Patents Examined by Thai Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 11974046
    Abstract: An inspection system including an illumination subsystem and an image sensing subsystem, the illumination subsystem providing a plurality of illumination modalities, the system simultaneously illuminating at least two areas of an object with different ones of the plurality of illumination modalities, images of which are acquired by a single sensor forming part of the image sensing subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Yigal Katzir, Ilia Lutsker, Elie Meimoun
  • Patent number: 11970171
    Abstract: A road-surface state determination apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The road-surface state determination apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a control unit. The acquiring unit acquires, as a first detection signal, information on a changed pixel of which a luminance value changes based on an absolute displacement of a road-surface state or a relative displacement of the road-surface state relative to a moving vehicle. The control unit determines a type of the road-surface state using the first detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Yokoyama, Noriyuki Ido
  • Patent number: 11963477
    Abstract: A method for observing the crop processing and/or handling working processes of an agricultural machine is provided. The method utilizes a digital video system with a plurality of digital image acquisition units, with at least one display unit and with at least one network coupling element preferably designed as a switch, via which the image acquisition units are connected to the display unit. The image acquisition units record image data for images of, in particular, a video stream, and at least one of the images, in particular of the video stream, is reproduced at least partially in one of in particular a plurality of configurable shapes comprising one or multiple image reproduction regions on the display unit that is in particular designed as a touchscreen of an EDP unit that is preferably designed as a Panel PC (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Witte, Wolfram Strothmann, Axel Schomaker
  • Patent number: 11968481
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video playback method and a terminal device. The method is applied to a first terminal device including N screens, and includes: obtaining M video files and configuration information of the M video files, where the configuration information is used for indicating a screen identifier associated with each of the M video files; and playing K video files in the M video files on K screens in the N screens according to the configuration information, where both N and K are positive integers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiongzhou Lin
  • Patent number: 11968482
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of terminal technologies, and describe a method for displaying a dynamic image and a terminal, which resolve a problem that power consumption of a terminal caused by an existing method in which three-dimensional real-time rendering is used is relatively high. The method may be applied to a terminal, and can includes obtaining, from a video file based on a preset factor, a plurality of pieces of image frame data in a one-to-one correspondence to a plurality of image frames. The method may also include decoding the plurality of pieces of image frame data, to obtain the plurality of image frames. Furthermore, the method can include successively displaying the plurality of image frames obtained through the decoding, to present the dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Li, Jun Liang, Shilong Chen, Liang Xiao
  • Patent number: 11967347
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor, in which the memory stores a motion picture, a subtitle set in the motion picture, and a display starting time point and a display ending time point of the subtitle, and the processor is configured to display the subtitle in the motion picture being played back in accordance with a current playback time point and display notification information for notifying a user that the current playback time point is a specific time before or after a time point at which display of the subtitle is started or ended at the specific time before or after the display starting time point or the display ending time point of the subtitle in the motion picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masakazu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11962891
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image preview method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, where the method may include: determining a target object contained in a first image captured by the camera; cropping an image area containing the target object; and enlarging the image area to a predefined preview size, and previewing and displaying the enlarged image area in a shooting preview interface. Through the above method, a target object can be determined in a complex shooting scenario, and a user may observe the target object more clearly through a preview interface when an area where the target object is located is automatically enlarged and displayed, further avoiding the problem that it is difficult for the user to find the target object through movement of the head-mounted device due to an undersized field of view of an enlarged image area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING SUPERHEXA CENTURY TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Shaohua Su, Yuquan Dong
  • Patent number: 11956409
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for audio processing. In some examples, an apparatus for media processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives first 3 degrees of freedom (3 DoF) information associated with a first media content for a scene in a media application. The first 3 DoF information includes a first revolution orientation for describing the first media content on a first sphere centered at a user of the media application. The processing circuitry determines that a rendering platform for rendering the first media content is a six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) platform, and calculates, first spatial location information of the first media content based on the first revolution orientation and first parameters of the first sphere. The first spatial location information is used in first 6 DoF information associated with the first media content for rendering the first media content on the 6 DoF platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Jun Tian, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11949847
    Abstract: In a recording device configured to record a motion of an object in a virtual space, a data structure of data related to the motion of the object recorded by the recording device is used for a process of reproducing the motion of the object in the reproduction device. The recording device includes a controller and a storage. The controller causes the storage to store, in association with the object, the data related to the motion of the object and data related to available functions for a process of moving the object. The data related to the available functions for the process of moving the object is stored in the storage so that the reproduction device is able to specify a function class that is reproducible by the reproduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Iwaki
  • Patent number: 11950023
    Abstract: An intelligent automobile networking system, which includes a cloud server, a dash camera installed on a vehicle communicatively coupled to the cloud server for recording the video and position information related to the driving of the vehicle, an IP camera installed on a place exclude the dash camera and the cloud server to record surveillance images of that place, and a mobile device is communicatively coupled to the cloud server, the dash cam and the IP camera, wherein, two-way information between the vehicle and the field installed with the IP camera can be received, shared and commonly managed, and the system App is cross-platform installed on the cloud server, the mobile terminal and the dash camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SanJet Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Yun-Song Liao
  • Patent number: 11942117
    Abstract: A software product includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to display a graphical user interface for a video editing system, the user interface including a media bin displaying one or more media elements imported into the video editing system; a viewing window for viewing a selected one of the media elements; a timeline; and a concatenator element; and responsive to a user actuating the concatenator element, concatenates the media elements present in the media bin together into a single media element and loads the single media element into the viewing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Matthew Dowling
  • Patent number: 11935564
    Abstract: Disclosed is a video editing method including: acquiring an editing instruction to be executed from a user; calling a template video stored in advance according to the editing instruction, and acquiring a time axis representing duration of the template video; and overlaying the time axis on a progress bar of an editing video to indicate, by a combination of the time axis and the progress bar, a position of the template video in the editing video. A video editing apparatus and a smart mobile terminal are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Yutao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11935565
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system with a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations such as receiving user input comprising a keyword identifying an object, monitoring a video recording during a generation of the video recording by a camera, wherein the monitoring includes detecting the object being captured by the camera, creating a video clip from the video recording, wherein the video clip comprises a start point and a stop point in the video recording determined by a machine learning algorithm, and sending a notification of the creating of the video clip. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Patent number: 11935378
    Abstract: An autonomous wireless intrusion detector device comprises a movement sensor and a digital camera. In response to detecting a potential movement within a monitored area, the digital camera is triggered to create and store a set of consecutive full-size digital images of the monitored area, and a set of reduced-size thumbnail images corresponding to the set of full-size digital images, and a set of reduced-size thumbnail images corresponding to the set of full-size digital images, for the new alarm event. The detector device sends notification of the new alarm event and reduced-size image-related event information to an intrusion detection network entity, and sends the set of full-size images only if requested by the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: THINNECT OÜ
    Inventors: Tanel Liiv, Sho Yano, Henri Abel, Tauri Tuubel, Mattis Marjak, Romi Agar, Teet Härm, Ville Arulaane, Indrek Tubalkain
  • Patent number: 11937011
    Abstract: A recording device comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a setting unit configured to set a scene number; a communication unit configured to perform transmission and reception of a scene number to share the scene number with at least one other recording device; and a recording unit configured to record a file of recording data with a file name including a scene number at a start of recording the recording data and a scene number at an end of recording the recording data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Soichiro Shirashige
  • Patent number: 11937019
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of co-located inspection camera modules captures raw images of objects passing in front of the co-located inspection camera modules which form part of a quality assurance inspection system. The inspection camera modules have either a different image sensor or lens focal properties and generate different feeds of raw images. The co-located inspection camera modules can be selectively switched amongst to activate the corresponding feed of raw images. The activated feed of raw images is provided to a consuming application or process for quality assurance analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Elementary Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arye Barnehama, Dat Do, Daniel Pipe-Mazo
  • Patent number: 11936978
    Abstract: A method, performed by an image-capturing device, for installing the image-capturing device on a network. The image-capturing device operates according to an installation mode in which a limited set of persistent software settings of the image-capturing device can be changed and an installation-mode video stream which is privacy safe is anonymously accessible. The method comprises providing the installation-mode video stream in response to connecting the image-capturing device to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Larsson
  • Patent number: 11937013
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a video processing method, an electronic device for video playback, and a video playback system. A video processing method comprises: receiving an input video comprising a plurality of sections, and metadata associated with the input video, at least two sections of the plurality of sections of the input video having different frame rates; and performing real-time processing on the input video according to the metadata, so as to output an output video having a constant target frame rate in real time, wherein the metadata includes frames indicating various sections of the input video rate information, or the metadata includes information indicating the frame rate of each section of the input video and at least one of the following information: information indicating a target frame rate and information indicating a processing operation to be used for performing real-time processing on the input video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GDC Technology (Shenzhen) Limited
    Inventors: Pranay Kumar, Man Nang Chong
  • Patent number: 11930252
    Abstract: A video recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving highlight information of a target video, wherein the quantity of the highlight information is at least one, and the highlight information corresponds to a predetermined playback position in the target video; and displaying the highlight information, and after receiving a triggering operation of a user on the basis of the highlight information, playing the target video. By using the technical solution, a playback position corresponding to a clip or highlight point in a long video can be taken as a starting point in the highlight information, a user is guided to browse the long video, so that the user can acquire the highlight content of the long video at a fastest speed, and watch the long video seamlessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zixin Liu
  • Patent number: 11924481
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) accessing a first media data object and a different, second media data object that, when played back, each render temporally sequenced content, (2) comparing first temporally sequenced content represented by the first media data object with second temporally sequenced content represented by the second media data object to identify a set of common temporal subsequences between the first media data object and the second media data object, (3) identifying a set of edits relative to the set of common temporal subsequences that describe a difference between the temporally sequenced content of the first media data object and the temporally sequenced content of the second media data object, and (4) executing a workflow relating to the first media data object and/or the second media data object based on the set of edits. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Yadong Wang, Chih-Wei Wu, Kyle Tacke, Shilpa Jois Rao, Boney Sekh, Andrew Swan, Raja Ranjan Senapati