Patents Examined by Yong Kim
  • Video image encoding device, video image encoding method, video image decoding device, and video image decoding method
    Patent number: 9237342
    Abstract: A method includes determining a group to which each of a plurality of blocks belongs, the plurality of blocks being obtained by dividing each picture included in video image data; adding, to an output stream, group information expressing the group to which each of the plurality of blocks belongs; calculating an output time for each of the groups; determining output delay for each of the groups; adding, to the output stream, an output delay time from a decode time of each of the groups; controlling an encode amount so that data used for outputting all of the blocks included in one of the groups arrives at a decoding buffer of a decoding device and decoding is completed by an output time expressed by the output delay time; and performing encoding based on the encode amount that has been controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junpei Koyama, Kimihiko Kazui, Satoshi Shimada, Akira Nakagawa
  • Reference picture list construction for video coding
    Patent number: 9237356
    Abstract: Techniques are described related to constructing reference picture lists. The reference picture lists may be constructed from reference picture subsets of a reference picture set. In some examples, the reference picture subsets may be ordered in a particular manner to form the reference picture lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Ying Chen
  • Process and arrangement for operating a vehicle having a camera arranged on an outside mirror
    Patent number: 9227575
    Abstract: In a process for operating a vehicle having an outside mirror on which a camera is arranged and which is swivelable by a swiveling device between a first end position and a second end position, first picture data and second picture data of a first picture and of a second picture captured by the camera are provided. As a function of the first and second picture data, it is determined whether an object is imaged in both pictures. If an object is imaged in both pictures, as a function of the first and second picture data, a distance from the object relative to a reference point with respect to the camera is determined. As a function of the determined distance, the swiveling device is triggered such that it contributes to the fact that the distance is greater than or equal to a predefined minimum distance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenter Bauer, Thomas Reicher
  • 3D-camera and method for the three-dimensional monitoring of a monitoring area
    Patent number: 9228697
    Abstract: A 3D-camera (10) is provided, having at least one image sensor (14a-b) and at least one illumination unit (100) which comprises a light source and which is configured for generating an irregular illumination pattern (20) in an illumination area (12) of the 3D-camera (10). The light source comprises a semiconductor array (104) having a plurality of individual emitter elements (106) in an irregular arrangement, and a respective individual emitter element (106) generates a pattern element (112) of the irregular illumination pattern (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Florian Schneider, Stephan Schmitz
  • Figure-ground organization of 3-D scenes
    Patent number: 9225964
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a pair of 2-D images are described. In one example, a stereoscopic set of images is converted into a collection of regions that represent individual 3-D objects in the pair of images. In one embodiment, the system recovers the 3-D point P for each point p that appears in both images. It estimates the 3-D orientation of the floor plane, and the image capture planes and their height from the floor. The system then identifies the collection B of points P that do not represent points on the floor and generates a projection C of B onto a plane parallel to the floor. It blurs the projection C and identifies peaks in the blurred image, then fits symmetric figures to the points in C around the identified peaks. The system projects the 3-D figures associated with the symmetric figures back onto the 2-D images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Zygmunt Pizlo, Tadamasa Sawada, Yunfeng Li
  • Methods and apparatuses for upscaling video
    Patent number: 9215403
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect content that represents original image information; detect a direction of the content wherein the direction corresponds to a portion of the original image information; compare a variation between adjacent pixels that are represented by the original image information; and generate new image information based on the direction of the content and the variation between the adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Victor Octav Suba Miura
  • Display apparatus for displaying video input through various ports
    Patent number: 9215398
    Abstract: A display apparatus displaying video input through various ports is provided. The display apparatus includes a board which is disposed behind a display module, wherein the board includes a universal serial bus (USB) port which receives a USB standard signal, a decoder which decodes a video signal from the USB standard signal and outputs a decoded signal, a video output unit which outputs a displayable video signal to the display module corresponding to the video signal, wherein the USB port is disposed at an edge of a first side of the board, and the video output unit is disposed at an edge of a second side of the board which is different from the first side of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-kyan Yun
  • System for optical recognition, interpretation, and digitization of human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls
    Patent number: 9202098
    Abstract: A system for optically recognizing, interpreting, and digitizing human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls includes an image acquisition sensor operable to capture images of at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls; and a logic processing unit operable to decode the images captured by the image acquisition sensor and interpret the decoded images to determine a state of the at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: George Steven Lewis, Carson Blaine Clanton
  • Overlapped rate control for video splicing applications
    Patent number: 9197888
    Abstract: Rate control techniques are provided for encoding an input video sequence into a compressed coded bitstream with multiple coding passes. The final coding pass may comprise final splices with non-overlapping frames that do not extend into neighboring final splices. A final splice in the final coding pass may correspond to at least one non-final splice in a non-final coding pass. A non-final splice may have overlapping frames that extend into neighboring final splices in the final coding pass. The overlapping frames in the non-final splice may be used to derive complexity information about the neighboring final splices. The complexity information about the neighboring final splices, as derived from the overlapping frames, may be used to allocate or improve rate control related budgets in encoding the final splice into the compressed coded bitstream in the final coding pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Athanasios Leontaris, Alexandros Tourapis
  • User interface with real-time visual playback along with synchronous textual analysis log display and event/time index for anomalous behavior detection in applications
    Patent number: 9195829
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method comprises conducting an analysis for anomalous behavior on application software and generating a video of a display output produced by the application software. The video is to be displayed on an electronic device contemporaneously with display of one or more events detected by the analysis being performed on the application software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Harnish Goradia, Osman Abdoul Ismael, Noah M. Johnson, Adrian Mettler, Ashar Aziz
  • Method and system for multi-layer rate control for a multi-codec system
    Patent number: 9197889
    Abstract: A video transmitter comprising a plurality of encoders may be operable to determine, for a transport stream, a constant overall number of bits per time interval corresponding to a frame in the transport stream. For each time interval corresponding to a start and an end of encoding of each of frames using each of the encoders, the video transmitter may allocate a target number of bits to each of the frames to achieve the constant overall number of bits. The allocation of the target number of bits may be based on frame types of the frames and CODEC types of the encoders, where the allocated target number of bits for each of the frames meets buffer overflow/underflow requirements associated with each of the encoders. A quantization parameter (QP) may be calculated and adjusted at each of one or more layers for generating an actual number of bits during encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gheorghe Berbecel, Xuemin Chen
  • System and method for video monitoring of restricted areas below bucket trucks, lineworkers on power distribution poles or other elevated loads
    Patent number: 9196150
    Abstract: A method and system (10) are provided for monitoring a restricted area (12) below a temporarily elevated worker (14) working on an elevated power transmission line (16). The method and system (10) utilize a video camera system (30) that is temporarily elevated to a location (32) adjacent the worker (14) and that is configured to detect the presence of personnel (34) who enter the restricted area (12). The system (30) is configured to automatically alert personnel (34) at the worksite (17) who enter the restricted area (12) in response to detection of the personnel (34) by the system (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Adishesha Cs, Lokesh Rayasandra Boregowda
  • Display device and television
    Patent number: 9195084
    Abstract: A display device that prevents unnecessary radiation emitted from a circuit that drives a display panel from leaking to outside while achieving a reduction in the size of a cover member includes a liquid crystal panel, a drive circuit that drives the liquid crystal panel that is disposed on a rear surface of the liquid crystal panel, a rear frame in which the outer peripheral portion and an area around the outer peripheral portion other than the central portion constitute a rear case and which is made of a conductive material that covers, in the region constituting the rear case, sides and a rear of the drive circuit board disposed on the rear surface of the liquid crystal panel, and a cover member that covers from the rear the area of the rear frame other than the region constituting the rear case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yokawa, Yuki Kita, Akihiro Fujikawa, Yasuyuki Fukumoto, Yasuhiro Mori, Yuto Suzuki, Hirofumi Horiuchi, Hirohiko Tsuji, Takahito Yamanaka, Hideo Yonezawa
  • Systems and methods for periodic structure handling for motion compensation
    Patent number: 9197891
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating motion in an image of a video signal are provided. A plurality of motion vectors for the image are estimated. A segment of the image is identified, where the segment is a portion of the image including a periodic structure. A dominant motion representation of the segment is determined. The dominant motion representation is used to modify certain motion vectors of the plurality of motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventor: Vipin Namboodiri
  • Video decoding apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9191676
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus according to one aspect of the disclosure performs a decoding process, on a process block basis, using a motion vector of the process block and prediction information candidates of the motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Kimihiko Kazui, Junpei Koyama, Akira Nakagawa
  • Digital activity center for pets
    Patent number: 9185885
    Abstract: In an aspect, a system includes a touch-sensitive surface and a camera mounted to be movable relative to the touch-sensitive surface to acquire an image of an animal interacting with the touch-sensitive surface. The system includes a processor coupled to a memory, the processor and memory configured to cause each of multiple sections of the display screen to be associated with a corresponding activity in which the animal can engage; detect a selection of one of the multiple sections of the touch-sensitive surface; and enable the activity associated with the selected section of the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Forget You Not, LLC
    Inventors: Nissim Shani, Roni Shani, Daniel Shani
  • Imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 9185358
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that obtains an optical image of a photographic subject; a plurality of image sensor elements that output image data based on the optical image of the photographic subject obtained by the imaging optical system; an electric power supply controller that controls electric power supply to the plurality of image sensor elements; and a distance metering device that includes the plurality of image sensor elements and the electric power supply controller, and measures a distance to the photographic subject based on an output of the image sensor elements, wherein the plurality of image sensor elements are aligned in line and formed on one semiconductor wafer, and the electric power supply controller performs electric power supply to the plurality of image sensor elements in accordance with operating conditions set to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsutoshi Kitajima, Shigeru Oouchida
  • Method and a system for determining a video frame type
    Patent number: 9185400
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a video frame type, comprising the steps of receiving a video frame and analyzing the contents of consecutive lines of the video frame in frequency domain by detecting a number of LR-type lines (?LR) of the video frame for which the left half of the line is phase-correlated with the right half of the line, detecting an LR mean error (?LR) as a function of the difference between the values of Fourier transform coefficients for the left half of the line and the right half of the line, detecting a number of TB lines (?TB) of a top half of the frame which are phase-correlated with lines of a bottom half of the frame and detecting a TB mean error (?TB) as a function of the difference between the values of Fourier transform coefficients for the lines of the top half of the frame and the lines of the bottom half of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ADVANCED DIGITAL BROADCAST S.A.
    Inventor: Maciej Hrebien
  • Compressed video
    Patent number: 9179143
    Abstract: A method of compressing digital data comprising the steps of: (i) reading digital data as series of binary coded words representing a context and a codeword to be compressed; (ii) calculating distribution output data for the input data and assigning variable length codewords to the result; and (iii) periodically recalculating the codewords in accordance with a predetermined schedule, in order to continuously update the codewords and their lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Forbidden Technologies PLC
    Inventor: Stephen Bernard Streater
  • Sweep dependency based graphics processing unit block scheduling
    Patent number: 9172923
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a central processing unit and a parallel processing unit. The parallel processing unit generally includes an array of software-configurable general purpose processors, a globally shared memory, and a shared memory. Each of the software-configurable general purpose processors in the array of software-configurable general purpose processors generally has access to the globally shared memory to execute one or more portions of a decoding program. The shared memory is accessible by the central processing unit to program the shared memory with a schedule describing which of the one or more portions of the decoding program are to be executed by each of the software-configurable general purpose processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy B. Prins, Jeffrey K. Lassahn