Patents Examined by Samira Monshi
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Patent number: 11006069Abstract: To preferably transmit normal-frame-rate and high-frame-rate image data. A first ratio mixing processing is performed on two temporally-consecutive pictures in high-frame-rate image data to obtain basic-frame-rate image data, and a second ratio mixing processing is performed on the two temporally-consecutive pictures to obtain high-frame-rate image data of an extended frame. An encoding processing is performed on the reference-frame-rate image data to obtain a basic stream and an encoding processing is performed on the high-frame-rate image data of the extended frame to obtain an extended stream. A container including the basic stream and the extended stream in a predetermined format is transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
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Patent number: 11006070Abstract: A display device is connectible to a first video signal output device and a second video signal output device. Upon receiving an input switch instruction from the first video signal output device, the display device is configured to inhibit a first video from the first video signal output device from being displayed when displaying a second video from the second video signal output device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Keita Sano
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Patent number: 11006165Abstract: A controlling device is automatically configured to issue a communication directly to a first controllable appliance to control a functional operation of the first controllable appliance in the event that the first controllable appliance is determined to be unresponsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link or to issue a communication to a second controllable appliance to control the functional operation of the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link in the event that first controllable appliance is determined to be responsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventors: Brian Barnett, Arsham Hatambeiki, Rex Xu, Jesus Perez
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Patent number: 10997944Abstract: A switching device includes multimedia input interfaces for respectively receiving multiple multimedia signals, a switching unit electrically connected to the multimedia input interfaces, a multimedia output interface, an electrical characteristics modulator, and a controller. The switching unit outputs a selected multimedia signal according to a first control signal. The multimedia output interface includes a multimedia signal terminal for outputting the selected multimedia signals and a non-signal terminal. The electrical characteristics modulator changes an electrical characteristic of the non-signal terminal according to a second control signal. The controller is controlled to generate the first and the second control signals through a video switching method whereby the electrical characteristics modulator changes the electrical characteristic of the non-signal terminal thereby increasing compatibility between the switching device and a multimedia output device.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: ATEN International Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kai-Jui Chan
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Patent number: 10986317Abstract: A projection video display device includes a projection video display main body (main body) including a light source and a video display element and generating a video to be projected, a portrait converter that rotates the video generated by the main body around an optical axis by 90°, and a projection lens that magnifies and projects the video rotated by the portrait converter. The main body rotates directions of OSD (On Screen Display) images and in the video generated by the video display element to an opposite direction to or in the same direction as a rotation direction of the video by the portrait converter by 90°. Accordingly, the OSD image can be displayed in a direction in which it is easy for the user to see in portrait projection screens.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kazuo Shikita, Satoshi Nakayama, Nobutaka Hotta, Hiroyuki Shinji
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Patent number: 10986302Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyeseung Lee, Sangjin Ahn, Jihe Suk
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Patent number: 10972800Abstract: An apparatus caused to: in respect of video imagery of an event at which one or more commenting users are present and have submitted comments, a location of the or each of the one or more commenting users visible in the video imagery; based on a current view of the video imagery provided for display to a user and at least one comment having location information associated therewith indicative of one or more of (i) the location, at the time of making the comment, of the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event, (ii) a location, at the event, specified by the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event; provide for display of the comment overlaid over the current view of the video imagery, the comment displayed in the current view of the video imagery at a position that corresponds to the location information.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Arrasvuori
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Patent number: 10945020Abstract: Provided are an electronic apparatus and a method of operating the same. The electronic apparatus includes: a buffer configured to receive one or more first frames corresponding to a first stream and one or more second frames corresponding to a second stream; and a controller configured to identify the one or more second frames and control the buffer to output the identified one or more second frames, in response to a playback switch event, wherein the controller is configured to identify the one or more second frames based on a time stamp value of the one or more second frames distinguished from a time stamp value of the one or more first frames or a second flag added to the one or more second frames and distinguished from a first flag added to the one or more first frames.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Da-hee Jeong, Se-hyun Kim
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Patent number: 10932005Abstract: A system (100) for enabling a user to select media content in an entertainment environment, comprising a remote control device (110) having a set of user-activated keys and a speech activation circuit adapted to enable a speech signal; a speech engine (160) comprising a speech recognizer (170); an application wrapper (180) configured to recognize substantive meaning in the speech signal; and a media content controller (190) configured to select media content. Every function that can be executed by activation of the user-activated keys can also be executed by the speech engine (160) in response to the recognized substantive meaning.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: PROMPTU SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Adam Jordan, Scott Lynn Maddux, Tim Plowman, Victoria Stanbach, Jody Williams
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Patent number: 10924639Abstract: A transparent display system is provided where broadcast talent (or presenter) can see interactive content, tool palettes, prompts (and the like) as well as their own sketches and annotations, but a viewing audience sees only the broadcast talent and content intended for the viewing audience with the talent's annotation thereof. A transparent scattering screen together with optical filtering or gating of a first optical property of the light (e.g., polarization-based or wavelength-based) is used such that the first property of the light is projected onto the screen so the talent can see the projection, and a camera-side filter blocks the first property of the light so it is not seen by the camera. Simultaneously, a broadcast talent (or presenter) is illuminated by light having properties other than the first property, which allows the talent image to pass through the screen and the camera-side filter allowing the talent to be seen by camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Quinn Smithwick, Samuel J. Reisner
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Patent number: 10924718Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a reduction in the accuracy of corresponding point detection. A homography transformation is applied to a captured pattern image obtained as a result of an imaging unit capturing an image of a predetermined structured light pattern projected by a projection unit, and using the captured pattern image with the homography transformation applied to detect corresponding points between the projected image projected by the projection unit and the captured image captured by the imaging unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image projection device, a control device, an information processing device, a projection imaging system, an image processing method, a program, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo Katsuki, Naoki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10922563Abstract: A vehicular control system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a plurality of cameras including side-viewing cameras and a front or forward-viewing camera and/or a rearward-viewing camera. The cameras connect with the ECU via respective coaxial cables. Image data captured by the cameras is converted at a respective LVDS serializer to a respective image signal and is carried to the ECU via the respective coaxial cable by LVDS. The image signals are de-serialized at the respective LVDS de-serializer of the ECU. The image processor of the ECU may process a de-serialized image signal to detect a vehicle present in the field of view of the front camera, whereby, responsive to determination that the equipped vehicle and the detected vehicle may collide, the system may, at least in part, control a braking system of the equipped vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Axel Nix, Joern Ihlenburg, Nazar F. Bally, Duane W. Gebauer
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Patent number: 10904503Abstract: A correction information generation section 50 emits measurement light having uniform intensity onto a polarized image acquisition section 20 acquiring a polarized image. Further, on the basis of a measured polarized image acquired from the polarized image acquisition section 20, the correction information generation section 50 generates variation correction information for correcting sensitivity variations caused in the measured polarized image due to difference in polarization direction, and causes a correction information storage section 30 to store the generated variation correction information. A correction processing section 40 then corrects the sensitivity variations caused in the polarized image acquired by the polarized image acquisition section 20 due to the difference in polarization direction by using the pre-generated variation correction information stored in the correction information storage section 30.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhi Kondo, Shun Kaizu, Teppei Kurita, Tuo Zhuang, Yasutaka Hirasawa, Ying Lu
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Patent number: 10904477Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for identifying devices coupled a media device hub. A device map in the media device hub may create a map entry that associates a first device, a port to which the first device was at least previously coupled, and a first key of the first device. A second key is obtained from a media device that is coupled to a current port of the media device hub. A determination is made whether the second key is the same as the first key stored in the device map. If the first and second keys are the same, a determination is made whether the current port to which the second device is coupled is different than the port indicated in the device map. If the current port is different than the indicated port, the device map is updated to indicate the first device as coupled to the current port.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Caavo IncInventors: Ashish D. Aggarwal, Sharath H. Satheesh, Conrad Savio Jude Gomes, Bitto Niclavose
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Patent number: 10904497Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a light source unit including a plurality of laser light sources, a light modulation element configured to modulate illumination light generated using a laser beam from the light source unit and to generate image light projected onto a projection surface, and a controller configured to control driving of the plurality of laser light sources. The controller controls a luminance of the illumination light by selecting a first laser light source that emits the laser beam and a second laser light source that does not emit the laser beam among the plurality of laser light sources.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yuya Kurata
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Patent number: 10891722Abstract: Provided is a display method of displaying, on a display device, video of video data where luminance of video is defined by a first EOTF indicating a correlation of HDR luminance and code values. The method includes: acquiring the video data; performing, regarding each of multiple pixels making up the video in the acquired video data, first determining of determining whether luminance of that pixel exceeds a first predetermined luminance; performing, regarding each of the multiple pixels, dual tone mapping where luminance of that pixel is reduced by a different format in a case of the luminance of the pixel being found to exceed the first predetermined luminance from the first determining, and a case of the luminance of the pixel being found to be equal to or lower than the first predetermined luminance; and displaying the video on the display device using the results of the dual tone mapping.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Takashi Higashida, Yoshihiro Mori, Haruyasu Hirakawa, Tadamasa Toma, Hirokazu Nakanishi
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Patent number: 10893228Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a sensor configured to detect features external to the vehicle, an HMI configured to signal an alert to an operator of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is in communication with the sensor and the HMI, and is in communication with a non-transient computer-readable storage medium provided with a road furniture database. The road furniture database includes a plurality of items of road furniture having associated road furniture geolocations and road furniture classifications. The controller is configured to, in response to the vehicle being proximate a respective road furniture geolocation for a respective item of road furniture and the sensor not detecting the respective item of road furniture, control the HMI to signal an alert.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Andrew W. Averhart, Ismail Hamieh, Guangyu J. Zou, David A. Craig
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Patent number: 10887564Abstract: A projection video display apparatus and method for solving a problem of deterioration of visibility of video that is projected on a transparent or semi-transparent screen. In a projection video display method for projecting and displaying video light on a rear surface or front surface of a transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen disposed in a space by a projection video display apparatus, video light to be projected and displayed is generated, the generated video light is projected on the rear surface or front surface of the transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen, and at that time, a video display position recognition screen for making an observer of the video recognize a position where the video is projected is projected on the transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen before start of the projection of the video light or simultaneously with the start of the projection of the video light.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Kazuya Ozawa
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Patent number: 10880609Abstract: Methods, systems, computer readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing event messages to a user. The event messages may include video data or a link to video of the event. In some variations, a user or content provider may define criteria for the event messages that are to be displayed to the user. The event messages may be stored so that a user may be able to browse through the stored event messages and decide when to view the video of the event. Upon a user's selection of the event message, the video of the event may be displayed to the user on the same display device or another display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Leslie Eugene Chipman, Amit Bagga, Jenny Jiang, Anita Eradla, Scot Zola
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Patent number: 10880514Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for transmitting image data and an intelligent TV set. The method includes transmitting, by a primary chip, image data to a second chip. The image data comprises pixel data including a pixel type for indicating that a pixel in the image to be displayed is a menu On-Screen Display (OSD) pixel or a video pixel. The method includes receiving, by the second chip, the image data, and determining the pixel type in the image data. The method further includes performing, by the second chip, a Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC) function on the pixel in response to the pixel type being the video pixel, and not performing the MEMC function on the pixel in response to the pixel type of the pixel being the menu OSD pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junsong Wang, Zhikui Wang