Patents Examined by Sherrie Hsia
  • Patent number: 11106419
    Abstract: A multi-screen display adjusting system including: a first signal path to which a first video input signal is input and a second signal path to which a second video input signal is input that are independent from each other; a display panel configured to display a first image based on the first video input signal and a second image based on the second video input signal; a screen composing unit configured to determine an arrangement of the first screen and an arrangement of the second screen on the display panel on the basis of an output from the first signal path and an output from the second signal path; a frame memory unit configured to store data of the arrangement of the first screen and data of the arrangement of the second screen; a video output processing unit configured to read the data of the arrangement of the first screen from the frame memory unit and generate a first signal timing for displaying the first screen and read the data of the arrangement of the second screen from the frame memory unit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kimura
  • Patent number: 11100625
    Abstract: Image capture systems including a moving platform; an image capture device having a sensor for capturing an image, the image having pixels, mounted on the moving platform; and a detection computer executing an abnormality detection algorithm for detecting an abnormality in the pixels of the image immediately after the image is captured by scanning the image utilizing predetermined parameters indicative of characteristics of the abnormality and then automatically and immediately causing a re-shoot of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
    Inventors: Frank Giuffrida, Stephen Schultz
  • Patent number: 11095864
    Abstract: The present principles relate to a method and device for gamut mapping from a first color gamut towards a second color gamut. The method comprises, in a plane of constant hue, mapping the chroma of the color from the first color gamut towards the second color gamut at constant lightness. The chroma mapping further comprises obtaining a target color on the second color gamut boundary wherein the lightness of the target color is greater than or equal to the lightness of a color of maximum chroma of the first color gamut and wherein the lightness of the target color is lower than the lightness of a color of maximum chroma of the second color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Cedric Thebault, Jurgen Stauder, Angelo Mazzante
  • Patent number: 11089277
    Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. A projection apparatus includes at least one processor and an acceleration sensor which detects an inclination of the projection apparatus, in which the processor performs the processes of acquiring a difference between i) a first detection value which is detected by the acceleration sensor in a case where the projection apparatus is installed on an installation surface and ii) a second value which is detected by the acceleration sensor at a time which comes after the installation of the projection apparatus with the projection apparatus on the installation surface, and in a case where the difference becomes more than a threshold value, controlling to notify a warning at a predetermined timing by functioning as a notification unit or to stop functions of the projection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Fukano, Hiroshi Saito, Tetsuro Narikawa, Shunsuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11064171
    Abstract: A method of controlling a projector includes a distributing step of distributing each of luminance values of a plurality of pixels constituting an original image into a first luminance value, a second luminance value lower than the first luminance value, a third luminance value lower than the second luminance value, a first replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the third luminance value in the original image to generate a first image, a second replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the first luminance value in the original image to generate a second image, and a generating step of converting the luminance values of the pixels into transmittances in each of the first image and the second image to generate mask images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
  • Patent number: 11064172
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a light source driver configured to supply, to a light source, a drive current including a first current and a second current; a processor configured to output the set value of the first current to the light source driver; and a corrector configured to perform a correction process on the first current. The processor is configured to set, based on a correspondence relationship between the gradation value and the current value of the first current, the set value of the first current to a current value determined with reference to the correspondence relationship when the gradation value is in a second gradation range in which numerical values are smaller than numerical values in the first gradation range, the correction process correcting the correspondence relationship such that a difference between a measured intensity and a target intensity of the light source falls within a prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Kosuke Kubota, Yukihiro Chokyu
  • Patent number: 11057555
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a front housing portion having a lens, a circuit board having circuitry established thereat, and a rear housing portion having a connector for electrically connecting to a connector end of a wire harness of the vehicle when the camera is disposed at the vehicle. The rear housing portion includes internal wall structure establishing internal surfaces of the rear housing portion. The connector of the rear housing portion includes a coaxial connector having a center conductor and an outer conductor. The center conductor and the outer conductor electrically connect to circuitry at the circuit board. An electrically conductive metallic shield element is disposed within the rear housing portion and corresponds with the internal wall surfaces of the rear housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Conger
  • Patent number: 11057585
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing method and device using a line-wise operation. The image processing device, according to one embodiment, comprises: a receiver for receiving two-dimensional pixel information; at least one first line buffer for outputting the two-dimensional pixel information into a line-wise data line; an operator for performing a convolution operation on the basis of the data line data; and at least one second line buffer for outputting the data line on which the operation has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Mun Churl Kim, Yong Woo Kim, Jae Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 11039045
    Abstract: A video display system includes: a tone mapping processor that performs a tone mapping process of converting a luminance of a video by using conversion characteristics according to a maximum luminance of the video; and a display that displays the video that has undergone the tone mapping process. The tone mapping processor switches between a first tone mapping process of dynamically changing the conversion characteristics according to a time-depend change in the maximum luminance of the video and a second tone mapping process that is performed using constant conversion characteristics irrespective of the time-depend change in the maximum luminance of the video. When the tone mapping process used is switched from the second tone mapping process to the first tone mapping process, the conversion characteristics used is changed gradually or stepwise from the constant conversion characteristics to dynamically changing conversion characteristics over a plurality of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Masaya Yamamoto, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Toshiroh Nishio, Kazuhiko Kouno, Hiroshi Yahata, Takeshi Hirota, Yoshihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11039101
    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: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG XINSHENG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoran Li, Genqiang Cui, Bingyun Lyu
  • Patent number: 11032526
    Abstract: The invention provides projection device, a projection method and a projection system. The projection system includes the projection device. The projection method is for controlling the projection device. The projection device includes a projection apparatus, a video and audio processing circuit and a power control circuit. The video and audio processing circuit is coupled to the projection apparatus. The power control circuit is coupled to the projection apparatus and the video and audio processing circuit. The power control circuit is for receiving a power signal correspondingly provided by an external power supply unit when a switchable mechanism is in an open state. The power control circuit enables the projection apparatus and the video and audio processing circuit according to the power signal, such that the video and audio processing circuit outputs image data to the projection apparatus and controls the projection apparatus to project a dynamic projection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Chang Tsao, Wen-Chang Chien
  • Patent number: 11019302
    Abstract: Methods for encoding and decoding high-dynamic range signals are presented. The signals are encoded in a high frame rate and are accompanied by frame-rate conversion metadata defining a preferred set of frame-rate down-conversion parameters, which are determined according to the maximum luminance of a target display, display playback priority modes, or judder control modes. A decoder uses the frame-rate conversion metadata to apply frame-rate down-conversion to the input high-frame-rate signal according to at least the maximum luminance of the target display and/or the characteristics of the signal itself. Frame-based and pixel-based frame-rate conversions, and judder models for judder control via metadata are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz, Robin Atkins, Elizabeth G. Pieri, Alexandre Chapiro, Scott Daly
  • Patent number: 11012632
    Abstract: A method of configuring a vehicular image pickup device includes: detecting a first shutter signal of a first image capturing unit and a second shutter signal of a second image capturing unit; outputting a light-up signal according to the first shutter signal and the second shutter signal; and outputting a driving current to an infrared light-emitting element according to the light-up signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min-Tai Chen
  • Patent number: 11006051
    Abstract: A display device is capable of switching between image sources and includes a first transmission interface, a second transmission interface, a first peripheral interface, a system on chip (SOC) and a display panel. The first transmission interface is configured to be coupled to a first electronic device and receive a first image signal from the first electronic device. The second transmission interface is configured to be coupled to a second electronic device and receive a second image signal from the second electronic device. The first peripheral interface is configured to be coupled to a first peripheral device providing input information. The SOC selects at least one of the first and second image signals according to the input information to generate a display signal. The display panel displays an image according to the display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuei-Shan Chang, Chin-Hui Chen, Erh-Chia Joung, Chun-Keung Chau, Shih-Pin Chang
  • Patent number: 10999564
    Abstract: A projection system includes an invisible light projector, an imaging unit, an image generator, and a visible light projector. The invisible light projector projects a predetermined invisible light image onto the object via invisible light. The imaging unit captures an image of the invisible light projected from the invisible light projector. The image generator measures a shape of the object based on the image captured by the imaging unit to generate image data showing image content for projection onto the object in accordance with the measured shape. The visible light projector projects the image content shown by the image data onto the object via visible light. The invisible light projector emits pulsed invisible light to project the measurement pattern. The image generator generates the image data based on an image captured in accordance with a timing for the pulsed light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 10999479
    Abstract: A communication device according to an embodiment includes: a processor configured to execute a media clock for generating a frame synchronization signal having a frequency which is m times a sampling frequency; a first interface configured to output 2m-channel audio data to a DAC or receive an input of the 2m-channel audio data from an ADC, in synchronization with the frame synchronization signal; and an external counter configured to generate a frequency-divided frame synchronization signal obtained by 1/m-frequency division of the frame synchronization signal and output the frequency-divided frame synchronization signal to the DAC and the ADC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10992844
    Abstract: Introduced here are synchronization modules designed to integrate streams of data acquired from multiple sources in a precise, repeatable manner. To improve the usability of data acquired from multiple sources, a synchronization module can tightly couple streams of data received from these sources so that the data is temporally aligned. For example, a synchronization module may tightly couple motion data generated by a motion sensor with location data generated by a location sensor and image data generated by an image sensor in a manner that lessens the incurrence of software overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Virzi, Newfel Harrat, Rakesh Ranjan
  • Patent number: 10986322
    Abstract: An image white balance processing method is provided. The image white balance processing method includes: calculating color coordinate points; when it is determined that the color coordinate points are in a first given region, calculating a plurality of weighted averages according to a plurality of coordinate components and a plurality of weight values of color coordinate points of a white given image region, and when it is determined that the color coordinate points are in a second given region, calculating a plurality of averages according to a plurality of coordinate components of color coordinate points of a green given image region; calculating an estimated coordinate point; and calculating a plurality of white balance gains according to the number of a plurality of white given image regions and green given image regions, the plurality of weighted averages, and the estimated coordinate point to compensate for the plurality of given image regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Xiao-Yu Chen, Gang Shen, Yang Lu, Dong-Yu He
  • Patent number: 10979683
    Abstract: A white balance adjustment device includes a statistics acquisition portion and a correction portion. The statistics acquisition portion includes an area setting portion including a luminance area setting portion configured to set a plurality of luminance ranges, and an average value calculation portion configured to calculate an average value of color difference values of the image signal in each of the plurality of luminance ranges set by the luminance area setting portion. The correction portion includes a correction function determination portion configured to determine a correction function of the color difference values of the image signal based on the average value of the color difference values calculated by the average value calculation portion, and a color difference correction portion configured to correct the color difference values of the image signal based on the correction function determined by the correction function determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Negishi, Hitoshi Takagi, Hiromasa Shinsha, Satoshi Ikegaya, Tsutomu Usui, Norihiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10972708
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for compensating for color separation of an image in a holographic head-up display (HUD), caused by a change in characteristics such as a temperature or wavelength of a laser projector. An apparatus (200) for compensating for color separation of an image in a HUD includes a GPU (100); a video signal inputter (110); a temperature sensor (120); a controller (130); a memory (135); a panel driving unit (140) for outputting an image to a panel (160); a laser diode driving unit (150) for driving R, G, and B laser diodes (151), (152), and (153); a lens (70), and a screen (180). Accordingly, an image, the quality of which is degraded due to color separation of an image, may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Ho Shin, Chan Young Yoon, Ji Yun Lim, Youn A Lee