Patents Examined by Thai Tran
  • Patent number: 10026162
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device of inspecting a sealant coating on a substrate. An image of a sample substrate is captured. The sample substrate is selected from a plurality of substrates. A non-coating area is identified from the image of the sample substrate. Abnormal points are identified in the non-coating area. Positions of the abnormal points are recorded. An image of a sealant-coated substrate having a sealant coating on one of the plurality of substrates is captured. Defect positions of the sealant coating are identified from the image of the sealant-coated substrate. Defects located in a non-coating area of the sealant-coated substrate at positions corresponding to the positions of the abnormal points identified based on the sample substrate are considered as normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangkun Jing, Jia Ding, Xiaopan Che, Haibo Li
  • Patent number: 10021399
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to signaling of sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameters determined to minimize an error between an original image and a reconstructed image in video encoding and decoding operations. An SAO decoding method includes obtaining context-encoded leftward SAO merge information and context-encoded upward SAO merge information from a bitstream of a largest coding unit (MCU); obtaining SAO on/off information context-encoded with respect to each color component, from the bitstream; if the SAO on/off information indicates to perform SAO operation, obtaining absolute offset value information for each SAO category bypass-encoded with respect to each color component, from the bitstream; and obtaining one of band position information and edge class information bypass-encoded with respect to each color component, from the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Elena Alshina, Alexander Alshin, Jeong-hoon Park
  • Patent number: 10021415
    Abstract: An image coding method includes: writing, into a coded bitstream, buffer description defining information for defining a buffer description; constructing a default reference list; reorder pictures included in the default reference list; writing, into the coded bitstream, reference list reordering information for indicating details of the reordering; and coding an image using the buffer description and a reference list resulting from the reordering, and in the reference list reordering information, among the pictures, a picture to be reordered is specified using an index which is used in other processing in the image coding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Viktor Wahadaniah, Chong Soon Lim, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hai Wei Sun, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 10020553
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a battery, auxiliary machines including an actuator and a heater that heats cooling water circulating in the fuel cell. The actuator is driven to cause gas to be supplied to a fuel cell configured to generate electric power using the gas. Furthermore, the fuel cell system includes a warming-up operation unit that adjusting operations of the auxiliary machines so as to realize output of fuel cell such that a predetermined electric power is extracted, a discharge control unit that supplies the electric power from the battery to the auxiliary machines when electric power generated by the fuel cell is lower than electric power consumed by the auxiliary machines. Furthermore, the fuel cell system includes an auxiliary machine restriction unit that restricts electric power consumed by the actuator when the discharge control unit supplies the electric power from the battery to the auxiliary machines in a case where the fuel cell is warmed up using the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Hoshi
  • Patent number: 10021351
    Abstract: Systems and methods for viewing stereoscopic video images are disclosed. The systems can include a first video camera configured to generate a first video feed of a subject, and a second video camera configured to generate a second video feed of the subject. The first video feed and the second video feed combined generate a near real-time stereoscopic video image. A tracking module can be associated with the first video camera and the second video camera, and can be configured to cause the first video camera and the second video camera to be directed to a desired convergent point relative to a selected tracking point to maintain stereopsis. The system may further include an array of video cameras, a gesture control module, an image adjustment module, a calibration module, or a 3-D modeling module, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Ultradent Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil T. Jessop, Matthew Michael Fisher
  • Patent number: 10015462
    Abstract: A system for event recording includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive video data and sensor data. The processor is configured to determine a risk level based at least in part on the sensor data; determine a storage quality based at least in part on the risk level; determine a processed video data by processing the video data according to the storage quality; and store the processed video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventor: Quoc Chan Quach
  • Patent number: 10014821
    Abstract: A system for measuring the power or energy loss in a photovoltaic array due to soiling, which is the accumulation of dust, dirt, and/or other contaminants on the surfaces of photovoltaic modules, comprising: a pair of photovoltaic reference devices placed within or near the photovoltaic array and co-planar to the modules comprising the array, wherein one reference device is a module similar to those of the array and is allowed to accumulate soiling at the natural rate, and wherein the second reference device is a module or a cell and is periodically cleaned; and a measurement and control unit which measures and compares the electrical outputs of the soiled reference device and the clean reference device in order to determine the fraction of power lost by the soiled reference module due to soiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Gostein
  • Patent number: 10013951
    Abstract: A display control device includes an input unit receiving a recognition result of a surrounding situation of a vehicle; and control circuitry controlling an image generating device such that a predetermined image indicating a presentation image at the time of being displayed on a display medium transmitting light is generated in a case in which a predetermined target is recognized in the vicinity of the vehicle. The control circuitry senses, on the basis of the recognition result, that a color of a foreground of the vehicle on which the first presentation image is superimposed in the display medium is changed from a first color to a second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwabara, Hitoaki Akahori, Kazuhiro Morishita, Terumitsu Suenaga
  • Patent number: 10009574
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnetic tape device includes a read control configured to sequentially read records included in data sets from a tape medium into a buffer, and send the records included in the data sets to a host in response to determining that there is no C2 error during reading of the data sets. The read control is also configured to skip a predetermined error recovery process in accordance with a video special mode in response to detecting a C2 error during reading of the data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Abe, Setsuko Masuda, Yumiko Ohta, Terue Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10008243
    Abstract: Example implementations are directed to a system to generate keyframes describing the temperature output state of thermal output devices during the synchronous playback of video material. This additional haptic output channel augments the existing audio and video channels. Example implementations provide a manual keyframe authoring interface and an architecture for playing back video with a thermal output channel. Example implementations also involve an automatic keyframe generation method for thermal output accompanying a video, and provide a temperature profile function to enable rapid changing between temperature values for thermal output devices that use open-loop control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sven Kratz, Anthony Dunnigan
  • Patent number: 10009590
    Abstract: In an image processing method to display a stereoscopic image on a target screen, a disparity information (200) is associated with the stereoscopic image and is adapted for the display of the stereoscopic image on an original screen, the size of the original screen being different from the size of the target screen, the stereoscopic image comprising a first image (20) and a second image (21). In order to optimize the disparity of the stereoscopic image, the method comprises selecting a part of said first image according to at least one property associated with the first image; calculating a target disparity information associated with the selected part of the image according to the viewing conditions associated with the target screen and the original disparity information associated with the selected part of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING DTV
    Inventors: Guillaume Boisson, Christel Chamaret, Paul Kerbiriou, Patrick Lopez
  • Patent number: 10008238
    Abstract: The invention provides a system, method and device—for inserting digital footage into a digital cinematographic template. The system includes a mobile device, storage means on the mobile device for storing a digital cinematographic template, video recording means on the mobile device for recording and capturing personal cinematographic footage, digital isolation means on the mobile device for isolating specific sections of captured personal cinematographic footage, digital extraction means on the mobile device for extracting the isolated sections of the captured personal cinematographic footage, and digital insertion means on the mobile device for inserting the extracted footage into the stored cinematographic template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: WATERSTON ENTERTAINMENT (PTY) LTD
    Inventors: Grant Waterston, Johann Mynhardt
  • Patent number: 10008242
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods to synchronize recordings between content recording devices. A method may include establishing a synchronized recording relationship with a second content recording device. The method may further include capturing a first recording and periodically inserting a first set of markers in the first recording at a first set of points of time. A second recording may be captured by the second content recording device and a second set of markers are inserted in the second recording at a second set of points of time. The first recording and the second recording may be temporally aligned based on a first marker of the first set of markers and a second marker of the second set of markers. The first marker and the second marker have a matching type and corresponding to a common point in time in the first recording and the second recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Joshua Abraham Tabak
  • Patent number: 10009571
    Abstract: A reproducing device includes decoding processors and output controllers, and performs synchronous reproduction for reproducing a content item decoded by one of the decoding processors by at least two of the output controllers and separate reproduction for reproducing the content item decoded by one of the decoding processors by one of the output controllers. The reproducing device includes: a manager that manages an allowed number of reproductions of the content item; a determiner that determines, when a reproduction instruction is given, based on the allowed number of reproductions of the content item, whether the separate reproduction is possible and whether the synchronous reproduction is possible; and a controller that performs the separate or synchronous reproduction, based on the determination. The manager decrements by one the allowed number of reproductions of the content item when the separate reproduction is performed, and does not decrement it when the synchronous reproduction is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Esumi, Kiyoyasu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10008021
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering imagery that compensates for parallax. Image data may comprise a sequence of images of a location, collected at known intervals (e.g., distances), such as along a path. The image data can comprise a first layer comprising a first depth, and a second layer comprising a second depth, that is different from the first depth. The image data can be composed into resulting imagery, where the first layer is composed at the first depth and the second layer is composed at the second depth. The resulting imagery can be rendered to compensate for, or rather make use of, parallax, such that the first layer is rendered at a first movement speed, based at least upon the first depth, and the second layer is rendered at a second movement speed, based at least upon the second depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Wantland, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Donald Barnett
  • Patent number: 10003805
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes determining, from among a first sample and a second sample with different color components, at least one second sample that is used to correct a value of the first sample; determining a filter parameter set based on a band including the value of the first sample, wherein the band is from among a plurality of bands determined by dividing a total range of sample values into signaled intervals or predetermined intervals; and filtering a value of the at least one second sample by using the determined filter parameter set and correcting the value of the first sample by using a value obtained by the filtering, wherein the first sample is any one of a luma sample and a chroma sample, and the second sample is any one of the luma sample and the chroma sample that is not the first sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Elena Alshina, Alexander Alshin, Yong-jin Cho
  • Patent number: 10003772
    Abstract: An audio/visual control apparatus includes a plurality of displays. A reverse driving camera application may be launched to display a camera image dedicated to reverse driving in a situation where another camera application is already running and causing a particular image to be displayed on a subject display of the displays. Such case causes an on-screen image displayed on the subject display to be switched from the particular image to a reverse driving image generated by the reverse driving camera application, regardless of normal display switching priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Arihiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10003201
    Abstract: A method is employed by an electronic device for managing power used by an associated accessory device attached to the electronic device. The method includes applying a current to the accessory device and in response to the applied current, at least one of first and second identifier resistances are identified in the accessory device. The method determines whether the accessory device is connected to a power supply in response to the at least one of identified first and second identifier resistances and applies power to the accessory device in response to a determination the accessory device is not connected to the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Oh Sung, Myung-Hoon Kwak
  • Patent number: 9996612
    Abstract: Herein, a display device, system and method are described for identifying digital content through comparison of one or more audio thumbnails when the digital content is provided without metadata. According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display, audio conversion logic and a transceiver. The audio conversion logic is adapted to produce one or more audio thumbnails, which are compact representations of a snippet of audio from that incoming digital content without the metadata. The transceiver is adapted to transmit the one or more audio thumbnails in order to (i) retrieve metadata associated with the digital content from an external source separate from a source of the digital content and (ii) display information provided by the metadata on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Robert Hardacker, Christopher Jensen Read
  • Patent number: 9998180
    Abstract: A wireless power enabled apparatus may comprise a wireless power receiver that includes a receive coil configured to generate an AC signal responsive an electromagnetic field, a rectifier including a plurality of switches configured to receive the AC signal and generate an output power signal, and control logic configured to control the plurality of switches to cause the rectifier to modulate the output power signal. The control logic may be configured to control the plurality of switches within the rectifier to have an overlap delay that modulates at least one parameter of the wireless power receiver. A method of operating a receiver side of a wireless power transfer system comprises generating an output power signal including a rectified voltage and a rectified current responsive to receiving a wireless power signal, and controlling a rectifier according to at least one mode including a power modulation mode modulating the output power signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Bakker, Craig Lambert