Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Heidrich
Wolfgang Heidrich 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: 10404957Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20190265107Abstract: A wavefront sensor includes a mask and a sensor utilized to capture a diffraction pattern generated by light incident to the mask. A reference image is captured in response to a plane wavefront incident on the mask, and another measurement image is captured in response to a distorted wavefront incident on the mask. The distorted wavefront is reconstructed based on differences between the reference image and the measurement image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Congli WANG, Xiong DUN, Qiang FU, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Publication number: 20190154834Abstract: Systems and methods for imaging object velocity are provided. In an embodiment, at least one Time-of-Flight camera is used to capture a signal representative of an object in motion over an exposure time. Illumination and modulation frequency of the captured motion are coded within the exposure time. A change of illumination frequency is mapped to measured pixel intensities of the captured motion within the exposure time, and information about a Doppler shift in the illumination frequency is extracted to obtain a measurement of instantaneous per pixel velocity of the object in motion. The radial velocity information of the object in motion can be simultaneously captured for each pixel captured within the exposure time. In one or more aspects, the illumination frequency can be coded orthogonal to the modulation frequency of the captured motion. The change of illumination frequency can correspond to radial object velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicants: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BONN UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BONN UNIVERSITYInventors: Wolfgang HEIDRICH, Felix HEIDE, Gordon WETZSTEIN, Matthias HULLIN
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Publication number: 20190114977Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. WHITEHEAD, Helge SEETZEN, Gregory John WARD, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Patent number: 10186211Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the—display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20180270457Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Gerwin DAMBERG, James GREGSON, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Publication number: 20180246137Abstract: Imaging of complex, non-stationary three dimensional (3D) flow velocities is achieved by encoding depth into color. A flow volume 22 is illuminated with a continuum 40 of light planes 42 whereby each depth corresponds to a respective light plane 14 having a specific wavelength of light. A diffractive component 46 in the camera 24 optics, which records the trajectories of illuminated particles 20 within the flow volume 22, ensures that all light planes 42 are in focus simultaneously. The setup permits a user to track 3D trajectories of particles 20 within the flow volume 22 by combining two dimensional (2D) spatial and one dimensional (1D) color information. For reconstruction, an image formation model for recovering stationary 3D particle positions is provided. 3D velocity estimation is achieved with a variant of a 3D optical flow approach that accounts for both physical constraints as well as the color (rainbow) image formation model.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Wolfgang Heidrich, Jinhui Xiong, Xiong Dun, Ramzi Idoughi, Sigurdur Tryggvi Thoroddsen, Andres A. Aguirre-Pablo, Abdulrahman B. Aljedaani, Erqiang Li
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Patent number: 10033940Abstract: A camera has two distinct image sensor arrays. The image sensor arrays are at least one of different types and different resolutions. The image sensor arrays have different dynamic ranges such that one of the image sensor arrays is a high dynamic range image sensor array configured to capture a wider range of light intensity than the other of the image sensor arrays. The camera has an imaging mechanism configured to combine information collected by each of the image sensor arrays to produce a high dynamic range image. The image sensor arrays include one low resolution image sensor array having a high dynamic range, and one high resolution image sensor array having a normal dynamic range smaller than the high dynamic range wherein luminance values within the normal dynamic range represent a subset of luminance values within the high dynamic range.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gregory John Ward, Helge Seetzen, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20180182310Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the—display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 10003776Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 9934733Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the—display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20170085846Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Gerwin DAMBERG, James GREGSON, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Publication number: 20170025076Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the—display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. WHITEHEAD, Helge SEETZEN, Gregory John WARD, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Patent number: 9478176Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the-display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 9343020Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, light from a backlight is transmitted through two stacked LCDs and then through a diffuser. The front side of the diffuser displays a time-varying sequence of 2D images. Processors execute an optimization algorithm to compute optimal pixel states in the first and second LCDs, respectively, such that for each respective image in the sequence, the optimal pixel states minimize, subject to one or more constraints, a difference between a target image and the respective image. The processors output signals to control actual pixel states in the LCDs, based on the computed optimal pixel states. The 2D images displayed by the diffuser have a higher spatial resolution than the native spatial resolution of the LCDs. Alternatively, the diffuser may be switched off, and the device may display either (a) 2D images with a higher dynamic range than the LCDs, or (b) an automultiscopic display.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, James Gregson, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20160111049Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the—display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. WHITEHEAD, Helge SEETZEN, Gregory John WARD, Wolfgang HEIDRICH
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Patent number: 9307208Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for solving inverse imaging problems to compensate for distortions in an image. The method comprises: minimizing a cost objective function containing a data fitting term and one or more image prior terms to each of the plurality of channels, the one or more image prior terms comprising cross-channel information for a plurality of channels derived from the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAInventors: Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide, Mushfiqur Rouf, Matthias Hullin
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Patent number: 9269312Abstract: A method for estimating an effective luminance pattern representing a distribution of projected light in a display apparatus involves determining driving values for one or more light sources arranged to project light. The light sources are solid-state light sources such as light-emitting diodes in some embodiments. The method determines an effective luminance pattern for the projected light by determining contributions to the effective luminance pattern for different components of a point spread function and then combining the contributions of the components the effective luminance pattern to yield an estimated effective luminance pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Lorne A. Whitehead, Helge Seetzen, Gregory John Ward, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Publication number: 20150254810Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for solving inverse imaging problems to compensate for distortions in an image. The method comprises: minimizing a cost objective function containing a data fitting term and one or more image prior terms to each of the plurality of channels, the one or more image prior terms comprising cross-channel information for a plurality of channels derived from the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: The University of British ColumbiaInventors: Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide, Mushfiqur Rouf, Matthias Hullin
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Publication number: 20150035880Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, light from a backlight is transmitted through two stacked LCDs and then through a diffuser. The front side of the diffuser displays a time-varying sequence of 2D images. Processors execute an optimization algorithm to compute optimal pixel states in the first and second LCDs, respectively, such that for each respective image in the sequence, the optimal pixel states minimize, subject to one or more constraints, a difference between a target image and the respective image. The processors output signals to control actual pixel states in the LCDs, based on the computed optimal pixel states. The 2D images displayed by the diffuser have a higher spatial resolution than the native spatial resolution of the LCDs. Alternatively, the diffuser may be switched off, and the device may display either (a) 2D images with a higher dynamic range than the LCDs, or (b) an automultiscopic display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, James Gregson, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich