Multiple Channels Patents (Class 348/38)
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Patent number: 12249095Abstract: A specifying part sets: a first end point which is on a straight line and attributes to a first apex of a plurality of apexes of a frame that is at a first side in a front orthogonal direction and closer to a to-machine side; a second end point which is on the straight line and attributes to a second apex of the plurality of apexes of the frame that is at a second side in the front orthogonal direction and closer to the to-machine side; and a midpoint between the first end point and the second end point. The specifying part determines one of the first end point, the second end point, and the midpoint as a coordinate indicative of a position of an object according to an operation pattern of an operating part.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuki Kojima
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Patent number: 12233858Abstract: A trailer monitoring system for a vehicle includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive, from at least one monocular camera mounted to a vehicle towing a trailer, at least one monocular camera image of at least a portion of the trailer. The instructions also cause the processor to generate at least one depth map based on the at least one monocular camera image. The instructions further cause the processor to identify a trailer irregularity based on the at least one depth map.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emrah Akin Sisbot, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Yongkang Liu, Kentaro Oguchi
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Patent number: 12225295Abstract: An image capture apparatus that generates an omnidirectional image using imaging lenses is disclosed. The apparatus detects an orientation of the image capture apparatus. The apparatus identifies, when the image capture apparatus is in an operation mode for generating a first image with a smaller field of view than an omnidirectional image, an area to be captured required to generate the image on a basis of a difference between a reference orientation and a current orientation of the image capture apparatus. The apparatus, when the image capture apparatus is in the operation mode, enables image capture using an imaging lens, from among the imaging lenses, required to capture the area to be captured and disable image capture using an imaging lens, from among the imaging lenses, not required to capture the area to be captured.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetaka Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 12206980Abstract: A device displays, in a first display region of a camera user interface, a first live view from a first camera. While displaying the first live view from the first camera, the device detects movement of a first user input (e.g., a first contact on a touch-sensitive surface). In accordance with a determination that the movement of the first user input meets first movement criteria, the device moves the first live view in the first display region in accordance with the movement of the first user input, displays a second live view from a second camera, and moves the second live view in the first display region in accordance with the movement of the first user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Matthew I. Brown, Jeffrey T. Bernstein, William D. Lindmeier, Lukas Robert Tom Girling
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Patent number: 12198179Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Petko Tsonev, Claire Law, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Jue Wang, Bharat Singh, Hue Tuan Thi, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
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Patent number: 12190602Abstract: Provided is a working vehicle capable of operation and driving that includes a plurality of image capture devices 4 that capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle body; a direction detection unit 51 that detects an advancement direction of the operation and driving; an image selection unit 52 that acquires, as a detection image, a surrounding area image captured by one image capture device 4 of the plurality of image capture devices 4 capturing a front advancement direction detected by the direction detection unit 51; and a detection unit 53 that analyzes the detection image acquired by the image selection unit 52 and detects an obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Takashi Nakabayashi, Toshiki Watanabe, Shunsuke Edo, Shunsuke Miyashita, Kenichi Iwami
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Patent number: 12182972Abstract: An electronic device incorporates, and method and computer program product provide improved auto white balance (AWB) performance. The electronic device receives first image content from a first image capturing device of an electronic device. The electronic device receives second image content from a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device has a second field of view (FOV) that differs from a first FOV of the first image capturing device. The controller identifying, during an image capturing process for a target image within the first FOV, whether a condition exists that causes a distortion in a white balance of the first image content. In response to identifying that the condition exists, the controller captures the second image content within the second FOV, determining an AWB value for the second image content, and automatically adjusting the first image content using the AWB value for the second image content.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Rahul Bharat Desai, Chekit R Mehta
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Patent number: 12158782Abstract: A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible or tiled display segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes a 360 degree camera system. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device form factor may also be a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The 360 degree camera utilizes the inherent folded segment positions and their respective cameras such that they can be configured at different angles to achieve the appropriate camera array geometry. The device may further include sensors to indicate the position of each display segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Lepton Computing LLCInventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
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Patent number: 12148221Abstract: A video processing device installable in a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes a first imaging device, a first display device, and a second display device. The first imaging device images the outside of the vehicle and generates a first video. The first display device displays a second video obtained by performing first processing on the first video. The second display device displays a third video obtained by performing second processing on the first video. The video processing device includes a first reception device, a video processing device, a first transmission device, and a second transmission device. The first reception device receives the first video from the first imaging device. The video processing device performs the second processing on the first video. The first transmission device transmits the first video to the first display device. The second transmission device transmits the third video to the second display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Ohmura, Yuji Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12086997Abstract: A point cloud is colorized by mapping a color image using an intensity image. The mapping includes detecting multiple features from the intensity image using a feature-extraction algorithm. A feature is extracted that is not within a predetermined vicinity of an edge in the intensity image. A template is created by selecting a portion of a predetermined size from the intensity image with the feature at the center. A search window is created with the same size as the template by selecting a portion of a luminance image as a search space. The luminance image is obtained from the color image. A cost value is computed for each pixel of the search space by comparing image gradients of the template and the search window. A matching point is determined in the color image corresponding to the feature based on the cost value for each pixel of search space.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Inventor: Jafar Amiri Parian
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Patent number: 12051148Abstract: The present disclosure allows for generating a virtual viewpoint image matching an object's sight. To achieve this, an image processing apparatus comprises one or more memories storing instructions; and one or more processors executing the instructions to: obtain a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices while a symbol representing a position at which an object should direct a look is being displayed; and generate a virtual viewpoint image in accordance with a position of a virtual viewpoint and a view direction from the virtual viewpoint, the position of the virtual viewpoint being a position at which the symbol is displayed, and the view direction from the virtual viewpoint being a direction specified based on the position of the virtual viewpoint and a position of the object.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazufumi Onuma
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Patent number: 12022231Abstract: A method includes: rendering a field of view of a virtual environment for a first user of a head mounted display, rendering a view of the virtual environment outside the field of view of the first user at a lower resolution, outputting the rendered field of view for display to the first user, and recording the combined render as a video for subsequent viewing by a second user. A corresponding method includes requesting to download or stream the video from a remote source, receiving the download or stream of the video from the remote source, and outputting at least part of the stream or video for display to a second user wearing a head mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Michael Adam Kavallierou, Rajeev Gupta, David Erwan Damien Uberti, Alexander Smith
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Patent number: 11989849Abstract: A method for processing a 360-degree image includes determining a processing order of each of a plurality of segments constituting a 360-degree image, based on positions of the segments and parameters of a camera by which the 360-degree image is captured, obtaining distortion correction information according to distortion in the 360-degree image predicted based on parameters of an optical device via which at least a partial region of the 360-degree image is projected, and processing data of the at least a partial region of the 360-degree image according to the determined processing order and the obtained distortion correction information.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Andrii Musiienko, Yevhenii Borodavka, Andrii Tkach, Denys Zakutailo
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Patent number: 11956521Abstract: An array imaging apparatus having discrete camera modules is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a substrate; and heterogeneous camera modules attached to the substrate and in a geometric relationship with each other, the heterogeneous camera modules having a substantially similar photometric response.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Tahoe Research, Ltd.Inventor: Ramkumar Narayanswamy
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Patent number: 11954818Abstract: A method for processing a 360-degree image includes determining a processing order of each of a plurality of segments constituting a 360-degree image, based on positions of the segments and parameters of a camera by which the 360-degree image is captured, obtaining distortion correction information according to distortion in the 360-degree image predicted based on parameters of an optical device via which at least a partial region of the 360-degree image is projected, and processing data of the at least a partial region of the 360-degree image according to the determined processing order and the obtained distortion correction information.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Andrii Musiienko, Yevhenii Borodavka, Andrii Tkach, Denys Zakutailo
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Patent number: 11902667Abstract: An imaging system may include a plurality of networked imagers arranged in a geometric arrangement with respective fields of view covering part or all of a panoramic geometry, at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) in communication with the networked imagers configured to generate orientation data indicating orientations of the plurality of networked imagers, and at least one processor in communication with the networked imagers and the at least one IMU. The at least one processor may be configured to receive a plurality of images from the plurality of networked imagers and combine the plurality of images into at least one combined image by positioning pixels of each of the plurality of images relative to pixels of the remaining plurality of images, associating the positioned pixels with the orientation data, and merging the oriented pixels of each of the plurality of images into the at least one combined image.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BOUNCE IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Francisco Aguilar, Sietse Dijkstra
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Patent number: 11838653Abstract: Our present invention relates to a 180 degrees wide angle multi-camera system with the following unique features. The cameras are placed diagonally and facing inwards (100, 101, 102). The cameras are rotated 90 degrees around their optical axes to provide higher FOV for a wider view (302). In the illustrated embodiment of our invention, three cameras are placed in an inward position at particular angles to each other (105) to reduce the blind spot, parallax error and closer working distance. The multiple cameras are placed in an inward position and to avoid the adjacent camera in preview, each camera is placed diagonally. The inward position ensures the high horizontal FOV (202). The illustrated embodiment of our invention can be used in high Horizontal FOV and high Vertical FOV required applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: E-CON SYSTEMS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITEDInventor: G. Balasubramaniyam
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Patent number: 11825213Abstract: An image processing system includes a joining processing unit configured to perform a joining process to join input images captured by an image capturing device and generate an output image the image capturing device being reflected in each of the input images; and an acceptance unit configured to receive selection of one of a plurality of modes for the joining process. The plurality of modes has a first mode to generate an output image in which at least a part of the image capturing device is reflected, through the joining process; and a second mode to, through the joining process, generate an output image whose area where the image capturing device is reflected is smaller than an area where the image capturing device is reflected in the output image in the first mode or generate an output image in which the image capturing device is not reflected.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takeshi Watanabe, Masato Senshu, Hiroshi Kano, Daisuke Hohjoh
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Patent number: 11792373Abstract: A display method includes, when making a plurality of projectors including a first projector project projection light to display a single image, the steps of trying, by the first projector, to obtain first position information representing the projector corresponding to an installation position of the first projector, judging, by the first projector, whether or not first multi-configuration information corresponding to the first position information is stored when the first position information is obtained, and displaying, by the first projector, a first portion of the single image based on the first multi-configuration information when it is judged that the first multi-configuration information is stored.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Kawada
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Patent number: 11783443Abstract: According to various embodiments, component information may be identified for each input image of an object. The component information may indicate a portion of the input image in which a particular component of the object is depicted. A viewpoint may be determined for each input image that indicates a camera pose for the input image relative to the object. A three-dimensional skeleton of the object may be determined based on the viewpoints and the component information. A multi-view panel corresponding to the designated component of the object that is navigable in three dimensions and that the portions of the input images in which the designated component of the object is depicted may be stored on a storage device.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Matteo Munaro, Martin Markus Hubert Wawro, Abhishek Kar, Pavel Hanchar, Krunal Ketan Chande, Radu Bogdan Rusu
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Patent number: 11668907Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes six lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. Each of the six lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power. An axial distance between the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element is larger than an axial distance between the fifth lens element and the sixth lens element.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-Jui Wang, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 11648888Abstract: A surround view monitoring system and a method for providing the same, including a plurality of registration cameras, each mounted on a vehicle and photographing different areas around the vehicle; a depth camera that acquires distance information with respect to an obstacle existing around the vehicle; an image synthesis unit that generates a synthesis image by synthesizing images photographed by the plurality of registration cameras, and displays the distance information with respect to the obstacle acquired by the depth camera on an obstacle existing in the synthesis image; and an image control unit that displays the synthesized synthesis image on a display device are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Tae Hoon Kang
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Patent number: 11644350Abstract: An illuminated sensor target includes a light source. Actuating the light source illuminates the sensor target. The illuminated sensor target is recognized by one or more sensors of a vehicle during a calibration process, and is used to calibrate the one or more sensors of the vehicle during the calibration process. The illuminated sensor target is illuminated during at least part of the calibration process, which may involve rotation of the vehicle about a turntable, with the illuminated sensor target positioned within a range of the turntable along with other sensors targets, which may also be illuminated.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.Inventors: Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, Daniel Chou, Kayla Holman, Derek Wu
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Patent number: 11640000Abstract: An apparatus comprising a housing, a mount configured to be coupled to a motor to horizontally move the apparatus, a wide-angle lens coupled to the housing, the wide-angle lens being positioned above the mount thereby being along an axis of rotation, the axis of rotation being the axis along which the apparatus rotates, an image capture device within the housing, the image capture device configured to receive two-dimensional images through the wide-angle lens of environment, and a LiDAR device within the housing, the LiDAR device configured to generate depth data based on the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Matterport, Inc.Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Kirk Stromberg, Louis D. Marzano, David Proctor, Naoto Sakakibara, Simeon Trieu, Kevin Kane, Simon Wynn
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Patent number: 11627390Abstract: An encoding method, playing method and apparatus for image stabilization of panoramic video, and a method for evaluating image stabilization algorithm are provided. The image stabilization method for the panoramic video is applicable to an electronic apparatus including a processor. In the method, a plurality of image frames of a panoramic video is captured, and each image frame is transformed into a plurality of projection frames on a plurality of faces of a cubemap. Then, variations of triaxial displacements and attitude angles between the projection frames transformed onto each of the faces and adjacent in time are calculated. The variations of triaxial displacements and attitude angles are smoothed and recorded as movement information. While playing the panoramic video, the panoramic video is corrected by the movement information and played. Thus, it is possible to reduce the amount of calculation required for the stabilization calculations on the captured video.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Tsung-Yu Tsai, I-Chih Chen
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Patent number: 11592813Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for the situational transmission of surroundings data of a vehicle, comprising the steps: determining a driving situation of the vehicle; determining relevant surroundings data from recorded surroundings data based on the driving situation, wherein the relevant surroundings data are a subset of the recorded surroundings data that are relevant to the driving situation; and providing the relevant surroundings data to an external data processing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Mielenz, Jonas Binding
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Patent number: 11546526Abstract: An imaging apparatus mountable on a moveable apparatus includes a plurality of lighting-imaging units, each configured to capture an image of a different area on an object in a direction intersecting with a movement direction of the moveable apparatus. The each of the plurality of lighting-imaging units includes a light source unit configured to illuminate a partial area on the object as a lighting area; and an image capture unit configured to capture an image of an image capture area set within the lighting area. The plurality of lighting-imaging units captures an image of a non-overlapped lighting area on the object where the lighting areas of the plurality of lighting-imaging units do not overlap with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Shusaku Takasu
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Patent number: 11470249Abstract: A system for generating real-time panoramic video is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of micro panoramic cameras which are enabled on a processing unit and which are configured to simultaneously capture video frames from each of the plurality of micro panoramic cameras, wherein the video frames captured by two consecutive camera sensors from the plurality of camera sensors include an overlapping field of view, synchronize and feed the captured images to the processing unit with equal predefined delay, stitch the video frames captured by each of the plurality of micro panoramic cameras and output a real-time panoramic video on a display.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventors: Yashket Gupta, Ram Natarajan, Otto Sponring, Naveed Alam, Aurangzeb Khan
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Patent number: 11394883Abstract: An electronic device including first and second housings rotated on a hinge unit, a display exposed to an outside through the first and second housings, first and second cameras disposed respectively in the first and second housings, at least one sensor, and at least one processor, is provided. The at least one processor is configured to obtain first and second images using the first camera and second cameras, respectively, generate a first panoramic image based on the first and second images, detect a rotation of at least one of the first housing or the second housing through the hinge unit using the at least one sensor, obtain at least one image using at least one of the first or second cameras while the at least one housing rotates, and generate a second panoramic image based on the first panoramic image and the at least one image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dang Tung Nguyen, Van Manh Le, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Ngoc Duc Ngo, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Xuan Tai Ngo, Cong Duy Dinh, Minh Khang Do
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Patent number: 11363194Abstract: A multicamera panoramic imaging system having no parallax. In an example, the multicamera panoramic imaging system includes multiple discrete, imaging systems disposed in a side-by-side array, wherein a field of view of each discrete, imaging systems is conjoined with a field of view of each adjacent discrete imaging system, further wherein a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any one of the discrete imaging systems will be substantially parallel to a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any adjacent ones of the discrete imaging systems such that all of the substantially parallel stencils of chief rays appear to converge to a common point when viewed from object space. A method for forming an image of an object having no parallax.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventor: Zakariya Niazi
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Patent number: 11353590Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle. A combination of techniques may be used to calibrate a sensor pod prior to installation in the vehicle and may be used to determine if the sensor pod is compatible with other sensor pods and may also be used to calibrate other sensors when integrating the sensor pod into the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Derek Adams, Daniel Glenn Johnson, Christopher William Labadie, Ryan McMichael, Daniel Miller, Peter Thomas Mitros, Anubhav Thakur, Joseph Patrick Warga, Austin In-Jei Yi
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Patent number: 11290645Abstract: A video display method for a video display device is provided. The video display method comprises: acquiring a plurality of captured images from each of a plurality of cameras for each frame; generating a plurality of correction images from the plurality of captured images by performing parallax correction in each of the plurality of captured images for each frame, the parallax correction being performed between images captured by adjacent cameras; and compositing the plurality of correction images to generate a 360° panoramic composite image for each frame. An amount of the parallax correction of each captured image in each frame is limited so that an amount of change from a previous amount of the parallax correction in a previous frame is within a range defined by a predetermined limitation value.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Junya Kuwada, Ryoji Ogino, Ryo Hirota, Akio Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11275953Abstract: A scalable tracking system processes video of a space to track the positions of people within a space. The tracking system determines local coordinates for the people within frames of the video and then assigns these coordinates to time windows based on when the frames were received. The tracking system then combines or clusters certain local coordinates that have been assigned to the same time window to determine a combined coordinate for a person during that time window.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Caleb Austin Boulio
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Patent number: 11266054Abstract: A method for estimating and adjusting crop residue parameters may include controlling an operation of a tillage implement as the implement is being towed by a work vehicle across the field to perform a tillage operation and receiving a pre-tilled image of an imaged portion of the field located to one side of a first section of the field as the implement is being towed across the first section of the field. The method may also include receiving a post-tilled image of the imaged portion of the field as the implement is being towed across the field, analyzing the pre-tilled and post-tilled images of the imaged portion of the field to estimate a crop residue parameter for the field, and, when the estimated parameter differs from a target associated with such parameter, actively adjusting the operation of the tillage implement in a manner designed to adjust the crop residue parameter.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Luca Ferrari, John H. Posselius
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Patent number: 11272123Abstract: A multi-lens camera is disclosed in the embodiment of the present application. The multi-lens camera includes a main casing assembly, lenses, a lens regulator, a supporting mechanism and a transparent cover; wherein the transparent cover is mounted on the main casing assembly, and the lens regulator is mounted within a space formed by the main casing assembly and the transparent cover; the transparent cover includes a flat portion and a curved portion surrounding the flat portion; the lens regulator includes a fixing disc and at least two lens brackets, and each of the lens brackets includes a first bracket for mounting a lens; the first bracket is movably arranged on the fixing disc and is movable along the circumferential direction of the fixing disc. The solution described above can solve the problem of the transparent cover of the multi-lens camera having poor resistance to deformation as described in the background.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Li, Caisheng Yan, Zhiqiang Rong, Zhan Ye
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Patent number: 11232640Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for an augmented reality interaction, modeling, and annotation system. An embodiment operates by displaying a digital model of an object within an interface of an augmented reality computing system, wherein the model is associated with a first set of dimensions corresponding to a size of the object and a second set of dimensions corresponding to a size of the digital model. A command to resize the digital model to a third set of dimensions different from the second set of dimensions is received from a user. The digital model is resized within the interface in accordance with the third set of dimensions. The resized digital model of the object is displayed in accordance with the third set of dimensions, wherein the first set of dimensions corresponding to the size of the object remains unchanged within the augmented reality computing system.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SPATIAL SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Jinha Lee, Peter Ng, Josh Shadik, Anand Agarawala
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Patent number: 11212441Abstract: An imaging system may include a plurality of networked imagers arranged in a geometric arrangement with respective fields of view covering part or all of a panoramic geometry, at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) in communication with the networked imagers configured to generate orientation data indicating orientations of the plurality of networked imagers, and at least one processor in communication with the networked imagers and the at least one IMU. The at least one processor may be configured to receive a plurality of images from the plurality of networked imagers and combine the plurality of images into at least one combined image by positioning pixels of each of the plurality of images relative to pixels of the remaining plurality of images, associating the positioned pixels with the orientation data, and merging the oriented pixels of each of the plurality of images into the at least one combined image.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: BOUNCE IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Francisco Aguilar, Sietse Dijkstra
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Patent number: 11150543Abstract: A transparent cover of an optical camera system comprises a curved sidewall portion having an outer contour formed by the rotation of a preset continuous curve. The preset continuous curve comprises a first curve segment and a second curve segment, each having a curvature no more than a first preset value, wherein the first back focus offset of a curved surface corresponding to the first curve segment does not exceed the second preset value, and a second back focus offset of a curved surface corresponding to the second curve segment does not exceed a third preset value. A first line segment is formed by connecting an end point of the preset continuous curve with a center of a circle circumscribing edges of a camera, and an included angle between the first line segment and a boundary line between the first and second curve segments is greater than 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhan Ye, Yang Li, Youhui Xu, Yao Liu, Caisheng Yan, Peng Xu
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Patent number: 11153473Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method. The method includes acquiring a first trigger instruction; executing a first function module in response to the first trigger instruction, the first function module calling one or more first image acquisition devices; acquiring a second trigger instruction during the operation of the first function module; and executing a second function module in response to the second trigger instruction, the second function module calling one or more second image acquisition devices, and the first function module being different from the second function module. The one or more first image acquisition devices and the one or more second image acquisition devices are connected to a same electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuangxin Yang, Tingting Zhao
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Patent number: 11145093Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an image acquisition circuit which acquires a plurality of captured image data obtained by capturing a plurality of images, an estimation source image generation circuit which cancels effects of initial color adjustment processing on each captured image data to generate image data of a plurality of estimation source images, a readjustment circuit which divides each estimation source image into a plurality of processing regions to perform color balance readjustment processing for each processing region, and an image synthesis circuit which synthesizes the image data of the plurality of estimation source images so that overlapping regions included in the estimation source images overlap each other to generate image data of a synthesized image.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Kawaguchi, Akihide Takahashi
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Patent number: 11128730Abstract: Predictive pre-fetching of streams for 360 degree video is described. User view orientation metadata is obtained for a 360 degree video stream that includes data for a plurality of viewports. Data corresponding to one or more high-resolution frames for a particular one of the viewports is pre-fetched based on the user view orientation metadata and those frames are displayed. The high resolution frames are characterized by a higher resolution than for remaining viewports.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Erik Beran, Todd Tokubo
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Patent number: 11057643Abstract: A video processing method includes: receiving an omnidirectional content corresponding to a sphere, obtaining projection faces from the omnidirectional content, and creating a projection-based frame by generating at least one padding region and packing the projection faces and said at least one padding region in a 360 VR projection layout. The projection faces packed in the 360 VR projection layout include a first projection face and a second projection face, where there is an image content discontinuity edge between the first projection face and the second projection face if the first projection face connects with the second projection face. The at least one padding region packed in the 360 VR projection layout includes a first padding region, where the first padding region connects with the first projection face and the second projection face for isolating the first projection face from the second projection face in the 360 VR projection layout.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Ya-Hsuan Lee, Chia-Ying Li, Hung-Chih Lin, Jian-Liang Lin, Shen-Kai Chang
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Patent number: 11039054Abstract: An image capturing system includes a first camera having a first lens, a second camera having a second lens, a third camera having a third lens, a fourth camera having a fourth lens, a fifth camera having a fifth lens, a sixth camera having a sixth lens, and a processor coupled to the six cameras. The processor generates an optimized image according to images captured by at least two of the six cameras. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens are disposed adjacently. The first lens, the third lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are disposed along a straight line. Fields of view of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens are the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: ArcSoft Corporation LimitedInventors: Jian-Hua Lin, Chung-Yang Lin
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Patent number: 11025894Abstract: In a left and right pair of a first display device and a second display device that perform repositionable display, mutually different display contents can be visually recognized as a first video image and a second video image. Further, a display control portion controls the display content in accordance with at least one of the first video image and the second video image.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Takeda, Toshiyuki Kasai, Masayuki Takagi, Toshiaki Miyao, Tokito Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10991073Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of stitching a real-time image. More specifically, stitching-related information is generated, a parallax occurrence region in an overlap region is tracked, and correction for reducing parallax occurring in the parallax occurrence region and correction of an image distortion occurring in a non-overlap region are performed for output.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yong Ju Cho, Jeong Il Seo, Soon Heung Jung
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Patent number: 10986269Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for providing external panoramic view contents for an aircraft during flight by installing a plurality of cameras in a plurality of windows installed in an aircraft for displaying external panoramic views inside the aircraft while the aircraft flies in order for aircraft passengers to enjoy them. The apparatus includes a shooting unit having a plurality of cameras for shooting aircraft's external panoramic views; a control unit for receiving a plurality of images from the cameras and processing them; and a display unit comprising a single display and a multi-display including a plurality of sub-displays.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Inventor: Keun Hyung Kim
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Patent number: 10949692Abstract: Techniques for verifying identity of a human subject to an identification document are described. In some examples, a computing device may be connected to least two cameras oriented such that a first field of view is a substantially opposite direction from a second field of view. The device may receive images from the first camera that include a human subject. Second images from the second camera may include images of an ID document with a photograph of the human subject. The device may process the first images along with the respective, corresponding second images to determine respective 3D locations for at least one of cameras at the respective times the images were captured. Based on the sequence of 3D locations, along with the first images and the second images, the device may determine whether the human subject is a valid human subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Jeffrey Lubin, James R. Bergen
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Patent number: 10920748Abstract: An automated system for mitigating risk from a wind farm. The automated system may include an array of a plurality of image capturing devices independently mounted in a wind farm. The array may include a plurality of low resolution cameras and at least one high resolution camera. The plurality of low resolution cameras may be interconnected and may detect a spherical field surrounding the wind farm. A server is in communication with the array of image capturing devices. The server may automatically analyze images to classify an airborne object captured by the array of image capturing devices in response to receiving the images.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: IDENTIFLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventors: Eric S. Wenger, Andrew G. Oliver, Victor L. Babbitt, Thomas R. Hiester
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Patent number: 10911654Abstract: An optical imaging module utilizes electric conductors to reduce the overall thickness of an image sensor element. With the configuration of an auto lens assembly and a multi-lens frame, incident light passes through the auto lens assembly and is accurately focused on the image sensor element. Hereby, the image sensor element is thus fully imaged. Besides, the invention can ensure the image quality and prevent the element from deforming during encapsulation and causing the problems such as short circuit, and can reduce the size of the optical image capturing module.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10904434Abstract: At least one combined image may be created from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras. A sensor unit may receive the plurality of images from the plurality of cameras. At least one processor in communication with the sensor unit may correlate each received image with calibration data for the camera from which the image was received. The calibration data may comprise camera position data and characteristic data, and may translate the data about a translated virtual center point translated a predetermined distance in space from the virtual center point. The processor may combine at least two of the received images from at least two of the cameras into the at least one combined image by orienting the at least two images relative to one another based on the calibration data for the at least two cameras from which the images were received and merging the at least two aligned images into the at least one combined image.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: BOUNCE IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Francisco Aguilar, Sietse Dijkstra