Patents by Inventor Kuo-Hsien Liang

Kuo-Hsien Liang 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).

  • Image alignment method and image alignment system
    Patent number: 9147118
    Abstract: An image alignment method includes steps of receiving a first image and a second image; scaling the first image and the second image by a ratio to generate a first downsized image and a second downsized image respectively; determining a first offset between the first downsized image and the second downsized image; selecting a first saliency region and a second saliency region from the first downsized image and the second downsized image; determining a second offset between a first sub-region within the first image and a second sub-region within the second image, the first sub-region and the second sub-region corresponding to the first saliency region and the second saliency region respectively; determining a final offset according to the ratio, the first offset and the second offset; and aligning the first image and the second image by the final offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Fu Lin, Chia-Wei Chiu, Kuo-Hsien Liang