Patents by Inventor Wittmeir Manfred

Wittmeir Manfred 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: 11707984
    Abstract: A circuit device 100 includes an error detection circuit 110 and a processing circuit 120. The error detection circuit 110 obtains a glare index value, which is an index value indicating glare of a head-up display, based on image data IMD for head-up display. The error detection circuit 110 determines whether or not a glare index value has exceeded a first threshold value, and when the glare index value exceeds the first threshold value, detects occurrence of a first glare error. When occurrence of a first glare error is detected, the processing circuit 120 performs processing corresponding to the first glare error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand, Wittmeir Manfred, Jeffrey Eric, Tetsuo Kawamoto, Yasutoshi Akiba
  • Publication number: 20230140777
    Abstract: A circuit device is used for a head-up display apparatus. The circuit device includes a distortion correction circuit and an error detection circuit. The distortion correction circuit performs a distortion correction on input image data as image data of an input image and outputs output image data as image data of an output image after the distortion correction. Respective first divisional areas of a first divisional area group formed by division of the input image correspond to respective second divisional areas of a second divisional area group in the output image in the distortion correction. Here, the error detection circuit detects an occlusion error in a display image of the head-up display apparatus based on the output image data of the respective second divisional areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yasutoshi AKIBA, Kumar Anandabairavasamy ANAND, Wittmeir MANFRED, Tyler DAHLMAN
  • Patent number: 11443718
    Abstract: A circuit device (160) includes an interface (161), a parameter computation unit (140), and a warp processing unit (130). A rendering image and tracking information are input to the interface (161). The parameter computation unit (140) computes a latency compensation parameter for compensating a latency including a rendering processing latency of a rendering image based on tracking information. The warp processing unit (130) performs latency compensation processing for compensating the position of a virtual object in a display region based on the latency compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Wittmeir Manfred, Yosuke Tanikawa, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Tetsuo Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 11393066
    Abstract: A display system (100) includes a rendering image generation unit (120), a parameter computation unit (140), and a warp processing unit (130). The parameter computation unit (140) computes a latency compensation parameter for compensating a latency including a rendering processing latency of a rendering image based on tracking information. The warp processing unit (130) performs latency compensation processing for compensating the position of a virtual object in a display region based on the latency compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Eric, Tetsuo Kawamoto, Wittmeir Manfred, Yosuke Tanikawa, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand
  • Patent number: 11354186
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device for detecting error on a display image obtained by image processing. The circuit device includes an image acquisition circuit configured to acquire image data, an image processing circuit configured to perform image processing on the image data to obtain a display image, and an index acquisition circuit configured to obtain an index for performing error detection on the display image. The index represents a degree of matching between a foreground image, which is an image of a given region of the display image, and a reference image, which is a reference with respect to the foreground image. The index is obtained based on pixel values of the display image and pixel values of the reference image or based on pixel values of an edge image of the display image and pixel values of an edge image of the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand, Peter van Baarsen John, Wittmeir Manfred
  • Patent number: 11180026
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs a first mapping process and a first rotation process on an input image to generate an image for a head up display. The image processing circuit performs, on an image, a second mapping process that is a reverse mapping process of the first mapping process and a second rotation process that is a reverse rotation process of the first rotation process to generate an image. The comparison circuit performs a comparison between the image and the image and outputs a result of the comparison as information for detecting an error in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand, Wittmeir Manfred, Jeffrey Eric, Tetsuo Kawamoto, Yasutoshi Akiba
  • Patent number: 11169872
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device that can appropriately detect an error in a display image obtained by performing image processing, an electronic apparatus, an error detection method, and the like. A circuit device includes an image acquisition circuit configured to acquire image data, and an index acquisition circuit configured to obtain an index for performing error detection on a display image based on the image data. The index acquisition circuit obtains an index that represents the degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image, which is an image of a given region of the display image, and a background image, of the display image, corresponding to a background of the foreground image. The index is obtained based on pixel values of the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Peter van baarsen John, Wittmeir Manfred
  • Patent number: 11055833
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device that can appropriately detect an error in a display image in a head up display, an electronic apparatus, an error detection method, and the like. The circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs first mapping processing, which maps an input first image on a second image to be projected onto a projection target object, and second mapping processing, which converts the second image to a third image. The second mapping processing is reverse mapping processing of the first mapping processing. The comparison circuit performs comparison between the first image and the third image, and outputs the result of comparison as information for performing error detection on the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Wittmeir Manfred, Jeffrey Eric
  • Publication number: 20210201853
    Abstract: A circuit device (160) includes an interface (161), a parameter computation unit (140), and a warp processing unit (130). A rendering image and tracking information are input to the interface (161). The parameter computation unit (140) computes a latency compensation parameter for compensating a latency including a rendering processing latency of a rendering image based on tracking information. The warp processing unit (130) performs latency compensation processing for compensating the position of a virtual object in a display region based on the latency compensation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Wittmeir MANFRED, Yosuke TANIKAWA, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Tetsuo KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210201442
    Abstract: A display system (100) includes a rendering image generation unit (120), a parameter computation unit (140), and a warp processing unit (130). The parameter computation unit (140) computes a latency compensation parameter for compensating a latency including a rendering processing latency of a rendering image based on tracking information. The warp processing unit (130) performs latency compensation processing for compensating the position of a virtual object in a display region based on the latency compensation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey ERIC, Tetsuo KAWAMOTO, Wittmeir MANFRED, Yosuke TANIKAWA, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand
  • Publication number: 20210096946
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device for detecting error on a display image obtained by image processing. The circuit device includes an image acquisition circuit configured to acquire image data, an image processing circuit configured to perform image processing on the image data to obtain a display image, and an index acquisition circuit configured to obtain an index for performing error detection on the display image. The index represents a degree of matching between a foreground image, which is an image of a given region of the display image, and a reference image, which is a reference with respect to the foreground image. The index is obtained based on pixel values of the display image and pixel values of the reference image or based on pixel values of an edge image of the display image and pixel values of an edge image of the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar Anandabairavasamy ANAND, Peter Van Baarsen JOHN, Wittmeir MANFRED
  • Publication number: 20200198468
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs a first mapping process and a first rotation process on an input image to generate an image for a head up display. The image processing circuit performs, on an image, a second mapping process that is a reverse mapping process of the first mapping process and a second rotation process that is a reverse rotation process of the first rotation process to generate an image. The comparison circuit performs a comparison between the image and the image and outputs a result of the comparison as information for detecting an error in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy ANAND, Wittmeir MANFRED, Jeffrey ERIC, Tetsuo KAWAMOTO, Yasutoshi AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20200201035
    Abstract: A circuit device 100 includes an error detection circuit 110 and a processing circuit 120. The error detection circuit 110 obtains a glare index value, which is an index value indicating glare of a head-up display, based on image data IMD for head-up display. The error detection circuit 110 determines whether or not a glare index value has exceeded a first threshold value, and when the glare index value exceeds the first threshold value, detects occurrence of a first glare error. When occurrence of a first glare error is detected, the processing circuit 120 performs processing corresponding to the first glare error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar Anandabairavasamy ANAND, Wittmeir MANFRED, Jeffrey ERIC, Tetsuo KAWAMOTO, Yasutoshi AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20190266711
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device that can appropriately detect an error in a display image in a head up display, an electronic apparatus, an error detection method, and the like. The circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs first mapping processing, which maps an input first image on a second image to be projected onto a projection target object, and second mapping processing, which converts the second image to a third image. The second mapping processing is reverse mapping processing of the first mapping processing. The comparison circuit performs comparison between the first image and the third image, and outputs the result of comparison as information for performing error detection on the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy ANAND, Wittmeir MANFRED, Jeffrey ERIC
  • Publication number: 20190250981
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit device that can appropriately detect an error in a display image obtained by performing image processing, an electronic apparatus, an error detection method, and the like. A circuit device includes an image acquisition circuit configured to acquire image data, and an index acquisition circuit configured to obtain an index for performing error detection on a display image based on the image data. The index acquisition circuit obtains an index that represents the degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image, which is an image of a given region of the display image, and a background image, of the display image, corresponding to a background of the foreground image. The index is obtained based on pixel values of the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy ANAND, Peter van baarsen JOHN, Wittmeir MANFRED
  • Publication number: 20190213071
    Abstract: [Object] A circuit device, an electronic apparatus, and an error detection method capable of accurately detecting an error that a user is likely to erroneously recognize are provided. [Solution] A circuit device 100 includes an image acquisition circuit 130 for acquiring a display image and an error detection circuit 150 for performing error detection on the display image. The error detection circuit 150 calculates a histogram of pixel values of the display image, performs a correlation operation using the histogram, calculates an index indicating a degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image that is an image of a given region in the display image and a background image that corresponds to a background of the foreground image in the display image based on a result of correlation operation, and performs the error detection based on the index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand, Peter van baarsen John, Wittmeir Manfred