Patents Examined by Rodney E Fuller
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Patent number: 11977137Abstract: A method may include obtaining image data of a subject acquired by an imaging device. The method may also include determining one or more characteristics associated with a body part of the subject from the image data. The one or more characteristics of the body part of the subject may include at least one of position information of the body part in the subject, geometric morphology information of the body part, water content information, or fat content information. The method may also include determining, based on one or more characteristics associated with the body part, values of one or more individualized parameters corresponding to the subject. The method may further include causing the imaging device to perform an imaging scan on the subject according to the values of the one or more individualized parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Liu Liu, Guannan Liu
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Patent number: 11966146Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises an eye approach detection unit configured to detect an objective approaching to a finder, a sight line detection unit configured to detect a sight line position to a display unit that is arranged in the finder, and a control unit configured to perform control to drive the sight line detection unit and stop driving the approach detection unit when it is detected by the approach detection unit that an objective has been approached to the finder, wherein the control unit performs control to, based on a detection result of the sight line detection unit, drive the approach detection unit from a state in which a driving of the approach detection unit is stopped, and stop driving the sight line detection unit while driving the approach detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuki Sugaya
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Patent number: 11963739Abstract: In order to improve both spatial resolution and sensitivity for brain research and clinical activity, we have designed a combined PET/MRI insert for brain scanning, referred to herein as a “BrainPET insert” that can be fit onto and into a suitable MRI system. The BrainPET Insert comprises, in order, a receive (Rx) coil positioned within and adjacent to a transmit (Tx) coil and a PET ring, wherein both the Rx coil and the Tx coil are within the PET ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sino Canada Health Engineering Research Institute (Hefei) LtdInventors: Andrew Goertzen, John Saunders, James Schellenberg, Ryan Sparkes, Gong Zhang
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Patent number: 11958418Abstract: A camera arm device for a mirror replacement system for a motor vehicle having a boom element, which has at least one camera (30) of the mirror replacement system is provided. A. housing, which cooperates with an end portion of the boom element in order to hold the boom element. There is arranged in the housing a guide groove through which the boom element extends and along which the boom element is movably mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventor: Lukas Pape
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Patent number: 11959990Abstract: An MRI phantom for calibrated anisotropic imaging includes a plurality of separate sheathed taxons or integral taxons sharing common taxon walls, wherein each taxon has an inner diameter of less than 5 microns. The taxons form taxon filaments that are combined to form taxon ribbons. The taxons may have an average inner diameter of less than 1 micron, specifically about 0.8 microns with a packing density of about 1,000,000 per square millimeter. The filaments may include structural features such as an outer frame and crossing support ribs and may further include a visible alignment feature that allows for verifying orientation of an individual filament. The taxons may be formed as taxon fibers manufactured using a bi or tri-component textile/polymer manufacturing process. An anisotropic homogeneity phantom may include frame members that support fiber tracks extending in orthogonal directions, wherein each fiber track is formed of taxons.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: PSYCHOLOGY SOFTWARE TOOLS, INC, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONInventors: Anthony P. Zuccolotto, John Dzikiy, Leroy K. Basler, Benjamin A. Rodack, Walter Schneider, Sudhir K Pathak
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Patent number: 11959803Abstract: An underwater device has a hyperspectral camera for capturing images of a seabed, a first housing part, a second housing part releasably connected to the first housing part in a watertight manner and enclosing with the first housing part a cavity in which the hyperspectral camera is arranged, and an electrical energy storage device for supplying electrical energy to the hyperspectral camera arranged in another cavity, wherein the other cavity is separated from the cavity by a wall section of the first and/or second housing part.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: PlanBlue GmbHInventors: Raja Kandukuri, Guy Rigot, Alvaro Bueno
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Patent number: 11953145Abstract: A tripod has three adjacent telescopic legs with identical locking mechanisms connected to a handle located above the central support element. The handle actuates the locking mechanisms simultaneously and independently of one another, whereby the legs can be telescopically adjusted from the free state to the locked position in the desired position when unfolding or folding the tripod. Locking mechanisms provide stability when loading the tripod. The telescopic legs of the tripod are pivotally connected to the central support element, so the different angles of the legs do not affect the effective operation of the locking mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Stoyko Georgiev Zahariev
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Patent number: 11953809Abstract: A positional and postural accuracy of stereo cameras 30 is maintained. A camera support structure (100) includes a support frame (130) that is mounted on a housing (110) of a head-mounted display 1 and supports stereo cameras (30), and at least one rubber member (40) that is interposed between the housing (110) and the support frame (130) and has at least a portion elastically deformable between the housing (110) and the support frame (130) upon deformation or displacement of the support frame (130).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Fumihiko Sato
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Patent number: 11953811Abstract: An adjustment support assembly and a surveillance camera are provided. The adjustment support assembly includes a first shell, a second shell, a first ball head, a second ball head, and a ball head connecting rod. The first ball head and the second ball head are fixed at two ends of the ball head connecting rod, respectively. The first shell is provided therein with a first ball head fixing portion, and the first ball head is rotatably arranged in the first ball head fixing portion. The second shell is provided therein with a second ball head fixing portion, and the second ball head is rotatably arranged in the second ball head fixing portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shouze Zhang
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Patent number: 11947248Abstract: A stop switch assembly includes a movable block, a pressing portion, a driving rod, a driving pin and an elastic member. The movable block includes a first pair and a second pair of opposite side surfaces, a hole is defined in the movable block passing through the first pair of side surfaces and an inclined slot is defined in the movable block passing through the second pair of side surfaces. The driving pin is inserted in the driving rod with its head movably arranged in the inclined slot. The elastic member is arranged between the pressing portion and the movable block for applying an elastic bias to the pressing portion to allow the pressing portion being away from the movable block. When the pressing part is pressed, the driving pin slides in the inclined slot and drives the movable block moving between a first position and a second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN LEQI NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Paihan Chen, Xingxing Yuan
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Patent number: 11945375Abstract: Disclosed are an onboard camera holding method, an onboard camera, and a bracket that enable the onboard camera to be positionally aligned with precision. The holding method according to an aspect of the present technology is a method of holding the onboard camera that includes protruding portions having cylindrical faces respectively formed on a front face and left and right opposite side faces of a housing, by pressing the cylindrical faces of the respective protruding portions of the onboard camera against notches at insertion holes formed at positions of a bracket corresponding to positions of the respective protruding portions by use of forces applied by pressurizing members provided to the bracket, the pressurizing members applying the forces to predetermined positions of the housing. The present technology can be applied to the bracket of the onboard camera.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Toshihiro Tokito
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Patent number: 11940276Abstract: An inertial point-source matter-wave atom interferometer gyroscope includes an analyzer that receives fringe images of gyroscope atoms and includes: a first fringe image that includes a first fringe phase, a second fringe image that includes a second fringe phase; and a third fringe image that includes a third fringe phase, wherein the first fringe phase, the second fringe phase, and the third fringe phase are different; a phase mapper of the analyzer that produces a interferometric phase map for the gyroscope atoms from the fringe images of the gyroscope atoms; and a fitter of the analyzer in communication with the phase mapper and that receives the interferometric phase map from the analyzer and determines inertial parameters of the gyroscope atoms from the interferometric phase map, the inertial parameters including an acceleration and a rotation rate of the inertial point-source matter-wave atom interferometer gyroscope relative to the gyroscope atoms.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: John Edward Kitching, Elizabeth Ann Donley, Azure Lynn Hansen, Yun-Jhih Chen
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Patent number: 11940516Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may include obtaining imaging signals related to a region of interest (ROI) of a subject. The method may also include selecting a portion of the imaging signals as auxiliary signals associated with at least one temporal dimension of the ROI. The method may also include generating at least one target image associated with the at least one temporal dimension of the ROI based on the imaging signals and the auxiliary signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Qi Liu, Jingyuan Lyu, Zhongqi Zhang, Jian Xu
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Patent number: 11940723Abstract: A computing device includes: a housing supporting a transparent panel to define an enclosure; a camera supported within the enclosure, the camera having a field of view extending through the transparent panel; and a privacy shutter supported within the enclosure, between the transparent panel and the camera, the privacy shutter having a shutter magnet, and being movable via magnetic activation between (i) an enabled position obstructing the field of view, and (ii) a disabled position clearing the field of view.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Lawrence Allen Stone, David William Reber, Dennis Barrett
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Patent number: 11933872Abstract: A phantom for calibration and quality assurance of an MR tomograph that comprises a phantom body with measuring aids and an intermediate bottom in at least four planes. The first plane contains only measuring fluid. The second plane contains wedge-shaped elements. The third plane contains marks of known distance. The fourth plane contains comb-shaped elements. The measuring aids of the second plane are arranged on one side of the intermediate bottom and those of the fourth plane on the other side. The marks of the third plane are arranged in the intermediate bottom. This arrangement enables reliable calibration of the MR tomograph in a few steps with only this phantom.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MRI-STaR—Magnetic Resonance Institute for Safety, Technology and Research GmbHInventors: Gregor Schaefers, Tobias Spronk
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Patent number: 11927178Abstract: Disclosed are a drive structure for an OIS motor, an OIS motor, and a camera device. The key points of technical solutions are: a drive structure for an OIS motor includes a base, a conductive layer, a spring, and four SMA wires, the base is made of an insulating material, the conductive layer is disposed in the base, and terminals of the conductive layer protrude from the surface of the base; the base is provided with two first crimpers electrically connected to the conductive layer and disposed opposite to each other, the spring is provided with two second crimpers disposed opposite to each other, the four SMA wires are uniformly distributed on four sides of the base, and two ends of the SMA wires are respectively connected to the corresponding first crimpers and second crimpers.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., LtdInventor: Yin Pan
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Patent number: 11921178Abstract: A system of field cycled magnetic resonance system and a method of operating a field cycled magnetic resonance system are described. In accordance with various embodiments, the disclosed system includes a static field magnet, wherein the magnet is configured to provide a low static external magnetic field to a given field of view, a radio frequency coil, and a field cycling magnet. In accordance with various embodiments, the method includes providing a static field magnet configured to image a tissue sample within a given field of view, applying a low static external magnetic field to the given field of view, providing a radio frequency coil configured to produce cycling radio frequency field, providing a field cycling magnet, altering the low static external magnetic field within the given field of view, and collecting images from the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Promaxo, Inc.Inventor: Muller Francis De Matos Gomes
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Patent number: 11921402Abstract: A matte box for a camera includes a frame, a filter tray holder having at least one stage configured to receive a filter, and at least one filter tray configured to support the filter. The at least one filter tray is removably coupled to the filter tray holder at the at least one stage so that the filter is positioned in front of a lens of the camera. The matte box also includes a filter information system that has an identification tag coupled to the at least one filter tray and/or the filter. The identification tag includes informational data regarding the filter. A reader device supported on the frame and configured to receive the informational data from the identification tag. The filter information system records the informational data of the filter received in the filter tray holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Light Widow, LLCInventors: Van Wampler, Colton Crandell
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Patent number: 11921179Abstract: Methods, computing devices, and magnetic resonance imaging systems that improve image quality in turbo spiral echo (TSE) imaging are disclosed. With this technology, a TSE pulse sequence is generated that includes a series of radio frequency (RF) refocusing pulses to produce a corresponding series of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin echo signals. A gradient waveform including a plurality of segments is generated. The plurality of segments collectively comprise a spiral ring retraced in-out trajectory. During an interval adjacent to each of the series of RF refocusing pulses, a first gradient pulse is generated according to the gradient waveform. The first gradient pulses encode the NMR spin echo signals. An image is then constructed from digitized samples of the NMR spin echo signals obtained based at least in part on the encoding.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Zhixing Wang, Steven P. Allen, Xue Feng, John P. Mugler, III, Craig H. Meyer
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Patent number: 11920762Abstract: A control method for an illuminating device, which is mounted on an aircraft having an image acquisition apparatus, includes obtaining attitude data of an image acquisition apparatus and rotating the illumination device, according to the attitude data of the image acquisition apparatus, to match an illumination area of the illumination device with a photographing area of the image acquisition apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuan Yao, Yaozhong Hu