Patents Examined by Timothy J. Henn
  • Patent number: 12293497
    Abstract: A method for processing image data may include: obtaining a first image and a second image that capture a same scene in different views, from a first camera and a second camera, respectively; spatially aligning the first image with the second image; obtaining a color transformation matrix that maps the first image to the second image based on color values of the first image and the second image; obtaining an estimated illuminant color from an output of a neural network by inputting the color transformation matrix to the neural network, wherein the neural network is trained based on a pair of reference images of a same reference scene with a color rendition chart that are captured by different cameras having different spectral sensitivities; and performing a white balance correction on the first image based on the estimated illuminant color to output a corrected first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Abhijith Punnappurath, Michael Scott Brown
  • Patent number: 12293026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect, based on images captured by a first imaging apparatus, a gesture performed by a subject, the first imaging apparatus being among a plurality of imaging apparatuses that includes a second imaging apparatus different from the first imaging apparatus, the second imaging apparatus being configured to be controlled based on the gesture performed by the subject, an acquisition unit configured to acquire control information for controlling the second imaging apparatus, the control information being associated with the gesture detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to control the second imaging apparatus based on the control information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mai Komiyama
  • Patent number: 12294774
    Abstract: A display device is provided, which may improve camera image quality. The display device comprises a display panel including a first display area and a second display area in which a plurality of transmissive areas are disposed, a roller portion coupled to the display panel at one side of the display panel, moving the display panel, an optical sensor disposed to overlap the second display area of the display panel, and a driving controller controlling the roller portion to rotate forward or backward based on an operation of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JongWook Jang, SeungTaek Oh
  • Patent number: 12294795
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a plurality of microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional pattern; and a plurality of pixels that are provided in correspondence to each of the microlenses and receive lights of different color components, respectively. Pixels that are provided at adjacent microlenses among the microlenses and that receive lights of same color components, are adjacently arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironobu Murata
  • Patent number: 12294797
    Abstract: An image sensor is presented which includes a pixel array including a plurality of image sensing pixels in a substrate, a phase detection shared pixel in the substrate, the phase detection shared pixel including two phase detection subpixels arranged next to each other, a color filter fence disposed on the plurality of image sensing pixels, and the phase detection shared pixel, the color filter fence defining a plurality of color filter spaces, a plurality of color filter layers respectively disposed in the plurality of color filter spaces on the plurality of image sensing pixels, and the phase detection shared pixel, a first micro-lens disposed on each of the plurality of image sensing pixels to have a first height, and a second micro-lens disposed to vertically overlap the two phase detection subpixels of the phase detection shared pixel and to have a second height greater than the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongki Kim, Minkyung Kim, Minkwan Kim, Minho Jang, Insung Joe
  • Patent number: 12289508
    Abstract: A detachable camera assembly is securable to a cooking tool by means of magnets on a lower surface. The housing is offset from the cooking tool by the magnets and a shroud extends between a camera opening and the cooking tool with a seal at the end of the shroud. A fan draws air into the housing and expels part of the air through the shroud. A part of the air also flows through openings for allowing light to exit the housing from LEDs mounted within the housing. A controller within the housing captures and transmits images responsive to instructions received using a wireless transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GMG Products, LLC
    Inventors: David W. Baker, Alexander Steven McCown, Edward Murray Samuels
  • Patent number: 12284454
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the present disclosure has a camera unit and a control unit that are connected via a transmission cable having a power signal line and a video signal line. The camera unit includes an imaging element and a selector circuit. The control unit includes a supply voltage control circuit, a feedback value measurement circuit, and an arithmetic circuit that calculates a resistance value R3 related to a resistance value R1 of the video signal line and a resistance value R2 of the power signal line from the supply voltage Vctrl, the feedback voltage Vfb and the feedback current Ifb, and calculates a drive voltage Vcis based on the resistance value R2, the supply current Ictrl, and the supply voltage Vctrl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventor: Daiki Yamamura
  • Patent number: 12284436
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus configured to notify an external control device of information in the imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus includes: a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the control device; and a control circuitry configured to generate notification data in response to an event and control the communication circuitry to transmit the notification data to the control device, the event indicating that a state in the imaging apparatus changes, wherein the notification data includes a data storage region capable of storing data indicating each state in a plurality of types of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Takashima
  • Patent number: 12279030
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a first module for an operation of a camera and an operation of an optical sensor disposed under the display, and at least one processor. The first module may include an image sensor, an infrared filter, and the optical sensor disposed close to the image sensor and inside an area of the infrared filter. The at least one processor may be configured to separate a time to output one frame into a first time period for the operation of the camera and a second time period for the operation of the optical sensor, perform the operation of the camera in the first time period using the first module, and perform the operation of the optical sensor in the second time period using the first module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewoong Yoon, Jeongho Cho, Jongah Kim, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Seungyun Lee, Gwangho Choi
  • Patent number: 12279040
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, a shooting mode detection method, and a storage medium are provided. The mobile terminal includes a terminal body which has a placement portion for placing a camera module. The mobile terminal further includes the camera module detachably connected to the terminal body. The mobile terminal also includes a first Hall sensor and a second Hall sensor. The first Hall sensor and the second Hall sensor are respectively electrically connected to a processor built in the terminal body and fixedly arranged on a side on which the placement portion of the terminal body is located. The mobile terminal additionally includes a magnetic structural element which is fixed on an end of the camera module close to the placement portion. When the camera module is placed on the placement portion, the magnetic structural element is opposite to the first Hall sensor or the second Hall sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongcheng Lan
  • Patent number: 12273634
    Abstract: Color accuracy in an imaging device is improved. An imaging element includes a plurality of pixels that acquires first information that is information of three primary colors and second information that is information of at least two colors different from the three primary colors and that includes at least one of complementary colors of the three primary colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Hiroaki Yamajo, Yosuke Yamamoto, Yuichiro Baba, Junichi Kanai
  • Patent number: 12262104
    Abstract: An image capture device includes electronic components and a body. The electronic components include an image sensor and a processing apparatus. The body defines an internal compartment containing the electronic components. The body includes a rear housing and a chassis. The rear housing extends around a top side, a right side, a bottom side, and a left side of the body. The chassis includes an upright portion and a lateral portion extending rearward from the upright portion. The rear housing and the chassis are coupled to each other to cooperatively form the internal compartment with the upright portion of the chassis being coupled to a front end of the rear housing and the lateral portion being positioned outside of and below the internal compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Kielan C. Crow, Nicholas Vitale, Marco Marroquin, Matthew David Thomas, Jordan Zook Todd, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Huy Phuong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12254599
    Abstract: A system for generating motion blur comprises: a frame camera, an event camera and an accumulator for accumulating event information from a plurality of events occurring within a window around the exposure time of an image frame in a plurality of event frames. A processor determines from the events in at least a first of the plurality of event frames, one or more areas of movement within the field of view of the event camera; determines from the events in at least a second of the plurality of event frames, a direction of movement for the one or more areas of movement; and applies blur in one or more areas of the image frame corresponding to the one or more determined areas of movement in accordance with at least the direction of movement for each of the one or more areas of movement to produce a blurred image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Tobii Technlologies Limited
    Inventors: Piotr Stec, Petronel Bigioi
  • Patent number: 12256138
    Abstract: Features to be enabled for an image capture device may be determined based on user subscription to a feature plan and/or user usage of the image capture device. The features for the image capture device may be enabled through firmware update or code unlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark Weber, Fong Tran, Ian Klassen, Vadim Polonichko
  • Patent number: 12256145
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display module, a camera module, an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit supporting UWB communication, and at least one processor is disclosed. The at least one processor may be configured to receive radar response information related to a radar reflection signal through the UWB communication circuit, analyze the radar response information to identify the presence of at least one alive object in a first image captured by the camera module, adjust autofocusing of the camera module based on detecting the presence of the at least one alive object, and display a second image captured through the adjusted autofocusing by the camera module on the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrii Omelchenko, Illia Krasnoshchok, Kostyantyn Slyusarenko, Vitalii Pohribnyi
  • Patent number: 12225602
    Abstract: A first device includes a processor and instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to configure the first device to receive network credentials; accept a connection request from a second device to connect to the first device; obtain the network credentials from the second device; configure the first device to connect to a third device subsequent to obtaining the network credentials; and transmit a request to connect to the third device, where request includes the network credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Brockway, III, Jeffrey S. Youel, John S. Chen, Fabrice Barbier
  • Patent number: 12225690
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a conduit configured to circulate magnetic fluid, and a magnetic field generator that applies a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid. The conduit includes at least four areas of a first conduit area in which the magnetic fluid receives heat from a heating unit, a second conduit area from the first conduit area to a cooling unit, a third conduit area in which the magnetic fluid is cooled by the cooling unit, and a fourth conduit area from the cooling unit to the heating unit. When the apparatus is used, a volume of the magnetic fluid in one of the first to fourth conduit areas, in which a flow direction of the magnetic fluid coincides with a gravity direction, is larger than that of another conduit area, in which the flow direction of the magnetic fluid does not coincide with the gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genki Tanaka, Akira Watanabe, Akinori Inagaki
  • Patent number: 12219230
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises a third substrate including a third connector; a third shield portion configured to cover a side surface of at least portions of the third substrate; a leg portion formed at an end of the third shield portion on the side of a direction away from the third substrate; a fourth connector configured to be able to be fitted to the third connector; a third metal plate configured to abut the leg portion; and a second housing including the fourth connector and the third metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Kazuki Shirato
  • Patent number: 12219241
    Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of improving operability in a case in which manual focus adjustment is performed. Processing of extracting a plurality of subjects from moving image data obtained by imaging is performed, first moving image data in which a region including a specific subject among the plurality of subjects is magnified is output to a display destination, and, in a case in which a change has occurred in any of the plurality of subjects in the moving image data, second moving image data in which a region of each of the plurality of subjects is magnified is output to the display destination instead of the first moving image data, and then, in a case in which an instruction to select the subject is given, third moving image data in which a region including a selected subject is magnified is output to the display destination instead of the second moving image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Shimada, Takehiro Koguchi, Shinya Fujiwara, Taro Saito, Yukinori Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 12207009
    Abstract: An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each column of pixels can be coupled to a column analog-to-digital converter (ADC) via a pixel output line. The column ADC can include a first low noise single-ended comparison stage, a second low noise single-ended comparison stage, a latch circuit, and a counter. The first low noise single-ended comparison stage may include one or more current source transistors, a voltage ramp generator, a common source amplifier transistor, one or more autozero components, one or more capacitors such as a noise filtering capacitor, and a voltage clamping circuit. The voltage ramp generator can output an increasing voltage ramp or a decreasing voltage ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Shankar Ramakrishnan