Patents Examined by Sherrie Hsia
  • Patent number: 12167165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for transmitting Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content. The systems and methods may use a modified Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) curve to convert nonlinear color values of SDR content into optical output values of modified SDR content. The systems and methods may encode the modified SDR content using eight bits while preventing banding. The systems and methods may transmit the encoded data to a client device for presentation on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Saswata Mandal, Ryan Yonghee Kim, Kathleen Anne Slattery
  • Patent number: 12160680
    Abstract: Disclosed is a video image display method, applied to a multimedia device. The video image display method includes acquiring a target image in a preset area; in response that the target image has a left eye object and a right eye object, determining spatial positional data of the left eye object and the right eye object respectively relative to the multimedia device according to the target image; determining a deflection coefficient of a to-be-displayed video image according to the spatial positional data of the left eye object and the right eye object respectively relative to the multimedia device; deflecting the to-be-displayed video image according to the deflection coefficient to obtain a target video image after deflecting. Disclosed also are a video image display apparatus, a multimedia device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoling Xu, Jian Li, Wensheng Hong, Yanzhu Sun
  • Patent number: 12155978
    Abstract: A reception apparatus comprises circuitry configured to send, based on an activated mode, to an external apparatus information on gamma correction that the reception apparatus is capable of processing to display high dynamic range images on a display panel. The circuitry is further configured to receive a high dynamic range signal comprising image data in high dynamic range from the external apparatus over a transmission path, and receive information in an InfoFrame packet on gamma correction for the image data in high dynamic range. The circuitry is configured to store EDID data that includes at least information on the gamma correction for the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12133020
    Abstract: A method and a system for verifying an image interface, and an image equipment are provided. The system includes a memory, a receiving module, and a transmitting module; the receiving module connected to an image output interface of a device under test (DUT), the transmitting module connected to an image input interface of the DUT. The method includes obtaining at least one predetermined image from the memory, and generating serial data stream according to the at least one predetermined image; controlling the transmitting module to transmit the serial data stream to the image input interface; controlling the receiving module to obtain returned serial data stream from the image output interface; and determining the image interface of the DUT to be normal when the receiving module successfully obtains the returned serial data stream from the image output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Chun Chen, Chien-Hao Su, Yu-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 12131549
    Abstract: An image monitoring device includes a hardware processor. An image of the outside of a vehicle is captured by a camera. The hardware processor notifies that dirt adheres to a lens of the camera when a ratio of a smooth region in the image is more than a threshold. In the smooth region, differences in luminance value between pixels are small. The hardware processor does not notify that dirt adheres to the lens of the camera when: a ratio of the smooth region in a sky region in the image is more than a threshold, a ratio of the smooth region in a ground region in the image is more than a threshold, and a difference between an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the sky region and an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the ground region is more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tsurube
  • Patent number: 12131558
    Abstract: An image processing device divides an image representing an area in front of a mobile object, which is captured by a camera mounted on the mobile object, at predetermined intervals to generate an element function that approximates a track boundary in each of divided areas on the basis of: a probability value indicating an existence probability of the track boundary for each of coordinates in each of the areas; and the coordinates corresponding to the probability value, generates a composite function that approximates a track boundary in the front area by combining the element functions generated for each of the areas, and executes driving control or driving assistance of the mobile object on the basis of the track boundary approximated by the generated composite function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 12121219
    Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a processor configured to: obtain image data; generate, based on the obtained image data, a captured image including color component signals including a red component signal representing a red component, a green component signal representing a green component, and a blue component signal representing a blue component; calculate an intensity ratio between a fluorescent component signal and a reflected light component signal in a pixel of the captured image; determine, based on the calculated intensity ratio in the pixel of the captured image, a fluorescence region and a background region in the captured image; and generate a fluorescence image by performing, based on a result of the determination, image processing with parameters different from each other for color component signals in pixels positioned in the fluorescence region and color component signals in pixels positioned in the background region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetaro Kono, Yutaka Koyama, Kotaro Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 12126931
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of frame data captured simultaneously from a plurality of pieces of video data captured while parts of capturing regions are superimposed; a specification unit that specifies a blend region which includes a pixel forming a seam line connecting the plurality of pieces of frame data and is provided in a direction in which the plurality of pieces of frame data overlap; and an output unit that outputs connected frame data F0 in which each pixel of the blend region has a pixel value obtained by blending pixel values of the plurality of pieces of frame data, and the plurality of pieces of frame data are connected by the seam line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takahide Hoshide, Masato Ono, Shinji Fukatsu
  • Patent number: 12115918
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of vehicle cameras disposed at a vehicle, a trailer camera disposed at a trailer, and a video display screen disposed at the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. When the trailer is hitched to the vehicle, the trailer camera captures image data and provides captured image data to an electronic control unit (ECU). The plurality of vehicle cameras capture image data and provide captured image data to the ECU. An auxiliary camera is detachably attached at an exterior side portion of the trailer. With the auxiliary camera detachably attached at the exterior side portion of the trailer and during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle with the trailer hitched to the vehicle, and responsive to a user input, video images derived from the image data captured by the auxiliary camera are displayed for viewing by the driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 12120473
    Abstract: A chrominance adjustment method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a color adjustment coefficient of a chrominance component of a color signal based on a reference display device maximum luminance value (RML) and/or a source maximum luminance value (SML); and adjusting the chrominance component of the color signal based on the color adjustment coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiwei Xu, Quanhe Yu, Hu Chen, Xiaodong Xu
  • Patent number: 12118735
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises a data group generator, a gradient value manager, and a cost volume manager. The data group generator is configured to receive pixel values of an image that include phase and brightness information, and determine data groups indicating disparity of the image based on target pixel values, where the data groups correspond to a range that is determined according to the phase information. The gradient value manager is configured to determine gradient values of a region corresponding to the target pixel values and determine gradient information. The gradient information is determined by applying threshold values to the gradient values, where the threshold values are determined according to the target pixel values. The cost volume manager is configured to determine a cost volume by weighted summing the data groups based on the gradient information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hee Han, Jong Heon Kim, Ju Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 12120469
    Abstract: A multiplexed light field projector device and a multiplexed light field display to output a light field image is described. The projector has a projector base with a projection optical system configured to output light rays to form a projected image, a collimating optical system configured for collimation of the projected image light rays to form a second projected image, which is directed to a display optical system to produce a light field image. Light field projector devices or alternative projector devices may be used individually or in combination with one or more other projectors which can be arranged to form a multiplexed direct projection light field display. The arrangement of projector devices may have an individual or shared display optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Avalon Holographics Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Peckham, Daniel Webber, Wally Haas
  • Patent number: 12108195
    Abstract: This reflective screen 10 reflects a part of image light beam projected from an image source LS, to display an image. The reflective screen 10 is provided with: a first optical shape layer 12 which has optical transparency and has a plurality of unit optical shapes 121 arranged on a rear surface thereof; and a reflective layer 13 which is formed in at least some of the unit optical shapes 121 and by which a part of incident light is reflected and at least the other part of the incident light is transmitted, wherein a light diffusing action in the direction in which the unit optical shapes 121 are arranged is larger than a light diffusing action in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Goto, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Kumiko Kambara, Tomoya Kawashima
  • Patent number: 12108024
    Abstract: A method of improving a main output of a main processing application processing first video data includes analyzing incoming video data via a first processing pipeline and analyzing incoming video data via a second processing pipeline. The second processing pipeline includes identifying, by a parameter optimization module, first test preprocessing parameters; preprocessing the incoming video data according to the first test preprocessing parameters, wherein the first test preprocessing includes formatting the incoming video data to create first test video data; processing the first test video data by a test processing application to determine a first test output that is indicative of a first test inference dependent upon the first test video data; and comparing the first test output and the main output to a baseline criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Insight Direct USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Amol Ajgaonkar
  • Patent number: 12088956
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first generator and a second generator. The first generator generates projection images correspondingly to respective monochromatic projectors of a plurality of monochromatic projectors using respective correction parameters, each projection image including a first pixel region that includes a content image, and a second pixel region that is a region other than the first pixel region, the second pixel region including a feature-point image in at least a portion of the second pixel region. The second generator detects the feature-point image in a captured image obtained by capturing the projection image projected by each of the plurality of monochromatic projectors, and generates the correction parameter on the basis of a result of the detection of the feature-point image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Hirata, Shun Kaizu
  • Patent number: 12078792
    Abstract: A method of providing an assembled image using a digital microscope, the digital microscope having an optical system, an image sensor having a predefined number of image pixels, and a stage, the stage being movable in relation to the optical system and the image sensor, includes receiving a user selection regarding an area of interest of the sample, the user selection indicating the position and extension of the area of interest, selecting one of a full resolution mode or and a reduced resolution mode, wherein individual images with a reduced number of image pixels are generated, moving the stage with respect to the optical system and the image sensor, and generating individual images of the area of interest in accordance with the selected one of the full resolution mode or the reduced resolution mode, and combining the individual images into the assembled image, representing the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: PreciPoint GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Wildner, Andreas Schmid
  • Patent number: 12075184
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method for controlling the same. A display device according to one embodiment includes a first display, a second display disposed at a front side of the first display with a predetermined distance therebetween, and arranged in parallel to the first display, and a controller configured to control the first display and the second display to alternately output a specific graphic object to realize an output of a three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Manho Lee, Youngjoon So, Younghwan Kim, Yunsup Shin, Salkmann Ji
  • Patent number: 12072614
    Abstract: A projection system and calibration method therefor relate to a light source configured to emit a light in response to an image data, an illumination optical system configured to steer the light, the illumination optical system including a first mirror and a second mirror, a digital micromirror device (DMD) including a plurality of micromirrors respectively configured to reflect the steered light to a filter as on-state light or to reflect the steered light as off-state light to a light dump; determining a deviation between an actual angle of orientation and an expected angle of orientation of the DMD; calculating a first amount of angle adjustment corresponding to the first mirror and a second amount of angle adjustment corresponding to the second mirror; and actuating the first mirror according to the first amount and the second mirror according to the second amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Martin J. Richards, Trevor Davies, Barret Lippey, Nathan Shawn Wainwright, Darren Hennigan, John David Jackson
  • Patent number: 12069414
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting video signals, including: receiving an input video signal provided by a source, wherein the input video signal includes an image signal and a source timing signal; generating a pulse synchronization signal based on the source timing signal and an output frame rate, wherein the output frame rate is a frame rate of outputting the image signal to a display module, and a cycle of the pulse synchronization signal is an integer multiple of a cycle of the source timing signal, and is an integer multiple of a cycle corresponding to the output frame rate; generating an output timing signal based on the pulse synchronization signal; and transmitting an output video signal to the display module, wherein the output video signal includes the image signal and the output timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xitong Ma
  • Patent number: 12063450
    Abstract: An apparatus generates an image file including a first region storing a plurality of instances of image data and a second region storing metadata. The metadata includes group information that groups image data shot synchronously with respect to time, the group information indicating image data belonging to a group, and indicator information that indicates an indicator of grouping for the group. The apparatus sets a reference indicating whether the image data has been shot synchronously with respect to time, determines whether the image data has been shot synchronously with respect to time, configures the group information grouping the image data to have been shot synchronously with respect to time, configures the indicator information including at least information of the reference, and generates the file storing the plurality of instances of image data, the group information, and the indicator information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eiji Imao