Image Sensing Patents (Class 382/312)
  • Patent number: 12147519
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for performing user authentication. For example, a process can include obtaining a plurality of images associated with a face and a facial expression of the user, wherein each respective image of the plurality of images includes a different portion of the face. An encoder neural network can be used to generate one or more predicted three-dimensional (3D) facial modeling parameters, wherein the encoder neural network generates the one or more predicted 3D facial modeling parameters based on the plurality of images. A reference 3D facial model associated with the face and the facial expression can be obtained. An error can be determined between the one or more predicted 3D facial modeling parameters and the reference 3D facial model, and the user can be authenticated user based on the error being less than a pre-determined authentication threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anupama S, Chiranjib Choudhuri, Avani Rao, Ajit Deepak Gupte
  • Patent number: 12085724
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have projector, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and an optical bridge sensor coupled between the first and second waveguides. An input coupler may couple light with a calibration pattern into the first waveguide. The calibration pattern may be included in visible or infrared light produced by the projector or may be included in infrared light produced by infrared emitters mounted to the first waveguide. An output coupler may couple the light having the calibration pattern out of the first waveguide. An additional output coupler may be used to couple visible light from the projector out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. An image sensor may generate image sensor data based on the light having the calibration pattern. Control circuitry may process the calibration pattern in the image sensor data to detect deformation or warping of the first waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott M DeLapp, Hyungryul Choi, Vikrant Bhakta
  • Patent number: 12074181
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a first substrate that includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, a second substrate that includes at least a part of a readout circuit configured to read signals based on electric charges of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a peripheral circuit including a control circuit, and a wiring structure that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes a pad portion electrically connected to the peripheral circuit via a draw-out wiring and an insulating layer. The wiring structure has, at least at a part thereof, a seal ring disposed in such a way as to surround the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11977615
    Abstract: A method for facial authentication of a wearer of a watch includes: initiating an authentication process including detecting at least one triggering movement/gesture carried out by the wearer; capturing at least one sequence of images relative to the face of the wearer pivoting from one direction to another in front of the optical sensor; acquiring surface geometric data of the face associated with each image of at least one sequence; generating a three-dimensional model of the face of the wearer from at least one captured sequence of images and from the acquired geometric data; determining an identification index generated based on identification data relative to a plurality of features characteristic of the face of the wearer of the watch detected on the basis of the three-dimensional model, and identifying the wearer if the identification index is greater than a reference identification index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Alain-Serge Porret
  • Patent number: 11941859
    Abstract: A camera (10) comprising an image sensor (24) for capturing image data with a plurality of pixels, a first processing unit (30) for reading out the image data of the image sensor (24) in an image data stream comprising groups of adjacent pixels, a second processing unit (32) for processing the image data, and a memory (34) for storing at least one of the image data and processing results from the image data, wherein a neural network (38) is implemented on at least one of the first processing unit (30) and the second processing unit (32) and wherein the first processing unit (30) is configured to already process groups of pixels with at least a first layer (42) of the neural network while further groups of the image data are still being read out from the image sensor (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SICk AG
    Inventors: Jean Stawiaski, Thorsten Falk, Johannes Rheinboldt
  • Patent number: 11861872
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition method and terminal device provide authentication by simultaneously collecting fingerprint data when a power-on signal is detected, attempting to match the fingerprint data with preset fingerprint data, and logging in to the terminal device proceeds when the matching succeeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenglin Wu, Juntao Chen, Feipeng Shang
  • Patent number: 11832011
    Abstract: In one example, an imaging device includes stacked first and second substrates. The first substrate has an array of light receiving pixels divisible into pixel blocks and the second substrate has a pixel control portion that controls the pixels. The first substrate includes a first wiring line that transmits a first voltage, a second wiring line that transmits a second voltage, and a fault detection circuit that detects a wiring fault for each pixel block. The fault detection circuit detects a wiring fault by connecting wiring lines corresponding to pixel columns or pixel rows in series in each pixel block, connecting one of the ends of a wiring chain connected in series in each pixel block to the first wiring line, connecting the other end to the second wiring line, and detecting a wiring fault based on a potential at an intermediate position of the wiring chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Luonghung Asakura
  • Patent number: 11806132
    Abstract: A fingerprint reading device that can suppress a position shift of a finger, that includes: a placement portion on which a finger is placed; a reading face; a pair of light sources provided on the placement portion and that irradiate the finger with lights; and a reading unit that captures and reads a fingerprint of the finger in contact with the reading face in accordance with lights scattered in the finger and emitted from a surface of the finger, the pair of light sources are provided on both ends of the reading face that are opposed to each other in a width direction of the placement portion and have light guiding parts formed in a front-back direction of the placement portion, respectively, and the light guiding parts are formed so as to extend up to above the ends of the reading face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11797921
    Abstract: System and method for dynamic marketing of products that can include collecting image data; identifying a set of product instances within the environment; for each product instance of the set of product instances, analyzing image data of the product instance and thereby determining a product presentation variation associated with the product instance; detecting user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances; and analyzing user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances according to the product presentation variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11756244
    Abstract: A system and computer readable storage medium for automated handwriting generation, including a text input device for inputting a text query having at least one textual word string, an image input device for inputting a handwriting sample with characters in a writing style of a user, and a computer implemented deep learning transformer model including an encoder network and a decoder network in which each are a hybrid of convolution and multi-head self-attention networks. The encoder produces a sequence of style feature embeddings from the input handwriting sample. The decoder takes the sequence of style feature embeddings in order to convert the at least one textual word string into a generated handwritten image having substantially same writing style as the handwriting sample. An output device to output the generated handwriting image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
    Inventors: Ankan Kumar Bhunia, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Khan
  • Patent number: 11688071
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for image reconstruction and processing. The method may include obtaining image data of an object acquired by an imaging device. The method may include determining one or more regions of interest (ROIs) of the object. The method may also include determining, based on each ROI of the one or more ROIs, a target portion of the image data corresponding to the ROI among the image data. The method may further include reconstructing, based on the target portion of the image data, one or more images of the ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Debin Hu, Yong Zhao, Yang Lyu, Yizhang Zhao, Liuchun He, Yinghan Qu
  • Patent number: 11641437
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member, reading portion, a pattern, and a processor. The processor extracts a frequency component in an image of the pattern read by the reading portion in a period in which the reading portion reads an image of an original placed on the transparent member while moving in a first direction. The processor calculates a frequency component from the extracted frequency component in another position different from the position, in which the pattern is provided, with respect to the second direction crossing the first direction. The processor converts the calculated frequency component in the above-described another position into a time-series component. The processor corrects an image corresponding to the above-described another position by using the converted time-series component in the above-described another position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhi Sasaki, Koichi Tanaka, Jiro Shirakata
  • Patent number: 11633964
    Abstract: An intermediate unit includes a transportation path provided with a drying unit that accelerates the drying of the medium. The transportation path includes an inlet path, an outlet path, a first branch path, a second branch path, a first junction path, a second junction path, a switch-back type inversion path with a first inversion path and a second inversion path. The first branch path and the second branch path which branch off at a branch point from the inlet path. The first junction path and the second junction path and the outlet path join each other at a junction point. The first branch path and the first junction path and the first inversion path join each other at a first connection point. The second branch path and the second junction path and the second inversion path join each other at a second connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaro Harada, Kohei Ueno, Akinori Muromachi, Hidetoshi Kodama, Kazuyoshi Ohashi, Tsuyoshi Furumido, Hirohisa Adachi
  • Patent number: 11625463
    Abstract: A method for facial authentication of a wearer of a watch includes: initiating an authentication process including detecting at least one triggering movement/gesture carried out by the wearer; capturing at least one sequence of images relative to the face of the wearer pivoting from one direction to another in front of the optical sensor; acquiring surface geometric data of the face associated with each image of at least one sequence; generating a three-dimensional model of the face of the wearer from at least one captured sequence of images and from the acquired geometric data; determining an identification index generated based on identification data relative to a plurality of features characteristic of the face of the wearer of the watch detected on the basis of the three-dimensional model, and identifying the wearer if the identification index is greater than a reference identification index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Alain-Serge Porret
  • Patent number: 11477405
    Abstract: An AD conversion circuit provided in a solid-state image sensor includes a counter circuit that performs count processing and a first latch circuit that holds at least one of a discrimination result of a first comparison circuit and a first output result of the counter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Ushinaga, Yoshinao Morikawa
  • Patent number: 11457839
    Abstract: A fingerprint reading device that can suppress a position shift of a finger, that includes: a placement portion on which a finger is placed; a reading face; a pair of light sources provided on the placement portion and that irradiate the finger with lights; and a reading unit that captures and reads a fingerprint of the finger in contact with the reading face in accordance with lights scattered in the finger and emitted from a surface of the finger, the pair of light sources are provided on both ends of the reading face that are opposed to each other in a width direction of the placement portion and have light guiding parts formed in a front-back direction of the placement portion, respectively, and the light guiding parts are formed so as to extend up to above the ends of the reading face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11418658
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a character information area display unit configured to highlight and display at least one character information area including a handwritten character string out of character information areas; an input receiving unit configured to receive a character information area including a handwritten character string specified a user; a character information area display selecting unit configured to select at least one character information area other than the character information area including the handwritten character string specified by the user to be combined with the character information area including the handwritten character string specified by the user; and a character information combining unit configured to combine character information in the character information area including the handwritten character string specified by the user and character information in the character information area selected by the character information area display selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuhiro Okuda, Katsuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11403104
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a neural network processor, a chip and an electronic device. The neural network processor includes a convolution processing unit, a vector processing unit, and an instruction issue module. The convolution processing unit and the vector processing unit are both connected to the instruction issue module. The instruction issue module is configured to issue a plurality of instructions to the convolution processing unit and the vector processing unit in parallel. The embodiments of the application can improve the efficiency of the neural network processor processing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengguang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11393076
    Abstract: A panoramic image blurring method, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium are provided. A main technical solution is to synthesize a panoramic image having blurring effect in combination with a panoramic stitching technology and a double-camera configuration. Photographs the images of a scene from the multiple angles of view with a double-camera component, and the images from the angles of view may have a certain overlap area. Subsequently, the scene images and scene depth images from these angles of view may be spliced with the panoramic stitching technology, to obtain a full-scene image and a full-scene depth image of a wide-viewing angle. In this way, a panoramic scene image having the blurring effect may be rendered subsequently. Through a solution in the embodiment, the panoramic image having the blurring effect may be acquired, the panoramic photographing may achieve an effect of simulating large-aperture imaging of a professional camera, and a better impression of a photo may be brought.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ArcSoft Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Hua Lei, Lizhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11334699
    Abstract: An electromagnetic frequency visualization system has a mobile device platform with panels having multiple tiles with ARRAY cards having RF pixel sensors thereon. A software program interprets and displays 2D and 3D RF pixel sensor data from the ARRAY cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventor: Julian Levitchi
  • Patent number: 11276198
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining at least one of dimensional and geometric properties of a measurement object has a first measurement arrangement, which records first measurement values. The first measurement values represent respective positions of first selected measurement points relative to a first coordinate system. The apparatus has a second measurement arrangement, which records second measurement values. The second measurement values represent respective surface normals at second selected measurement points. The first and second measurement arrangements are arranged spatially fixedly with respect to one another on a housing body. The apparatus further has a third measurement arrangement, which records third measurement values. The third measurement values represent a respective current position of the housing body relative to a further coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Hoerr
  • Patent number: 11232577
    Abstract: There is provided a method for registration of intravital anatomical imaging modality image data and nuclear medicine image data of a patient's heart comprising: obtaining anatomical image data including a heart of a patient outputted by an anatomical intravital imaging modality; obtaining at least one nuclear medicine image data outputted by a nuclear medicine imaging modality, the nuclear medicine image data including the heart of the patient; identifying a segmentation of a network of vessels of the heart in the anatomical image data; identifying a contour of at least part of the heart in the nuclear medicine image data, the contour including at least one muscle wall border of the heart; correlating between the segmentation and the contour; registering the correlated segmentation and the correlated contour to form a registered image of the anatomical image data and the nuclear medicine image data; and providing the registered image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Speetrum Dynamics Medical Limited
    Inventors: Yoel Zilberstien, Nathaniel Roth
  • Patent number: 11207900
    Abstract: A recording device includes a medium placement unit on which a medium is fixedly placed, a recording head configured to discharge liquid toward the medium, a gantry including a discharging unit, the gantry being configured to move relative to the medium placement unit along a first axial direction, a heater provided at the medium placement unit, the heater being configured to heat the medium placed on the medium placement unit, and a control unit configured to control the heater. The control unit controls heating of the medium by the heater in accordance with a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Eoson Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro Masuda, Yoshitaka Shimada, Yutaka Nagashima
  • Patent number: 11199634
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensor comprising: a plurality of packages arranged in a plurality of layers; wherein each of the packages comprises an X-ray detector mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB); wherein the packages are mounted on one or more system PCBs; wherein within an area encompassing a plurality of the X-ray detectors in the plurality of packages, a dead zone of the packages in each of the plurality of layers is shadowed by the packages in the other layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11163145
    Abstract: Before an observation region of an imaging optical system (14) reaches an observation position in the cultivation container (50), a vertical position of the cultivation container (50) at the observation position is precedently detected by an auto-focus displacement sensor. In a case where an objective lens is moved in an optical axis direction on the basis of the position, an error between the precedently detected vertical position of the stage (51) at the observation position and a vertical position of the stage (51) at a time point when the observation region of the imaging optical system (14) is scanned up to the observation position is acquired, and the objective lens is moved in the optical axis direction on the basis of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasushi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11114425
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensor comprising: a first package comprising a plurality of radiation detectors mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB); wherein a dead zone of the first package does not extend between neighboring radiation detectors among the plurality of radiation detectors; wherein the radiation detectors have no guard rings or sidewall doping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu, Chongshen Song
  • Patent number: 11106883
    Abstract: Provided is a method of processing data corresponding to a fingerprint image including obtaining first image data corresponding to a group including a plurality of pixels, and dividing the first image data into second image data corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels based on a plurality of weights corresponding to the plurality of pixels, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huijin Lee, Dongkyun Kim, Jingu Heo
  • Patent number: 11018659
    Abstract: An imaging device for improving the determining speed of a comparator and reducing power consumption. The comparator imaging device includes a differential input circuit that operates with a first power supply voltage, the differential input circuit outputs a signal when an input signal is higher than a reference signal in voltage, and a positive feedback circuit that operates with a second power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage. The positive feedback circuit accelerates transition speed when a compared result signal indicating a compared result between the input signal and the reference signal in voltage, is inverted, on the basis of the output signal of the differential input circuit. The imaging device further includes a voltage conversion circuit that converts the output signal of the differential input circuit into a signal corresponding to the second power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kikuchi, Tadayuki Taura, Masaki Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 10984532
    Abstract: Land cover (LC) and land use (LU) have commonly been classified separately from remotely sensed imagery, without considering the intrinsically hierarchical and nested relationships between them. A novel joint deep learning framework is proposed and demonstrated for LC and LU classification. The proposed Joint Deep Learning (JDL) model incorporates a multilayer perceptron (MLP) and convolutional neutral network (CNN), and is implemented via a Markov process involving iterative updating. In the JDL, LU classification conducted by the CNN is made conditional upon the LC probabilities predicted by the MLP. In turn, those LU probabilities together with the original imagery are re-used as inputs to the MLP to strengthen the spatial and spectral feature representation. This process of updating the MLP and CNN forms a joint distribution, where both LC and LU are classified simultaneously through iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ordnance Survey Limited
    Inventors: Isabel Sargent, Ce Zhang, Peter M. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 10905340
    Abstract: A physiological detection device including a light source, an image sensor and a processor is provided. The light source illuminates a skin surface using a burst mode. The image sensor receives ejected light from skin tissues under the skin surface at a sampling frequency to successively generate image frames. The processor controls the light source and the image sensor, and calculates a physiological characteristic according to the image frames captured when the light source is illuminating light. The physiological detection device reduces the total power consumption by adopting the burst mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ren-Hau Gu, Hsin-Chia Chen, Raman Sahgal, Jung-Tai Lin
  • Patent number: 10817699
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fingerprint recognition device, a display substrate and a display apparatus. The fingerprint recognition device includes: at least one fingerprint detection component; at least one fingerprint recognition signal line, the fingerprint detection component outputs a detection current to the fingerprint recognition signal line; at least one noise reduction circuit serially coupled in the fingerprint recognition signal line, the noise reduction circuit being a resistive component; and a fingerprint determination circuit coupled to the fingerprint recognition signal line, configured to determine a morphology of a fingerprint according to a current signal, subjected to a noise reduction by the noise reduction circuit and transmitted by the fingerprint recognition signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Xue Dong, Jing Lv, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Yanling Han, Wei Liu, Chunwei Wu, Pengpeng Wang, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10769362
    Abstract: A mobile device captures information from a document. The mobile device selects a template stored in a memory of the mobile device. The selected template describes data content of at least one document. The mobile device then captures an image of a document, determines that the image corresponds to one document described by the selected template by verifying that at least one first region in the image corresponds to a region of the document described by the selected template, identifies at least one region in the image that corresponds with a region in the document described by the selected template, and processes information in the identified region in the image. The mobile device then aggregates application specific information from the processed information and presents the aggregated application specific information to a user program operating on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anu Kannan, Alan J. Epshteyn, Duanfeng He
  • Patent number: 10750868
    Abstract: An office seat is disclosed. The office seat includes a seat body; an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a sitting posture of a user by adjusting a state of the seat body, and the adjustment mechanism being provided on the seat body; an image capture device for detecting the contour of the user's body; a controller, the controller being connected to the adjustment mechanism and the image capture device, respectively, and controlling the adjustment mechanism to adjust the seat body according to the detection result of the image capture device. In certain embodiments the office seat may be able to adjust the user's sitting posture, protect the user's physical health, be comfortable in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Enhui Guan, Chuang Wei, Shuo Chen
  • Patent number: 10743830
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to correct for scatter in a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, the scatter coming from both within and without a field of view (FOV) for true coincidences. For a region of interest (ROI), the outside-the-FOV scatter correction are based on attenuation maps and activity distributions estimated from short PET scans of extended regions adjacent to the ROI. Further, in a PET/CT scanner, these short PET scans can be accompanied by low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans in the extended regions. The use of short PET scans, rather than full PET scans, provides sufficient accuracy for outside-the-FOV scatter corrections with the advantages of a lower radiation dose (e.g., low-dose CT) and requiring less time. In the absence of low-dose CT scans, an atlas of attenuation maps or a joint-estimation method can be used to estimate the attenuation maps for the extended regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenyuan Qi, Chung Chan, Li Yang, Evren Asma
  • Patent number: 10677940
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensor comprising: a plurality of packages arranged in a plurality of layers; wherein each of the packages comprises an X-ray detector mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB); wherein the packages are mounted on one or more system PCBs; wherein within an area encompassing a plurality of the X-ray detectors in the plurality of packages, a dead zone of the packages in each of the plurality of layers is shadowed by the packages in the other layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 10630220
    Abstract: A controlled motion system having a plurality of movers controlled as they travel along both smart and simple sections of a track. The controlled motion system comprises a control system for controlling the speed of a mover as it travels along a simple section, and permits the pitch or distance between movers to increase or decrease as they travel along a simple section. In a preferred embodiment the controlled motion system includes at least one coupling feature having a driving feature on a simple section for engaging and operably driving a driven feature on each mover such that positive control of each mover is maintained throughout its transition from a smart section to a simple section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen C. Wernersbach, Keith G. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 10590901
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface including an opening, a biometric sensor that includes a reading surface exposed in the opening of the operating surface and reads, during the push operation, biometric information of an operator who touches the reading surface, and a packing arranged between the operation button and the biometric sensor to prevent extraneous matter from entering through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
  • Patent number: 10586129
    Abstract: A method includes creating an input matrix of image data for a received input image and responsive to selecting a first image filter for generating an artificial image, the method applies a first filter computation for the first image filter to the input matrix of image data, where applying the first filter computation generates a first resulting matrix of image data. The method concatenates the first resulting matrix of image data to the input matrix of image data to generate a first concatenated matrix of image data. The method generates an artificial image suitable for use in neural networks based on the concatenated matrix of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Fiammante
  • Patent number: 10551202
    Abstract: For tourists, interactions with digital public displays often depend on specific technologies that users may not be familiar with (Quick Response codes, near field communication, and so on) may not have access to because of networking issues, may lack a required application or device technology, may not want to use because of time constraints, or may not want to use because they are worried about sharing their data with a third-party service. Example implementations described herein are directed to a system that allows users to seamlessly share content with a public travel kiosk system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Scott Carter, Matthew L. Cooper, Jennifer Marlow, Francine Chen
  • Patent number: 10525738
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a drying unit that includes a bring-in port where a medium is brought in and a bring-out port where the medium is brought out, and dries ink applied onto the medium, and in a case in which printing is temporarily stopped and a predetermined maintenance work is performed, the medium is transported in a transporting direction which is a direction toward the bring-out port from the bring-in port in a maintenance work period from starting of the maintenance work to finishing of the maintenance work or in a partial period of the maintenance work period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Katagami, Yuichi Washio, Hiroshi Toyama
  • Patent number: 10395084
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification device includes a plurality of fingerprint sensing electrodes, a shielding enhancement electrode, a fingerprint detection circuit and an auxiliary enhancement signal circuit. The shield enhancement electrode corresponds to a plurality of the fingerprint sensing electrodes. The fingerprint detection circuit is powered by a first power supply and includes a capacitive stimulation signal source. The auxiliary enhancement signal circuit is powered by a second power supply and includes an auxiliary enhancement signal source. The fingerprint detection circuit transmits a capacitive stimulation signal to a selected fingerprint sensing electrode, and receives a fingerprint sensing signal. The fingerprint sensing signal is amplified to generate a capacitive elimination shielding signal. The capacitive elimination shielding signal is transmitted to the shielding enhancement electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin, Chia-Cheng Lei
  • Patent number: 10375331
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a bad pixel masking unit and a noise reduction unit. The bad pixel masking unit detects bad pixels in a plurality of blocks and masks the determined bad pixels. The noise reduction unit removes noise from the pixels in the plurality of blocks excluding the masked pixels using a pattern matching method and corrects bad pixels by obtained an average pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jonghwa Lee, Nyeong-Kyu Kwon, Woonghee Lee
  • Patent number: 10341549
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing apparatus that can efficiently suppress the data amount of data indicating a spatial distribution and an angular distribution of light intensity and a control method of the same. The image processing apparatus obtains data indicating the spatial distribution and the angular distribution of the intensity of light beams that have passed through partial pupil areas obtained by dividing the exit pupil of an imaging optical system into a predetermined number. The image processing apparatus then reduces the bit depth or the number of tones of signals constituting the data based on the predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10324319
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driving part, and a data driving part. The display panel is configured to display an image, and includes a gate line and data lines. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to the gate line. The data driving part includes a plurality of data driving integrated circuit parts. Each of the plurality of data driving integrated circuit parts includes channels, configured to output data signals to the data lines, and a dummy data channel. A sensing pin, configured to receive the gate signal, is formed in each dummy data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Han Lee, Sun-Koo Kang, Taegon Kim
  • Patent number: 10291854
    Abstract: A moving image, obtained by an image capture unit for obtaining light-field data, is successively displayed. When displaying an assistance display indicating information related to light-field data to be obtained with present shooting parameters together with the moving image, the assistance display is controlled such that during moving image recording is being performed, visibility of the moving image is not degraded by the assistance display in comparison to a case where moving image recording is not being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Sato, Yoshinobu Sato
  • Patent number: 10285248
    Abstract: A transmitting device comprises a transmitter, and a controller for receiving transmission requests from a request source. The controller comprises a queue, and is configured to queue the transmission requests in order from the front of the queue backwards, and to enact the transmission request at the front of the queue by controlling the transmitter to perform the transmission of the corresponding message. The controller is further configured to detect that at least one of these transmission requests is to be treated as a repeating request, and in response, to re-insert the repeating request in the queue in one of the places farther back than the front after transmission of the corresponding message, so as to retransmit the corresponding message at least once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Robert James Davies, Ronald Rietman
  • Patent number: 10191616
    Abstract: A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer readable medium storing instructions for tagging information about an object included in an image to the image. The tagging information is used for searching for the image. The method includes detecting one or more objects included in a displayed image. The method also includes receiving, from a user, information about the detected object, and tagging the received information to the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-jong Choi, Hyung-tak Choi, O-hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 10148853
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a writing circuit to write image data to a first memory, a second memory with a capacity of lines, a coordinate generating circuit to generate coordinate information based on inclination information, a deviation calculating circuit to calculate a maximum deviation amount of the image data from the coordinate information, a division number calculating circuit to calculate a division number based on the number of the lines and the deviation amount, an address generating circuit to generate an address for reading each of divided areas of the image data from the first memory, a burst length calculating circuit to calculate a burst length based on the division number and a main scanning width of the image data, and a transferring circuit to read and burst-transfer the image data from the first memory to the second memory based on the address and the burst length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuto Watanabe, Tomonori Tanaka, Naoki Ohta, Mitsutaka Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10134056
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing information based on a user's location are described. A system may include an inventory module to identify an instance of a product within a field of vision of a user. A search module may identify incentives to purchase the product. A location module may generate a pictorial representation of the field of vision where an image of the product is located within the pictorial representation based on the position of the product in the field of vision of the user. A mapping module may map an icon representing at least one of the one or more incentives to a location within the pictorial representation corresponding to the position of the product. A display module may provide a user interface including a display comprising the icon located within the pictorial representation at a location corresponding to the position of the image of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Schory, Robert Dean Veres
  • Patent number: 10027833
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus including a reading unit comprising a photodetector configured to read an image information on a sheet, and a projecting portion, a case storing the photodetector therein, the case comprising a transparent portion configured to transmit light to be received by the photodetector, and a portion defining an opening through which the projecting portion is projected outward from the case, and an elastic portion provided to fill a space where the projecting portion is not present in the opening. The case movably stores the photodetector within a range where the projecting portion is movable in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Fukushima