Artifact Removal Or Suppression (e.g., Distortion Correction) Patents (Class 382/275)
  • Patent number: 12375829
    Abstract: Image sensors, imaging systems, and methods for eliminating blooming artifacts in high dynamic range imaging. The image sensor includes a pixel array and a controller. The controller is configured to detect that a first pixel signal is at or below a barrier value. The first pixel signal is generated during a first exposure. The controller is also configured to compare neighboring pixel signals to the barrier value. The controller is further configured to determine a first image value for the center pixel based on a second pixel signal when at least one of the neighboring pixel signals is above the barrier value. The second pixel signal is generated during a second exposure that is shorter than the first exposure. The controller is also configured to set the first image value to the first pixel signal when each of the neighboring pixel signals is at or below the barrier value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Orit Skorka, Barry Vanhoff, Radu Ispasoiu, Grady Anderson, Anthony Richard Huggett
  • Patent number: 12367561
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for panoptically guiding digital image inpainting utilizing a panoptic inpainting neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a panoptic inpainting neural network to generate an inpainted digital image according to panoptic segmentation map that defines pixel regions corresponding to different panoptic labels. In some cases, the disclosed systems train a neural network utilizing a semantic discriminator that facilitates generation of digital images that are realistic while also conforming to a semantic segmentation. The disclosed systems generate and provide a panoptic inpainting interface to facilitate user interaction for inpainting digital images. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively update an inpainted digital image based on changes to a panoptic segmentation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Haitian Zheng, Elya Shechtman, Jianming Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Ning Xu, Qing Liu, Scott Cohen, Sohrab Amirghodsi
  • Patent number: 12367564
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an image processing method, device, and a medium, wherein the method includes: acquiring an original image to be processed, wherein the original image comprises at least one of a panoramic image, a semi-panoramic image, or a fisheye image; in response to a target processing request for the original image, determining a target detection box in the original image; performing distortion correction processing on a first image corresponding to the target detection box in the original image to obtain a second image; and determining pixels to be processed in the first image based on the second image, and performing target processing on the pixels to be processed to obtain a target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guangwei Wang
  • Patent number: 12366680
    Abstract: A display system according to an embodiment includes: an image projector including at least one optical member; a screen including at least one optical member; and a peripheral device. The at least one optical member of the image projector and the at least one optical member of the screen include a metamaterial member having a negative refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Jun Park, Young Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 12354308
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a binocular image matching method, apparatus, device, and storage medium. The method comprises: performing target detection on a first image to obtain a first bounding box of a target in the first image; determining a second bounding box corresponding to the first bounding box in a second image; and obtaining a third bounding box of the target in the second image by regressing the second bounding box. The technical solutions realize accurate matching of targets in a binocular image without requiring performing target detection on both images in the binocular image, and then use a matching algorithm to match the targets detected in the two images, thereby greatly reducing the calculation overhead of target matching in the binocular image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongyang Li, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang
  • Patent number: 12346405
    Abstract: Provided are a joint perception model training method, a joint perception method, a device, and a storage medium. The joint perception model training method includes: acquiring sample images and perception tags of the sample images; acquiring a preset joint perception model, where the joint perception model includes a feature extraction network and a joint perception network; performing feature extraction on the sample images through the feature extraction network to obtain target sample features; performing joint perception through the joint perception network according to the target sample features to obtain perception prediction results; and training the preset joint perception model according to the perception prediction results and the perception tags, where the joint perception includes executing at least two perception tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Xiangbo Su, Qiman Wu, Zhigang Wang, Hao Sun, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang, Tian Wu, Haifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12333676
    Abstract: A method of operating an image processing apparatus is provided. The method includes generating a first feature map by performing a convolution operation between a first image and a first kernel group, generating a second feature map by performing a convolution operation between the first image and a second kernel group, generating a first combination map based on the first feature map, generating a second combination map based on the first feature map and the second feature map, generating a second image based on the first combination map and the second combination map, and generating a reconstructed image of the first image, based on the second image and the first image, and generating a high-resolution image of the first image by inputting the reconstructed image to an upscaling model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daehyun Ban, Yongsung Kim, Dongwan Lee, Juyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12333693
    Abstract: A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Pierre Konen, Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Xiaojun Du, Ebrahim Mortazy
  • Patent number: 12327413
    Abstract: In various examples, color statistic(s) from ground projections are used to harmonize color between reference and target frames representing an environment. The reference and target frames may be projected onto a representation of the ground (e.g., a ground plane) of the environment, an overlapping region between the projections may be identified, and the portion of each projection that lands in the overlapping region may be taken as a corresponding ground projection. Color statistics (e.g., mean, variance, standard deviation, kurtosis, skew, correlation(s) between color channels) may be computed from the ground projections (or a portion thereof, such as a majority cluster) and used to modify the colors of the target frame to have updated color statistics that match those from the ground projection of the reference frame, thereby harmonizing color across the reference and target frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzhuo Ren, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak, Niranjan Avadhanam, Guangli Dai
  • Patent number: 12323594
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masato Shima
  • Patent number: 12277666
    Abstract: A method of smoothing a surface mesh includes determining first angles between a first direction and vectors normal to a plurality of faces defined in the surface mesh, determining a set of artifact vertices by including a first vertex of the surface mesh in the set of artifact vertices responsive to the first angles associated with faces adjacent to the first vertex satisfying a first condition, calculating a weighted value for a second vertex of the surface mesh based on a distance from the second vertex to a nearest artifact vertex in the set of artifact vertices, and generating a smoothed surface mesh by using the weighted value in a smoothing algorithm applied to the surface mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Sukhraj Singh, Nitish Puri, Michael Kohnen
  • Patent number: 12267480
    Abstract: A stereo imaging device is capable of detecting a target with a high precision, while photographing a wide range. The stereo imaging device has an imaging unit 5 including a lens and an imaging sensor. The lens has a low distortion region and a high distortion region, the low distortion region being a portion having a distortion smaller than a predetermined amount, the high distortion region being a portion having a distortion larger than the low distortion region. A cutout unit outputs an image from which a range including a detection target has been cut out from an area photographed through the low distortion region, such output being performed for image photographed by a pair of imaging units when a detection target is present within an area photographed through the low distortion region. A detection unit detects a detection target based on the cutout image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Otsubo
  • Patent number: 12250464
    Abstract: A process for the acquisition, by a spacecraft in terrestrial orbit, of a useful image of a space object in terrestrial orbit that is gradually approaching the spacecraft from an upstream distal region towards a proximal region is disclosed including controlling the orientation of an array-type detection sensor in order to orient it towards the space object located in the upstream distal region, acquiring, via the array-type detection sensor, a so-called detection image of the space object located in the upstream distal region, determining trajectory-tracking information on the basis of the detection image, controlling the orientation of an array-type acquisition sensor on the basis of trajectory-tracking information, in order to orient it towards the space object located in the proximal region, acquiring, via the array-type acquisition sensor, a useful image of the space object located in the proximal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Cyrille Tourneur
  • Patent number: 12228729
    Abstract: A method for designing a diffractive optical element comprises: determining parameters of a light source and a target light field of a diffractive optical element; according to the parameters of the light source, determining the distribution of a plurality of first microstructure units on the diffractive optical element; dividing the target light field into a plurality of target maps superimposed to form the target light field, the first microstructure units corresponding to the target maps; performing distortion pre-correction on the plurality of target maps separately; and according to the plurality of corrected target maps and the parameters of the light source, designing corresponding phase distributions of the plurality of first microstructure units separately. A VCSEL partitioned light source may be combined with a diffractive optical element to project a uniform light field. The diffractive optical element is applied to a partitioned illumination system, which provides a uniform illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Jiaxing UPhoton Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhentao Fan, Yuming Song, Kehan Tian
  • Patent number: 12217398
    Abstract: A system for intelligent image dehazing based on haze type classification. The system receives a hazy image and classifies the haze type using either a Single Selective Classifier (SSC) or a Hybrid Conditional Classifier (HCC), based on user preference. If SSC is selected, a specific single model is used for classification. If HCC is selected, all pre-trained and pre-defined models are used. The system then selects a suitable specialized dehazer based on the predicted haze type and applies it to the input image to mitigate the effects of the haze. The system is flexible, allowing for adjustments to various parameters as per the users' requirements and target application domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Md Tanvir Islam, Ik Hyun Lee, Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar, Abdullah Altameem, Mohammed Abaoud, Khan Muhammad
  • Patent number: 12211194
    Abstract: Provided are a defect inspection apparatus and a defect inspection method that can inspect various types of defects in a synthesized image. The defect inspection apparatus synthesizes a first detection signal from a first detector and a second detection signal from a second detector with a first synthesis ratio to generate a first synthesized image, and synthesizes the first detection signal and the second detection signal with a second synthesis ratio different from the first synthesis ratio to generate a second synthesized image. The defect inspection apparatus generates a first inspection image based on the first synthesized image and generates a second inspection image based on the second synthesized image. The defect inspection apparatus executes a logical operation on the first inspection image and the second inspection image to generate a synthesized inspection image. The defect inspection apparatus executes defect determination on the synthesized inspection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ebizuka, Hiroyuki Shindo, Ryugo Kagetani
  • Patent number: 12198310
    Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing device are provided. The image processing method includes performing at least one of a scratch repairing step, a dead point repairing step, a denoising step and a color cast correcting step on a to-be-processed video frame. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is able to repair a scratch and a dead point, remove a noise and/or correct color cast for a video frame, thereby to improve a display effect of the video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ran Duan, Dan Zhu, Yanhong Wu, Guannan Chen
  • Patent number: 12189011
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method comprising: providing a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model is configured for reconstructing images from input data. The method comprises: receiving (201) a multidimensional array comprising M dimensional acquired data; determining (205) a subset of values of at least one K selected dimension of the array; for each value of the subset determining (207) a M?K dimensional array comprising the acquired data corresponding to the value, resulting in a set of M?1 dimensional arrays; inputting (209) the set of M?K dimensional arrays to the trained machine learning model, and receive a reconstructed image from the trained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Elwin De Weerdt, Nicola Pezzotti
  • Patent number: 12183259
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an input interface to receive an image signal; a first image processor to generate first image frame data based on the image signal; a second image processor to generate second image frame data scaled down from the first image frame data based on the image signal; and an output interface to receive the first image frame data from the first image processor and the second image frame data from the second image processor and to output the first image frame data and the second image frame data, wherein the first image frame data output from the output interface is more delayed than the second image frame data output from the output interface. Accordingly, a timing controller may accurately and rapidly perform signal processing for a panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihoon Lee, Jongchan Kim, Kyeongryeol Park, Jeonghyu Yang, Seoksoo Lee, Byungtae Choi
  • Patent number: 12182994
    Abstract: A method, device, and system for generating medical image with localized artifacts are provided. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, by a processing unit, a medical image generated by an imaging modality, identifying presence of one or more artifacts in the medical image using one or more trained machine learning models. Herein, identifying presence of artifacts in medical image includes identifying artifacts in medical image using the trained machine learning models and determining class associated with identified artifacts in medical image using predefined classification index. The method further includes determining at least one artifact of interest from the artifacts based on a predefined criteria, localizing the at least one artifact of interest in the medical image using a post processing technique, and outputting the medical image including localized artifact of interest on a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Kavitha N G, Punith B V
  • Patent number: 12142006
    Abstract: A method for a distortion calibration of ultra-wide angle imaging apparatus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Wenxue Li
  • Patent number: 12136204
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for integrating image enhancement and training data generation using a generative recurrent neural network model. The method of integrating image enhancement and training data generation using a generative recurrent neural network model includes: (a) receiving a target image as input, and (b) applying the target image to a trained generative recurrent neural network model to selectively generate any one of a high-quality image with enhanced image quality and a low-quality image depending on a type of the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Joon Ki Paik
  • Patent number: 12136194
    Abstract: Provided is a method for bone suppression in an X-ray image, which includes: extracting an upper contour line and a lower contour line corresponding to a bone to be suppressed from the original X-ray image; generating a first binarization image and a second binarization image based on the upper contour line and the lower contour line, respectively; generating a first distance transform image and a second distance transform image from the first binarization image and the second binarization image, respectively through distance transform; generating a compensated first X-ray image and a compensated second X-ray image by compensating a pixel value of a region which belongs to the bone by using the first distance transform image and the second distance transform image, respectively from the original X-ray image; and synthesizing the compensated first X-ray image and the compensated second X-ray image to obtain a bone-suppressed X-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: VIEWORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Joo Han
  • Patent number: 12112551
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a signal light state detection system includes one or more processors, an a non-transitory memory module storing computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to receive a first image of a vehicle and receiving a second image of the vehicle, wherein the second image is later in time from the first image, and generate a warped image from the first image and the second image, wherein the warped image has individual pixels of one of the first image and the second image that are shifted to locations of corresponding pixels of the other of the first image and the second image. The one or more processors further generate a difference image from the warped image and one of the first image and the second image, and determine, using a classifier module, a probability of a state of vehicle signal lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Nagasaka, Blake Wulfe, Kuan-Hui Lee, Jia-En Marcus Pan
  • Patent number: 12094035
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to methods and systems for localized smoke removal and color restoration of a real-time video. Conventional techniques apply the de-smoking process only on a single image, by finding the regions having the smoke, based on manual air-light estimation. In addition, regaining original colors of de-smoked image is quite challenging. The present disclosure herein solves the technical problems. In the first stage, video frames having the smoky and smoke-free video frames are identified, from the video received in the real-time. In the second stage, an air-light is estimated automatically using a combined feature map. An intermediate de-smoked video frame for each smoky video frame is generated based on the air-light using a de-smoking algorithm. In the third and the last stage, a smoke-free video reference frame is used to compensate for color distortions introduced by the de-smoking algorithm in the second stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha, Karthik Seemakurthy, Vartika Sengar, Aparna Kanakatte Gurumurthy, Avik Ghose, Balamuralidhar Purushothaman, Murali Poduval, Jayeeta Saha, Srinivasan Jayaraman, Vivek Bangalore Sampathkumar
  • Patent number: 12094089
    Abstract: The present invention provides an intelligent and a flexible video enhancement system with improved visual quality of the video for better user experience. The video enhancement system enhances various types of videos and provides a user with better visual experience based on video corresponding features and personal preferences. The video enhancement system includes a dynamic analysis and adaptive processing techniques for enhancing video quality for seamless user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Evelyn Chee, Shanlan Shen, Yubo Duan
  • Patent number: 12073536
    Abstract: Systems and method for correcting images including artifacts due to dirty camera lenses of electronic device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Sagi Katz, David Ben Ezra
  • Patent number: 12073545
    Abstract: A computing device is configured to detect inconsistencies on a vehicle that are typically small and difficult to detect using conventional inspection techniques. Particularly, a spotlight illuminates a target area on the vehicle. The color of the spotlight is the same color as the ambient light illuminating the vehicle but is a higher intensity. Additionally, the color of the spotlight and the ambient light is selected based on the type of inconsistencies expected to be detected. Images of the target area are then captured, digitally processed, and stored in memory, such as a database, for example. Based on the processing of these images, a weighting coefficient is computed and used to generate an enhanced contrast feature map. Inconsistencies are then detected based on the enhanced contrast feature map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Effler
  • Patent number: 12067697
    Abstract: A first image collected by an image collector is acquired. A map generated based on a correspondence between a distortion rate and a field of view of the image collector is acquired. The map includes a mapping relation between a raw pixel coordinate of a pixel in a raw image collected by the image collector and a target pixel coordinate that has been corrected. A second image that has been corrected is acquired by correcting the first image based on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qian Li
  • Patent number: 12062152
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for performing re-noising and neural network (NN) based image enhancement includes a computing platform having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, a noise synthesizer, and an image restoration NN. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a denoised image component and a noise component extracted from a degraded image, to generate, using the noise synthesizer and the noise component, synthesized noise corresponding to the noise component, and to interpolate, using the noise component and the synthesized noise, an output image noise. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to enhance, using the image restoration NN, the denoised image component to provide an output image component, and to re-noise the output image component, using the output image noise, to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the degraded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Shinobu Hattori, Christopher Richard Schroers
  • Patent number: 12051211
    Abstract: A moving target focusing method and system based on a generative adversarial network are provided. The method includes: generating, using a Range Doppler algorithm, a two-dimensional image including at least one defocused moving target, as a training sample; generating at least one ideal Gaussian point in a position of at least one center of the at least one defocused moving target in the two-dimensional image, to generate a training label; constructing the generative adversarial network, the generative adversarial network includes a generative network and a discrimination network; inputting the training sample and the training label into the generative adversarial network to perform repeated training until an output of the generative network reaches a preset condition, to thereby obtain a trained network model; and inputting a testing sample into the trained network model, to output a moving target focused image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Jiang Qian, Haitao Lyu, Junzheng Jiang, Minfeng Xing
  • Patent number: 12051505
    Abstract: An image segmentation system and display is disclosed. The system may be operated or configured to generate a segmentation of a member from an image. The image and/or the segmentation may be displayed for viewing by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Helm, Andrew Wald, Shai Ronen
  • Patent number: 12026852
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for image processing that mitigate artifacts that otherwise appear when an IQVR camera moves with respect to a scene between image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kerr Avionics LLC
    Inventor: Jordan Holt
  • Patent number: 12026851
    Abstract: A single image deraining method is proposed. A wavelet transforming step processes an initial rain image to generate an i-th stage low-frequency rain image and a plurality of i-th stage high-frequency rain images. An image deraining step inputs the i-th stage low-frequency rain image to a low-frequency deraining model to output an i-th stage low-frequency derain image. A first inverse wavelet transforming step recombines the n-th stage low-frequency derain image with the n-th stage high-frequency derain images to form an n-th stage derain image. A weighted blending step blends a (n?1)-th stage low-frequency derain image with the n-th stage derain image to generate a (n?1)-th stage blended derain image. A second inverse wavelet transforming step recombines the (n?1)-th stage high-frequency derain images with the (n?1)-th stage blended derain image to form a (n?1)-th stage derain image, and sets n to n?1 and repeats the last two steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei-Yen Hsu, Cheng-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 12026224
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reconstruct scenes using convolutional neural networks are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sensor data acquirer to acquire ground truth data representing an environment, an environment detector to identify an environmental characteristic of the environment, a synthetic database builder to apply noise to the ground truth data to form a training set, a model builder to train a machine learning model using the training set and the ground truth data, and a model adjustor to modify the machine learning model to include residual OR-gate connections intermediate respective layers of the machine learning model. The synthetic database builder is further to store the machine learning model in association with the environmental characteristic of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Movidius Ltd.
    Inventors: Alessandro Palla, Jonathan Byrne, David Moloney
  • Patent number: 12020487
    Abstract: Changes in ambient light intensity are detected by processing image data from an image capture device to determine, iteratively, a signal-to-noise ratio of the image data. The signal-to-noise ratio is a ratio of average to variance of pixel values for some of the pixels forming the image. A control output is generated, based on the signal-to-noise ratio, that is responsive to changes in ambient light intensity. The control output is used control a light source of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventors: Michael Flatman, Samuel Alec Roberts, Thomas Henry Abel, Raymond Alan Wise, Peter Joseph Petrany
  • Patent number: 12020445
    Abstract: A computing device stores a predictive model generated by a neural network training engine. The computing device receives first and second two-dimensional (2D) thermal images comprising temperature measurements from respective first and second infrared (IR) sensors. The first and second images have the same size. An image capturing visual field of the second IR sensor partially overlaps with an image capturing visual field of the first IR sensor. The computing device executes a neural network using a predictive model for generating outputs based on inputs. The inputs comprise the temperature measurements of the first and second images. The outputs comprise horizontal and vertical shifts defining a translation of the second image with respect to the first image. An overlapping area in the first image, having a rectangular shape and overlapping with the second image, is determined using the horizontal and vertical shifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Distech Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Francois Gervais, Jean-Simon Boucher, Simon-Pierre Allaire, Josh Amelia
  • Patent number: 12013602
    Abstract: A method of detecting a defect in an electronic display includes taking a digital image of the electronic display; and electronically determining if an area of the electronic display is defective based on data of the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: COMMUNICATIONS TEST DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Pixley, Nidhin Davis, Mark Parsons
  • Patent number: 11994229
    Abstract: A solenoid valve has a valve portion and a solenoid portion. The valve portion includes a sleeve and a spool. The solenoid portion includes a yoke, a plunger, a stator core, and a base portion. The base portion includes a first inner diameter portion, a second inner diameter portion, and a connection surface that connects the first inner diameter portion and the second inner diameter portion to each other in a radial direction. The first inner diameter portion is fastened to a first outer peripheral surface of the sleeve. The second inner diameter portion is arranged radially outside a second outer peripheral surface of a magnetic attraction core. The base portion is in contact with the yoke. The connection surface and a sleeve end surface of the sleeve adjacent to the solenoid portion in the axial direction are spaced from each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sasao, Shinichi Kondou
  • Patent number: 11972630
    Abstract: Various examples are provided for distortion rectification and fingerprint crossmatching. In one example, a method includes selecting an electronic, perspective distorted fingerprint sample; and generating an unwarped fingerprint sample by rectifying perspective distortions from the perspective distorted fingerprint sample by application of an unwarping transformation. Parameters of the unwarping transformation can be determined by a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) trained on a database comprising contactless fingerprint samples suffering from perspective distortions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Jeremy M. Dawson, Ali Dabouei
  • Patent number: 11921822
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus and an operation method of the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to, by using one or more convolution neural networks, extract target features by performing a convolution operation between features of target regions having same locations in a plurality of input images and a first kernel set, extract peripheral features by performing a convolution operation of features of peripheral regions located around the target regions in the plurality of input images and a second kernel set, and determine a feature of a region corresponding to the target regions in an output image, based on the target features and the peripheral features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeyeon Park, Iljun Ahn, Yongsup Park, Jaehee Kwak, Tammy Lee, Minsu Cheon
  • Patent number: 11861844
    Abstract: A method for edge identification of a self-shadowing object based on a visual camera and a vehicle includes: collecting image data of an object to be identified, and performing differentiation processing; according to a preset threshold, performing three-value processing to the image that has been differentiation-processed, to acquire a three-value-processed image including positive-direction boundary pixels and negative-direction boundary pixels; according to the positive-direction boundary pixels and the negative-direction boundary pixels, acquiring a positive-direction straight linear segment and a negative-direction straight linear segment that represent boundary trends of the object to be identified; if the straight linear segments do not create a target object that satisfy a predetermined condition, determining the first boundary according to the predetermined condition; according to the first boundary, determining the second boundary; and by using positions of the first boundary and the second boundary
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shunji Miyahara
  • Patent number: 11856175
    Abstract: A display system for a welding mask that includes a darkening filter layer, a light field camera system to capture a light field, and an optical image stabilization subsystem. Captured light fields are displayed via a light field display within the welding helmet without risk of overexposure of ultraviolet radiation to the operator. In some examples, dual light field displays are used to display different images to each eye of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Collin Stoner
  • Patent number: 11854443
    Abstract: A three-dimensional holographic display device includes a light emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of light sources controlled to sequentially output light according to a preset pattern, a lens configured to refract light incident from the LED array, a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to modulate light incident from the lens, and a processor configured to generate a plurality of holographic signals each comprising depth information adjusted according to an arrangement location of each of the plurality of light sources, and for each of the plurality of light sources, control the SLM to modulate the light based on a holographic signal corresponding to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Kim, Geunwoo Ko, Minsu Kim, Geeyoung Sung, Dongyeoul Lee, Sangbum Lee, Jonghyun Lee, Hongseok Lee, Punjae Choi, Jong-Young Hong
  • Patent number: 11847763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image reconstruction. The system may obtain an initial image to be processed. The system may generate a reconstructed image by performing a plurality of iteration steps on the initial image. Each of the plurality of iteration steps may include a first optimization operation and at least one second optimization operation. The first optimization operation and the at least one second optimization operation may be executed sequentially. The first optimization operation may include receiving an image to be processed in the iteration step and determining an updated image by preliminarily optimizing the image to be processed. The at least one second optimization operation may include determining an optimized image by reducing interference information of the updated image and designating the optimized image as a next image to be processed in a next iteration step. The interference information may include noise information and/or artifact information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjing Cao, Haohua Sun, Liyi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11838627
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a position of a focus lens of the apparatus, a setting unit configured to change a threshold for detecting a luminance change in each pixel in a predetermined range, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a signal indicating a pixel in which a luminance change that is more than or equal to the threshold has occurred, and a determination unit configured to determine an in-focus position of the focus lens based on the signal detected depending on the position of the focus lens and the set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11838530
    Abstract: A method for concealing data in an image or a video stream inside a compression chain, being implemented by a computer and including a structuring and processing phase, during which at least one image is structured into blocks including coefficients, a phase of converting and quantifying blocks so as to generate converted and quantified coefficients, with entropic coding intended to code the converted and quantified coefficients. The method includes a step of concealing data, during which bits of the data are concealed by modifying converted and quantified coefficients located in a high frequency zone of at least some of the blocks that relate to the luminance component of the video stream and that are intra-coded. This modification is performed after the quantification but before the entropic coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Moureaux, Amine Chaabouni, Yann Gaudeau
  • Patent number: 11812002
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for correcting a scanned image, and an image scanning system, and relates to the field of image scanning. The method includes obtaining a scanned image of a scanned object, detecting one or more reference objects from the scanned image, determining a deformation parameter of each reference object of the one or more reference objects based on preset a standard parameter of the each reference object, and correcting the scanned image based on the deformation parameters of the one or more reference objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Bicheng Liu, Hao Yu, Weizhen Wang, Guangming Xu, Haojie Chi, Shangmin Sun, Chunguang Zong, Yu Hu
  • Patent number: 11798141
    Abstract: An AR calibration system for correcting AR headset distortions. A calibration image is provided to an external screen and viewable through a headset reflector, and an inverse of the calibration image is provided to a headset display, reflected off the reflector and observed by a camera of the system while it is simultaneously observing the calibration image on the external screen. One or more cameras are located to represent a user's point of view and aligned to observe the inverse calibration image projected onto the reflector. A distortion mapping transform is created using an algorithm to search through projection positions of the inverse calibration image until the inverse image observed by the camera(s) cancels out an acceptable portion of the calibration image provided to the external screen as observed through the reflector by the camera, and the transform is used by the headset, to compensate for distortions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Johnathon Scott Selstad, David Samuel Holz
  • Patent number: 11783184
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve techniques for efficiently estimating denoising kernels for generating denoised images. For instance, a neural network receives a noisy reference image to denoise. The neural network uses a kernel dictionary of base kernels and generates a coefficient vector for each pixel in the reference image such that the coefficient vector includes a coefficient value for each base kernel in the kernel dictionary, where the base kernels are combined to generate a denoising kernel and each coefficient value indicates a contribution of a given base kernel to a denoising kernel. The neural network calculates the denoising kernel for a given pixel by applying the coefficient vector for that pixel to the kernel dictionary. The neural network applies each denoising kernel to the respective pixel to generate a denoised output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Federico Perazzi, Zhihao Xia, Michael Gharbi, Kalyan Sunkavalli