Patents Examined by Syed Y. Hasan
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Patent number: 10726559Abstract: The invention relates generally to edge detection and presentation in thermal images. Infrared and visible light images comprising at least partially overlapping target scenes are analyzed. An edge detection process is performed on the visible light image to determine which pixels represent edges in the target scene. A display image is generated in which some pixels include infrared image data and in which pixels corresponding to edges in the visible light image include a predetermined color and do not include corresponding infrared image data to emphasize edges. Edge pixels in the display image can include exclusively the predetermined color, or in some examples, a blend of a predetermined color and visible light image data. Methods can include replacing one or the other of visible light edge pixels or corresponding infrared pixels with the predetermined color before combining the visible light and infrared image data to create a display image.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Fluke CorporationInventors: Peter A. Bergstrom, Kirk R. Johnson, James T. Pickett
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Patent number: 10728490Abstract: A digital video camera comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions to implement a method for trimming a digital video sequence. The method includes: selecting a digital video sequence; initiating a trimming operation; accepting user input to select a start frame and an end frame for a trimmed digital video sequence, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select between a start frame selection mode and an end frame selection mode, and the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the frames of the selected digital video sequence; and trimming the selected video sequence to include the frames between the selected start frame and the selected end frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLCInventors: Alison Rose Boncha, Theresa Kathryn Guarrera, Noah Joseph Stupak, Keith Stoll Karn
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Patent number: 10721526Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to implement a technique for an interactive video system that allows a user to place supplemental items such as images on a main image being displayed. In one implementation, a user causes images of flying food to be displayed on top of a playing movie. Supplemental item data may be provided on the same media as is the main item data, e.g., on an optical disc, and control information may be provided on the media to control how supplemental item data is applied and presented.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Marc Rashba
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Patent number: 10720183Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device for generating a multiple point of view (MPOV) video and the method thereof. The present disclosure involves the electronic device to obtain a plurality of media contents. The electronic device would identify a first media content relating to a second media content in time and location according to time information, audio information, and location information including a geographic tag and a surrounding signal information. Then, the first media content and the second media content are provided as relevant media contents for generating the MPOV video of the event having the relevant media content captured from different point of view.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Wen-Ping Ying, Yuan-Kang Wang, Hira Singh Verick, Jing-Lung Wu, Wen-Chuan Lee, Chia-Wei Chen, Kenneth Todd Culos, Wei-Chih Kuo, Ming-Han Tsai, Hsin-Ti Chueh, Tai Ito
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Patent number: 10706889Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selective content insertion into areas of media objects are provided. For example, a media object (e.g., an image or video), is selected for composition with content, such as where a message, interactive content, a hyperlink, or other types of content is overlaid or embedded into the media object to create a composite media object. The content is added into an area of the media object that is selectively identified to reduce occlusion and/or improve visual cohesiveness between the content and the media object (e.g., added to an area with a similar or complimentary color, having an adequate size with spare amounts of visual features such as a soccer player, a ball, or other entity, etc.). In this way, the content may be add into the area of the media object to create a composite media object to provide to users.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Bart Thomée, Ioannis Kalantidis, Clayton Ellis Mellina, Simon Osindero
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Patent number: 10708571Abstract: An apparatus for or processing video frames is presented. The apparatus comprises at least one processing unit and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the apparatus to segment objects appearing in video frames, model movement of a camera recording the video frames, and individually compensate motion artefacts in the video frames for at least one segmented object based on relative movement of the camera and at least one segmented object.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tomi Sokeila, Klaus Melakari, Mikko Muukki
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Patent number: 10687108Abstract: Disclosed are a program recording method and terminal. The method includes: upon receiving a reservation request for a new recording task, determining whether there is an overlapping third recording time period between a first recording time period for a previously reserved recording task in a target CAM card and a second recording time period for a new recording task; if the overlapping third recording time period exists, determining whether a number of data streams supported by the target CAM card is more than that of reserved recording tasks in the target CAM card within the third recording time period; if yes, making a reservation for the new recording task using the target CAM card.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignees: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION, HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Guilan Wang, Tonglu Zhang
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Patent number: 10679671Abstract: A method of summarizing events in a video recording includes evaluating at least one video recording to identify event that violate at least one rule. The method further includes excerpting a fragment of the at least one video recording. The fragment contains a depiction of the event. The method also includes causing the fragment to be included in a summary video recording. The rules may relate to a threshold amount of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording, or a threshold duration of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Greg M. Millar, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Patent number: 10665265Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating an event reel based on spectator reaction data, the event reel is temporally synchronized to a music track. A method includes receiving a video file for video content and receiving spectator reaction data related to reactions generated by spectators while viewing the video content. The method includes processing the spectator reaction data to identify video time slices from the video content that correspond to segments of interest of the video content. The method includes processing a music track to identify markers for the music track that correspond to beats of the music track and generating an event reel having a video component defined by a sequence of the video time slices that is temporally synchronized to the markers of the music track.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLCInventor: Warren Benedetto
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Patent number: 10666933Abstract: 3D image display device and method are provided. The 3D image display device divides a first 3D image into multiple depth layers, determines irregular pixels corresponding to the divided depth layers, generates second 3D images corresponding to the depth layers, respectively, using the corresponding irregular pixels, and synthesizes the generated images, thereby providing a final high-resolution 3D image.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiao Shaohui, Zhou Mingcai, Hong Tao, Li Weiming, Wang Haitao, Dong Kyung Nam, Wang Xiying
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Patent number: 10666892Abstract: A system includes a processing device and a personal communication device. The dash camera may be configured to be removably mounted in a vehicle with a view of a direction ahead of the vehicle and no further installation to said vehicle. The personal communication device is generally separate from the dash camera and the vehicle. The dash camera generally comprises a processing device and one or more sensors configured to generate data related to motion of the vehicle. The processing device generally collects (i) the data related to motion of the vehicle and (ii) video, and, in response to the data being indicative of an accident, automatically communicates collected data and a video sequence recorded prior to the data being indicative of the accident to the personal communication device and automatically initiates an emergency call using the personal communication device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Ambarella International LPInventors: Alexander Fink, Shimon Pertsel
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Patent number: 10664687Abstract: The importance of video sections of a video file may be determined from features of the video file. The video file may be decoded to obtain video frames and audio data associated with the video frames. Feature scores for each video frame may be obtained by analyzing features of the video frame or the audio data associated with the video frame based on a local rule, a global rule, or both. The feature scores are further combined to derive a frame importance score for the video frame. Based on the feature scores of the video frames in the video file, the video file may be segmented into video sections of different section importance values.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nitin Suri, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Omkar Mehendale, Andrew S. Ivory, William D. Sproule
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Patent number: 10663626Abstract: A display device has a display, operable to generate a real image, and an optical system, comprising one or more lenslets, arranged to generate a virtual sub-image from a partial real image on the display, by each lenslet projecting light from the display to an eye position. The sub-images combine to form a virtual image viewable from the eye position. At least one lenslet is symmetric with respect to a plane, and the display surface is cylindrical with its axis perpendicular to that plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TESSELAND, LLCInventors: Pablo Benitez, Juan Carlos Minano, Marina Buljan, Dejan Grabovickic, Pablo Zamora
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Patent number: 10643666Abstract: A method and an apparatus for playing a video are described. In an example, processing circuitry of the apparatus acquires, when the video is switched from a first application interface to a second application interface, first progress information and first position information of the video in the first application interface. The first position information is indicative of a first video playback window in the first application interface. Then, the processing circuitry resumes playing the video in the second application interface according to the first progress information. Further, the processing circuitry acquires, when the video is switched from the second application interface to the first application interface, second progress information of the video in the second application interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yongfeng Liu, Hui Wang
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Patent number: 10623651Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of further appropriately adjusting the luminance of the endoscopic image. Provided is an image processing device including: an area extraction unit configured to extract, as an extraction area, an area corresponding to the size of an insertion unit from an endoscopic image based on imaging by an image sensor; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control on a basis of an output value of the image sensor in the extraction area.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Murakita
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Patent number: 10623662Abstract: Systems and methods are described for receiving, at a computing device, a video comprising a plurality of frames and determining, by the computing device, that vertical cropping should be performed for the video. For each frame of the plurality of frames, the computing device processes the video by analyzing the frame to determine a region of interest in the frame, wherein the frame is a first frame, cropping the first frame based on the region of interest in the frame to produce a vertically cropped frame for the video, determining a second frame immediately preceding the first frame, and smoothing a trajectory from the second frame to the vertically cropped frame. The vertically cropped frame is displayed to a user instead of the first frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jia Li, Nathan Litke, Jose Jesus (Joseph) Paredes, Rahul Bhupendra Sheth, Daniel Szeto, Ning Xu, Jianchao Yang
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Patent number: 10623686Abstract: A network device can manage the storing of content. In one aspect, the content may be managed to prevent the storing of multiple versions of the same content. A deduplication process may be performed by comparing digests generated at user devices. Based on the comparison of the digests, the network device can efficiently and effectively manage the retrieving and storing of content.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Arun V. Rajagopalan
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Patent number: 10607654Abstract: The disclosure describes using sharding generate virtual reality content. A method includes receiving raw virtual reality video data recorded by a camera array, wherein the camera array includes three or more camera modules. The method further includes defining shards of the raw virtual reality video data in a state file. The method further includes assigning each of the shards to a corresponding worker node in a set of worker nodes. The method further includes updating the state file to include metadata that describes a location of each of the shards at the corresponding worker node in the set of worker nodes. The method further includes providing the metadata to the set of worker nodes. The method further includes processing the shards to generate one or more virtual reality video renders for each shard, where each virtual reality video render combines the raw video feeds into a single video file.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Olaf Brandt, Anatoli Adamov
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Patent number: 10606060Abstract: A high content imaging system and a method of operating the high content imaging system are disclosed. A microscope has a first objective lens and a second objective lens, and an objective lens database has first and second transformation values associated with the first and the second objective lenses, respectively. A microscope controller operates the microscope with the first objective lens to develop first values of acquisition parameters. A configuration module automatically determines second values of the acquisition parameters using the first values of the acquisition parameters, first transformation values associated with the first objective lens, and second transformation values associated with the second objective lens. The microscope controller operates the microscope using the second objective lens and the second values of the acquisition parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLCInventor: Loren A. Stauffer
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Patent number: 10607649Abstract: Video information may define spherical video content having a duration. Spherical video content may define visual content viewable from a point of view as a function of progress through the spherical video content. Path information may define a path selection for the spherical video content. Path selection may include movement of a viewing window within the spherical video content. The viewing window may define extents of the visual content viewable from the point of view as the function of progress through the spherical video content. Time lapse parameter information may define at least two of a time portion of the duration, an image sampling rate, and a time lapse speed effect. A time lapse video may be generated based on the video information, the path information, and the time lapse parameter information.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, Jessica Bonner