Patents Examined by Shahbaz Nazrul
  • Low-cost, long-term aerial imagery
    Patent number: 10560666
    Abstract: An imaging system that includes a camera mourned on an aerial platform, for example a balloon, allows a user to increase the longevity of the camera's battery by remote control. A user may capture imagery at a time scale of interest and desired power consumption by adjusting parameters for image capture by the camera. A user may adjust a time to capture an image, a time to capture a video, or a number of cycles per time period to capture one or more images as the aerial platform moves in a region of interest to change power consumption for imaging. The system also provides imaging alignment to account for unwanted movement of the aerial platform when moved in the region of interest. Additionally, a mounting device is provided that is simple and inexpensive, and that allows a camera to remain positioned in a desired position relative to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ranveer Chandra, Manohar Swaminathan, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Zerina Kapetanovic, Deepak Vasisht, Akshit Kumar, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta Sinha, Rohit Patil
  • Imaging apparatus, lens apparatus, and intermediate accessory
    Patent number: 10560616
    Abstract: A camera body includes a DCL terminal, a DLC terminal, and a LCLK terminal, that perform communication with a lens apparatus by a first voltage, or a second voltage that differs from the first voltage. The camera body also includes a DLC2 terminal that is only used when communication using the DCL terminal, DLC terminal, and LCLK terminal is performed by the first voltage. The DLC2 terminal is disposed adjacent to the LCLK terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yasuda, Yasuyuki Watazawa, Naoto Fujihashi
  • Methods and apparatus for implementation of an orientation-based user interface
    Patent number: 10554885
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for the implementation of an orientation-based user interface. In one embodiment, a method for implementing an orientation-based user interface is disclosed. The method includes determining an orientation of an image capture device via use of an orientation sensor; associating the determining of the orientation with functionality for the image capture device; and enabling the functionality for the image capture device associated with the determining of the orientation. Image capture devices, computing systems, computer-readable apparatus and systems for the purposes of implementing orientation-based user interfaces are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Stewart
  • Temperature management in wearable devices
    Patent number: 10551889
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing temperatures of wearable device components are disclosed. In one aspect, a wearable electronic device includes glasses, a wireless transmitter, an ambient temperature sensor, hardware processing circuitry, and a hardware memory storing instructions that when executed configure the hardware processing circuitry to determine an ambient temperature using the ambient temperature sensor, determine a maximum temperature of the wearable electronic device based on the ambient temperature, determine a temperature of the wearable electronic device, determine a difference between the maximum wearable temperature and the determined temperature of the wearable electronic device, and adjust a transmission rate of the wireless transmitter based on the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Ashwood, Michael Wollman, Nicholas Larson, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons
  • Information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10554895
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a visual field determination section 122 that determines, for a predetermined subject distance and on the basis of two images with different parallaxes that have been captured by a plurality of imaging units that perform three-dimensional image shooting, a common visual field range of the two images with different parallaxes; and a display controller 138 that displays, on a display, information on the determined common visual field range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hisayuki Harada, Toshikazu Hayashi, Keiji Okada, Osamu Nonaka, Yuichi Tsuchimochi
  • Local tone mapping
    Patent number: 10554903
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor; applying a filter to the image to obtain a low-frequency component image and a high-frequency component image; determining a first enhanced image based on a weighted sum of the low-frequency component image and the high-frequency component image, where the high-frequency component image is weighted more than the low-frequency component image; determining a second enhanced image based on the first enhanced image and a tone mapping; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the second enhanced image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Matthieu Guerin, Antoine Regimbeau, Thomas Nicolas Emmanuel Veit, Bruno César Douady-Pleven, Violaine Marie Mong-lan Sudret
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 10542207
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information on first image processing performed on input image data; a processing unit configured to generate processed image data by performing second image processing on the input image data; and an outputting unit configured to output the information on the first image processing acquired by the acquiring unit, information on the second image processing performed by the processing unit, and information regarding an order of execution of the first image processing and the second image processing either as a single piece of information or individual pieces of information, wherein the information on the first image processing and the information on the second image processing respectively include a parameter of a type defined in the ASC CDL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ikenishi
  • Video display apparatus and control method of video display apparatus
    Patent number: 10536631
    Abstract: A video display apparatus comprises an obtaining unit configured to obtain installation data representing an installation condition of a camera; an accepting unit configured to accept a movement of a cut position of a cut video obtained by cutting a part of a video captured by the camera; and a control unit configured to, based on the installation data, switch an image representing a moving direction of the cut position on the video in a case in which the movement is accepted by the accepting unit and superimpose the image on the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawawa
  • Display control apparatus, control method, and program
    Patent number: 10531005
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a touch detection unit that detects a touch operation on a first display unit; a proximity detection unit that detects object proximity; and a control unit that, when the first display unit is turned on and a second display unit is turned off, in response to object proximity being detected by the proximity detection unit before a touch operation is detected by the touch detection unit, turns off the first display unit and starts turning on the second display unit, and when the first display unit is turned on and a second display unit is turned off, in response to object proximity being detected by the proximity detection unit after a touch operation is detected by the touch detection unit and before a first predetermined time is exceeded, starts turning on the second display unit while maintaining the first display unit to be turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Fujihashi
  • Imaging device
    Patent number: 10523888
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present disclosure includes: an imaging cell including a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric converter generating signal charge by photoelectric conversion, and a charge detection circuit connected to the first electrode, the charge detection circuit detecting the signal charge; a signal line electrically coupled to the first electrode; and a voltage supply circuit selectively supplying a first voltage and a second voltage different from the first voltage to the signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanshiro Shishido, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Masaaki Yanagida
  • Mount capable of mounting accessory, and image pickup apparatus
    Patent number: 10510229
    Abstract: A mount aims to prevent an accessory mountable in an image pickup apparatus from being stolen using a simple configuration. The mount is disposed in a main body of an image pickup apparatus, and comprises a first mount portion attachable/detachable with respect to an accessory. The first mount portion includes a fixing portion fixed to the main body of the image pickup apparatus, a fixed mount portion fixed and held to the fixing portion, a movable mount portion relatively rotatable with respect to the fixed mount portion with an optical axis of the image pickup apparatus as a center, a mount ring rotatable with the movable mount portion, and an insertion portion to which an operation member to switch a non-lock state and a lock state of the accessory with respect to the first mount portion is inserted from an outside of the first mount portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoko Shimizu
  • Solid-state image sensor and camera
    Patent number: 10504947
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second faces. The sensor includes a plurality of pixel groups each including pixels, each pixel having a photoelectric converter and a wiring pattern, the converter including a region whose major carriers are the same with charges to be accumulated in the photoelectric converter. The sensor also includes a microlenses which are located so that one microlens is arranged for each pixel group. The wiring patterns are located at a side of the first face, and the plurality of microlenses are located at a side of the second face. Light-incidence faces of the regions of the photoelectric converters of each pixel group are arranged along the second face such that the light-incidence faces are apart from each other in a direction along the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Minowa, Hidekazu Takahashi, Yuichiro Yamashita, Akira Okita
  • Image signal processor data traffic management
    Patent number: 10506161
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage image signal processor (ISP) data traffic is provided. The apparatus includes an ISP having an ISP front-end configured to receive image data and a first memory configured to store the image data. The ISP front-end is further configured to output the image data stored in the first memory to a second memory via a memory link in response to the image data stored in the first memory reaching a size threshold. Another apparatus includes apparatus includes a camera sensor configured to output image data in a camera mode, an ISP on a die, a camera link coupling the camera sensor and the ISP, a memory, and a memory link coupling the ISP and the memory. The memory link is configured to enter a low-power mode in the camera mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Aravind Bhaskara, Wenbiao Wang, Tao Shen, Mohit Bhave, Nishant Hariharan, Jun Liu, Jeffrey Hao Chu, Scott Cheng
  • Sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging
    Patent number: 10498941
    Abstract: A spectral imaging device is configured to capture color images synchronized with controlled illumination from different color light emitting diodes. A processor in the device applies a coupling factor to sampled color images to convert sampled pixels into spectral channels corresponding to LED color and color filter. Multi-spectral spectricity vectors produced at pixel locations are used along with spatial information to classify objects, such as produce items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Hugh L. Brunk, John D. Lord
  • Image sensor
    Patent number: 10498998
    Abstract: An image sensor including a plurality of pixel-group sensors is provided. Each of the pixel-group sensors includes a first pixel group, a second pixel group and a read out circuit. The first pixel group includes a plurality of first pixels. A floating diffusion node of each of the first pixels is coupled to a first node. The second pixel group includes a plurality of second pixels. A floating diffusion node of each of the second pixels is coupled to a second node. The read out circuit is coupled to the first node and the second node, and configured to compare a voltage of the first node with a voltage of the second node, so as to sequentially obtain a digital pixel value of each of the first pixels and the second pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Fiery Phoenix Inc.
    Inventor: Ping-Hung Yin
  • Image capture device with stabilized exposure or white balance
    Patent number: 10491832
    Abstract: A method for image capture control may include computing an electronic image stabilization (EIS) compensation based on image data from an image capture device, the image data having a first region of interest (ROI). A jitter or panning shift is computed based on the EIS compensation. The first ROI is adjusted for use in at least one of the group consisting of an automatic white balance process and an automatic exposure process of the image capture device based on the jitter or panning shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Jisoo Lee
  • Image stabilization apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10484608
    Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus including a supporting unit that supports an image capturing unit, a rotation unit that rotates the supporting unit, a calculation unit that calculates a residual correction amount of image blur after image blur correction is performed by a first image blur correction unit, a second image blur correction unit that corrects the residual correction amount of image blur using a method different from that of the first image blur correction unit, and a change unit that changes allocation between a correctable range of the second image blur correction unit correcting image blur in a horizontal or vertical direction on the imaging plane and a correctable range of the second image blur correction unit, based on a rotation angle of the rotation unit and the residual correction amount of image blur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobushige Wakamatsu
  • Image management system, image management method, and computer program product
    Patent number: 10484604
    Abstract: The present invention is concerning to an image management system that communicates with a first communication terminal via a communication network, the image management system comprising: an image storage unit configured to store image data; a receiving unit configured to receive, from the first communication terminal, link information that includes image identification information for identifying the image data and includes predetermined-area information that indicates a predetermined area in the image data; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the first communication terminal, the image data that is indicated by the image identification information included in the link information received by the receiving unit and the predetermined-area information included in the link information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Taneichi, Takeshi Ito, Masanori Watanabe
  • Camera assembly and electronic device including the same
    Patent number: 10477082
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a front plate, a back plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the back plate. The side member includes a plurality of non-conductive portions and a conductive portion. The electronic device also includes a display module, and at least one wireless communication circuit. The electronic device also includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The camera assembly is exposed through a portion of the back plate. The camera assembly includes an image sensor mounted on the PCB, and a plurality of lenses. The camera assembly also includes a barrel that surrounds the plurality of lenses, and a camera bracket that surrounds at least part of the barrel. The camera assembly also includes a metal case that surrounds at least part of the camera assembly, and a shielding structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Tae Jung, Seung-Hun Shin, Chang-Ho Hwang, Min-Soo Kim, Sang-Tae Lee, Ji-Hyuk Jang, Jin-Wan An
  • Image pickup device, image pickup system, and movable body
    Patent number: 10469762
    Abstract: An image pickup device, an image pickup system, and a movable body that include a conductive line in which a potential changes in a direction opposite to a direction of a change in a potential of a control line used to perform a global electronic shutter operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Itsutaku Sano, Kazuhiro Saito