Patents by Inventor Thomas Dawson

Thomas Dawson 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: 12299178
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for implementation for media file verification are disclosed. The electronic device receives first information associated with a first media file from each database of a plurality of databases. Each database of the plurality of databases is associated with a separate entity. The electronic device receives a second media file corresponding to the first media file. The electronic device determines a second information associated with the received second media file. The electronic device compares the first information received from each of the plurality of databases with one another. The electronic device determines the received first information as unaltered based on the comparison. The electronic device compares the first information and the second information. The electronic device determines the received second media file as unaltered. The electronic device renders verification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20250005778
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for implementation for fractal-geometry based fingerprint value determination from media content is disclosed. The electronic device receives a set of data streams associated with a media content, wherein each data stream of the received set of data streams corresponds to a predefined number of contiguous data chunks of the media content. The electronic device generates a rectangular media frame. The electronic device determines a set of first attributes associated with each contiguous data chunk for each data stream of the received set of data streams. The electronic device selects a sub-region from the generated rectangular media frame, for the corresponding data stream of the received set of data streams. The electronic device determines a fingerprint value associated with the corresponding data stream. The electronic device stores the determined fingerprint value on a storage device associated with the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventor: THOMAS DAWSON
  • Patent number: 12010381
    Abstract: An electronic device including a display device configured to render first content. The electronic device is communicably coupled to the display device and controls one or more imaging devices to receive one or more images from the one or more imaging devices. The electronic device further determines a first position of one or more living objects within a pre-defined region from the display device, based on the received one or more images and the rendered first content. The electronic device further controls an orientation of the display device towards the determined first position of the one or more living objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Dawson, Steven Richman
  • Publication number: 20240095405
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for implementation for media file verification are disclosed. The electronic device receives first information associated with a first media file from each database of a plurality of databases. Each database of the plurality of databases is associated with a separate entity. The electronic device receives a second media file corresponding to the first media file. The electronic device determines a second information associated with the received second media file. The electronic device compares the first information received from each of the plurality of databases with one another. The electronic device determines the received first information as unaltered based on the comparison. The electronic device compares the first information and the second information. The electronic device determines the received second media file as unaltered. The electronic device renders verification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: THOMAS DAWSON
  • Patent number: 11825173
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for value generation for distributed video content verification are disclosed. The electronic device receives a first media file corresponding to a video. The electronic device retrieves color values of each row in a frame of a plurality of frames from the video. The electronic device determines a first value for each row in the frame. The electronic device combines the first value for a predefined set of frames to determine a second value. The electronic device retrieves audio values for the plurality of frames to determine a third value, in case the video includes an audio component. The electronic device determines first information based on the second value and the third value. The electronic device transmits the first information to a plurality of databases for storage. The first information determines whether a second media file is unaltered or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20220400310
    Abstract: An electronic device including a display device configured to render first content. The electronic device is communicably coupled to the display device and controls one or more imaging devices to receive one or more images from the one or more imaging devices. The electronic device further determines a first position of one or more living objects within a pre-defined region from the display device, based on the received one or more images and the rendered first content. The electronic device further controls an orientation of the display device towards the determined first position of the one or more living objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: THOMAS DAWSON, STEVEN RICHMAN
  • Publication number: 20220201370
    Abstract: Implementations generally provide simulated audience reactions to performers on camera. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a video of a target user from a target client device. The method further includes providing the video to a plurality of audience client devices. The method further includes receiving raw audience feedback from the plurality of audience client devices. The method further includes providing simulated audience feedback to the target client device based on one or more predetermined audience feedback policies, wherein the target client device provides the simulated audience feedback to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Lindsay Miller, Thomas Dawson, Gregory Carlsson, David Young
  • Patent number: 11321398
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to discretization for big data analytics. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of data points. The method further includes determining a plurality of data centroids, where each data centroid of the plurality of data centroids is predetermined. The method further includes determining a plurality of data regions for the plurality of data centroids, where each data region of the plurality of data regions is associated with a respective data centroid of the plurality of data centroids. The method further includes generating a plurality of data region boundaries for the plurality of data regions based at least in part on one or more data points of the plurality of data points, where each data region boundary of the plurality data region boundaries is associated with a respective data region of the plurality of data regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 11302074
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to 3D modeling. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a live video of a scene on a device with a user interface overlay on top of the scene, wherein the user interface overlay includes one or more objects and includes one or more selectable controls. The method further includes receiving a selection of one or more new virtual points on a target object, wherein the target object is one object of the one or more objects in an image. The method further includes generating 3D polygonal data, wherein the 3D polygonal data is saved as a 3-dimensional (3D) model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 11283973
    Abstract: Implementations generally increase the virtual resolution of a camera sensor. In some implementations, a method includes moving an image sensor in a predetermined pattern, wherein the image sensor includes an array of light collecting elements, and wherein each light collecting element of the sensor array cycles through a plurality of positions in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes capturing a plurality of samples of light at each light collecting element, wherein each light collecting element captures a plurality of the samples in a cycle of movement in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes converting each sample captured at each position into a value. The method further includes generating at least one image from an aggregate of values converted from the samples of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20210241524
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to 3D modeling. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a live video of a scene on a device with a user interface overlay on top of the scene, wherein the user interface overlay includes one or more objects and includes one or more selectable controls. The method further includes receiving a selection of one or more new virtual points on a target object, wherein the target object is one object of the one or more objects in an image. The method further includes generating 3D polygonal data, wherein the 3D polygonal data is saved as a 3-dimensional (3D) model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20210144427
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to service offerings presented on a consumer device. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a plurality of media items on a television, wherein each media item of the plurality of media items is an available service offering that a user may select. The method further includes determining a predetermined presentation policy for updating one or more media items of the plurality of media items. The method further includes updating the one or more media items based on the predetermined presentation policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 10979616
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to communication between a lens assembly and a camera. In some implementations, a method includes establishing electronic communication between a lens assembly and a camera, wherein the lens assembly is removably attached to the camera. The method further includes exchanging capability information between the lens assembly and the camera, wherein the capability information includes one or more functional features. The method further includes matching one or more of the functional features that both the lens assembly has and that the camera has. The method further includes enabling the lens assembly and the camera to cooperate in providing functional features based at least in part on the matching of one or more of the functional features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 10798331
    Abstract: A multichromic reflective coating is applied to a projector screen to reflect only those wavelengths produced by the projector, to accentuate selective wavelengths of light to be reflected. The screen can be a passive black substrate or an active grayscale screen such as e-ink paper, and un-reflected light reaches the screen which selectively tunes its grayscale to accentuate the brightness or darkness of the color video image being projected onto it and reflected by the multichromic reflective coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dawson, Steven Richman
  • Patent number: 10795252
    Abstract: A multichromic filtering coating is applied to a projector screen to pass to the projector screen substrate only those wavelengths produced by the projector, to accentuate selective wavelengths of light to be reflected by the screen. The screen can be a passive black substrate or an active grayscale screen such as e-ink paper, and un-reflected light reaches the screen which selectively tunes its grayscale to accentuate the brightness or darkness of the color video image being projected onto it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dawson, Steven Richman
  • Patent number: 10771696
    Abstract: Implementations generally provide physically based camera motion compensation. In some implementations, a method includes detecting vibrations at an image sensor of a camera. The method further includes determining a vibration signal from the vibrations, wherein the vibration signal includes one or more of a horizontal component and a vertical component. The method further includes sending the vibration signal to one or more actuators, wherein the actuators dampen the vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20200242162
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to discretization for big data analytics. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of data points. The method further includes determining a plurality of data centroids, where each data centroid of the plurality of data centroids is predetermined. The method further includes determining a plurality of data regions for the plurality of data centroids, where each data region of the plurality of data regions is associated with a respective data centroid of the plurality of data centroids. The method further includes generating a plurality of data region boundaries for the plurality of data regions based at least in part on one or more data points of the plurality of data points, where each data region boundary of the plurality data region boundaries is associated with a respective data region of the plurality of data regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20200177790
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to communication between a lens assembly and a camera. In some implementations, a method includes establishing electronic communication between a lens assembly and a camera, wherein the lens assembly is removably attached to the camera. The method further includes exchanging capability information between the lens assembly and the camera, wherein the capability information includes one or more functional features. The method further includes matching one or more of the functional features that both the lens assembly has and that the camera has. The method further includes enabling the lens assembly and the camera to cooperate in providing functional features based at least in part on the matching of one or more of the functional features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20200169663
    Abstract: Implementations generally provide physically based camera motion compensation. In some implementations, a method includes detecting vibrations at an image sensor of a camera. The method further includes determining a vibration signal from the vibrations, wherein the vibration signal includes one or more of a horizontal component and a vertical component. The method further includes sending the vibration signal to one or more actuators, wherein the actuators dampen the vibrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson
  • Publication number: 20200137270
    Abstract: Implementations generally increase the virtual resolution of a camera sensor. In some implementations, a method includes moving an image sensor in a predetermined pattern, wherein the image sensor includes an array of light collecting elements, and wherein each light collecting element of the sensor array cycles through a plurality of positions in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes capturing a plurality of samples of light at each light collecting element, wherein each light collecting element captures a plurality of the samples in a cycle of movement in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes converting each sample captured at each position into a value. The method further includes generating at least one image from an aggregate of values converted from the samples of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Dawson