Patents Examined by Sunghyoun Park
  • Patent number: 10750233
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a recording apparatus, a recording method, and a program capable of avoiding a buffer overflow at the time of reproduction. Each packet is separated from a packet string, and information indicating an arrival timing of each packet is output. The packet is divided into divided packets having a size which does not cause a buffer overflow, and a packet arrival time of each divided packet is embedded in a header of the divided packet. The present technology is applied to the recording apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Negishi, Michito Ishii, Kazuhiro Ishigaya, Takehito Watanabe, Noriaki Ooishi, Yasuyuki Chaki
  • Patent number: 10734032
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method of synchronously playing media file. The method includes: receiving, with a mobile terminal, parameter information from a playing device, the parameter information including a current playing progress and a total time length of a current playing media file; starting to count time, with the mobile terminal, upon receiving the parameter information and calculating, with the mobile terminal, a real-time playing progress of the media file based on a predetermined time interval according to the parameter information and timing information; displaying, with the mobile terminal, the real-time playing progress on a display interface. The present disclosure solves unstable data transmission and enhances the accuracy of displaying progress of the playing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP, LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Chen
  • Patent number: 10734025
    Abstract: Techniques and devices for generating multiple output video variations for an input video based on a shared resource architecture. The shared resource architecture reuses and shares computational and gating results from one or more operations to create the multiple output video variations. The shared resource architecture applies a frame-time normalization of the trimmed and stabilized video to produce a trimmed stabilized normalized video and, thereafter, uses the trimmed stabilized normalized video to precompute one or more video parameters that can be shared with multiple output video variations. The shared resource architecture can then generate multiple output video variations using the shared video parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arwen V. Bradley, Jason Klivington, Charles A. Mezak, Etienne Guerard, Piotr Stanczyk
  • Patent number: 10728585
    Abstract: A system and method for storing image information, such as video clips, across multiple storage devices of different business entities provides redundancy and off-site storage, but possibly without the costs associated with a traditional cloud storage system. In examples, a peer-to-peer arrangement is used. A user/customer accesses the image information via a web portal hosted by their business entity or the operator of the system or accesses the image information from a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Walter A. Martin
  • Patent number: 10720169
    Abstract: A recording device, such as a video camera, emits audio watermarks (e.g., audible tones, inaudible tones) and records audio watermarks emitted by other recording devices. The audio watermarks provide information (e.g., data) such as an identifier of the camera and the identity of the operator. Audio watermarks may further include time information such as a timestamp indicating the time that the audio watermark was emitted by the camera. Audio watermarks may be emitted and recorded at intervals while recording an incident. A processing system, such as a digital video and audio processing system, may receive video information and recorded watermarks from multiple recording devices. The processing system may use the audio watermarks recorded by each recording device to determine which recording devices were in the vicinity of an incident. The processing system may also use the audio watermarks to align (e.g., synchronize) the video recorded by the various recording devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Reitz, Patrick W. Smith
  • Patent number: 10720182
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for decomposing a video to salient fragments and synthesizing a video composition based on the salient fragments. A video decomposition application extracts non-salient portions of a video, extracts a plurality of salient fragments of the video, builds a database of the plurality of salient fragments, receives a query, retrieves, from the database of the plurality of salient fragments, a set of salient fragments based on the query, and synthesizes a video composition based on the set of salient fragments and the non-salient portions of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos, Ramya Narasimha
  • Patent number: 10721282
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Patent number: 10714140
    Abstract: A non-transitory tangible recording medium storing AV data having a system stream file is provided. The system stream file is played by a playback device. The system stream file includes an individual decryption key and a common decryption key. The individual decryption key is owned individually by each of multiple playback devices. The common decryption key is owned in common by the playback devices. The system stream file includes a first system stream file to be played back using both the individual decryption key and the common decryption key. The system stream file also includes a second system stream file to be played back using only the common decryption key among the individual decryption key and the common decryption key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yahata
  • Patent number: 10713391
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for associating protection data to a video object and verifying the content and source of the video object based on the protection data. A video processing application receives, at a producer, a video object; computes, at the producer, a digital signature based on content of the first video object; adds, at the producer, identification information of the producer to the digital signature of the first video object, the producer being a source of the first video object; transmits the first video object along with the digital signature from the producer to a first consumer; and authenticates, at the first consumer, the content and source of the first video object based on the digital signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos, Ramya Narasimha
  • Patent number: 10715776
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling playback control functions of a media player are disclosed. For example, a user of a client device receiving streaming playback of a video stream may perform rewind and fast forward control functions. The client device may implement these playback control functions by retrieving an enhanced playback segment. Using the enhanced playback segment, the media player may display selected frames at a predetermined interval while maintaining a visual cadence that is pleasing to a viewer. In the described embodiments, a client device may render a video stream, receive a command to control a fast forward or rewind playback mode for the video stream, and retrieve, from a distribution server or associated edge cache, one or more enhanced playback segments adapted to implement the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Roger N. Pantos, Zhenheng Li
  • Patent number: 10701459
    Abstract: A controller for controlling the output of an audio-video feed has an input for receiving audio-video content and a vector engine arranged to produce a continuous metadata value of M dimensions at intervals from the audio-video content. The metadata value may indicate aspect of the video content such as rate, pace, tone or other such information. A low pass filter and hysteresis filter are then provided to filter the continuous metadata value to produce a binary output. The binary output is provided to a retrieval module arranged to control the audio-video content in dependence upon the binary output. In this way, automated segmentation of audio-video content may be reliably achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: British Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventor: Simon Rankine
  • Patent number: 10692532
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for efficient generation and presentation of synopsis videos that include video images of multiple objects captured at various times displayed at a common time. The system may include one or more network cameras that, when a moving object is detected, record a video file for that object and provide the video file to a cloud server. The cloud server may queue video files from the one or more network cameras and, when a user requests a synopsis video of a period of time, the video files captured during that period of time may be used by the cloud server to generate the synopsis video. The cloud server may also generate a plurality of object indicators that are provided with each of several chapters of the synopsis video in a scrollable arrangement that allows the user the scroll through objects and chapters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Vlad Kardashov, John Distelzelweig
  • Patent number: 10682958
    Abstract: Vehicle display device (10) including a display unit (50), installed in a cabin of a vehicle and having a display face oriented in a different direction from a direction of a driver (DR), configured to display an image depicting a surrounding area of the vehicle, and a mirror unit (55) installed in the cabin of the vehicle and configured to reflect some or all of an image area displayed on the display unit (50). A visible range of the surrounding area visible to the driver through an image of the display unit (50) reflected in the mirror unit (55) changes according to movement of a viewing position of the driver (DR) with respect to the mirror unit (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiji Oba
  • Patent number: 10686985
    Abstract: In order to improve entertainment of panoramic images, a moving picture reproducing device includes: a storing means configured to store a plurality of panoramic image data photographed at an identical time by associating with predetermined time information; a reproduction control means configured to set selected one of the plurality of panoramic image data as a reproduction target, set a clipped part of the reproduction target as a presentation image, and display the presentation image on a display device; and a switching control means configured to, when the reproduction target is reproduced at a predetermined reproduction timing, switch the reproduction target to another panoramic image data at the reproduction timing on the basis of the time information in response to a user's switching request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: KADINCHE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soko Aoki, Kazutaka Uchida, Shun Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 10681314
    Abstract: A moving image splitting device is connected to the cameras of a camera group that captures moving images, connected to an information processor through a network, and having a processor. The processor repeats requesting the camera to send a moving image, acquiring a captured moving image from the camera, detecting an I frame from the acquired moving image, creating split data with a sequence allocated in an ascending order of captured time instants in a GOP unit including the I frame, and accumulating the split data in a storage device. In response to a request for split data from the information processor, the processor extracts split data from the storage device with reference to the sequence allocated to the split data, and transfers the extracted split data to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEXPOINT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10679675
    Abstract: This application discloses a multimedia file joining method performed by an apparatus. After obtaining a first video clip and a second video clip to be joined, the apparatus obtains an audio file corresponding to the first video clip and the second video clip. The audio file records the first start and end time points of the first video clip and the second start and end time points of the second video clip. The apparatus adjusts the first video clip to play the first video clip in a first time period indicated by the first and end time points, and adjusts the second video clip to play the second video clip in a second time period indicated by the second and end time points with the first time period not overlapping the second time period. Finally, the apparatus performs a joining operation on the adjusted first video clip and the adjusted second video clip, to obtain a joined video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Tao Xiong, Lingrui Cui, Lei Ying, Faqiang Wu, Bin Fu, Qianyi Wang, Yanggang Dai
  • Patent number: 10679670
    Abstract: Video information defining video content may be accessed. Music information defining a music track providing an accompaniment for video content may be accessed. The music track may have pulses and one or more music events. Individual music events may correspond to different moments within the music track. One or more music events may be individually classified into one or more categories based on intensities of one or pulses occurring within the music event. One or more visual effects may be selected for different moments within the music track based on the categories of the music events. One or more visual effects may be applied to the video content. One or more visual effects may be applied to one or more moments within the video content aligned to one or more different moments within the music track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Patry, Guillaume Oulès
  • Patent number: 10679668
    Abstract: Spherical video content may have a progress length and include spherical video frames that define visual content viewable from a point of view as a function of progress through the progress length. Edits for the spherical video content may be used to generate an edit tree. The edit tree may include nodes corresponding to the edits and edges connecting different nodes. An edit of the spherical video content may be generated based on the edit tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Clark, Ingrid A. Cotoros, Jessica Bonner
  • Patent number: 10681368
    Abstract: A video predictive encoding device includes an input module to receive pictures forming a video sequence, and an encoding module to encode the pictures by either intra prediction or inter prediction to generate compressed picture data, and to packetize the compressed image data along with packet header information. The packet header information includes a picture type. The encoding module determines the picture type so as to uniquely indicate whether encoded picture data is used for reference in decoding of another picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Junya Takiue, Choong Seng Boon, Thiow Keng Tan
  • Patent number: 10674059
    Abstract: A method for controlling a camera is provided. An image transmitted from a camera is received and detection is performed on the image, where if a target object is not detected, a search instruction for controlling the camera to rotate in a vertical direction is transmitted to the camera until the target object is detected in an image. Then posture parameters of the target object in the image are acquired, where if the posture parameters do not match a preset posture parameter criteria, a fine adjustment instruction for controlling the camera to rotate and move is transmitted to the camera, until the posture parameters of the target object match the preset posture parameter criteria. A device for controlling a camera and a financial device terminal are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: GRG Banking Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiancai Liang, Yunyun Nie, Yong Zhang, Daoyu Liu, Wenchuan Gong