Patents by Inventor Francesco Emanuele Bonarrigo

Francesco Emanuele Bonarrigo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Merging of a video and still pictures of the same event, based on global motion vectors of this video
    Patent number: 8649660
    Abstract: It is quite common for users to have both video and photo material that refer to the same event. Adding photos to home videos enriches the content. However, just adding still photos to a video sequence has a disturbing effect. The invention relates to a method to seamlessly integrate photos into the video by creating a virtual camera motion in the photo that is aligned with the estimated camera motion in the video. A synthesized video sequence is created by estimating a video camera motion in the video sequence at an insertion position in the video sequence at which the still photo is to be included, creating a virtual video sequence of sub frames of the still photo where the virtual video sequence has a virtual camera motion correlated to the video camera motion at the insertion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Francesco Emanuele Bonarrigo, Marco Emanuele Campanella, Mauro Barbieri, Johannes Weda
  • MERGING OF A VIDEO AND STILL PICTURES OF THE SAME EVENT, BASED ON GLOBAL MOTION VECTORS OF THIS VIDEO
    Publication number: 20110229111
    Abstract: It is quite common for users to have both video and photo material that refer to the same event. Adding photos to home videos enriches the content. However, just adding still photos to a video sequence has a disturbing effect. The invention relates to a method to seamlessly integrate photos into the video by creating a virtual camera motion in the photo that is aligned with the estimated camera motion in the video. A synthesized video sequence is created by estimating a video camera motion in the video sequence at an insertion position in the video sequence at which the still photo is to be included, creating a virtual video sequence of sub frames of the still photo where the virtual video sequence has a virtual camera motion correlated to the video camera motion at the insertion position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Francesco Emanuele Bonarrigo, Marco Emanuele Campanella, Mauro Barbieri, Johannes Weda