Patents Examined by Susan E Hodges
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Patent number: 10508995Abstract: The three-dimensional image inspection device includes a composed image generation part configured to compose first three-dimensional data and second three-dimensional data, and generate a three-dimensional composed image having information in a height direction, a composition mode selection part configured to enable a first composition mode and a second composition mode to be selected, the first composition mode being a mode in which the three-dimensional composed image is generated, based on the three-dimensional data measured by both a first light projecting/receiving part and a second light projecting/receiving part with respect to respective pixels configuring the three-dimensional composed image, and the second composition mode being a mode in which the three-dimensional composed image is generated, based on the three-dimensional data measured by any one or both of the first light projecting/receiving part and the second light projecting/receiving part with respect to the respective pixels.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Keyence CorporationInventor: Norimasa Mayumi
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Patent number: 10506235Abstract: Video encoding operation is performed in a distributed video encoding system to meet a service layer agreement such as a target time for completion of the video encoding operation. Each of multiple videos being encoded is split into smaller jobs corresponding to video segments of the videos. The jobs are processed according to a job queue. The sequence of jobs in the job queue is periodically updated such that jobs corresponding to each video are processed within the corresponding target encoding time.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Michael Hamilton Coward, Amit Puntambekar, Randall Eugene Rizun
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Patent number: 10501207Abstract: A system for assisting in guiding of an aircraft maneuvered by an aircraft tractor on the ground, the system including at least one projection device including a laser generating a laser beam fixed to an anchor point of the fuselage of the aircraft. A fixing mechanism is configured to fix the projection device to an anchor point of the fuselage, the laser beam from each laser projector then plotting a light trace on the ground to be used to assist in guiding the aircraft on the ground. A camera can film the light trace on the ground. A remote display device includes a screen, the display device being positioned on the aircraft tractor for the screen to be visible to an operator of the aircraft tractor, each projection device being connected to the display device, the display device being configured to display the image from each projection device camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Cyril Carradori, Ludovic Zimmermann, Antoine Rouiller, Patrick Orfila, Philippe Couzinie
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Patent number: 10491880Abstract: Identification of objects, in particular three dimensional objects, includes digital scanning of at least one image portion of an image of at least one object to be identified for the digital capture of points of the image. The digitally captured points of the at least one image portion of the image are combined to form an image data record, wherein multiple image data records are generated for the object to be identified, and the image data records differ from one another at least in view of at least one image portion characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Darno Alexander Ketterer
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Patent number: 10488664Abstract: A head mounted display includes first and second light sources, an image output module and a light guide plate. The first light source is configured to emit a first light. The second light source is configured to emit a second light. The image output module is configured to receive the first light and the second light, and respectively generate first and second image lights with the relative image information. The light guide plate includes first and second light-output portions, and the first light-output portion and the second light-output portion are separated from each other by at least one distance along a first direction. The light guide plate is configured to guide the first image light propagating in the guide plate into the first light-output portion and to guide the second image light propagating in the light guide plate into the second light-output portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: June-Jei Huang
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Patent number: 10477232Abstract: A video coder may determine a search region for coding a current block of video data using Intra Block Copy (Intra BC). In some examples, the video coder determines a central point for the search region, and determines the search region for the current block based on the central point and a defined size for the search region. The video coder stores reconstructed blocks of the video data from a current picture that includes the current block in a memory based on the determined search region. The video coder codes information from which to identify one of the reconstructed blocks within the search region, and codes the current block based on the identified one of the reconstructed blocks according to Intra BC.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chao Pang, Joel Sole Rojals, Cheng-Teh Hsieh, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 10458098Abstract: Construction machine having a running-gear mechanism, a functional component, having a chassis with a cab for a driver, and monitoring cameras connected to at least one monitor in the cab in order to provide visual monitoring of work carried out adjacent to the machine, each camera having wide-angle lenses to monitor around the machine, a first camera to monitor the rear side of the machine with the camera directed in an inclined in relation to the plane (X) on which the machine stands, a second camera for monitoring the left-hand side of the machine and a third camera for monitoring the right-hand side of the machine, the second and third cameras being installed in upper left-hand and right-hand corner regions in relation to the front side of the machine with each directed at an angle of .+?.5.degree. in relation to the vertical (Y) of the plane (X) on which the machine stands.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Volvo Construction Equiptment Germany GmbHInventor: Henning Baeumchen
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Patent number: 10455253Abstract: A first interpolation filter is selected for a first direction of the prediction block, and a second interpolation filter is selected for a second direction of the prediction block. The first interpolation filter has a first number of taps and the second interpolation filter has a second number of taps. The second interpolation filter is set to an interpolation filter having a third number of taps in response to determining that the first number of taps is greater than a threshold number of taps and the second number of taps is greater than a threshold number of taps. The third number of taps is smaller than or equal to the threshold number of taps. The prediction block is generated using the first interpolation filter and the second interpolation filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Stanislav Vitvitskyy, Jingning Han, Ching-Han Chiang, Adrian W. Grange
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Patent number: 10455212Abstract: Example implementations relate to determining depth information using stereo sensor data. An example system may include at least one projector coupled to a robotic manipulator and configured to project a texture pattern onto an environment. The system may further include a displacer coupled to the at least one texture projector and configured to repeatedly change a position of the texture pattern within the environment. The system may also include at least two optical sensors configured to capture stereo sensor data for the environment. And the system may include a computing device configured to determine, using the stereo sensor data, an output including a virtual representation of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Kurt Konolige, Ethan Rublee
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Patent number: 10448005Abstract: A disclosed stereoscopic display device includes: a naked-eye stereoscopic display that projects respectively-different images into observer's left eye and right eye aligned in a first direction based on input images corresponding to two viewpoints; a flat-plate-shaped spatial imaging device that includes a plurality of optical reflection devices reflecting light transmitted from an object on a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface that are orthogonal to each other, the spatial imaging device emitting light that is emitted from the naked-eye stereoscopic display and is incident to an incident surface from an emission surface to an observer side; and an image processing unit that interchanges portions corresponding to reverse viewing areas in which depth parallax and popup parallax of the input images corresponding to the two viewpoints are reversed in a case where, in an image projecting one input image, an image projecting the other input image is mixed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsushi Sato, Koji Shigemura
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Patent number: 10447997Abstract: A method and apparatus of example embodiments are related to photographing using a plurality of sensors in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a plurality of output units comprising output circuitry configured to output an identification signal to an external object, a sensor configured to acquire an identification signal that is a reflection of the identification signal from an external object, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a first state of the external object, based on the reflected identification signal, to designate the plurality of output units as a first subset and a second subset, based at least on the first state of the external object, and to differently control the first subset and the second subset to output the identification signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kisuk Sung, Yongchan Keh, Yongkwan Kim, Sungsoon Kim, Hyo-Won Kim, Byeonghoon Park, Jungkee Lee, Kihuk Lee
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Patent number: 10440344Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting an image error in a naked-eye three-dimensional (3D) display may include controlling a flat-panel display displaying a stripe image, calculating a raster parameter of the naked-eye 3D display based on a captured stripe image, and correcting a stereoscopic image displayed on the naked-eye 3D display based on the calculated raster parameter, wherein the naked-eye 3D display includes the flat-panel display and the raster.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiming Li, Mingcai Zhou, Tao Hong, Dong Kyung Nam, Hyoseok Hwang, Jinho Lee, Zairan Wang, Zhihua Liu, Haitao Wang
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Patent number: 10440394Abstract: Video coding using a context adaptive scan order for entropy coding may include decoding a current block by identifying a context adaptive scan order for entropy decoding a transform block, which may include identifying non-zero-coefficient probabilities for the transform block such that each location in the transform block corresponds to a respective non-zero-coefficient probability from the non-zero-coefficient probabilities, assigning a respective context adaptive scan order position to each location in the transform block in descending magnitude order of the respective corresponding non-zero-coefficient probabilities such that the context adaptive scan order position for each location exceeds the context adaptive scan order position assigned to entropy coding context locations for the respective location, entropy decoding transform coefficients from the encoded video stream based on the context adaptive scan order, and reconstructing the decoded block based on the transform block.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jingning Han, Ching-Han Chiang
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Patent number: 10432928Abstract: An example method for encoding or decoding video data includes storing, by a video coder and in a reference picture buffer, a version of a current picture of the video data, including the current picture in a reference picture list (RPL) used to predict the current picture, and coding, by the video coder and based on the RPL, a block of video data in the current picture based on a predictor block of video data included in the version of the current picture stored in the reference picture buffer.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Xiang Li, Chao Pang, Ying Chen, Ye-Kui Wang
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Patent number: 10432961Abstract: A video coding system may include an encoder performs motion-compensated prediction on a video signal in a second format converted from an input format of the video signal. The video coding system may also include a decoder to decode portions of the encoded video, and a filtering system that filters portions of the decoded video, for example, by deblocking filtering or SAO filtering, using parameters derived from the video signal in the input format. A prediction system may include another format converter that converts the decoded video to the input format. The prediction system may select parameters of the motion-compensated prediction based at least in part on a comparison of the video signal in the input format to decoded video in the input format.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexandros Michael Tourapis, Yeping Su, David William Singer, Hsi-Jung Wu
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Patent number: 10431086Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a camera, a display unit, and a controller for finding parkable areas matching an overall width of a vehicle by detecting a distance between a plurality of objects in an image obtained by the camera, providing parkable area information corresponding to the parkable areas on the image through the display unit, and selecting one of the parkable areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jeongjun Lee, Eunyoung Shin, Samin Ryu, Eunhei Shin
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Patent number: 10432869Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for achieving a clear and precise optical zooming mechanism, which is applied to an electronic device equipped with a wide-angle image capturing element and a long-focus image capturing element. The wide-angle image capturing element and the long-focus image capturing element are controlled by the electronic device for capturing a wide-angle image and a long-focus image of a same spot simultaneously and respectively. The method enables the electronic device to sequentially perform an exposure and white balance adjustment process, a robust image matching algorithm and an image morphing fusion process to the wide-angle image and the long-focus image, respectively, so as to generate a clear and precise optical zooming image of the spot without having a significant skipping phenomenon occurred in an object within two zooming images.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: MULTIMEDIA IMAGE SOLUTION LIMITEDInventors: Qiaoling Bian, Yanqing Lu, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 10425566Abstract: A method calibrates a camera having image sensor having a center position. An image view projected onto the image sensor by a lens is captured. At least one image view boundary of the captured image view is detected. A projection center position corresponding to a center of the projected image view is determined in at least one dimension. Offset between the projection center position and a sensor center position is determined, defined in at least one dimension, corresponding to the center of the image sensor capturing the projected image view. The image sensor is moved in relation to the lens based on the offset in order to arrive at a substantially zero offset in at least one dimension between the center of image sensor and the center of the projected image view.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: AXIS ABInventors: Niklas Hansson, Andreas Palsson
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Patent number: 10397574Abstract: Systems and methods for determining quantization parameter (QP) for video coding. Embodiments may be particularly advantageous for strongly temporal correlated frames, such as for video conferencing applications. An initial QP for a frame of a video sequence may be modified based on a spatial complexity or a temporal complexity associated with the video frame, and/or based on an inter-predicted frame bitrate target cycle, as a function of whether the frame is intra- or inter-predicted. The inter-predicted frame bitrate target cycle includes a sequence of two or more inter-predicted frame bitrate targets that are assigned to the frame according to the inter-predicted frame bitrate target cycle. A reference frame for an inter-predicted frame may be selected based on the bitrate target associated with candidate reference frames. Initial QP of an inter-predicted frame with a scene change may be modified in a manner independent of an inter-predicted frame bitrate target cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ximin Zhang, Sang-Hee Lee, Zhijun Lei
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Patent number: 10313662Abstract: An autostereoscopic 3D display device may be configured to set the width of a viewing zone to a proper fraction of the interocular distance while at the same time overlapping the viewing zones with each other. Through this, an autostereoscopic 3D display device allowing the input and output of stereo image data may be implemented to reduce the number of image sources as well as reduce 3D crosstalk. In addition, the autostereoscopic 3D display device may apply view data rendering to extend a 3D viewing zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: ChungHwan An