Patents Examined by Twyler L. Haskins
  • Patent number: 12047676
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a camera having a first sensor configured to trigger the camera to take a photograph, a trigger device configured to couple to the camera, and a remote sensor node. The trigger device includes a heat generating member (HGM) disposed adjacent to the first sensor, a receiving node communicatively coupled to the HGM, and a housing configured to house at least one of the heat generating member and the receiving node. The remote sensor node is communicatively coupled to the receiving node, and includes a second sensor configured to detect an object in the field of view of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: WilliamsRDM, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Stimek, Eduardo M. Hinojosa, Donald W. Murray
  • Patent number: 12047668
    Abstract: An imaging assembly includes an image acquisition circuit provided in a rear portion of a moving body. The image acquisition circuit includes an optical circuit and an image capturing circuit. The optical circuit forms an image in a first region and an image in a second region on the peripheral side having a lower image capturing magnification than the first region. A light receiving surface of the image capturing circuit includes a region in which light is incident along the optical axis of the optical circuit through the first region, and a region in which light is incident through the second region. The image acquisition circuit is disposed so that the optical axis of the optical circuit passes through an opening provided in the moving body, and light from the rear end of the moving body is incident on the image capturing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yano
  • Patent number: 12047678
    Abstract: An image pickup system which is capable of properly reflecting a user's shooting intent on shooting parameters of multiple image pickup apparatuses. A first image pickup apparatus receives a change in shooting parameter and calculates a first feature value which is a feature value of a shooting scene in a picked-up image obtained by itself using the changed shooting parameter. On receiving a notification of the first feature value and the amount of the change in shooting parameter from the first image pickup apparatus, a second image pickup apparatus obtains a second feature value which is a feature value of a shooting scene in a picked-up image obtained by itself. Based on a result of comparison between the first feature value and the second feature value and the amount of the change in shooting parameter, the second image pickup apparatus changes a shooting parameter for itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Hata
  • Patent number: 12047692
    Abstract: An imaging device capable of producing images or data with relatively high spectral diversity, allowing for creation of information-rich feature vectors, is provided. Among other things, such information-rich feature vectors may be applied to a range of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. The imaging device may include a substrate having a baseline spectral responsivity function, multiple pixels forming a cell fabricated on the substrate, and spectral filters each configured to filter light based on a transmission function corresponding to a substantially broad portion of the baseline spectral responsivity function. The spectral filters may be notch filters. Each of the multiple pixels in the cell may be configured to receive light through each of the spectral filters. The transmission function of each of the spectral filters may be substantially different for each of at least a majority of the multiple pixels in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TRANSFORMATIVE OPTICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Geoffrey Burton Rhoads
  • Patent number: 12047683
    Abstract: This application relates to an image acquisition method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of image processing technologies. The method includes obtaining a first image, the first image being an image acquired by controlling an exposure time of an image acquisition component according to a brightness reference value; obtaining an exposure state of the first image; updating the brightness reference value according to the exposure state of the first image, to obtain an updated brightness reference value; controlling the exposure time of the image acquisition component according to the updated brightness reference value; and acquiring a second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jingwen Ye, Baochang Han, Xiao Han
  • Patent number: 12047690
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing a stream of image frames captured by a camera system. When an image frame from the stream of image frames is dropped, a current camera movement is determined. A substitute image frame for the dropped image frame is generated. The substitute image frame comprises a reference to a previous image frame and includes one or more motion vectors estimated solely based on the determined current camera movement. Remaining image frames in the stream of image frames are encoded and the substitute image frame is inserted at the place of the dropped image frame in the stream of encoded image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Viktor Edpalm, Song Yuan, Raphael Teller
  • Patent number: 12041350
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, an acquiring unit, and at least one processor. The image sensor is capable of acquiring, from an imaging surface that captures an object image formed by an optical system, first and second paired signals which are respectively acquired by pupil division in first and second directions different from each other. The acquiring unit acquires first and second defocus amounts from phase differences between the first paired signals and between the second paired signals, respectively. The at least one processor functions as a detecting unit and a deciding unit. The detecting unit detects an imaging object in an imaging frame. The deciding unit decides, based on the detected imaging object, at least one defocus amount to be used in focus control for the optical system from the first and second defocus amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shun Nakamura, Minoru Hirose, Miyako Shibutani, Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 12041364
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: FLUOPTICS
    Inventors: Anthony Daures, Philippe Rizo
  • Patent number: 12041329
    Abstract: Art electronic apparatus includes a first power supply attachable to and detachable from a body of the electronic apparatus, a driver configured to perform a predetermined operation, a substrate connected to the driver, and a second power supply mounted on the substrate, and electrically connected to and charged by the first power supply. The driver is drivable by a power supplied from the first power supply and drivable by a power supplied from the second power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Iseno, Hironori Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 12041346
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a 4G audio and video capture equipment based on UVC data transmission, including an integrated circuit board, a data input and output interface, a UVC and UART communication system, an audio and video data capture module, and a 4G communication module, the data input and output interface is connected with the integrated circuit board, the audio and video data capture module and the 4G communication module are both mounted on the integrated circuit board, the audio and video capture module is bidirectionally connected with the 4G communication module through the UVC and UART communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YANNUODA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongqi Xie
  • Patent number: 12035060
    Abstract: A stacked image sensor includes a signal-processing circuitry layer, a pixel-array substrate, a heat-transport layer, and a thermal via. The signal-processing circuitry layer includes a conductive pad exposed on a circuitry-layer bottom surface of the signal-processing circuitry layer. The pixel-array substrate includes a pixel array and is disposed on a circuitry-layer top surface of the signal-processing circuitry layer. The circuitry-layer top surface is between the circuitry-layer bottom surface and the pixel-array substrate. The heat-transport layer is located between the signal-processing circuitry layer and the pixel-array substrate. The thermal via thermally couples the heat-transport layer to the conductive pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Zhan, Yin Qian
  • Patent number: 12035036
    Abstract: A communication device, method and computer program product provide multiple simultaneous camera previews of different imaging modes of the same image. The communication device includes a communication subsystem that receives a photographic image stream from a second communication device. The communication device includes a display driver that presents content on a display device. A controller of the communication device is communicatively coupled to the display driver. The controller simultaneously presents the more than one camera previews on the display device. The communication device presents a particular imaging mode of the photographic image stream corresponding to the particular camera preview that is user selected. The communication device transmits, via the communication subsystem to the second communication device, a report of a user selection by the at least one user input device, of the particular imaging mode of the photographic visual stream that is being presented on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Rahul B. Desai, Boby Iyer, Fabio Felipe Mira Machuca
  • Patent number: 12035028
    Abstract: Disclosed are a camera module and a photosensitive assembly thereof, an electronic device, and a manufacturing method. The photosensitive assembly includes a photosensitive chip, at least one resistance-capacitance device, an extended wiring layer, a filter element assembly, and a molded base. The filter element assembly includes a filter element and a bonding layer bonded around the filter element. The filter element assembly is attached to a top surface of the extended wiring layer, and the filter element of the filter element assembly corresponds to a light transmission hole of the extended wiring layer, so that external light is filtered by the filter element before reaching a photosensitive area of the photosensitive chip through the light transmission hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Takehiko Tanaka, Zhen Huang, Zhenyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12028641
    Abstract: Described is a system including a camera module connected to an electronic device. The camera module includes a non-volatile memory that includes instructions storing a script for setting up the camera module. The electronic device includes an interpreter that executes at least partially the instructions including the script stored in the non-volatile memory of the camera module to set up the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Waldemar Dworakowski, Maciej Krzanowski, Lukasz Szpiech
  • Patent number: 12028589
    Abstract: A covering for an electronic imaging device with an optically transparent display screen viewing window centrally disposed in a band bag sleeve to define an inner volume with a mouth. An adherent, such as an optically transparent adhesive, is disposed on an inner surface of the viewing window for adhering to a display screen of the electronic imaging device. A cinching mechanism is operative to constrict the mouth of the band bag sleeve. A sterile barrier is thus created between the electronic imaging device and an exterior environment while permitting optically clear, stable viewing and operation of the display screen. A method for enveloping an electronic imaging device with a covering is founded on providing such a covering, causing the electronic imaging device to be received through the mouth and into the inner volume, and adhering the display screen viewing window to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Robert L. Marchione
  • Patent number: 12028626
    Abstract: Visual-inertial tracking of an eyewear device using a rolling shutter camera(s). The eyewear device includes a position determining system. Visual-inertial tracking is implemented by sensing motion of the eyewear device. An initial pose is obtained for a rolling shutter camera and an image of an environment is captured. The image includes feature points captured at a particular capture time. A number of poses for the rolling shutter camera is computed based on the initial pose and sensed movement of the device. The number of computed poses is responsive to the sensed movement of the mobile device. A computed pose is selected for each feature point in the image by matching the particular capture time for the feature point to the particular computed time for the computed pose. The position of the mobile device is determined within the environment using the feature points and the selected computed poses for the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Kalkgruber, Erick Mendez Mendez, Daniel Wagner, Daniel Wolf, Kai Zhou
  • Patent number: 12022176
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior camera includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. An imager printed circuit board (imager PCB) includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side and separated from the first side by a thickness of the imager PCB, with an imager disposed at the first side of the imager PCB. A lens barrel accommodates a lens and has an inner end. The first housing portion includes a passageway for receiving the lens barrel. The lens barrel is received through the passageway of the first housing portion. The inner end of the lens barrel is adhesively bonded to the first side of the imager PCB via an adhesive. The adhesive circumscribes the imager at the first side of the imager PCB to enclose an area between the imager PCB and the lens. The imager is disposed within the enclosed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Rene Dreiocker, Jonathan D. Conger, Jose Luis Zamudio Cabral, Steven V. Byrne
  • Patent number: 12022214
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for automatic exposure control. An example method can include receiving pixel values captured by a photosensor pixel array (PPA) of an image sensor, wherein one or more pixel values from the pixel values correspond to one or more sensitivity-biased photosensor (SBP) pixels in the PPA and one or more saturated pixel values from the pixel values correspond to one or more other photosensor pixels in the PPA; determining, based on the one or more pixel values, an actual pixel value for the one or more pixel values and/or the one or more saturated pixel values; determining an adjustment factor for at least one of the pixel values based on the actual pixel value and a target exposure value; and based on the adjustment factor, correcting an exposure setting associated with the image sensor and/or at least one of the pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Loic Francois Segapelli, Wenbin Wang, Nan Cui, Soman Ganesh Nikhara, Nikunj Dahyabhai Patel, Pradeep Veeramalla, Ankita Anil Kumar Chaudha
  • Patent number: 12022227
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for stitching images, or re-stitching previously stitched images. Specifically, the disclosed systems in one implementation save stitching information and/or original overlap source data during an original stitching process. During subsequent retrieval, rendering, and/or display of the stitched images, the originally stitched image can be flexibly augmented, and/or re-stitched to improve the original stitch quality. Practical applications of the disclosed solutions enable, among other things, a user to create and stitch a wide field of view (FOV) panorama from multiple source images on a device with limited processing capability (such as a mobile phone or other capture device). Moreover, post-processing stitching allows for the user to convert from one image projection to another without fidelity loss (or with an acceptable level of loss).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Adeel Abbas, Cesar Douady, Timothy MacMillan
  • Patent number: 12022244
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an image sensor for acquiring pixel values of first pixels sensed during a first exposure time and second pixels sensed during a second exposure time longer than the first exposure time; and a controller for outputting an output image acquired based on pixel values of the first pixels and a corrected saturated pixel value obtained by correcting a pixel value of a saturated pixel having a pixel value exceeding a threshold value among the second pixels, using a pixel value of at least one first pixel having a distance closest to a position of the saturated pixel among the first pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon Gyoo Lee, Seong Hee Park