Patents Examined by Sunghyoun Park
  • Patent number: 11972778
    Abstract: A video sound-picture matching includes: acquiring a voice sequence; acquiring a voice segment from the voice sequence; acquiring an initial position of a start-stop mark and a moving direction of the start-stop mark from an image sequence; determining an active segment according to the initial position of the start-stop mark, the moving direction of the start-stop mark, and the voice segment; and synthesizing the voice segment and the active segment to obtain a video segment. In a video synthesizing process, the present disclosure uses start-stop marks to locate positions of active segments in an image sequence, so as to match the active segments having actions with voice segments, so that the synthesized video segments are more in line with natural laws of a character during speaking, and have better authenticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yonggen Ling, Haozhi Huang, Li Shen
  • Patent number: 11961539
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for enabling indexing and playback of media content before the end of a content capture. In one aspect, a method for enabling indexing of media data obtained as part of a content capture is disclosed. In one embodiment, the indexing enables playback of the media data during the capture and before cessation thereof. In one variant, the method includes generating an “SOS track” for one or more images. The SOS track does not contain the same information as a full index, but provides sufficient information to allow an index to be subsequently constructed. In one implementation, the provided information includes identifiable markers relating to video data, audio data, or white space, but it does not provide an enumerated or complete “table of contents” as in a traditional index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: David Newman
  • Patent number: 11955143
    Abstract: Provided are an automatic video editing method and a portable terminal, the method comprising: obtaining a video to be edited; extracting key frames of the video to be edited; inputting the key frames to a pre-trained scene classification method and a pre-trained target detection method, and respectively obtaining scene type markers and target object markers of the key frames; selecting multiple video segments from the video to be edited which satisfy preset editing criteria; respectively calculating average scores of the multiple video segments by means of a pre-trained image quality scoring method; respectively obtaining the video segment having the highest average score of each shot type for splicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ARASHI VISION INC.
    Inventors: Wenjie Jiang, Jinlin Cai, Jingkang Liu
  • Patent number: 11955141
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operation method of an electronic device for video editing are provided. The electronic device include a processor electrically connected to display circuitry, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain a video, classify, based on a designated condition, image frames included in the video into at least one first type interval and at least one second type interval, distinguish at least one main part, based on image frames corresponding to at least one element included in the designated condition in the at least one first type interval, set a play speed of the at least one main part to be different from a play speed of at least one different part, control the display circuitry to display an edited preview video including the at least one main part reflecting the set play speed, and store the edited preview video in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Kang, Kyunghwa Seo, Younghak Oh, Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11943497
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments for network-based audio playback. An embodiment operates by determining that a media device is configured to stream audio content to one or more wireless speakers over a first wireless network. A second wireless network over which the media device is configured to stream the audio content to the one or more wireless speakers is established by the media device. A signal to the one or more wireless speakers to switch from the first wireless network to the second wireless network is provided by the media device. The audio is provided to the wireless speakers for playback over the second wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Caston Curtis, Mike Kristoffersen, Rafal Malewski, Rafal Zwierz
  • Patent number: 11943562
    Abstract: A video recording process is commenced by a camera of a device. The video recording process produces a sequence of frames. While the video recording process is in progress, a gesture directed at the device is detected. A new first frame from the sequence of frames is displayed in a camera view user interface (UI) of the device, based on a characteristic of the gesture. A video file is generated using frames captured during the video recording process and the new first frame is set as a starting point of the video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Devin Doty
  • Patent number: 11942111
    Abstract: A data storage device and method for auto-peeling of surveillance video content to increase archival storage is provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to determine that available storage space in the memory is less than a threshold; in response to determining that the available storage space in the memory is less than the threshold: read a video file from the memory; and re-encode the video file to decrease a size of the video file, wherein re-encoding the video file increases available storage space in the memory without deleting the video file. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Eldhose Peter
  • Patent number: 11930203
    Abstract: An image decoding method includes: dividing a current block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, one or more prediction information candidates; obtaining an index; and decoding the current block using the prediction information candidate selected by the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 11917200
    Abstract: Hybrid video decoder supporting intermediate view synthesis of an intermediate view video from a first- and a second-view video which are predictively coded into a multi-view data signal with frames of the second-view video being spatially subdivided into sub-regions and the multi-view data signal having a prediction mode is provided, having: an extractor configured to respectively extract, from the multi-view data signal, for sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, a disparity vector and a prediction residual; a predictive reconstructor configured to reconstruct the sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, by generating a prediction from a reconstructed version of a portion of frames of the first-view video using the disparity vectors and a prediction residual for the respective sub-regions; and an intermediate view synthesizer configured to reconstruct first portions of the intermediate view video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Wiegand, Karsten Mueller, Philipp Merkle
  • Patent number: 11912204
    Abstract: A vehicular imaging system includes a camera device disposed at an exterior portion of a vehicle. The camera device includes a pivotable arm that accommodates a camera. The pivotable arm is pivotally mounted at a mounting base at the vehicle and is pivotable between at least a drive position and a folded position. An actuator includes a pivot post structure attached to the mounting base and an output gear disposed at the pivot post structure, the actuator operable to pivot the pivotable arm about the output gear. The actuator includes a primary detent that is engaged to maintain the pivotable arm at the drive position when the pivotable arm is pivoted to the drive position. The actuator includes a secondary detent that is disengaged when the pivotable arm is manually pivoted between the folded position and the drive position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Peterson, Anthony J. LaCross, Mitchell J. Wesley
  • Patent number: 11915727
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to realize a moving image playback system capable of sequentially referring to a desired scene in sports on the basis of at least a score in a game. Realized is a moving image playback system provided with an input means that performs input processing of a time stamp corresponding to play result information including at least a score, a display means that performs display processing of each of a plurality of display objects indicating the play result information and corresponding to the time stamp, and a management means that associates a moving image with the plurality of display objects, in which the display means performs playback processing of the moving image based on the time stamp in response to designation of the display object as a turning point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Takeki Sakata
  • Patent number: 11910050
    Abstract: A master recording session at a server computer corresponds to a video content stored in memory accessible by the server computer. A first device and a second device are provided access to the master recording session and the master recording session is updated responsive to receipt of an update from the first device, where the update reflects initiation of playback of the video content at a time stamp corresponding to the timeline of the video content and includes an audio input configuration for the second device. The update is provided to the second device and an audio recording is received from the second device corresponding to a portion of the video content from the time stamp, where the audio recording is recorded by the second device using the implemented audio input configuration for the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DELUXE MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Andriy Marchuk, Gregory J. Taieb, Igor Skakovskyi, Stefan Lazarevic, Nasik Shafeek
  • Patent number: 11908119
    Abstract: In an abnormality detection device for detecting whether there is an abnormality in either of an optical sensor and a camera that are used to detect objects around a vehicle, a correlation value calculation unit calculates a correlation value between at least one of a reflection intensity image that is detected by the optical sensor emitting light toward surroundings of the vehicle and then receiving reflected light of emitted light and a background light image that is detected by the optical sensor receiving light from the surroundings of the vehicle while the optical sensor is emitting no light, and a captured image of the surroundings from the camera. An abnormality determination unit is configured to, in response to the correlation value calculated by the correlation value calculation unit being out of a predefined range, determine that there is an abnormality in either of the optical sensor and the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Aoki, Keiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11910120
    Abstract: An approach for modifying in real-time by removing or reinforcing stroboscopic effect from images associated with a viewing experience is disclosed. The approach includes identifying video clips, detecting environmental parameters and calculating display setting. The approach also analyzes display setting using recommendation from GAN, output displaying setting on an AR display and receiving feedback from user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Diwesh Pandey, Tathagato Bose, Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya, Arun Joseph, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11902702
    Abstract: Methods and devices for requesting videos may include performing a search for one or more vehicles that have a camera system located nearby an event during a time range surrounding the event. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection of at least one vehicle from a search result list including the one or more vehicles. The methods and devices may include retrieving, from a video data repository associated with the at least one vehicle, a requested video during the time range surrounding the event. The methods and devices may include displaying the requested video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Omnitracs, LLC
    Inventor: Jeff Champa
  • Patent number: 11900966
    Abstract: A method of providing a video summary by an electronic device. The method includes receiving, by the electronic device, a video including a plurality of frames; determining, by the electronic device, at least one view point of a user viewing the video; determining, by the electronic device, at least one region of interest (ROI) of the user in at least one frame among the plurality of frames based on the at least one view point of the user; identifying, by the electronic device, a frame set from the plurality of frames including the at least one ROI based on determining the at least one ROI in the at least one frame; providing, by the electronic device, the video summary based on the identified frame set; and displaying the video summary on a display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Milankumar Patel, Nawnil Kumar Jaiswal, Saurabh Tiwari, Tushar Kant Deo, Vijayanand Kumar
  • Patent number: 11902666
    Abstract: An imaging method which comprises, while a line of sight of a camera is maintained fixedly oriented towards a target, controlling the camera to acquire an image by a sensor located at a current position relative to the camera, sending a command to an actuator of the sensor, for inducing a motion of the sensor relative to the camera along at least one direction, from the current position to a new position, controlling the camera to acquire an image by each of the pixel bands of the sensor, wherein motion of the sensor is performed during a first period of time, and the sensor is retained stationary at the new position during a second period of time, wherein acquisition of the image is performed during a third period of time, wherein a majority of the third period of time is within the second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Erez Yacoby
  • Patent number: 11895433
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises an image sensor, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions for receiving an event recording profile based on configuration data of the electronic device, the configuration data including a location type or a power type; receiving a plurality of images of a scene captured by the image sensor; detecting a trigger event based on one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; in response to detecting the trigger event, identifying an object of interest in one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; creating an event clip from the stored images that include the object of interest, wherein creating the event clip includes configuring a clip length based on the event recording profile; and providing the event clip for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: John Jordan Nold, Joe Delone Venters, Liana Kong, Scott Mullins
  • Patent number: 11889222
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for creating at multilayer scene using a multiple visual input data. And injecting an image of an actor into the multilayer scene to produce a output video approximating a three-dimensional space which signifies depth by visualizing the actor in front of some layers and behind others. This is very useful for many situations where the actor needs to be on a display with other visual items but in a way that does not overlap or occlude those items. A user interacts with other virtual objects or items in a scene or even with other users visualized in the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Malay Kundu
  • Patent number: 11887626
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for controlling the playback and recording of television programming containing interactive applications. In particular, the disclosed methods and systems detail how “trick modes” can be handled when playing applications that are distributed with the television programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    Inventors: Alain Delpuch, Gregory D'Orso, Jean-Rene Menand, Ludovic Pierre, Steven Szymanski