Patents Examined by Sherrie Hsia
  • Patent number: 11490049
    Abstract: A method for selecting a reference frame, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: calculating a sum of absolute values of pixel brightness differences of corresponding pixel locations in a current frame and a previous frame in a video; determining frame attribute of the current frame based on the sum of absolute values of pixel brightness differences, the frame attribute including a raw frame and a duplicate frame; counting a number of raw frames in M historical frames previous to the current frame; obtaining a current frame interpolation step size based on the number of raw frames in the M historical frames; obtaining a next frame phase to be interpolated based on a current frame interpolation phase and the current frame interpolation step size; and determining an interpolation reference frame based on the next frame to be interpolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanling Liu, Tao Ji, Chun Wang, Dongjian Wang, Xuyun Chen
  • Patent number: 11489994
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a front housing portion, a first circuit board having an imager, a second circuit board in board-to-board electrical connection with the first circuit board, and a rear housing portion having a connector for electrically connecting to an electrical connection of a wire harness of a vehicle. The rear housing portion joined with the front housing portion forms a camera housing. The connector of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector having at least three terminals that, with the rear housing portion joined with the front housing portion, electrically connect to respective terminals of the electrical connector at the second circuit board. An electrically conductive metallic shield element is disposed at the rear housing portion and contacts the electrical connector at the second circuit board. The vehicular camera is configured to be mounted at a rear portion of the vehicle and viewing rearward of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Conger
  • Patent number: 11483530
    Abstract: A color compensation method includes obtaining a target brightness, a target frame rate and a target pulse number; selecting a plurality of second gamma groups from a plurality of first gamma groups according to the target brightness and the target pulse number, wherein the plurality of first gamma groups respectively correspond to a plurality of frame rates; and calculating the compensation value to compensate the display brightness and color according to the target brightness, the target frame rate, the plurality of second gamma groups and a calculation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: En-Shi Shih, Yen-Tao Liao, Shih-Ting Huang
  • Patent number: 11475549
    Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) support is provided for legacy application programs, such as games that are configured to display standard dynamic range (SDR) frames. HDR frames may be generated without modifying the legacy application program. The buffer creation process of the legacy application program is intercepted and modified before creation of the SDR format buffer so that the buffer is configured to use an upgraded SDR format having an increased bit depth compared with a conventional SDR buffer. Rather than tone mapping and quantizing rendered image data to the lower bit depth for storage in the conventional SDR buffer, the rendered image data is tone mapped and quantized for storage at the increased bit depth of the upgraded SDR buffer. Therefore, the luminance and greater dynamic range of the tone mapped data is better preserved compared with outputting conventional SDR frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Shaveen Kumar
  • Patent number: 11477422
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires first and second image data for projecting the image from the first and second projection units respectively; a superimposed region information acquisition unit that acquires information on a superimposed region between the projection range of the first projection unit and the projection range of the second projection unit; a first image processing unit that performs first image processing on a first portion in the first image data corresponding to the superimposed region; a second image processing unit that performs second image processing on a second portion in the second image data corresponding to the superimposed region; and an output unit that outputs the first image data after the first image processing as image data for the first projection unit and outputs the second image data after the second image processing as image data for the second projection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Masuda, Akihiro Ishizuka, Kazuki Inoue, Kazuki Ishida
  • Patent number: 11465560
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a rear backup vehicle camera, a trailer camera disposed at a rear of a trailer, a display device disposed in the vehicle, and an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed in the vehicle. With the trailer not hitched to the vehicle and during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle, the ECU generates video images derived at least in part from image data captured by the rear backup vehicle camera and the display device displays the video images. With the trailer hitched to the vehicle, image data captured by the trailer camera is provided to the vehicle via data communication over powerline using a DC powerline, and the display device displays the video images derived at least in part from image data captured by the trailer camera for viewing by the driver of the vehicle during the driving maneuver of the vehicle with the trailer hitched thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yuesheng Lu, Krishna Koravadi, Vivek Vaid, Joshua G. Windeler, Heinz A. Mattern
  • Patent number: 11463682
    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: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Andrew Rayner
  • Patent number: 11463683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power and video redundancy system for a display system of a smartboard. More particularly, the present invention relates to a power and video redundancy system applied to a smartboard display system which minimizes the user's inconvenience due to the failure or damage of components and enables the manager to repair or change the parts without the user being aware of the loss or damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI IT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Tae Kim, Yong Seog Kim
  • Patent number: 11457266
    Abstract: An audio and video synchronization method is provided, which includes the following operations: obtaining a first presentation time stamp (PTS) of a first video data and a second PTS of a second video data; selecting a master PTS corresponding to an audio data or to a vertical synchronization (Vsync) pulse; calculating a first timestamp difference value between the first PTS and the master PTS, and calculating a second timestamp difference value between the second PTS and the master PTS; and selectively outputting either the first video data or the second video data according to the first timestamp difference value, the second timestamp difference value, and whether the first video data has been outputted for a predetermined number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chen-Wei Yu
  • Patent number: 11457187
    Abstract: A system is provided for generating video content with hue-preservation in virtual production. A processor determines data in a scene-based encoding format based on raw data received in a pre-defined format. The raw data includes a computer-generated background rendered on a rendering panel and a foreground object. Based on the data in the scene-based encoding format, scene linear data is determined. A saturation of the scene linear data is controlled when a first color gamut corresponding to the pre-defined format is mapped to a second color gamut corresponding to a display-based encoding color space. Based on the scene linear data, a standard dynamic range (SDR) video content in the display-based encoding color space is determined. Hue of the SDR video content is preserved, when the rendering panel is in-focus or out-of-focus, based on a scaling factor that is applied to three primary color values that describe the first color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Zink, Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 11451740
    Abstract: A video-image-interpolation apparatus is provided, which includes at least three image-layering circuits, at least three motion-estimation circuits, a motion-estimation-filtering circuit, a motion-compensated frame-interpolation circuit, and a display-control circuit. Each motion-estimation circuit performs motion estimation on a reference image-layer sequence and a reference subtitle-layer sequence that are generated from an input video signal by each image-layering circuit. The motion-estimation-filtering circuit adaptively determines the motion-estimation circuit having the smallest motion error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TERAWINS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Kuang Wang, Wen-Yi Huang, Pei-Kai Hsu
  • Patent number: 11438559
    Abstract: An image correction method performed by a projector, the method including projecting a second image onto a projection surface, the second image is acquired by reducing a first image containing a plurality of candidate points that are candidates for display position correction to a size that falls within a projection area that is the largest area over which the projector is capable of projection, accepting a first input to select a target point that is a display position correction target out of the plurality of candidate points in the state in which the second image is projected on the projection surface, projecting a third image onto the projection surface, the third image is acquired by enlarging the second image to the size of the first image after accepting the first input, accepting a second input to change the display position of the target point in the state in which the third image is projected on the projection surface, and projecting a projection image acquired by correcting the shape of an input im
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Saigo
  • Patent number: 11438560
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires first and second image data for projecting the image from the first and second projection units respectively; a superimposed region information acquisition unit that acquires information on a superimposed region between the projection range of the first projection unit and the projection range of the second projection unit; a first image processing unit that performs first image processing on a first portion in the first image data corresponding to the superimposed region; a second image processing unit that performs second image processing on a second portion in the second image data corresponding to the superimposed region; and an output unit that outputs the first image data after the first image processing as image data for the first projection unit and outputs the second image data after the second image processing as image data for the second projection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Masuda, Akihiro Ishizuka, Kazuki Inoue, Kazuki Ishida
  • Patent number: 11431945
    Abstract: A display system includes a display screen with at least one servo feedback mark in each of a plurality of display regions, and a plurality of subsystems each subsystem configured to generate an image on an associated display region. Each subsystem generate a plurality of scanning beams including an excitation beam and a servo beam, a beam scanning module, a servo feedback detector, and a controller. The beam scanning module includes a resonant scanning mirror configured to scan the scanning beams along a first scanning direction and a linear scanning mirror to scan the scanning beams along a second scanning direction. The controller is configured to receive image data, to modulate the excitation beam in accordance with the image data, and to control timing of modulation of the excitation beam based on the monitor signal to align the modulation with corresponding pixel positions on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Prysm Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Roger A. Hajjar
  • Patent number: 11425331
    Abstract: A method of region-based video-image interpolation is provided, which includes the following steps: respectively dividing each image and its subsequent image in an input video signal into first regions and second regions to obtain first regional images and second regional images; performing a motion-compensated frame-interpolation process on the first regional image and the second regional image in the same position in each image and its subsequent image to obtain an interpolated regional image; performing a frame-rate-conversion process on reference images and the interpolated regional images of each first region according to an original frame rate of each first region and a display frame rate of an output video signal to obtain a regional output image of each first region; and superimposing the regional output image generated at each output timestamp by each motion-compensated frame-interpolation circuit to generate an output image of the output video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TERAWINS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Kuang Wang, Wen-Yi Huang, Pei-Kai Hsu
  • Patent number: 11425327
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method. The system includes: a storage device storing a set of instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the storage device. When executing the set of instructions, the one or more video processors: synchronize a signal with a first PN sequence, wherein the signal includes a plurality of second PN sequences, marked as 0 PN sequence, 1 PN sequence, . . . , (k?1) PN sequence, k sequence, wherein k is a positive integer number; determine that the signal is synchronized with the first PN sequence; determine a first target distance between the (k?1) PN sequence and the k sequence; and determine a formality standard of the signal based on the first target distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG XINSHENG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoran Li, Genqiang Cui, Bingyun Lyu
  • Patent number: 11425346
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for providing a multi-colored light beam for a projector. The device comprises a first light source, a second light source, a waveguide element, a beam forming device and a structure element. The waveguide element forms a first waveguide for guiding light from the first light source, a second waveguide for guiding light from the second light source and a coupling out region for coupling light out of the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The beam forming device is designed to form the multi-colored light beam using the light coupled out of the coupling out region. The first light source, the second light source, the waveguide element and the beam forming device are arranged on the structure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Huebel, Tobias Graf
  • Patent number: 11418767
    Abstract: Transmission of HDR image data is satisfactorily performed between apparatuses. A transmission apparatus (synchronized apparatus) transmits the HDR image data to a reception apparatus (source apparatus) over a transmission path. At that time, the transmission apparatus transmits information on a transmission method for and/or information on gamma correction for the HDR image data to the reception apparatus over the transmission path. The reception apparatus performs processing (decoding processing, gamma correction processing, and the like) on the received HDR image data, based on the information on the transmission method and/or the information on the gamma correction that are received. For example, the transmission apparatus receives from the reception apparatus the pieces of information on the transmission method and/or the gamma correction that the reception apparatus can support, selects the method that the reception apparatus can support, and thus uses the selected method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11399164
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a projection system with increased spatial resolution. The projection system includes one or more light sources, a spatial light modulator configured to reflect light received from the one or more light sources to generate a plurality of sub-images of a composite image, and an optical system configured to reflect each of the plurality of sub-images the sub-images at a different portion of a projection surface. By projecting the single composite image using a plurality of sub-images projected at different times and/or locations from one another, the composite full image has a higher resolution as compared to the resolution defined by the hardware of the spatial light modulator and light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Nicola Ranieri, Markus Gross, Quinn Yorklun Jen Smithwick, Hagen Friedrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 11399162
    Abstract: A display system includes: a light source system configured to emit light beams; a scanner configured to scan the light beams on the surface of a spatial light modulator in the form of a light spot, the light spot corresponding to multiple pixels of the spatial light modulator; a spatial light modulator configured to modulate, according to an image modulation signal from a processing and control system, the light spot projected onto the spatial light modulator by the scanner to output image light; a processing and control system configured to output a light source timing modulation signal to a light source modulation device according to an input image signal and output an image modulation signal to the spatial light modulator; and a light source modulation device configured to adjust the output brightness of the light source system according to the light source timing modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Xin Yu, Chao Wu, Mengmeng Xu, Yi Li