Patents Examined by Reza Aghevli
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Patent number: 11876953Abstract: To enhance a mono-output-only controller such as a mobile OS to support selective mono/stereo/mixed output, a stereo controller is instantiated in communication with the mono controller. The stereo controller coordinates stereo output, but calls and adapts functions already present in the mono controller for creating surface and image buffers, rendering, compositing, and/or merging. For content designated for 2D display, left and right surfaces are rendered from a mono perspective; for content designated for 3D display, left and right surfaces are rendered from left and right stereo perspectives, respectively. Some, all, or none of available content may be delivered to a stereo display in 3D, with a remainder delivered in 2D, and with comparable content still delivered in 2D to the mono display. The stereo controller is an add-on; the mono controller need not be replaced, removed, deactivated, or modified, facilitating transparency and backward compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners LLCInventors: Mario Kosmiskas, Nathan Abercrombie, Sleiman Itani
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Patent number: 11871018Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for compressing data of an image. Intermediate pixels may be determined. Each location of the image may be associated with a block of a plurality of blocks of a first size and a block of a plurality of blocks of a second size. For each block of the first size and of the second size, a first cost for a first mode and a second cost for a second mode may be determined in parallel using the intermediate pixels. A final mode and a final block size may be selected for each location of the image using the first cost and the second cost for each of a respective block of the first size and a respective block of the second size associated with a corresponding location. Final pixels may be determined, and a representation of the image may be obtained based on the final pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Jianjun Chen, Wei Feng, Xi He, Sangeun Han, Ranga Ramanujam Srinivasan
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Patent number: 11870971Abstract: To enhance a mono-output-only controller such as a mobile OS to support selective mono/stereo/mixed output, a stereo controller is instantiated in communication with the mono controller. The stereo controller coordinates stereo output, but calls and adapts functions already present in the mono controller for creating surface and image buffers, rendering, compositing, and/or merging. For content designated for 2D display, left and right surfaces are rendered from a mono perspective; for content designated for 3D display, left and right surfaces are rendered from left and right stereo perspectives, respectively. Some, all, or none of available content may be delivered to a stereo display in 3D, with a remainder delivered in 2D, and with comparable content still delivered in 2D to the mono display. The stereo controller is an add-on; the mono controller need not be replaced, removed, deactivated, or modified, facilitating transparency and backward compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners, LLCInventors: Mario Kosmiskas, Nathan Abercrombie, Sleiman Itani
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Patent number: 11869325Abstract: An analytical recognition system includes a video camera, an antenna, and a data analytics module. The video camera is configured to capture video data. The antenna is configured to capture mobile communication device data. The data analytics module is configured to correlate the video data and the mobile communication device data to generate a profile of a person associated with the video data and the mobile communication device data. The profile has profile data including any one or a combination of the captured video data and the captured mobile communication data.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: James Carey
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Patent number: 11856200Abstract: A data output apparatus includes: a video decoder that decodes a video stream to generate a first video signal; an external metadata acquisition unit that acquires one or more pieces of metadata corresponding to one or more first conversion modes; an HDR metadata interpreter that interprets one of the one or more pieces of metadata to acquire characteristic data and conversion auxiliary data; a DR converter that supports one or more second conversion modes and performs conversion processing of a luminance range of the first video signal based on the conversion auxiliary data to generate a second video signal; and an HDMI output unit that outputs the second video signal to a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi, Kengo Terada
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Patent number: 11849115Abstract: A method includes determining whether at least one of a height or width of a residual coding block, that corresponds to a data block of an image, is greater than or equal to a threshold; and based on determining that the at least one of the height or width of the residual coding block is greater than or equal to the threshold: obtaining a reduced-complexity residual coding block based on the residual coding block and performing transform coding of the reduced-complexity residual coding block using a line graph transform (LGT) core to perform direct matrix multiplications for each of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the reduced-complexity residual coding block, wherein the performing includes determining an order of performing horizontal and vertical transforms to the reduced-complexity residual coding block when zero-out is enabled on LGT, depending on a ratio of width to height of the residual coding block.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11818467Abstract: A video may include a capture of a scene, such as a wide-field of view capture of the scene. A punchout of the video may provide a framing of the captured scene. The punchout may be determined based on the context of the video, such as the type of captured scene within the video, the motion of the image capture device that captured the video, and/or the motion of one or more things within the captured scene.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventor: Guillaume Oules
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Patent number: 11812199Abstract: An image capturing device according to one embodiment includes a camera unit configured to capture images of a surrounding environment and generate image data, a suction-attachment unit configured to support the camera unit and be fixed on a suction-attachment subject surface by a user, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the image data can be output to a recording unit, and a controller configured to control output of the image data to the recording unit, based on a determination result by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki Nashimoto
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Patent number: 11812054Abstract: A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream, extract a header, determine, using the header, a global motion model, and decode a current block of a current frame using the global motion model. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: OP Solutions, LLCInventors: Borivoje Furht, Hari Kalva, Velibor Adzic
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Patent number: 11789148Abstract: An electro-optical distance meter and a distance measuring method, wherein a distance to a target is measured based on runtime by means of radiation pulses, which are emitted at a pulse rate. Received radiation pulses are digitized by means of sampling, wherein the sampling rate is set in dependence on the pulse rate, wherein a digitized signal is generated on the basis of sampling over the reception signals of a plurality of received radiation pulses.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBHInventors: Reto Stutz, Jürg Hinderling, Andreas Walser
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Patent number: 11783499Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a technique that enables an electronic device with a camera to automatically gather and generate requisite data from the real-world environment to allow the electronic device to quickly and efficiently determine and provide accurate measurements of physical spaces and/or objects within the real-world environment is described.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Alexandre da Veiga
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Patent number: 11778133Abstract: A portable photo studio system includes a portable photo studio and an electronic device such as a camera-enabled smartphone. A computer system is provided that interacts with the electronic device. The computer system requests an image capture system. In response, the electronic device captures image data and shares it with the computer system. The computer system then analyzes the image data to identify areas of interest.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Angela Park, Jonathan Grossman
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Patent number: 11778212Abstract: The present invention relates to a video encoding method, a video decoding method, and a device using the same, and the video encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: specifying a tile and a slice by partitioning an inputted picture; performing encoding on the basis of the tile and the slice; and transmitting the encoded video information, wherein the picture is partitioned into one or more tiles and one or more slices, and the restrictions for parallel processing can be applied to the tiles and the slices.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Joonyoung Park, Yongjoon Jeon, Byeongmoon Jeon, Jungsun Kim, Jaehyun Lim, Chulkeun Kim, Naeri Park, Seungwook Park
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Patent number: 11769257Abstract: In one embodiment, a vision aided navigation system comprises: at least one image sensor configured to produce image frames of a surrounding environment; a feature extractor configured to extract at least one image feature from a first image frame; a navigation filter configured to output a navigation solution based navigation data from a navigation device and changes in position of the image feature in the images; a feature tracker to receive the image frames and predict a location of the image feature in a subsequent image frame; a dynamic localized parameter adjuster to adjust at least one image parameter of the subsequent image frame; and wherein the feature tracker is configured so that when the image feature cannot be identified in the subsequent image frame within a bounded region around the predicted location, the dynamic localized parameter adjuster adjusts the at least one image parameter within the bounded region.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Lee Johnson, Vibhor L Bageshwar, Srivatsan Varadarajan
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Patent number: 11770563Abstract: Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a subpicture in a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that multiple syntax elements are used to specify usage of a reference picture resampling tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng
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Patent number: 11765391Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a decoder, video data and a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message corresponding to the video data, the SEI message including information indicating whether the received video data uses neural network based tools, and performing, at the decoder, post-processing of the received video data based on the information included in the SEI message.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Yiming Li, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
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Patent number: 11765335Abstract: Systems, methods, and computing devices for capturing synthetic stereoscopic content are provided. An example computing device includes at least one processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the computing device to receive a three-dimensional scene. The instructions may additionally cause the computing device to reposition vertices of the three-dimensional scene to compensate for variations in camera location in a directional stereoscopic projection and generate a stereoscopic image based on the repositioned vertices. An example method includes projecting a three-dimensional scene onto a left eye image cube and a right eye image cube and repositioning vertices of the three-dimensional scene to adjust for rendering from a single camera location. The method also includes mapping pixels of a stereoscopic image to points on the left eye image cube and the right eye image cube and generating the stereoscopic image using the values of the mapped pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeremy Chernobieff, Houman Meshkin, Scott Dolim
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Patent number: 11763646Abstract: A device including sensors and a processor. The sensors are configured to detect movements of a user. The processor is configured to categorize the movements of the user as a micro-movement or a macro-movement; quantify a number of the micro-movements; quantify a number of the macro-movements; determine based upon the number of micro-movements whether a body part of interest of a user is supported; and provide feedback to the user if the body part of interested is unsupported and continuing to monitor the body part of interest if the user is supported without providing any feedback.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: Zepp, Inc., Anhui Huami Health Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yan Vule, Artem Galeev, Vahid Zakeri, Kongqiao Wang
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Patent number: 11758706Abstract: A method, a system and an archive server for determining an illumination setting for capturing an image of a component, belonging to a specific package type, in a pick-and-place machine are provided. The method comprises capturing a first image of a first component of the specific package type while the first component is illuminated by a first illumination component, and capturing a second image of the first component while the first component is illuminated by a second illumination component, the second illumination component being different from the first illumination component. An illumination setting may then be determined by creating a plurality of generated images based on the first and second image of the first component, and selecting the generated image that fulfils a predetermined quality measure.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Mycronic ABInventor: Roger Jonasson
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Patent number: 11754713Abstract: A range finding apparatus (2000) generates a plurality of range finding signals. The range finding apparatus (2000) generates transmission light acquired by performing at least one of quadrature modulation and polarization modulation on an optical carrier wave by using each of the generated range finding signals. The range finding apparatus (2000) transmits the generated transmission light. The range finding apparatus (2000) receives reflection light which is the transmission light reflected by an object to be measured. The range finding apparatus (2000) extracts a reception signal corresponding to each of the range finding signals by demodulating the reflection light. The range finding apparatus (2000) computes a distance to the object to be measured by using any one or more of the extracted reception signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe