Patents Examined by Sean N. Haiem
  • Patent number: 11765325
    Abstract: A system having a color filter having first and second segments. The first and second segments allow respective first and second wavelengths to pass through to a spatial light modulator. The first and second segments also reflect second and first wavelengths, respectively. The reflected first and second wavelengths are recycled and directed towards the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kristofer Scott Oberascher, Gregory Scott Pettitt, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Michael Terry Davis, Xi Zhou
  • Patent number: 11754711
    Abstract: A device includes a controller with a processor and memory with instructions for controlling power to a light source such that the light source emits a frequency-modulated continuous light beam that, over time, includes an up region, a down region, and a flat region. The up region includes increasing a frequency of the continuous light beam, the down region includes decreasing the frequency of the continuous light beam, and the flat region includes maintaining the frequency of the continuous light beam at a constant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LUMINAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Klemme, Pierre Asselin, Zoran Jandric
  • Patent number: 11758088
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for aligning a paragraph and a video. The method may include: acquiring a commentary and a candidate material resource set corresponding to the commentary, a candidate material resource being a video or an image; acquiring a matching degree between each paragraph in the commentary and each candidate material resource in the candidate material resource set; and determining a candidate material resource sequence corresponding to the each paragraph in the commentary based on the matching degrees between the paragraphs in the commentary and the candidate material resources, playing durations of the candidate material resources and text lengths of the paragraphs in the commentary, an image playing duration being a preset image playing duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Hao Tian, Xi Chen, Jeff ChienYu Wang, Daming Lu
  • Patent number: 11758262
    Abstract: A method for intelligent manual adjustment of a manually rotatable focus control of a camera may comprise determining a depth value of a target area relative to the camera and determining a desirable focus adjustment according to a direction and an amount that a focal point of the camera is to be moved in order to coincide with the depth value of the target area. The method may also comprise assisting an operator of the manually rotatable focus control to the desirable focus adjustment by providing a haptic force on the manually rotatable focus control that decreases as the focal point of the camera moves toward the depth value of the target area and increases as the focal point of the camera moves away from the depth value of the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul E. Lilagan, Wenyi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11754715
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method of storing point cloud data in an autonomous driving vehicle can include the operations of receiving raw point cloud data from a LiDAR sensor mounted on the autonomous driving vehicle, the raw point cloud data representing cloud data points acquired in response to laser beams emitted at a given angle; retrieving configuration information of the LiDAR sensor, the configuration information including at least a number of laser lines of the LiDAR sensor. The method further includes the operations of constructing, based on the configuration information, a data structure that includes a data entry for each of the cloud data points, the data entry including multiple fields for storing attributes of the cloud data point, each field having a bit width determined based on the configuration information using a predetermined algorithm; and writing the cloud data points to a storage medium using the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Manjiang Zhang, Min Guo, Shengjin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11747171
    Abstract: Technique for performing camera calibration on a vehicle is disclosed. A method of performing camera calibration includes emitting, by a laser emitter located on a vehicle and pointed towards a road, a first laser pulse group towards a first location on a road and a second laser pulse group towards a second location on the road, where each laser pulse group includes one or more laser spots. For each laser pulse group: a first set of distances are calculated from a location of a laser receiver to the one or more laser spots, and a second set of distances are determined from an image obtained from a camera, where the second set of distances are from a location of the camera to the one or more laser spots. The method also includes determining two camera calibration parameters of the camera by solving two equations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoling Han, Zehua Huang
  • Patent number: 11722747
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing distractions from nearby devices when content susceptible to interruption is being consumed. Content susceptible to interruption is determined, and when this content is consumed on one device, nearby devices are identified and their output characteristics are modified. For example, output volume of nearby devices may be reduced, or the volume of the first device may be increased. This process is repeated with different devices as they each output content determined to be susceptible to interruption. Consumers are thus presented with fewer distractions from surrounding devices while they are consuming content that is susceptible to interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Pulicharla, Madhusudhan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11716548
    Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines distances between the DCA and objects in a local area within a field of view of the DCA. The DCA projects a series of sinusoidal patterns into the local area DCA and captures images of the sinusoidal patterns via a sensor. Each pixel of the augmented sensor includes a plurality of charge bins, and charge accumulated by a photodiode of a pixel during different time intervals (e.g., times when different sinusoidal patterns are emitted) is stored in a different charge storage bin. Charge may be retrieved from different charge storage bins to determine depth from the DCA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hall, Qing Chao
  • Patent number: 11711498
    Abstract: An efficient conjugate lighting system for an LCD projector, includes an LED light source, a square cone condenser, a collimating lens, a quarter-wave plate, a brightness-enhancing polarizer, an LCD light valve, a field lens and a projection lens which are provided in sequence according to a direction of light travel; wherein the efficient conjugate lighting system for the LCD projector further comprises a reflecting mirror provided at an entrance port of the square cone condenser; a light-transmitting surface of the entrance port of the square cone condenser is bisected along a horizontal centerline or a vertical centerline to form a first sub-light-transmitting surface and a second sub-light-transmitting surface; a light-emitting surface of the LED light source is provided on the first sub-light-transmitting surface, and the reflector is provided on the second sub-light-transmitting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NANHUA INTELLIGENT PRECISION MACHINE (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hanwen Guo
  • Patent number: 11688145
    Abstract: Techniques for virtualizing content are disclosed. Elements comprising source content are virtualized by mapping each to and representing each with a corresponding database object. A specification of the corresponding database objects is provided for rendering the source content instead of any original pixel information of the source content so that a virtualized version of the source content is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Marc Mignard
  • Patent number: 11677915
    Abstract: An image display device includes M (M?2) ultra-short focus projectors and reflective directional screens that reflect projection light rays from the corresponding ultra-short focus projectors. The ultra-short focus projectors are arranged above or below the directional screens on which the ultra-short focus projectors are supposed to project images. Adjacent directional screens are tightly arranged. The adjacent directional screens are arranged to form an angle of less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Norihiro Ohse
  • Patent number: 11671647
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling the selection of audio associated with one or more concurrently displayed video programs to be controlled. This system and method enable a user to select one or more concurrently displayed video programs and consequently control the routing and volume of the audio associated with one or all of the concurrently displayed video programs. The concurrently viewed videos can be presented in a picture-in-picture format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Albert Fitzgerald Elcock, Anthony Zuyderhoff, Richard Moore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11659136
    Abstract: A data conversion device includes a storage circuit and a frequency tuning circuit. The storage circuit is configured to store a pixel data in a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) signal according to a first clock, and output an image data according to a second clock. The frequency tuning circuit is configured to adjust the second clock according to a control signal and the second clock in the HDMI signal, and transmit the adjusted second clock to the storage circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Chien-Hsun Lu, Zhan-Yao Gu, Chun-Chieh Chan
  • Patent number: 11652963
    Abstract: The invention provides a system (1000) for processing light, the system (1000) configured to provide along a main beam path (1105) a beam (1005) of system light (1001), wherein the system light (1001) comprises one or more of first light (111) having a first spectral distribution, second light (121) having a second spectral distribution, and third light (131) having a third spectral distribution, wherein the first, second, and third spectral distributions mutually differ, wherein the system (1000) comprises: —a lighting arrangement (100) configured to provide along a first beam path (1101) a first beam (101) comprising primary light (103) having a spectral power distribution with at least 80% of the spectral power consisting of one of the first light (111), the second light (121), and the third light (131), and/or configured to provide along a second beam pat (1102) a second beam (102) comprising composed light (104) having a spectral distribution with at least 80% of the spectral power consisting of the two
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Vincent Vanbroekhoven, Roelof Koole, Bart Alex Theresia Dilles, John-John Pieter Jan Van Den Bergh
  • Patent number: 11647165
    Abstract: An audio/video (A/V) recording and communication doorbell device includes a transistor assembly and control circuitry. The transistor assembly is electrically coupled between an input power bus that distributes alternating current (AC) input power and/or direct current (DC) input power, and an output power bus that provides a DC output power for the A/V recording and communication doorbell device. The control circuitry is configured to cause the transistor assembly to convert AC input power and/or DC input power from the input power bus to the DC output power into the output power bus, to provide the DC output power for the A/V recording and communication doorbell device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Tso
  • Patent number: 11636674
    Abstract: Techniques for virtual assistant situation commentary are provided. At least one image frame of a field of view (FOV) of a camera may be received, the at least one image frame intended to be sent to at least one participant of a talk group. A description associated with each element of a plurality of elements within the FOV of the camera may be generated. It may be determined that the at least one participant of the talk group is not currently visually engaged. Audio communication of a sender of the at least one image frame may be monitored to identify a reference to an element of the plurality of elements. The audio communication may be supplemented to include portions of the description of the element that were not included in the audio communication from the sender when it is determined that the at least one participant is not visually engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Alfy Merican Ahmad Hambaly, Hasrolnizam Mohd Mokhtar
  • Patent number: 11632582
    Abstract: Real-time latency of audio/video streams is identified. Signatures of a reference audio/video stream and signatures of a test audio/video stream are buffered. A needle is constructed as a vector including a set of signatures of the reference audio/video stream. Correlations of the needle to successive vectors of sets of signatures of the test audio/video stream are computed using a correlation function that calculates relatedness of the needle vector to each of the successive vectors of the test audio/video stream. A synchronization offset is identified between the test stream and the reference stream according to a maximum correlation point of the correlations of the needle to the successive sets of signatures of the test audio/video stream. The reference audio/video stream and the test audio/video stream are aligned according to the synchronization offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SSIMWAVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Vytautas Olekas, Ian Wormsbecker, Ahmed Badr, Joshua Vijay Mohan
  • Patent number: 11627294
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously displaying, in plural spatially distinct zones via a multi-view display, differentiated content is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a plurality of spatially distinct zones are defined, differentiated content is assigned to the zones, a location for at least some of plural landing spots of beamlets projected by multi-view pixels of the multi-view display is estimated, the spatially distinct zone in which each said landing spots resides is determined, and beamlets associated with said some landing spots are driven to cause an appropriate content portion to be viewable at said some landing spots, as a function of location in a particular spatially distinct zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: David Steven Thompson, Paul Henry Dietz, Albert Han Ng
  • Patent number: 11622104
    Abstract: A test fixture for holding and testing portions of an optical device, such as a plurality of cameras of an eyewear device. The test fixture includes a relay lens such that the fixture can be positioned close to a test screen displaying a patterned test image and reducing the size and cost of parts. The test fixture includes one or more lasers configured to easily and quickly align the test fixture. The test fixture includes an actuator for selectively positioning the cameras behind the relay lens to check for image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Alan E. Baron
  • Patent number: 11619871
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to display technologies. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide projection display systems where one or more laser diodes are used as a light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Paul Rudy