Zoom Patents (Class 348/240.99)
  • Patent number: 12159440
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an image sensor including normal pixels and phase detection pixels; and a processor for detecting a noise region in a flare region included in a normal image generated based on a plurality of pixel values sensed through the normal pixels and the phase detection pixels, and generating an output image including final pixel values obtained by correcting the pixel values, using peripheral pixel values of each of pixel values included in the noise region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Ji Hee Han
  • Patent number: 12141912
    Abstract: A projection method includes, obtaining a first image obtained by imaging a projection target with a camera, receiving an operation of a user drawing a drawing object in the first image, generating first object information representing a two-dimensional position of the drawing object in the first image, converting the first object information into second object information, converting the second object information into third object information representing a position of the drawing object on an image to be projected from a projector based on second position information representing a relative three-dimensional position between the projector and the projection target and second posture information representing an orientation of an optical axis of the projector, and projecting a projection image including the drawing object on the projection target from the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taisuke Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 12126893
    Abstract: This application relates to the technical field of electronic devices, and provides an image display method and an electronic device. The solution includes: receiving, a first operation performed by a user on a first interface, where the first interface is a viewfinder interface for image capture by the electronic device, and the first interface includes a preview image; saving, in response to the first operation; displaying, the first image; receiving, a third operation, where the third operation is used for triggering the electronic device to display a first region image in a magnified first image, and the first region image includes a first target region image; and splicing, the second image to the first target region image for displaying in response to the third operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Xiao, Dajun Ding, Yang Lu, Yu Wang, Congchao Zhu
  • Patent number: 12126977
    Abstract: An image capture device may capture multiple audio content during capture of visual content. The field of view of the visual content may be used to generate modified audio content from the multiple audio content. The modified audio content may provide sound for playback of the visual content with the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Steven Penrod, Erich Tisch, Timothy Dick
  • Patent number: 12114064
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging element including a pixel array, a drive circuit of the pixel array, and a signal processing circuit as defined herein; a power supply; a power supply control circuit that controls electric power supplied to the imaging element from the power supply; and a processor, and the processor is configured to control the power supply control circuit to stop the supply of electric power to a part of circuits of the imaging element from the power supply at a first timing after completion of the readout of the signal, to resume the supply of electric power to the part of the circuits at a third timing before a second timing that is a start timing of the readout of the signal from the pixel array performed after the first timing, and to variably control an interval between the second timing and the third timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Furuta
  • Patent number: 12072296
    Abstract: A portable visual inspection apparatus comprises a box including a lower box portion and an upper box portion. The upper box portion defines a first accommodation space and is connected to the lower box portion such that is capable of being opened and closed. A visual inspection device is installed in the first accommodation space and is adapted to be switched between an expanded configuration in which the visual inspection device is at least partially expanded for photographing an image of an article, and a folded configuration in which the visual inspection device is at least partially folded for storage in the first accommodation space. A support platform is arranged in the lower box portion and defines an inspection area below the visual inspection device in the expanded configuration. The portable visual inspection apparatus is switchable between a use configuration and a transportation configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Qing (Carrie) Zhou, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Huabin Du, Mark Andrew Ondo, Sonny O Osunkwo, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 12073590
    Abstract: The invention provides an image encoding apparatus operable to encode data obtained by an image capturing sensor in which a filter for detecting a fourth color is periodically arranged in addition to filters of three primary colors, where the apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate data that approximates the fourth color using data of at least two colors among three colors, which represent three primary colors, obtained by the image capturing sensor and generate difference data that represents a difference between the generated data and data of the fourth color; and an encoding unit configured to encode data of the three colors which represent three primary colors and the difference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Oishi
  • Patent number: 12072548
    Abstract: The present embodiment discloses an interchangeable lens that can be detachably attached to an apparatus body having an image forming surface on which an image is formed, and the interchangeable lens has a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side. The interchangeable lens includes a focus lens group that can move along an optical axis to adjust a focus at the magnification conjugate point and a flange back distance correction lens group that can move along the optical axis to correct an error in a flange back distance of the interchangeable lens with respect to the image forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Qinghua Zhao
  • Patent number: 12069367
    Abstract: The embodiments are an image processing method and apparatus, an aerial camera and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving an image mode switching instruction, wherein the image mode switching instruction is configured to indicate to switch a current image mode into a target image mode, and the image mode switching instruction carries the target image mode; and processing a collected image according to the target image mode. Therefore, the image can be flexibly processed based on the target image mode in the image mode switching instruction, such that the image display requirements in different scenarios are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhaozao Li
  • Patent number: 12063452
    Abstract: There is provided a control device, an imaging system, and a 3D model data generation method capable of appropriately extracting a subject from a moving image. The control device includes a control unit that performs control to synchronize an imaging timing at which an imaging device performs imaging with a display timing at which a display device located in an imaging range of the imaging device displays a first moving image, and an image processing unit that performs foreground/background difference processing on the basis of a second moving image captured by the imaging device at a first timing and a third moving image captured by the imaging device at a second timing different from the first timing. The second moving image and the third moving image both include at least a part of the first moving image whose display timing is synchronized between the second moving image and the third moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Masuda
  • Patent number: 11956545
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, a camera optical-zoom method, a camera optical-zoom unit, and a memory are disclosed. The electronic apparatus may include a camera, a sensor, a processor, and a memory, where the memory stores a program instruction which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the following steps: receiving image data of a photographed object acquired by the camera; and integrating image data of a full pixel area corresponding to a zoom value of the camera according to a preset algorithm, and outputting the integrated image data according to a coordinate sequence of pixels on the sensor, where the full pixel area includes pixel areas of the sensor corresponding to the zoom value and pixel areas of the sensor corresponding to a value greater than the zoom value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ran Tao
  • Patent number: 11949977
    Abstract: Electronic equipment includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a third image in which a first image captured via a first optical system and a second image captured via a second optical system are arranged side by side, the second image having parallax with the first image and a setting unit configured to set, in the third image, a target area to which predetermined processing is to be applied, based on a user operation. The setting unit is configured to set the target area in such a manner that the item indicating the target area includes either one of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maiki Okuwaki, Hiroyuki Kajiyama
  • Patent number: 11889193
    Abstract: The embodiments are a zoom method and apparatus, an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aircraft system and a storage medium. The zoom method is applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle including an image capturing apparatus and the method includes: controlling the image capturing apparatus to capture an initial image, where a resolution of the initial image is W0*H0 and an area of the initial image is S0; obtaining a cropped image according to the initial image, where the cropped image is an image with an area of S cropped from a preset region in the initial image, S0/S=C and C is a digital zoom factor of the image capturing apparatus; and obtaining a zoom image according to the cropped image, where the zoom image is an image obtained by zooming the cropped image by C/A times, a resolution of the zoom image is W1*H1, A=W0/W1 and C?A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhaozao Li
  • Patent number: 11887391
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method, each of which associates a region subjected to image processing with identification information, receives, in response to a device accepting selection from a user, the identification information and image data from the device, and outputs a result of the image processing performed on the region subjected to image processing associated with the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohsuke Yoshihashi, Tomoya Amikura, Kazuaki Kidoguchi, Kohji Yamamoto, Kohji Kambara
  • Patent number: 11863880
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to fuse image frames captured by a camera to generate an image frame having high dynamic range and reduced amount of noise. For instance, after a shutter button of the camera is activated, one or more history image frames captured during a preview mode of the camera (e.g., before the shutter button is activated) are compared to a highlight recovery frame captured after the shutter button is activated to determine a level of similarity therebetween. The history image frame(s) may be captured with a first exposure value, and the highlight recovery frame may be captured with a second exposure value that is different than the first exposure value. History image frame(s) that are determined to be relatively similar to the highlight recovery frame are combined with the highlight recovery frame to generate the image frame having high dynamic range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Tomi Marko Juhani Sokeila, Ari Väinö Johannes Partinen
  • Patent number: 11838634
    Abstract: A method of generating a digital video image uses a wide-angle field of view (WFOV) lens positioned closely in front of an image sensor array so that the image field of the lens is so curved at the sensor array that different regions of the image field are substantially in focus on the sensor array for different positions of the lens. The method comprises selecting a desired region of interest in the image field of the lens, and adjusting the lens/array distance to bring the region of interest into focus on the sensor array. The in-focus region of interest is stored and at least partially corrected for field-of-view distortion due to the WFOV lens. The corrected image is displayed, locally and/or remotely. These steps are cyclically repeated to provide the video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Petronel Bigioi, Christopher Dainty, Peter Corcoran
  • Patent number: 11823715
    Abstract: Cut-out processing for cutting out a portion of a region of a captured image, display control processing of a first screen including a captured image display region for displaying the captured image and a cut-out image display region for displaying a cut-out image cut out in the cut-out processing, display control processing for making display transition from the first screen to a second screen in which a cut-out region obtained from the captured image is set, processing for receiving a first user operation of designating, in the second screen, at least one set of coordinates and a second user operation of designating a subject, and processing for setting a cut-out region on the basis of the first user operation or the second user operation are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11812924
    Abstract: A surgical robotic system is disclosed to include an operating table, a plurality of robotic arms and surgical instruments, a user console, and a control tower. The plurality of robotic arms are mounted on the operating table and can be stowed folded under the table for storage. The user console has one or more user interface devices, which function as master devices to control the plurality of surgical instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Karen S. Koenig, Andrea Bajo, Robert T. Wiggers, Joan Savall, Eric M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11812150
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a processor configured to control a display operation of a display unit, in which the processor acquires a specified portion specified by a first user operation in an object image including an object to be imaged, performs enlargement display control of enlarging a part of the object image and displaying the enlarged part in a display area of the display unit in response to a second user operation, and sets an enlargement reference point in the object image according to the specified portion in the enlargement display control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Aoki, Yuya Hayashi, Yuki Katada
  • Patent number: 11778307
    Abstract: A foldable electronic device may include: a foldable housing foldable along at least one axis; a first display disposed on a first surface of the foldable housing; a second display disposed on a second surface of the foldable housing; a first camera; a second camera; at least one sensor; a memory; and a processor. The processor may be configured to: provide a first preview to the first display by using the first camera in a folded state; receive a region configuration input for the first preview through the first display; after the reception of the region configuration input, sense unfolding of the foldable electronic device by using the at least one sensor; and provide a second preview corresponding to the region configuration input through the second display by using the second camera in an unfolded state. In addition, various other embodiments can be understood through the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongwoon Jang, Deukkyu Oh, Kwangtaek Woo, Gisoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11778325
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mitani, Masafumi Wakazono, Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 11758322
    Abstract: A sound pickup method includes splitting a sound pickup signal of a microphone of which sound pickup in a predetermined range is blocked by an acoustic obstacle, into a plurality of sound pickup signals and subjecting at least one sound pickup signal among the plurality of sound pickup signals to band limitation processing, and comparing characteristic amounts of the plurality of sound pickup signals including the sound pickup signal after being subjected to the band limitation processing and controlling a gain of the microphone in accordance with a result of comparing the characteristic amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ukai
  • Patent number: 11756305
    Abstract: A control apparatus and method that captures video image includes acquiring a parameter for recognition processing with respect to acquired image data and changing the acquired parameter according to a change in zoom magnification of an image capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiji Adachi
  • Patent number: 11734793
    Abstract: An optical apparatus captures images of a wide-angle scene with a single camera having a continuous panomorph zoom distortion profile. When combined with a processing unit, the hybrid zoom system creates an output image with constant resolution while allowing continuous adjustment in the magnification and field of view of the image without interpolation like a digital zoom system or without any moving parts like an optical zoom system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Xavier Dallaire, Pierre Konen, Pascale Nini
  • Patent number: 11729501
    Abstract: To provide a system, a method and the like for acquiring more images or more quickly focused images. A control device acquires information regarding a situation of a range captured by an imaging device, determines a mode according to an assumed situation of the range captured by the imaging device among a plurality of focusing modes, and transmits designation information specifying the determined mode to the imaging device. The imaging device receives the designation information from the control device, and captures an image using the mode specified by the received designation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Hiroshi Imai, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11727683
    Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying information in augmented reality are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises a camera, a memory, a display, and a processor configured to (a) detect a first prescription drug in a field of view of a camera by detecting a glyph printed on a label on a container of the first prescription drug, (b) determine a first identifier associated with the first prescription drug using optical character recognition, (c) determine whether a user has access to additional data about the first prescription drug, (d) request the additional data about the first prescription drug from a database, and (e) display the additional data in augmented reality adjacent to the first prescription drug on the display such that the additional data moves when the field of view of the camera changes such that the additional data remains displayed adjacent to the first prescription drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt D. McDole, Sivaram Adhiappan, Robert K. Gaddy, Carlos G. Ruiz, Murat Sanli
  • Patent number: 11700446
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprising a display control unit configured to display, in a display area of a display device, an image captured by an imaging apparatus, an area designation unit configured to designate an area for the image displayed in the display area, an enlargement unit configured to extract and to enlarge and display a part of the image displayed in the display area, a determination unit configured to determine whether a position of the designated area is outside the display area as a result of enlarging and displaying the part of the image displayed in the display area, and a notification unit configured to notify, when a determination is made such that the position of the designated area is outside the display area, of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11683584
    Abstract: An electronic device and method thereof are provided. An electronic device includes a UWB communication module configured to transmit a first ranging message, at a first transmission interval, for measuring at least one of a distance to or a direction of an external electronic device; a display; and a processor configured to display, on the display, an image of a first magnification in correspondence to the measured distance to and/or direction of the external electronic device; adjust the magnification of the image to a second magnification; and control, based on the second magnification, the UWB communication module to transmit a second ranging message, to the external electronic device, at a second transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Sangheon Kim, Muyeol Lee, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11659268
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a control unit configured to control the imaging unit to automatically capture an image, a registration unit configured to register a subject, and an association unit configured to associate the subject registered by the registration unit with a specific date. The control unit performs control so that a subject registered by the registration unit, with which the date associated by the association unit is the current day, is to be preferentially captured over a subject with which the date associated by the association unit is not the current day or no date is associated by the association unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Mizobuchi
  • Patent number: 11653097
    Abstract: A method for switching between a first lens and a second lens in an electronic device includes displaying, by the electronic device, a first frame showing a field of view (FOV) of the first lens; detecting, by the electronic device, an event that causes the electronic device to transition from displaying the first frame to displaying a second frame showing a FOV of the second lens; generating, by the electronic device and based on the detecting the event, at least one intermediate frame for transitioning from the first frame to the second frame; and switching, by the electronic device and based on the detecting the event, from the first lens to the second lens and displaying the second frame, wherein the at least one intermediate frame is displayed after the displaying the first frame and before the displaying the second frame while the switching is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ravi Prasad Mohan Kini, Gururaj Bhat, Pavan Sudheendra, Girish Kulkarni, Vineeth Thanikonda Munirathnam, Sanjay Narasimha Murthy, Balvinder Singh
  • Patent number: 11638615
    Abstract: An intelligent surgical tool control system, comprising a tool management system; an indicating means to indicate at least one surgical event; a communicable database for storing, for each item of interest, its identity, its present 3D position and at least one previous 3D position; and at least one processor to identify, from a surgical event, an output surgical procedure. The tool management system can comprise a maneuvering mechanism to maneuver a surgical tool in at least two dimensions; and a controller to control at least one of activation and deactivation of a surgical tool and articulation of a surgical tool. The indicating means can indicate a surgical event selected from movement of a moving element and presence of an item of interest, where movement is determinable if the current 3D position of the moving element is substantially different from a previous 3D position of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Asensus Surgical US, Inc.
    Inventors: Tal Nir, Gal Atarot, Motti Frimer
  • Patent number: 11582391
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first camera, a second camera, a display, a memory, and a processor. The processor collects a first image obtained by the first camera with respect to an external object and a second image obtained by the second camera with respect to the external object, generates a third image with respect to the external object using a first area of the first image and a second area of the second image, which corresponds to the first area, identifies an input associated with the third image displayed through the display, and displays an image generated using at least one of the first image, the second image, or depth information in response to the input. The generating operation of the third image includes generating the depth information with respect to the third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi Sun Kim, Chang Hyun Chun, Dong Hyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 11577169
    Abstract: A game perspective control method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: in response to an character selection operation acting on a second display area of a graphical user interface, a target game character is selected in a game scene; a perspective switching control is provided on the second display area, the perspective switching control being configured to switch between a game scene area where a current position of the target game character is located and a game scene area where a target position of the target game character is located; and, in response to a perspective switching operation acting on the perspective switching control, a first display area is controlled to display a game scene corresponding to the perspective switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiming Wei
  • Patent number: 11570351
    Abstract: A method for correcting focus drift of an imaging system. The method includes an imaging system obtaining a plurality of images of an object of interest with each image obtained at a different focus of the imaging system. A processor then determines image property values of each image of the plurality of images and determines an image quality metric from each image of the plurality of images. The processor then compares the image quality metric to a reference metric and determines, based on the comparison, if a focus drift has occurred, and further adjusts a focus of the imaging system if a focus drift has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Harry E. Kuchenbrod
  • Patent number: 11557054
    Abstract: A method for performing region-of-interest (ROI)-based depth detection with aid of a pattern-adjustable projector and associated apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Hsueh-Tsung Lu, Ching-Wen Wang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Wu-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11558514
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium and for processing information are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive image data; cause a display to display the received image data; and move, in response to a user instruction, a portion of the image data from a first place to a second place on the display. The portion of the image data is a partial region of an entire region of the image data. While the portion of the image data is being moved from the first place to the second place, the portion of the image data is displayed at the first place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11548443
    Abstract: A display system includes a display (400) configured to display an image, and a display controller (120) configured to control the display such that a periphery image indicating a peripheral situation of a vehicle viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint is displayed in a predetermined display region on a display surface, and change the predetermined display region on the basis of a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oniwa, Fue Kubota, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 11528419
    Abstract: A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing, and a first lens module and a second lens module disposed in the housing and individually movable in an optical axis direction, the first and second lens modules being configured to generate rolling friction on one of both sides of each of the first and second lens modules and sliding friction on the other of both sides when the first and second lens modules are moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Sung Seo, Young Bok Yoon, Young Hwan Kwon
  • Patent number: 11514600
    Abstract: An information processing device including an acquiring unit that acquires information related to a feature quantity specifying a predetermined target transmitted from a terminal device held by the target, a specifying unit that specifies the target on the basis of the information related to the feature quantity from among images captured by at least some of a plurality of imaging devices installed at different positions, and a control unit that presents information related to the target to a predetermined output destination in accordance with a specifying result of the target from the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakita, Atsushi Okamori
  • Patent number: 11463625
    Abstract: An electronic appliance, includes: an imaging apparatus; a display apparatus; and a control apparatus, the control apparatus being configured to: extract, from a moving image captured by the imaging apparatus, subjects included in the moving image and information items each on one of the subjects; generate enlarged-view target information for selecting an enlarged-view target from among the subjects, with reference to the information items; select the enlarged-view target from among the subjects, with reference to the enlarged-view target information; and enlarge a region including the enlarged-view target, and cause the display apparatus to display the moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Haneda, Noriaki Murakami, Shohei Takai, Takanori Saito
  • Patent number: 11451707
    Abstract: A system including image capture eyewear, a processor, and a memory. The image capture eyewear includes a support structure, a selector connected to the support structure, a display system (e.g., LEDs or a display) connected to the support structure to distinctly display assignable recipient markers, and a camera connected to the support structure to capture an image of a scene. The processor executes programming in the memory to assign recipients to the assignable recipient markers, receive a captured image of the scene, receive an indicator associated with the assignable recipient markers distinctly displayed at the time the image of the scene was captured, and transmit the captured image to the recipient assigned to the distinctly displayed assignable recipient markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Mitchell Bechtold, Antoine Ménard
  • Patent number: 11425306
    Abstract: Aspect for a device for generating video content are described. The device includes a first camera and one or more processors coupled to the first camera and configured to receive a first set of frames captured by the first camera at a first rate, process the first set of frames to generate video content for display, receive a selection to zoom in or zoom out, during the zoom in or zoom out to a zoom threshold for the first camera, receive a second set of frames captured by the first camera at a second rate that is less than the first rate, process the second set of frames to generate video content for display, and generate video content for playback, at a third rate that is less than the first rate, that includes the first set of frames and the second set of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shubhobrata Dutta Choudhury, Sai Krishna Bodapati
  • Patent number: 11373400
    Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying information in augmented reality are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises a camera, a memory, a display, and a processor configured to (a) detect a first prescription drug in a field of view of a camera by detecting a glyph printed on a label on a container of the first prescription drug, (b) determine a first identifier associated with the first prescription drug using optical character recognition, (c) determine whether a user has access to additional data about the first prescription drug, (d) request the additional data about the first prescription drug from a database, and (e) display the additional data in augmented reality adjacent to the first prescription drug on the display such that the additional data moves when the field of view of the camera changes such that the additional data remains displayed adjacent to the first prescription drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt D. McDole, Sivaram Adhiappan, Robert K. Gaddy, Carlos G. Ruiz, Murat Sanli
  • Patent number: 11323620
    Abstract: A method for power consumption optimization in a wearable camera comprises: monitoring a bitrate of a video stream captured by the wearable camera. Upon the bitrate being above a first bitrate threshold, activating a movement sensor of the wearable camera. Upon activation of the movement sensor, analyzing whether activation of the movement sensor is beneficial for reducing the bitrate. In case activation of the movement sensor is beneficial for reducing the bitrate, keeping the movement sensor active and performing image stabilization based on movement data from the movement sensor, otherwise, deactivating the movement sensor. Also, a wearable camera is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventor: Song Yuan
  • Patent number: 11310416
    Abstract: There is provided a control device that controls a moving apparatus to which an image capturing apparatus including a zoom lens is mounted, the device comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain lens information including information pertaining to a zoom position of the zoom lens; and a control unit configured to control movement of the moving apparatus based on the lens information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Morita
  • Patent number: 11303865
    Abstract: A projection device and an auto-focus method thereof are provided. The projection device includes a storage device, an image determining circuit, and an auto-focus circuit. The storage device is configured to temporarily store at least two image signals of image data in different time sequences. The image determining circuit is electrically connected to the storage device and is configured to access the image signals to determine whether a target image signal of the image signals meets an auto-focus condition, wherein the auto-focus condition includes the image determining circuit comparing the image signals to determine whether the target image signal is a static image, so as to correspondingly output a focusing signal. The auto-focus circuit is electrically connected to the image determining circuit and is configured to perform, according to the focusing signal, an auto-focus operation on an image projected by the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Hung-Ru Lin
  • Patent number: 11252332
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Kosaka
  • Patent number: 11245830
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture device, a driving device configured to drive to change an orientation of the image capture device; an input device configured to receive input of voice, and a controller configured to, if the input voice is an instruction to shoot an image, perform control of stopping the driving device and causing the image capture device to capture an image at a stopping position, and also of moving the orientation of the image capture device from the stopping position by a predetermined amount in positive and negative directions in the drive direction and causing the image capture device to capture images at the position after being moved in the positive direction and the position after being moved in the negative direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11224330
    Abstract: A medical imaging device including at least two cameras. The medical imaging device includes an elongated and narrow distal tip connected to a rigid elongated shaft member, wherein the distal tip includes a front camera and a first side camera. The cameras of the disclosed medical imaging device can be configured to provide variable cameras' magnifications, which in some cases may vary from one camera to another. The cameras of the medical imaging device may be provided with dissimilarity in the cameras' magnification factors. Such dissimilarities are used to show the same object in the same size in a panoramic image captured simultaneously by the multiple cameras, as the multiple cameras have multiple distances to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SURGICAL LTD 270.
    Inventors: Avraham Levy, Moshe Levi, Victor Levin, Golan Salman, Amram Aizenfeld, Leonid Krivopisk
  • Patent number: 11206363
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a camera module, a memory, a gyro sensor, and a processor. The housing may include a front plate, a rear plate, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The camera module may include a first camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a first direction, a second camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a second direction, and an image signal processor for correcting images. The processor may be configured to control at least one of the first camera or the second camera to capture images, to identify a camera switching command while capturing the images, to acquire gyro motion information through the gyro sensor in response to the camera switching command, and to control the image signal processor to correct the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonseok Song, Bohee Lee, Sehyun Lee, Junghwan Jo