Patents Examined by Samira Monshi
  • Patent number: 11553238
    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 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Steven Penrod, Timothy Dick, Erich Tisch
  • Patent number: 11553232
    Abstract: A controller (e.g., a remote control) stores channel information preferred by the user or program information preferred by the user. The controller recognizes the user by detecting the user's fingerprint, and controls the display device or a set-top box that communicates with the display device such that a list corresponding to the recognized channel information preference or a list corresponding to program information is displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Jinoh Kwag, Yong-Han Park
  • Patent number: 11553231
    Abstract: A remote controller, includes: a first interface; and a first wireless portion connected with the first interface, wherein the first interface is connected with a screen projection device, the first wireless portion is wirelessly connected with a display device, and the first wireless portion receives data to be projected by the screen projection device through the first interface, and sends the data to be projected to the display device for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoshuang Li, Jianhui Zhou
  • Patent number: 11546544
    Abstract: Disclosed is an over-the-air (OTA) antenna meter application (“meter app”) that wirelessly connects to an OTA antenna meter (“meter”) installed with an OTA antenna and presents information that facilitates a user in installing the OTA antenna at the premises of a customer. For example, the meter app can help the user in pointing and peaking the OTA antenna for one or more broadcast channels, e.g., those selected by the customer. The meter app can store installation information of the OTA antenna for various installations, which can be used in generating a recommendation of, or predicting, installation information for installing the OTA antenna at a specified address. The predicted installation information can include broadcast channels that would be available for reception at the specified address and their signal strength, a specific location of installation on the premises, or whether a pre-amplifier and/or filter is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Edmund Petruzzelli, Marcel Guajardo
  • Patent number: 11546577
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video jitter detection method and an apparatus. The video jitter detection method includes: acquiring a video; inputting the video into a detection model to obtain an evaluation value of the video, where the evaluation value is used to indicate a degree of jitter of the video; where the detection model is a model obtained by training using video samples in a video sample set as inputs and evaluation values of the video samples in the video sample set as outputs. By inputting the video to be detected into the detection model, the evaluation value of the video can be acquired through the detection model, thereby whether the video is jittery is determined, which realizes the video jitter detection end-to-end, and improves the detection accuracy and robustness of video jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Tianbao Yu, Tiansheng Deng, Peng Du, Ting Yun
  • Patent number: 11540024
    Abstract: A method, set-top box, and non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for presentation of audiovisual content with closed captions. The method includes receiving, via an input device interfaced with the electronic device, an instruction requesting a replay of previously viewed video content with closed captioning; sending, to the display device interfaced with the electronic device, one or more thumbnail images of the previously viewed video content to be displayed on the display device; receiving, via the input device interfaced with the electronic device, one of the one or more thumbnail images of the previously viewed video content being selected for replay of the previously viewed video content; and sending, to the display device interfaced with the electronic device, closed captioning with the previously viewed video content starting at a video frame corresponding to the one of the one or more thumbnails of the previously viewed video content selected for replay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Charles J. Supinski, Rakesh Rajan, Sadeesh Kumar Karuppiah
  • Patent number: 11538134
    Abstract: An information generation method includes obtaining a first image projected on the projection target by a projector, a second image taken from a first imaging position, and a third image taken from a second imaging position, identifying a first correspondence relationship between a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system based on the first and second images, identifying a second correspondence relationship between a first coordinate system and a third coordinate system based on the first and third images, making the user designate a display area in the second coordinate system, generating transformation information for transforming the display area designated into a display area in the third coordinate system based on the first correspondence relationship and the second correspondence relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ippei Kurota
  • Patent number: 11528524
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a universal remote control are disclosed. Control schemes for a plurality of remotely-controlled devices may be stored in memory of the universal remote control, where each of the control schemes includes a set of commands for a corresponding one of the remotely-controlled devices. Instructions for each command corresponding to one or more signals for the corresponding remotely-controlled device may be encoded. Based on a current orientation of a mobile device relative to a location of the remotely-controlled devices in a real-world environment, one of the remotely-controlled devices may be identified as being selected. Based on the stored control scheme for the selected remotely-controlled device a display for the mobile device may be generated, wherein the generated display includes the set of commands corresponding to the selected remotely-controlled device. A selection from the generated display of commands may be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Yang, Hsin-Yi Chien, Olga Rudi
  • Patent number: 11523165
    Abstract: A television remote finder assembly for locating a misplaced remote control includes a television that has a communication unit integrated into the television. The communication unit broadcasts an alert signal when the communication unit is actuated. A remote control is in wireless communication with the television for controlling operational parameters of the television. The remote control receives the alert signal when the communication unit in the television is actuated. Additionally, the remote control includes an alarm that is integrated into the remote control. The alarm is actuated when the remote control receives the alert signal to emit an audible alert thereby facilitating the user to locate the remote control when the remote control has been misplaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Albert Garcia
  • Patent number: 11513473
    Abstract: Provided is a waveguide having a light diffraction unit that diffracts incident light by a multiplex-recorded hologram, in which, in the light diffraction unit, a plurality of holograms having different angles with respect to an incident surface of the waveguide are formed, and when certain parallel light beams are incident, different wavelengths are diffracted by the plurality of holograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Takeru Utsugi, Hiromichi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 11509967
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device and method for controlling the same, the method mainly comprising: capturing a screen in which content is reproduced; extracting a first keyword from an image of the captured screen, generating reliability corresponding to the first keyword, when an input of selecting the first keyword is received from an external remote controller, transmitting the first keyword, feedback information and the reliability to an external server, receiving a second keyword, corrected reliability, and feedback information from the external server, and when an input of selecting the second keyword is received, displaying a screen corresponding to the second keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongsim Kim, Yongtaek Gong, Ohryong Kwon, Jiwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11509854
    Abstract: A video signal transmission and reception system includes a video signal receiver in a video signal reception module, a video signal transmitter in a camera module, and a specific video signal transmitter in a specific camera module. In the specific camera module, a frame signal generated by a frame signal generator is sent to the video signal receiver from the specific video signal transmitter. The frame signal is sent to the video signal transmitters in a plurality of the camera modules from the video signal receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS. INC.
    Inventors: Rei Fujiki, Daisuke Iwama
  • Patent number: 11508160
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and at least one exterior viewing camera. The camera connects with the ECU via a coaxial cable. Image data captured by the camera is converted at a serializer to serialized image data that is carried to the ECU via the coaxial cable. The serialized image data carried to the ECU by the coaxial cable is de-serialized at the de-serializer of the ECU to form de-serialized image data. Responsive at least in part to processing at the ECU of de-serialized image data, the vehicular vision system is operable to detect an object viewed by the camera. Responsive at least in part to determination by the vehicular vision system that the equipped vehicle and the detected object may collide, the vehicular vision system, at least in part, controls a braking system of the equipped vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Axel Nix, Joern Ihlenburg, Nazar F. Bally, Duane W. Gebauer
  • Patent number: 11503275
    Abstract: An improved method, system, and apparatus is provided to perform camera calibration, where cameras are mounted onto a moving conveyance apparatus to capture images of a multi-planar calibration target. The calibration process is optimized by reducing the number of images captured while simultaneously preserving overall information density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Steven Kranski, Frederick Dennis Zyda, Grace Vesom, Grace Shin-Yee Tsai, Jeremy A. Grata, Zhiheng Jia, Li Jiang
  • Patent number: 11483512
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and an operation method thereof for preventing image flicker when displaying mixed images: generating a first image corresponding to video content on a first plane, generating, on a second plane, a second image, outputting a mixed image that is a mixture of the first image and the second image, generating a third image on a third plane corresponding to the mixed image, and displaying the third image based on removal of the first image from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehwan Kim, Sungjin Son, Seungjin Park, Kwangsub Byun, Junghwan Choi, Byungkwon Kang, Seokjae Lee
  • Patent number: 11474487
    Abstract: A controllable device, such as a set top box, responds to a transmission received from a one of a plurality of controlling devices of differing capabilities by entering into a one of a plurality of operating modes wherein the one of the plurality of operating modes entered into corresponds to the capabilities of the controlling device from which the transmission originated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Olav B. M. Pouw, Patrick H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 11477523
    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: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Brandon Hines
  • Patent number: 11477533
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, as an input, segmented video scenes, where each video scene includes a specified length of video content. The method may further include scanning the video scenes to identify objects within the video scene and also determining a relative importance value for the identified objects. The relative importance value may include an indication of which objects are to be included in a cropped version of the video scene. The method may also include generating a video crop that is to be applied to the video scene such that the resulting cropped version of the video scene includes those identified objects that are to be included based on the relative importance value. The method may also include applying the generated video crop to the video scene to produce the cropped version of the video scene. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Apurvakumar Dilipkumar Kansara, Sanford Holsapple, Arica Westadt, Kunal Bisla, Sameer Shah
  • Patent number: 11463649
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and a display image rotation adapting method. A rotating component may be controlled to rotate a screen into a portrait mode if a video media resource is a vertical media resource and the screen is in a landscape mode; or, the rotating component may be controlled to rotate the screen into a landscape mode if the video media resource is a horizontal media resource and the screen is in a portrait mode, so as to adapt to an aspect ratio corresponding to the video media resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanmei Yu, Shuo Zhu, Dayong Wang, Meiyan Sun
  • Patent number: 11463785
    Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Drew Major, Christopher Boyd Tirpak, Steven Michael Casagrande