Patents Examined by Timothy J. Henn
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Patent number: 11509830Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a display, a plurality of cameras, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: displaying on the display, a preview of a first image acquired using a first camera from among the plurality of cameras, receiving a first input while the preview is displayed, wherein the first input is received before reception of a second input adjusting a magnification level of the preview, in response to receiving the first input, activating a second camera from among the plurality of cameras, receiving the second input for adjusting the magnification of the preview when a second image, distinct from the first image, is acquired using the activated second camera, and displaying the preview, based on at least a part of the second image and at least partially based on receiving the second input.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sunggeun Yim
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Patent number: 11503235Abstract: A solid-state imaging element of the present disclosure a pixel. The pixel includes a charge accumulation unit that accumulates a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, a reset transistor that selectively applies a reset voltage to the charge accumulation unit, an amplification transistor having a gate electrode electrically connected to the charge accumulation unit, and a selection transistor connected in series to the amplification transistor. Additionally, the solid-state imaging element includes a first wiring electrically connecting the charge accumulation unit and the gate electrode of the amplification transistor, a second wiring electrically connected to a common connection node of the amplification transistor and the selection transistor and formed along the first wiring, and a third wiring electrically connecting the amplification transistor and the selection transistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuhiro Kawai
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Patent number: 11496682Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that performs arithmetic processing of a neural network, and a controller that is capable of setting, in the processor, a first inference parameter to be applied to processing for shooting control for shooting an image and a second inference parameter to be applied to processing for processing control of the image. The controller switches the first inference parameter having been set in the processor to the second inference parameter in response to settlement of a focus target.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Tanabe
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Positioning apparatus for photographic and video imaging and recording and system utilizing the same
Patent number: 11489995Abstract: A method and device are provided for positioning a mounted camera. The device includes a holding element that secures the mounted camera to the device, a wireless linkage at which remote attitude commands representing attitude changes of a remote driver are received, a local controller that interprets the remote attitude commands and generates local attitude commands that move the camera to mimic an orientation of the remote driver, and an attitude sensing element that senses a local attitude of the device. The attitude sensing element includes a gyro, an accelerometer, or a magnetometer, and jitter present in the remote attitude commands is removed and not passed on to the local attitude commands.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Josh Guyot, JoeBen Bevirt -
Patent number: 11470244Abstract: An eyewear device automatically provides an indication of photo capture by, substantially simultaneously with the capturing of a photo by a camera incorporated in the eyewear device, momentarily changing an optical characteristic of a pair of lenses forming part of the eyewear device. The photo capture indication can be by momentarily decreasing transparency of the pair of lenses such as more or less to mimic the visual effect observed in the viewfinder of an SLR camera during image capture.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Matthew Hanover
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Patent number: 11463606Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an apparatus and method for fixing a sensing system to an unmanned construction machinery. The fixing apparatus includes an internal fixing module and an external fixing module, in which, the internal fixing module is configured to fix a sensing device in a sensing system of an unmanned construction machinery to the external fixing module in a predetermined fixing manner; and the external fixing module is configured to control the sensing device in the sensing system to perform an environment sensing on a target area of the unmanned construction machinery in a predetermined control manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinjing Cheng, Ruigang Yang, Hao Xu, Feixiang Lu, Yajue Yang
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Patent number: 11445111Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes a connection unit to which an accessory apparatus is connected, a communication unit that communicates with a power source that supplies power to the image capture apparatus, and a control unit that determines power suppliable to the connection unit based on a predetermined value in a case where a predetermined communication with the power source is not to be performed. The connection unit is configured to supply power from the power source to the accessory apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takamitsu Abe
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Patent number: 11435655Abstract: In an embodiment, a gyro sensor or virtual joystick controlled smart helmet may include a motorized and handsfree livestream video stabilization multi-camera system which can be remotely operated over a network. The gyro sensor or virtual joystick controlled smart helmet having a motorized moveable camera, a two way display communication unit via a OLED screen and 360 degree camera combination to enable Augmented Reality, a video and audio transmission system, a reflector for visibility in low light, a rechargeable battery, a carbon fiber plate for protection against battery malfunction, a headphone connection jack, a SIM card slot, a helmet power on/off switch, a power connector, a micro-gimbal camera module, a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module, 6 way livestream stabilization using a combination of motors which double up to ensure that the smart helmet can be remotely controlled over a network using a custom application interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventor: Pulkit Ahuja
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Patent number: 11437357Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first substrate and a camera assembly. The first substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The display area includes a flexible base substrate, a pixel array layer, a light-emitting layer, and a touch layer all sequentially disposed in a stacked arrangement. The camera assembly is disposed on a side of the display area adjacent to the flexible base substrate, so that an opening of the camera assembly of the display panel can be omitted, and a screen ratio of the display panel and the display device can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jianwei Li
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Patent number: 11431903Abstract: A photosensitive chip, a mobile terminal and a photographing method are provided. The photosensitive chip includes an image sensing portion and ambient light sensing portions, the image sensing portion and the ambient light sensing portions are spliced to form a preset pattern, and the preset pattern is of a quadrangular structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Shangming Yang
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Patent number: 11418732Abstract: The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FLUOPTICSInventors: Anthony Daures, Philippe Rizo
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Patent number: 11418715Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a first display internal to a viewfinder, a second display external to the viewfinder, an eye proximity detector, and an operation unit to switch a display on which a display target is displayed. The eye proximity detector detects, as a state, whether an eye is in proximity of the viewfinder. Where an obtained eye proximity detection state satisfies a first condition, a notification is displayed on a pre-switching display indicating that the display displaying the display target is to be switched. In response to a second condition being satisfied, the display of the display target is switched from the pre-switching display to a post-switching display. In a case where the obtained eye proximity detection state does not satisfy the first condition, the display target is switched to the post-switching display without displaying the notification on the pre-switching display.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirofumi Ozawa
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Patent number: 11418766Abstract: A method includes receiving a reference input frame and a non-reference input frame; separating a luma plane for a luma channel and a chroma plane for a chroma channel for each of the reference input frame and the non-reference input frame; generating a luma frame using the luma plane; generating a chroma frame using the chroma plane in a patch-based chroma blending; and combining the luma frame and the chroma frame into an output frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruiwen Zhen, John W. Glotzbach, Hamid Rahim Sheikh
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Patent number: 11418696Abstract: In order to effectively perform auto focusing and an OIS function, provided is an optical device in a first diopter state, the optical device comprising: a liquid lens having a variable diopter; a memory in which regions of interest (ROIs) according to the variable diopter are recorded; a lens control unit for retrieving a first ROI corresponding to the first diopter from the memory and configuring the first ROI; and a diopter operating unit for auto-focusing the first ROI to change the liquid lens to have a second diopter.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jeeho Hyun, Sungmin Woo, Gunshik Shin
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Patent number: 11418709Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes an image sensor that captures an image of a target to generate first image data, outputs the first image data, and outputs an interval information signal; an image signal processor that receives the first image data, performs image processing on the first image data to generate second image data and outputs the second image data; and an interface circuit that receives the second image data and the interval information signal and outputs the second image data as third image data. The interface circuit adjusts a timing to output the third image data, based on the interval information signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventors: Daechul Kwon, Jaehyuck Kang, Gyeonghan Cha, Moo Young Kim
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Patent number: 11412164Abstract: A method, an image processing apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with software for residual row noise removal in digital images are provided. The residual row noise is removed by dividing color plane images into vertical stripes and for each vertical stripe masking out the stripe pixels, determining a row means profile, determining a smoothed row means profile, determining row offset values for each of the horizontal stripe rows, determining corrected row offset values for horizontal stripe rows based on corresponding row offset values of adjacent vertical stripes and subtracting the corrected row offset value from the stripe pixel values.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss AGInventor: David Abreu
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Patent number: 11412154Abstract: An auto exposure method for a spatially-multiplexed-exposure (SME) high-dynamic-range (HDR) image sensor includes (a) retrieving raw image data from an exposure of the spatially-multiplexed-exposure high-dynamic-range image sensor, (b) preprocessing long-exposure pixel values and short-exposure pixel values of the raw image data to remove therefrom long-exposure pixel values and short-exposure pixel values failing to meet one or more quality requirements, (c) synthesizing, into an high-dynamic-range histogram, the long-exposure pixel values remaining after the step of preprocessing and the short-exposure pixel values remaining after the step of preprocessing, (d) deriving a goodness metric from the high-dynamic-range histogram, (e) adjusting at least one of the long exposure time and the short exposure time, based at least in part upon the goodness metric, and (f) outputting the at least one of the long exposure time and the short exposure time, as adjusted, to the spatially-multiplexed-exposure high-dynamic-Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jon S. McElvain, Walter C. Gish, Jonathan Robert Miller, Gregory John Ward, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 11405563Abstract: This disclosure provides devices, methods, computer-readable medium, and means for spatial alignment transform. In some aspects, a device may perform operations including capturing a first image of a scene using a first sensor at a first zoom ratio, capturing a second image of the scene using a second sensor at a second zoom ratio, the first image having a different field-of-view (FOV) than the second image, determining a translation matrix based on one or more spatial misalignments between the first image and the second image, determining a confidence associated with the translation matrix, in response to the confidence being greater than a confidence threshold, determining a weighting factor based on the first zoom ratio, the second zoom ratio, and a current zoom ratio of the device, applying the weighting factor to the translation matrix, and warping the first image to the second image using the weighted translation matrix.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianfeng Ren, Shizhong Liu, Weiliang Liu, Kuan-Chen Pan, Nikhil Uchil, Wei Zou
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Patent number: 11405555Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. A detecting unit detects a first motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the first motion amount into a first motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and a shutter speed used in the second shooting. A determining unit determines a first shutter speed adjustment step size on the basis of a difference between the first motion blur amount and a first target motion blur amount that is lower than the first motion blur amount. A changing unit changes the shutter speed of the second shooting at the first shutter speed adjustment step size in response to a first shutter speed changing unit being operated.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiaki Honda
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Patent number: 11399127Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a storage unit configured to store track data indicating a positional relationship between a zoom lens and a focus lens when an imaging optical system focuses at a predetermined subject distance, an adjustment value acquisition unit configured to acquire adjustment values for adjusting the track data, and a focus control unit configured to control a drive of the focus lens based on the track data and the adjustment values acquired by an adjustment value acquisition unit at a time of a zoom operation. The adjustment value acquisition unit selects adjustment value acquisition processing to be performed from a plurality of pieces of adjustment value acquisition processing, based on the track data, a position of the zoom lens, and a position of the focus lens, and acquires the adjustment values based on the selected adjustment value acquisition processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Kamba