Patents by Inventor Simon Dominic Haynes
Simon Dominic Haynes 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: 8848066Abstract: A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Sony Europe LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Jonathan James Stone, David Berry, Simon Dominic Haynes
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Patent number: 8732695Abstract: A method of distributing software and supplemental display data and a client device having the same. The method reduces the cost of providing software to a number of devices on a multi-cast network. The software allows the user to gain access to the multi-cast network, and the supplemental display data is transferred to the client device over the network.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Simon Dominic Haynes, Henry Epsom
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Patent number: 8427545Abstract: A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Sony Europe LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Jonathan James Stone, David Berry, Simon Dominic Haynes
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Patent number: 8384791Abstract: A video camera arrangement comprises an image capture device; a face detector for detecting human faces in the captured video material and for generating face data identifying detected occurrences of faces in the captured video material; a data handling medium by which data representing the captured images is transmitted and/or stored; and a processor for generating data to be transmitted or stored by the data handling medium in dependence on the detection of faces in the captured images.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Ratna Rambaruth, Simon Dominic Haynes, Clive Henry Gillard
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Publication number: 20120121090Abstract: There is disclosed a content protection method and apparatus. The content protection method and apparatus further improves such related schemes by facilitating spatial as well as temporal management of content. This is achieved by storing encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key and destroying the decryption key when suitable. In order to further facilitate the content protection, the decryption key may be received periodically, which allows for a large number of people to connect to the network at different times.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Simon Dominic HAYNES, Clive Henry Gillard, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Henry Epsom
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Patent number: 8130962Abstract: There is disclosed a content protection method and apparatus. The content protection method and apparatus further improves such related schemes by facilitating spatial as well as temporal management of content. This is achieved by storing encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key and destroying the decryption key when suitable. In order to further facilitate the content protection, the decryption key may be received periodically, which allows for a large number of people to connect to the network at different times.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Simon Dominic Haynes, Clive Henry Gillard, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Henry Epsom
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Patent number: 8131024Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image. A generator generates a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display. A facial recognition unit operates to determine the position of a face within the feedback image. An image corruptor operates to corrupt the feedback image with respect to the position of a face within the feedback image as determined by the facial recognition unit. An image capture initiator operates to initiate the capture of an output image subsequent to corruption of the feedback image.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Simon Dominic Haynes, Mark Julian Russell, Andrew David Kydd
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Patent number: 8013899Abstract: A camera arrangement comprising a plurality of camera elements and a corresponding method of arranging camera elements is described. The camera arrangement improves the resolution of a stitched image by maintaining a uniform overlap between the fields of view of adjacent camera element. The uniform overlap is achieved. This is because the amount of unnecessary overlap required to achieve the required degree of overlap is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Clive Henry Gillard, Simon Dominic Haynes, Robert Mark Stefan Porter
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Publication number: 20110138379Abstract: There is described a method of distributing software and supplemental display data and a client device having the same. The method reduces the cost of providing software to a number of devices on a multi-cast network. The software allows the user to gain access to the multi-cast network, and the supplemental display data is transferred to the client device over the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Simon Dominic Haynes, Henry Epsom
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Publication number: 20100318467Abstract: A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITEDInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Jonathan James Stone, David Berry, Simon Dominic Haynes
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Patent number: 7804522Abstract: A smoke detection method for identifying, in a current input image, an area indicative of the presence of smoke, there being a sequence of two or more input images, the method comprising the steps of: storing a background estimation for a current input image; and comparing the current input image with the background estimation to detect a partial obscuring of the background estimation indicative of the presence of smoke in the current input image.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventor: Simon Dominic Haynes
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Patent number: 7636453Abstract: A video data processing apparatus, that processes video data including a sequence of images, the apparatus including: an object tracker unit configured to detect a presence of one or more objects within an image and to track a detected object across successive images; an identity association unit configured to associate an identity with an object tracked by the object tracker unit; a counter unit configured to, for a first and second identity, count a number of images within which a tracked object associated with the first identity and a tracked object associated with the second identity have both been detected; and a similarity detector unit configured to determine whether two tracked objects are similar in appearance.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Ratna Rambaruth, Simon Dominic Haynes, Jonathan Living, Clive Henry Gillard
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Patent number: 7630561Abstract: An image processing method for selecting a subset of n (where n is two or more) images representative of a test set of images. The method includes detecting a degree of similarity between images in the test set of images so that the subset of images comprises those n images having substantially the lowest similarity with other images in the set.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Ratna Rambaruth, Simon Dominic Haynes, Jonathan Living, Clive Henry Gillard
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Patent number: 7522772Abstract: Image object detection apparatus in which test regions of a test image are compared with an image property model, a mask defining a subset of pixel positions within a test region, comprises means for comparing pixel properties in the test image defined by the test regions with the image property model to detect a property difference between the image property model and a test region; so that pixel property differences within the mask and pixel property differences outside the mask are combined with opposite respective polarities to form a difference value in respect of that test region, an object being detected in the test image at a test region corresponding to a lowest difference value between the image property model and pixels defined by the test region.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Jonathan Living, Simon Dominic Haynes
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Publication number: 20090063847Abstract: There is disclosed a content protection method and apparatus. The content protection method and apparatus further improves such related schemes by facilitating spatial as well as temporal management of content. This is achieved by storing encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key and destroying the decryption key when suitable. In order to further facilitate the content protection, the decryption key may be received periodically, which allows for a large number of people to connect to the network at different times.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Simon Dominic HAYNES, Clive Henry Gillard, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Henry Epsom
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Publication number: 20090064249Abstract: There is disclosed a distribution network and method. This is particularly advantageous because the network allows highlight clips to be generated and distributed quickly. Additionally, the highlights are more consistent because the user selects the event (from which the highlight is formed) from a list of possible event selections. This also has the advantage that there is the reduced likelihood of the individual generating the events missing any other incidents requiring highlighting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Simon Dominic HAYNES, Clive Henry Gillard, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Henry Epsom
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Patent number: 7489803Abstract: Object detection apparatus for detecting objects in a test image comprises means for comparing blocks of a test window of the image with reference data indicative of the presence of an object to generate index figures indicative of a degree of similarity between a region and the reference data; means for storing probability data corresponding to possible values of the index figure and the block position; means operable, in respect of a current block, for accessing a probability value from the storing means in dependence on that block's position within the test window and the index figure generated in respect of that block; and means for combining the probability values corresponding to blocks in a test window to generate a result indicative of the probability of that test window containing an object; in which the probability values in the storing means are ordered by block position then by index figure.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Simon Dominic Haynes, Jonathan Living
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Publication number: 20080240518Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image, generator for generating a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display, a facial recognition unit operable to determine the position of a face within the feedback image, an image corruptor operable to corrupt the feedback image with respect to the position of a face within the feedback image as determined by the facial recognition unit, and an image capture initiator operable to initiate the capture of an output image subsequent to corruption of the feedback image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITEDInventors: Simon Dominic Haynes, Mark Julian Russell, Andrew David Kydd
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Patent number: 7421149Abstract: A system and associated methodology of detecting objects using multiple sets of object probability data relating to different respective expected object sizes relative to the image size. A list of locations in an image where an object has been detected is stored, the list defining a probability data set and a probability value for each detected object. Object locations in a set of object probability data as locations at which a local maximum probability value exceeds a threshold probability value are detected and, if that location is substantially similar to a location previously stored in the list, where the local maximum probability value exceeds that relating to the previously stored location. The storing is repeated successively in respect of each set of probability data.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Simon Dominic Haynes, Ratna Rambaruth, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Jonathan Living
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Publication number: 20080143842Abstract: A camera arrangement comprising a plurality of camera elements and a corresponding method of arranging camera elements is described. The camera arrangement improves the resolution of a stitched image by maintaining a uniform overlap between the fields of view of adjacent camera element. The uniform overlap is achieved. This is because the amount of unnecessary overlap required to achieve the required degree of overlap is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITEDInventors: Clive Henry GILLARD, Simon Dominic Haynes, Robert Mark Stefan Porter