Patents by Inventor Steven A. Newton

Steven A. Newton 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: 9443495
    Abstract: A device for processing video information has an input unit (112) for receiving the video information having low dynamic range [LDR] video data and/or high dynamic range [HDR] video data, and a video processor (113) for generating a display signal for display in a LDR display mode or HDR display mode. Graphics data is processed for generating an overlay for overlaying the video data. The input unit receives graphics processing control data comprised in the video information, the graphics processing control data including at least one HDR processing instruction for overlaying the graphics data in the HDR display mode. The video processor is constituted for adapting the processing when overlaying the graphics data in dependence on the specific display mode and the HDR processing instruction. Advantageously the source of the video information is enabled to control the processing of graphics in HDR display mode via the HDR processing instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Wiebe De Haan, Charles Leonardus Cornelius Maria Knibbeler
  • Patent number: 9438879
    Abstract: Three dimensional [3D] image data and auxiliary graphical data are combined for rendering on a 3D display by detecting depth values occurring in the 3D image data and setting auxiliary depth values for the auxiliary graphical data adaptively in dependence of the detected depth values. The 3D image data and the auxiliary graphical data at the auxiliary depth value are combined based on the depth values of the 3D image data. First an area of attention in the 3D image data is detected. A depth pattern for the area of attention is determined, and the auxiliary depth values are set in dependence of the depth pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Gerardus Wilhelmus Theodorus Van Der Heijden, Wiebe De Haan, Johan Cornelis Talstra, Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls, Georgios Parlantzas, Marc Helbing, Christian Benien, Vasanth Philomin, Christiaan Varekamp
  • Patent number: 9432651
    Abstract: A 3-D picture is provided by providing a pair of pictures that includes a first picture for one eye of a viewer, and a second picture for the other eye of the viewer. In addition, a depth map specifically dedicated to the first picture is provided. The depth map includes depth indication values. A depth indication value relates to a particular portion of the first picture and indicates a distance between an object at least partially represented by that portion of the first picture and the viewer. The 3-D picture is supplemented with rendering guidance data that specifies respective parameters for respective rendering contexts. These respective parameters relate to generating a shifted viewpoint picture from the first picture and the depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls, Reinier Bernardus Maria Klein Gunnewiek, Gerardus Wilhelmus Theodorus Van Der Heijden, Philip Steven Newton
  • Publication number: 20160242251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting assembly (10) that includes a mounting surface (14) that that allows the installer to attach the assembly to an external structure (15) with an adhesive strip (144). The lighting assembly also includes a light-emitting surface (18) that directs spot illumination to a predetermined display area (17) by way of a combination of collimated light-emitting elements (182) and an optical element (184). The lighting assembly also features a touch-sensitive surface (16) that allows the user to both program the lighting assembly and control the display lighting in a flexible manner by providing the user with different modes of interacting with the lighting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Philips Lighting Holding B.V.
    Inventors: PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA, TIM DEKKER, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS
  • Patent number: 9417454
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display device uses an electroluminescent display. A set of pixels is provided beneath lenticular lenses, with a plurality of pixels across the lens width direction. The pixels across the lens width direction are arranged with at least two different heights over the substrate. This enables the pixels to define a non-planar array, and they can follow the area to which light is focused by the lenticular lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Johnson, Bart Kroon, Philip Steven Newton
  • Publication number: 20160225186
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing enhanced augmented reality features and enhancements are disclosed such as an AR support system (100) using lighting units (LU1) in a lighting system (100) to improve performance of augmented reality devices (20). The lighting system (100) may also take advantage of features of the augmented reality devices (20) to improve the safety and performance of the lighting system (100). The lighting units (LU1) include sensors and communication capabilities that detect situations as to when the augmented device would need to be assisted by the lighting network. Finally a method to provide assistance information to the augmented reality device while optimizing energy savings is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, TALMAI BrandÃO DE OLIVEIRA, HONGXIN CHEN, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, DAVE ALBERTO TAVARES CAVALCANTI, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS
  • Publication number: 20160227635
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for lighting control. One or more properties of light output are controlled based on a light origination input and a light destination input received via one or more user interfaces. For example, in some embodiments a light origination input and a light destination input may be utilized to determine one or more control parameters of one or more LEDs to achieve illumination of a light destination area indicated by the light destination input, wherein the illumination is from a light origination area indicated by the light origination input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA
  • Publication number: 20160223341
    Abstract: Methods, lighting control systems, mobile computing devices and computer-readable media are described herein for graph-based navigation through an environment(100). In various embodiments, a graph (220) including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges may be provided, e.g., by a lighting control system(130), to mobile computing devices (350) such as smart phones and tablets carried through the environment. Each node may correspond to a location of a lighting effect produced by a particular light source within the environment. Each edge may correspond to a path between two nodes. Data indicative of a path travelled through the graph by one or more mobile computing devices between a first node corresponding to a first location and a second node corresponding to a second location may be used to update the graph. Mobile computing devices may utilize the graph to calculate optimal paths (220) and/or guide users through the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: DIRK VALENTINUS RENÉ ENGELEN, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU
  • Publication number: 20160200329
    Abstract: A prolonged release system having a locking member pivotally mounted on a post within a hand brake and having an arm that contacts a clutch assembly to prevent the clutch assembly of the handbrake from engaging after it has been manually released. Rotation of the hand brake wheel causes a pawl on a ratchet gear to move into contact with a cam of the locking member so that the arm of the locking member moves out of contact with the clutch assembly. By maintaining the clutch assembly in a released position, the prolonged release system ensures that the brake chain drum is decoupled from the driveshaft of the hand brake and prevents the inadvertent application of the brakes. When a user turns the hand brake wheel, the locking member is disengaged from the clutch assembly and the hand brake can be set by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Sauter, Steven Newton, Taylor Estelle
  • Publication number: 20160205748
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus (e.g., mobile computing devices), and computer-readable media are described herein for lighting control. In various embodiments, a mobile computing device may receive input indicative of a desired lighting property adjustment for a lighting effect sensed by a light sensor of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may identify one or more LED-based lighting units that contribute to the sensed lighting effect. The mobile computing device may then generate, for wireless transmission to the one or more contributing LED-based lighting units, an instruction configured to cause at least some of the one or more contributing LED-based lighting units to implement the desired lighting property adjustment. In various embodiments, one or more user inputs of the mobile computing device may be selectively enabled, based on a detected lighting context, to receive the input indicative of a desired lighting property adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, TIM DEKKER
  • Publication number: 20160183350
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for lighting control. Initial lighting may be applied to an object in response to identifying presence of the object. The initial lighting may be adjusted based on a user lighting manipulation gesture made proximal to the object. Also, for example, in some embodiments a lighting system (100, 200) may be provided that includes at least one light source (164, 264), an object sensor (153, 255), a gesture sensor (156, 255), and a controller (150, 250). The controller may provide lighting having a first state in response to the object sensor initially identifying presence of the object and may adjust the lighting in correspondence with a lighting manipulation gesture sensed via the gesture sensor to achieve a second state distinct from the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, DIRK VALENTINUS RENE ENGELEN
  • Publication number: 20160173628
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, methods and systems are provided herein for facilitating selective advertisement of a user's availability to communicate based on one or more lighting properties of one or more light sources (112-116, 742, 746). In various embodiments, an identifier and one or more lighting properties of a light source may be obtained by a computing device (100, 150, 700), directly (e.g., using an optical sensor) or through one or more computer networks (122). Based on this obtained data, the computing device may determine an activity of the user, and based on the determined activity, may facilitate selective advertisement of the user's availability to communicate over one or more social networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, RAMON ANTOINE WIRO CLOUT, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA
  • Publication number: 20160154563
    Abstract: A system of providing a three-dimensional [3D] graphical user interface on a 3D image device (13) is provided for controlling a user device (10) via user control means (15). The user control means are arranged for receiving user actions and generating corresponding control signals. A graphical data structure is provided representing a graphical control element for display in the 3D graphical user interface. The graphical data structure has two dimensional [2D] image data for representing the graphical control element, and also at least one depth parameter for positioning the 2D image data at a depth position in the 3D graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, FRANCESCO SCALORI
  • Publication number: 20160143111
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generally to lighting control, and more particularly, to various inventive methods, systems, computer-readable media (transitory and non-transitory) and apparatus for conveying aggregate presence information using light. For example, in some embodiments, output of a presence sensor over time may be aggregated, and an LED node may cause one or more LEDs to emit light having a property that conveys the aggregated captured output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, TIM DEKKER, BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON
  • Patent number: 9338428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal comprising video information and associated playback information, the video information and associated playback information being organized according to a playback format, the video information comprising a primary video stream for two-dimensional (2D) display, and an additional information stream for enabling three-dimensional (3D) display, wherein that the associated playback information comprises display information indicating the types of display possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Hendrik Frank Moll, Gheorghe Sorin Stan, Francesco Scalori
  • Publication number: 20160120009
    Abstract: The invention provides a device comprising a screen for displaying a graphical user interface, wherein the device is configured to control a lighting property of a lighting unit of a plurality of lighting units, wherein the device is configured to display on a screen of the device a plurality of lighting-related user interface elements, wherein each lighting-related user interface element includes a photograph-based picture of the corresponding lighting unit in its application environment, wherein each lighting-related user interface element is configured to control the lighting unit light of the corresponding lighting unit, and wherein each lighting-related user interface element is configured to show a lighting effect corresponding to the lighting property of the corresponding lighting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, JONATHAN DAVID MASON, BERENT WILLEM MEERBEEK, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON
  • Publication number: 20160102823
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-emitting panel (1) comprising a first plurality of light-sources (11a-d) arranged in a first light-source layer (12) and a second plurality of light-sources (14a-d) arranged in a second light-source layer (15), with a light-diffusing layer (13) being arranged and configured to substantially only diffuse light emitted by light-sources in the first plurality of light-sources (11a-d) so that the light-emitting panel (1) is arranged to provide diffused illumination from the first light-source layer (12) and substantially un-diffused illumination from the second light-source layer (15). The light-emitting panel (1) also comprises a light sensor for sensing light that is emitted by light-sources in the first plurality of light-sources (11a-d) following reflection at an object arranged in front of the light-emitting panel (1), so that the operation of the light-emitting panel (1) can be controlled based on the signal provided by the light-sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Philip Steven NEWTON, Bartel Marinus VAN DE SLUIS, Dzmitry Viktorovich ALIAKSEYEU, Tatiana Aleksandrovna LASHINA
  • Publication number: 20160098584
    Abstract: A coded light device comprising a light source configured to emit coded light, an identifier detection unit configured to detect a product identifier, and a processing unit having a code generator configured to generate a product-related code on basis of the product identifier, and a light source controller configured to control the light source to emit the product-related code by coding its light output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, DIRK VALENTINUS RENÉ ENGELEN, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA
  • Publication number: 20160088281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of encoding a video data signal for use with a multi-view rendering device,a method of decoding the video data signal, the video data signal, an encoder of the video data signal, a decoder of the video data signal, a computer program product comprising instructions for encoding the video data signal and a computer program product comprising instructions for decoding a video data signal. The method of encoding provides (401) a first image (10) of a scene associated with a first viewpoint, a depth map (20) associated with the first image, metadata (30) for use in depth map processing or rendering one or more views for further viewpoints by the multi-view rendering device, and generates (404) the video data signal. The video data signal comprises video frames partitioned in sub-images comprising a sub-image based on the first image and a depth sub-image based on the depth map, and metadata encoded in a color component of the depth sub-image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, WIEBE DE HAAN
  • Publication number: 20160088707
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for lighting control. One or more properties of light output are controlled based on user manipulation of a mobile computing device (110, 510) such as a mobile phone. Data from a mobile computing device may be utilized to implement lighting property adjustments for one or more LEDs (132) based on the data. The data may be user gesture data that is based on physical movement of the mobile computing device in space by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: BARTEL MARINUS VAN DE SLUIS, DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, TATIANA ALEKSANDROVNA LASHINA, PHILIP STEVEN NEWTON, TIM DEKKER