Patents Examined by Trang U. Tran
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Patent number: 10057538Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the generation of interpolated frames of video data. In one embodiment, the interpolated frames of video data are generated by obtaining two or more frames of video data; performing Lagrangian interpolation on one or more portions of the obtained two or more frames of video data to generate a Lagrangian interpolated image; performing Eulerian interpolation on one or more portions of the obtained two or more frames to generate a Eulerian interpolated image; and when the Lagrangian interpolated image and the Eulerian interpolated image should be combined, computing an average interpolated image using the Lagrangian interpolated image and the Eulerian interpolated image; otherwise, selecting either the Lagrangian interpolated image or the Eulerian interpolated image; and generating an interpolated frame of video data using one or more of the average interpolated image, the Lagrangian interpolated image, or the Eulerian interpolated image.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: GOPRO, INC.Inventors: Aaron Staranowicz, Ryan Lustig
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Patent number: 10051256Abstract: An image observation apparatus 10 includes an imaging unit 30 that images a specimen K and obtains a magnified image of the specimen, a display 50 that displays an image, a condition determiner that determines whether a state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies a specific condition, and a controller that displays the magnified image obtained by the imaging unit on the display when the condition determiner determines the state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies the specific condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Sumito Honda, Kensei Ito, Hiroshi Kodama, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 10021341Abstract: System, method, and computer product embodiments for proving an orientation adjustment for casting visual content on a display device are described. A computing device selects an orientation adjustment to be used in transcoding a video having a frame and assigned an orientation. The computing device requests a transcoder within the computing device to transcode the frame based on the orientation adjustment to generate a transcoded frame. The transcoded frame is converted into a format comparable to a reference frame representing the frame that is corrected transcoded to the assigned orientation. Then, the computing device compares the converted frame with the reference frame to determine that the frame is transcoded correctly to the assigned orientation. If the frame is transcoded correctly, the computing device uses the selected orientation adjustment when transcoding visual content for casting or streaming on a display device in an orientation matching that of the visual content.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventor: Gregory S. Gates
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Patent number: 10015456Abstract: A projector includes a light-emitting element that outputs light of a first wavelength band which is in a first polarization state; a retardation plate that converts a portion of the light into a second polarization state; a polarization separation element that separates the light into a first flux of light in the first polarization state and a second flux of light in a second polarization state; a phosphor, which outputs a third flux of light of a second wavelength band; an optical modulator that modulates the light in accordance with a video signal; a light-emitting element control unit that controls brightness of the light-emitting element in accordance with brightness information; and a retardation plate control unit that controls a rotation angle of the retardation plate in accordance with the brightness information.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Toyooka, Tatsuya Iguchi
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Patent number: 10009595Abstract: A calibration method of a stereo camera includes transmitting a group of system parameters of the stereo camera to a server; downloading calibration pattern corresponding to the group of system parameters from the server; calculating a plurality of camera calibration parameters corresponding to the stereo camera according to the calibration pattern; and executing an image rectification operation on a left eye image capture unit and a right eye image capture unit of the stereo camera according to the plurality of camera calibration parameters, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: eYs3D Microelectronics, Co.Inventors: Wen-Kuo Lin, Ming-Che Ho
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Patent number: 10009583Abstract: A projection apparatus among a plurality of projection apparatuses for executing multi-projection includes a holding unit configured to hold setting information about a role of the projection apparatus among the plurality of projection apparatuses for executing the multi-projection, a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for displaying a menu screen for changing a setting of the projection apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether to display the menu screen upon reception of the instruction by the reception unit, based on the setting information held by the holding unit, and a projection unit configured to project the menu screen according to a result of determination by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidenori Ito
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Patent number: 10009587Abstract: A projection system for projecting an image with an increased apparent resolution is provided. The projection system includes one or more projectors, a resampler module and a deconvolution module. The resampler module is configured to upsample an incoming high-resolution signal, perform an integer shift operation on a signal, and downsample to two or more low-resolution signals. The deconvolution module is configured to filter the upsampled high-resolution signal using a spatial domain deconvolution operation, the spatial domain deconvolution operation approximating frequency domain optical corrections based on characteristics of the one or more projectors. Preferably, the spatial domain deconvolution operation uses an N×N spatial kernel extracted from a spatial domain approximation of a Wiener filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.Inventors: Bojie Ma, Ahmed Gawish, Alexander Wong, Paul Fieguth, Mark Lamm
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Patent number: 9998714Abstract: A device and a method for detecting, monitoring and/or controlling racing vehicles on a racetrack, having a camera for monitoring when a predetermined track section is crossed, a recording device for recording the images provided by the camera, a recording control device for automatically recording the images provided by the camera only during a specific time window within which the crossing of the track section, and a sensor device for detecting the crossing of the track section. A marking device generates a marking for a recorded image as a function of a sensor signal of the sensor device and the occurrence thereof in the specific time window. The marking is stored in an event list. An image of interest can be simply selected on the basis of the associated marking, without the images which are provided by the camera having to be evaluated themselves for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: Peter Platzer
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Patent number: 9986202Abstract: Information bits may be superimposed onto a transmitted image while reducing or minimizing the effects of the superimposed information bits on the transmitted image signal's frequency spectrum or image quality. A placement of superimposed information bits onto pixels of an image signal to be transmitted may be determined by testing a placement functions to determine whether the spectrum and/or image quality of the image signal with the superimposed information bits placed according to a placement function meets system criteria. Successive placement functions may be tested until an acceptable placement function is found. The information bits may be superimposed onto complete pixels or the information bits may be superimposed onto one or more least significant bits (LSBs) of each of the selected pixels. A transmitter may transmit superimposition information associated with a transmitted image to a receiver. A receiver may use the superimposition information to extract the information bits.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Amer Hassan, Bill Verthein
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Patent number: 9979928Abstract: The present disclosure provides an internet interface circuit, which includes an ethernet interface, a first isolating transformer, a second isolating transformer, a network signal processing chip and a first interference defending circuit; the ethernet interface is used for receiving and sending a network signal; the first isolating transformer is used for separating a receiving data end of the ethernet interface from the network signal receiving chip; the second isolating transformer is used for separating a sending data end of the ethernet interface from the network signal receiving chip; the first interference defending circuit is used for defending common-mode interference and differential-mode interference of the receiving data end of the ethernet interface; the network signal processing chip is used for processing the network signal. The present disclosure also provides a television.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventor: Shunliang He
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Patent number: 9971137Abstract: A processor extracts a reference signal of a scanner included in an adaptive optics SLO apparatus output while the scanner performs reciprocating scanning on a region of an eye to be inspected, generates sampling data strings of reciprocating scanning for individual imaging units included in the adaptive optics SLO apparatus using the reference signal as a sampling reference position, and compares, among the sampling data strings of the reciprocating scanning, a sampling data string of forward scanning with a sampling data string of backward scanning so as to evaluate the correlation between the sampling data strings, compares evaluation results obtained for the individual imaging units so as to evaluate reliability, and compensates a sampling reference position based on the evaluation results. An image construction unit assembles image data to construct an image of the region of the eye based on the compensated sampling reference position for each imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Suguru Onda
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Patent number: 9967438Abstract: An imaging means acquires an imaged image in a predetermined imaging range for each predetermined frame rate. An image processing means performs image processing on image data of the image captured by the imaging means. A first setting means (S420) sets the imaging means to image a predetermined first range in the imaging range with a predetermined first frame rate. A second setting means (S430) sets the imaging means to image a second range, which is a part of the imaging range imaged by the imaging means and is narrower than the first range, with a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate. A determination means (S420) selects one of the first setting means and the second setting means depending on process contents that the image processing performs.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kimura, Toshikazu Murao
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Patent number: 9958937Abstract: Provided is a content viewing system using a head-mounted display (HMD), which enables a user to know a popular broadcaster content in real time. A device to be used for content viewing includes: a display unit configured to display, on the head-mounted display, a plurality of virtual displays arranged in a virtual space; a selecting unit configured to select one of the virtual displays based on movement detected by a detector of the head-mounted display; and a playing unit configured to play a content associated with a selected virtual display. The plurality of virtual displays are arrayed in grid sections provided along a celestial sphere surface. The selecting unit is configured to identify one of the grid sections on the celestial sphere surface based on the detected movement, to thereby select one virtual display associated with the identified grid section.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: COLOPL, INC.Inventors: Naruatsu Baba, Takeshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9948882Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed transmit a composite channel to a receiver. The composite channel may be a static channel that contains different original channels of content in different locations on a displayed page, or may be a dynamic channel that is processed by the receiver to display a multiple different video streams on a single display device.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: Greg Goldey, Casey Manuel Paiz, Kerry Philip Langloys Miller, John Card, II, David Christopher St. John-Larkin, Scott Higgins, Hugh Aaron Selway, Daniel Mark Overbaugh
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Patent number: 9942507Abstract: A remote control apparatus for setting a mode according to a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus is provided. The remote control apparatus sets operation modes based on information regarding a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus received from the broadcast receiving apparatus. The operation mode of the remote control apparatus is automatically set based on information regarding a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus, so less power is consumed in the remote control apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Young-mi Jung
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Patent number: 9942512Abstract: A display apparatus displaying an image based on an image signal received from a source device is provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a display port interface to connect to the source device, a user input interface configured to receive a mode select command indicating one of a plurality of modes divided according to a vertical frequency ranges where the image is displayed, a first memory configured to store Display Port Configuration Data, a second memory configured to store Extended Display Identification Data, and a processor configured to transmit the EDID to the source device. In response to a mode select command being input, the processor controls vertical frequency information corresponding to a mode selected according to the mode select command to be stored in the DPCD and the DPCD storing the vertical frequency information instead of the EDID to the source device through the interface to be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung-keun Kim, Seo-ye Seo
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Patent number: 9936180Abstract: A projector calculates an input-output characteristic for converting a tone value of an input image so as to perform display in a given projectable luminance range in a display absolute luminance range of an input signal, in accordance with the brightness of the projection surface. An output signal is generated from the input signal and projected, based on the calculated input-output characteristic. With the disclosed projector, image data having an input luminance range that is different from the output luminance range can be appropriately displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Fujioka
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Patent number: 9912904Abstract: The present invention relates to a television extender adapter device (102) that enables users to extend a television (101) screen or channel to their portable devices such as mobile phones (112), laptops (113) and tablets (114) with a multichannel viewing option. The adapter device (102) provides a Wi-Fi network (111) for all portable device users to connect and view the television (101) screen or channels of their choice on their Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices consisting of a compatible browser using an intranet network thereby eliminating the requirement of an internet connection. Further, a user can stream the audio content alone through Bluetooth network (110) using the speakers or headphones compatible with their respective portable devices. The adapter device (102) provides the users an option to choose any channel from a list of available channels irrespective of the channel playing on the television (101).Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignees: RxPrism Health Systems Private LimitedInventor: Maruthi Viswanathan
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Patent number: 9912900Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a control unit that controls the first and second communication units. If the display apparatus is on standby in a first standby mode in which the first and second communication units are enabled, when the control unit receives a command via communication from an external device to the first communication unit, the control unit acquires information of another display apparatus via the second communication unit and transmits the information to the external device via the first communication unit. If the display apparatus is on standby in a second standby mode in which the second communication unit is enabled, when the control unit receives a command via communication from another display apparatus to the second communication unit, the control unit transmits information of the display apparatus to the other display apparatus via the second communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 9900591Abstract: An display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may includes a display panel on which an image is output; and a calibration device which is mounted on a rear surface of the display panel. The calibration device includes a housing, a drive motor which is disposed on an inside portion or an outside portion of the housing, a link assembly which is accommodated in the inside portion of the housing, which is capable of being withdrawn to the outside of the housing by power provided form the drive motor and which is provided to be capable of being bent or being rotated, and an photographing unit which is mounted on an end of the link assembly and photographs the image displayed on the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehyun Sung, Sangdon Park, Jongwon Song, Inkeun Ryu, Kihyun Kim