Observation Of Or From A Specific Location (e.g., Surveillance) Patents (Class 348/143)
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Patent number: 11037419Abstract: A surveillance system monitors a predetermined environment based on received data. The surveillance system includes a first intelligent appliance configured to capture video and/or still images and configured to be in wireless communication with a second intelligent appliance that operates based on data from the first intelligent appliance. The surveillance system can detect a person located within the predetermined environment and can track the person's movement. The surveillance system is configured to allow remote viewing of data and/or controlling cameras.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLCInventor: Martin Renkis
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Patent number: 11037067Abstract: Systems for detecting occupancy of an area comprising one or more zones can include one or more sensors and one or more processors configured to receive sensor data from the one or more sensors over time. The one or more processors can be further configured to receive or store data about an arrangement of the zones in the area. The one or more processors can apply a probabilistic model considering the sensor data received over time to determine the number of subjects in each zone by determining a most likely current state of occupancy of the area among a plurality of possible scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Infrared Integrated Systems LimitedInventors: Stuart A. Holliday, Christopher A. Evans, Neil Johnson
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Patent number: 11036979Abstract: A device, system and method for generating an alert and an automatic search for a candidate subject is provided. The device monitors one or more data sources to identify a candidate subject. The device determines, from rules for rating candidate subjects stored in a memory, a rating of the candidate subject. When the rating meets a first threshold: the device transmits, to one or more communication devices, an alert identifying the candidate subject. When the rating meets a second threshold, lower than the first threshold: the devices provides, a classifier defining the candidate subject to an object recognition engine to cause the object recognition engine to automatically search for the candidate subject, using the classifier, in multimedia data received at one or more edge devices. The multimedia data may include images.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Alejandro G. Blanco, Scott M. Alazraki, Shervin Sabripour, Patrick D. Koskan
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Patent number: 11037302Abstract: To provide a motion video segmenting method, a motion video segmenting device, and a motion video processing system that increase accuracy of motion video analysis performed by segmenting a motion video. A difficulty degree of each image configuring a pack is determined, and in a case where an image of a difficulty degree of Low continues for a predetermined value F_cnt or more, a motion video is segmented with an image one before a last of consecutive images to form a pack.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Junko Ueda
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Patent number: 11037270Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates, for two or more videos including an overlapping region that overlap each other, overlapping region information that indicates the overlapping region, and transmits the overlapping region information to a display control apparatus that generates a video by concatenating the two or more videos. The display control apparatus obtains the overlapping region information from another apparatus, generates a video by concatenating the two or more videos based on the overlap information, and causes the display unit to display the generated video.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takeshi Ozawa
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Patent number: 11039109Abstract: A system and method provides an image that adjusts in response to at least one vehicle mounted sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: FOX SPORTS PRODUCTIONS, LLCInventor: Michael Davies
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Patent number: 11036218Abstract: An apparatus includes a movement mechanism, a sensor, a microphone, a speaker, a processor and a memory. The processor selects a target region, controls the movement mechanism to cause the apparatus to move to the target region, and causes a speaker to output a first sound. When counting a predetermined number, the processor causes the sensor to trace a movement locus of a user. In a case where the processor has determined that an acquired sound contains a predetermined speech, the processor controls the movement mechanism to cause the apparatus to move through a predetermined space. When the processor has determined that the apparatus is not to intentionally lose in a game of hide-and-seek, the processor controls the movement mechanism to cause the apparatus to move to a target blind spot within the predetermined space, and causes the speaker to output a second sound.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kohei Tahara
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Patent number: 11037298Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer processing products for automatically checking for errors in segmentation (contouring) using heuristic and/or statistical evaluation methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Thomas Albrecht, Peter Hess, Nawal Houhou
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Patent number: 11032892Abstract: In determining luminance, a location of human presence is referred. An infrared sensor detects the human presence in its proximity. The infrared sensor's effective detecting region includes a first region and a second region. The first region is farther from the infrared sensor than the second region is. And the first region surrounds the second region. Second, a first luminance is set for human presence within the first region; a second luminance is set for human presence within the second region; and a third luminance is set for nonoccurrence of human presence within both the first region and the second region. In addition, the second luminance is higher than the first illuminance, and the first illuminance is higher than the third illuminance. Third, an illuminating device is activated by applying the first luminance, the second luminance, or the third luminance, in response to a location of the detected human presence.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.Inventor: Jianxin Xie
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Patent number: 11030468Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface is configured to acquire a first video image capturing an outside area of a moving body. The controller is configured to cause a second video image corresponding to a display region of the first video image to be displayed on a display apparatus. The controller is also configured to detect at least a portion of a detection object in the display region of the first video image, determine whether one or more conditions are met based on a relative positional relationship between the moving body and the detection object and, when it is determined that the one or more conditions are met, cause a first marker corresponding to the detection object to be superimposed on the second video image and displayed on the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Shimazu, Taro Fukasawa, Takeo Oshima
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Patent number: 11030869Abstract: A method of selectively broadcasting a message to a client by a server without knowing the client's internet protocol (IP) address includes receiving video feeds of an area of interest from one or more cameras, performing target recognition and tracking on one or more targets, including position of the one or more targets, extracting target-specific context parameters from the one or more recognized and tracked targets, encoding the target-specific context parameters into a header, thereby generating a context address for the one or more targets, appending the context address to a message for the one or more targets from a predetermined set of messages based on the position of the one or more targets, thereby generating one or more packets of information, and broadcasting the one or more packets wirelessly to one or more client mobile devices each associated with the one or more targets.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: He Wang, Siyuan Cao, Habiba Farrukh
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Patent number: 11030505Abstract: A system for assigning alternative identification to objects can include a first communication device of a first object, where the first communication device broadcasts a first communication signal that includes a first identification of the first object. The system can also include a first electrical device having a first receiver and a first transmitter, where the first receiver receives the first communication signal. The system can further include a controller communicably coupled to the first electrical device, where the controller retrieves the first identification of the first communication device from the first communication signal, assigns a first alternative identification to the first communication device based on the first identification, saves the first identification and the first alternative identification of the first object in a first table, and sends a second communication signal that includes the first alternative identification and the first identification of the first object.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Altan Stalker, Peyton Riley
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Patent number: 11023151Abstract: A method of file management by mobile computing devices includes: storing a plurality of base files in a memory; causing a remote server to store copies of the plurality of base files; storing, in the memory, a plurality of preview files; responsive to determining that the memory is not sufficient for performing a memory write operation, selecting a first base file of the plurality of base files; removing the first base file from the memory; responsive to receiving a user interface command requesting the first base file, presenting a preview file corresponding to the first base file; and responsive to receiving a subsequent user interface command explicitly requesting a full size file corresponding to the preview file: selecting a second base file of the plurality of base files, removing the second base file from the local memory, and retrieving a copy of the first base file from the remote server.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Ruslan Shigabutdinov
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Patent number: 11025811Abstract: A system for live streaming a trail camera preferably includes a position adjustable camera, a cellular hotspot, a power source, a WiFi switch, a wireless device and a control software program. The position adjustable camera includes being actuated by a motion detector; the capability of being remotely operated; and the ability to live stream images and video including sound. The cellular hotspot converts a cellular signal to a WiFi signal, or a WiFi signal to a cellular signal. The WiFi switch allows operation of the position adjustable camera. The control software program provides an interface between the user and control of the position adjustable camera. The control software program includes choosing between livestream and still images; powering the position adjustable camera; controlling the pan, tilt and zoom of the position adjustable camera; triggering of camera operation; choice of multiple cameras; image inversion; and storage of images in an images gallery.Type: GrantFiled: January 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Scott Matheson
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Patent number: 11023736Abstract: Presenting event-specific video content that conforms to a user selection of an event type includes processing at least one video feed through at least one spatiotemporal pattern recognition algorithm that uses machine learning to develop an understanding of at least one event within the at least one video feed to determine at least one event type, wherein the at least one event type includes an entry in a relationship library at least detailing a relationship between two visible features of the at least one video feed, extracting the video content displaying the at least one event and associating the understanding with the video content in a video content data structure. A user interface is configured to permit a user to indicate a preference for at least one event type that is used to retrieve and provide corresponding extracted video content with the data structure in a new video feed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Second Spectrum, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Han Chang, Rajiv Maheswaran, Jeffrey Wayne Su, Noel Hollingsworth
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Patent number: 11019281Abstract: An augmented reality telescope comprises an optical image acquisition module, an electronic image acquisition module, an imaging module communicating optically to the optical image acquisition module and the electronic image acquisition module, and an image observation module open optically to the imaging module. The optical image acquisition module is arranged for the acquisition of object images by means of optical acquisition, and the electronic image acquisition module is arranged for the acquisition of object images in the form of electronic imaging. Since the imaging module is simultaneously open optically to the optical image acquisition module and the electronic image acquisition module, a mixed display of the optical image and the electronic image is realized.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Light Speed Vision (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hongyun Qiu
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Patent number: 11019410Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus that may provide predetermined partial content of content provided from a content providing server to a user terminal by controlling the partial content based on an interaction of a user or synthesizing new content with the partial content, and by displaying the controlled content or the synthesized content.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: NAVER WEBTOON Ltd.Inventors: Jin Jung, Seung-hun Lee, Yeojung Kim, Changgeun Song, SeungTaek Lim, Sang Hyeon Kim, Kyeongryeol Park, Hyeong Gyu Kim, Sang Min Park, Hee Jae Ahn, Kain Choi, Young-Chae Lim, Ji Ung Han
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Patent number: 11017560Abstract: A video generation system is described that extracts one or more characters or other objects from a video, re-animates the character, and generates a new video in which the extracted characters. The system enables the extracted character(s) to be positioned and controlled within a new background scene different from the original background scene of the source video. In one example, the video generation system comprises a pose prediction neural network having a pose model trained with (i) a set of character pose training images extracted from an input video of the character and (ii) a simulated motion control signal generated from the input video. In operation, the pose prediction neural network generates, in response to a motion control input from a user, a sequence of images representing poses of a character. A frame generation neural network generates output video frames that render the character within a scene.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Oran Gafni, Lior Wolf, Yaniv Taigman
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Patent number: 11019087Abstract: An intelligent system and method for anomaly, such as crime, detection is provided. In some embodiments, the system may comprise a computing device, defined by a generator and a discriminator, and at least one video camera. The generator may generate synthetic data and real data and, in turn, the discriminator may evaluate and classify the synthetic data and the real data as real or synthetic. In other embodiments, the computing device may be trained so as to classify the synthetic data and the real data as normal or anomaly. In further exemplary embodiments, the video camera may capture a plurality of live action events and generate video data, which the video camera may then transmit to the computing device. The computing device may then classify the live action events as normal or anomaly. In embodiments where the live action events may be classified as anomaly, an appropriate authority may be notified so as to provide decreased response times and ultimately, improve safety and prevent crimes.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Inventors: Ehsan Adeli, Joseph Zaki
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Patent number: 11017275Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for multi-scale SAR image recognition based on attention mechanism. According to the method, a whole image recognition network is adjusted by training a SAR training image by an attention prediction subnet, a region-of-interest positioning subnet and an image classification subnet in combination with a network loss, which greatly improves a network performance; and in addition, an attention prediction map is generated by attention mechanism to position a most prominent feature part in the SAR image, which greatly eliminates a redundancy of image features in a machine vision, effectively determines a region-of-interest, reduces interference of image noises, greatly reduces an image processing time, improves a target recognition accuracy, is beneficial to next target positioning, and has a significant improvement on a network recognition speed integrally.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: WUYI UniversityInventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Zilu Ying, Qirui Ke, Wenlue Zhou
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Patent number: 11009964Abstract: A system including a plurality of sensor modules, each module having an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and being attached to a respective body portion of a user (e.g., upper arm, hand, and/or head) to measure the current orientation of the corresponding portion of the user. A computing device coupled to the sensor modules is configured to identify that a user is at a predefined pose, which the predefined pose of the user is representative of the forearms and the upper arms of the user lying in a horizontal plane. A head mount display (HMD) attached to a head of the user using a camera to generate camera data, the HMD calculating the first length using the camera data, and the first length is calculated as corresponds to a distance between hands of the user and shoulders of the user; the computing device determining one or more lengths of one or more bones of the user based on the first length and the plurality of orientations of arm bones of the user at the predefined pose.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Finch Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Alexander Sergeevich Lobanov, Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov, Daniil Olegovich Goncharov, Ratmir Rasilevich Gubaidullin, Alexey Andreevich Gusev
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Patent number: 11012624Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain first setting information including information related to a first specified area in an image and related to image analysis processing and second setting information including information related to a second specified area in the image and related to the image analysis processing of the same type as the first setting information, wherein the second setting information has been created before the first setting information, a determination unit configured to determine an overlapped area of the first and second specified areas on a basis of the first setting information and the second setting information, and a decision unit configured to decide processing to be executed with respect to at least one of the first setting information and the second setting information in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Osamu Yonishi
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Patent number: 11012750Abstract: A method for configuring a multiviewer of at least one service having at least one sensor providing a sensor signal, comprising: specifying at least one characteristic feature, extracting for each of the at least one sensor signals at least one characteristic feature vector representing at least the at least one characteristic feature of the sensor signal, and arranging the sensors signals in a two-dimensional matrix in such a manner that a distance is minimized, the distance being the distance between at least one characteristic feature vector of one of the sensor signals and the corresponding characteristic feature vector of at least one neighboring sensor signal, the at least one neighboring sensor signal being an adjacent neighbor to the one sensor signal in the matrix. Further, a multiviewer is shown.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bjoern Schmid, Fadi Moukayed
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Patent number: 11007937Abstract: A vehicular display system includes a camera configured to be positioned on a vehicle and a processing system for processing image data captured by the camera. The image data is representative of a scene viewed by the camera. The processing system generates an output representative of an image having three image panes including a central image pane derived from a first subset of captured image data and two side image panes derived from second and third subsets of captured image data. Each of the side image panes are shaped and arranged with respect to the central image pane to have non-parallel upper edges and non-parallel lower edges. A display device, responsive to the output generated by the processing system, displays the image for viewing by a driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Steven V. Byrne, Yuesheng Lu
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Patent number: 11004176Abstract: Methods and apparatus for multi-encoder processing of high resolution content. In one embodiment, the method includes capturing high resolution imaging content; splitting up the captured high resolution imaging content into respective portions; feeding the split up portions to respective imaging encoders; packing encoded content from the respective imaging encoders into an A/V container; and storing and/or transmitting the A/V container. In another embodiment, the method includes retrieving and/or receiving an A/V container; splitting up the retrieved and/or received A/V container into respective portions; feeding the split up portions to respective imaging decoders; stitching the decoded imaging portions into a common imaging portion; and storing and/or displaying at least a portion of the common imaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: David Newman, Daryl Stimm, Adeel Abbas
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Patent number: 11004215Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that includes one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: generate distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of horizontal distance values of a range image based on the range image having pixel values according to distance of an object in a plurality of captured images; predict a predicted position of the object in the distribution data with respect to a range image of a current frame, based on the distribution data with respect to range images of a plurality of previous frames; and continue tracking of the object, based on a similarity between a region of the object in a previous frame and a region in the current frame with respect to the predicted position of the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Genki Watanabe, Keito Sawada, Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11003411Abstract: An image display system includes a first image display device and a second image display device. The first image display device includes a first communication section adapted to perform communication with the second image display device, a first display section adapted to display a first image based on first image information, a storage section adapted to store second image information, an operation section adapted to receive a first operation, and a control section adapted to make the first communication section transmit the second image information corresponding to the first operation received by the operation section to the second image display device. The second image display device includes a second communication section adapted to perform communication with the first image display device, and a second display section adapted to display a second image based on the second image information received via the second communication section.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10997414Abstract: Method of processing video data in a retail information processing system can include recognizing an object within a video data feed to provide a recognized object within a retail environment. A context for the recognized object can be determined and a plurality of possible actions can be provided on an electronic display to an administrator of the retail information processing system, where the plurality of possible actions limited to only actions taken in the context for the recognized object. A selection from among the plurality of possible actions to be taken in the context for the recognized object can be received to provide a selected action relative to the recognized object.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Inventors: Dean Herring, Brad Johnson, Adrian Rodriguez, Brian Young, Jonathan Waite
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Patent number: 10999914Abstract: A power management system for lighting circuit may include a grid shifting controller that includes a processor and a connection to an external power source. The power management system may also include a communication interface associated with the grid shifting controller. The grid shifting controller may be configured to provide control information to a processor of at least one grid shifting electrical fixture over the communication interface, the control information being configured to direct the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture on the use of power from the external power source and an energy storage device associated with the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael V. Recker, David B Levine
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Patent number: 10999560Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for remote electronic monitoring infrastructure, such as implemented, at least in part, via electronic communications, which may include, for example, enhanced machine-type communications (eMTC).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Readiness Systems, LLCInventor: Richard A. Lazar
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Patent number: 10997421Abstract: Described is a system for visual activity recognition that includes one or more processors and a memory, the memory being a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions, the one or more processors perform operations including detecting a set of objects of interest in video data and determining an object classification for each object in the set of objects of interest, the set including at least one object of interest. The one or more processors further perform operations including forming a corresponding activity track for each object in the set of objects of interest by tracking each object across frames. The one or more processors further perform operations including, for each object of interest and using a feature extractor, determining a corresponding feature in the video data. The system may provide a report to a user's cell phone or central monitoring facility.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Deepak Khosla, Ryan M. Uhlenbrock, Yang Chen
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Patent number: 10997835Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a system with cameras and mirrors that can be utilized with an auto-checkout system within a retail environment. This system with cameras and mirrors is designed to have many functions within a store with auto-checkout system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Inventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Tyler Crain
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Patent number: 10999519Abstract: A target tracking method applicable to a shooting device including a first shooting assembly and a second shooting assembly. The method includes calling the second shooting assembly to shoot an environment to obtain an image, performing target object recognition on the image to obtain a tracking position area of a target object to be tracked in the image, and adjusting a shooting attitude of the shooting device according to the tracking position area of the target object in the image to locate the target object in a shooting frame of the first shooting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 10990827Abstract: The invention relates to the area of computer vision video data analysis, in particular to the technologies aimed to search the required objects or events in the analyzed video originally received from a third-party device. An imported video analysis device consists of memory, database for metadata storage, a graphical user interface, and a data processing module. The data processing module is configured to upload a video in any available format into the memory and to import the uploaded video into software of the imported video analysis device. Software decompresses and analyzes the imported video to generate metadata characterizing the data in all objects in the video and to save the metadata in database. The search speed for the required event or object in the imported video received from a third-party device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: OOO ITV GroupInventor: Murat K. Altuev
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Patent number: 10991224Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fire detection system based on AI and a fire detection method based on Ai, which detects fire by using deep learning. The fire detection system includes a camera part generating video images, an object extraction part extracting a motion object from the video images, a video image conversion part generating a first background removal image, an image division part dividing the first background removal image with a plurality of division lines, and an analyzing part generating an abnormal signal and a normal signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: CHANG SUNG ACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeu Yong Lee, Won Il Lee
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Patent number: 10981520Abstract: A driver assist system for a vehicle includes a bracket connectable with a vehicle window. The bracket has a body portion and a camera viewing window in the body portion. A camera in the body portion has a field of view through the camera viewing window. A heat sink contacts the camera and is configured to contact the vehicle window. The heat sink extends about a periphery of the camera viewing window so that heat generated by the camera is transferred through the heat sink to an area of the vehicle window that surrounds the camera's field of view.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Sri Mutyala, Darryl Edwards, Kevin Maddalena, Larry Schester, Harsh Shah
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Patent number: 10984834Abstract: A dual-control security procedure is initiated, and a first person is identified for the procedure. The first person is authenticated and a remote agent that is remotely located is requested to participate in the procedure. Actions/behaviors of at least the first person are monitored from the video in accordance with the procedure and provided in real-time to the remote agent. An audit log is written to upon the conclusion of the procedure. The audit log at least comprising: identifiers for the first person and the remote agent, a procedure identifier for the procedure, an asset/area identifier associated with the procedure, a zone identifier for a location within an establishment, action identifiers for the actions, behavior identifiers for the behaviors, violation identifiers for any violations detected during the procedure, and a link to a video clip from the video that corresponds to at least the first person performing the procedure.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Sudip Rahman Khan, Matthew Robert Burris, Christopher John Costello, Gregory Joseph Hartl
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Patent number: 10981518Abstract: An assembly includes a liftgate and an autonomous navigation sensor assembly supported by the liftgate. The autonomous navigation sensor assembly has a plurality of sensors and a vent facing across a field-of-view of one of the sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Anthony Michael Regalbuto, Rashaun Phinisee, Tamika Donaldson
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Patent number: 10977919Abstract: A security system is coupled to a door lock system at a dwelling. A lock device is provided with a lock and a drive shaft. An intelligent door lock system includes: a door status device configured to couple to the drive shaft of the lock device, the door status device determining lock or unlock status of a the lock device, an engine that provides power to lock and unlock the lock and coupled to the door status device, the engine coupled to at least one wireless communication device at the dwelling configured to with a mobile device of a dwelling occupant for communication with the intelligent door lock system to lock or unlock the door, a circuit coupled to the engine, and an energy source coupled to the circuit and providing power to lock or unlock the door, wherein an occupant/owner, or end-user of the dwelling communicates with a server to grant third party access to the dwelling. A security system is configured to be coupled to the intelligent door lock system.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: August Home, Inc.Inventors: Jason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Luca Baradel, Christopher Dow
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Patent number: 10979613Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically positioning a content capturing device are disclosed. A vehicle, e.g., an UAV, carries the content capturing device, e.g., a camcorder. The UAV can position the content capturing device at a best location for viewing a subject based on one or more audio or visual cues. The UAV can follow movement of the subject to achieve best audio or visual effect. In some implementations, a controller device carried by the subject can generate one or more signals for the UAV to follow. The controller device may be coupled to a microphone that records audio. The signals can be used to temporally synchronize video captured at the UAV and audio captured by the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Timo Kunkel, Cong Zhou, Vivek Kumar, Remi S. Audfray
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Patent number: 10977800Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include, but are not limited to, methods for capturing video sampling data comprising a plurality of video images of a moving object, for example using one or more cameras positioned on a stationary frame of reference adjacent to the mechanical component under investigation, in which an external trigger is used for image acquisition (in some embodiments, one image per revolution or cycle) similar in result to an internal clock or timed pulse can act as a command over a camera to obtain visual data from which the movement of the component or object can be acquired and studied, and further producing video of motion from a series of images to detect, amplify, or enlarge an appearance of motion present as a result of components not coming back to their original locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey R. Hay, Kenneth Ralph Piety, Mark William Slemp
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Patent number: 10977493Abstract: Digital media assets depicting or otherwise representing portions of a property are captured via a media capture device, such as an unmanned vehicle, at various locations about a property. A positioning receiver tracks the location of the media capture device when each digital media asset is captured. A computing device associated with either the media capture device itself or a network-connected server automatically generates location-based categories—such as “front side” or “rear side” or “living room”—automatically based on the plurality of locations so that each location-based category is associated with multiple digital media assets and their corresponding locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: IMAGEKEEPER LLCInventors: Jerry Speasl, Mike Patterson, Marc Roberts
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Patent number: 10977916Abstract: A surveillance system (1) includes an area information acquisition unit (101), a request information provision unit (102), and a participation consent reception unit (103). The area information acquisition unit (101) acquires information of a surveillance-desired area. The request information provision unit (102) provides participation request information for surveillance that is conducted by using an image capturing unit of a portable terminal in the surveillance-desired area. The participation consent reception unit (103) receives participation consent as a response to the participation request information, from the portable terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoma Oami, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Yuusuke Konishi, Hiroo Ikeda, Junko Nakagawa, Kosuke Yoshimi, Yukie Ebiyama, Ryo Kawai, Takuya Ogawa
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Patent number: 10970995Abstract: A system for monitoring event related data including a sensor data analyzer, an event analyzer and an actuator is disclosed. The sensor data analyzer detects events based on sensor data, the event analyzer couples to the sensor data analyzer and estimates the size of the detected entire events based on event related data of the detected events from the sensor data analyzer, and the actuator couples to the sensor data analyzer and the event analyzer and actuates a predetermined device based on the estimated size of the detected entire events.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Tani, Takeshi Arikuma
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Patent number: 10970558Abstract: An approximate positions-of-people determination means determines, for each partial area, approximate positions of people on an image on the basis of information about the partial area. A states-of-people estimation means, in addition to predicting the current states of particles from the states of particles indicating past states of people and stored in a storage means, adds new particles and evaluates the likelihood of the states of predicted particles and the added particles on the basis of an observation model generated for the observed people to update the weights of the particles, performs particle re-sampling at a probability proportional to the weights of those particles, and outputs the states of the obtained particles as a flow of people.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10970559Abstract: An approximate positions-of-people determination means determines, for each partial area, approximate positions of people on an image on the basis of information about the partial area. A states-of-people estimation means, in addition to predicting the current states of particles from the states of particles indicating past states of people and stored in a storage means, adds new particles and evaluates the likelihood of the states of predicted particles and the added particles on the basis of an observation model generated for the observed people to update the weights of the particles, performs particle re-sampling at a probability proportional to the weights of those particles, and outputs the states of the obtained particles as a flow of people.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10971146Abstract: A speech interaction device includes an ascertaining section and a control section. The ascertaining section ascertains a direction of a speech utterer by audio emitted by the speech utterer. The control section controls directionality of audio output through a speaker when outputting audio toward the speech utterer, such that directionality of audio in the direction ascertained by the ascertaining section is higher than directionality of audio in other directions.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Akihiro Muguruma, Yukiya Sugiyama, Shota Higashihara, Riho Matsuo, Naoki Yamamuro
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Patent number: 10965862Abstract: An interface is provided for navigating among views in a multi-camera environment. In addition to providing improved ease of use, such an interface also provides an overview of the scene represented by the captured video, by virtue of the positioning of various user interface elements representing different camera views. The navigation interface includes a number of selectable user interface elements, arranged in a fashion that approximates the physical positions of the cameras. Tapping or clicking on one of the elements causes a main window to display a current view from a corresponding camera or video feed. The navigation interface can be implemented, for example, in a live video capture system, or in a post-production system.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Mark Weir, Grant Yoshida
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Patent number: 10965903Abstract: Methods and systems for signal proxying and modification relating to security and/or automation systems are described. In one embodiments, the methods include receiving, at a proxy device, a data signal transmitted from a first device, receiving a request for the data signal from at least one of two or more other devices, and transmitting the data signal to each of the two or more other devices based at least in part on the received request.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Vivint, Inc.Inventors: Craig Matsuura, Ryan Carlson
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Patent number: 10964047Abstract: The invention concerns a device (1) for locating a target, comprising: —a camera (2) that can be oriented in an orientation in view of the target so that the camera acquires an image of the target, and an orientation in view of a star so that the camera acquires at least one image of the star, —an inertial unit (4) configured to calculate position and orientation data of the camera (2), —a resetting module (6) configured to a apply stellar resetting to the data on the basis of the image of the star, in order to produce reset data, —a location module (8) configured to estimate a position of the target (T) from the image of the target (T) and the reset data, —a communication interface for communicating with an operator station, the camera (2) passing from one orientation to the other in response to the reception, by the interface, of a command sent by the operator station.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Emmanuel Robert, Flavien Roland, Arnaud Davenel, Benjamin Deleaux, David Roberfroid, Georges-Olivier Reymond