Patents by Inventor James SHARAM

James SHARAM 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).

  • Method, apparatus and computer program product for storing images of a scene
    Patent number: 11386548
    Abstract: A method of storing images of a scene, including receiving an image of a scene, generating at least one image identifier of the image, which is indicative of content of the image, storing the at least one image identifier of the image in association with temporal information for that image in a first storage, determining a degree of similarity between content of the image and previous images which have been received based on a correspondence between the at least one image identifier of the image and the at least one images identifiers of the previous images in the first storage, and storing the at least one image identifier of subsequently received images in a second storage in association with temporal information corresponding to a first previous image when the determined degree of similarity between the image and the first previous image exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe B.V.
    Inventors: Edward Hawke, James Sharam
  • METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORING IMAGES OF A SCENE
    Publication number: 20200311898
    Abstract: A method of storing images of a scene, including receiving an image of a scene, generating at least one image identifier of the image, which is indicative of content of the image, storing the at least one image identifier of the image in association with temporal information for that image in a first storage, determining a degree of similarity between content of the image and previous images which have been received based on a correspondence between the at least one image identifier of the image and the at least one images identifiers of the previous images in the first storage, and storing the at least one image identifier of subsequently received images in a second storage in association with temporal information corresponding to a first previous image when the determined degree of similarity between the image and the first previous image exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe B.V.
    Inventors: Edward HAWKE, James SHARAM