Patents Examined by Thai Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 11632522
    Abstract: The video recording system comprises a video recorder and one or more cameras which is specially designed to record video on the exterior and interior of a locomotive. The system is capable of withstanding the railroad environment, and has been designed to maximize safety and to minimize liability. The video recording system is capable of recording video on at least two drives (same video or different video on at least two drives) thereby creating redundancy in case one of the videos is unclear and/or damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Joseph Donnan
  • Patent number: 11627256
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of processing steps concerning a work in installation or operation of a system including a plurality of apparatuses, and progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps, and causes a display unit to display a screen including information representing the plurality of processing steps and the progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Iwakiri, Hajime Sato
  • Patent number: 11626140
    Abstract: An audio data processing method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which are related to the field of data processing. The method includes: receiving sound production requests respectively sent by a plurality of sound production applications, wherein respective sound production requests include information of ports corresponding to respective sound production applications; acquiring audio data and sound mixing parameters corresponding to the respective sound production applications through the ports corresponding to the respective sound production applications; and mixing respective audio data according to the sound mixing parameters for the respective sound production applications, to generate audio data to be played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinxue Lei, Shubin Liu, Wenhuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11627232
    Abstract: In a digital motion picture camera comprising an electronic image sensor for generating image signals, a control unit is configured, in response to a scene record command, to generate a sequence data stream, which represents a sequence of consecutive frames, from the image signals of the image sensor and to transmit the sequence data stream to a sequence memory device. The control unit is configured, in response to an identification image record command, to generate an identification image data set, which represents at least one scene identification image, from the image signals of the image sensor and to buffer the identification image data set in a buffer memory, with the control unit further being configured to insert the buffered identification image data set into a subsequently generated sequence data stream such that the sequence of consecutive frames is preceded by the scene identification image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Lars Hartmann, David Zucker
  • Patent number: 11627354
    Abstract: A method and device for communicating video for synchronization between a portable wearable camera and a wireless hub device are described. The portable wearable camera may capture first video data. Also, the portable wearable camera may transmit the first video data to the wireless hub device via a first wireless connection, and may capture second video data. When the first wireless connection between the wearable camera and the wireless hub device is unable to support full resolution video playback, the portable wearable camera may store the second video data. Further, the portable wearable camera may receive a request from the wireless hub device for the second video data via a second wireless connection, and may capture third video data. Further, the portable wearable camera may transmit, to the wireless hub device, the third video data via the first wireless connection and the second video data via the second wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventor: Kerry Calvert
  • Patent number: 11623566
    Abstract: The driving support system includes an imaging section installed to a vehicle capable of executing a driving support state, and the imaging section being capable of imaging a imaging subject positioned in surroundings of the vehicle, and a processor connected to the imaging section. The processor is configured to generate image data, determine whether or not a predetermined recording condition has been satisfied, cause the image data to be recorded in the memory in cases in which the recording condition has been determined to have been satisfied, determine whether or not the vehicle is in any of the driving support states, and change the recording condition to a specific recording condition that is the recording condition corresponding to the driving support state of the vehicle in cases in which the vehicle has been determined to be in any of the driving support states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Shirai
  • Patent number: 11622102
    Abstract: A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: 3SHAPE A/S
    Inventors: Rune Fisker, Henrik Öjelund, Rasmus Kjaer, Mike Van Der Poel, Arish A. Qazi, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
  • Patent number: 11622161
    Abstract: A new architecture of a distributed video production system is suggested. The distributed video production system enables distributed execution of one or more workflows that are operated by one or more operators at the same time. The present disclosure suggests mechanisms for synchronizing workflows and data streams within the distributed video production system. A workflow orchestrator is aware of all workflows currently executed on the distributed video production system and selects the required processing resources. A run time orchestrator ensures that the blocks are available for processing by controlling the receiving broadcast functionality such that it requests the block only after it is available by taking into account a network delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: EVS BROADCAST EQUIPMENT SA
    Inventor: Michel Counson
  • Patent number: 11621023
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing clocks including synchronizing a first clock to a second clock, the first clock associated with a first device, the first device associated with a first device type, the second clock associated with a second device, the second device associated with a second device type; subsequent to synchronizing the first clock to the second clock, synchronizing a third clock to the first clock, where the third clock is associated with a third device, the third device associated with the first device type; synchronizing the second clock to a fourth clock, the fourth clock associated with a fourth device, the fourth device associated with a third device type; subsequent to synchronizing the second clock to the fourth clock, resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock; and subsequent to resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock, resynchronizing the third clock to the first clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AUDIGO LABS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Chasson Gomberg, Armen Alan Nazarian, Kenneth Aaron Murphy
  • Patent number: 11622138
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for detecting and reporting recording status are disclosed. A recording device determines a recording status of the recording device. The recording device receives via wireless communication one or more beacons from one or more other recording devices, the one or more beacons include information regarding a recording status of the one or more other recording devices respectively. The recording device provides information regarding the recording status of the recording device and the one or more other recording devices via a user interface of the recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventor: David Neil MacDonald
  • Patent number: 11622146
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a method of guiding an interaction between a companion module and a user includes identifying a media content for playout by a media player device, transmitting, to a remote server, an interaction schema request identifying the media content and the companion module, and receiving, from the remote server, behavioral manifest data including an instruction for guiding the interaction between the companion module and the user. Such a method also includes obtaining a play head state of the media player device and a playout timecode state of the media content, and identifying a user interaction behavior for the companion module based on the behavioral manifest data, the play head state of the media player device, and the playout timecode state of the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Comito, Dirk Van Dall, James Bowers, Anthony Waters, Thomas Engel
  • Patent number: 11622097
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible. The electronic device includes a display, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to display, when a video supporting a plurality of orientation regions is played, a first screen corresponding to a first orientation region among the plurality of orientation regions, display a timeline representing a playback time of the video, display thumbnails of screens corresponding to the plurality of orientation regions at the first time point in response to a first user input pointing a first time point in the timeline, and receive a second user input scrolling the thumbnails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonkyu Park, Minhwa Hong, Yeojin Kim, Sanghyun Park, Hyeonju Lee, Stephanie Kim Ahn
  • Patent number: 11617006
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data storage strategies for continuous video segment recordings on a video recording device are disclosed. The data storage strategies include the detection of various trigger events and ending events detected from the video recordings or measurements detected from sensor devices that are included in the video recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATES (USAA)
    Inventors: Maland Mortensen, Bradly Billman, Cleburne Robinson Burgess
  • Patent number: 11617005
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are provided for managing media content storage priority and retention in a single- or multi-user environment. Indications of previous user activity are received regarding multiple portions of content stored via one or more storage devices. The previous user activity may include previous user deletion selections and/or previous user viewing selections of one or more of the multiple portions of content. A retention priority may be assigned to portions of media content based on the previous user activity. Responsive to receiving an indication of low available storage space on the one or more storage devices, a quantity of storage space on the one or more storage devices to make available is determined based on the previous user activity. Deletion of one or more portions of currently stored content is initiated based on the determined quantity of storage space to make available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Deepak Sharma
  • Patent number: 11615814
    Abstract: Disclosed are a video automatic editing method and system based on machine learning. The video automatic editing system based on machine learning includes at least one processor, and the at least one processor includes a video acquirer configured to acquire input video, a highlight frame extractor configured to extract at least one highlight frame from the input video using a highlight extraction model pre-trained through machine learning, and a highlight video generator configured to generate highlight video from the at least one extracted highlight frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SMSYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Lee, Yo Namkung
  • Patent number: 11610607
    Abstract: A server configured to receive video clips from a mobile device, such as eyewear. The server has an electronic processor enabled to execute computer instructions to process the video clips to identify one or more characteristics in the frames of the video clips. The processor selects the video clips having the identified characteristics in the frames and creates a set of the selected video clips having the identified characteristics in the frames. The processor automatically trims, or allows a user of the mobile device to edit and trim the video clips having the identified characteristics to create trimmed video clip segments. The processor enables a user of the mobile device to view, post, send, and export a selected said video clip segment to another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Huang, David Ben Haim, Nathan Litke, Eyal Zak
  • Patent number: 11612085
    Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: an emitting portion; a reflection portion configured to reflect the display light that is emitted from the emitting portion and is subjected to crossing, to a display surface such that the display light is reflected from the display surface to a previously defined eye point; and a casing including: an inner case; and a lower case housing the inner case inside, in which the inner case includes an inner wall part facing a focal area on which external light reflected from the reflection portion after being incident on the reflection portion from outside the casing focuses, the lower case includes a lower wall part located along the inner wall part, and the casing has a heat-discharge structure of conducting heat from the inner wall part to the lower wall part to discharge the heat outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Ichikawa, Tetsuya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11611701
    Abstract: Techniques for video shooting are provided by the present disclosure, which comprising: detecting a user's selection on a video shooting mode control on a target interface and a triggering on a video shooting control on the target interface; obtaining a video segment corresponding to the selected video shooting mode; in response to a determination that the user's triggering operation on a next step control on the target interface is not detected, repeatedly detecting the selection on the video shooting mode control, the triggering on the video shooting control and a release operation on the video shooting control to obtain corresponding video segments until the user's triggering operation on the next step control on the target interface is detected; and displaying, on the video storage interface, a result of synthetizing video segments to obtain a target video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING MICROLIVE VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yipeng Hao
  • Patent number: 11611723
    Abstract: A method for configuring a computing device in a network of at least one remote device is disclosed. The method includes: storing, in a remote device, a configuration data archive relating to an existing computing device, wherein the remote device is at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera; determining, by a computing device to be configured, whether the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive; and transferring data from the configuration data archive to the computing device to be configured in response to a determination that the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: James Carey
  • Patent number: 11606493
    Abstract: This present disclosure provides a method for recording a multimedia file using an electronic device. The method includes previewing a scene comprising a plurality of objects in a field of view of a camera of the electronic device and detecting at least one of a shape event and a sound event associated with at least one object from the plurality of objects in the scene. Further, the method includes determining at least one of a recoding mode and an effect for the at least one object based on at least of the sound event and the shape event and applying at least one of the recording mode and the effect. The method also includes recording the multimedia file comprising the at least one object in at least one of the recording mode video and the effect and storing the multimedia file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Abhishek Mishra, Ramendra Singh Bhadouriya, Saurabh Tiwari, Gaurav Sikarwar, Kaushal Prakash Sharma