Human Body Observation Patents (Class 348/77)
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Patent number: 11455828Abstract: A face recognition technology that enables high-speed determination of erroneous detection of face regions and high-precision face recognition by means of a first face recognition processing unit of relatively low accuracy for detecting a face region of a person on each captured image captured by a monitor camera, and a second face recognition processing unit for performing face recognition of a person more accurately with respect to the detected face region transmitted from the first face recognition processing unit. The second face recognition. processing unit determines that the first face recognition processing unit has erroneously detected when the second face recognition processing unit is not able to recognize a face region on the detected face region transmitted from the first face recognition processing unit, and the first face recognition processing unit calculates and self-learns a barycentric coordinate of the detected face region as a point mask position. Thereafter, the first face recognition.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Micronet Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Ito, Makoto Sato
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Patent number: 11447009Abstract: A vehicular infotainment apparatus may include: a display unit configured to display information on a screen; a projection unit disposed proximate to the screen of the display unit, the projection unit being rotatable, movable, and configured to project the information displayed on the screen of the display unit; a driver configured to rotate and move the projection unit; and a controller configured to control operation of the display unit and the driver and to receive a request for rotation of the projection unit. The controller may be further configured to control the driver such that the driver causes the projection unit to rotate or move at a rotation angle corresponding to the request for rotation of the projection unit and to control the display unit such that the display unit modifies the information displayed on the screen of the display unit according to the rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Sung Joon Park
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Patent number: 11450192Abstract: A fall detection system includes first sensing devices, second sensing devices, positioning modules, a data server and a display device. The first sensing device is configured to detect a posture of a body part of a user for obtaining body part posture data. The positioning modules are configured to detect positions of the first and second sensing devices, so as to obtain corresponding body part position data. Each of the second sensing devices is disposed on a shoe to detect a posture of a user's feet and to measure a distance from an ambient object for obtaining feet posture data and distance measurement data. The data server is configured to receive the body part posture data, the body part position data, the feet posture data and the distance measurement data to determine if the user falls down.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Chih-Lung Lin, Wen-Ching Chiu, Yuan-Hao Ho
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Patent number: 11448897Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system and method are provided. The three-dimensional imaging system includes a suspension force field generator, a projection module, and a controller. The suspension force field generator generates a suspension force field to suspend a plurality of scattering particles used for scattering incident light and distribute the scattering particles on a projection plane. The projection module projects an image on the projection plane. The controller is coupled to the suspension force field generator and the projection module, controls the suspension force field generator to change the suspension force field so that the projection plane where the scattering particles are distributed moves in a display space, extracts a slice plane image that matches a position of the projection plane from multiple slice plane images sliced from a three-dimensional stereoscopic image, and controls the projection module to project the extracted slice plane image to the projection plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chien-Ju Lee, Shin-Hong Kuo, Yu-Hsiang Liu, Kuan-Ting Chen
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Patent number: 11443548Abstract: A fake finger in which a transparent thin film is attached to a finger surface is discriminated. A fake-finger determination device includes: an imaging unit 10 that captures an authentication object as a fingerprint authentication object; a classifying unit 31 that classifies an image captured by the imaging unit 10 into a plurality of regions including at least a skin region and a background region using colors of pixels included in the image; and a determining unit 32 that determines whether or not a foreign substance is present in the periphery of a finger based on a feature of a region classified as neither the skin region nor the background region out of the regions classified by the classifying unit 31.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Akira Monden
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Patent number: 11435740Abstract: A system may include one or more sensors configured to acquire data associated with a driver of a vehicle and a processor. The processor may receive the data and determine whether the data is within a baseline data associated with expected behavior of the driver. The processor may then control one or more operations of the vehicle in response to the data being outside the baseline data.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Kade L. Scott, Benjamin D. Ethington, Richard Daniel Graham, Matthew T. Flachsbart
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Patent number: 11436935Abstract: A method of training a trainee includes a sensor configured to measure at least one biological indicator of stress in the trainee. The method includes presenting a training segment in the simulation while monitoring inputs from the trainee. Data is read from the sensor and an instantaneous stress level of the trainee is calculated from the data. If the instantaneous stress level greater than a predetermined value, a stress-change feature is selected that will reduce stress and applying the stress-change feature to the training segment, thereby reducing complexity of the training segment for reducing the instantaneous stress of the trainee. for example, the stress-change feature is changing the weather, adding/removing bad drivers, adding/removing pedestrians, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Advanced Training Systems, IncInventors: Reginald T. Welles, Darrell R. Turpin, Aaron J. Turpin
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Patent number: 11426076Abstract: A contactless system for assessing and/or determining hemodynamic parameters and/or vital signs is featured. The system includes one or more contactless light sources configured to emit light incident on a moving living subject at one more wavelengths absorbed by one or more chromophores associated with spontaneous hemodynamic oscillations in a predetermined area of the living subject. The system includes a camera subsystem including one or more cameras configured to receive reflected light from the predetermined area of the moving living subject and configured to track motion of the predetermined area of the living subject within a field of view of the camera subsystem and configured to generate a time sequence of images of the predetermined area of the living subject.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Vivonics, Inc.Inventor: Michele Pierro
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Patent number: 11419390Abstract: A system for managing foot length information of a growing person is to be provided. A foot length information management system includes: a measurement unit that measures foot length; a storage unit that stores multiple patterns of growth curve information; an age information input unit into which age information of a customer is entered; and a growth curve information selecting unit that refers to the age information to select growth curve information corresponding to foot length measured by the measurement unit, from among the multiple patterns of growth curve information. The foot length information management system may further include a recording unit in which past foot length is recorded, and the growth curve information selecting unit may select growth curve information based on foot length recorded in the recording unit and foot length measured by the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kana Kagami, Norihiko Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11397339Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining centring is disclosed. At least two calibrated images of the head which are captured simultaneously from different viewing directions are provided, and geometric parameters which describe the position of the eyes are determined by geometric position determination. A three-dimensional data set describing geometric parameters of the frame front is provided; the geometric parameters of the frame front and the geometric parameters describing the position of the eyes are brought into relation to each other with a rigid transformation; and the centring parameters are calculated from the geometric parameters describing the frame front and those describing the position of the eyes.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss AGInventor: Claudia Nieuwenhuis
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Patent number: 11386564Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer-accessible recording medium for motion recognition based on an atomic pose are provided. A video frame including a live body is obtained. An atomic pose feature value is generated by analyzing the live body in the video frame. A hash value of the atomic pose is generated by executing a hash function according to the atomic pose feature value. The live body executing a specific motion is recognized by comparing the atomic pose hash value.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventor: Yi-Hsi Huang
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Patent number: 11386572Abstract: A calibration platform may obtain measurements for aligning a real-world coordinate system and a display coordinate system. For example, the calibration platform may display, via an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD), a three-dimensional virtual object and receive, from a positional tracking device, information that relates to a current pose of a three-dimensional real-world object to be aligned with the three-dimensional virtual object. The calibration platform may record a three-dimensional position of a plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object based on the current pose of the three-dimensional real-world object, based on an indication that the plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object respectively corresponds with a plurality of points on the three-dimensional virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Ehsan Azimi, Long Qian, Peter Kazanzides, Nassir Navab
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Patent number: 11377125Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include methods of locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle and vehicle-based systems for locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle. In an illustrative embodiment, a method of locating an intended passenger of an automotive vehicle includes: moving an automotive vehicle to an approximate location of an intended passenger based on a location signal from the intended passenger received via a wireless network; after moving to the approximate location of the intended passenger, receiving, by the vehicle, an image from an electronic device of the intended passenger, the image being an image of the intended passenger or an image of local physical surroundings of the intended passenger; processing the image to determine additional location information of the intended passenger based on matching the image against one or more reference images; and accepting by the vehicle, the intended passenger responsive to the image processing.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Oliver Jeromin, Kiran Bharwani, Aziz Umit Batur, Patrick Hunt
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Patent number: 11378814Abstract: A camera module includes a lens assembly comprising a plurality of solid lenses, an image sensor disposed on an optical axis of the plurality of solid lenses, a liquid lens disposed on the optical axis, the liquid lens being disposed on the image sensor, and a controller configured to move the image sensor in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD., CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Yong Bok Choi, Eun Sung Seo
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Patent number: 11379924Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically mitigating risks of insurance-related events to a property are provided. According to certain aspects, a smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may analyze data received from a plurality of smart devices disposed on, within, or proximate to a property, as well as data received from an insurance provider. If it is determined that an actual or potential risk of property damage exists, the smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may automatically issue commands to one or more smart devices to take actions that mitigate the risk. The smart home controller may also transmit information about the actual or potential risks and any mitigative actions to an insurance provider. The insurance provider remote processor may interpret the transmitted data to perform insurance activities, such as providing a discount and/or adjusting an insurance premium or policy associated with the property.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Ronny S. Bryant, Shawn M. Call, Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri, John H. Weekes, Jennifer Criswell, Todd Binion, Jackie O. Jordan, II, Elisabeth McDermeit, John Donovan
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Patent number: 11375098Abstract: A radiation imaging system comprises a radiation imaging apparatus having a plurality of imaging modes, and a control apparatus configured to control imaging of a radiation image with respect to the radiation imaging apparatus. The radiation imaging system comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain information with respect to a communication state between the radiation imaging apparatus and the control apparatus; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit of at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the control apparatus to display information indicating a margin in the communication state based on an imaging mode of the radiation imaging apparatus and the information with respect to the communication state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akio Saigusa, Akiya Nakayama
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Patent number: 11373420Abstract: Hair loss/gain and scalp changes are monitored using vehicle cameras and sensors of connected vehicles. Each vehicle is equipped with at least one camera which images the hair and scalp of a person riding in the vehicle. Each vehicle is operatively connected to a hair and scalp improvement application in a computing cloud which includes a registration module which registers each vehicle. Additionally, the person may register with the hair and scalp improvement application to have his/her hair and scalp analyzed when travelling in any of the registered vehicles. The hair and scalp improvement application is operatively connected to a hair and scalp data artificial intelligence (AI) analytics module and a data lake to search and analyze information related to the changes in the hair and scalp images. A hair and scalp treatment recommendation is transmitted to the person.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, INC.Inventor: Alexander T. Pham
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Patent number: 11372961Abstract: The present disclosure related to a method and device for assigning application usage permission. The method includes: collecting a first image of a current first user, and when it is recognized that a target application is enabled, judging whether the first image matches a target image corresponding to the target application (S101); if yes, assigning all usage permissions of the target application to the current first user (S102); if not, judging whether there is a first stranger image matching the first image successfully (S103); if yes, assigning a corresponding usage permission of the target application to the current first user according to a collection count corresponding to the first stranger image and a usage permission corresponding to a collection count range threshold (S104); and if not, not assigning the usage permission of the target application to the current first user (S105).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances (Wuhan) Co., LtdInventors: Pengfei Xu, Ping Yang
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Patent number: 11373452Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques for analyzing rodent gait that addresses the confound of interdependency of gait variables to provide more accurate and reproducible results. In embodiments, multidimensional analysis of gait in animals, such as rodents, may be performed. For example, in an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of animal gait analysis may comprise capturing data relating to steps taken a plurality of animal test subjects, performing a multidimensional analysis of the captured data to generate data describing a gait of the animal test subjects, and outputting data characterizing the gait of the animal test subjects.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Georgetown UniversityInventor: Nathan Neckel
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Patent number: 11368662Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a camera array imaging architecture that computes depth maps for objects within a scene captured by the cameras, and use a near-field sub-array of cameras to compute depth to near-field objects and a far-field sub-array of cameras to compute depth to far-field objects. In particular, a baseline distance between cameras in the near-field subarray is less than a baseline distance between cameras in the far-field sub-array in order to increase the accuracy of the depth map. Some embodiments provide an illumination near-IR light source for use in computing depth maps.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventors: Kartik Venkataraman, Dan Lelescu, Jacques Duparre
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Patent number: 11366014Abstract: A spectrometer including at least one light-coupling element, a variable entrance slit, a dispersive element, a detector element and a control and evaluation unit. The object of providing a spectrometer having improved measuring characteristics is achieved in that the variable entrance slit is implemented by a first spatial modulation element including a plurality of pixels, wherein the individual pixels can be arranged independently of one another by the control and evaluation unit, wherein the individual pixels are arranged in order to implement the entrance slit during operation in such a manner that at least part of the light incident from the light-coupling element is passed on to the dispersive element.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: KROHNE MESSTECHNIK GMBHInventor: Thomas Fritsch
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Patent number: 11363964Abstract: Ingestible devices are disclosed that provide very high localization accuracy for the devices when present in the GI tract of a body. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventors: Mitchell Lawrence Jones, Yi Liu, Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Christopher Loren Wahl
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Patent number: 11367158Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a capture part acquiring image data, and a display displaying an image on a display based on the image data. First information acquired includes at least either an azimuth angle or an elevation angle as a direction of the image and at least either an angle of view of the image or angle-of-view related information calculating the angle of view. When a second direction of a second image is included within a range of a first angle of view in a first direction of a first image, the second image is associated with the first image, and the first image is displayed within the display, and display is performed in a state in which the second image to be associated with the first image is overlapped on the first image within the display as the second image or second information indicating the second image.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Nobutaka Okuyama, Ryuji Nishimura, Susumu Yoshida
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Patent number: 11330179Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging element configured to capture an image using a luminous flux passing through an imaging optical system; a blur corrector configured to move a part of the imaging optical system or the imaging element; a movement detection unit configured to detect the motion of a main subject; and an imaging control unit configured to perform control so that multiple imaging is performed on the main subject under different imaging conditions to obtain a plurality of images to be combined. The imaging control unit causes the blur corrector to be driven so that the motion of the main subject detected by the movement detection unit is reduced in the multiple imaging.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Go Naito
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Patent number: 11330250Abstract: A three-dimensional display device configured to display a main image and an additional image on a screen includes a display region candidate decider that decides one candidate region from a plurality of region candidates for the additional image to be superimposed on the main image on the screen, a depth suitability determiner that determines whether a difference between a depth of the main image displayed at a boundary region and a depth of the additional image is within a predetermined tolerance range, and an image composer that, when the difference in depth between the depth of the main image displayed at the boundary region and the depth of the additional image is within the tolerance range, superimposes the additional image upon the main image at the candidate region, thereby composing a composite image of the main image and the additional image, and displays the composite image on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yumiko Kato, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Jun Ozawa
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Patent number: 11323637Abstract: A dual camera module including a hyperspectral camera module, an apparatus including the same, and a method of operating the apparatus are provided. The dual camera module includes a hyperspectral camera module configured to provide a hyperspectral image of a subject; and an RGB camera module configured to provide an image of the subject, and obtain an RGB correction value applied to correction of the hyperspectral image.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Youngzoon Yoon, Hyochul Kim
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Patent number: 11321764Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can propose makeup that brings parts constituting a user's face closer to an ideal arrangement. A user's face image is captured, parts of the user's face image are recognized on the basis of the face image, and a best balance face image in which the parts are optimally arranged and have optimum sizes. Makeup on the user's face image is closer to the best balance face image is set, and a recipe image displaying a process of the makeup is generated and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Haruhiko Kishi, Yoko Fukata, Akari Hoshi, Takahiro Sakai
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Semi-automated system for real-time wound image segmentation and photogrammetry on a mobile platform
Patent number: 11315245Abstract: In one example embodiment, a wound imaging system includes a user interface, a computer processor, and an active contouring module. The user interface is configured to display an image of a wound acquired by the wound imaging system and selectively receive inputs from a user defining an initial perimeter of the wound. An active contouring module is configured to operate on the computer processor to receive the inputs defining the initial perimeter of the wound, identify features of the image on opposing sides of the initial perimeter of the wound, and identify an actual perimeter of the wound based on the initial perimeter of the wound and the identified features. The user interface is further configured to display, on the image of the wound, the actual perimeter of the wound as identified by the active contouring module and selectively receive inputs from the user to modify the actual perimeter of the wound.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.Inventor: Brett L. Moore -
Patent number: 11304606Abstract: A method and system for enhancing radio frequency energy delivery to a tissue region of interest. The method and system direct with a radio frequency (RF) applicator, one or more RF energy pulses into the tissue region of interest, the tissue region of interest comprising an object of interest and at least one reference that are separated by at least one boundary; detect with an acoustic receiver, at least one bipolar acoustic signal generated in the tissue region of interest in response to the RF energy pulses and processing the at least one bipolar acoustic signal to determine a peak-to-peak amplitude thereof; adjust the RF applicator to maximize the peak-to-peak amplitude of bipolar acoustic signals generated in the tissue region of interest in response to RF energy pulses generated by the adjusted RF applicator; and direct with the adjusted RF applicator, one or more RF energy pulses into the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: ENDRA Life Sciences Inc.Inventors: Christopher Nelson Davis, Jang Hwan Cho, Paul A. Picot, Michael M. Thornton
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Patent number: 11288477Abstract: A method for imaging a fingerprint under a screen, including: acquiring a finger pressing area formed by a finger pressing on the screen; determining a first light source and a second light source of the screen based on the finger pressing area, wherein arrangement directions of the first light source and the second light source are not perpendicular to a long axis of the finger pressing area; acquiring a first fingerprint image after the first light source is turned on, and a second fingerprint image after the second light source is turned on; and splicing the first fingerprint image and the second fingerprint image to acquire a target fingerprint image.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yapeng Li, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Xueyou Cao, Yangbing Li, Yuanyuan Ma, Wenjuan Wang, Jiabin Wang
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Patent number: 11288893Abstract: A touch display device with a fingerprint anti-spoofing function and an associated fingerprint anti-spoofing method are provided, where the touch display device may include a touch display panel and a processing circuit. The touch display panel may include a plurality of display units and one or more codebooks, where each of the display units includes a sensor unit, and the one or more codebooks may make the sensor units receive sensing information of an object which is put on the touch display panel. In addition, the processing circuit may obtain the sensing information from the sensor units, and determine whether the object is a real finger based on the sensing information and reference information.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Egis Technology Inc.Inventors: Tung-Yu Wu, Tang-Hung Po, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Bruce C. S. Chou
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Patent number: 11284360Abstract: Technologies directed to improving power for wireless transceivers are described. One method processes, in a first power mode, a first portion of a data packet, the first portion being modulated with a FSK modulation. The method determines a first gain value for an amplifier and determines that the first data packet has a second portion that is modulated with a PSK modulation. The method determines a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) value associated with the first portion and determines that the RSSI does not exceed a threshold value corresponding to a throughput requirement. The method switches to a second power mode, the second power mode being higher in power than the first power mode. The method determines, in the second power mode, a second gain value for the amplifier and process the second portion of the first data packet. The second gain value is determined before the processing the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Songping Wu, Sai Prashanth Chinnapalli
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Patent number: 11276490Abstract: A learning-based lesion classification method performed by a computer is provided. The method includes obtaining a medical image including lesion regions, extracting at least one sample region from the lesion regions within the medical image, generating LINA patch data based on the at least one sample region, and classifying the lesion regions within the medical image by performing learning based on the LINA patch data.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignees: SEOUL WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Helen Kim Hong, Hansang Lee, Joon Seok Lim
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Patent number: 11275467Abstract: In some implementations, a control system may receive touch sensor signals from a touch sensor system indicating a camera area touch, the camera area touch corresponding to a target object touching a transparent cover in a camera area. The control system may control, responsive to the camera area touch, a light source system to provide light to the target object. The control system may receive, from the camera, image data corresponding to light reflected and/or scattered from the target object. The control system may perform a fingerprint authentication process based, at least in part, on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Naga Chandan Babu Gudivada
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Patent number: 11267482Abstract: In an approach to predicting physiological and behavioral states utilizing models representing relationships between driver health states and vehicle dynamics data, one or more computer processors capture one or more vehicle motion parameters. The one or more computer processors to capture one or more physiological parameters; identify contextual data associated with the one or more captured vehicle motion parameters and the one or more captured physiological parameters; predict one or more driving behavior parameters by utilizing one or more physical models fed with the one or more vehicle motion parameters and the identified contextual data; predict one or more driver health parameters by utilizing a model trained with the one or more captured physiological parameters and the identified contextual data; generate a risk assessment based on the one or more predicted driving behavior parameters and the one or more predicted driver health parameters.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Julien Monteil, Yassine Lassoued, Sergio Cabrero Barros, Rodrigo Hernan Ordonez-Hurtado, Martin Mevissen, Sergiy Zhuk, Nigel Hinds, Bo Wen, Jeffrey Rogers
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Patent number: 11262719Abstract: Various embodiments include a device comprising: two connectors for powering the device; a controller to operate an HVAC system; a memory; a transponder controller and an antenna for near field communication; and a transponder memory storing a configuration version and an address list. Firmware in the transponder memory includes instructions for the controller to: connect to a handheld device; determine an address thereof; determine whether the address is on the list; if so: receive initial configuration data from the handheld device, and store it in the transponder memory. There is firmware in the device memory telling it to: connect to the transponder controller; read a device version; read the configuration version in the transponder memory; determine whether the configuration version is compatible with the device version; and if so, transfer the initial configuration data to the memory, and thereafter use the initial configuration data in operation of the system.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AGInventor: Sylvain Magnavacca
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Patent number: 11257343Abstract: A method and system for real-time monitoring of a child held in a child holding object is disclosed. The location tracking system includes child holding object and monitoring device. The child holding object is configured to hold child and includes a mounting space. The monitoring device is configured to be mounted on mounting space. The monitoring device includes mobile camera, modem device, global positioning system (GPS) module and plurality of sensors. The mobile camera is configured to capture and transmit live video stream to continuously track and monitor activities of child held in child holding object. The modem device enables communication between monitoring device and at least one user device over network. The GPS module determines location information of the monitoring device mounted on child holding object by determining GPS coordinates of monitoring device. The plurality of sensors detects change in position of the child seated in child holding object.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: The Brazen CorporationInventor: Marcy Bloom
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Patent number: 11257201Abstract: A system and method for preventing sight deterioration caused by prolonged use of electronic visual displays in low-light conditions is provided. The system includes a camera directed towards a user, a processing circuitry, control circuitry and, optionally, a light sensor. The processing circuitry determines the illuminance of a user's face, and in case it falls outside of a predefined range (putting the user at risk of future sight deterioration and progression of myopia), the device stores the illuminance data and/or sends a control signal to circuitry operative to notify the user. If processing circuitry determines that the illuminance is equal or greater than the predefined illuminance, the circuitry operative can stop the notification. The notification can be modulated by any combination of the illuminance and the time of use.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: VISIONAPP SOLUTIONS, S.L.Inventors: Norberto Lopez Gil, Mateusz Tomasz Jaskulski, Arthur Bradley
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Patent number: 11247342Abstract: A smart device control method and apparatus, and a storage medium, relating to the technical field of smart devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Beijing Orion Star Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shengmei Zhang, Jinxin Li, Ben Song
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Patent number: 11249517Abstract: An electronic apparatus and its screen control method adapted to an electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first display screen, a second display screen, and a body. The first display screen is pivotally connected to the body along a first rotation axis, and the second display screen is disposed on an upper surface of the body. The method includes following steps. A sight of a user is detected by a sight sensor. In response to the sight projected on the second display screen at a default position, a screen rotation degree is determined according to a direction of the sight. According to the screen rotation degree, the second display screen is controlled to rotate from the default position along the second rotation axis to a display position, so that a view angle at which the user watches the second display screen satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Cheng-Wei Lin, Wei-Kuo Shih, Chao-Kuang Yang
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Patent number: 11240430Abstract: A disclosed example to operate a mobile camera includes recognizing a first feature in first sensor data in response to the first feature being detected in the first sensor data; transitioning the mobile camera from a first feature detection state to a second feature detection state in response to the recognizing of the first feature, the mobile camera to operate using higher power consumption in second feature detection state than in the first feature detection state; recognizing a second feature in second sensor data in the second feature detection state; and sending to an external device at least one of first metadata corresponding to the first feature or second metadata corresponding to the second feature.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: MOVIDIUS LTD.Inventors: David Moloney, Alireza Dehghani
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Patent number: 11239275Abstract: An electronic device may include an optical image sensor that includes an array of optical image sensing pixels and a pin hole array mask layer above the optical image sensor and that includes spaced apart pin holes therein defining spaced apart image areas on the optical image sensor. The electronic device also includes a display layer above the pin hole array mask layer that includes spaced apart display pixels. The electronic device may also include processing circuitry coupled to the optical image sensor and capable of sensing images from spaced apart sub-arrays of the array of optical image sensing pixels aligned with the spaced apart image areas.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Giovanni Gozzini
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Patent number: 11224377Abstract: A method of measuring skin pigmentation includes placing a camera at a target measurement position of skin, capturing an infrared image and an ultraviolet image of the skin by the camera, defining areas in the captured infrared image, generating digitized infrared pigmentation information by analyzing infrared pigment data in each of the area, defining areas in the captured ultraviolet image, generating digitized ultraviolet pigmentation information by analyzing ultraviolet pigment data in each of the areas, generating a pigmentation image by comparing the infrared pigmentation information with the ultraviolet pigmentation information in each of the same areas, and completing measurement by representing a numerical pigmentation degree of each area through analysis of the pigmentation image.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Inventor: Chang Sik Park
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Patent number: 11216967Abstract: A queue information analyzing method is applied to an image analyzing apparatus. A monitoring image captured by the image analyzing apparatus has a triggering area. The queue information analyzing method includes identifying a first candidate object stayed within the triggering area, forming a sampling range via the first candidate object, determining whether a second candidate object stayed within the sampling range belongs to a queue of the first candidate object, and acquiring an amount and a accumulated time of candidate objects about the queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Liu, Chih-Yen Lin
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Patent number: 11211048Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method, a variety of embodiments of the apparatus comprising a microphone, memory, and a processor functionally connected to the microphone or memory, wherein the processor is configured to: count end-point detection (EPD) time on the basis of a voice input; when the EPD time expires, determine whether the final word of the voice input corresponds to a previously configured word stored in memory; and, if the final word corresponds to the previously configured word, then extend the EPD time and wait for reception of a voice input. Additionally, other embodiments are possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Ho Kim, Sourabh Pateriya, Sunah Kim, Gahyun Joo, Sang-Woong Hwang, Say Jang
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Patent number: 11196669Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and devices are disclosed for routing media streams to destination devices based upon semantic contents detected in the media streams. For example, a method may include a processing system including at least one processor detecting a first semantic content in a media stream of a media source device in accordance with a machine learning model for detecting the first semantic content, selecting a first destination device for the media stream based upon the first semantic content, and sending the media stream to the first destination device that is selected.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky, Bernard S. Renger, David Crawford Gibbon
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Patent number: 11195494Abstract: A screen brightness adjustment method includes: determining a direction of brightness adjustment based on a screen brightness adjustment instruction, and controlling a brightness level of a screen and a grayscale parameter of an image displayed on the screen based on the direction of brightness adjustment, such that brightness of the screen is adjusted to target brightness desired by the screen brightness adjustment instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Dong Zhai
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Patent number: 11182927Abstract: A method for positioning an object in a device is provided. The method may include: obtaining, using a capture device, a target image of the object on a table of the device; determining, in the target image, a current mock location associated with a target region of the object to be scanned or treated by the device; determining a distance between a current physical location of the target region and a target position based on the current mock location associated with the target region in the target image and a mapping relation; and/or causing the table to move such that the target region of the object is located at or in the vicinity of the target position, based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Renfang Hu
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Patent number: 11176346Abstract: An apparatus for fingerprint sensing includes a light-emitting layer, an optical layer, a filter layer and a pixelated image sensor. The light-emitting layer is covered by a transparent layer, and can illuminate a surface touching the transparent layer and allows transmission of reflected light from the surface to the optical layer. The optical layer includes a plurality of optical elements. The filter layer includes a number of apertures and spatially processes the reflected light. The pixelated image sensor can sense the spatially processed light. At least one of the optical layer or the filter layer enables an angle-focused FOV filtering of the reflected light.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dale Setlak, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Giovanni Gozzini
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Patent number: 11168247Abstract: A detecting device for indicating the intensity of a predetermined type of radiation present in electromagnetic radiation incident on the detecting device can include: a filter element for filtering the incident electromagnetic radiation, wherein the filter element is configured to filter off electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of above 590 nm from the incident electromagnetic radiation; a converging element configured to increase the density of photons of the predetermined type of radiation present in the incident electromagnetic radiation; and a sensor element of material arranged to receive the incident electromagnetic radiation that has passed through the filter element and the converging element for indicating the intensity of the predetermined type of radiation present in the incident electromagnetic radiation by change of the color of the sensor element of material, wherein the material is represented by the following formula: (M?)8(M?M??)6O24(X,S)2:M?? (formula (I)).Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: TURUN YLIOPISTOInventors: Mika Lastusaari, Isabella Norrbo, Pekka Laukkanen