Patents Issued in January 15, 2019
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Patent number: 10182194Abstract: The disclosure is directed at a method and apparatus for improving method and apparatus for improved modulation transfer function and detective quantum efficiency of X-ray detectors. The method and apparatus include digitizing microelement outputs obtained by micro sensor elements and the generating pixel outputs from these digitized microelement outputs. Each pixel output is the sum of a plurality of weighting factored microelement outputs.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Inventors: Karim S. Karim, Ian A. Cunningham
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Patent number: 10182195Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure may include a focal plane array configured to capture thermal image data from a scene. The embodiments may further include a sensor window displaced a first distance from the focal plane array. The embodiments may also include a protective window displaced a second distance greater than the first distance from the focal plane array, wherein the second distance causes damage or debris incident on the protective window to be out of focus in the thermal image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Kostrzewa, Bruce Covington, Chris Posch
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Patent number: 10182196Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes: a camera module that obtains an image; and a processor which implements the method, including setting a quadrangular area in the obtained image including a reference pixel and a corresponding pixel disposed respectively at corners of the quadrangular area, calculating an accumulated-pixel value for each pixel of the obtained image corresponding to the quadrangular area, such that a particular pixel value for a particular pixel is a sum of the pixel values beginning from the reference pixel, continuing though an arrangement of pixels in the quadrangular area and terminating at the particular pixel, and generating an image quality processing-dedicated frame of accumulated-pixel values based on calculated accumulated-pixel values of each pixel of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Byeong-Chan Park
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Patent number: 10182197Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating an image stack. In use, one or more exposure parameters for an image stack are configured. Next, a capture command is received. Further, a pixel array is initialized within an image sensor of the camera module. Moreover, one or more ambient images are sampled within one or more corresponding analog storage planes. Next, if it is determined whether a strobe unit is enabled, where, if it is determined that the strobe unit is enabled, one or more strobe images are sampled within the corresponding analog storage planes.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Duelight LLCInventors: Adam Barry Feder, William Guie Rivard, Brian J. Kindle
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Patent number: 10182198Abstract: An imaging device including a pixel array section functioning as a light receiving section which includes photoelectric conversion devices and in which a plurality of pixels, which output electric signals when photons are incident, are disposed in an array; a sensing circuit section in which a plurality of sensing circuits, which receive the electric signals from the pixels and perform binary determination regarding whether or not there is an incidence of photons on the pixels in a predetermined period, are arrayed; and a determination result integration circuit section having a function of integrating a plurality of determination results of the sensing circuits for the respective pixels or for each pixel group, wherein the determination result integration circuit section derives the amount of photon incidence on the light receiving section by performing photon counting for integrating the plurality of determination results in the plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara
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Patent number: 10182199Abstract: According to the present invention, an imaging device and a reproducing device that allow for high quality reproduction of images generated by using two image signals having different lengths of accumulation periods output form a single imaging element are provided. A solid state imaging device of the invention includes a pixel array including a pixel having first and second photoelectric conversion units; a scanning unit that drives the pixel such that an accumulation period of an intermediate time of the first photoelectric conversion unit matches an intermediate time of an accumulation period of the second photoelectric conversion unit; a readout unit that reads out a first image signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and reads out a second image signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit; and a generating unit that generates images by using the first and second image signals whose accumulation periods have the matched intermediate time.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumihiro Kajimura, Yasuo Suda, Koichi Washisu, Akihiko Nagano, Ryo Yamasaki, Masafumi Kimura, Makoto Oikawa, Go Naito
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Patent number: 10182200Abstract: A pixel array system for high accuracy detection of displacement, speed and acceleration includes: an array comprising m columns and n rows, wherein at least every other row is offset with respect to a preceding row of the array. In a first embodiment, every other row is offset with respect to a preceding row of the array by 25% of a pixel width. In a second embodiment, every two rows are offset with respect to a preceding two rows of the array by 25% of a pixel width.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Sai Mun Lee, Wui Pin Lee
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Patent number: 10182201Abstract: A projector is configured so as to be able to perform a plurality of types of image processing on processing target data in the case in which one of still image data and data of a frame constituting video data is input as the processing target data. A video processing section includes a selector for controlling an execution sequence of the types of image processing to be executed, and a panel correction section for outputting the processing target data having been processed in the execution sequence controlled by the control section.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kenji Mizushiro
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Patent number: 10182202Abstract: A display apparatus with a panel supporting portion includes a supporting body that has a plate shape and supports an end edge portion of an optical sheet. The supporting body includes a panel supporting portion in an outside end edge portion. The panel supporting portion supports an end edge portion of the display panel, and has a rib on an inside end edge portion and a fitting portion that fits one position regulating portion of an optical sheet. The rib has a cut-out portion in which a portion of the rib that corresponds to an end of the fitting portion is cut out so that a height is gradually lowered toward the fitting portion. Load application to the display panel on both end portions of the fitting portion is suppressed by the cut-out portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsuyoshi Ozeki
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Patent number: 10182203Abstract: The present invention pertains to an optical disc player with a standard digital port, such as a USB port, coupled to an external storage, such as a thumb drive, coupled to a standard digital port such as a USB port. The external storage may also be used to provide content, commands or applications that enable the player to present certain additional content, or to perform certain additional or enhanced functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Lewis S. Ostrover, Bradley T. Collar
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Patent number: 10182204Abstract: Users of multiple clients participate in a video chat session by exchanging video streams. A user initiates generation of a high-quality composite image of the video chat session. The clients each capture high-quality local images and send the images to a chat server via a communications channel that is out-of-band from the video streams. The chat server stores the images in a repository. The initiating user views the images and selects images and a layout to use for the composite image. The chat server assembles the composite image based on the selections and saves the composite image to the repository. The initiating user can retrieve the composite image and view it, post it to social media, and/or use it for other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Stephane Taine, Nora Micheva, Shyamalan Pather, Jason Duane Clark, Michelle Ruby Hwang, Hoang Le, Joel Alexander Bullard, Candace Button Disco, Joseph Stephen Gonzalez, Kelly Nicole Stevens, Anne Raynor
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Patent number: 10182205Abstract: A method for communication includes establishing multiple communication links over a packet network between a server and plurality of client computers that are to participate in a video teleconference. The client computers may also create secondary communication links that function similarly to links between the server and client computers. The server receives from the client computers uplink audio packets and uplink video packets, which respectively contain audio and video data captured by each of the client computers. The server mixes the audio data from the uplink audio packets so as to create respective streams of mixed audio data for transmission to the client computers and transmits to the client computers downlink audio packets containing the respective streams of mixed audio data. The server relays the video data to the client computers in downlink video packets. The client computers receive and synchronize the video data with the mixed audio data.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Krush Technologies, LLCInventors: Chang Feng, Sergey Pesherov
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Patent number: 10182206Abstract: In an image display system for viewing, by a user in a first space, an image of a second space remote from the first space, image data indicating an image acquired by an imaging device placed in the second space is received from the imaging device. A partial image of the image indicated by the received image data is displayed on a display screen in the first space, the partial image having a display size corresponding to the size of the display screen. At least one of the position, the facial direction, the visual line, or the facial position of the user in the first space is detected by a detector. When a detection result of the detector changes while the partial image is being displayed, it is determined which partial image of the image indicated by the image data is to be displayed on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd., Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Hiroki Matsumoto, Tsukasa Nakano, Takashi Orime, Yuichiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Miyajima
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Patent number: 10182207Abstract: The disclosure relates to handling nuisance in teleconference system. An endpoint device (400) for use in a teleconference includes an acquiring unit (401), a judging unit (402), a controller (403) and a processing unit (404). The acquiring unit acquires a media stream for presentation in the teleconference, and receives information from another device. The information includes a first estimation on whether the media stream is a nuisance to the teleconference. As the nuisance to a teleconference, audio or video signals are perceived by users as actually not relevant to the conference session or causing unpleasant feeling or confusion. The judging unit decides whether the media stream is the nuisance at least based on the information. The controller controls the processing of the media stream to degrade or suppress the presentation of the media stream in case that the media stream is decided as the nuisance. The processing unit processes the media stream under the control of the controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Taoran Lu, Hariharan Ganapathy-Kathirvelu, Peng Yin, Glenn N. Dickins, Xuejing Sun
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Patent number: 10182208Abstract: An automatic process for producing professional, directed, production crew quality, video for videoconferencing is described. Rule based logic is integrated into an automatic process for producing director quality video for videoconferencing. An automatic process can include a method for composing a display for use in a video system having an active talker video stream and a panoramic view video stream having more than one person in video. The method can include determining a region of interest in a panoramic view video using motion detection and presence sensors, and preparing the panoramic view video by centering the region of interest and by zooming towards the region of interest, based upon the location of persons in the panoramic view video. The method includes determining placement of panoramic view video on a composite display to prevent the panoramic view video overlaying display of an active talker on the active talker video stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Alain Elon Nimri, Shu Gao, Stephen Schaefer, Robert Murphy
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Patent number: 10182209Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation unit and a first transmission unit. The generation unit generates parameter information that shows states of a user. The first transmission unit transmits the generated parameter information through a network to an information processing apparatus of a communication partner capable of generating an image that reflects the state of the user on the basis of the parameter information.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiromitsu Fujii
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Patent number: 10182210Abstract: A system and method for presenting remote attendee representations at remote conference session locations where the attendee representations are presented as directional videos such that each representation has an apparent sight trajectory aimed at a target of interest (e.g., typically a content window, another attendee representation, etc.) that is an instance of the same target of interest for the attendee associated with the representation at a different station.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventor: Stephen E. Goetzinger, Jr.
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Patent number: 10182211Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to fast fill media players and buffers associated with media players. A bandwidth associated with initial startup of a media player is overloaded to rapidly fill the buffer and initiate the media player. Alternatively, multiple simultaneous data communication sessions are established with a media data source device, and the media data are concurrently received from the simultaneous sessions into the buffer or transferred of out the buffer at startup, thereby decreasing the latency associated with initiating the media player.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Jamshid Mahdavi
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Patent number: 10182212Abstract: This application relates to techniques for obtaining wide area intermittent video (WAIV). Some embodiments disclosed herein include a method of obtaining WAIV. The method can include, for example, capturing images at a series of sensor stations having pre-determined locations along a flightline. The flightline can be repeated one or more times, where images are captured at the same sensor stations with each pass of the flightline. The captured images from the same sensor station may have replicated view geometry and may be co-registered and precisely aligned with pixel-level precision. The captured images from multiple sensor stations through time may also be displayed together based upon absolute or relative sensor station locations to create a temporal sequence of wide area intermittent video. The approach provides efficient methods for creating wide area video with reduced temporal imaging frame rates. Systems and devices for forming wide area intermittent video are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Lloyd Lawrence Arthur Coulter, Christopher Lippitt
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Patent number: 10182213Abstract: A method for improving privacy of security cameras is described. In one embodiment, predetermined events are monitored via a security camera. The security camera may include an optical barrier. At least one of the predetermined events is detected via the security camera. Based on detecting at least one of the predetermined events, the optical barrier is repositioned, via the security camera, in relation to a camera lens of the security camera.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Vivint, Inc.Inventors: Nic Brunson, Wade Shearer, Michael Warner, Stefan Walger, Michael David Child
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Patent number: 10182214Abstract: An agricultural monitoring system, the agricultural monitoring system comprising: an imaging sensor, configured and operable to acquire image data at submillimetric image resolution of parts of an agricultural area in which crops grow, when the imaging sensor is airborne; a communication module, configured and operable to transmit to an external system image data content which is based on the image data acquired by the airborne imaging sensor; and a connector operable to connect the imaging sensor and the communication module to an airborne platform.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: A.A.A. TARANIS VISUAL LTDInventor: Amihay Gornik
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Patent number: 10182215Abstract: Systems and methods for using unassisted vehicles to assess damage in a particular location are described. According to certain aspects, the systems and methods may utilize an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UGV and the UAVs may be configured with various sensors to capture various damage or environmental data. The UGV and/or the UAVs may also transmit captured data to a central facility for processing. The UGV may serve as a mobile docking and recharging platform for the UAVs and may therefore extend the range and endurance of the UAVs. The UGV may be configured for remote operation, thus eliminating the need to send personnel into a potentially dangerous environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventor: Michael Shawn Jacob
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Patent number: 10182216Abstract: Systems and methods for extended color processing on Pelican array cameras in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a high resolution image includes obtaining input images, where a first set of images includes information in a first band of visible wavelengths and a second set of images includes information in a second band of visible wavelengths and non-visible wavelengths, determining an initial estimate by combining the first set of images into a first fused image, combining the second set of images into a second fused image, spatially registering the fused images, denoising the fused images using bilateral filters, normalizing the second fused image in the photometric reference space of the first fused image, combining the fused images, determining a high resolution image that when mapped through a forward imaging transformation matches the input images within at least one predetermined criterion.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: FotoNation LimitedInventors: Robert H. Mullis, Dan Lelescu, Kartik Venkataraman
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Patent number: 10182217Abstract: The present disclosure provides a projection device and manufacturing method, comprising the steps of fixing the positions of a red light source, green light source and blue light source so that the light sources are immovable; providing a mirror which is configured to oscillate such that it can scan light it receives across a display screen; positioning an optical component, which is configured to deflect light, such that it can receive red, green and blue light beams outputted from the red, green and blue light sources respectively; adjusting the optical component such that the optical component compensates for variation between the light sources, in the direction in which the red, green and blue light beams are output from the red, green and blue light sources, so that each of the red, green and blue light beams are directed to the same point on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Lucio Kilcher, Nicolas Abele
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Patent number: 10182218Abstract: Disclosed is an endoscope including: a four-color separation prism configured to separate light from an object into three primary colors of light and infrared light; four image sensors configured to convert optical images of the separated three primary colors of light and an optical image of the separated infrared light into electrical signals; and an output device configured to output the converted electrical signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuichi Takenaga, Haruyasu Katahira
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Patent number: 10182219Abstract: A transcoder resource retrieves content stored in a repository. The stored content can be encoded in accordance with a first encoding format. The transcoder resource transcodes the retrieved content into a second encoding format. To increase available capacity, the transcoder resource stores the content in the second encoding format as a replacement to the content encoded according to the first encoding format. The second encoding format can support a higher compression ratio than the first encoding format. Additionally, the transcoding can be performed as one of multiple tasks executed in parallel. In such an instance, during parallel processing, a content management resource interleaves execution of the main processing task and the background task of transcoding the content into the second encoding format. The transcoding task can be assigned a lower execution priority than one or more other tasks executed in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: Albert Straub, Edward P. Galt, III
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Patent number: 10182220Abstract: A modeled object distribution management system includes a creator storage unit, a first display controller and a second display controller. The creator storage unit stores modeled object-related information including information indicating stereoscopic images of created modeled objects. The first display controller displays the stereoscopic images to allow a client to browse the stereoscopic images, by using the information indicating the stereoscopic images which is stored in the creator storage unit. The second display controller displays a modeling plan to allow the client to browse the modeling plan. The modeling plan includes a modeling method and a material which are used to model a modeled object corresponding to a stereoscopic image selected by the client from the stereoscopic images displayed in the first display controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazunori Onishi
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Patent number: 10182221Abstract: This display device is provided with a display unit and a connection unit. The display unit reflects a naked-eye-stereoscopic display image onto a glass windshield. The correction unit corrects, in accordance with correction patterns corresponding to the curved shape of the glass windshield, the image to be displayed includes a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The image to be displayed includes a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The correction patterns include: a first pattern for correcting the left-eye image: and a second pattern for correcting the right-eye image.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTDInventors: Kenichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori
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Patent number: 10182222Abstract: An omnidirectional camera is disclosed that records spherical video associated with a particular focal direction while in motion. The omnidirectional camera may implement one or more sensors and location-determining components to facilitate the recorded spherical video being subsequently correlated to an orientation and location of the omnidirectional camera during recording in a time-wise fashion to provide several enhancements during playback. These enhancements include reorienting the spherical video to a new focal direction. Data derived from the one or more sensors and location-determining components may be further utilized to overlay graphical objects onto the spherical video during playback to provide additional feedback.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Garmin Switzerland GmbHInventors: Jerad P. Hesla, Brian Lipkowitz, David S. Wissenbach, Michael M. Russell
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Patent number: 10182223Abstract: Hardware and software configurations, optionally, for performing profilometry of an object are disclosed. An advantageous imaging device is described. An advantageous approach to determining imager position is also described. Each aspect described may be used independently of the other. Moreover, the teaching may find use in other fields including velocimetry, etc.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Morteza Gharib, Alexei Harvard, Scott Hsieh, Jian Lu
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Patent number: 10182224Abstract: A method for creating 3D image is provided. First, capture device, subject to be captured, and lenticular array are provided. Lenticular array comprises strip-shaped lenticular lenses, subject is disposed between capture device and lenticular array, length of a bottom of each lenticular lens is 2L, and center of the bottom is set as 0. Lens of the capture device is aimed at a top of one of lenticular lenses and ?xL of bottom coordinate of lenticular lens, and the value of x is smaller than 1 but greater than 0. Capture device is turned with top of lenticular lens as center to capture the subject until lens of capture device is aimed at xL of bottom coordinate of lenticular lens. Pixel from ?L to ?xL and from L to xL of bottom coordinate is mapped with pixel from ?xL to 0 and from xL to 0 captured by capture device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Lin, Tang-Hung Po
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Patent number: 10182225Abstract: Images captured by a camera system can be processed to detect precipitation in one or more of the images, and to generate a reconstructed image(s) without the precipitation, or with a reduced amount of the precipitation. Detection of precipitation can be based on a difference between a first feature in a first image and a second feature in a second image that corresponds to the first feature, where the first and second images were captured by different cameras at different times. A determination as to whether precipitation is present in the first image and the second image can be based at least in part on a disparity between the first feature and the second feature.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Chengwu Cui, Barry James O'Brien, Joshua John Watson
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Patent number: 10182226Abstract: Provided is a display unit that includes a first display section and a second display section. The first display section is configured to perform picture display and transmissive display. The picture display is based on a picture signal and performed on pixels in a partial region corresponding to a partial image part in a frame image represented by the picture signal, and the transmissive display is performed on pixels in a region other than the partial region. The second display section is provided behind the first display section, and configured to perform dummy display and transmissive display. The dummy display is performed on pixels in the partial region to display a dummy image that is one of a uniform image and a non-uniform image, and the transmissive display is performed on pixels in the region other than the partial region.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Inventor: Keisuke Toda
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Patent number: 10182227Abstract: An autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display device and a method for an autostereoscopic 3D display device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SUPERD TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoming Li, Haiyu Fan, Lei Yang, Yang Liu
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Patent number: 10182228Abstract: A vehicle vision system includes a diagnostic circuit for a video output cable that senses the current flowing into a video output driver. The diagnostic circuit is operable to process the current flow to determine an open-circuit condition of the video cable, a short to ground condition of the video cable and/or a short to battery condition of the video cable. The circuit may process the current flow passing through an electrical resistor connected in series between the video output driver and the video driver power supply.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Nazar F. Bally, Patrick Miller
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Patent number: 10182229Abstract: A device for monitoring the vehicle environment includes: a first sensor for sensing the vehicle environment, the first sensor featuring a first sensing region; a second sensor for sensing the vehicle environment; and an evaluation unit. The second sensor for sensing the vehicle environment is situated within the first sensing region, and a diagnosis of the second sensor is achieved with the aid of the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Christian Hoffmann, Michael Schoenherr
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Patent number: 10182230Abstract: A method, for wireless transmission of real-time media from a source to a sink over a wireless transmission channel is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding media as a plurality of sets of frames, wherein each set of frames includes a key-frame, wherein the media is encoded for the wireless transmission such that a time-required for transmission of the key-frame of each set of frames is less than or equal to a time-allocation for the wireless transmission; and wirelessly transmitting the media from the source device to the sink device.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Mohammed Nawaf Smadi, Vytautas Robertas Kezys, Sandy Pavel
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Patent number: 10182231Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, up to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kenji Kondo
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Patent number: 10182232Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store information on a plurality of encoders; and a control unit configured to be capable of transmitting a first instruction signal for instructing the plurality of encoders to encode input video data under first encoding conditions different for each of the plurality of encoders, and obtaining, if an image quality of the video data encoded by the plurality of encoders does not satisfy a predetermined criteria, predetermined information associated with the image quality from the encoded video data and transmitting, based on the predetermined information, a second instruction signal for instructing to encode the input video data under a second encoding condition different from the first encoding conditions to at least one encoder of the plurality of encoders.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Kouno, Yuji Ando
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Patent number: 10182233Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for calculating and applying a VQ metric which operates during the decoding of compressed video. As such, this metric is appropriate for all formats of compressed video codecs (e.g., MPEG-2, AVC and HEVC). The VQ metric relies on the decoded quantization parameter (Qp) together with analysis of both the compressed and decoded video. As such, the VQ metric does not require a reference video, and is less cumbersome to use for multiple channels, e.g., statistically multiplexed channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joel W. Schoenblum, Gene Halbrooks, Joshua Gahm, Benjamin L. Walton
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Method and apparatus for applying view synthesized prediction according to illumination compensation
Patent number: 10182234Abstract: An inter-layer video decoding method is described including reconstructing a color image and a depth image of a first layer based on encoding information about the color image and the depth image of the first layer obtained from a bitstream. When it is determined that a prediction mode of a current block of a second layer image to be decoded is a view synthesized prediction mode based on an image synthesized from the first layer image a determination is made whether to perform luminance compensation on the second layer current block to be reconstructed. Use of the view synthesized prediction mode to reconstruct the second layer current block depends on the luminance compensation determination.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Min-woo Park, Jin-young Lee, Ho-cheon Wey, Yong-jin Cho, Byeong-doo Choi -
Patent number: 10182235Abstract: In a decoder, a processor extracts a control map of false contour filtering from a part of a multi-layer video signal that includes a low dynamic range image mapped from an original high-dynamic range (HDR) image. It determines one or more filter parameters for a sparse finite-impulse-response (FIR) filter, where the one or more filter parameters relate to at least in part on the control map of false contour filtering and a predicted image predicted from the low dynamic range image. It applies the sparse FIR filter to filter pixel values in a portion of the predicted image based at least in part on the control map of false contour filtering, and it reconstructs a version of the original HDR image based at least in part on the portion of the predicted image as filtered by the FIR filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Guan-Ming Su, Qian Chen, Peng Yin, Sheng Qu
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Patent number: 10182236Abstract: A field programmable object array integrated circuit has video data compression capability. The integrated circuit comprises an array of programmable objects and a video compression co-processor communicatively coupled to the array of objects. The video compression co-processor comprises a set of search engines and a subpixel engine. The subpixel engine can interpolate subpixels from integer pixels and shift the integer pixels by a predetermined number of subpixels. The search engines can perform a plurality of sum of absolute differences (SAD) computations between search window pixels and macroblock pixels to locate the best SAD value using either integer pixels and/or the interpolated subpixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: NYTELL SOFTWARE LLCInventors: Dean Stuart Susnow, Richard D. Reohr, Jr.
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Patent number: 10182237Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventors: Bae Keun Lee, Jae Cheol Kwon, Joo Young Kim
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Patent number: 10182238Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for video display control. An example method includes: determining, by one or more processors, whether a coding frame extracted from a video coding stream is an I Frame; if the coding frame extracted from the video coding stream is an I Frame, acquiring, by the one or more processors, a timestamp of the I Frame and a timestamp of an adjacent coding frame after the I Frame; and controlling, by the one or more processors, display of the I Frame based on the timestamp of the I Frame and the timestamp of the adjacent coding frame after the I Frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Chen, Shiliang Pu, Hai Yu
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Patent number: 10182239Abstract: An apparatus is provided for decoding video data in a merge mode. The apparatus comprises an inter prediction unit configured to derive motion information of a current coding unit and generate a prediction block using the motion information, wherein the motion information is derived using a merge index and a merge candidate list constructed using available spatial and temporal merge candidates. The apparatus further comprises an inverse-quantizing unit configured to inverse-quantize a quantized block by using a quantization parameter, an inverse transform unit configured to generate a residual block by inverse-transforming the inverse-quantized block, and an adder configured to generate a reconstruct block by adding the residual block and the prediction block.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: INFOBRIDGE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
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Method of bi-prediction video coding based on motion vectors from uni-prediction and merge candidate
Patent number: 10182240Abstract: A method of bi-predictive Inter prediction mode using a uni-predictive motion vector and a second motion vector associated with a Merge candidate is disclosed. In the encoder side, the coded motion information for a uni-prediction motion vector for the current block is generated using a motion vector predictor selected from a motion vector prediction (MVP) candidate list. Furthermore, a Merge candidate with a second motion vector pointing to the other prediction direction is identified according to a Merge index. The uni-prediction motion vector and the second motion vector from the Merge candidate are used for bi-prediction encoding of the current block. In the decoder side, the corresponding decoding process is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventor: Chih-Wei Hsu -
Patent number: 10182241Abstract: Innovations in adaptive encoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between units within a video sequence. Still other innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of bit depths between units within a video sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu
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Patent number: 10182242Abstract: A method and apparatus for color index coding of a block of video data using index prediction based on reconstructed neighboring pixels are disclosed. In one embodiment, color index encoding or decoding is applied to the current pixel indices by deriving index prediction from neighboring pixel indices of the reconstructed neighboring pixels. The reconstructed neighboring pixel values are first transformed into the neighboring pixel indices according to a quantization table to map between major color indices and major color values of the current block. The quantization table can be based on a major color table for the current block or can also be derived at a decoder side. The decoding process may reconstruct the current pixels by converting decoded current pixel indices to reconstructed current pixel values according to the quantization table or by directly copying the reconstructed neighboring pixel values indicated by decoded current pixel indices.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Yu-Chen Sun, Jungsun Kim, Tzu-Der Chuang, Yi-Wen Chen, Wang Lin Lai, Shan Liu, Yu-Wen Huang
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Patent number: 10182243Abstract: The invention concerns a processing system and method for reconstituting a block of pixels from bins generated by a Mojette Transform, using a processing and calculation unit (UTC), a bin memory (MB), and a pixel memory (MP). Said unit is configured to carry out the operations of reconstructing the pixels, which are performed by reading said bins in the bin memory, reading the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, and writing the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, such that the steps of reconstructing the pixels do not include an operation of writing bins in the bin memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: ROZO SYSTEMSInventors: Pierre Evenou, Didier Feron, Sylvain David, Jean-Pierre Monchanin