Using Test Chart Patents (Class 348/188)
  • Patent number: 11924405
    Abstract: An evaluation method of an image stabilization effect of an imaging device includes calculating an evaluation value of the image stabilization effect on the basis of shutter speed values in case of which each of a reference shake amount theoretically calculated on the basis of a shake waveform applied to the imaging device and a measured shake amount calculated using an image captured in a state in which the imaging device is vibrated becomes a specified shake amount, and setting the specified shake amount. The setting includes calculating an image deterioration amount of the imaging device caused by something other than a shake from the outside, and selecting a determination level that defines the specified shake amount from a plurality of determination levels having different shake amounts on the basis of the image deterioration amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Kiyamura, Toru Matsumoto, Tamaki Negishi, Ryuichiro Yasuda, Yu Narita, Go Naito
  • Patent number: 11900631
    Abstract: A device includes a first camera and a second camera respectively supported by a first and a second assemblies coupled via a hinge. The first and the second cameras are configured to respectively capture a first image and a second image that include a common reference object. A controller is coupled to the first and the second cameras, and configured to change an operating mode of the device in response to a comparison between the first and the second images. Additional cameras may be used in further embodiments and may be mounted onto the front and back surfaces of the first and the second assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Justin Michael Ringuette, Mark Summerville, Richard Todd Wall, Sandy Collins
  • Patent number: 11699216
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for reducing radial distortion errors in fish-eye images is presented. The method includes capturing an image from a camera including distortions, detecting arc-shaped edge segments in the image including the distortions, estimating a main distortion parameter by fixing a distortion centerpoint in a middle of the image, estimating the distortion centerpoint with the main distortion parameter, and obtaining an undistorted version of the captured image by inverting the distortion model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Min Feng, Srimat Chakradhar, Alper Yildirim
  • Patent number: 11682297
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking objects though a traffic control system include an image sensor configured to capture a stream of images of scene from an associated real-world position, an object tracker configured to identify an object in the captured images and define an associated object location in the captured images, a three-dimensional stage model system configured to transform the associated object location in the image to three-dimensional coordinates associated with the image sensor, and a three-dimensional world model configured to transform identified objects to real-world coordinates. Embodiments use lens aberration, sensor mounting height and location, accelerometer, gyro-compass and/or global position satellite information to generate a situational map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FLIR Systems Trading Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Koen Janssens, Tom Van Severen
  • Patent number: 11674866
    Abstract: A camera-testing box for testing optical properties of an image-capturing device includes a box body, a light source, a photographic film, a mask, and a base. The light source is disposed inside the light-free box body. The photographic film is disposed on a side of the light source inside the box body. The mask is disposed on a side of the photographic film away from or facing the light source, and the mask includes a transparent area and a shielding area to reduce flare-causing light reflected by screws and other extraneous objects in the camera-testing box. The base is disposed inside the box body, and on a side of the mask away from the light source. The base supports the to-be-tested image-capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO.LTD.
    Inventors: Xin-Ru Chang, Yu-Tsang Tu
  • Patent number: 11662710
    Abstract: A system and method for fabricating replicas of wildlife reproductions. The system includes a scanner configured to optically acquire digital images of wildlife subjects, a three-dimensional printer operative to produce a three-dimensional reproduction of wildlife subjects and a processor issuing command signals to the three-dimensional printer to print the digital image file of the selected wildlife subject. The digital images of each wildlife subject being saved to a library of digital image files within a computer database. The processor, furthermore, includes program code for accessing the library of digital image files which is responsive to an input command signal which selects the three-dimensional digital image file of the wildlife subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Chris Lee Cammack
  • Patent number: 11429081
    Abstract: A toolpath topology design method based on vector field in sub-regional processing for the curved surface is disclosed which comprising: finding the functional relationships in feeding direction between the chord error and the normal curvature and between the scallop-height error and the normal curvature; establishing the bi-objective optimization model and calculating the optimal feeding direction at each cutting contact point within the surface through the constructed evaluation function, the space vector field is built; calculating divergence and rotation of the projected vector field and according to whether them are zeros or not to classify different sub-regions, the primary surface segmentation is achieved, etc. The method is applied for the complex curved surface processing, which can reduce the machining error and enhance the feed motion stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jianwei Ma, Zhenyuan Jia, Xiao Lu, Wenwen Jiang, Xiaoxuan Zhao, Wei Liu, Likun Si
  • Patent number: 11410330
    Abstract: A camera's field of view is determined using image data and location information. Accurate augmented reality representations are provided based on the determined field of view in an absence of a priori knowledge of the camera's field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: EDX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Ray Skidmore, Eric Reifsnider
  • Patent number: 11343435
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to microlensing for real-time sensing of stray light. An example device includes an image sensor that includes a plurality of light-sensitive pixels. The device also includes a first lens positioned over a first subset of light-sensitive pixels selected from the plurality of light-sensitive pixels. Further, the device includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine a first angle of incidence of a first light signal detected by the first subset of light-sensitive pixels. The controller is also configured to, based on the first determined angle of incidence, determine an amount of stray light incident on the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Frevert, Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia
  • Patent number: 11158089
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method, apparatus, device and system for calibrating parameters of a camera. In this solution, a camera performs image capturing on multiple checkerboard targets to obtain a calibration image, in other words, the calibration image contains multiple checkerboards, and the camera parameters are solved based on the calibration image containing the multiple checkerboards. In a first aspect, the calibration image contains multiple checkerboards, so that it is not necessary to adjust the position or posture of a checkerboard target for multiple times and to capture a calibration image with respect to the checkerboard target for multiple times, thereby improving the calibration efficiency. In a second aspect, the fact of capturing a calibration image with respect to the checkerboard target for multiple times results in a relatively large error for capturing, while this error for capturing is reduced by applying this solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xunlong Xia, Hui Mao
  • Patent number: 11145087
    Abstract: A system and method for calibrating a forward-facing camera or sensor of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a calibration tool, the position of which can be adjusted on the vehicle to align a presentation screen of the calibration tool with the vehicle camera. A processor performs a method to determine the size and position of a calibration target to be displayed on the presentation screen, based on a position of the calibration tool relative to the vehicle camera and generates a calibration target image to be digitally transmitted to the presentation screen. The presentation screen displays the calibration target image at an appropriate height, angle, and distance from the camera or sensor being calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AirPro Diagnostics, LLC
    Inventors: Lonnie E. Margol, Geoffrey R. Margol, Charles P. Olsen, Jonathan Z. Brigman, Stephen Casella, Harold Koegler, Eric Thomas Newell, Sean M. Parr, Clayton Rush Williams, Joshua Lee McFarlin, Matthew John Mercier, John Burrill, Donovan Rahim Naghitorabi, Jules Marc Philipp Gozlan, Christopher Joel Cimino
  • Patent number: 11126317
    Abstract: Systems and methods for redacting information from data records are provided. Data records are recorded by recording devices, including, but not limited to, camera recording devices such as those associated with law-enforcement officers. The data records are stored in an evidence management system. In response to requests for records, including but not limited to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the evidence management system creates redacted versions of the data records. Public access may then be provided to the redacted data records. In some embodiments, automated bulk redaction may be applied to video data records by applying a video filter to the entire visual field of the video information. In some embodiments, access to the redacted data records may be provided via a cloud storage system or via a removable computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Khoo, Abraham Alvarez Zayas, Marcus W. L. Womack, James N. Reitz
  • Patent number: 11095865
    Abstract: An example electronic device includes an image sensing tool to measure an average color balance value across a plurality of frames of a media stream. A processor verifies that the color balance value of the plurality of frames of the media stream is stable, and computes a selected color balance value of the media stream. An imaging device captures an image of a predetermined color calibration chart. The processor compares a color balance value of the image of the predetermined color calibration chart with a predefined color balance value, and validates the selected color balance value of the media stream to align with a selected region of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yow Wei Cheng, Emily Ann Miginnis
  • Patent number: 10841610
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject video coding system may include a processor that encodes an N×M block using an x-tap filter for horizontal interpolation and a y-tap filter for vertical interpolation, where x is proportional to N and y is proportional to M. The processor may use a current block size to select an interpolation filter with a first length or a second length for a current block, use an overlapped block size to select an interpolation filter with a first length or a second length for overlapped areas, and, when a neighboring block uses a long interpolation filter and a short interpolation filter is selected for the overlapped area, maps the long interpolation filter to a short interpolation filter of a selected type. The processor may calculate a reference block size based on a scaling factor and use the reference block size to select a filter length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Zhijie Yang, Timothy Moore Hellman
  • Patent number: 10708561
    Abstract: To provide a POS terminal or the like which enables adjustment of white balance of an object to be sufficiently accurate even in the change of external light illuminating the object. The POS terminal includes: an image capture unit which captures an object including a plurality of respectively different reference colors and generates an image; a comparison unit which compares a portion of the image relating to each of the reference colors with a standard image which is a standard of the reference colors; and an adjustment unit which adjusts white balance based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Inoue, Hideo Yokoi, Jun Kobayashi, Eiji Muramatsu, Hiroshi Yamada, Kota Iwamoto, Tetsuo Inoshita, Soma Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10630922
    Abstract: A high dynamic range imaging sensor includes a pixel array of pixel cells, a readout circuitry, a function logic and a control circuitry. Each pixel cell comprises one of a normal pixel and a base pixel, and each M rows by N columns pixels defines a pixel subarray. Each pixel subarray includes at least three normal pixels and at least one base pixel. The readout circuitry is coupled to read image data out from a plurality of pixels of the pixel array. The readout circuitry includes an Analog-to-Digital Converter associated to respective readout column. The function logic is coupled to receive the digital image data from the readout circuitry. The control circuitry is coupled to receive exposure levels from the function logic and to output each applied exposure level assigned to respective pixel subarray of the pixel array to control an exposure time of each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tiejun Dai, Chengming Liu
  • Patent number: 10609360
    Abstract: A method of calibration of a dual camera system, including, providing a chart of a plurality of circular rings and at least one disk, imaging the chart with a first camera to provide a first chart image and a second camera to provide a second chart image, performing edge detection of the first and second chart image on the plurality of circular rings and the at least one disk, determining the relative position of the plurality of circular rings to the at least one disk, matching the relative positions of the plurality of circular rings of the first chart image and the second chart image and aligning the first camera and the second camera based on the matching of the first chart image to the second chart image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Black Sesame International Holding Limited
    Inventors: Kuochin Chang, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 10567749
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a modulation transfer function (MTF) of a device under test comprising a red/clear color filter. A pattern source provides a pattern. The device under test images the pattern to provide an image comprising a plurality of filtered pixels and a plurality of unfiltered pixels, each having an associated brightness value. An image analysis system determines, for each filtered pixel, an axis, of a plurality of axes, having a lowest curvature. A first axis of the plurality of axes is not orthogonal to a second axis. An interpolated image is generated having a new brightness value for each of the plurality of filtered pixels as a function of respective brightness values for a set of unfiltered pixels selected from a first-order Moore neighborhood of the pixel along the axis having the lowest curvature. The modulation transfer function is determined from the interpolated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ZF ACTIVE SAFETY AND ELECTRONICS US LLC
    Inventor: Matthew W. Warmuth
  • Patent number: 10548474
    Abstract: The present application includes methods, systems and computer readable storage devices for determining a color score for at least a portion of a biological tissue. The subject matter of the application is embodied in a method that includes obtaining a digital image of the biological tissue, and receiving a selection of a portion of the image as an evaluation area. The method also includes determining for each of a plurality of pixels within the evaluation area, a plurality of color components that are based on a Cartesian color space, and determining, from the color components, a hue value in a polar coordinate based color space. The method further includes determining a color value based on the hue value for each of the plurality of pixels, and assigning a color score to the evaluation area based on an average of the color values of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
    Inventors: Reza Dana, Francisco L. Amparo Pulido, Haobing Wang
  • Patent number: 10534497
    Abstract: Systems and methods for redacting information from data records are provided. Data records are recorded by recording devices, including, but not limited to, camera recording devices such as those associated with law-enforcement officers. The data records are stored in an evidence management system. In response to requests for records, including but not limited to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the evidence management system creates redacted versions of the data records. Public access may then be provided to the redacted data records. In some embodiments, automated bulk redaction may be applied to video data records by applying a video filter to the entire visual field of the video information. In some embodiments, access to the redacted data records may be provided via a cloud storage system or via a removable computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Khoo, Abraham Alvarez Zayas, Marcus W. L. Womack, James N. Reitz
  • Patent number: 10419685
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a correction factor calculating unit configured to calculate a correction factor for correcting a difference in pixel values corresponding to a difference between a spectral sensitivity and a preset reference spectral sensitivity in a predetermined wavelength range at a pixel of interest, based on image data generated by an image sensor, the image sensor having a plurality of pixels on which color filters of a plurality of colors with different spectral transmittances are respectively disposed, the color filters forming a predetermined array pattern, the correction factor calculating unit being configured to calculate the correction factor for each of the plurality of pixels on which at least a predetermined color filter of the color filters is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Ichikawa, Hiroki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10376199
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus with improved detection accuracy of the state of a subject is provided. An imaging apparatus comprises: an imaging optical system configured to form an optical image of a face of a subject in a vehicle; an image sensor configured to capture the formed optical image and generate a captured image; and an image processor configured to determine a state of the subject based on the captured image, wherein the imaging apparatus satisfies F?0.0003 f2/p, where F is an F value of the imaging optical system, f is a focal length of the imaging optical system, and p is a pixel pitch of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomofumi Koishi
  • Patent number: 10281674
    Abstract: An adjustable optical lens and camera module and manufacturing method thereof are provided, wherein the camera module includes an optical sensor and an adjustable optical lens. The adjustable optical lens, which is arranged in a photosensitive path of the optical sensor, includes an optical structural member and at least two lenses. Each of the lens is arranged in an internal space of the optical structural member along an axial direction of the optical structural member, wherein before packaging the adjustable optical lens and the optical sensor, at least one position of the lens in the internal space of the optical structural member is able to be adjusted, so that a central axis line of the adjustable optical lens and a central axis line of the optical sensor are coincided, so as to improve the image quality of the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Bojie Zhao, Liang Ding, Chunmei Liu, Feifan Chen, Nan Guo, Heng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10237545
    Abstract: An image pickup module test system includes a computing device, an optical reflector, a block gauge and a fixing device. A test program is executed in the computing device. The image pickup module is fixed at a position in front of the optical reflector by the fixing device. The image pickup device acquires an image of the image pickup module and the block gauge that is reflected from the optical reflector. The test program analyzes the image to obtain a feature point of the image pickup module and a feature point of the block gauge. Moreover, the test program judges whether an installation location of at least one lens unit of the image pickup module complies with a production specification according to the standard length value corresponding to the single pixel of the image and the feature point of the image pickup module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD
    Inventors: Shih-Jung Huang, Sheng-Chi Chan
  • Patent number: 10209091
    Abstract: A measurement tool includes a first member and a measurement member. The first member has a surface including a chart to be used for calibration of a stereo camera. The measurement member is arranged on the surface of the first member. The measurement member includes a light source and a second member. The light source is configured to emit light with a uniform intensity regardless of a position on the surface. The second member is configured to cover the light source and radiate the light from a plurality of first holes and a plurality of second holes having a size larger than the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunobu Yoshida, Shin Aoki
  • Patent number: 10187636
    Abstract: For aligning an image sensor relative to a lens module prior to fixing the image sensor to the lens module, an exposure of the image sensor is turned on and the image sensor is moved to different distances relative to the lens module. At certain predetermined distances between the image sensor and the lens module, a calibration pattern is illuminated and two or more pictures of the calibration pattern which is focused through the lens module are captured with the image sensor to produce at least two pictures of the calibration pattern captured at different distances, the at least two pictures being superimposed onto a calibration image. The exposure of the image sensor is then turned off and the pictures of the calibration pattern are analyzed for determining an alignment between the lens module and the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: ASM TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE PTE LTD
    Inventors: Chi Shing Wong, Fan Leuk Lai, Po Lam Au, Jiangwen Deng, Wing Hong Leung
  • Patent number: 10108306
    Abstract: Systems and methods for redacting information from data records are provided. Data records are recorded by recording devices, including, but not limited to, camera recording devices such as those associated with law-enforcement officers. The data records are stored in an evidence management system. In response to requests for records, including but not limited to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the evidence management system creates redacted versions of the data records. Public access may then be provided to the redacted data records. In some embodiments, automated bulk redaction may be applied to video data records by applying a video filter to the entire visual field of the video information. In some embodiments, access to the redacted data records may be provided via a cloud storage system or via a removable computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Khoo, Abraham Alvarez Zayas, Marcus W.L. Womack, James N. Reitz
  • Patent number: 10102631
    Abstract: A distance in a scanning direction between a first set of edges which face each other and exhibit an opposite change between light and dark is measured by an image measuring machine, and a bias correction value is calculated based on a difference between a measured value and a true value. Using the bias correction value, detection point correction values, which are correction values in various directions of edge detection points detected by a scan of a measured object using the image measuring machine, are calculated; a correction amount used in correction of the edge detection points is specified based on the detection point correction value in each direction; and the edge detection points are corrected using the correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshida, Akira Takada, Makoto Kaieda, Gyokubu Cho, Koichi Komatsu, Hidemitsu Asano, Takashi Hanamura, Takuho Maeda, Isao Tokuhara
  • Patent number: 10079981
    Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention is an image dynamic range adjustment method, the method comprising: decoding a to-be-adjusted image selected by a user into YUV data; performing regional partition on the to-be-adjusted image according to a predetermined division policy and the YUV data, and obtaining a Y component reference value corresponding to at least one region; adjusting the YUV data corresponding to each region of the at least one region according to an adjusting coefficient, to obtain the adjusted YUV data of each of the regions, the adjusting coefficient being obtained on the basis of the Y component reference value; obtaining the image after the dynamic range adjustment on the basis of the adjusted YUV data. Also disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention are a terminal and a storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Dewei Ji
  • Patent number: 10015482
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate including an active pixel and a test pattern, wherein the test pattern is located adjacent to the active pixel, wherein the active pixel comprises a first photodiode, a floating diffusion, a first channel provided between the first photodiode and the floating diffusion, and a first transfer gate electrode provided over the first channel, wherein the test pattern comprises a first test photodiode, a test floating diffusion, a second channel provided between the first test photodiode and the test floating diffusion, a first test transfer gate electrode provided over the second channel, and a first contact plug connected to the first test photodiode, and wherein the first test photodiode, the test floating diffusion, the second channel, and the first test transfer gate have substantially the same alignment errors as the first photodiode, the floating diffusion, the first channel, and the first transfer gate electrode, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Hui Yang, Donghyun Woo, Jong-Chae Kim
  • Patent number: 9922274
    Abstract: A test apparatus comprising a portable reference element having color and spectrophotometrically neutral gray elements of predetermined hues and saturations, and a digital software file provides identical color and spectrophotometrically neutral grayscale data which, when printed or otherwise reproduced accurately, may be compared with the test colors and grayscale provided by the portable reference element, enabling appropriate adjustments to be made to the printer as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Ferrand D. E. Corley
  • Patent number: 9894350
    Abstract: Camera and/or lens calibration information is generated as part of a calibration process in video systems including 3-dimensional (3D) immersive content systems. The calibration information can be used to correct for distortions associated with the source camera and/or lens. A calibration profile can include information sufficient to allow the system to correct for camera and/or lens distortion/variation. This can be accomplished by capturing a calibration image of a physical 3D object corresponding to the simulated 3D environment, and creating the calibration profile by processing the calibration image. The calibration profile can then be used to project the source content directly into the 3D viewing space while also accounting for distortion/variation, and without first translating into an intermediate space (e.g., a rectilinear space) to account for lens distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NextVR Inc.
    Inventors: David Cole, Alan McKay Moss, Hector M. Medina
  • Patent number: 9743058
    Abstract: Systems for automatic white balancing (AWB) of a digital image and methods for making and using same. In response to a white balancing trigger, the relative positions of an image sensor and a reference region for white balancing are automatically adjusted such that the image sensor can acquire an image of the reference region. A white balance parameter reflecting the color temperature of the illuminating source is then computed and used to perform white balancing so as to remove color casts. The position of the reference region can be pre-recorded or scanned-for by the image sensor. The reference region can be rendered mobile so that it can be positioned within the image sensor's field-of-vision. The imaging systems can further include a gimbal that enables the image sensor to rotate about one or more axes. The present systems and methods are suitable for use, for example, by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingyu Wang
  • Patent number: 9706197
    Abstract: Systems and methods for testing a light emitting device are described. A processing device receives image data from an image capturing device of an electronic device. The image data represents of an image of a projection, on a projection surface, of beam of light emitted by a light emitting device of the electronic device. The processing device determines one or more imaging calibration parameters based on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyuk-Joon Oh, Eddie Alex Azuma
  • Patent number: 9621874
    Abstract: A multiple imager camera includes a block, an imager, and an alignment apparatus. The block is configured to direct an image to a plurality of imagers located proximate to a plurality of apertures defined by the block. The imager of the plurality of imagers is configured to receive the image through an aperture of the plurality of apertures. The alignment apparatus is interposed between the block and the imager. The alignment apparatus is configured to allow for six degrees of freedom to align the imager with the image. The six degrees of freedom include adjustment along a x-axis, a y-axis, and a z-axis of the aperture, and adjustment about a pitch-axis, a yaw-axis, and a roll-axis of the aperture. The alignment apparatus is further configured to fixedly couple the imager to the block after the imager is aligned with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Leong Woon Loong, Kok Wee Yeo, Yew Kwang Low, Ronald M. Taylor, Thomas A. Degenkolb, Ward K. Everly, Morgan D. Murphy
  • Patent number: 9591300
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to scoring user experience of video frames displayed on a mobile or other video display device. In particular, it relates to capture alignment and test stimulus isolation techniques that compensate for artifacts in the capture mechanism. The technology disclosed includes methods and systems for analyzing both downlink and uplink quality for mobile or other video display device cameras capturing and transmitting video frames including teleconference video display. Particular aspects of the technology disclosed are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Predrag Djurdjevic
  • Patent number: 9517725
    Abstract: An auto revising system for around view monitoring (AVM) includes: one or more target members provided in a space in which a vehicle is assembled, as a reference for a position of the vehicle; a control unit configured to control an AVM system which is installed in the vehicle; and a revising robot unit configured to interface with the control unit to automatically revise a screen of the AVM system based on the one or more target members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Myong Kim
  • Patent number: 9412164
    Abstract: A reference set of image features is determined from an electronic data file specifying a reference image in a reference coordinate space. Rendering information describing a physical rendering of the reference image is ascertained. Calibration-enabling data is derived from the reference set of the image features and the ascertained rendering information. The calibration-enabling data is provided to calibrate an imaging system. The calibration-enabling data may be stored. The imaging system may capture an image of the physical rendering of the reference image in relation to a capture coordinate space. An extracted set of image features may be extracted from the captured image. Respective ones of the image features in the reference and extracted sets may be matched. The imaging system may be calibrated based on matched ones of the image features and the rendering information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Nelson Liang An Chang, Suk Hwan Lim, Feng Tang
  • Patent number: 9380297
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to scoring user experience of video frames displayed on a mobile or other video display device. In particular, it relates to capture alignment and test stimulus isolation techniques that compensate for artifacts in the capture mechanism. The technology disclosed includes methods and systems for analyzing both downlink and uplink quality for mobile or other video display device cameras capturing and transmitting video frames including teleconference video display. Particular aspects of the technology disclosed are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Predrag Djurdjevic
  • Patent number: 9307215
    Abstract: A system for brightness-sensitive automatic white balancing of an electronic color image includes a processor and a memory with (a) brightness-specific color-weighting maps each specifying illuminant-specific auto white balance parameters, (b) brightness range definitions respectively indicating applicability range of the brightness-specific color-weighting maps, and (c) instructions for white balancing the electronic color image according to scene brightness and based upon the brightness-specific color-weighting maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changmeng Liu, Chengming Liu, Jizhang Shan
  • Patent number: 9307214
    Abstract: A brightness-sensitive automatic white balance method includes (a) determining the brightness of a scene captured in an electronic color image, (b) selecting a color-weighting map based upon the brightness of the scene, (c) extracting auto white balance parameters from the color-weighting map, and (d) white balancing the electronic color image according to the auto white balance parameters. An adaptive automatic white balance method includes (a) refining, based upon a first electronic color image of a scene illuminated by an illuminant of a first spectral type, a color-weighting probability distribution for the illuminant of the first spectral type, wherein the color-weighting probability distribution may be brightness-specific, (b) extracting auto white balance parameters from the refined color-weighting probability distribution, and (c) white balancing, according to the auto white balance parameters, an electronic color image of a scene illuminated by the illuminant of the first spectral type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changmeng Liu, Chengming Liu, Jizhang Shan
  • Patent number: 9270866
    Abstract: A method for calibrating auto white balancing in an electronic camera includes (a) obtaining a plurality of color values from a respective plurality of images of real-life scenes captured by the electronic camera under a first illuminant, (b) invoking an assumption about a true color value of at least portions of the real-life scenes, and (c) determining, based upon the difference between the true color value and the average of the color values, a plurality of final auto white balance parameters for a respective plurality of illuminants including the first illuminant. An electronic camera device includes an image sensor for capturing real-life images of real-life scenes, instructions including a partly calibrated auto white balance parameter set and auto white balance self-training instructions, and a processor for processing the real-life images according to the self-training instructions to produce a fully calibrated auto white balance parameter set specific to the electronic camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Changmeng Liu
  • Patent number: 9213228
    Abstract: A device and a method are described for measuring a camera having an image sensor, in particular a fixed-focus camera, the device including: a camera support for accommodating at least one camera to be tested in at least one camera position, a collimator device for emitting collimator light of a test pattern having different object distances, a mirror system for deflecting the collimator light to the camera position, the mirror system having at least one first mirror device which is pivotable by a mirror adjustment device into multiple pivot positions, and a second mirror device having multiple second mirror units, the second mirror units reflecting the light emitted by the first mirror device in its different pivot positions to the camera position for imaging the test pattern in different image regions of an image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Apel, Carina Raizner
  • Patent number: 9177191
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing module includes a sensor substrate having a sensing side and a circuit side, an image sensor including conductive traces on the circuit side of the sensor substrate, and a sensor circuit including at least one integrated circuit mounted on the circuit side of the sensor substrate and electrically connected to the image sensor. The sensor substrate may be a flexible substrate. The module may include a velocity sensor on the sensor substrate or on a separate substrate. The module may further include a rigid substrate, and the sensor substrate may be affixed to the rigid substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Fred G Benkley, III
  • Patent number: 9161027
    Abstract: A method for providing a camera calibration includes recovering geometric information from a single rectangular image, obtaining intrinsic and extrinsic construction information of a camera based on the recovered geometric information, obtaining a shooting position and real geometric information of the camera from the obtained intrinsic and extrinsic construction information of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joo-Haeng Lee, Hyun Kim, Hyoung Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9060164
    Abstract: A method for determining a response to misalignment of a camera monitoring a desired area includes acquiring temporal related frames from the camera including a reference frame. A pixel location is determined of a reference object from the frames. Using the pixel location of the reference object, a displacement of the camera between a current frame and the reference frame is determined. For the displacement exceeding a first threshold, a new displacement of the camera is measured by introducing at least one additional object to a camera field of view and comparing the new displacement to a second threshold. For the new displacement not exceeding the second threshold, the camera is recalibrated using a determined pixel location and a physical location of the at least one additional object. For the new displacement exceeding the second threshold, notification is provided of a misalignment to an associated user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Wencheng Wu, Edul N. Dalal
  • Patent number: 9041815
    Abstract: An operator friendly camera testing module is described. The camera testing module includes at least a color shift evaluation unit and a color non-uniformity evaluation unit. The color shift evaluation unit providing a color shift metric and the color non-uniformity evaluation unit providing a color non-uniformity metric each used to characterize a digital camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongqin Zhang, Shizhe Shen, Michael DiVincent, Chong Yip Chow
  • Publication number: 20150138372
    Abstract: A device and a method are described for measuring a camera having an image sensor, in particular a fixed-focus camera, the device including: a camera support for accommodating at least one camera to be tested in at least one camera position, a collimator device for emitting collimator light of a test pattern having different object distances, a mirror system for deflecting the collimator light to the camera position, the mirror system having at least one first mirror device which is pivotable by a mirror adjustment device into multiple pivot positions, and a second mirror device having multiple second mirror units, the second mirror units reflecting the light emitted by the first mirror device in its different pivot positions to the camera position for imaging the test pattern in different image regions of an image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Apel, Carina Raizner
  • Publication number: 20150070511
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system for characterization of an imaging sensor using a moving modulated target with unmodulated position references is generally described herein. A target pattern comprises through-holes in a slide and resolved patches on the slide. The slide and patch have different emission intensities in the sensor’ detection band. A modulation is applied to only the emission intensities of the through-holes. The target pattern is moved across the field-of view (FOV) of the imaging sensor to present the target pattern across different frames at different positions. Frames of images of the moving target pattern as seen in the FOV of the imaging sensor are captured to generate modulated image data outputs. The unmodulated position references provided by the resolved patches are measured and used to align the modulated image data outputs, which are processed to generate data products representative of a response of the imaging sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Darin S. Williams
  • Patent number: 8976252
    Abstract: The present disclosure related to acquisition of color calibration charts. In at least some examples herein, an image of a calibration color chart is processed. A lighting condition of the color calibration chart may be automatically determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kok-Wei Koh, Nathan Moroney, Ehud Chatow, Melanie M. Gottwals