Signal Distribution Or Switching (epo) Patents (Class 348/E5.057)
  • Patent number: 12174469
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a backlight; a first liquid crystal panel; a display panel; and a second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer containing first liquid crystal molecules, and a second substrate. The second liquid crystal panel includes a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer containing second liquid crystal molecules, and a fourth substrate. The display device satisfies the following formula: |?3??1|?50°, wherein ?1 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate with no voltage applied to the first liquid crystal layer, and 43 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the second liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate with no voltage applied to the second liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Atsuko Kanashima, Takashi Satoh, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 12067784
    Abstract: A surveillance information generation apparatus (2000) includes a first surveillance image acquisition unit (2020), a second surveillance image acquisition unit (2040), and a generation unit (2060). The first surveillance image acquisition unit (2020) acquires a first surveillance image (12) generated by a fixed camera (10). The second surveillance image acquisition unit (2040) acquires a second surveillance image (22) generated by a moving camera (20). The generation unit (2060) generates surveillance information (30) relating to object surveillance, using the first surveillance image (12) and first surveillance information (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Oami
  • Patent number: 11917271
    Abstract: A playback application seamlessly advances playback of and interactive media title in response to user selections in a manner that minimizes latency and preserves user immersion in a narrative. The playback application buffers an interstitial segment included in the interactive media title and feeds portions of the interstitial segment to a media player only when those portions are needed for display. When the user selects an option displayed during the interstitial segment, the playback application begins buffering a subsequent media segment and stops feeding portions of the interstitial segment to the media player. The playback application starts feeding blocks of the subsequent media segment to the media player and then seamlessly advances playback to the subsequent media segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Watson
  • Patent number: 11722976
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a time code synchronization method, which includes following steps of: determining a target master node and one or more target slave nodes of a network system among the plurality of nodes; periodically sending a data packet to the one or more target slave nodes by the target master node, wherein the data packet includes a first time code and serial number information of the target master node; compensating the first time code according to the serial number information to obtain a second time code, and synchronizing the second time code by the one or more target slave nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Wulong Lin, Fuping Liu
  • Patent number: 11710322
    Abstract: A surveillance information generation apparatus (2000) includes a first surveillance image acquisition unit (2020), a second surveillance image acquisition unit (2040), and a generation unit (2060). The first surveillance image acquisition unit (2020) acquires a first surveillance image (12) generated by a fixed camera (10). The second surveillance image acquisition unit (2040) acquires a second surveillance image (22) generated by a moving camera (20). The generation unit (2060) generates surveillance information (30) relating to object surveillance, using the first surveillance image (12) and first surveillance information (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Oami
  • Patent number: 10026305
    Abstract: A communication control device is used for a radio control model equipped with a plurality of receiving devices configured to receive operation signals from corresponding transmitting devices and a drive control device configured to perform drive control with respect to a driving target based on the operation signals. The communication control device includes an input unit for inputting signals including the operation signals from the receiving devices, and a switching processing unit for performing a process of switching an operation signal to be transmitted to the drive control device from any one of the operation signals inputted by the receiving devices to another operation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saegusa, Chihiro Uemura
  • Patent number: 8896656
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting information from a video source to be displayed on at least a first common display screen in a collaborative workspace having a switching device, the method comprising the steps of providing a selectable control interface that includes at least one indicator that can indicate at least first and second different states, associating a video source with the switching device so that video information from the video source is presented to the switching device, when the video source is associated with the switching device, causing the at least one indicator to indicate a first state and when the selectable control interface is selected, causing the at least one indicator to indicate the second state and providing the video information from the video source to the common display screen via the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng