Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Matthew Kempf

Jeffrey Matthew Kempf 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).

  • Publication number: 20240080421
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first camera configured to capture a first image being displayed, a second camera configured to capture a second image being displayed, and a processor configured to generate a pair-wise homography transform for the first camera and the second camera, and map, based on the pair-wise homography transform, the second image from a second frame of reference of the second camera to a first frame of reference of the first camera. The processor is further configured to determine a first corrected quadrilateral for the first image and a second corrected quadrilateral for the second image in the first frame of reference, and project, based on the pair-wise homography transform, the second corrected quadrilateral from the first frame of reference to the second frame of reference. The quadrilaterals are then processed to warp respective images for geometric correction before projecting the images by respective projectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shivam SRIVASTAVA, Jaime Rene DE LA CRUZ VAZQUEZ, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF
  • Publication number: 20240073384
    Abstract: A device includes at least one processor configured to partition a source image including image components into sub-images, each including a corresponding image component of the image components, and process each sub-image to produce a target image to be projected for each sub-image of the sub-images. The device also includes one or more light sources coupled to the at least one processor and configured to project an incident light, and a phase projection-based display device coupled to the at least one processor and optically coupled to the one or more light sources and configured to modulate, based on the target image of each sub-image, the incident light to separately project the sub-images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Muralidhar MADABHUSHI BALAJI, Terry Alan BARTLETT, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, James Norman HALL
  • Publication number: 20240005893
    Abstract: A system includes a display device configured to display frames of images, a memory coupled to the display device and configured to store image data representing a sequence of the frames, and a memory controller coupled to the memory. The memory controller is configured to split a frame in the sequence of frames into a slice count of frame slices according to an order of respective frame slice numbers, partition the memory into a number of buffer slices in an ordered sequence wherein the number of buffer slices is greater than or equal to the slice count, write each frame slice in the sequence of frames to a next free buffer slice in the ordered sequence of buffer slices, read each written frame slice to the display device to display the written frame slice with other displayed frame slices according to the order of the respective frame slice numbers, and return to a first buffer slice in the ordered sequence after writing a frame slice in a last buffer slice in the ordered sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Ross TOMEI, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Jeffrey S. FARRIS
  • Publication number: 20230421783
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes serializing, via a processor, image data for a first image to form serialized data mapped to RBG pixels of a second image, the image data in a format other than a RGB pixel format. The method also includes transmitting, by the processor, the serialized data via RGB signaling lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew LUCAS, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Jeffrey Scott FARRIS
  • Publication number: 20230388460
    Abstract: A system includes a color filter including a first segment configured to transmit first light having a first color and to reflect second light having a second color and a second segment configured to transmit the second light having the second color and to reflect the first light having the first color. The system also includes an integrator rod optically coupled to the color filter, a reflective surface having an aperture on an end of the integrator rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kristofer Scott OBERASCHER, Gregory Scott PETTITT, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Michael Terry DAVIS, Xi ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230362338
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a focusing lens, a SLM optically coupled to the focusing lens and comprising micromirrors on a surface of the SLM, where the focusing lens is tilted at an incident angle relative to the surface of the SLM, an incident light beam is illuminated on the SLM at the incident angle, and the incident angle is greater by an offset angle than twice a tilt angle of the micromirrors with respect to the surface of the SLM. The apparatus also include an actuator optically coupled to the SLM, and projection optics optically coupled to the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Alexander LYUBARSKY, Amit MITTAL, Terry Alan BARTLETT
  • Publication number: 20230342878
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a parser configured to decimate a source image to produce a decimated image according to a pre-distortion geometry for the source image, and partition the decimated image into image portions according to a first clock rate. The apparatus includes warping engines coupled to the parser and configured to pre-distort, according to a second clock rate, respective image portions to produce respective pre-distorted image portions according to the pre-distortion geometry. The apparatus also includes a combiner coupled to the warping engines and configured to combine the pre-distorted image portions, according to the first clock rate, to form a pre-distorted image of the source image. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to process the pre-distorted image to produce a processed image for projection by a light modulator and one or more light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF
  • Patent number: 11765325
    Abstract: A system having a color filter having first and second segments. The first and second segments allow respective first and second wavelengths to pass through to a spatial light modulator. The first and second segments also reflect second and first wavelengths, respectively. The reflected first and second wavelengths are recycled and directed towards the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kristofer Scott Oberascher, Gregory Scott Pettitt, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Michael Terry Davis, Xi Zhou
  • Patent number: 11754905
    Abstract: In described examples, a system (e.g., a security system or a vehicle operator assistance system) is configured to configure a phased spatial light modulator (SLM) to generate a diffraction pattern. A coherent light source is optically coupled to direct coherent light upon the SLM. The SLM is configured to project diffracted coherent light toward a region of interest. An optical element is configured to focus the diffracted coherent light toward the at least one region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Nirmal C. Warke, David P. Magee, Rahmi Hezar, Baher S. Haroun
  • Publication number: 20230274719
    Abstract: A controller includes a frame memory configured to store an image frame, a frame memory controller coupled to the frame memory and configured to obtain image data from the image frame. The image data is associated with a color component of the image frame. The controller also includes a dither noise mask generator configured to provide dither noise masks according to dither noise levels for the image data, and a bit plane generator coupled to the frame memory controller and the dither noise mask generator and configured to generate bit planes based on the dither noise masks for the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Aravind LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Jonathan LUCAS
  • Patent number: 11705089
    Abstract: A system includes a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to project an image. The system also includes a controller coupled to the SLM. The controller is configured to receive the image and determine a brightness level of the image. The controller is also configured to enforce a brightness limit on the image responsive to the brightness level, to produce a reduced image. The controller is configured to instruct a display to display the reduced image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Floyd Payne, Harsh Dinesh Jhaveri, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf
  • Patent number: 11657541
    Abstract: A method to compress an image includes assigning each pixel of the image to a cluster based on a red-green-blue (RGB) location of the pixel. The method also includes updating a centroid of the cluster after each pixel is assigned, based at least in part on the RGB location of the pixel, where the centroid is an RGB location. The method includes replacing each pixel in the image with an RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned. The method also includes instructing a display to display a compressed image where, in the compressed image, each pixel in the image is replaced with the RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Jonathan Andrew Lucas
  • Publication number: 20230081574
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a frame converter, a frame of pixel data and converting, by the frame converter, the frame to a first frame division unit. The method also includes receiving, by a translation circuit, a pixel coordinate and cropping and shifting, by the translation circuit, the first frame division unit based on the pixel coordinate, to produce a second frame division unit. Additionally, the method includes outputting, by the translation circuit, the second frame division unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin Ross TOMEI, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF, Jeffrey Scott FARRIS
  • Patent number: 11513361
    Abstract: A method includes converting a frame of pixel data to a first frame division unit. The method further includes, responsive to an X,Y coordinate, cropping and shifting the frame division unit to produce a second frame division unit. The method also includes outputting the second frame division unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kevin Ross Tomei, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Jeffrey Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11487118
    Abstract: A method includes rendering, by at least one processor, a first sub-frame of an image, where the first sub-frame includes a first subset of pixels of the image. The method includes displaying the first sub-frame on a display. The method also includes rendering, by the at least one processor, a second sub-frame of the image, where the second sub-frame includes a second subset of pixels of the image, and where the second sub-frame is shifted a half-pixel diagonally from the first sub-frame. The method also includes displaying the second sub-frame on the display after displaying the first sub-frame, where the display is optically shifted a half-pixel diagonally to display the second sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, John Peter Fenske
  • Publication number: 20220191442
    Abstract: A method includes projecting an image onto a projection surface through a projection lens of a projector, where the image comprises a fiducial marker. The method also includes capturing a point cloud of the fiducial marker with a camera, and generating a distortion map of projection lens distortion based at least in part on the point cloud. The method also includes generating a correction map for the projection lens, and applying the correction map to a video signal input to the projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jaime Rene DE LA CRUZ VAZQUEZ, Jeffrey Matthew KEMPF
  • Patent number: 11350066
    Abstract: A method includes projecting an image onto a projection surface through a projection lens of a projector, where the image comprises a fiducial marker. The method also includes capturing a point cloud of the fiducial marker with a camera, and generating a distortion map of projection lens distortion based at least in part on the point cloud. The method also includes generating a correction map for the projection lens, and applying the correction map to a video signal input to the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jaime Rene De La Cruz Vazquez, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf
  • Publication number: 20220153185
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes projecting a hybrid headlight frame into a scene in front of a vehicle by a digital micromirror device (DMD) headlight, wherein the hybrid headlight frame includes a structured light pattern and a high beam headlight pattern, and capturing an image of the scene by a camera included in the vehicle while the structured light pattern is projected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shashank Dabral, Arthur Kreutzer, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Jaime Rene De La Cruz Vazquez
  • Patent number: 11280907
    Abstract: A depth imaging system includes an optical image sensor, an optical beam steering system, an object identification system, and a depth measurement system. The object identification system is coupled to the optical image sensor. The object identification system is configured to identify an object in an image captured by the optical image sensor. The depth measurement system is coupled to the optical beam steering device. The depth measurement system is configured to, responsive to identification of the object by the object identification system: direct an optical signal, via the optical beam steering device, to the object, and to determine a distance to the object based on a time-of-flight of the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Vikrant R. Bhakta, Jeffrey Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11284050
    Abstract: Described examples include a system including a projector configured to project a test pattern image, the test pattern image having at least two elements; a camera configured to capture the test pattern image; and a controller coupled to the projector and to the camera. The controller is configured to obtain a first calibration matrix between the projector and the camera for the at least two elements; determine at least two epipolar lines based on the first calibration matrix and the test pattern image; determine a cost function based on the at least two epipolar lines and the at least two elements in the test pattern image as captured by the camera; and determine a second calibration matrix responsive to the cost function, wherein at least one of a camera position of the camera or a projector position of the projector is adjusted responsive to the second calibration matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shashank Dabral, Jaime Rene De La Cruz Vasquez, Jeffrey Matthew Kempf