Circuit Details For Pick-up Tubes (epo) Patents (Class 348/E5.031)
  • Patent number: 12045989
    Abstract: A region extraction device and a method thereof in a stage previous to detection of a target object, capable of appropriately extracting a region having a possibility of presence of a target object emitting light having a light emission spectrum of a specific narrowband as a determination region in an imaging region, and an object detection apparatus and a method thereof capable of efficiently detecting the target object using a region extraction result are provided. In a region extraction method, a plurality of images including an image of a second narrowband corresponding to a first narrowband of light emitted by a target object and an image of a third narrowband different from the second narrowband are acquired from a multispectral camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Patent number: 12002248
    Abstract: The present application is applicable to the field of image processing, and provides an image splicing method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer device, and cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ARASHI VISION INC.
    Inventors: Tan Su, Fei Gao
  • Patent number: 11990155
    Abstract: An editing apparatus includes an editing unit configured to edit an additional information file related to a moving image file, and a control unit configured to perform control so as not to permit editing of the additional information file in a case where the additional information file is a file requiring repair processing or the moving image file related to the additional information file is a file requiring the repair processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11960441
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards managing data retention policy for stream data stored in a streaming storage system. When a request to truncate a data stream from a certain position (e.g., from a request-specified stream cut) is received, an evaluation is made to determine whether the requested position is within a data retention period as specified by data retention policy. If any data prior to the stream cut position (corresponding to a stream cut time) is within the data retention period, the truncation request is blocked. Otherwise truncation from the stream cut point is allowed to proceed/is performed. Also described is handling automated (e.g., sized based) stream truncation requests with respect to data retention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Mikhail Danilov, Igor Medvedev
  • Patent number: 11956543
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an electronic zoom unit, a motion vector detection unit, a first representative vector calculation unit, a second representative vector calculation unit, and a third representative vector calculation unit, wherein the third representative vector calculation unit determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the first representative motion vector greater than a weight of the second representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is equal to or greater than a threshold, and determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the second representative motion vector greater than a weight of the first representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11941166
    Abstract: An augmented reality component detects anchor points assigned to respective segments of a person image in output of a digital image sensor of a camera, and displays a user selectable element that can be activated through engagement of an object from the output of the digital image sensor with the user selectable element. The augmented reality component detects engagement of the user selectable element with an object from the person image and, in response, triggers a predetermined action, such as, for example, starting or stopping recording of the output of the digital image sensor or capturing a still image of the output of the digital image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mykhailo Lavreka, Yurii Husiev, Denys Poluyanov
  • Patent number: 11902644
    Abstract: A camera module includes a holder, a lens in the holder, magnets disposed on an outer wall of the holder, and a circuit board assembly. The circuit board assembly includes an outer wiring substrate, and first and second inner wiring substrates spaced out on a surface of the outer wiring substrate. The first inner wiring substrate surrounds the holder and includes a first dielectric layer and a first inner wiring layer thereon. The first inner wiring layer includes coils of wound wire in the first inner wiring layer, and each of the coils corresponds to one of the magnets. The second inner wiring substrate includes a second inner wiring layer, a thickness of each of the coils is greater than a thickness of the second inner wiring layer. A method for manufacturing the camera module is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: QING DING PRECISION ELECTRONICS (HUAIAN) CO., LTD, Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited.
    Inventors: Jun Dai, Mei Yang, Ming-Jaan Ho
  • Patent number: 11776157
    Abstract: Disclosed are a panoramic image based jump position determination method and apparatus. The method includes steps of obtaining first and second original panoramic images having the same horizontal width; performing, based on posture data of cameras respectively shooting the two original panoramic images, an adjustment process on at least one of the two original panoramic images, so as to acquire first and second panoramic images; after the adjustment process, conducting a feature extraction process regarding the two panoramic images, and choosing, based on a result of the feature extraction process, a plurality of pairs of image columns on the two panoramic images, so as to select at least one pair of first image columns from among the plurality of pairs of image columns; and determining, based on the at least one pair of first image columns, jump positions on the first and second panoramic images for jumping between the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haijing Jia, Hong Yi, Liyan Liu, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11762218
    Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a fixed body, a movable body having an optical element, a swing support mechanism swingably supporting the movable body, a magnetic drive mechanism structured to swing the movable body, and a magnetic spring structured to return the movable body to a home position where a predetermined axial line and an optical axis of the optical element are coincided with each other. The magnetic spring includes a home position returning magnet disposed in one of the movable body and the fixed body, and an attracted member disposed in the other of the movable body and the fixed body so that a magnetic attraction force acts between the attracted member and the home position returning magnet. The attracted member and the home position returning magnet are disposed on the optical axis and face each other in a direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Sue
  • Patent number: 11700454
    Abstract: There is provided with an image capturing control apparatus. A setting unit is configured to set an arrangement of a plurality of image capturing units. The setting unit performs a first setting operation of deciding a relative arrangement of the plurality of image capturing units in accordance with a setting selected from a plurality of settings respectively defining the relative arrangement between the plurality of image capturing units and a second setting operation of deciding the arrangement of the plurality of image capturing units by rotating the plurality of image capturing units while maintaining the relative arrangement between the plurality of image capturing units decided by the first setting operation. A control unit is configured to control the arrangement of the plurality of image capturing units in accordance with a setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiko Takayama
  • Patent number: 11670340
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium has stored thereon a prerecorded video experience container. The prerecorded video experience container includes a prerecorded video file that displays visual content, an executable experience which upon execution enables presentation of additional content associated with the prerecorded video file, and an interactive region of the prerecorded video file, wherein the interactive region of the prerecorded video file is associated with the executable experience such that a user interaction with the interactive region executes the executable experience. The prerecorded video file is displayed in response to a selection of the prerecorded video experience container. The executable experience associated with the prerecorded video file is executed in response to identifying an interaction with the interactive region. The additional content associated with the prerecorded video file is displayed in response to executing the executable experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Rabbat, Ernestine Fu
  • Patent number: 11653087
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to user operation in an image-capturing device; a specifying unit configured to specify candidates of image-capturing support information to be presented to the user, based on the user operation in the image-capturing device: a control unit configured to control a timing of displaying the specified candidates of the image-capturing support information on a display unit of the image-capturing device, based on the user operation in the image-capturing device; and a setting unit configured to set the image-capturing support information, which is selected by the user, on the image-capturing device, out of the candidates of the image-capturing support information displayed on the display unit of the image-capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norio Sugita
  • Patent number: 11645868
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to detect a face area of a subject from a captured image divided into a plurality of blocks according to a number of light emitting elements that irradiate an image capturing range, and control a light emission intensity of a light emitting element corresponding to a block including the face area among the plurality of blocks according to one of a position of the face area and a size of the face area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Maeda, Yukihiro Abiko, Soichi Hama
  • Patent number: 11632493
    Abstract: A system and method for responsively prohibiting images collected by a networked video camera from being transmitted from a local network to the Internet or other non-local network as a function of the location of identified users. The disclosed technology provides for utilizing a local network to detect the location of one or more identifiable users. The ability of one or more cameras connected to that local network to transmit collected images outside of that local network is then limited as a function of the user identity and location. The system includes an interface enabling a user to define the particular individuals that the system will recognize, the network camera(s) that will be controlled by the system, and the conditions under which access to the Internet by a particular camera will be prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Echo Lu
  • Patent number: 11625816
    Abstract: A second learning data acquisition section acquires an input image. A wide angle-of-view image generation section generates, in response to an input of the input image, a generated wide angle-of-view image that is an image having a wider angle of view than the input image. The second learning data acquisition section acquires a comparative wide angle-of-view image that is an image to be compared with the generated wide angle-of-view image. A second learning section performs learning for the wide angle-of-view image generation section by, on the basis of a comparison result between the generated wide angle-of-view image and the comparative wide angle-of-view image, updating parameter values of the wide angle-of-view image generation section such that, according to the luminance levels of pixels in the comparative wide angle-of-view image or the luminance levels of pixels in the generated wide angle-of-view image, update amounts of the parameter values concerning the pixels are increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Asayama
  • Patent number: 11601629
    Abstract: A method of calibrating an image sensor including a color filter array having a first-type array pattern, the method includes capturing a target using the image sensor to generate first image data, performing a white balance operation on the first image data to generate second image data, performing an inverse white balance operation on the second image data based on a second-type array pattern to generate third image data, the second-type array pattern being different from the first-type array pattern, and calibrating the image sensor based on the third image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deokha Shin, Youngjun Choi, Tae-Shick Wang
  • Patent number: 11562470
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed describing an adaptive approach for image bracket selection and fusion, e.g., to generate low noise and high dynamic range (HDR) images in a wide variety of capturing conditions. An incoming image stream may be obtained from an image capture device, wherein the incoming image stream comprises a variety of differently-exposed captures, e.g., EV0 images, EV? images, EV+ images, long exposure (or synthetic long exposure) images, EV0/EV? image pairs, etc., which are received according to a particular pattern. When a capture request is received, a set of rules and/or a decision tree may be used to evaluate one or more capture conditions associated with the images from the incoming image stream and determine which two or more images to select for a fusion operation. A noise reduction process may optionally be performed on the selected images before (or after) the registration and fusion operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc
    Inventors: Marius Tico, Alok Deshpande, Anita Nariani Schulze, Hao Sun, Jun Hu, Justin Michael Faryabi-Allen, Morten Poulsen, Tak Shing Wong, Wu Cheng
  • Patent number: 11550754
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera, a storage, and a processor configured to store an image photographed by the camera and metadata of the image in the storage, the processor is further configured to identify whether first information related to the image is obtainable, based on the first information not being obtainable, generate metadata related to the first information based on second information, and store the generated metadata as metadata of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-beom Kwon, Ki-chul Kim, Han-nam Kim, Su-jin Cho
  • Patent number: 11539875
    Abstract: An autofocusing method includes capturing an image of a scene with a camera that includes a pixel array; computing a horizontal-difference image, and a vertical-difference image; and combining the horizontal-difference image and the vertical-difference image to yield a combined image. The method also includes determining, from the combined image and the intensity image, an image distance with respect to a lens of the camera at which the camera forms an in-focus image. The pixel array includes horizontally-adjacent pixel pairs and vertically-adjacent pixel pairs each located beneath a respective microlens. The horizontal-difference image includes, for each horizontally-adjacent pixel pair, a derived pixel value that is an increasing function of a difference between pixel values generated by the horizontally-adjacent pixel pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Boyd Fowler
  • Patent number: 11539878
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for controlling video recording. The method is applied to a head-wearable device provided with a camera and a touch-control area, including: starting video recording in response to a multi-touch operation on the touch-control area; adjusting, in a process of the video recording, a zoom ratio for the video recording according to a moving track of a touch point corresponding to the multi-touch operation; terminating the video recording when it is determined that a recording termination condition is met, where the recording termination condition includes that the multi-touch operation disappears and a duration of the disappearing reaches a first preset duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING SUPERHEXA CENTURY TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Guo, Pengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11538208
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a picture generation method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a source portrait picture displaying a target object; cropping the source portrait picture to obtain a face region picture corresponding to a face of the target object excluding a hair portion; inputting the face region picture to a picture generation model to obtain an output result of the picture generation model, the picture generation model being obtained after machine learning training through an adversarial neural network model by using a plurality of sample pictures; and generating a target portrait picture by using the output result of the picture generation model, the target portrait picture displaying a target hairstyle matching the face of the target object. This disclosure resolves the technical problem that pictures generated in related art cannot achieve an effect expected by a user and other technical problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Xiaobo Gong
  • Patent number: 11523047
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including: as assistant control unit that determines, on the basis of user's proficiency level information regarding imaging, an item presented to assist the imaging; and a presentation unit that presents item information, which is information regarding the item, to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro Inaba, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11425296
    Abstract: A system and method for responsively prohibiting images collected by a networked video camera from being transmitted from a local network to the Internet or other non-local network as a function of the location of identified users. The disclosed technology provides for utilizing a local network to detect the location of one or more identifiable users. The ability of one or more cameras connected to that local network to transmit collected images outside of that local network is then limited as a function of the user identity and location. The system includes an interface enabling a user to define the particular individuals that the system will recognize, the network camera(s) that will be controlled by the system, and the conditions under which access to the Internet by a particular camera will be prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Echo Lu
  • Patent number: 8970707
    Abstract: A number of brightness samples are taken outside a shape to compensate for blooming of the shape in an image generated by a digital camera. The brightness of each of the samples is determined and averaged, and the size of the shape is adjusted based on the difference between the brightness of the shape and the average of the brightness samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lee Marks, Anton Mikhailov, Eric Larsen
  • Patent number: 8854421
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a line buffer, an FIR filter serving as an edge enhancement filter that enhances high-frequency components of an image, and an IIR filter serving as a low-pass filter that reduces noise. The same line buffer is used by both the FIR filter and the IIR filter. According to a switching signal, switches enable the FIR filter and disable the IIR filter for a relatively low noise level while the switches enable IIR filter and disable the FIR filter for a relatively high noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8649574
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a face detecting unit detecting a face region from an input image input to the imaging apparatus and a control unit calculating a distance to a subject on the basis of the face size detected by the face detection unit and displaying distance identification information indicating a distance corresponding to the calculated distance in a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Mise, Yoshito Terashima, Hisashi Ishiwata, Eiji Yamaoku
  • Patent number: 8593327
    Abstract: In an A/D conversion circuit and an imaging device, an upper counter acquires a first upper count value by performing counting using one output signal, which constitutes a first lower phase signal output from a delay circuit, as a count clock. After values of bits constituting the first upper count value are inverted, the upper counter acquires a second upper count value by performing counting using one output signal, which constitutes a second lower phase signal output from the delay circuit, as a count clock, and further performing counting based on an upper count clock output from a lower counter. A modification unit modifies a logic state of a count clock to a predetermined state when the count clock of the upper counter is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
  • Patent number: 8339469
    Abstract: A process for using a terminal capable of capturing images to determine a probability of capturing the images according to information taken from contextual data provided by the image capture means. The process uses a terminal such as a mobile terminal comprising a first image data sensor and at least one contextual data sensor to automatically determine at least one probability of capturing an image or a sequence of images taking place within a time interval, the capture probability being calculated based on at least one response provided by one of the activated image data and/or contextual data sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Vau, Thierry Lebihen, Eric Masera, Christophe Edmond Maurice Papin, Santie Valérie LourdesMarie Adelbert
  • Patent number: 7929016
    Abstract: A monitoring system is provided that thoroughly covers an area subject to monitoring, through shooting areas of plural camera terminals, while shooting with resolution according to distribution of importance for monitoring. The monitoring system includes camera terminals, each including a camera having a shooting area adjustment function, a camera controlling unit controlling an adjustment of the shooting area of the camera, a communication IF communicating with an other camera terminal, and a processing unit adjusting a resolution of the shooting area of the camera terminal by controlling the camera via the camera controlling unit to reduce a difference between a weighted resolution of the shooting area of the camera terminal and a weighted resolution of shooting area of the other camera terminal based on information regarding the shooting area of the other camera terminal obtained through the communication IF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Katsuji Aoki, Shoichi Araki
  • Patent number: 7925053
    Abstract: In a method of detecting motion of a particular part from a sequence of successive input images, motion vectors of a plurality of parts of the input images are detected by tracking feature points in the successive input images, the motion of the particular part is detected by processing the motion vectors. The motion detection is performed by producing a histogram of the motion vectors, detecting a peak corresponding to the particular part from the histogram; classifying feature points into a class of feature points belonging to the peak detected in the histogram processing step and a class of the other feature points, and calculating motion of the particular part by analysing the motion vectors belonging to the peak detected in the histogram processing step. The histogram processing step includes detecting the peak corresponding to the particular part on the basis of the class information defined for feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Aymeric Altherr
  • Patent number: 7782496
    Abstract: An image signal processing circuit including a gain control circuit capable of performing gain control operation, and an image reading device or an image forming apparatus incorporating the image signal processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Tsukahara, Tohru Kanno