) may include angle stabilization option, a position stabilization option, and/or a size stabilization option. The video may be stabilized based on the placement of the face and the stabilization option(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Oules
  • Patent number: 11895416
    Abstract: A device includes an electronic processor configured to define a first set of sample pixels from a set of sample pixels determined from received video data according to a first electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) in a first color representation of a first color space; convert the first set of sample pixels to a second EOTF via a mapping function, producing a second set of sample pixels according to the second EOTF; convert the first and second set of sample pixels from the first color representation to a second color representation of the first color space; determine a backward reshaping function by repeatedly applying and adjusting a sample backward reshaping function so as to minimize a difference between predicted pixel values obtained by applying the sample backward reshaping function to the pixels of the converted first set and the pixels of the converted second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Harshad Kadu, Neeraj J. Gadgil, Qing Song, Yoon Yung Lee
  • Patent number: 11889178
    Abstract: An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for camera adjustments based on eye gaze tracking. The method includes capturing, via a front facing camera, an image stream containing a face of a user and determining, via a processor, an eye gaze direction based on images retrieved from the image stream. The eye gaze direction corresponds to a location where the user is looking. In response to determining that the user is looking away from the front surface of the electronic device and towards a direction within a field of view of a rear facing camera, the method further includes identifying image characteristics of the location, generating camera settings of the rear facing camera based on the eye gaze direction/characteristics of the location and adjusting the rear facing camera using the generated camera settings such that the rear facing camera focuses on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Rahul Bharat Desai
  • Patent number: 11888002
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus comprises: an image sensor comprising an array of pixel cells, each pixel cell including a photodiode and circuits to generate image data, the photodiodes formed in a first semiconductor substrate; and a controller formed in one or more second semiconductor substrates that include the circuits of the array of pixel cells, the first and second semiconductor substrates forming a stack and housed within a semiconductor package. The controller is configured to: determine whether first image data generated by the image sensor contain features of an object; based on whether the first image data contain the features of the object, generate programming signals for the image sensor; and control, based on the programming signals, the image sensor to generate second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Xinqiao Liu, Hans Reyserhove
  • Patent number: 11888020
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, a solid-state imaging device, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of improving the voltage dependency of a gate capacitance type. Provided is a semiconductor device having a laminated structure in which a compound layer formed on a surface of a semiconductor layer and formed by the semiconductor layer reacting with metal, an insulating film layer in contact with the compound layer, and an electrode layer formed on the insulating film layer are laminated. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an analog-to-digital (AD) conversion part included in the solid-state imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Tomita, Shintaro Okamoto, Tomohiro Hirai
  • Patent number: 11889199
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a program, and an imaging apparatus that are designed to reduce flicker in the imaging apparatus that does not use any imaging lens. The imaging device includes: a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels including a pixel that receives incident light and outputs one detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated depending on the incident angle of the incident light is arranged in a row direction and a column direction, and is sequentially exposed row by row, the incident light entering from an object via neither an imaging lens nor a pinhole; and a plurality of detection regions that are disposed in different rows in the pixel region, and are used for flicker detection. The present technology can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Miyatani
  • Patent number: 11882365
    Abstract: An apparatus for correction of a direction to which a tool channel or a camera moves or is bent in a case where a displayed image is rotated. The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to receive a directional command of a capturing direction of a camera, move the capturing direction of the camera according to the received directional command, detect a rotation amount of a captured image displayed on a monitor, wherein the captured image is captured by the camera, and correct, based on the detected rotation amount, directional information corresponding to a particular directional command or directional coordinate for moving the camera, wherein the directional information is used for moving the capturing direction of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Canon U.S.A., Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaro Masaki, Franklin King, Takahisa Kato, Brian Ninni, HuaLei Shelley Zhang, Nobuhiko Hata
  • Patent number: 11882259
    Abstract: A method for reducing the parameters defining an acquired light field ray which enables only the colour associated with the light field ray to be stored instead of 4 light field co-ordinates (x,y,i,j) and its associated colour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Boisson, Valter Drazic, Mozhdeh Seifi
  • Patent number: 11877055
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods operating a set remotely, and more specifically, for enabling the control of a remotely adjustable audio-visual recording device as well as the communication between the remotely adjustable audio-visual recording device and various specialty devices of a cloud control center configured to remotely control features of the remotely adjustable audio-visual recording device. In operation, a talent component may receive a user input indicative of turning on the r remotely adjustable audio-visual recording device. Based on receiving the user input, the talent component may automatically connect, via a network, to a cloud control center. Based on connecting to the talent component, the cloud control center may remotely control the remotely adjustable audio-visual recording device an enable the remote recording of audio-visual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Rene A. Sanchez, Lawrence Anthony, Eddie F. Rodriguez, Jr., Robert W. Schefferine, Anthony J. Ybarra
  • Patent number: 11870953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, and a camera module of the present invention is detachably connected to an outer edge of a display device main body without disposing the camera module before the display device main body is disposed, such that no aperture needs to be formed in a display region of a display screen of the display device main body to make the display device main body achieve real full screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingwen Zheng