Synchronization Patents (Class 348/500)
  • Patent number: 11957315
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a processor including at least one or more pieces of hardware, the processor being configured to: switch to one of a first state in which an input of a clock signal for operating an imager to the imager is permitted and a second state in which the input of the clock signal to the imager is prohibited, and temporarily switch from the first state to the second state when a first synchronization signal output from a first synchronization signal generation circuit and a second synchronization signal output from a second synchronization signal generation circuit are not synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daiki Yamamura
  • Patent number: 11953676
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing a first oscillation about a first axis with a second oscillation about a second axis includes: generating a first position signal that indicates a position of the first oscillation about the first axis; generating a second position signal that indicates a position of the second oscillation about the first axis; determining a phase difference between the first and the second position signals; comparing the phase difference to a threshold value to generate a comparison result; generating a first reference signal having a first frequency and a second reference signal having a second frequency; synchronizing the first oscillation to the first frequency and synchronizing the second oscillation to the second frequency; monitoring the comparison result; and synchronously triggering a start of the first reference signal and the second reference signal responsive to the comparison result indicating that the phase difference is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Norbert Druml, Alberto Garcia Izquierdo
  • Patent number: 11948533
    Abstract: A display system according to an embodiment disclosed in the disclosure includes a sink device including a plurality of displays, the plurality of displays including a display having a high refresh rate compared to at least one other display having a low refresh rate among the plurality of displays and a source device operably coupled to the plurality of displays, and the source device renders the image data based on the display having the high refresh rate among the plurality of displays, and transmits at least a portion of the rendered image data to the plurality of displays in synchronization with respective refresh rates of the at least one other display. Additional various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonseob Choi, Joohong Lee, Sangwon Chae, Chanmin Park
  • Patent number: 11929047
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for dynamically switching frame rates without changing a display refresh rate. An example method can include receiving, from a display device associated with a computing device, a set of control signals indicating a display refresh rate implemented by the display device; adjusting a frame rate associated with application data from one or more applications executed on the computing device; synchronizing, based on the set of control signals, the adjusted frame rate with two or more display refresh cycles, each display refresh cycle being based on the display refresh rate; providing, to the display device, a first frame at the adjusted frame rate, the first frame being generated based on the application data; and displaying the first frame at the display device implementing the display refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Xinchao Yang, Yongjun Xu
  • Patent number: 11729453
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing an enriched content services over a network. In one embodiment, the exemplary apparatus and methods leverage extant high-bandwidth capabilities of a managed network for delivering content downstream, as well as standards-compliant ultra-low latency and high data rate services (e.g., 5G NR services) for uploading content. In one embodiment, the exemplary apparatus and methods are implemented to synchronize content delivered of extant HFC architectures and DOCSIS protocols with user-generated or other content uploaded to a network entity (e.g., server apparatus) via an IP connection established utilized 5G NR services. Additional features include, among other, enhancements which enable user participation individually, or with other subscribers, in live or recorded content-based activities (such as e.g., auctioning, broadcasting, interactive commentary/gaming, exercising, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Curt Wong, Sami Makinen, Maulik Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11653108
    Abstract: Examples described may related to an imaging sensor used by a vehicle, including a light sensor. The light sensor comprises a plurality of cells aligned in a plurality of horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns. The apparatus further includes an optical system configured to provide the light sensor with a field of view of an external environment of the apparatus. Additionally, the system includes a processing unit configured to: divide the plurality of horizontal rows of the light sensor into one or more enabled rows and one or more disabled rows; obtain image data from the light sensor by sampling one or more cells in the one or more enabled rows; and store the received image data in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Wendel, Jeremy Dittmer
  • Patent number: 11516526
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus including a time synchronizing unit configured to collect GrandMaster (GM) clock time information and to perform time synchronization based on the GM clock time information, a comparison unit configured to receive video frames captured from a camera among multi-channel cameras, to compare time information of the video frames with the GM clock time information, and to thereby generate and output delay time information for the video frames to be delayed compared to the GM clock time information; and an image synchronizing unit configured to perform image synchronization between the multi-channel cameras by adjusting an image output time of the camera based on the delay time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jang Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 11327930
    Abstract: Using a first unique identifier of a local file on a client machine associated with a second unique identifier of a content item maintained at a content management system repository, synchronization of the local file and the content item can be restored after a synchronization break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HYLAND UK OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Harpritt Kalsi, Gregory Melahn
  • Patent number: 11223364
    Abstract: A signal generator includes a first phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to receive a first reference signal having a first reference frequency and generate a ramping signal based on the first reference signal, where the ramping signal is between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency of a radar frequency band; a system clock configured to generate a second reference signal having a common system reference frequency; and a second PLL configured to receive the second reference signal from the system clock, generate the first reference signal based on the second reference signal, and provide the first reference signal to the first PLL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Grigory Itkin
  • Patent number: 11140424
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Renxiang Li, Kevin L. Baum, Faisal Ishtiaq, Michael L. Needham
  • Patent number: 11115649
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include a communication device configured to receive wireless synchronization information for display content, a lens, an optical device, and a controller configured to determine that the display content is in a field of view of the lens, and in response to determining that the display content is within the field of view of the lens, cause the lens to selectively allow the display content to pass through the lens based on the wireless synchronization information. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Ryan Michael Ebert, Robert Birch, Bruce A. Cleary
  • Patent number: 11102379
    Abstract: Methods (900, 1000) and apparatuses (110, 120, 400) are provided for transmitting and receiving a signal. The method (900) of transmitting a signal includes modulating (920) data into a plurality of modulation symbols to generate a signal, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter, and transmitting (930) the signal over a communication medium. The method (1000) of receiving a signal includes receiving (1010) a signal over a communication medium, and demodulating (1020) the signal to generate a plurality of demodulated symbols, the demodulated symbols including data, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: John Sidney Stewart
  • Patent number: 10991399
    Abstract: A computer-implemented audio alignment system includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is configured to ingest and store video files, which each include one or more respective audio soundtracks. The processor is configured to receive an alternate audio file associated with one of the video files. The alternate audio file includes an alternate audio soundtrack with dialogue and non-dialogue audio. The video file includes an original language audio soundtrack with dialogue and non-dialogue audio. The processor aligns the non-dialogue audio from the alternate audio soundtrack with the non-dialogue audio from the original language audio soundtrack and aligns the alternate audio soundtrack with the film based on the alignment of the non-dialogue audio from the alternate audio soundtrack with the non-dialogue audio from the original language audio soundtrack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: DELUXE ONE LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Shenkler
  • Patent number: 10992844
    Abstract: Introduced here are synchronization modules designed to integrate streams of data acquired from multiple sources in a precise, repeatable manner. To improve the usability of data acquired from multiple sources, a synchronization module can tightly couple streams of data received from these sources so that the data is temporally aligned. For example, a synchronization module may tightly couple motion data generated by a motion sensor with location data generated by a location sensor and image data generated by an image sensor in a manner that lessens the incurrence of software overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Virzi, Newfel Harrat, Rakesh Ranjan
  • Patent number: 10956024
    Abstract: In one example implementation, a computing device displays a first application window and second application window adjacent to each other in a multi-application viewing area. The computing device detects a gesture in either an upper gesture detection area or a lower gesture detection area and controls either the first application window or second application window based on the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Juliano Godinho Varaschin de Moraes, Nicholas Hallas, Carol Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10900810
    Abstract: An electronic equipment has a rotational operation member that can be downsized and has high detection reliability. The electronic equipment includes a rotational operation member, a click mechanism providing a click feeling at each predetermined rotation angle, and a magnetic field generating member. A first magnetic field detecting part detects variation of a first direction-related magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating member, and a second magnetic field detecting part detects a variation of a second direction-related magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating member. A rotation amount and a rotation direction of the rotational operation member are calculated based on the variations of the first direction-related magnetic field and the second direction-related magnetic field caused by a change in a positional relation of the first and second magnetic field detecting parts with the magnetic field generating member due to the rotation of the rotational operation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taro Fuchigami, Keita Hirayama
  • Patent number: 10896179
    Abstract: Techniques described herein perform high fidelity combination of data, for example combining time series data in response to a query. In an embodiment, a first input data stream of a first type (e.g., continuous), a second input data stream of a second type (e.g., discrete), and an operation to a function of and to be performed on the first and second input data streams are received. The second input data stream includes second input data stream samples associated with sample times. The techniques includes determining that at least some points in the second input data stream samples do not have synchronized samples in the first input data stream, automatically generating synchronized samples for the first input data stream, and performing the operation on the second input data stream samples and the automatically generated samples for the first input data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Wavefront, Inc.
    Inventor: Clement Ho Yan Pang
  • Patent number: 10863470
    Abstract: A method of detecting a synchronization switching pulse using a power detector in a time division duplexing (TDD) system includes receiving an input signal, detecting a power level associated with the input signal using a digital power meter, and determining a configuration associated with the input signal. The method also includes determining that a pulse width associated with the input signal is greater than a threshold, determining an offset associated with a special subframe configuration, and generating an estimated sync pulse. The method further includes forming a regenerated sync pulse, determining an error between the estimated sync pulse and the regenerated sync pulse, determining that the error is less than a threshold, and providing a lock detect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DALI SYSTEMS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Wan-Jong Kim, Shawn Patrick Stapleton
  • Patent number: 10846820
    Abstract: There is provided a generation device, an identification information generation method, a reproduction device, and an image generation method capable of easily acquiring a region with a margin and a region with no margin. An identification information generation unit generates margin identification information for identifying that a celestial sphere image includes a region with a margin. A client that uses a margin can easily acquire a region including the margin and a client that does not use a margin can easily acquire a region including no margin. The present technology can be applied to a case in which a celestial sphere image is transmitted from a server and is received and reproduced on a client side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Ohji Nakagami
  • Patent number: 10779017
    Abstract: An improved video streaming method and system that reduces video stream playback dropouts when video data flow from a server is degraded or interrupted. Two adaptive bitrate video streams of the content are operated in parallel with video quality that can be adjusted independently. The first stream receives data blocks at a rate generally concurrent with the video playback. The second stream receives data blocks in advance of the playback point and these blocks are buffered. The best available block is used during playback. Buffered second stream blocks can be used to continue playback when the network connection is compromised or interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Tom Stratton, Shaun Lile
  • Patent number: 10739884
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel configured to perform display operation based on a pixel signal in a display period, a detector configured to perform touch detection operation in touch detection periods, and a driver configured to control frame operations. The driver is configured to control a first frame operation in a first frame periods including the display period, a first touch detection period and a first display adjustment period, and control a second frame operation in a second frame periods including the display period, a first touch detection period and a second display adjustment period. The second display adjustment period is longer than the first display adjustment period and includes the second touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Ota, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Tsutomu Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 10715882
    Abstract: Technology for a display device is described. The display device can include at least one display screen operable to show at least one display panel. The display device can include a controller. The controller can receive a content frame from a content source over a transport topology. The controller can receive a presentation timestamp (PTS) associated with the content frame, where the PTS indicates an earliest time at which the content frame is to be displayed at the display device. The controller can provide the content frame for display on the display panel at a subsequent panel refresh opportunity in accordance with the PTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nausheen Ansari, Gary K. Smith, Srikanth Kambhatla
  • Patent number: 10694264
    Abstract: A system is provided for enabling correlating timeline information between a first media stream and a second media stream which are both associated with a common play-out timeline. The system comprises at least two stream monitors arranged for providing identification information for a media stream by obtaining a persistent identification of one or more media samples of the media stream, determining a timestamp value associated with the persistent identification, and providing the timestamp value and the persistent identification as the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegpast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Mattijs Oskar Van Deventer, Hans Maarten Stokking, Ray Van Brandenburg
  • Patent number: 10595076
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming or playback, and, more particularly, for implementing media stream synchronization. In some embodiments, a synchronization system might receive a first signal that is output from a first device, which receives an original video signal from a video source and outputs a first video signal. The synchronization system might analyze the first signal to determine a first frame buffer delay, generate a delay adjustment signal based on such determination, and send the delay adjustment signal to a frame buffer delay device. The frame buffer delay device and the first device might concurrently receive the original video signal from the video source. The first delay adjustment signal causes the frame buffer delay device to apply the first frame buffer delay to the original video signal to produce a second video signal that is synchronized with the first video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Sprenger, Zubin Ingah
  • Patent number: 10484728
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for reproducing second content in synchronization with reproduction of first content by a second information processing apparatus different from the information processing apparatus, the first content comprising audio content. The information processing apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: extract a first feature from the audio content; obtain a second feature of the audio content, the second feature being together with the second content; compare the first feature with the second feature; and generate, based on results of the comparing, synchronization information used for reproducing the second content in synchronization with the first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Shusuke Takahashi, Masayuki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10401900
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a technique that uses a modified timing signal to reduce self-induced voltage noise in a synchronous system. During a transient period associated with a deterministic event in the synchronous system, the technique uses a modified timing signal generated based on a normal timing signal as a timing signal for the synchronous system. Outside of the transient period, the technique uses the normal timing as the timing signal for the synchronous system. In some embodiments, the modified timing signal is generated by skipping a pattern of clock transitions in the normal timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Leibowitz, Jared L. Zerbe
  • Patent number: 10365700
    Abstract: A resource hotplug managing method of a computing system includes accessing scenario data including a plurality of scenarios, evaluating the plurality of scenarios using context information about the computing system, and controlling hotplug-in or hotplug-out of a resource included in the computing system according to a satisfied scenario among the plurality of scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Soo Yang
  • Patent number: 10356484
    Abstract: A data transmitting apparatus is provided. The data transmitting apparatus includes a packet generator configured to generate a packet including a first sub packet and a second sub packet, and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated packet to a data receiving apparatus, and the first sub packet and the second sub packet include different audio data related to a first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-hwa Kim, Kyeong-jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10312949
    Abstract: A gateway architecture able to meet the challenges raised by the large-scale deployment of wireless sensor networks. The main modules within such a gateway for wireless sensor networks, for example digital radio modems and analog radio interface modules take the form of various separate physical blocks that may be joined together. This technique makes it possible to implement adaptable and scalable modular gateways that may be quickly and easily configured or suited to any situation, simply by replacing existing physical blocks or adding new physical blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KERLINK
    Inventors: Martin Chaplet, Michel Gilbert, Samuel Nicolas, Ronan Dubourg, Yannick Delibie
  • Patent number: 10250844
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a signal generation unit that generates a control signal for controlling an imaging device connected via one cable, a signal superimposition unit that superimposes the control signal generated by the signal generation unit on a video signal received from the imaging device via the cable without an influence on display of a video corresponding to the video signal, and a transmission unit that transmits the signals superimposed by the signal superimposition unit to the imaging device via the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tomiyama
  • Patent number: 10199074
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for selecting frames for decode and display during different playback modes of a media player. Prediction dependencies may be estimated among frames from a sample table of a media item identifying dependency state among frames in the media item. Based on a playback rate of a media player, a collection of frames may be identified from the media item that have presentation times within a display refresh time of the player. A frame may be selected for decode and display during the display refresh time based on the estimated prediction dependencies. The selected frame may be decoded for display during the player display refresh time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Decoodt, John Samuel Bushell
  • Patent number: 10187279
    Abstract: A controller for using a first data item transmitted via a network to generate a second data item for controlling an entity to be controlled over the network, wherein the controller is characterized in being provided with: an adjustment unit for adjusting, with respect to the maximum delay time permissible on the network, the time by which generation of the second data item is started using the first data item after the first data item has been received; and a delay compensation unit, designed using a model of the entity to be controlled and the maximum delay time permissible on the network, for compensating for the delay of the first and second data items that can be generated using the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Ishii, Masato Yamaji, Masahiro Takekawa
  • Patent number: 10074303
    Abstract: A display method for a display device is provided. The display method comprises activating a Head Mounted Theater (HMT) mode, the HMT mode displaying two images which are substantially same each other on first and second areas respectively, separated from each other, in a display area of the display device; and adjusting a display time, for displaying a black screen in the first and second areas, of a unit frame time when the HMT mode is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Hee Ha, Dong-Hui Kim, Jeong-Hun Kim, Chi-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10051295
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Renxiang Li, Kevin L. Baum, Faisal Ishtiaq, Michael L. Needham
  • Patent number: 10021445
    Abstract: Various mechanisms presented in this disclosure provide for dynamically adjusting the exhibition of subtitles. In one example, check-points are introduced into the subtitle file format that, once achieved by a multimedia player, provoke the rescheduling of the moment in which the texts contained in the subtitle file will be exhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Priscilla Barreira Avegliano, Lucas Correia Villa Real, Rodrigo Laiola Guimaraes, Diego Sanchez Gallo
  • Patent number: 9996497
    Abstract: A method for processing graphics is provided. The method includes: establishing streams corresponding to graphic layers drawn by at least one application; adding a one-shot signal to the end of the last stream of the streams; packaging the streams with the one-shot signal to form a packet; and transmitting the packet to a display interface unit (DIU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjie Wang, Chenyang Zhu
  • Patent number: 9973361
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for use within a wireless OFDM network that transmits a first packet type and a second packet type. The first packet type has a header field with two parts with each part comprising a different set of header bits. The two parts of the header field are transmitted using two OFDM symbols. The second packet type has a header field with four parts with the first and second parts comprising the same first set of header bits and the third and the fourth part comprising the same second set of header bits. The four parts of the header field are transmitted using four OFDM symbols. The second packet type provides more reliable transmission than the first packet type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: APPLIED TRANSFORM, LLC
    Inventors: Joon Bae Kim, Marcos C. Tzannes
  • Patent number: 9973787
    Abstract: Content data control is to be performed in a preferred manner between a device such as an HDMI device and an IP (DLNA) device. In response to transmission request information received from a mobile terminal (14) via a wireless transmission path (16), a television receiver (13) transmits information related to uncompressed image/audio data to the mobile terminal (14) via the wireless transmission path (16), the related information having been acquired from an HDMI-connected BD recorder (11). The mobile terminal (14) displays a list of content information in accordance with the received related information, and transmits the control information about selected content to the television receiver (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9961393
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided for playing a multimedia file. The device sends a first audio data packet to an audio player device and sends a first video data packet to a video player device. The first audio data packet and the first video data packet both include a data test identifier. The device receives a first timestamp from the audio player device. The device receives a second timestamp from the video player device. The device then sends a second audio data packet and a second video data packet respectively to the audio player device and the video player device according to the first timestamp and the second timestamp. Thus, the audio player device and the video player device play synchronously the second audio data packet and the second video data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Kangxi Tan, Xianzhe Wei, Ge Ma
  • Patent number: 9900544
    Abstract: A video signal processing system includes a first video signal processing chip and a second video signal processing chip. The first video signal processing chip determines whether both of a first video signal and a second video signal are in a stable state. After the first video signal processing chip determines that both of the first and second video signals are in the stable state, the first video signal processing chip sends a synchronization signal to the first video processing chip and the second video processing chip. After receiving the synchronization signal, the first video signal processing chip and the second video signal processing chip respectively output a first processed video signal and a second processed video signal to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Kai-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9854553
    Abstract: A method of detecting a synchronization switching pulse using a power detector in a time division duplexing (TDD) system includes receiving an input signal, detecting a power level associated with the input signal using a digital power meter, and determining a configuration associated with the input signal. The method also includes determining that a pulse width associated with the input signal is greater than a threshold, determining an offset associated with a special subframe configuration, and generating an estimated sync pulse. The method further includes forming a regenerated sync pulse, determining an error between the estimated sync pulse and the regenerated sync pulse, determining that the error is less than a threshold, and providing a lock detect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Dali Systems Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan-Jong Kim, Shawn Patrick Stapleton
  • Patent number: 9842617
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a media; a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head over the media; and control circuitry, coupled to the HAMR head, the control circuitry being configured to: receive a write command to write the media; apply a dynamic flying height (DFH) control before asserting a write gate of the HAMR head; assert the write gate to the HAMR head; and enable a flying height compensation mechanism to maintain a constant value of a flying height of the HAMR head over the media during a next assertion of the write gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Phillip Scott Haralson, Galvin T. P. Chia, Steven R. Vasquez, Mark McDaniel
  • Patent number: 9843613
    Abstract: The present arrangement relates to a display a screen of a second device of an enriched content previously pushed by a computer server, in synchronism with the display of the content of a broadcast program reproduced by a first device. The method includes, the server pushing an item of information representative of the start (TREF) of the broadcasting of the program, then charged to the mobile device, via the execution of a specific software application, to begin listening to the audio band reproduced by the first device, to identify the program, by comparison with the audio signature received previously, to determine the instant (TC) of actual reproduction of the program by the first device, and to thus deduce therefrom the elapsed lag which must be taken into account so as to display the enriched content in a synchronized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: VISIWARE
    Inventor: Laurant Weill
  • Patent number: 9838707
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current video picture and a nearby video picture is determined. The display time difference is then encoded into a digital representation of the video picture. In a preferred embodiment, the nearby video picture is the most recently transmitted stored picture. For coding efficiency, the display time difference may be encoded using a variable length coding system or arithmetic coding. In an alternate embodiment, the display time difference is encoded as a power of two to reduce the number of bits transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Barin Geoffry Haskell, David William Singer, Adriana Dumitras, Atul Puri
  • Patent number: 9794451
    Abstract: A method in control equipment for synchronizing audio and video acquires an identifier of playback equipment. Information as to audio and video formats for the playback equipment is acquired playback and a first time delay data corresponding to the audio data and video data from the cloud server is set according to the identifier, the audio format information and the video format information. A first delay time between the audio data and video data according to the first time delay data acquired from the cloud server is set for the implementation of audio and video synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: 9762902
    Abstract: A method for decoding and reconstructing a QM associated with a picture, wherein the method comprises acquiring at least one reference QM and at least one weighting factor associated with the reference QM, wherein the reference QM is a previously decoded QM, and computing a predicted matrix using the reference QM and the weighting factor associated with the reference QM, wherein the predicted matrix is used to reconstruct the QM. In another embodiment, a method for encoding a QM associated with a picture, wherein the method comprises acquiring a first QM reference and a second QM reference, acquiring a first weighting factor that corresponds to the first QM reference and a second weighting factor that corresponds to the second QM reference, obtaining the predicted QM using the first QM reference, the second QM reference, the first weighting factor, and the second weighting factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jianhua Zheng, Jianwen Chen, Jingsheng Jason Cong
  • Patent number: 9743074
    Abstract: The shutter glasses for the display apparatus include a shutter-glasses communication unit which receives a first sync signal from the display apparatus displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image; and a shutter-glasses controller which generates an ON/OFF driving signal for a left-eye lens unit and a right-eye lens unit of the shutter glasses based on the first sync signal, the first sync signal including a pattern, based on which at least one sync pulse is periodically omitted in a second sync signal used in displaying the 3D image according to a frame driving frequency of the 3D image. The shutter-glasses controller generates an ON/OFF driving signal in sync with the first sync signal, so that the ON/OFF driving signal includes the sync pulse in a section corresponding to the omitted sync pulse of the second sync signal according to a time period of the first sync signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nak-won Choi, Jung-jin Park, Tae-hyeun Ha, Jong-kil Kwak
  • Patent number: 9693046
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a multi-view display system. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display screen to display multiple views simultaneously, and a controller to control the views presented on the display screen. The apparatus is configurable by the controller to provide multiple view settings, the view settings including a first setting in which the apparatus provides a single view to each viewer of the display screen and a second setting in which the apparatus provides a first view to a first viewer of the display screen and a second view to a second viewer of the display screen. A first filtering element filters views presented to viewers of the display screen such that an intended view is displayed to one or more viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Unkel, Lawrence L. Butcher, James G. Hanko, J. Duane Northcutt, Brian K. Schmidt, Edwin C. Seim
  • Patent number: 9578301
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus and a method for detecting a temporal synchronization mismatch between at least a first and a second video stream of a stereoscopic video content are described. An eye blink of a creature that is imaged in the video content is detected. The temporal synchronization mismatch is determined by determination of a temporal offset between the reproduction of an eye blink in the first video stream and the reproduction of said eye blink in the second video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING SA
    Inventors: Jobst Horentrup, Markus Schlosser
  • Patent number: 9575711
    Abstract: Each of liquid crystal display apparatuses (10), forming a multi-image display system, includes an image signal processing part (2) which determines a write speed of an image signal based on the number of liquid crystal display apparatuses (10) being aligned in a vertical direction with respect to the lines of an image display device (3) in the multi-image display system. Additionally, the image signal processing part (2) shifts write start timing of the image signal display device (3) based on the location of the corresponding apparatus within the liquid crystal display apparatuses (10) being aligned in the vertical direction with respect to the lines, thus displaying a display image of the corresponding apparatus in the image display device (3) at the determined write speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Noguchi