Patents by Inventor Sami Niemi
Sami Niemi 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: 10212365Abstract: A method includes maintaining images and associated video streams; detecting a swipe gesture of a user on a touch sensitive display, wherein the swipe gesture comprises direction and speed information; and selecting an image based on the direction information of the swipe gesture. The method includes adjusting a playback of an associated video stream based on the direction and the speed information of the swipe gesture; providing the associated video stream on the display during the swipe gesture, for creating a motion effect relating to the image; and providing the image on the display after the swipe gesture.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 10200257Abstract: There is disclosed means for in a communications device enabling an indirect communications channel between the communications device and at least one further communications device. A data service selected from a set of data services is associated with an identity code. The identity code identifies the communications device. Data related to the identity code is transmitted to a server. The data is preferably transmitted through a radio-frequency based communications interface. The identity code is broadcasting during a predetermined period of time and intended to be received by the at least one further communications device. The broadcast is preferably transmitted through a short-range non-radio frequency based communications interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 10020997Abstract: The present invention relates to communications systems, and more particularly to enabling one communications device to access data, such as a set of multimedia objects, accessible by another communications device. Identity code information is communicated between the communications devices and the server, wherein a representation of the identity code is communicated from one of the communications devices to the other of the communications devices and then to the server. The identity code is associated with data accessible by one of the communications device and the data is associated with access rights. The server is thereby able to associate specific communications devices, access rights and contents.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Sami Niemi
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Publication number: 20180077361Abstract: A method includes maintaining images and associated video streams; detecting a swipe gesture of a user on a touch sensitive display, wherein the swipe gesture comprises direction and speed information; and selecting an image based on the direction information of the swipe gesture. The method includes adjusting a playback of an associated video stream based on the direction and the speed information of the swipe gesture; providing the associated video stream on the display during the swipe gesture, for creating a motion effect relating to the image; and providing the image on the display after the swipe gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9883117Abstract: A method includes maintaining images and associated video streams; detecting a swipe gesture of a user on a touch sensitive display, wherein the swipe gesture comprises direction and speed information; and selecting an image based on the direction information of the swipe gesture. The method includes adjusting a playback of an associated video stream based on the direction and the speed information of the swipe gesture; providing the associated video stream on the display during the swipe gesture, for creating a motion effect relating to the image; and providing the image on the display after the swipe gesture.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9792012Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for selecting an image comprises forming a group of digital image representations, displaying a first digital image representation of the group of digital image representations on a touch sensitive display, generating a position signal in response to a detection of a pointing device on the touch sensitive display, said position signal indicating a touch position, identifying a selected position within the displayed first digital image representation based on the position signal, generating a zoom-in signal in response to a detection of the pointing device sliding away from the touch position on the touch display, said zoom signal indicating a sliding distance from the touch position, displaying an enlarged representation of the first digital image representation in response to the zoom-in signal, generating a shift signal in response to a detection of a second sliding motion of the fingertip on the touch sensitive display, and displaying a second digital image reprType: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9544498Abstract: According to one aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method for forming images, comprising: providing a plurality of images, each image including a first image part and a second image part, and each image depicting a respective partial view, wherein there is an overlap between partial views depicted in pairs of consecutive images, forming a first combined image from said first image parts, which first combined image depicts a first continuous view, and forming a second combined image from said second image parts, which second combined image depicts a second continuous view, wherein the first and the second continuous views overlap.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9432583Abstract: According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of providing an adjusted digital image representation of a view, the method comprising providing a set of images, wherein the images of said set depict a same view and are captured with a digital camera using different configurations of the digital camera; determining an initial representation of the view by providing a primary image based on image data of at least a first image of said set; sending the primary image for presentation of the initial representation on a display; providing a secondary image based on image data of at least a second image of said set, wherein the first image and the second image are different images; and sending, in response to receiving a user command, the secondary image for presentation of an adjusted representation of the view on the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9396569Abstract: There is disclosed a method for seamlessly replacing areas in a digital image with corresponding data from temporally close digital images depicting substantially the same scene. The method uses localized image registration error minimization over a fixed preliminary boundary. A least cost closed path which constitutes a boundary for the area to be replaced is calculated using dynamic programming. The replacement area is blended such that image data information from one image is seamlessly replaced with image data information from another image.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Alexander Lindskog, Gustaf Pettersson, Ulf Holmstedt, Johan Windmark, Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9344642Abstract: According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of capturing images using a camera. The method comprises analyzing a view depicted by the digital camera and determining, based on the analysis, a subset of configurations of the digital camera. The method further comprises capturing, in response to a detection of an image capturing command at the camera, a set of at least two images using at least two different configurations of said subset of configurations.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MOBILE IMAGING IN SWEDEN ABInventors: Sami Niemi, David Fredh
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Patent number: 9258354Abstract: There is disclosed means for uploading/downloading images to/from a remote server and for viewing the same. The uploading/downloading of the images to/from the remote server is parallel instead of serial. This means that the images, instead of being transferred as a sequential stream of bytes, instead are arranged in scans of image data in such a way that the uploaded/downloaded images can be browsed early albeit at a lower quality than if the entire image data is considered. As in the serial case, it is possible to interrupt the uploading/downloading process at any time, and still browse the received image data. Likewise it is possible to re-start the uploading/downloading process in the future.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Johan Gulliksson, Sami Niemi, Martin Andersson
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Patent number: 9196069Abstract: There is disclosed a method for seamlessly replacing areas in a digital image with corresponding data from temporally close digital images depicting substantially the same scene. The method uses localized image registration error minimization over a fixed preliminary boundary. A least cost closed path which constitutes a boundary for the area to be replaced is calculated using dynamic programming. The replacement area is blended such that image data information from one image is seamlessly replaced with image data information from another image.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Alexander Lindskob, Gustaf Pettersson, Ulf Holmstedt, Johan Windmark, Sami Niemi
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Publication number: 20150256763Abstract: A method includes maintaining images and associated video streams; detecting a swipe gesture of a user on a touch sensitive display, wherein the swipe gesture comprises direction and speed information; and selecting an image based on the direction information of the swipe gesture. The method includes adjusting a playback of an associated video stream based on the direction and the speed information of the swipe gesture; providing the associated video stream on the display during the swipe gesture, for creating a motion effect relating to the image; and providing the image on the display after the swipe gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: Sami Niemi
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Patent number: 9066111Abstract: There is provided a method and a device for encoding a digital representation of an image into a single encoded image, comprising: generating at least two subsequent image data sequences each representing a portion of the digital representation of the image, inputting to an encoder (104) each of said subsequent image data sequences as if each image data sequence is an individual digital representations of an image, encoding each subsequent image data sequence into a variable length coded image, thereby generating at least two variable length coded images each representing a portion of the single encoded image, inserting a restart marker as terminating data of at least one of the variable length coded images, inserting an end of image marker as terminating data of one of the variable length coded images representing a final portion of the single encoded image, and associating the variable length coded images with each other by arranging them as subsequent parts of a single encoded data sequence representing thType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Sami Niemi, Johan Stén
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Patent number: 8896614Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for browsing images and an Image browser. The browsing is performed on a display of an electronic device having an image cache and includes the acts of determining an image, from accessible images not already stored in the image cache, being more likely to be displayed during the browsing than one image already stored in the image cache, storing the determined image in the image cache, shifting images presented on the display in response to a user input and at an image shifting rate of S. Said shifting images includes reading image data from the image cache and present the image on the display.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Sami Niemi, Martin Jacobsson
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Publication number: 20140317186Abstract: The present invention relates to mechanisms for sharing media items connected to an event between user accounts. An event for media items is created where the event is associated with a context. The created event is associated with a user account. The created event is shared with at least one further user account. The user account and the at least one further user account are associated with a specified subset of user accounts from at least one group of user accounts. Captured media items are connected to the created event. The captured media items are associated with the user account or the at least one further user account. The user account and the at least one further user are provided access to the connected media items. The connected media items are thereby enabled to be shared amongst the user account and the at least one further user account.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Sami Niemi, David Fredh, Martin Henriz, Marcus Hast
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Publication number: 20140293113Abstract: According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of providing an adjusted digital image representation of a view, the method comprising providing a set of images, wherein the images of said set depict a same view and are captured with a digital camera using different configurations of the digital camera; determining an initial representation of the view by providing a primary image based on image data of at least a first image of said set; sending the primary image for presentation of the initial representation on a display; providing a secondary image based on image data of at least a second image of said set, wherein the first image and the second image are different images; and sending, in response to receiving a user command, the secondary image for presentation of an adjusted representation of the view on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventor: Sami Niemi
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Publication number: 20140237083Abstract: There is disclosed means for uploading/downloading images to/from a remote server and for viewing the same. The uploading/downloading of the images to/from the remote server is parallel instead of serial. This means that the images, instead of being transferred as a sequential stream of bytes, instead are arranged in scans of image data in such a way that the uploaded/downloaded images can be browsed early albeit at a lower quality than if the entire image data is considered. As in the serial case, it is possible to interrupt the uploading/downloading process at any time, and still browse the received image data. Likewise it is possible to re-start the uploading/downloading process in the future.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Mobile Imaging In SWEDEN ABInventors: Manuel Astudillo, Johan Gulliksson, Sami Niemi, Martin Andersson
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Publication number: 20140184852Abstract: According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of capturing images using a camera. The method comprises analyzing a view depicted by the digital camera and determining, based on the analysis, a subset of configurations of the digital camera. The method further comprises capturing, in response to a detection of an image capturing command at the camera, a set of at least two images using at least two different configurations of said subset of configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Sami Niemi, David Fredh
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Publication number: 20140177975Abstract: There is disclosed a method for seamlessly replacing areas in a digital image with corresponding data from temporally close digital images depicting substantially the same scene. The method uses localized image registration error minimization over a fixed preliminary boundary. A least cost closed path which constitutes a boundary for the area to be replaced is calculated using dynamic programming. The replacement area is blended such that image data information from one image is seamlessly replaced with image data information from another image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Mobile Imaging in Sweden ABInventors: Alexander Lindskob, Gustaf Pettersson, Ulf Holmstedt, Johan Windmark, Sami Niemi