Patents Examined by Timothy J. Henn
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12198409
    Abstract: Provided is a learning device that acquires computational imaging information of a computational imaging camera that captures an image with blurring; acquires a normal image captured by a normal camera that captures an image without blurring or an image with blurring smaller than that of the computational imaging camera, and a correct answer label assigned to the normal image; generates an image with blurring based on the computational imaging information and the normal image; and performs machine learning using the image with blurring and the correct answer label to create an image identification model for identifying an image captured by the computational imaging camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii
  • Patent number: 12200373
    Abstract: Provided are a white balance correction method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The white balance correction method includes: inputting an image to be corrected into a pre-trained chromatic-aberration-free point model to obtain a chromatic-aberration-free point weight map of the image to be corrected; determining, according to the chromatic-aberration-free point weight map, an illumination color parameter of the image to be corrected; and performing, according to the illumination color parameter, white balance correction on the image to be corrected to obtain a corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVIEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shaokun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12184970
    Abstract: Described is a camera device (3) for a motor vehicle (1), having: a camera (4) for recording an image, a computing unit (8) for executing a program sequence (12) for providing at least part of a driver assistance function (13, 14, 15) depending on the recorded image, a provisioning unit (11) for providing a temperature of the computing unit (8), and a control unit (10), which is configured to modify the program sequence (12) depending on the provided temperature, the computing unit (8) being configured to execute the modified program sequence (12?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Harald Barth
  • Patent number: 12184992
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for generating an image from each camera array in a camera array matrix. In one embodiment, the method comprises increasing redundancy between to be captured images from the camera matrix by rotating direction of any cameras disposed in upper and lower rows of said matrix by a 90 degree angle around the roll axis. Then any cameras disposed at the corners of the matrix are rotated in an angle that is less than 90 degrees around the roll axis. Subsequently, the location of central cameras are determined and analysed so that they can be rotated and disposed in a manner that provides both horizontal and vertical compensation for any redundancies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Frederic Babon, Guillaume Boisson, Tristan Langlois
  • Patent number: 12184993
    Abstract: An interval between a pinhole and a pinhole is set to a first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of a subject located at a distance less than a predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured. An interval between the pinhole and a pinhole is set to a second interval narrower than the first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of the subject located at a distance equal to or more than the predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura
  • Patent number: 12177584
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can improve imaging quality by reducing variation in the voltage of a charge retention unit, a method of driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. A first photoelectric conversion unit generates and accumulates signal charge by receiving light that has entered a pixel, and photoelectrically converting the light. A first charge retention unit retains the generated signal charge. A first output transistor outputs the signal charge in the first charge retention unit as a pixel signal, when the pixel is selected by the first select transistor. A first voltage control transistor controls the voltage of the output end of the first output transistor. The present technology can be applied to pixels in solid-state imaging devices, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Fumihiko Koga
  • Patent number: 12169352
    Abstract: A computing device with a closable lid and camera on the lid has a reflector arranged to use the camera while the lid of the computing device is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gunnam Venkata Mahesh, Praveen Kashyap Ananta Bhat, Tarakesava Reddy K, Phani Alaparthi
  • Patent number: 12170831
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit, which comprises a determination unit for determining a subject and a shooting environment based on data obtained by the image capturing unit; an air cooling unit for rotating a fan for cooling the image capturing apparatus; and a control unit for controlling a fan rotation number per unit time of the air cooling unit, wherein the control unit sets a fan rotation number upper limit value of the air cooling means according to the result of determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuma Iwagami
  • Patent number: 12155915
    Abstract: An imaging element (100) includes a pixel array (110) in which pixels (130) are placed in a two-dimensional array, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion element; and a polarization-wavelength separation lens array (120) opposed to the pixel array (110), the polarization-wavelength separation lens array (120) including polarization-wavelength separation lens (160) placed in a two-dimensional array, the polarization-wavelength separation lens (160) including a plurality of microstructures for condensing incident light at different positions on the pixel array (110) according to the polarization direction and wavelength components of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION TOKYO
    Inventors: Masashi Miyata, Naru Nemoto, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12132993
    Abstract: A display method. The display method is applied to a control terminal, and the control terminal is used to communicate with an imaging device. The imaging device includes a wide-angle lens and a zoom lens, and the control terminal includes a display interface. The display method includes displaying an image obtained by the wide-angle lens in the display interface, obtaining a first user operation acting on the display interface, and displaying a first detail imaging area in the display interface in response to the first user operation. The first detail imaging area is being used to display an imaging range of the zoom lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinyue Fang