Patents Examined by Sean Haiem
  • Patent number: 9239237
    Abstract: A system for quickly aligning a test optic with various components of an optical metrology tool. A collimated target is presented to a beamsplitting reference surface located on a positioning system for holding and manipulating the test optic. Video images of the target and its reflection from the reference surface are displayed for analysis and visualization so that any tilt between the reference surface and the optical axis of the collimated beam can be removed to align the test optic. After alignment, the video based system is used to quickly measure and display in real-time a variety of performance characteristics of optical components such as lenses. The metrology system is under the control of a computer which uses a windowing software program to provide the user with a graphical user interface by which the various components of the system and test lenses may be aligned and characterized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: OPTIKOS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daniel Orband
  • Patent number: 9234846
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-resolution microscope and to a method for determining the two- or three-dimensional positions of objects. The microscope and method includes the following: (a) The vertical (Z) position of imaged particles or molecules being determined from the orientation and shape thereof by means of an anamorphic lens, preferably a cylindrical lens, in the imaging, (b) the detection beam path being split into at least two partial detection beam paths having different optical path lengths, which are detected at an offset on a detector, (c) activation or switchover being performed by means of a multi-photon excitation process, preferably two-photon excitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kalkbrenner, Ralf Wolleschensky
  • Patent number: 9225962
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided embodying a novel approach to measuring degradation (or distortion) by analyzing disparity maps from original 3D video and reconstructed 3D video. The disparity maps may be derived using a stereo-matching algorithm exploiting 2-view stereo image disparity. An overall distortion measure may also be determined resulting from the weighted sum of plural measures of distortions, one of the plural distortion measures corresponding to a measure of disparity degradation, and another one corresponding to a measure of geometrical distortion. The measure (or overall distortion measure) is used during real-time encoding to effect various decisions, including mode decision in the coding of each corresponding stereo pair, and in rate control (including stereo pair quantization).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Au, Jaehin In, Arturo A. Rodriguez, Ali Jerbi, Jiawei Huang
  • Patent number: 9219887
    Abstract: A drive assist device includes: a overhead image generating unit that generates a vehicle periphery overhead image; a forward trajectory setting unit that sets a forward trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when the turning based on a calculated steering angle; a reverse trajectory setting unit that sets a reverse trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle or in the opposite direction as the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when turning based on a steering angle in the opposite direction as the calculated steering angle; and a image synthesizing unit that generates a drive assist overhead image for display in a monitor by synthesizing the forward trajectory and the reverse trajectory with the vehicle periphery overhead image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruka Iga, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9210303
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a lens distortion correction method to solve influence for distortion correction caused by an alignment error between a lens center and a center of image sensor unit during assembling. The present disclosure is characterized in that the spatial geometric calibration is incorporated with the lens distortion correction and different image centers are selected repeatedly when transformation relationship of image coordinates is used to perform the lens distortion correction, so as to correct the image center of the image to be corrected and enhance the accuracy of lens distortion correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong-Long Chou, Yu-Chih Wang, Wen-Yan Chang, Yao-Sheng Wang
  • Patent number: 9204106
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device (10) comprises a monitor (50) that displays a bird's-eye image (200) that includes an image of a dump truck (1), a payload meter ECU (21) that detects the load of the dump truck (1), and a controller (20) that switches the size of a cargo image (C1) displayed over the vessel (4) of the dump truck (1) and displays this image on the monitor (50) on the basis of the detection result of the payload meter ECU (21). In a load display device for a dump truck, a plurality of cameras are installed and the load display device monitors the periphery by using a bird's-eye image that combines images obtained by the plurality of cameras. The load display device includes a display component, a detector and a display controller. The display component is configured to display the bird's-eye image including an image of the dump truck. The detector is configured to detect a load of the dump truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mitsuta, Shigeru Harada, Tomikazu Tanuki, Eishin Masutani, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Takeshi Kurihara, Dai Tsubone, Masaomi Machida
  • Patent number: 9199164
    Abstract: An image display device of an embodiment includes an image display means for displaying a parallax image on a display screen, a first coordinate calculating means for calculating virtual spatial coordinates of a stereoscopic image recognized by a viewer of the parallax image, a second coordinate calculating means for calculating spatial coordinates of an operating body to be operated by the viewer, and an event generating means. The event generating means generates a certain event accompanying a change of at least one of the parallax image or an image on the display screen other than the parallax image when a distance between the spatial coordinates of at least one point of the stereoscopic image calculated by the first coordinate calculating means and the spatial coordinates of at least one point of the operating body calculated by the second coordinate calculating means is equal to or less than a certain threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 9187063
    Abstract: A substance detection apparatus and method including a light source to emit light to a planar transparent member having a proximal first face and a distal second face opposite the first face, the light from the light source first striking the first face of the planar transparent member. The substance detection apparatus and method including an image capture lens, a polarization filter, an image sensor, and a substance detection processor. The light emitted from the light source is reflected at the substance present on the second face of the planar transparent member, and the image sensor receives light reflected from the substance, via the image capture lens and the polarization filter, to capture an image of the substance present on the second face of the planar transparent member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Hirai, Izumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 9191607
    Abstract: An information display device, which facilitates obtainment of information about an object in video, includes: a related information obtaining unit which obtains related information including (i) positional information indicating a first position of a currently displayed object on a video display screen of a video display device that is external to the information display device and (ii) object information indicating attribute information of the object; a display unit which displays the object information in the related information obtained by the related information obtaining unit; and a display control unit which controls the display unit so that the object information is displayed at a second position on the display unit corresponding to the first position indicated by the positional information in the related information, in coordination with a display of the object on the video display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsufusa Kondo
  • Patent number: 9185460
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive audio video content; a trigger extraction portion configured to extract trigger information for operating an application program transmitted along with the audio video content and executed in interlocked relation to the audio video content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table for associating the trigger information with commands for controlling the operation of the application program; a command determination portion configured such that, based on the acquired correspondence table, the command determination portion determines the commands associated with the extracted trigger information; and a control portion configured to control the operation of the application program in response to the determined commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Mark Eyer
  • Patent number: 9185401
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a camera network includes generating a projection matrix by each of cameras in respect of a calibration pattern that is disposed at a plurality of different positions in a photography zone. A portion of the projection matrix is produced as a sub-projection matrix. Sub-projection matrixes are arranged widthwise and lengthwise to generate one sub-measurement matrix. A singular value decomposition (SVD) is performed on the sub-measurement matrix to change the sub-measurement matrix into a matrix having a rank of 3 and a SVD is performed on the changed sub-measurement matrix. A rotation value of the calibration pattern, and an internal parameter and a rotation value of each camera are extracted to thereby calibrate the camera network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Hean Kim, Hyun Kang, Ji Hyung Lee, Bonki Koo
  • Patent number: 9185392
    Abstract: A moving object to be subject to 3-dimensional rendering is illuminated by a repeated sequence of a number N different two-dimensional structured light patterns. For each illumination, the illuminated object is captured by two spaced apart cameras, thereby creating a series of pairs of two-dimensional images. A set of N adjacent pairs of the two-dimensional images is used to form a single three-dimensional image frame. A moving window of N adjacent pairs of the two-dimensional images provides a train of such three-dimensional image frames. The object may furthered be illuminated by non-structured light whose captured image reflection may be used as an overlay over the three-dimensional rendered object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Zhuang, Yunqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 9179087
    Abstract: An AV device is provided that can automatically perform OSD display setting of other AV devices at a time based on local ODS display setting even when a plurality of AV devices are connected. The AV device (depicted as TV 1) includes a connection means (depicted as an HDMI connector 21 and an HDMI connector 22) for making connection with external AV devices 3 and 4 capable of performing OSD display, an OSD processing portion 23 for performing OSD display on a display 17, and a system controller 20 for controlling the entire system. The OSD processing portion 23 generates ODS display setting data 23a from the display setting such as a character color and size in OSD display received from a user using a TV remote controller 2 or the like and stores it. The system controller 20 transmits the OSD display setting data 23a for the TV 1 stored here to the external AV devices 3 and 4 via the HDMI connectors 21 and 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9179056
    Abstract: Image capturing systems with context control and related methods are provided. In this regard, a representative image capturing system includes: an image capturing device having a user-adjustable setting for altering an image capture parameter; and a context control system operative to receive location information corresponding to a location of the image capturing device and to preset the user-adjustable setting based, at least in part, on the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gregory A. Dunko
  • Patent number: 9179127
    Abstract: This 3D image capture device includes: a light transmitting section 1 with first and second light transmitting areas 1L and 1R; an image sensor 2a with a plurality of unit blocks; an imaging section 3; and an image processing section which generates multi-viewpoint images based on photoelectrically converted signals supplied from the image sensor 2a. If functions representing the respective spectral transmittances of the first light transmitting area 1L, the second light transmitting area 1R, a first type of pixel, and a second type of pixel with respect to the wavelength ? of visible radiation are identified by TL(?), TR(?), T1(?), and T2(?), respectively, TL(?)?TR(?) and T1(?)?T2(?) are satisfied, and each of TL(?), TR(?), T1(?) and T2(?) has at least one local maximum value and at least one local minimum value within each of red, green and blue wavelength ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Hiramoto, Yasunori Ishii
  • Patent number: 9164043
    Abstract: The detecting method and detecting device provided in the present disclosure is used for detecting an array substrate, including: scanning a defect on the array substrate and determining a size of the defect; generating a switching controlling command according to the size of the defect and switching a lens to a magnification adapted to the size of the defect; and capturing an image of the defect using the switched lens. In the embodiment, by analyzing the size of the scanned defect and switching the camera lens according to the size of the defect, the switched lens is allowed to capture a complete and clear image of the defect, which eases the analysis of the type of the defect, effectively improves the analyzing accuracy of the defect, and improves the monitoring effect of the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yungyu Lin
  • Patent number: 9161014
    Abstract: Method for compensating illumination deficiencies in microscopic “shape from focus (SFF)”, wherein firstly the reflectance of the scene is estimated by way of a projector-camera system and then microscopic “shape from focus (SFF)” is applied to a stack of reflectance maps rather than to the original image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: Alicona Imaging GmbH, Technische Universität Graz
    Inventors: Manfred Prantl, Stefan Scherer, Martin Lenz, Matthias Ruther, Horst Bischof
  • Patent number: 9160959
    Abstract: High-quality content reproduction is to be realized. A transmission clock is supplied from a sink (repeater) device to a source device via a clock signal line. The source device sends content data to the sink (repeater) device via a predetermined number of differential signal lines in synchronization with the transmission clock supplied from the sink (repeater) device. High-quality content reproduction can be performed in the sink (repeater) device, without the use of any additional lines other than the differential signal lines and the clock signal line. For example, upon receipt of a transmission clock supply request from the source device, the sink (repeater) device supplies the transmission clock to the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura
  • Patent number: 9158058
    Abstract: This display device includes a display device body, a display portion arranged on the front side of the display device body, a light source substrate, a light guide plate arranged on the rear side of the display portion to be opposed to the light source substrate mounted with the light source, having a light incident surface including a side surface receiving light emitted from the light source, a heat sink arranged on the rear side of the light guide plate, including a light source substrate fixing portion to which the light source substrate is attached and fixed by a double-faced adhesive tape, and a substrate pressing portion pressing the front end surface of the light source substrate attached to the light source substrate fixing portion in a direction toward the bottom surface of the heat sink in a surface contact state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromasa Sasaoka
  • Patent number: 9154668
    Abstract: Provided are a video display device and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining an uncompressed audio-visual (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; obtaining content information of the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a content section of the uncompressed AV content; obtaining content change time information and enhanced service information on the basis of the content information; and determining a delay time for obtaining the next content information on the basis of the content change time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Kim, Jongyeul Suh, Kwansuk Kim, Joonhui Lee, Jaehee Chung, Hyeonjae Lee, Jinpil Kim, Dongwan Seo, Kyoungsoo Moon, Aettie Ji, Youngjae Seo, Kyungho Kim, Sungok Park