Patents Examined by Sherrie Hsia
  • Patent number: 10965981
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a first receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a first transmission method; a second receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a second transmission method; a first decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the first receiving unit; a second decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the second receiving unit; a video output unit outputting video, the video being generated based on data decoded by the first or second decoding unit; an operation input unit receiving control information from a remote controller; and a control unit controlling the units based on the control information received by the operation input unit. The remote controller includes a button to output control information for switching between a display state and a non-display state of service, the service being linked with a broadcasting program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Nobuo Masuoka, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10965904
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display method, including: decoding an input signal comprising an audio signal and a video signal, and identifying a resolution of the decoded video signal; in response that the video signal has an 8K resolution, outputting the video signal to an back end for processing through a first interface, and outputting an on-screen display adjustment signal to the back end for processing through a second interface; in response that the video signal has a 4K or 2K resolution, preprocessing outputting the video signal to the back end for processing through the second interface, and outputting the OSD signal generated by the SoC to the back end for processing through the first interface; and mixing and coding the video signal and the OSD signal, and outputting the mixed and coded signals to a screen for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Tiejun Lu, Jian Huang, Wensheng Hong
  • Patent number: 10965882
    Abstract: A video display apparatus includes: an inputter that receives an input of divided video signals representing divided images obtained by dividing an output image and acquires signal information for each of the divided video signals; a video signal processor that applies processing to the divided video signals and generates an output video signal representing an image obtained by combining the divided images; a controller that acquires the signal information from the inputter and supplies a control signal relating to the processing to the video signal processor; and a display that displays the image represented by the output video signal, and the number of kinds of signal information acquired by the controller with respect to some divided video signals among the divided video signals is greater than the number of kinds of signal information acquired by the controller with respect to the other divided video signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sunagare
  • Patent number: 10958892
    Abstract: Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera are disclosed. Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera in accordance with embodiments of this invention include the capturing of an image of a test pattern with the array camera such that each imaging component in the array camera captures an image of the test pattern. The image of the test pattern captured by a reference imaging component is then used to derive calibration information for the reference component. A corrected image of the test pattern for the reference component is then generated from the calibration information and the image of the test pattern captured by the reference imaging component. The corrected image is then used with the images captured by each of the associate imaging components associated with the reference component to generate calibration information for the associate imaging components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventor: Robert Mullis
  • Patent number: 10958882
    Abstract: A projection device and a photo coupler circuit for the same are disclosed. The photo coupler circuit includes a logic unit, a number of integration units and a selection unit. The logic unit is configured to receive a number of first control signals and a number of first PWM signals from a main circuit of the projection device, and to output a number of second PWM signals and one or more second control signals according to the first control signals and the first PWM signals. The integration units are coupled to the logic unit. Each of the integration units is configured to generate an integration signal according to one of the second PWM signals. The selection unit is coupled to the integration units to select one of the integration signals to be output to a light source drive circuit of the projection device according to the second control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Chun Chang, Tsung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 10958886
    Abstract: A video processing system is provided for reducing distortion in video signals. The system includes a first transfer function that applies a transfer function to a received video signal to generate a gamma corrected video signal in a first color space; and a first matrix component that transforms the gamma corrected video signal in the first color space to a gamma corrected signal in a second color space, and extracts a luminance component from the gamma corrected signal in the second color space. Moreover, the system includes a second transfer function that generates a gamma corrected downsampled video signal in the first color space, and a second matrix component that transforms the gamma corrected video signal in the first color space to a gamma corrected video signal in the second color space, and extracts the chroma component in the second color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GRASS VALLEY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeffery R. Butters
  • Patent number: 10944947
    Abstract: A processor device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a static image of an object to be observed; an embedding unit that embeds a correction profile, which is created by a creation unit according to tone change-related information about a change in the tone of the static image, in the static image; and an output unit that outputs the static image, in which the correction profile is embedded, to the outside. In an image display device, a static image in which a correction profile is embedded is received and correction is performed on the static image by using the correction profile. Then, the static image on which the subjected has been performed is displayed on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 10939079
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a light source section that outputs a light beam of a plurality of predetermined colors; an image data processing section that generates a sub-frame image of a single color by dividing a unit frame into a plurality of sub-frames, on the basis of an input image signal, and generates a sub-frame image of a mixed color based on the image signals of at least two colors; a display device that modulates the light beam based on the sub-frame images generated by the image data processing section; and a light source control section that causes the light source section to output the light beam of the color corresponding to the sub-frame image of the single color, in a selected period, and causes the light source section to output the light beams of the at least two colors sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Miura, Takeshi Tanimoto, Keita Mori
  • Patent number: 10933810
    Abstract: A vehicular surround vision system includes a plurality of vehicular cameras disposed at a vehicle and having respective exterior fields of view, a trailer camera disposed at a rear of a trailer and having a rearward field of view, an ECU and a display device in the vehicle. With the trailer not hitched to the vehicle and during a driving maneuver of the vehicle, the display device displays surround view video images derived from image data captured by at least the rearward viewing and sideward viewing vehicular cameras and provided to the ECU. With the trailer hitched to the vehicle and during a driving maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, the display device displays surround view video images derived from image data captured by the trailer camera and provided to the ECU and image data captured by at least some of the vehicular cameras and provided to the ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yuesheng Lu, Krishna Koravadi, Vivek Vaid, Joshua G. Windeler, Heinz A. Mattern
  • Patent number: 10917609
    Abstract: A motion vector detector detects a motion vector, and generates reliability data of the motion vector. Pixel selectors select pixels for dynamic interpolation and pixels for static interpolation. The mixing ratio generator generates a first mixing ratio of interpolation pixels of the dynamic interpolation and interpolation pixels of the static interpolation based on the reliability data. A mixing ratio generator generates a second mixing ratio based on a difference value between the pixels for the dynamic interpolation. A mixing ratio adjuster adjusts the mixing ratio so that the mixing ratio of the interpolation pixels of the static interpolation becomes larger to generate a third mixing ratio. An interpolation data generator mixes the interpolation pixels of the dynamic interpolation and the static interpolation with each other in response to the third mixing ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Takami, Atsushi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10917605
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes an adaptor including a low voltage part configured to output a first voltage converted from an AC power and a high voltage part configured to output a second voltage higher than the first voltage; an adaptor connector configured to detachably connect the adaptor thereto via a cable and to connect thereto a ground terminal of the low voltage part and a ground terminal of the high voltage part to be insulated from each other; a mainboard including a processor configured to operate by receiving the first voltage from the low voltage part via the adaptor connector; a power circuit configured to receive the second voltage from the high voltage part via the adaptor connector and including a ground terminal separated from a ground terminal of the mainboard; and a display configured to operate according to a voltage output form the power circuit to display an image under a control of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Du Hee Jang, Jeong Il Kang
  • Patent number: 10911646
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of oral care devices, and discloses an oral endoscope, the oral endoscope comprising: a housing; an image acquisition module, which is fixedly mounted within the housing and which is used for acquiring an external image through the housing, the image acquisition module comprising at least two camera units, which are relatively positionally calibrated and which are used for acquiring three-dimensional image information; an illuminating unit, which provides illumination for each camera unit; a wireless communications module, which is used for wirelessly communicating with an external device and for sending image information, which is acquired by the image acquisition module, to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING KEEYOO TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Congxing Ouyang
  • Patent number: 10904519
    Abstract: A temporal alignment system and method for example for detecting temporal misalignment in video frames when the frames are divided for transport using a signal divider for dividing a single signal S into portions S1 . . . SN and using average picture level in determining whether data sets within a particular frame are misaligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Andrew Rayner
  • Patent number: 10904495
    Abstract: A novel high efficiency image projection system includes a beam-steering modulator, an amplitude modulator, and a controller. In a particular embodiment the controller generates beam-steering drive values from image data and uses the beam-steering drive values to drive the beam-steering modulator. Additionally, the controller utilizes the beam-steering drive values to generate a lightfield simulation of a lightfield projected onto the amplitude modulator by the beam-steering modulator. The controller utilizes the lightfield simulation to generate amplitude drive values for driving the amplitude modulator in order to project a high quality version of the image described by the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Juan P. Pertierra, Martin J. Richards, Christopher John Orlick, Clement Le Barbenchon, Angelo M. Pires Arrifano
  • Patent number: 10893264
    Abstract: A signal strength meter/indicator for use with an over-the-air broadcast television signal receiving antenna includes an input bandpass filter circuit, a first preamplifier circuit, a controllable variable attenuator circuit, a second preamplifier circuit, a splitter, an output bandpass filter circuit, a VHF/UHF filter circuit, a power detector circuit, a microcontroller and a display. The microcontroller, the controllable variable attenuator circuit, the second preamplifier circuit, the splitter, the VHF/UHF filter circuit and the power detector circuit together define an AGC circuit which adjustably controls the power level of an output signal provided to a television.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: VOXX International Corporation
    Inventors: Prapan Paul Tinaphong, Chung Hua Hung
  • Patent number: 10893208
    Abstract: A camera module includes a first camera and a second camera capable of switching between a first imaging direction and a second imaging direction. The first camera captures images in a first imaging range when the second camera is facing the first imaging direction. The second camera captures images in a second imaging range when facing the first imaging direction. The second camera captures images in a third imaging range when facing the second imaging direction. The overlapping range between the first imaging range and the third imaging range is greater than the overlapping range between the first imaging range and the second imaging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sunaga
  • Patent number: 10863229
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a model of a television set is presented. The system may include a user interaction device including a first communication port configured to transmit operational codes to the television set via a control link, and a second communication port configured to detect audio signals from the television set via a feedback link. The user interaction device may be configured to transmit volume-down codes for television models to the television set to program a volume level of the television set to 0. The user interaction device may be configured to transmit a volume-up code for a first television model. The user interaction device may be configured to identify a model of the television set as the first television model if the user interaction device detects an audio signal on the feedback link following the transmission of the volume-up code for the first television model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Curbell Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Kaiser
  • Patent number: 10863125
    Abstract: A system for time-stamping the passage of a moving object is provided. The system includes a telescope, a satellite geolocating system and an electronic processor, the telescope comprising a focusing optic, a mechanical shutter and a CCD sensor comprising the function referred to as “time delay and integration”. When the moving object passes through the field of the telescope during a period wherein the mechanical shutter is open, the shift of the charge of a pixel in the rows of the CCD sensor ensured by the TDI function is carried out at least once at a time defined by the satellite geolocating system, shifting the trace of light left by the image of the moving object along a column of pixels, the electronic data processor determining the exact position of the moving object at the defined time depending on knowledge of this column and of the position of the telescope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Gautier Durand
  • Patent number: 10841549
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for facilitating enhancing the quality of video. An example method disclosed herein includes estimating an optical flow between a first noisy frame and a second noisy frame, the second noisy frame following the first noisy frame. The example method also includes warping a first enhanced frame to align with the second noisy frame, the warping being based on the estimation of the optical flow between the first noisy frame and the second noisy frame, the first enhanced frame being an enhanced frame of the first noisy frame. The example method also includes generating a second enhanced frame based on the warped first enhanced frame and the second noisy frame, and outputting the second enhanced frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Reza Pourreza Shahri, Amirhossein Habibian, Taco Sebastiaan Cohen
  • Patent number: 10805585
    Abstract: One variation of a method for augmenting surfaces within spaces with projected light includes: at a projector system during a first time period, projecting visual content onto nearby surfaces via a light projector integrated into the projector system and capturing a first scan of nearby surfaces, illuminated by the light projector, via an optical sensor integrated into the projector system; identifying a first space occupied by the projector system during the first time period based on features detected in the first scan; selecting a first augmented content source, from a first set of augmented content sources affiliated with the first space, associated with a first surface in the first space; articulating the light projector to locate the first surface in a field of view of the light projector; accessing a frame from the first augmented content source; and projecting the frame onto the first surface via the light projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Lightform, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Sodhi, Brett Jones, Kevin Karsch, Pulkit Budhiraja, Phil Reyneri, Douglas Rieck, Andrew Kilkenny