Patents Examined by Thai Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 11804246
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for automatically editing multimedia content and in particular, to producing expert quality multimedia compositions that match musical transitions with visual transitions and effects. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving image content items, receiving a cut vector including at least a first-cut time and a second-cut time, and automatically mixing the image content items to produce an edited multimedia sequence, wherein a begin time of the edited multimedia sequence corresponds with the first-cut time, and an end time of the edited multimedia sequence corresponds with the second-cut time. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SoClip!
    Inventor: Christophe Vaucher
  • Patent number: 11805229
    Abstract: Provided is a video search interfacing apparatus for efficiently searching for a plurality of recorded video channels by generating a search history by selecting cameras in a time series manner according to a traffic line of an object of interest on a map on which physical positions of a plurality or cameras are visually arranged, thereby searching for a plurality of recorded video channels more intuitively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: IDIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chul Kim, GyeongMin Park
  • Patent number: 11800047
    Abstract: One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11786058
    Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
  • Patent number: 11792501
    Abstract: A device, method and system for installing video analytics parameters at a video analytics engine is provided. An example device determines that a classification of a first camera is one or more of similar to, and same as, a respective classification of at least one second camera. The example device retrieves, from a memory, video analytics parameters associated with the at least one second camera, the video analytics parameters stored at the memory in association with the respective classification. The example device causes installing of the video analytics parameters at a video analytics engine associated with the first camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter L. Venetianer, Thomas Christopher Hansen, Qifan Liang, Ryan Lee
  • Patent number: 11792355
    Abstract: Creating a video presentation includes obtaining a first front-camera video stream and a first back-camera video stream that are recorded synchronously using a first device having a front-camera and a back-camera and extracting a first image of a first presenter from the first front-camera video stream. Creating a video presentation also includes obtaining a second front-camera video stream and a second back-camera video stream that are recorded synchronously and extracting a second image of a second presenter from the second front-camera video stream. It is determined whether that the first back-camera video stream and the second back-camera video stream are complimentary views. Creating a video presentation also includes constructing a panoramic view by combining the first back-camera video stream and the second back-camera video stream and superimposing the first image of the first presenter and the second image of the second presenter onto to the panoramic view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: mmhmm inc.
    Inventors: Phil Libin, Roelof F. Botha
  • Patent number: 11783347
    Abstract: A tamper-preventing system is described, designed to guarantee a remote selling process of at least one object to be purchased, and to provide a seller and a buyer with a univocal, registered and sharable proof that the object has been packaged, shipped and received, such system being composed of a data collecting and processing system through an application program, contained in a mobile device, designed to perform three-dimensional shots of packaging means equipped with closing means and the object to be sold, on a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Anna Maria Micheli
  • Patent number: 11783865
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for displaying a video playback page, an electronic device, and a medium. A specific implementation of the method includes: displaying the video playback page, where the video playback page includes a video playback view and a progress adjustment control for adjusting video playback progress; and updating a progress displayed in the progress adjustment control based on a playback progress of a currently played video in the video playback view at intervals of a target duration, where the target duration is determined based on a size of a screen of a video playback device and a total duration of the currently played video. This implementation realizes differentiation of callback duration for videos of different durations, thereby avoiding a video freeze caused by setting a fixed callback duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpeng Xiao, Huijun Yu
  • Patent number: 11785177
    Abstract: A record-and-replay control device includes a video data acquiring unit, an event detecting unit, a replay control unit, an event detection direction acquiring unit, a recording control unit, and a display control unit. The video data acquiring unit is configured to acquire video data from an imaging unit to capture an image of outside of a vehicle. The event detecting unit is configured to detect an event of the vehicle. The event detection direction acquiring unit is configured to acquire an event detection direction of the vehicle. The recording control unit is configured to store video data caused by the detected event as event recording data with a first angle of view. The replay control unit is configured to replay the event recording data. The display control unit is configured to display the event recording data by adopting a second angle of view with enlargement in the event detection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11782661
    Abstract: A monitoring control apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a saving unit configured to save identification information of target devices as monitoring targets and areas in corresponding screens for each image capturing unit; a holding unit configured to hold a state of a device used for each job; and a control unit configured to make the image capturing unit capture videos including the target devices and monitor the areas corresponding to the target devices as target areas in a predetermined order, wherein the control unit specifies a next target device in accordance with the predetermined order, and, if there is no job in which a state of the target device is a waiting state, specifies a device next to the target device as a target device in accordance with the predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11765464
    Abstract: A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroaki Ono, Osamu Kawamae, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Patent number: 11758106
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for techniques to reduce the complexity of rendering immersive 3D video content. One embodiment provides for an apparatus comprising one or more processors to receive a data set that represents a two-dimensional encoding of planar projections of a frame of a three-dimensional video, decode the two-dimensional encoding into texture data, geometry data, and metadata, determine, based on the metadata, a visibility status and an occupancy status for a sample position in the three-dimensional video, and render video data for the sample position when the sample position is visible and occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jill Boyce
  • Patent number: 11758219
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating setting of television program series recording priority ranking include functionality that monitors television series program viewing habits of a user for a plurality of different television program series. The system then changes television program series recording priority rankings to resolve recording conflicts based on the monitoring of the television series program viewing habits. In some embodiments, the system first sends a notification to the user of an option to upgrade a recording priority ranking. Additionally, the system may record television program episodes whose recordings were skipped due to them having a lower recording priority ranking. The system may record such skipped television program episodes during the next time slot in which a skipped episode is rebroadcast and does not conflict with a higher priority broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Deepak Sharma
  • Patent number: 11748712
    Abstract: A video enhanced time tracking system is provided. The system may include a video capturing device, software applications (such as an application running on the video capturing device), and a backend system. The application may include a time tracking application that tracks time simultaneously as the video capturing device captures video. The captured video and the tracked time information may be uploaded to the backend system where it may be stored and processed. The system may correlate the tracked time information with the captured video and provide it to a client for review. In some embodiments, the system also includes an image recognition system that recognizes the user to authenticate the user's identity, that recognizes the user's workspace to determine when the user is working, and that recognizes the work being performed to determine the client that the user may be working for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Philip Markowitz
  • Patent number: 11747172
    Abstract: A meter reading system comprises a sensor unit (2) containing a first camera (10) and at least a second camera (10?), the first camera focussed on a first area of a meter display (32) and the said second camera focussed on a second area of the meter display (32), the cameras arranged so that the area consisting of said first and second areas can be captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Deer Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Hugh William Mort, Garry Raymond Jackson
  • Patent number: 11745654
    Abstract: A system and method for a vehicle sensor that maps radar detected targets as target alerts overlaid on a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Metawave Corporation
    Inventors: Sandra Lynn Godsey, Kaice Theodore Reilly
  • Patent number: 11736801
    Abstract: A system includes a camera for capturing a first panorama view. The system determines a first bearing of a person within the first panorama view, and a first gaze direction of the person within the first panorama view. The system receives, from an external source, a second panorama view, a second bearing of the person within the second panorama view, and a second gaze direction of the person within the second panorama view. The system selects, by comparing the first gaze direction and the second gaze direction, a selected panorama view and a selected bearing of the person. The system forms a localized subscene video signal based on the selected panorama view along the selected bearing of the person. The system generates a stage view signal based on the localized subscene video signal, and composites a composited signal comprising the stage view signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: OWL LABS INC.
    Inventors: Tom Bushman, Ilya Moskovko, Howard Brown
  • Patent number: 11729342
    Abstract: A system or method for imaging a panorama view may include a physical writing surface, a camera capturing the panorama view, and a sensor identifying a bearing of interest within the view. The system may maintain a coordinate map of the view, adjust an aspect ratio of the view, and generate a scaled panorama view based on the adjusted aspect ratio. The system may determine a coordinate of a designated view based on coordinate instructions and may generate a designated view signal based on the determined coordinate of the designated view comprising at least a portion of the physical writing surface. The system may composite a video signal including one or more of the scaled panorama view signal, a stage view signal, or the designated view signal, and may transmit the composite video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: OWL LABS INC.
    Inventors: Joao Renato Kavamoto Fayad, Tom Bushman, Ilya Moskovko, Howard Brown
  • Patent number: 11729466
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate recording scheduling based on calendar information. A multimedia device may track viewing history by one or more devices and/or one or more users, and the multimedia device may maintain a view count for one or more programs being viewed at certain times. The multimedia device may receive calendar information associated with one or more users, wherein the calendar information includes one or more calendar entries. The multimedia device may determine whether any time slots associated with the calendar entries overlap or encompass any time slots associated with one or more programs that are typically viewed according to the viewing history, and if a time slot associated with a calendar entry does overlap or encompass a time slot of one or more programs, the multimedia device may automatically schedule the one or more programs for recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Praveen Girish
  • Patent number: 11721367
    Abstract: A method for generation of a video montage file from a plurality of media files is disclosed. The method includes selecting media files from a collection of media files based on a selection criterion, accessing audio feature information for an audio track, the audio feature information including timing information related to audio features of the audio track, generating a first video segment for a first time slot from a first media file, generating a second video segment for a second time slot from a second media file, creating a video montage file by adding the second video segment to the first video segment, and adding the audio track to the video montage file. The selection criterion may comprise a location, a time interval, or presences of the media files in a feed posted by the user on a messaging system or social media platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Collins, Alexander Vodovoz