Patents by Inventor Gary Embler
Gary Embler 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).
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Patent number: 10666865Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20190313022Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Patent number: 10397476Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20180077351Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Patent number: 9794479Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20160142632Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Patent number: 8493436Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard F. Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20130169745Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Richard F. Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Patent number: 7983646Abstract: Various embodiments to reduce radio frequency noise are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio frequency noise reduction module to disable a radio frequency noise source in response to a receive active signal from a radio receiver. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Olivier Boireau, Gary Embler, Avi Kopelman, William Noellert, Karl Townsend, Chun W. Yeung
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Publication number: 20090201361Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard F. Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20080139155Abstract: Various embodiments to reduce radio frequency noise are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio frequency noise reduction module to disable a radio frequency noise source in response to a receive active signal from a radio receiver. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: OLIVIER BOIREAU, GARY EMBLER, AVI KOPELMAN, WILLIAM NOELLERT, KARL TOWNSEND, CHUN W. YEUNG
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Publication number: 20070189629Abstract: Processing a digitized image signal includes selectively adjusting interpolated color values on the basis of correlations between pre-identified reference patterns of values and the patterns of values within the neighborhoods in which the interpolated color values reside. The reference patterns may be various possible combinations of a high reference value and a low reference value within a selected neighborhood configuration. When minimum and maximum color values are used as the reference values, the reference patterns are representative of the various maximum luminous gradient possibilities within the selected neighborhood configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventor: Gary Embler
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Patent number: 6654054Abstract: A method and apparatus for canceling the effect of radiated noise on an electronic signal is disclosed. Particularly, in an electronic camera, a noise cancellation circuit consisting of a control means for controlling the timing of a radiated noise signal generated by a noise-generating source, a storage means for storing an anti-noise signal that comprises a digital representation of a complement of the radiated noise signal; and a summing circuit for summing digital image signals containing the radiated noise signal component and the anti-noise signal are disclosed. The control means generates a control signal in synchronization with a pulse of a pixel sample clock. This control signal triggers the noise-generating source such that the radiated noise signal is also synchronized to the pulse of the pixel sample clock. The radiated noise signal is conducted into the electronic signal path.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1999Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Gary Embler