Observation Of Or From A Specific Location (e.g., Surveillance) Patents (Class 348/143)
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Patent number: 11930293Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods redact one or more light-emitting screens in data recorded on a recording device. The redaction may include receiving recorded data comprising a plurality of pixel values. The redaction may include detecting one or more light-emitting screens in the received image. The redaction may include redacting a subset of the pixel values from the recorded associated with the one or more detected light-emitting screens. The redaction may be commonly applied to multiple frames of recorded data through the use of a unique identifier assigned to a same detected light-emitting screen. A same light-emitting screen may be tracked across multiple non-sequential or sequential frames and assigned a same unique identifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.Inventors: Anh Tuan Nguyen, Noah Spitzer-Williams, Jacob Hershfield
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Patent number: 11921404Abstract: A intelligent long-distance infrared fill-light set for illuminating a predetermined target range at least 500 meters away cooperates with an infrared image-acquisition equipment to obtain an image of an illuminated-object, and includes: infrared fill-lights each including an optical lens, optical axis passing through a focus, infrared light sources emitting an infrared beam having a main beam angle, to generate a substantial overlapping area and at least one non-overlapping area when illuminating to the predetermined target range; enabling devices that enable light sources; and a control unit receiving image data acquired by the infrared image-acquisition equipment, for calculating and adjusting the enabling device to locally strengthen or weaken the substantial overlapping area and/or non-overlapping area.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LUMOS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chih-Yi Yang
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Patent number: 11922584Abstract: An electronic device displays a first user interface with a first representation of content and, in response to receiving a request to display a virtual model that corresponds to the content, displays the virtual model of the content concurrently with a selectable user interface object for performing the operation associated with the content in accordance with a determination that the first user interface is configured to perform an operation associated with the content and displaying the virtual model of the content without displaying the selectable user interface object for performing the operation associated with the content in accordance with a determination that the first user interface is not configured to perform the operation associated with the content.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Grant R. Paul, Giancarlo Yerkes, Nicolas V. Scapel, David Lui
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Patent number: 11917333Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of personnel on a drilling site. A computer vision system can automatically identify and determine the locations of personnel on a drilling site, can generate a confidence map of the locations, and can display the locations of the personnel on a map of the drilling site. The system and methods also include taking corrective action when a person's location is determined to be unsafe, such as by inhibiting or causing automated actions with respect to machinery and equipment at the drilling site. The systems and methods may include the use of multiple cameras or video sources located at the drilling site and may be coupled to a control system to control machinery or equipment at the drilling site.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Peter A. Torrione, Kenneth D. Morton, Jr.
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Patent number: 11915434Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for object re-identification. In many scenarios, it would be useful to be able to monitor the movement, actions, etc. of an object, such as a person, moving into and between different camera views of a monitored space. A network of cameras and client edge devices may detect and identify a particular object, and when that object re-appears in another camera view, a comparison can be performed between the data collected regarding the object upon its initial appearance and upon its re-appearance to determine if they are the same object. In this way, data regarding an object can be captured, analyzed, or otherwise processed despite moving from one camera view to another.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ALWAYSAI, INC.Inventor: Stephen Bottos
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Patent number: 11908095Abstract: The present technology is directed to presenting a 3-D representation of an object, which is captured in a 2-D image of the object in an environment in a 3-D simulation of the environment. The present technology can receive 3-D data representing the environment including image data of the object in the environment, and a label identifying the object. The present technology can further locate a position of the object in the 3-D simulation of the environment based on determining a depth and an orientation of the object in the environment based on a semantic database of attributes associated with the object, obtain a 3-D representation of the object from the semantic database of attributes associated with the object, and project the 3-D representation of the object into the 3-D simulation of the environment at the determined position for the object.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventor: Ignacio Martin-Bragado
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Patent number: 11898331Abstract: A machine may receive, from one or more sensors, first data indicating a first position of a work implement within an environment and second data indicating a second position of the work implement within the environment. Based on the first position and the second position, the machine may define a working area of the work implement. The machine may receive, from one or more cameras, image data depicting at least a portion of the environment and at least a portion an object disposed within a field of view of the one or more cameras. The machine may determine, based on the image data, that the object is located outside of the working area. Based on determining that the object is located outside of the working area, the machine may refrain from causing output of an alert indicating the presence of the object outside the working area.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventor: Jacob Charles Maley
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Patent number: 11893846Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing electronic locking systems. Using novel designs and network technology, the present systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide a secure alternative to a cam lock or a lock box for storing items that may be left unattended, without the use of a physical key. For example, in certain embodiments, the present systems, methods, and apparatuses can facilitate the locking and unlocking of a cam lock or a lock box by using a digital construct, an encryption system, and various native and/or third-party software components.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: BoxLock, Inc.Inventors: Brad Ruffkess, Brian Vanhiel, Taylor Davis, Daniel K. Guthrie
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Patent number: 11893165Abstract: A display apparatus which is connected to a controller and capable of precisely and quickly shifting the display position of a pointer to the position of a desired object in a three-dimensional display area. When a two-dimensional directional command has not been issued on the controller by an operator, the display apparatus shifts into a first operation state in which a display position of the pointer is shifted according to the tilt and/or displacement of the controller. When a two-dimensional directional command has been issued on the controller by the operator, the display apparatus shifts into a second operation state in which the display position of the pointer is shifted based on two coordinate axes in the display area according to the directional command issued on the controller. In the second operation state, the two coordinate axes are varied according to the tilt of the external control apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryu Kumagai
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Patent number: 11895394Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems that can maintain patient privacy in a video stream of a medical facility by obfuscating all patient identity information such that the patient's identity and medical information is protected. In addition, the system and methods disclosed herein can limit the change in the perspective of the camera based on a defined privacy zone in the medical facility such that the privacy zone is not in the field of view of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Sean Victor Hastings, Lida Anne Robinson, Robert Lee York
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Patent number: 11887309Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a setting unit configured to set, based on a detection line that is set in a display screen, a patch region in the display screen, the patch region including a detection region serving as a region for detecting a position of an object, and a counting region encompassed by the detection region, and a counting unit configured to count, from among intersection points between a movement vector in the detection region of an object moving inside the display screen or a locus based on the movement vector and the detection line in the detection region, intersection points located in the counting region.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Bamba, Hajime Muta
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Patent number: 11889009Abstract: A doorbell system can be used to block a first electricity that is less than a first threshold from entering an electronic chime. By blocking the first electricity from entering the electronic chime, the electronic chime is not allowed to emit a notification sound. The doorbell system can also be used to allow a second electricity that is greater than the first threshold to enter the electronic chime. By allowing the second electricity to enter the electronic chime, this can allow the electronic chime to emit a notification sound in response to a visitor being present.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SkyBell Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Joseph Frank Scalisi
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Patent number: 11882813Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for tracking wildlife such as game animals. The tracking system includes a drone that has a camera and a dart dispenser that dispenses a dart with a location transmitter. The drone sends images from the camera to a remote controller, where a user pilots the drone and observes animals for disease or other behaviors, and sends instructions to dispense the dart. The real-time location of the dart is then provided to a mobile application for use in tracking or hunting the animal.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Ronnie A Valdez
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Patent number: 11875463Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a camera apparatus and a server. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base adapted to mount to a structure and a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus. The server includes a network interface and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The server also includes memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain a data from the camera apparatus including a plurality of images from the combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus, generate a model of the commercial location using the data, and display information from the model within images from the combined 360 degree view to a user while a user is viewing the images in real time.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLCInventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
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Patent number: 11873620Abstract: A turning control apparatus, for a turning-type working machine, includes: a target stop position setting unit setting the target stop position of the turning body and a turning command unit. The target stop position setting unit includes an image taking device, an image processing device forming an overhead view image of the work machine and surrounding objects based on the taken image; an image display command unit making a target stop position setting image including the overhead view image be displayed on a display screen of the image display device, a setting operation member to which a position setting operation for setting a target stop position with reference to the position of the image of the work machine and surrounding objects included in the overhead view image is applied, and a target stop position determination unit that determines a target stop position based on the position setting operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Seiji Saiki
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Patent number: 11869239Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for controlling a camera, comprising receiving a video sequence of a scene. The method includes determining one or more scene description metadata in the scene from the video sequence. The method includes identifying one or more scene object types in the scene based on the one or more scene description metadata. The method includes determining one or more rules based on one or both of the scene description metadata or the scene object types, each rule configured to generate an event based on a detected object following a rule-specific pattern of behavior. The method includes applying the one or more rules to operation of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: William T. Calvert, Terence Neill
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Patent number: 11868546Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a pose of a controller held by a user based on sensor data captured by the controller. The system may determine a pose of a headset worn by the user based on sensor data captured by the headset. The system may determine positions of a first set of keypoints associated with a body of the user based on (1) one or more first images captured by one or more cameras of the controller, (2) the pose of the controller, (3) one or more second images captured by one or more cameras of the headset and (4) the pose of the headset. The system may determine a full body pose of the user based at least on the positions of the first set of keypoints.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Andrew Garrod Bosworth
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Patent number: 11863736Abstract: Determine a current position of a camera relative to a road based on a set of imagery from the camera and a recommended position of the camera relative to the road based on the set of imagery from the camera, while the camera is maintained at a constant height relative to the road and a constant lateral distance relative to the road. The camera can be positionally adjusted from the current position to the recommended position based on a movement of the camera about a Y-axis or a Z-axis of the camera at that time relative to the road. In order to enable movement of the camera, a guide can be output to a user such that the user can follow the guide and move the camera from the current position to the recommended position.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Intelligent Security Systems CorporationInventor: Andrey Nikitin
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Patent number: 11863815Abstract: Systems and methods for storing videos in a storage device, more specifically in a digital video recorder (DVR). The method includes determining, for each video, a condition indicating a need to reduce the size of a respective video is determined. The condition being at least a storage period of the respective video being greater than a threshold time period. Upon determination reducing the video size either by reducing at least one quality parameter of the respective video or by eliminating at least one video segment of the video corresponding to an uneventful region. Further after the size reduction, storing the respective video as a modified version of the respective video in the storage device. Further, the video or a portion of video comprising important events can be shared with a remote device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LIGHTMETRICS TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.Inventors: Krishna Sai, Krishna A G, Gururaj Putraya, Ravi Shenoy, Raghu Kalluri, Pushkar Patwardhan
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Patent number: 11856285Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for adjusting a monitoring device. The system may obtain one or more first monitoring images. The system may obtain, for each of one or more regions, a statistical value of at least one object in the region based on the one or more first monitoring images. The system may determine an adjustment instruction based on statistical values of the at least one object in the one or more regions. The system may adjust at least one monitoring setting of at least one monitoring device based on the adjustment instruction. The at least one monitoring device may be used to capture one or more second monitoring images.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Junting Bi
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Patent number: 11852753Abstract: A sensor (e.g., an optical sensor) is disposed in an enclosure that separates it from an external environment. The enclosure includes an aperture comprising a transparent material. A laminate comprising a plurality of transparent films is coupled to the aperture such that the sensor has a field of view of the external environment through the transparent material of the aperture and the plurality of transparent films. The laminate includes an exposed transparent film that is exposed to the external environment and that is removable to expose an underlying film in the laminate when dirt, debris, or other obscuring material has collected on it. A laminate module that includes the laminate, a laminate sensor, and a peeling mechanism may be removably mounted on the aperture. The laminate sensor can sense the number of transparent films remaining in the laminate. The peeling mechanism can peel away individual transparent films in the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: William Grossman, Troy Scott Storz, Matthew Carroll
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Patent number: 11854221Abstract: A positioning system and a calibration method of an objection location are provided. The calibration method includes the following. Roadside location information of a roadside unit (RSU) is obtained. Object location information of one or more objects is obtained. The object location information is based on a satellite positioning system. An image identification result of the object or the RSU is determined according to images of one or more image capturing devices. The object location information of the object is calibrated according to the roadside location information and the image identification result. Accordingly, the accuracy of the location estimation may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventor: Yu-Cheng Lee
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Patent number: 11849248Abstract: Image capture devices and methods may be used to pre-buffer media storage. The pre-buffering method includes recording an image capture segment in a circular buffer. The circular buffer includes a number of recordable segments. The pre-buffering method includes determining whether a key moment command is received. If a key moment command is not received, the method includes recording a next image capture segment in a next adjacent recordable segment of the circular buffer if the next adjacent recordable segment of the predetermined number of recordable segments is available. If a key moment command is not received, the method includes overwriting an oldest recordable segment if the next adjacent recordable segment of the predetermined number of recordable segments is not available. If a key moment command is received, the pre-buffering method includes marking a wrap point in the circular buffer and switching from recording in the circular buffer to linear recording.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Anandhakumar Chinnaiyan, Michael A. Ramirez, Naveen Chinya Krishnamurthy, Feng Li
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Patent number: 11842499Abstract: A monitoring apparatus 10 includes: a monitoring line setting unit 11 that sets a monitoring line in an image acquired from the image capturing unit; and an overlapping detection unit 12 that detects overlapping between an object in the image and the monitoring line. If overlapping is detected by the overlapping detection unit 12, the monitoring line setting unit 11 sets a new monitoring line according to the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsushi Yasuda, Satoru Ishii
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Patent number: 11838195Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for centralized containerized deployment of network traffic sensors to network sensor hosts for deep packet inspection (DPI) that supports various other cybersecurity operations. A network sensor package containing a pre-configured network sensor container is received by a network sensor host from a network sensor deployment server. Installation of the network sensor package on the network sensor host causes execution of the network sensor container that further causes deployment of an on-premise network sensor along with a network sensor management system, a DPI system, and an intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) system. The configurable on-premise network sensor is deployed on multiple operating system distributions of the network sensor host and generates actionable network metadata using DPI techniques for optimized log search and management and improved intrusion detection and response (IDR) operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Rapid7, Inc.Inventors: John Brosnan, Jeff Myers, Andriy Lyubka, Darragh Delaney, Erran Carey, Martin Hutchings, Ralph McTeggart, Ryan Williams, Daniel Skelton, Luke Coughlan, Gianpaolo Tedesco, Luis Ramos dos Santos Lopes, Lars-Kristian Svenoy, Dan-Adrian Moinescu, Niall Cochrane, Morgan Doyle, Sarah Addis
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Patent number: 11838690Abstract: A system for holding a camera for acquiring images of preparations includes a rail that can be mounted above a preparation surface. A camera carrier couples a camera with the rail such that the camera is movable relative to the rail and such that the camera can acquire images of preparations on the preparation surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Emily H. Alexander, Jerimiah G. Welch
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Patent number: 11837016Abstract: A system includes at least one media data collection device and a front-end intelligent analysis device. The at least one media data collection device and the front-end intelligent analysis device are located at a front end of a monitoring system, and can meet a relatively high real-time requirement. The at least one media data collection device may collect media data, and send the media data to the front-end intelligent analysis device.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yongcai Zhong
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Patent number: 11836420Abstract: A 3D modeling service of a provider network may receive, from a client facility, different video streams from different cameras at the facility (e.g., security cameras). The 3D modeling service may generate a collection of image data based on the different video streams. The 3D modeling service may construct a 3D model of the facility based at least on the collection of image data and other data from one or more other sources (e.g., CAD files other floor plans). The 3D model may be analyzed to determine various aspects, such as a location to place equipment or coverage gaps of the security cameras. Facility management may perform various actions based on updated 3D models. For example, equipment may be installed at a location or cameras may be installed to eliminate coverage gaps.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kyriaki Levanti, Derek Solomon Pai, Isaac Ben Jeppsen
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Patent number: 11830184Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a first position acquirer, a first converter, a first likelihood image generator, and a learner. The first position acquirer is configured to acquire, as first positions, target positions in plural first images. The first converter is configured to convert the first positions to second positions by expanding movement in a second direction intersecting a first direction based on movement over time of the first positions. The first likelihood image generator is configured to generate a first likelihood image showing a distribution of likelihood of the second positions. The learner is configured to output a model using the plural first images and the first likelihood image as training data, and upon receiving part or all of a transparent image, derives a second likelihood image showing a distribution of likelihood indicating probability of the part or all of the transparent image corresponding to the second positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Ryusuke Hirai, Akiyuki Tanizawa, Shinichiro Mori, Keiko Okaya
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Patent number: 11830209Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for object detection and inserting graphical elements into an image stream in response to detecting the object. The systems and methods detect an object of interest in received frames of a video stream. The systems and methods identify a bounding box for the object of interest and estimate a three-dimensional position of the object of interest based on a scale of the object of interest. The systems and methods generate one or more graphical elements having a size based on the scale of the object of interest and a position based on the three-dimensional position estimated for the object of interest. The one or more graphical elements are generated within the video stream to form a modified video stream. The systems and methods cause presentation of the modified video stream including the object of interest and the one or more graphical elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Travis Chen, Samuel Edward Hare, Yuncheng Li, Tony Mathew, Jonathan Solichin, Jianchao Yang, Ning Zhang
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Patent number: 11830286Abstract: A data processing apparatus (1) of the present invention includes a unit that retrieves a predetermined subject from moving image data. The data processing apparatus includes a person extraction unit (10) that analyzes moving image data to be analyzed and extracts a person whose appearance frequency in the moving image data to be analyzed satisfies a predetermined condition among persons detected in the moving image data to be analyzed, and an output unit (20) that outputs information regarding the extracted person.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jianquan Liu, Shoji Nishimura, Takuya Araki, Yasufumi Hirakawa
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Patent number: 11830166Abstract: A tile contains aggregated data at a certain resolution for the actual data present in the duration of time covered in that tile. Tiles are generated at every possible resolution suitable for a computer display and provide aggregate measures such as averages and variances. Tiles provide a summary of data such that from the highest level view down to the specific data time points collected, a user's attention may be drawn to the times when there is the most interesting pattern behavior to review and analyze.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Falkonry Inc.Inventors: Vukasin Toroman, Daniel Kearns, Lenin Kumar Subramanian, Nikunj R. Mehta
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Patent number: 11830348Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for determining a false alarm based on analysis of video/s. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of receiving one or more pre-recorded videos, the one or more pre-recorded videos indicating a false alarm activation. One or more embodiments of the invention further describe steps of analyzing false alarm activation in the one or more pre-recorded videos and receiving a real-time video captured from a camera. Accordingly, the false alarm is determined in the real-time video based on the analysis of the false alarm activation in the one or more pre-recorded videos.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Nagarjuna Venkateshappa
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Patent number: 11826141Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for detecting whether a bedridden person is getting out of bed or has fallen out of their bed. The device performs an analysis over time of the distances between the sensors of a detector and the objects that are present in the detection field of the detector. The detection is based on variations in said distances and of the locations thereof within the monitored space.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KAPCARE SAInventor: Philippe Kaplan
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Patent number: 11830342Abstract: A control method for a notification system including a notification device located in a facility, the control method including: detecting a visitor to the facility based on detection information from a first sensor; obtaining a current relationship between a first user and a second user present in the facility; and when a visitor to the first user is detected in the facility, notifying the second user of a visit by the visitor by using the notification device based on the current relationship.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Mikiko Matsuo
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Patent number: 11822228Abstract: The imaging device includes: at least one imaging unit configured to be rotatable with a driving mechanism and movable in a circumferential direction; an illumination; a cover configured to cover the imaging unit and the illumination; and a light-shielding member of which at least a part is disposed between the imaging unit and the illumination and is disposed in contact with the cover. The light-shielding member is able to be retracted away from the cover through driving of the driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Yasutake
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Patent number: 11823351Abstract: An image processing method includes receiving an input image and a guide image corresponding to the input image, extracting informative features from the input image and the guide image to enhance the input image, selectively obtaining a first feature for the input image from among the informative features, and processing the input image based on the first feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jihye Kim, Seon Min Rhee, Jongseok Kim, Heewon Kim, Seungju Han, Jaejoon Han
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Patent number: 11816968Abstract: Methods, systems and computing devices are described herein for monitoring a premises when residents or other users are present in order to detect patterns of activity at the premises. Such patterns may comprise, for example, a typical schedule indicating usage of one or more devices by one or more users of the premises. When a user is away or otherwise inactive, commands may be sent to various user devices to make it appear (e.g., to those outside the premises) as if the user is present by simulating and/or recreating the patterns that were previously detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Amit Garg, Richard Woundy
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Patent number: 11816897Abstract: To efficiency search for an object associated with a sensed event, an information processing apparatus includes a sensor that analyzes a captured video and senses whether a predetermined event has occurred, a determining unit that determines a type of an object to be used as query information based on a type of the event in response to sensing of the event occurrence, and a generator that detects the object of the determined type from the video and generates the query information based on the detected object.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoma Oami
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Patent number: 11816853Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems, methods, devices, and instructions for performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) that involve initializing a SLAM process using images from as few as two different poses of a camera within a physical environment. Some embodiments may achieve this by disregarding errors in matching corresponding features depicted in image frames captured by an image sensor of a mobile computing device, and by updating the SLAM process in a way that causes the minimization process to converge to global minima rather than fall into a local minimum.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: David Ben Ezra, Eyal Zak, Ozi Egri
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Patent number: 11818637Abstract: Described herein are techniques that may be used to facilitate interactions between a media collection device and a remote computing device via the use of a proxy device. Such techniques may comprise establishing a first communication session between a media collection device and a proxy device via a short-range communication channel, transmitting, by the media collection device to the proxy device, status information via the first communication session, at least a portion of the status information subsequently forwarded by the proxy device to a remote computing device, determining that the media collection device is to be activated, upon determining that the media collection device is to be activated, establishing a second communication session between the media collection device and the remote computing device via a long-range communication channel, and transmitting, by the media collection device to the computing device, media content via the second communication session.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: Getac Technology Corporation, WHP Workflow Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Guzik, Muhammad Adeel
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Patent number: 11812152Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a video frame image in a live classroom, and a computer readable storage medium and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring image information of a target person in the video frame image; determining a plurality of detection points according to the image information; determining distribution information of the plurality of detection points based on relationship between the plurality of detection points and a preset first area; determining adjustment information of a camera based on the distribution information and camera parameters; and adjusting the camera according to the adjustment information, so that at least a part of the image information of the target person in the video frame image is located in a preset second area, wherein the second area is located in the first area.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BEIJING AMBOW SHENGYING EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Huang, Gang Huang, Kesheng Wang, Yin Yao, Qiaoling Xu
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Patent number: 11799936Abstract: A vehicle remote support system includes a communication system that operates over a plurality of parallel wireless network connections to provide low-latency video from vehicle to a remote support server that provides remote support to the vehicle dependent on real-time video. The vehicle includes a source that encodes multiple versions of the original video segments (e.g., one per wireless network connection) and transmits the multiple versions of the segments to a sink at the remote support server over the respective wireless connections. This redundant multi-path communication system rationally allocates network resources to the managed video streams and balances bandwidth against latency in order to avoid network congestion and safety issues associated with single-path transmissions. In other embodiments, a similar communication system that transmits video or other real-time messages between a source and a sink may be utilized in cloud robotics applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Phantom Auto Inc.Inventors: Shay Magzimof, Yuval Deri, David Parunakian, Gleb Mezhanskiy, Alexander Efitorov, Elrom Silvera
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Patent number: 11793397Abstract: A tethered opto-electronic imaging system encapsulated in an optically-transmissible housing capsule/shell and configured to image object space in multiple fields-of-view (FOVs) to form a visually-perceivable representation of the object space in which sub-images representing different FOVs remain co-directional regardless of mutual repositioning of the object and the imaging system. The capsule/shell of the system is a functionally-required portion of the train of optical components that aggregately define and form a lens of the optical imaging system. The tether is devoid of any functional optical channel or element. When different FOVs are supported by the same optical detector, co-directionality of formed sub-images images is achieved due via judicious spatial re-distribution of irradiance of an acquired sub-image to form a transformed sub-image while maintaining aspect ratios of dimensions of corresponding pixels of the acquired and transformed sub-images.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: OMNISCIENT IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Bhaskar Banerjee, Brian Scaramella, Richard Pfisterer, Scott Ellis, Andrew Sapozink, Chih-Chiang Chang
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Patent number: 11800065Abstract: Detection models are distributed as needed to a select subset of image capture devices, based on geographic location and time of the image capture devices. Each image capture device which receives a model processes image data according to the model, and provides a notification of any detected instances of an event the model is trained to detect. Distribution and detection can be based on historical data or live data.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Geotab Inc.Inventors: William John Ballantyne, Javed Siddique
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Patent number: 11798064Abstract: A store includes first and second racks of shelving that are respectively viewed by first and second cameras. A computer system, including one or more processors and memory, defines a first convolutional neural network (CNN) trained to recognize a first set of items stocked on the first rack of shelving, and a second CNN trained to recognize a second set of items stocked on the second rack of shelving. (The first camera provides imagery for recognition by the first CNN, and the second camera provides imagery for recognition by the second CNN.) In such arrangement, the second neural network is trained to recognize a particular item that the first neural network is not trained to recognize, and the first neural network is trained to recognize a certain item that the second neural network is not trained to recognize. Many other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Tony F. Rodriguez, Emma C. Sinclair, William Y. Conwell
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Patent number: 11790483Abstract: Provided are a method, an apparatus, and a device for identifying human body, including: acquiring a first original picture captured; adjusting a resolution according to the acquired picture to obtain a target picture; processing the target picture based on a preset model for human body feature point detection to determine whether the target picture includes human body information; if the target picture includes the human body information, determining human body area information in the original picture according to the human body information and inputting the human body area information into a filter, enabling that the filter determines target human body area information according to the human body area information; acquiring a next original picture captured; and determining a possible human body area in the next original picture according to the target human body area information, and performing the step of adjusting the resolution according to the possible human body area.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Chen Zhao, Shaoxiong Yang, Xiaoyin Zhang
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Patent number: 11790044Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a sensor to sense real world information; a digitizer coupled to the sensor to digitize the real world information into digitized information; a signal processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digitized information into an image; a discriminator coupled to the signal processor to determine, based at least in part on the image, whether the real world information comprises an anomaly, where the discriminator is trained via a generative adversarial network; and a controller coupled to the discriminator.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Javier Elenes, Antonio Torrini
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Patent number: 11790272Abstract: System and method for end-to-end differentiable joint image refinement and perception are provided. A learning machine employs an image acquisition device for acquiring a set of training raw images. A processor determines a representation of a raw image, initializes a set of image representation parameters, defines a set of analysis parameters of an image analysis network configured to process the image's representation, and jointly trains the set of representation parameters and the set of analysis parameters to optimize a combined objective function. A module for transforming pixel-values of the raw image to produce a transformed image comprising pixels of variance-stabilized values, a module for successively performing processes of soft camera projection and image projection, and a module for inverse transforming the transformed pixels are disclosed. The image projection performs multi-level spatial convolution, pooling, subsampling, and interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Torc CND Robotics, Inc.Inventor: Felix Heide
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Patent number: 11792520Abstract: An apparatus. The apparatus may include a device housing; a camera; a plurality of microphones inside or mounted to the device housing; and a processor inside the device housing and electrically coupled to the plurality of microphones. The processor can be configured to receive a set of audio data from each of the plurality of microphones; execute a machine learning model using each of the sets of audio data as input to determine whether the set of audio data corresponds to an actionable sound; determine a location of the actionable sound relative to a location of the camera based on a plurality of sets of audio data determined to correspond to the actionable sound; and rotate the camera towards the determined location of the actionable sound.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AURIS, LLCInventors: Brian C. Fitzpatrick, Robert McGrath