For Receiving Images From A Single Remote Source (epo) Patents (Class 348/E7.087)
  • Patent number: 12243312
    Abstract: A station monitoring apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110) and a decision unit (120). The image processing unit (110) determines a position of a door (50) of a vehicle (40) and a position of a person by analyzing an image generated by a capture apparatus (20), i.e., an image capturing a platform of a station. The decision unit (120) decides, after the vehicle (40) has begun to move, by use of a position of the door (50) and a position of the person, whether to perform predetermined processing. For example, the decision unit (120) performs the predetermined processing when deciding that a difference between a movement velocity of any of the persons and a movement velocity of the door is within a criterion continuously for a criterion time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masumi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12211605
    Abstract: The present invention describes a device, a system, and a process for storing clinical-surgical data from clinical-surgical environment. Specifically, the present invention comprises an integrating means provided with a processor capable for receiving clinical-surgical data from a plurality of signal sources and for generating integrated and resized data to promote the storage of such data, providing a high degree of security in order to prevent frauds or damage to data/signals generated in the clinical-surgical event. The present invention pertains to the fields of health, medicine, and information technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Ricardo Mendes Alves Pereira
  • Patent number: 12176630
    Abstract: A system includes a transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the transceiver and one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 12165541
    Abstract: A system is configured to provide Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) training using one or more of augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, or other devices. The system may generate one or more AR elements (such as one or more of an enemy combatant, an aerial device, an ordnance, a ground vehicle, or a structure). The system may produce AR data that can be provided to one or more AR headsets and may produce VR scene data corresponding to the AR data that can be provided to one or more VR headsets. Additionally, the system may detect a cap or cover on a device, determine data related to the device from the cap, and present visual data superimposed over the cap based on the determined data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Havik Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Bradley Denn
  • Patent number: 12136207
    Abstract: A system for inspecting a stator stack includes a rotary table, an imaging device configured to take a plurality of images of a portion of the stator stack including a stator slot, an illuminator configured to apply illumination through the stator slot, and an alignment and monitoring system configured to monitor and orient the stator slot relative to the imaging axis. The alignment and monitoring system includes a tilting system configured to move the stator slot between a plurality of orientations relative to an imaging axis, the imaging device configured to take a respective image at each of the plurality of orientations, a controller configured to control the tilting system based on one or more measurements of each image, and a processor configured to analyze each image and select an orientation of the stator slot as an optimal orientation for inspection of the stator slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John S. Agapiou, Sean Robert Wagner
  • Patent number: 12105508
    Abstract: A robot control method includes receiving, from a robot located in a space, location information of the robot; specifying, based on the received location information, at least one external camera from among a plurality of external cameras located in the space, the at least one external camera being located at a first location in the space, the first location corresponding to the received location information; receiving a robot image and at least one a space image, the robot image being an image obtained by a robot camera included in the robot and the at least one space image including at least one image obtained by the specified at least one external camera; and outputting the received robot image and at least one space image to a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NAVER LABS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahyeon Kim, Seijin Cha
  • Patent number: 12080159
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for classifying traffic indicators to detect intersection crossings by a vehicle. A computing device can receive a sequence of frames captured by a capture device mounted to the vehicle, and generate an intersection status data structure for each frame in the sequence of frames using a full-frame classification model. The computing device can also classify a set of features detected in each frame using an object detection model, and detect an intersection crossing event based on the intersection status data structure of each frame and the classification of each of the set of features detected in each frame. The systems and methods described herein improve upon existing traffic light classification models by using a full-frame intersection classification model in connection with traditional object tracking techniques, thereby reducing false-positive crossing-event detection and improving the accuracy of classification in a variety of environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NETRADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Biswarup Debnath, Suresh Babu Yanamala, Arvind Yedla, Venkata Sreekanta Reddy Annapureddy
  • Patent number: 12075982
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light emitter configured to emit first light; a second light emitter configured to emit second light having an identical color component to the first light; and an illumination controller configured to cause, after causing the first light emitter to emit the first light, the second light emitter to emit the second light according to a set light amount in a state in which the first light emitter is caused to emit the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Kuboi, Hiroaki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 12081873
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) including a detection unit (12) that detects a plurality of predetermined points of a body of each of a plurality of persons from an image in an image circle of a fisheye image, a gravity direction determination unit (13) that determines a gravity direction in a position of each of the plurality of persons from the plurality of predetermined points, a reference point decision unit (14) that decides a reference point, based on the gravity direction in the position of each of the plurality of persons, a complementary circular image generation unit (16) that generates a complementary circular image that is a circular image acquired by adding a complementary image to the image in the image circle of the fisheye image, and that has, as a center, the reference point different from a center of the image in the image circle, and an expansion unit (17) that panoramically expands the complementary circular image, based on the reference point, and generat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianquan Liu, Junnan Li
  • Patent number: 12052483
    Abstract: A photographing device includes a housing configured to carry an electronic component of the photographing device, such as a lens system and an expansion system. A lens cavity and an expansion cavity isolated from each other are disposed in the housing. The lens system is disposed in the lens cavity, a heat dissipation apparatus is disposed in the expansion cavity, and the expansion system is disposed on the heat dissipation apparatus and is thermally coupled to the heat dissipation apparatus. In addition, the disposed heat dissipation apparatus is further thermally coupled to the lens system. A heat dissipation channel isolated from the expansion cavity is disposed in the heat dissipation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xidong Yao, Yeren Wang, Bingbing Tong
  • Patent number: 12039704
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image of an eye to be examined; an image quality improving unit configured to generate a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than the obtained first image using the obtained first image as an input data of a learned model, wherein the learned model has been obtained by using training data including a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than a first image of an eye to be examined; and a display controlling unit configured to cause the obtained first image and the generated second image to be switched, juxtaposed or superimposed and displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchida, Yoshihiko Iwase, Osamu Sagano, Ritsuya Tomita
  • Patent number: 12035891
    Abstract: An endoscope treatment tool includes an insertion part that is insertable into a first treatment tool channel of an endoscope of an endoscope system, an operation part, and a single operation wire pulled through operation of the operation part. The insertion part includes a distal end portion that has an openable and closable grip portion, a bending portion that is able to be bent, and a connecting-portion that connects the bending portion to the operation part. The connecting-portion is moved forward and backward along a longitudinal axis of the connecting-portion and is rotated about the longitudinal axis. As the connecting-portion is moved forward and backward or is rotated, the grip portion moves forward and backward or rotates, through the operation of the operation part. As the operation wire is pulled, the grip portion is closed, and the bending portion bends in a state where the grip portion is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Dejima, Yoshihiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 12035077
    Abstract: A surveillance system including a fixed camera and one or more temporary cameras and a control means coupled to the fixed camera and the one or more temporary cameras is disclosed. The control means is configured to extend coverage of the fixed camera using the one or more temporary cameras coupled to the fixed camera. Each of the one or more temporary cameras includes one or more sensors and is configured to be deployed and adjusted based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors of the one or more temporary cameras and from one or more fixed camera sensors co-located with the fixed camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lei Li, Takeshi Arikuma
  • Patent number: 12023207
    Abstract: A surgical lighting system includes a central shaft, a surgical light head, an extension arm, a load balancing arm, and a yoke assembly. The extension arm is pivotably mounted to the central shaft. The load balancing arm is pivotably mounted to the extension arm. The yoke assembly supports the light head for multi-axis movement relative to the load balancing arm. The surgical light head includes a plurality of light emitting elements that are arranged to emit light downward to a region of interest and an optical signal generating component configured to capture data associated with the region of interest and generate an optical signal based on the captured data. Optical fiber cables and rotatable joints transmit the optical signal associated with the captured data from the surgical light head to one or more of the yoke assembly, the load balancing arm, the extension arm, and the central shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: American Sterilizer Company
    Inventors: Michael Evan Hollopeter, Ian Hugh Cook, Purushottam Parajuli, Lance Clark Bellows
  • Patent number: 12005909
    Abstract: A system includes a shaft extendable from a vehicle roof, a sensor mount mounted to the shaft, a plurality of sensors supported by the sensor mount, and a computer communicatively coupled with one or more of the sensors to receive data from the one or more of the sensors, the computer including a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to extend the shaft to position the sensor mount to a specified height above the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mostafa Parchami, Stephen Giardinelli, John Anthony Lockwood
  • Patent number: 12000609
    Abstract: A method of making a thermal comfort estimation of one or more human occupants in a built space in real-time is presented. The method employs one or more thermographic cameras and one or more red, green, and blue depth (RGB-D) sensors. The method has several steps. In an example, the method involves capturing thermal images of the human occupant(s) via the thermographic camera(s) and capturing RGB-D images of the human occupant(s) via the RGB-D camera(s). The method further involves extracting facial skin temperatures of the human occupant(s) using the captured thermal images and using the captured RGB-D images. And the method involves estimating the thermal comfort of the human occupant(s) using the extracted facial skin temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Da Li, Carol C. Menassa, Vineet Kamat
  • Patent number: 11994867
    Abstract: Communications between heavy equipment machines during tree felling operations. A method includes identifying a tree felling area to be cut in a tree felling operation and determining instructions for executing the tree felling operation with two or more heavy equipment machinery. The method includes receiving first sensor data from a first heavy equipment during execution of the tree felling operation and providing the first sensor data to a second heavy equipment during execution of the tree felling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Gregory
  • Patent number: 11985410
    Abstract: An imaging device can stop displaying a reticle or other information when the imaging device determines that it is being used in a prohibited way. The imaging device can include an image capture device configured to view an image of a scene that includes an object viewed by the imaging device; a display to display an image of a reticle and the image of the scene; a hardware processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform operations. The operations can include performing image recognition analysis on the image of the scene; determining that the object in the image is a prohibited object; and causing the display to cease displaying the image of the reticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: JSC Yukon Advanced Optics Worldwide
    Inventor: Aliaksandr Alsheuski
  • Patent number: 11980348
    Abstract: A medical control apparatus to which a rigid endoscope having an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject is detachably connected is configured to perform image processing on a captured image obtained by capturing a subject image introduced by the rigid endoscope and generate a medical photographic image to be displayed on a display device that displays images. The medical control apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect a mask width that is a distance between boundary points dividing the subject image included in the captured image and a mask area that is an area other than the subject image; and a control unit configured to calculate a first parameter used for the image processing in accordance with the mask width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Taihei Michihata, Hiroshi Myoken, Satoshi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11978168
    Abstract: Provided is a display device for an industrial machine capable of automatically switching between augmented reality display and 3D computer graphics display. A robot display device 2 comprises: a camera 2b; a display unit 20 capable of switching between a first display by means of 3D computer graphics for a robot 3 or for the robot 3 and peripherals 4 thereof, and a second display using augmented reality for the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof captured by the camera 2b; and a selection unit 21 that activates the first display and displays the first display on the display unit when the camera 2b does not face the robot and the peripherals 4 thereof, and activates the second display and displays the second display on the display unit 20 when the camera 2b faces the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
  • Patent number: 11940351
    Abstract: A borescope is for optically inspecting gas turbines of aircraft engines. The borescope having an electronic image capture unit as a borescope objective at an end of a shaft, which is suitable for insertion into a borescope opening and configured for accurate positioning of the borescope objective relative to the borescope opening and through which data lines and supply lines for the image capture unit are guided. The image capture unit has: two spaced apart image capture sensors, recording cones of which overlap in a specified recording plane forming a recording region, in such a way that image data of the two image capture sensors are configured to be processed into 3-D data by way of triangulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventors: Jan Oke Peters, Michael Thies, Sven Rasche, Tomas Domaschke, Thorsten Schueppstuhl, Werner Neddermeyer, Soenke Bahr
  • Patent number: 11943569
    Abstract: Intercom systems and methods for image data transmission are provided. The intercom system may include a first intercom including a first image acquisition device, one or more second image acquisition devices, and a second intercom. During an intercom with the second intercom, the first intercom may receive a request for target image data captured by one or more target image acquisition devices of the first image acquisition device and the one or more second image acquisition devices from the second intercom. The one or more target image acquisition devices may include at least one target second image acquisition device of the one or more second image acquisition devices. In response to the request, the first intercom may obtain the target image data from the one or more target image acquisition devices. The first intercom may also send a signal encoding the target image data to the second intercom for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yufeng Chen, Tongjin Huang, Yang Shi
  • Patent number: 11936120
    Abstract: A system includes one or more antennas; and a processor coupled to the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 11922697
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data generated by a capture device and an activation signal generated by at least one of a plurality of sensors. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform computer vision on the video frames to detect objects, perform a classification of the objects, present a control signal in response to receiving the activation signal, determine whether there is a match between the classification and an object class and generate a calibration signal in response to the match. The computer vision may determine which zone that the objects have been detected in. Each zone may comprise a coverage region of one of the sensors. The calibration signal may adjust parameters of the sensors that correspond to the zone with the objects that do not have the match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventor: Ruian Xu
  • Patent number: 11920915
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for inspection. One embodiment is a method for measuring a hole. The method includes driving a fiber optic probe into the hole, determining a profile by scanning the hole via the fiber optic probe, and determining whether an interface gap exists at the hole based on the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Farahnaz Sisco, Jeffrey Martin Devlin, Nathan Christopher McRae
  • Patent number: 11856923
    Abstract: An animal collar has an adjustable band having a first end and a second end, the first end and second mutually coupled and a platform disposed within the band. The collar has at least one adjustable arm depending from the platform disposed within the band, the adjustable arm comprising a returnably resilient elongated shaft having a first end and a second end, the second end of the shaft of the adjustable arm having a camera. A plurality of braces are disposed between the platform and the adjustable arm. The collar includes tracking and lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Greg Chapman
  • Patent number: 11849206
    Abstract: Automated object identification and tracking systems and methods may include an imaging device operatively coupled to a movable base. The movable base may include one or more actuators to adjust pan and/or tilt orientations of the movable base and imaging device, and the imaging device may include a zoom controller to adjust a zoom level of the imaging device. A controller of the movable base may receive imaging data from the imaging device, process the imaging data to identify an object, and track the object over a plurality of frames of imaging data by instructing adjustments to a pan orientation, a tilt orientation, and/or a zoom level to substantially maintain the identified object at a desired size and within a field of view of the imaging device based on a position and/or size of the object represented within the imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Adnan Aygunduz
  • Patent number: 11832790
    Abstract: An image of a field of view is captured by the endoscope and a portion of the image is displayed on a display. A popup image is generated and displayed upon image analysis identification of an occurrence of bleeding or motion of edges of an incision that is within the field of view, but outside the portion of the field of view displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Asensus Surgical Europe S.a.r.l
    Inventors: Tal Nir, Yehuda Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 11824275
    Abstract: A system includes a transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the transceiver and one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 11796116
    Abstract: A system for use in maintaining a pipe having a sidewall is provided. The system includes a motorized apparatus sized to fit within the pipe and configured to travel along the pipe through an interior cavity. The motorized apparatus includes a plurality of leg assemblies coupled circumferentially around a body assembly. The body assembly includes an actuator assembly coupled to each leg assembly and configured to independently actuate each leg assembly to adjust a position of each leg assembly. The body assembly also includes at least one sensor configured to collect information associated with the position of each leg assembly. The body assembly also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the motorized apparatus and configured to receive the information from the sensor, and to determine at least one of a pipe diameter and a pitch of the motorized apparatus based on the information from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Kyle Duncan, Todd William Danko, Justin Foehner, Yakov Polishchuk, Douglas R. Forman
  • Patent number: 11772814
    Abstract: A system including a drone, a wire and a docking station allowing the autonomous landing of the drone in degraded conditions. The docking station including a landing platform. The landing procedure includes stopping the automatic position control of the drone, producing a motor thrust higher than the weight of the drone, the automatic control of the attitude of the drone, and pulling upon the wire in order to bring the drone back to the platform. This system makes emergency landings possible, or landings under violent winds, or when the docking station is in movement on a vehicle, reducing material breakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ELISTAIR
    Inventors: Olivier Dubois, Timothée Penet, Guilhem De Marliave
  • Patent number: 11747713
    Abstract: A camera device includes: a base member; a camera which is rotatably attached to the base member about a first rotation axis; a shutter member which is rotatably attached to the base member about a second rotation axis, the second rotation axis being different from the first rotation axis and being parallel to the first rotation axis, the shutter member being rotatable between a cover position in which the shutter member covers the camera, and an open position in which the shutter member does not cover the camera; a power transmission member which is rotatably attached to the base member about a third rotation axis, the third rotation axis being different from the first rotation axis and being parallel to the first rotation axis; and a motor configured to rotationally drive the power transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 11750768
    Abstract: An image processing unit identifies the shape of an obstacle that is identified from an area that appears in a peripheral image based on an image captured by a camera. The shape of the obstacle includes at least a tilt of a section of the obstacle in a road-surface direction. The section of the obstacle faces a vehicle. The image processing unit generates a superimposed image in which a mark image that is generated as a pattern that indicates the identified obstacle is superimposed onto a position that corresponds to the obstacle in the peripheral image. At this time, the image processing unit variably changes properties of the mark image based on the tilt of the obstacle identified by an obstacle identifying unit. The image processing unit then displays the generated superimposed image on display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Muneaki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11741556
    Abstract: In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: John Joseph Morris, Scott R. Negley, III, Annika Birkler, Richard Carlsson, Patrick Jeitler, Randal S. Kretzler
  • Patent number: 11737647
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of further appropriately adjusting the luminance of the endoscopic image. Provided is an image processing device including: an area extraction unit configured to extract, as an extraction area, an area corresponding to the size of an insertion unit from an endoscopic image based on imaging by an image sensor; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control on a basis of an output value of the image sensor in the extraction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Murakita
  • Patent number: 11725950
    Abstract: A navigation request is detected. The navigation request includes a destination for an autonomous vehicle from a starting location. A route is identified from the starting location to destination based on the navigation request. A regulator lookup is performed related to the route based on the navigation request. The regulator lookup is related to an owner of privacy data for one or more regulators. In response to the regulator lookup, a conditional allowance related to the route is received. The conditional allowance indicates that one or more autonomous vehicle sensors of the autonomous vehicle may not capture data related to a first property of a first regulator. the first property is located proximate to the route. The one or more autonomous vehicles sensors of the autonomous vehicle are restricted in response to the conditional allowance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Uchida, Daisuke Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11722755
    Abstract: A dome camera has a base, two camera heads and a dome cover. The base is configured for mounting the dome camera to a surface. The two camera heads are arranged on the base. The dome cover is arranged over the camera heads and the base. The dome cover includes at least two dome-shaped sections, wherein each dome-shaped section covers a camera head, and a center section joining the dome-shaped sections. The dome cover is formed in a single piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventors: Andreas Hertzman, Åke Södergård, Magnus Ainetoft
  • Patent number: 11682198
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining a candidate identity of a person in video data based on a biometric motion signature corresponding to motion of a face of the person in the video data. Motion information is obtained corresponding to motion of the face in the video data. The motion information is provided as input to a neural network and the neural network generates the biometric motion signature in response. The biometric motion signature is compared with a plurality of biometric signatures stored in data storage. The candidate identity of the person is determined as a result of a correspondence between the biometric motion signature and a stored biometric signature of the plurality of biometric signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: REALNETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: Reza Rassool
  • Patent number: 11673037
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for staging emulated live performance routine competitions. Various emulation methods and apparatus may allow for live conditions to be emulated even in the absence of actual staged live competition. Live performance routines may be recorded and stored as live performance routine data. Competition judging may be input and stored as competition judging input data. Data transformation processors may transform such data into live performance routine competition conditions emulated data that may emulate live performance routine competition conditions. Data may be aggregated into an emulated live performance routine competition for remote spectator access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cheer Match Media, LLC
    Inventors: Jayson Ayers, Wendy Ayers, Robert Paul Rowzee
  • Patent number: 11651565
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for sharing perspective views of virtual content. In an example method, a virtual object is presented, via a display, to a first user. A first perspective view of the virtual object is determined based on a position of the virtual object and a first position of the first user. The virtual object is presented, via a display, to a second user according to the first perspective view. An input is received from the first user. A second perspective view of the virtual object is determined based on the input from the first user. The virtual object is presented, via a display, to the second user, wherein presenting the virtual object to the second user comprises presenting a transition from the first perspective view to the second perspective view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Alan McCall
  • Patent number: 11649917
    Abstract: Cable handling devices, methods, and systems for securing and deploying or retracting one or more cables or hoses into or out of a pipe or cavity allowing inspection of the pipe or cavity. In an exemplary embodiment, a hand-held device with a housing for at least partially enclosing one or more cables or hoses, at least one coupling mechanism integrally attached to the housing, and a coupling control for coupling and decoupling the one or more cables or hoses is provided. The cable handling device and the one or more cables or hoses can be coupled and moved together, or decoupled enabling the cable handling device and the one or more cables or hoses to move independently of each other. One or more of the cables may be connected to a camera for facilitating inspection of a pipe or cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander L. Warren, Michael J. Martin, Mark S. Olsson, Jeffery D. Martin
  • Patent number: 11646490
    Abstract: A system includes one or more antennas; and a processor coupled to the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 11647135
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a document sheet conveying device, a cable, a shielding member, a protrusion, and a guide member. The housing accommodates a document sheet reading device that reads a document sheet. The document sheet conveying device is coupled to an upper surface of the housing with a hinge, and conveys the document sheet along a conveyance path passing through a scanning position of the document sheet reading device. The cable electrically connects a circuit board accommodated in the housing to the document sheet conveying device. The shielding member surrounds the circuit board and includes an opening portion through which the cable passes. The protrusion is formed in the cable. The guide member has an annular groove portion in which the protrusion is displaceable in a circumferential direction of the cable, and is fitted into the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Ono
  • Patent number: 11615667
    Abstract: A modular system of locker banks for receipt and delivery of packages is described. The system may include associate modules each having one or more lockers and a control board in communication with each of the lockers in the module. Each locker may include a locker board having a processor and memory configured to control operation of the locker. Each locker may include a lock and a light. The system may further include one or more control modules, each having the above components and further including a kiosk having one or more input and output devices for entering information to the module for controlling operation of the system. The modular system may be connected to a server and/or an administrator terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Digilock Asia Ltd.
    Inventors: Asil Gokcebay, Ali Ozhan, An Zhang
  • Patent number: 11612380
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject; an ultrasound transducer that is provided at a distal end of the insertion portion and includes plural piezoelectric element groups configured to transmit and receive ultrasound; a connector portion that is provided on a proximal end side of the insertion portion and includes plural connectors to which an external device is connected; and a cable portion including plural first coaxial lines connected to the piezoelectric element groups configured to transmit the ultrasound to a first area, and plural second coaxial lines connected to the piezoelectric element groups configured to transmit the ultrasound to a second area, the first coaxial lines being shorter in length than the second coaxial lines, the first area and the second area being where the ultrasound is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Imahashi
  • Patent number: 11605225
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically tracking and analyzing imagery data of at least one vehicle on a racetrack comprising. A video event management system with a plurality of video cameras positioned around a racetrack determines the presence of the at least one vehicle and based on a weighted event score corresponding to dynamics for the at least one vehicle and other objects captures video imagery and stills and generates at least one subframe. Excess video imagery data and excess stills data are discarded based on metadata of linked subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeroen B. Floor, Paulus Weemaes
  • Patent number: 11595552
    Abstract: A dome for a surveillance camera comprises an at least partially transparent spherical portion, a front transition portion, a back transition portion, and lateral transition portions. All transition portions extend to a perimeter plane and a tangent to the spherical portion where it connects to the front transition portion has an angle ? relative to a normal to the perimeter plane, as measured in a symmetry plane, and a tangent to the spherical portion where it connects to the back transition portion has an angle ? relative to a normal to the perimeter plane, as measured in the same plane and the same direction as the angle ?. The angle ? is equal to or larger than the angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Ulf Lundberg, Philipp Liljevall
  • Patent number: 11584297
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a plurality of imaging units configured to capture images around the vehicle; an image compositing unit configured to composite the images captured by the imaging units to generate a composite image; an image display unit configured to display the composite image generated by the image compositing unit; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about an object around the vehicle. The imaging units are arranged such that imaging areas thereof overlap with each other. The image compositing unit is configured to set a boundary between the captured images in the composite image such that the boundary is provided in a part where the imaging areas of the imaging units overlap with each other. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires the information about the object, the image compositing unit changes the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11577645
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a front portion of a vehicle, a display screen and a processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The processor performs first, second and third image manipulations on first, second and third portions of the image data to generate first, second and third region manipulated image data. The display screen displays first, second and third images derived from the manipulated image data at respective display regions. The displayed images are discontinuous at a first seam between first and second display regions and discontinuous at a second seam between first and third display regions. An object present in first and second regions of the view of the camera is displayed as discontinuous at the first seam and an object present in the first and third regions of the view of the camera is displayed as discontinuous at the second seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yuesheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11557124
    Abstract: An object tracking system that includes a sensor that is configured to capture frames of at least a portion of a global plane for a space. The system is configured to receive a first frame from the sensor, to identify a pixel location within the first frame, and to determine an estimated sensor location for the sensor by applying a homography to the pixel location. The homography includes coefficients that translate between pixel locations in a frame from the sensor and (x,y) coordinates in the global plane. The system is further configured to determine an actual sensor location for the sensor and to determine a location difference between the estimated sensor location and the actual sensor location. The system is further configured to compare the location difference to a difference threshold level and to recompute the homography in response to determining that the location difference exceeds the difference threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventors: Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Crystal Maung