Combining Image Portions (e.g., Portions Of Oversized Documents) Patents (Class 382/284)
  • Patent number: 11677918
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for color space conversion are provided. An apparatus for converting a color space includes at least one processor configured to convert an original full image of an original color space to a temporary image of a target color space, estimate a color space mapping parameter between the original color space and the target color space, the color space mapping parameter corresponding to the original full image, obtain a residual vector of the target color space based on the temporary image and the color space mapping parameter, convert the residual vector to a residual image of the target color space, and obtain a target full image of the target color space by combining the residual image with the temporary image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Kwang Cho, Yang Ho Cho, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Patent number: 11671551
    Abstract: A method and system for synchronization of image data is provided. From a plurality of image-capture devices, image data including a plurality of image sequences is received. Each image sequence corresponds to one of the plurality of image-capture devices. A set of sensor data is further received from the plurality of image-capture devices. Each sensor data comprises at least one of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data and audio data. Based on the received set of sensor data, a match is determined between a first set of image frames of a first image sequence and a second set of image frames of a second image sequence. An offset is computed between the first set of image frames and the second set of image frames, based on the match and the first image sequence is synchronized with the second image sequence based on the computed offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Vandekieft, Nikolaos Georgis, Chad Goolbis
  • Patent number: 11648080
    Abstract: A medical observation control device and system include a memory that stores a parameter for a first imaging condition of an imager at a first time of capturing a first medical image and circuitry configured to correct for brightness differences between the first medical image captured at the first time and a second medical image captured at a second time. The circuitry is configured to restore the parameter for the first imaging condition as a second imaging condition for capturing the second medical image, control the imager so as to capture an image of an observation object under the second imaging condition as the second medical image, compare the first medical image with the second medical image, and correct brightness of at least one of brightness of the first medical image and brightness of the second medical image based on a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kamata
  • Patent number: 11652982
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system receives pixel data from a pair of regions of an image generated by an imaging device, the pair of regions includes a first region and a second region, where the first region includes a first plurality of pixels and the second region includes a second plurality of pixels. The system determines a plurality of pixel pairs, where a pixel pair includes a first pixel from the first plurality of pixels and a second pixel from the second plurality of pixels. The system calculates a plurality of contrasts based on the plurality of pixel pairs. The system determines a contrast distribution based on the plurality of contrasts. The system calculates a value representative of a capability of the imaging device to detect contrast based on the contrast distribution. The system determines a reduction in contrast detectability of the imaging device based on the value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Midthun Pieper, Robin Brian Jenkin
  • Patent number: 11647284
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus (200), comprising: a communicating unit (202) capable of communicating with each of a plurality of image sensors configured to transmit, in respectively different packets, additional data including region information corresponding to a region set with respect to a captured image for each region and region image data indicating an image for each row corresponding to the region; and a processing unit (204) configured to process, in association with each region, the region image data acquired from each of the plurality of image sensors based on the region information included in the additional data acquired from each of the plurality of image sensors, wherein the region information includes a part of or all of identification information of the region, information indicating a position of the region, and information indicating a size of the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11647096
    Abstract: A request for a web page is received at a proxy server. The request originates from a client network application of a client device. The requested web page includes multiple references to multiple images. The proxy server retrieves the requested web page. The proxy server modifies code of the retrieved web page such that the client network application will not, for each one of those images, initially request those images when parsing the page. The proxy server also adds code to the retrieved web page that, when executed by the client network application, causes at least two of the images to be requested with a single request. The proxy server transmits the modified web page to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen Joel, Lee Hahn Holloway, Dane Orion Knecht, Albertus Strasheim
  • Patent number: 11645747
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for reducing blur in a diagnostic image. In one example, a method includes reducing blur in a diagnostic image by applying a deconvolution filter to the diagnostic image, the deconvolution filter generated from a point spread function (PSF) estimation of blur at each pixel of the diagnostic image, the PSF estimation generated based on a motion vector field between the diagnostic image and a pre-shot image acquired prior to the diagnostic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Milioni De Carvalho, Barbara Grosjean Leh, Jorge Corsino Espino, Vincent Jonas Bismuth
  • Patent number: 11640721
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for pre-cropping digital image data includes: dividing the digital image into segments; computing a color value distance between corresponding pixels of neighboring segments of the digital image; comparing the color value distance(s) against a minimum color distance threshold; clustering neighboring segments having a color value distance less than or equal to the minimum color distance threshold; computing a connected structure based on the clustered segments; computing a polygon bounding the connected structure; comparing a fraction of segments included in the connected structure and the polygon, relative to a total number of segments in the digital image, to a minimum included segment threshold; and in response to determining the fraction of segments in the connected structure and the polygon, relative to the total number of segments meets or exceeds a minimum included segment threshold, cropping the digital image based on edges of the polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: KOFAX, INC.
    Inventors: Jiyong Ma, Stephen M. Thompson, Jan W. Amtrup
  • Patent number: 11636572
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for varying panning speeds of images based on saliency such that 360-degree images, panoramic images, video images and/or other wide view area images may be efficiently displayed by varying the panning speed such that the user focuses on salient portions of the image. A panning speed is determined based on the currently displayed area and its saliency relative to the saliency of non-displayed or peripheral portions. As a user pans from one area to another, while the user pans over a salient portion of the image, the actual reflected panning may occur at a relatively slower speed than when the user pans over an area not including a salient portion, or a less salient portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Daniel Andre Vaquero, Muninder Veldandi, Basavaraja Vandrotti, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 11634124
    Abstract: A method of recognizing a median strip and predicting risk of a collision through analysis of an image includes acquiring an image of the road ahead including a median strip and a road bottom surface through a camera of a moving vehicle (S110), generating a Hough space by detecting an edge from the image (S120), recognizing an upper straight line of the median strip from the Hough space (S130), generating a region of interest (ROI) of the median strip using information on the upper straight line of the median strip and a lane (S140), detecting an object from an internal part of the ROI of the median strip through a labeling scheme (S150), and determining a tracking-point set of the objects that satisfy a specific condition (S160).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CARVI INC.
    Inventor: Eunsu Lee
  • Patent number: 11635908
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved digital asset management and synchronization of a digital asset stored either within a component database or a packaged file. For example, the digital asset synchronization system enables a set of components that makes up a digital asset to appear as a singular packaged file, while also maintaining the benefits of having the digital asset made up of the components. In this manner, the digital asset synchronization system provides a bridge between a digital asset stored in a packaged file format and conventional file formats. In addition, the digital asset synchronization system also provides digital asset management and improved synchronization between a client device and a cloud storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley J. Switzer, Roey Horns, Oliver I. Goldman, Michael Vitrano, Julian R. Wixson
  • Patent number: 11630566
    Abstract: This disclosure enables various technologies for virtually trying-on items (e.g., a jewelry item, an earring, a garment) in a manner that is more realistic than currently known techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Maria Tashjian
  • Patent number: 11625066
    Abstract: Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, at least one first camera module disposed on the first housing to face a first direction, at least one second camera module disposed on the second housing to face the first direction, a first display disposed on the first housing to face a second direction opposite to the first direction and the second housing to face the second direction, a sensor module configured to sense a folding state of the foldable electronic device, a memory, and a processor configured to identify, in response to a photographing request, the folding state of the foldable electronic device based on sensing data obtained from the sensor module, sense a folding angle change of the foldable electronic device based on the identified folding state, obtain, based on the folding angle change, multiple images from each of the at least one first camera module and the at least one second camera module, and process and provide the obtained multiple images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Kwangik Cho
  • Patent number: 11627255
    Abstract: A predetermined image correction process is automatically performed on an image, and information for identifying that the predetermined image correction process has been performed is displayed in a state that an image having undergone the predetermined image correction process is being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Wakana
  • Patent number: 11620773
    Abstract: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis allows for the acquisition of volumetric mammography images. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions. In an embodiment a method for displaying volumetric images comprises computing a projection image using a viewing direction, displaying the projection image and then varying the projection image by varying the viewing direction. The viewing direction can be varied based on a periodic continuous mathematical function. A graphics processing unit can be used to compute the projection image and bricking can be used to accelerate the computation of the projection images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: PME IP PTY LTD
    Inventors: Malte Westerhoff, Detlev Stalling
  • Patent number: 11620777
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides at least an apparatus for a depth enhanced image editing. In an example, the apparatus includes memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: obtain image information, the image information including edited image data, edited calibration data, and unedited original depth data; and align the original depth data to the edited image data based on the edited calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Abramson, Avigdor Eldar, Omer Levy
  • Patent number: 11616902
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to detect a feature amount from each of a plurality of images different in in-focus position in an optical axis direction, and align the plurality of images by using the feature amount. The at least one processor further executes instructions to detect the feature amount by preferentially using a focusing area of each of the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11615529
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting a location for acquiring a target view of an anatomical object of interest in an input image are provided. An input image of an anatomical object of interest of a patient is received. An output image is generated using a machine learning based network. The output image depicts a projection of a 3D image plane for acquiring a target view of the anatomical object of interest identified on the input image. The output image is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Teodora Chitiboi, Saikiran Rapaka, Puneet Sharma, Jens Wetzl, Christian Geppert, Michaela Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11614276
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator may include a main body having a storage compartment, a first door rotatably installed at a first side of the main body to open and close a first portion of the storage compartment, and a second door rotatably installed at a second side of the main body to open and close a second portion of the storage compartment. A first camera may be installed at the first door to take a picture of an interior of the first storage compartment during rotation of the first door, and a second camera may be installed at the second door to take a picture of the interior of the first storage compartment during rotation of the second door. A controller may combine plural pictures taken by the first camera and the second camera into a single corrected image of a region of the first compartment spanning from the first door to the second door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inhwan Ryu, Minjoo Cha, Hyein Yang
  • Patent number: 11611699
    Abstract: Images captured by multi-camera arrays with overlap regions can be stitched together using image stitching operations. An image stitching operation can be selected for use in stitching images based on a number of factors. An image stitching operation can be selected based on a view window location of a user viewing the images to be stitched together. An image stitching operation can also be selected based on a type, priority, or depth of image features located within an overlap region. Finally, an image stitching operation can be selected based on a likelihood that a particular image stitching operation will produce visible artifacts. Once a stitching operation is selected, the images corresponding to the overlap region can be stitched using the stitching operation, and the stitched image can be stored for subsequent access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli, Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 11610422
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets a maximum size of an object that is to be included in a detection result of detection processing to detect the object from an image captured by an imaging unit, and sets a second region based on a position of a first region, designated by a user, in the image and the set maximum size. The second region, larger than the first region, includes the first region, and is subjected to the detection processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11600075
    Abstract: Systems and methods for night vision combining sensor image types. Some implementations may include obtaining a long wave infrared image from a long wave infrared sensor; detecting an object in the long wave infrared image; identifying a region of interest associated with the object; adjusting a control parameter of a near infrared sensor based on data associated with the region of interest; obtaining a near infrared image captured using the adjusted control parameter of the near infrared sensor; and determining a classification of the object based on data of the near infrared image associated with the region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lucian Ion, Daniel E. Potter, Evan C. Cull, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Patent number: 11589027
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating and rendering immersive video content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving information indicating positions of cameras in a plurality of cameras; generating a mesh on which video content is to be projected based on the positions of the cameras in the plurality of cameras, wherein the mesh is comprised of a portion of a faceted cylinder, and wherein the faceted cylinder has a plurality of facets each corresponding to a projection from a camera in the plurality of cameras; receiving video content corresponding to the plurality of cameras; and transmitting the video content and the generated mesh to a user device in response to receiving a request for the video content from the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Kvaalen
  • Patent number: 11580692
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on a selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the subset. For example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data during movement of the device in a physical environment including an object, the sensor data including images of a physical environment captured via a camera on the device, selecting a subset of the images based on assessing the images with respect to motion-based defects based on device motion and depth data, and generating a 3D model of the object based on the selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the selected subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rafael Saracchini, Tobias Rick, Zachary Z. Becker
  • Patent number: 11580620
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A noise reduction unit generates a noise-reduced image in which noise is reduced from an input image in which a plurality of types of pixels that represent mutually different types of color information are arranged in one plane. An extraction unit generates a high-frequency emphasized image in which a high-frequency component of the input image is emphasized. A demosaicing unit generates a demosaiced image having a plurality of planes that each represent one type of color information by demosaicing processing to the noise-reduced image. A generation unit generates an output image by correcting the demosaiced image by using the high-frequency emphasized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11573091
    Abstract: In a method for determining the geographic position and orientation of a vehicle, an image of the vehicle's surroundings is recorded by at least one camera of the vehicle, wherein the recorded image at least partially comprises regions of the vehicle's surroundings on the ground level. Classification information is generated for the individual pixels of the recorded image and indicates an assignment to one of several given object classes, wherein based on this assignment, a semantic segmentation of the image is performed. Ground texture transitions based on the semantic segmentation of the image are detected. The detected ground texture transitions are projected onto the ground level of the vehicle's surroundings. The deviation between the ground texture transitions projected onto the ground level of the vehicle's surroundings and ground texture transitions in a global reference map is minimized. The current position and orientation of the vehicle in space is output based on the minimized deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Volker Patricio Schomerus
  • Patent number: 11574630
    Abstract: Conversational image editing and enhancement techniques are described. For example, an indication of a digital image is received from a user. Aesthetic attribute scores for multiple aesthetic attributes of the image are generated. A computing device then conducts a natural language conversation with the user to edit the digital image. The computing device receives inputs from the user to refine the digital image as the natural language conversation progresses. The computing device generates natural language suggestions to edit the digital image based on the aesthetic attribute scores as part of the natural language conversation. The computing device provides feedback to the user that includes edits to the digital image based on the series of inputs. The computing device also includes as feedback natural language outputs indicating options for additional edits to the digital image based on the series of inputs and the previous edits to the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Frieder Ludwig Anton Ganz, Walter Wei-Tuh Chang
  • Patent number: 11574495
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets a maximum size of an object that is to be included in a detection result of detection processing to detect the object from an image captured by an imaging unit, and sets a second region based on a position of a first region, designated by a user, in the image and the set maximum size. The second region, larger than the first region, includes the first region, and is subjected to the detection processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11564651
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray imaging. In one embodiment, a method for an image pasting examination comprises acquiring, via an optical camera and/or depth camera, image data of a subject, controlling an x-ray source and an x-ray detector according to the image data to acquire a plurality of x-ray images of the subject, and stitching the plurality of x-ray images into a single x-ray image. In this way, optimal exposure techniques may be used for individual acquisitions in an image pasting examination such that the optimal dose is utilized, stitching quality is improved, and registration failures are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Dejun Wang, Jingyi Yang, Yaan Ge, Aizhen Zhou, Katelyn Nye, Gireesha Rao, Buer Qi, Najib Akram
  • Patent number: 11568638
    Abstract: A method can include identifying a geolocation of an object in an image, the method comprising receiving data indicating a pixel coordinate of the image selected by a user, identifying a data point in a targetable three-dimensional (3D) data set corresponding to the selected pixel coordinate, and providing a 3D location of the identified data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Wyatt D. Sharp, III, Kathryn A. Welin, Jody D. Verret, Richard W. Ely, Stephen J. Raif
  • Patent number: 11562106
    Abstract: A system for operating a configuration platform. The system comprising a conversion pipeline, the conversion pipeline allowing converting a first set of data associated with a computer-aided design (CAD) system into polygon meshes suitable for rendering of the portion of a monument and configuration data. The system also comprising a content management system, the content management system storing the polygon meshes and the configuration data; and a 3D real-time engine, the 3D real-time engine allowing to determine, based on the configuration data, at least one of the positioning of the monument, the material surface associated with the monument, the material grain direction associated with the monument, the lighting associated with the monument, the annotations associated with the monument, the alternate states associated with the monument and the kinematic sequence associated with the monument; and to render the portion of the monument by the 3D real-time engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventor: Claudio Arancibia
  • Patent number: 11562169
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for determining multimodal image edits for a digital image. The systems and methods receive a digital image and analyze the digital image. The systems and methods further generate a feature vector of the digital image, wherein each value of the feature vector represents a respective feature of the digital image. Additionally, based on the feature vector and determined latent variables, the systems and methods generate a plurality of determined image edits for the digital image, which includes determining a plurality of set of potential image attribute values and selecting a plurality of sets of determined image attribute values from the plurality of sets of potential image attribute values wherein each set of determined image attribute values comprises a determined image edit of the plurality of image edits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen DiVerdi, Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Ardavan Saeedi
  • Patent number: 11563897
    Abstract: An image processing method includes obtaining status information of a terminal device, obtaining photographing scene information of the terminal device, determining an image processing mode based on the status information and the photographing scene information, obtaining a to-be-displayed image, and processing the to-be-displayed image based on the image processing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Dai, Biying Hu, Yining Huang
  • Patent number: 11562516
    Abstract: An apparatus generates a plurality of albums including a first album and a second album and includes a page generation unit to generate common pages to be arranged in both albums and individual pages including a first individual page to be arranged in the first album and not in the second album and a second individual page to be arranged in the second and not in the first. The first album is album data that a first object is set as a main object. An image including the first object is arranged in the first individual page. The second album is album data that a second object is set as a main object. An image including the second object is arranged in the second individual page. A determination unit determines an arrangement order of the common pages and the individual pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Shinjiro Hori, Hiroyasu Kunieda
  • Patent number: 11558559
    Abstract: A vehicle camera system includes: an around view camera device including a front camera, a left camera, a right camera, and a rear camera, and configured to vary a field of view of one or more of the cameras in response to a control signal; and a control device configured to control the field of view by generating the control signal, in response to an operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kim, Joon Seok Chae
  • Patent number: 11541844
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for protecting property, wherein the method comprises receiving information indicating an attack on the property, determining, from the received information, a type of attack upon the property indicated by the received information, and transmitting a data packet to a receiver, the data packet comprising metadata describing the determined type of attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Murray, James Nicholas Murray, Sam Harris, Andy Charalambous, Edward Ogorman, Tarik Safir, Gabriel Mitchell, Aaron Abentheuer, Betsy Fields Smith
  • Patent number: 11540725
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method for generating a three dimensional (3D) image based of fluorescent illumination, comprising: receiving in parallel by each of at least three imaging sensors positioned at a respective parallax towards an object having a plurality of regions with fluorescent illumination therein, a respective sequence of a plurality of images including fluorescent illumination of the plurality of regions, each of the plurality of images separated by an interval of time; analyzing the respective sequences, to create a volume-dataset indicative of the depth of each respective region of the plurality of regions; and generating a 3D image according to the volume-dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Alon Harmelin, Vyacheslav Kalchenko, Guillaume Molodij
  • Patent number: 11539879
    Abstract: An image capture control apparatus includes reception unit configured to receive an instruction for ending recording of a moving image; and control unit configured to, when the instruction for ending is issued, perform control, in a case of a first shooting mode in which an image is displayed in a state being visible from a subject, to display an item for deleting a portion at a beginning or at an end of the moving image, in response to the instruction for ending, and to record the moving image to a recording medium in a state where the portion of the moving image has been deleted, and perform control, in a case of a second shooting mode, to not display the item, even when the instruction for ending has been given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sayaka Harada, Daiyu Ueno
  • Patent number: 11533440
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform same area dividing on each of a plurality of images, and create a composite image from the plurality of images. A first area of the composite image is composited from corresponding areas in a first number of image among the plurality of images. A second area of the composite image is composited from corresponding areas in a second number of image among the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Oota, Shota Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11525990
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to structured illumination microscopy (SIM). In particular, the technology disclosed relates to capturing and processing, in real time, numerous image tiles across a large image plane, dividing them into subtiles, efficiently processing the subtiles, and producing enhanced resolution images from the subtiles. The enhanced resolution images can be combined into enhanced images and can be used in subsequent analysis steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Lu, Robert Ezra Langlois, Andrew James Young, Andrew Dodge Heiberg
  • Patent number: 11509925
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes: obtaining two or more base motion vectors from an adjacent block of a current block; obtaining correction information for correcting the two or more base motion vectors; determining two or more affine motion vectors by correcting the two or more base motion vectors according to the correction information; obtaining a plurality of affine parameters of the current block according to the two or more affine motion vectors; and predicting the current block according to the plurality of affine parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Seungsoo Jeong, Minwoo Park, Anish Tamse, Minsoo Park, Kiho Choi, Yinji Piao, Narae Choi, Woongil Choi
  • Patent number: 11508030
    Abstract: A post capture imagery processing system is provided. The system is for use with aerial imagery and includes a server having a processor and a memory and a software application providing instruction to the server to process the captured aerial imagery, such as spherical imagery. The server further includes instructions to geo-rectify the spherical imagery. The geo rectifying of the spherical imagery may include one of use of a third party GIS map to associate corresponding data with the spherical imagery in order to produce a geo-referenced spherical image, or calculate the geo-references by a software application performing particular operations on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Aerial Sphere, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis J. Vegh, John C. Femiani, Michael Katic, Anshuman Razdan
  • Patent number: 11501476
    Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus that generates a plurality of pieces of album data including a common page, which is a page common to all of the plurality of pieces of album data, and an individual page, which is a page not common to all of the plurality of pieces of album data, includes performing control in such a manner that cover image data corresponding to an image to be placed in a cover of each album is selected as individual image data or common image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Uratani, Takayuki Yamada, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Shinjiro Hori
  • Patent number: 11503209
    Abstract: A target image captured from a fisheye lens or other lens with known distortion parameters may be transformed to align it to a reference image. Corresponding features may be detected in the target image and the reference image. The features may be transformed to a spherical coordinate space. In the spherical space, images may be re-pointed or rotated in three dimensions to align all or a subset of the features of the target image to the corresponding features of the reference image. For example, in a sequence of images, background features of the target image in the spherical image space may be aligned to background features of the reference image in the spherical image space to compensate for camera motion while preserving foreground motion. An inverse transformation may then be applied to bring the images back into the original image space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Lustig, Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli
  • Patent number: 11501409
    Abstract: An electronic device for synthesizing an image, and an operating method thereof, are provided. The electronic device may include a display, a processor operatively coupled to the display, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to identify at least one target object in a first image, and at least one background object in a second image, determine a position for arranging the at least one target object on the second image, based on correlation of the at least one identified target object and the at least one identified background object, obtain a third image by arranging the at least one target object based on the determined position on the second image, and display the obtained third image on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Sangmin Park, Jaeyung Yeo
  • Patent number: 11480438
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method which comprises receiving a plurality of images captured by at least one user device, wherein each image is associated with one of a corresponding plurality of geographic locations; determining a path between the plurality of geographic locations; determining a confidence indicator representative of whether the determined path corresponds to a demarked path, wherein determining the confidence indicator comprises determining a time of capture of each of the plurality of images; identifying the path as corresponding to a demarked route, based on the confidence indicator; and marking the plurality of images for display as a demarked route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Charles Hsu
  • Patent number: 11481866
    Abstract: A mapping method for a fulldome display, including convert an original image into a deformed image corresponding to the fulldome display; divides the deformed image into at least one first image, at least one second image, and at least one third image; incorporate the third image with the second image to form at least one intermediate image; display image pixels of the first image on display pixels of at least one first displaying module of the fulldome display based on a first mapping relation; display image pixels of the intermediate image on display pixels of at least one second displaying module of the fulldome display based on a second mapping relation. In this way, the increased image pixels of the third image could be transmitted and be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BROGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Yung Hsu, Ting-Chieh Tsai, Tak-Hon Lee
  • Patent number: 11474090
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a system for monitoring emissions. The system comprises an appliance with a mobile emission monitoring platform configured to identify and quantify a gas emission; an optional rangefinder configured to determine a size of a gas emission plume and a velocity of the gas emission plume; and an imaging device configured to provide an image. The appliance is mounted to an extendable mast on, for example, a trailer such that the system may provide mobile and continuous monitoring of emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ENCINO ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Etheridge
  • Patent number: 11477509
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and system including a processor, a memory device accessible by the processor, and circuitry to selectively communicate with an on-the-go user device located at a location different from a location of the apparatus. The memory device stores instructions to permit the apparatus to selectively serve as an at-home user device that receives data from a wireless ad hoc network formed by sensors located within a link range of the circuitry of the on-the-go user device, data from the sensors of the wireless ad hoc network providing data for consumption by the at-home user device to permit an at-home user to be immersed in an experience of the location of the on-the-go user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joel W. Branch, Shang Qing Guo, Jonathan Lenchner, Maharaj Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11475534
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for the stitch zone calculation of a generated projection of a spherical image. In one embodiment, a computing device is disclosed which includes logic configured to: obtain a plurality of images; map the plurality of images onto a spherical image; re-orient the spherical image in accordance with a desired stitch line and a desired projection for the desired stitch line; and map the spherical image to the desired projection having the desired stitch line. In a variant, the desired stitch line is mapped onto an optimal stitch zone, the optimal stitch zone characterized as a set of points that defines a single line on the desired projection in which the set of points along the desired projection lie closest to the spherical image in a mean square sense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Adeel Abbas, Timothy Macmillan, Cesar Douady-Pleven