Patents Examined by Samira Monshi
  • Patent number: 11974071
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of a processor, wherein the control method comprises the steps of: transmitting image data of a first frame to an integrated circuit, wherein the first frame corresponds to a first frame rate; determining a second frame rate of a second frame next to the first frame; determining if a difference between the second frame rate and the first frame rate belongs to a large scale frame rate adjustment or a small scale frame rate adjustment; if the difference between the second frame rate and the first frame rate belongs to the large scale frame rate adjustment, using a first mode to transmit image data of the second frame; and if the difference between the second frame rate and the first frame rate belongs to the small scale frame rate adjustment, using a second mode to transmit image data of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Kang-Yi Fan, Chin-Wen Liang, Chang-Chu Liu, Sheng-Hsiang Chang, You-Min Yeh
  • Patent number: 11962934
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: displaying, on a main screen of a display device, content including at least one object; receiving an input for selecting a specific object from the at least one object displayed on the main screen; specifying the specific object by corresponding to the received selection input, expanding a specific area including the specific object; displaying a window including the content displayed on the main screen; displaying the expanded specific area on the main screen; and displaying, within the displayed window, an indicator for displaying the expended specific area, wherein the specific area changes according to a position of the specific object, and the content corresponds to a video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeseung Lee, Sangjin Ahn, Jihe Suk
  • Patent number: 11962841
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for upgrading one or more display device hardware components. In one embodiment, as new television hardware components become available, the technology described herein allows replacement of original hardware components by external hardware components implemented as an add-in card, stick or equivalent circuitry and operational instructions. In some embodiments, the technology described herein may implement an application programming interface (API) that exposes hardware of a new external device communicatively coupled to the display device (e.g., television) to take control of one or more components of an existing internal system. Various interface technologies, such as HDMI and USB, may be used to connect the external hardware to the internal systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Casten Riepling
  • Patent number: 11962865
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a process method for the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display; a communicator, communicating with the network; a remote controller; a memory; and a processor configured for executing instructions in the memory to cause the display apparatus to perform: obtaining video source information from a target video source currently played by the display, where the video source information includes signal source information and type information; determining picture modes corresponding to the target video source according to the signal source information and the type information; displaying the picture modes corresponding to the target video source in a picture mode list; in response to a selection instruction for selecting a target picture mode, obtaining image adjustment parameters corresponding to the target picture mode; and adjusting image quality of the target video source according to the image adjustment parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongdong Liu, Jie Dong, Haibo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11949942
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display device includes a display, a network interface configured to communicate with an external server, and a controller configured to capture audio content during playback of Audio/Video (A/V) content, acquire a first content identifier based on the captured audio content, display a first pop-up window corresponding to the acquired first content identifier on the display, when a mute interval is continued for a predetermined time, capture video content, acquire a second content identifier based on captured video content, and, when the acquired second content identifier is not identical to the first content identifier, display a second pop-up window corresponding to the second content identifier on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seongwoon Seol, Obong An, Eunyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 11943528
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus accepts information on a user's operation to specify a target imaging range, which is an imaging range to be attained, of an imaging apparatus that captures an image; accepts information on a user's operation to specify a moving time, which is a time to reach the target imaging range from a current imaging range of the imaging apparatus; and causes a display to display information indicating a result of comparison between the moving time and a required time required to reach the target imaging range from the current imaging range. The required time is calculated based on the current imaging range of the imaging apparatus and the target imaging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Fujinaga
  • Patent number: 11943498
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display method, a display terminal and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The display method includes: after receiving a wake-up signal, obtaining description information fed back by a corresponding smart terminal according to the wake-up signal, and generating AIoT display information of the display terminal comprising the description information; and dividing a display area of the display terminal into at least two non-overlapping areas, displaying a current playback screen of the display terminal in one area of the at least two non-overlapping areas, and displaying the AIoT display information in another area of the at least two non-overlapping areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingchao Hu, Weixiong Chen, Yunian Wang
  • Patent number: 11943533
    Abstract: Lens mode auto-detection includes obtaining predicate lens mode data, obtaining probable lens mode data, obtaining a lens mode score in accordance with the predicate lens mode data and the probable lens mode data, determining whether the lens mode score is greater than a defined lens mode change threshold, and, in response to determining that the lens mode score is greater than the defined lens mode change threshold, outputting lens mode data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Gladys Marc, Marc Lebrun
  • Patent number: 11936940
    Abstract: A user system for rendering accessibility enhanced content includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive primary content from a content distributor and determine whether the primary content is accessibility enhanced content including an accessibility track. When the primary content omits the accessibility track, the processing hardware executes the software code to perform a visual analysis, an audio analysis, or both, of the primary content, generate, based on the visual analysis and/or the audio analysis, the accessibility track to include at least one of a sign language performance or one or more video tokens configured to be played back during playback of the primary content, and synchronize the accessibility track to the primary content. The processing hardware also executes the software code to render, using the display, the primary content or the accessibility enhanced content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice, Noel Brandon Vasquez
  • Patent number: 11930240
    Abstract: A media content recording system receives one or more media content streams, such as a video content stream and an audio content stream captured at a computing device. The system also records sensor data collected by one or more sensors of the computing device, such as touch sensors or movement sensors. The system generates a synchronized media content by synchronizing the one or more media content streams with the sensor data. The media content recording system, or a media content playback system, uses the synchronized media content to generate playback content that illustrates inputs to or movement of the computing device while receiving the media content, synchronized with the media content. This playback content is then played back, allowing another user to see, synchronized with the audio or video content, what locations of the computing device the recording user touched or how the recording user moved the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Amit Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11924503
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques of presenting bullet comments. The techniques comprise acquiring a page of playing a video; acquiring multiple pieces of original bullet screen data, wherein each piece of original bullet screen data comprises content of a bullet comment and timing information indicating a time of posting the bullet comment in the video; cloning the multiple pieces of original bullet screen data to obtain multiple pieces of bullet screen data corresponding to the plurality of pieces of original bullet comment data; acquiring multiple pieces of target bullet screen data from the multiple pieces of bullet screen data based on the timing information associated with each piece of original bullet comment data; and content comprised in at least one of the plurality of pieces of target bullet comment data in an area of the page configured to display bullet comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuran Wu, Zhaoxin Tan
  • Patent number: 11895358
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a signal output circuit having DC gain maintaining mechanism used in an image signal transmission apparatus that includes a front-stage driving circuit and a back-stage driving circuit. The front-stage driving circuit includes a continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE) having an adjusting capacitor and configured to receive a digital input signal to perform a high frequency enhancement thereon to increase a bandwidth of the digital input signal to generate a front-stage output signal. The back-stage driving circuit includes a CTLE without the adjusting capacitor and configured to increase a DC gain of the front-stage output signal to compensate a DC gain drop between the front-stage output signal and the digital input signal to generate a back-stage output signal to an image signal receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Hui Tung
  • Patent number: 11889200
    Abstract: A method, medium and system for generating a high-rate video for displaying to a user on a display device. The method, medium and system may generate and display the high-rate video by: capturing images for a video at a first frame rate, capturing movement of a display device via a motion sensor, estimating a motion of the camera based on images of the video captured at the first frame rate and the movement of the display device captured via the motion sensor, generating the high-rate video at a second frame rate by up-sampling the video captured at the first frame rate, and displaying the high-rate video to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Madison, Olegs Mise
  • Patent number: 11880627
    Abstract: Configuration of a multi-display system is facilitated by use of general television receivers (display devices). Multiple digital interface terminals to which each of multiple display devices configuring a multi-display is connected via a transmission path are provided. A video signal is output to each of the multiple digital interface terminals. Replacement of the video signals output from the signal output unit to the multiple digital interface terminals is controlled to display a correct video corresponding to each screen of the multi-display. For example, the replacement of the video signals is controlled according to a video replacement operation signal sent from any of the multiple display devices via the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoko Nakamura, Kazuo Yamamoto, Kazuaki Toba
  • Patent number: 11849176
    Abstract: Content receiver systems, methods, and machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive voice interaction are disclosed. An audio cue may be detected and mapped to a first viewer in proximity of an audio sensor. Sensor-based data that is based on the audio sensor capturing audio phenomena in the proximity may be received. A set of rules specified by an operations protocol may be accessed. The set of rules may include criteria for mapping a recognition of voice data to operations of a content receiver. The sensor-based data may correspond to a recognition of first voice data of the first viewer. A rule of the set of rules may be used to map the sensor-based data to an operation of the content receiver. Responsive to the audio cue, the content receiver may be caused to perform the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Brandon Hines
  • Patent number: 11843819
    Abstract: An image capture device may capture multiple audio content during capture of visual content. A viewing window for the visual content and rotational position of the image capture device during capture of the visual content may be used to generate modified audio content from the multiple audio content. The modified audio content may provide sound for playback of a punchout of the visual content using the viewing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Steven Penrod, Timothy Dick, Erich Tisch
  • Patent number: 11818512
    Abstract: An eyewear device is disclosed including an illumination device including illumination sources, each illumination source including a first illuminator, a second illuminator, and a third illuminator, and a spatial light modulator coupled to the illumination device to control when each of the first, second, and third illuminators are on during an illumination frame. The spatial light modulator is adapted to turn on the first illuminator while the second and third illuminators are off, turn on the second illuminator while the first and third illuminators are off, turn on the third illuminator while the first and second illuminators are off during a third time period of the illumination frame, and turn on the first, second and third illuminators during a fourth time period. An illumination method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Rajeev Ramanath
  • Patent number: 11812193
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system for providing DisplayPort communication over an extension medium is provided. The system comprises an upstream facing port device (UFP device) and a downstream facing port device (DFP device). The UFP device is configured to conduct link training with a DisplayPort source device using first DisplayPort configuration data (DPCD). The DFP device is configured to conduct link training with the DisplayPort sink device using second DPCD different from the first DPCD. The UFP device is configured to extract video data from DisplayPort data received from the DisplayPort source device and transmit the video data to the DFP device. The DFP device is configured to receive the video data, generate DisplayPort data as specified by the second DPCD, and transmit the generated DisplayPort data to the DisplayPort sink device as specified by the second DPCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Icron Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Bhupinder Singh Rathore
  • Patent number: 11805292
    Abstract: Disclosed are display apparatus and method. The method includes: a first controller of a display apparatus obtains information of a video image in a first user interface on a first display screen of a display apparatus and sends the information of the video image to a server through a first communicator associated with the first controller, where the server is configured to obtain a search identifier of an object in the video image according to the information of the video image and send the search identifier to a second controller of the display apparatus. A second controller of the display apparatus receives the search identifier through a second communicator associated with the second controller and controls a second display screen of the display apparatus to display a third user interface, where the third user interface includes the search identifier of the object in the video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuelei Wang, Honglong Si
  • Patent number: 11800053
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of information display, and specifically to a method, device, computer readable storage medium, and electronic device for video frame interpolation. The method comprises: obtaining, based on two input frames, two initial optical flow maps corresponding to the two input frames; optimizing the initial optical flow maps to obtain target optical flow maps; obtaining an interpolation frame kernel, two depth maps and two context feature maps based on the two input frames; obtaining an output frame using a frame synthesis method based on the target optical flow maps, the depth maps, the context feature maps, and the interpolation frame kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunhua Lu, Ran Duan, Guannan Chen, Lijie Zhang, Hanwen Liu