Patents Examined by Reza Aghevli
  • Patent number: 11657615
    Abstract: A bed system includes: an imaging device; a bed on which the imaging device is to be installed; and a controller configured to process an image acquired by the imaging device to predict a possibility of overturning of a user, in which, when it is determined that a state of the user is a first state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a first parameter, when it is determined that the state of the user is a second state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a second parameter, the first state is a state of the user different from the second state, and the first parameter is different from the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mao Yoshida, Takeshi Nagayasu, Yosuke Yamazaki, Junichi Tamura
  • Patent number: 11651857
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to capture and combine patient vitals and image data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an imaging device to capture imaging data of a patient; a patient monitor to capture non-imaging data of the patient; and a communication interface between the imaging device and the patient monitor to route the non-imaging data to the imaging device. The example imaging device is to combine the non-imaging data with the imaging data to form a combined data set to be processed to determine a clinical outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Katelyn Rose Nye, Gireesha Rao
  • Patent number: 11648887
    Abstract: Power machines and loaders having doors with an integrated display that allows the display of information, such as gauges, user inputs, mapped obstacles, boundaries, etc., that allows the operator of the machine to see the displayed information closer to the line of sight with the work area. The display can show augmented reality information about a worksite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CLARK EQUIPMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: John Pfaff, Dennis Agnew, Joel S. Honeyman
  • Patent number: 11647182
    Abstract: A decoding method and a decoder for decoding a current block of a video frame is provided, wherein the decoding method comprises determining a list of Most Probable Modes (MPMs) for the current block. When at least one condition is satisfied, the list of MPMs includes a DC mode, a Vertical mode, a Horizontal mode, an intra prediction mode corresponding to a value of the Vertical mode with a first offset, and an intra prediction mode corresponding to the value of the Vertical mode with a second offset. The decoding method further includes obtaining a MPM flag and a MPM index for the current block from a bitstream of the video, and obtaining an intra prediction mode for the current block for reconstructing the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Biao Wang, Semih Esenlik, Anand Meher Kotra, Han Gao, Jianle Chen, Zhijie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11642744
    Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11633629
    Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: VISION RT LIMITED
    Inventors: Ivan Meir, Martin Allen, Gideon Hale, Norman Smith, Robert Howe
  • Patent number: 11623518
    Abstract: A color display device (D) is provided, including a colored light-transmitting base material (10), a light-blocking base material, and a light source unit (30) that has at least a part located between the colored light-transmitting base material (10) and the light-blocking base material (20), in which the colored light-transmitting base material (10) has a total light transmittance of 18% or less, and in which the light source unit (30) is disposed such that emission light transmits through the colored light-transmitting base material (10), the color display device having excellent designability and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Marutani, Tadayoshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 11615672
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to an inspection system capable of inspecting a plurality of gaming chips. A game chip of the plurality of game chips includes a wireless tag storing first chip information and to which the optically readable second chip information is on a side of the game chip. The inspection system includes an inspection device configured to inspect one or more game chips. The inspection device includes a wireless tag reader configured to read the wireless tag of the game chip and acquire the first chip information. The inspection device includes a camera configured to reading the side surface of the game chip to obtain the second chip information. The inspection device includes a unit configured to determine whether the game chip passes one or more rules based on the first chip information and the second chip information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11611773
    Abstract: A system of video steganalyzer is provided. The system includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a motion vector map from a video, extract a morphological feature from the motion vector map, evaluate the morphological feature of the motion vector map, and determine if the video includes embedded information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, QATAR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Somaya Al-maadeed, Ahmed Bouridane, Noor Al Maadeed
  • Patent number: 11611760
    Abstract: When a temporally compressed video stream is decoded and subsequently re-encoded, quality is typically lost. The quality loss may be mitigated using information about how the source video stream was encoded during the re-encoding process. According to some aspects of the disclosure, this mitigation of quality loss can be facilitated by decoders that output such information and encoders that receive such information. These decoders and encoders may be separate devices. The functionality of these decoders and encoders may also be combined in a single device, such as a transcoding device. An example of the information that may be used during re-encoding is whether each portion of the original stream was intra-coded or non-intra-coded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Yasser F. Syed
  • Patent number: 11604256
    Abstract: An electronic device including a heat-radiant structure of a camera is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a front plate, a back plate, an image sensor to receive light through a first region of the back plate, and a laser emitter to emit light through a second region of the back plate, a laser driver, a housing structure surrounding at least a part of a side face of the image sensor and driver, a first metal structure, a first heat transfer member including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion extended from the second portion to a space between the driver and the front plate, a second heat transfer member extended from the third portion of the first heat transfer member, and a first thermal interface material (TIM) disposed between the second heat transfer member and the front plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Huh, Kyungwan Park, Jungho Bae, Boram Kim, Youngjin Kim, Hyun Kim, Byeonghoon Park, Yoonsun Park, Woontahk Sung, Kyungwoo Lee, Kihoon Jang, Younho Choi
  • Patent number: 11601640
    Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in the present specification, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidate set with respect to a current block may be derived based on a history, the HMVP candidate set may be updated or initialized according to a condition, and motion information of the current block may be derived based on the HMVP candidate set, through which inter prediction efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Naeri Park, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang, Jaeho Lee
  • Patent number: 11595693
    Abstract: Methods are described to communicate source color volume information in a coded bitstream using SEI messaging. Such data include at least the minimum, maximum, and average luminance values in the source data plus optional data that may include the color volume x and y chromaticity coordinates for the input color primaries (e.g., red, green, and blue) of the source data, and the color x and y chromaticity coordinates for the color primaries corresponding to the minimum, average, and maximum luminance values in the source data. Messaging data signaling an active region in each picture may also be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Walter J. Husak
  • Patent number: 11592783
    Abstract: Dual or multi-modulation display system are disclosed that comprise projector systems with at least one modulator that may employ non-mechanical beam steering modulation. Many embodiments disclosed herein employ a non-mechanical beam steering and/or polarizer to provide for a highlights modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. Gorny, Martin J. Richards
  • Patent number: 11595593
    Abstract: An infrared image sensor includes: a plurality of reference circuits configured to provide a plurality of reference analog values to a plurality of bolometer cells, respectively; a front-end analog circuit configured to collect a plurality of output analog values according to the plurality of reference analog values; and a noise suppression circuit configured to switch a correspondence between the plurality of bolometer cells and the plurality of reference analog values at unit time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Seok Lee, Joon Hyung Lim, Ji Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11588979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing measurements of images of an object to be measured using a mobile electronic device are disclosed. A method may include capturing a measurement image of a measured object within an observation region of a camera of the device, displaying a light-emitted image on a screen of the device, causing the screen to successively display multiple illumination images of a predefined illumination image sequence, and causing the screen of the device to display one or more of the illumination images of the predefined illumination images. The predefined illumination image sequence is set via a user interface of the device and a selection between different predefined illumination image sequences is rendered using the user interface. A control unit is configured to select a predefined illumination image sequence between several stored predefined illumination image sequences in dependence on a selection of the measured object of interest and/or a characteristic of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung derr angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Udo Seiffert, Andreas Herzog, Andreas Backhaus
  • Patent number: 11573302
    Abstract: Disclosed are Geiger-mode avalanche-photodiode-based LiDAR systems and methods that interrogate a detection region with a periodic series of optical pulses whose reflections are detected via a receiver comprising multiple Geiger-mode avalanche-photodiode-based pixels. The pixels of the receiver are configured to asynchronously disarm and rearm after absorption of a reflection. As a result, each pixel can detect multiple reflections of the same optical pulse during a single detection frame whose duration is defined by the periodicity of the series of optical pulses. Furthermore, each pixel can store time-of-flight data for each of multiple reflections detected during a detection frame. Each individual pixel of the receiver, therefore, is not blinded and inoperative for the remainder of a detection frame once it detects a first reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ARGO AI, LLC
    Inventor: Mark D. Entwistle
  • Patent number: 11574410
    Abstract: A person tracking support device includes a processor. The processor acquires identification information of a tracked person identified from a face image of a person imaged by a first camera, and a first time at which the tracked person is imaged by the first camera, and also acquires a second time at which the tracked person is imaged by a second camera positioned away from the first camera, predicts a time at which the tracked person reaches a specific area on the basis of an elapsed time from the first time to the second time and a distance from the first camera to the second camera, and notifies a mobile terminal device possessed by each of a plurality of observers of the identification information of the tracked person, the specific area, and the time predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohiro Kisara
  • Patent number: 11575882
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a stacked display including a plurality of panels, and a processor configured to obtain first light field (LF) images of different viewpoints, input the obtained first LF images to an artificial intelligence model for converting an LF image into a layer stack, to obtain a plurality of layer stacks to which a plurality of shifting parameters indicating depth information in the first LF images are respectively applied, and control the stacked display to sequentially and repeatedly display, on the stacked display, the obtained plurality of layer stacks. The artificial intelligence model is trained by applying the plurality of shifting parameters that are obtained based on the depth information in the first LF images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bora Jin, Yeoul Lee, Jihye Lee, Kyungmin Lim, Jaesung Lee
  • Patent number: 11575844
    Abstract: A multi-aperture imaging system and application thereof are provided. The multi-aperture imaging system includes a long-focal length camera module, a mid-focal length camera module and a wide-angle camera module. The long-focal length camera module has a field of view-FOV3. The mid-focal length camera module has a field of view-FOV2. The wide-angle camera module has a field of view-FOV1. They satisfy the condition of FOV1>FOV2>FOV3. Besides, a portion of the field of view area of FOV1 is covered by a portion of the field of view area of FOV2, while a portion of the field of view area of FOV2 is covered by a portion of the field of view area of FOV3, so as to enable a better zooming performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinli Fang, Mingzhu Wang, Lifeng Yao, Zhenyu Chen, Ang Ji, Yurong Wu