Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Carroll

Patrick A. Carroll 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).

  • Patent number: 12262117
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed herein to perform predictive image sensor cropping operations to improve the performance of video image stabilization operations, especially for high resolution image sensors. According to some embodiments, the techniques include, for each of one or more respective images of a first plurality of images: obtaining image information corresponding to one or more images in the first plurality of images captured prior to the respective image; predicting, for the respective image, an image sensor cropping region to be read out from the first image sensor; and then reading out, into a memory, a first cropped version of the respective image comprising only the predicted image sensor cropping region for the respective image. Then, a first video may be produced based, at least in part, on the first cropped versions of the one or more respective images of the first plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Carroll, Ajay Ramesh, Ashwini Dwarakanath, David A. Silverstein, David R. Pope, Michael W. Tao, Terence N. Tam, Vitanshu Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240098368
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed herein to perform predictive image sensor cropping operations to improve the performance of video image stabilization operations, especially for high resolution image sensors. According to some embodiments, the techniques include, for each of one or more respective images of a first plurality of images: obtaining image information corresponding to one or more images in the first plurality of images captured prior to the respective image; predicting, for the respective image, an image sensor cropping region to be read out from the first image sensor; and then reading out, into a memory, a first cropped version of the respective image comprising only the predicted image sensor cropping region for the respective image. Then, a first video may be produced based, at least in part, on the first cropped versions of the one or more respective images of the first plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick A. Carroll, Ajay Ramesh, Ashwini Dwarakanath, David A. Silverstein, David R. Pope, Michael W. Tao, Terence N. Tam, Vitanshu Sharma
  • Patent number: 11750922
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for operating a multiple camera system. In some embodiments, a primary camera may be selected from a plurality of cameras using object distance estimates, distance error information, and minimum object distances for some or all of the plurality of cameras. In other embodiments, a camera may be configured to use defocus information to obtain an object distance estimate to a target object closer than a minimum object distance of the camera. This object distance estimate may be used to assist in focusing another camera of the multi-camera system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Patrick A. Carroll, Yongjun Li
  • Publication number: 20230085042
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for operating a multiple camera system. In some embodiments, a primary camera may be selected from a plurality of cameras using object distance estimates, distance error information, and minimum object distances for some or all of the plurality of cameras. In other embodiments, a camera may be configured to use defocus information to obtain an object distance estimate to a target object closer than a minimum object distance of the camera. This object distance estimate may be used to assist in focusing another camera of the multi-camera system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Patrick A. Carroll, Yongjun Li
  • Patent number: 9817489
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to a stylus for texture capture. The stylus includes an image sensing and capture device to permit a surface to be scanned using the stylus and an image may be stored and displayed on an electronic device to represent the texture of the scanned surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lor, Patrick A. Carroll, Glen A. Rhodes, Dustin J. Verhoeve
  • Publication number: 20150212578
    Abstract: A touch implement may include one or more controllers coupled to one or more haptic devices and one or more sensors that detect when the touch implement contacts a surface. The controller may provide haptic feedback via the haptic device(s) to simulate a texture of the surface when the touch implement is in contact. In some cases the texture may correspond to a texture displayed on the surface whereas in other implementations the texture may be unrelated to the appearance of the surface. In some implementations, the touch implement may detect information about the texture of the surface or information encoded in surface about texture or haptic feedback to provide and adjust haptic feedback accordingly. In other implementations, the touch implement may receive transmitted information regarding the texture or haptic feedback to provide and adjust haptic feedback accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lor, Patrick A. Carroll, Dustin J. Verhoeve
  • Publication number: 20150212602
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to a stylus for texture capture. The stylus includes an image sensing and capture device to permit a surface to be scanned using the stylus and an image may be stored and displayed on an electronic device to represent the texture of the scanned surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lor, Patrick A. Carroll, Glen A. Rhodes, Dustin J. Verhoeve