Camera And Recording Device Patents (Class 386/224)
  • Patent number: 12126876
    Abstract: Disclosed are a theme video generation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium. method includes: after acquiring a selection triggering operation on a target theme, sending a theme resource package acquisition request to a corresponding resource server; receiving the corresponding theme resource package that is fed back by the resource server in response to the theme resource package acquisition request, acquiring at least one target picture from a local album based on the at least one target picture label; and generating a corresponding theme video based on the least one target picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shupeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12108148
    Abstract: An image pickup signal processing apparatus includes a video processing unit for processing an image pickup signal acquired from an image pickup unit based on a predetermined video setting to generate video data, a recording unit for recording the video data based on a predetermined video recording setting, a control unit for performing recording of the video data by using a first recording job that corresponds to the video setting and the video recording setting, and a receiving unit for receiving a change request to change the video setting, wherein the control unit performs the recording of the video data by using a second recording job that corresponds to the video setting that has been changed based on the change request, which is different from the first recording job, based on the change request received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Honjo
  • Patent number: 12096155
    Abstract: A system and method to create original content by means of merging different content from multiple individual devices into at least one combined content set. The system includes multiple content capture devices, a database that stores media content from the multiple individual devices, a processor that merges the data content, and a server that distributes the merged content. Moreover, the merging processor applies a set of rules as to how the content is to be merged into the combined content set and the distribution server has a set of distribution rules related to how the combined content is distributed and the user(s) that can consume the combined content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: John McDevitt
  • Patent number: 12087328
    Abstract: A posting server including a storage unit that stores, for each moving image posting service, delivery policy information based on the characteristics of the moving image posting service; a reception unit that receives an original moving image; an editing unit that uses the delivery policy information for each moving image posting service, edits the original moving images with content that differs among the moving image posting services, and generates a posted moving image for each moving image posting service; and a posting unit that posts the posted moving image to each of the moving image posting services. The editing unit 12 applies screen effects or acoustic effects in conformance with characteristics of each of the moving image posting services, and generates a posted moving image for each of the moving image posting services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
  • Patent number: 12080039
    Abstract: A tool for providing contextual policy-based computer vision control. The tool identifies one or more camera devices in an environment. The tool determines a plurality of vision areas in a field of view within the environment. The tool determines one or more contextual policies for the plurality of vision areas in the field of view. The tool determines one or more vision augmentations for the plurality of vision areas based, at least in part, on an aggregate computer vision capability of the one or more camera devices in the environment and the one or more contextual policies for the plurality of vision areas in the field of view. The tool applies the one or more vision augmentations to at least one of the one or more camera devices in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Pritpal S. Arora, Laxmikantha Sai Nanduru
  • Patent number: 12069336
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system includes: interface circuitry; programmable circuitry; and instructions to program the programmable circuitry to: obtain audio of a media presentation; obtain ambient noise in an area associated with the media presentation; determine an intensity of a difference between the audio and the ambient noise; and determine an engagement level of an audience of the media presentation based on a duration the intensity satisfies a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: James Joseph Vitt, Timothy Scott Cooper, Douglas Brent Turnbow, Troy E. McClellan
  • Patent number: 12008727
    Abstract: A map image is displayed via a user interface. A user selection of a location marker or one of a set of textual driving directions is received via the user interface. In response to the received user selection, an interactive information window overlaid within the map image is generated. Generating the interactive information window includes providing additional information regarding a location related to the marker or to the one of the set of textual driving directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jens E. Rasmussen, Lars E. Rasmussen, Bret Steven Taylor, James Christopher Norris, Stephen Ma, Andrew Robert Kirmse, Noel Philip Gordon, Seth Michael Laforge
  • Patent number: 11960540
    Abstract: A process for tagging incident data captured by non-public-safety agency controlled cameras. In operation, an electronic computing device detects an occurrence of an incident and obtains an incident identifier associated with the incident. The electronic computing device determines that a non-public-safety agency controlled camera is available for capturing incident data corresponding to the incident. The electronic computing device then controls a public-safety agency controlled internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructure deployed at an incident location to emit a signal including one of an audible signal, visible signal, or a combination of audible and visible signals to enable the non-public-safety agency controlled camera to tag incident data using the emitted signal. The electronic computing device links a unique tag representing the emitted signal to the incident identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Pawel Wilkosz, Lukasz Osuch, Krzysztof Jasinski, Marcin Lukasik
  • Patent number: 11721368
    Abstract: A radiographic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor and an image processor. The hardware processor obtains moving image data captured by a radiographic imaging apparatus, causes a display to display a moving image based on the moving image data, and specifies a part of the moving image data that is to be output to an external device. The image processor performs image processing on the part of the moving image data. The hardware processor outputs, to the external device, the part of the moving image data on which the image processing has been performed by the image processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi Taneda
  • Patent number: 11721369
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as, a temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of a recording medium attached to the electronic device, a setting unit configured to set at least one of settings including a first setting and a second setting, and a control unit configured to perform control, in a case where the first setting is set, and when a predetermined condition regarding a rise in the temperature of the recording medium is satisfied, to restrict at least a particular operation requiring a writing speed to the recording medium at a predetermined speed or higher, and in a case where the second setting is set, not to restrict the particular operation even when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daiyu Ueno
  • Patent number: 11647272
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus including a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device capable of at least storing a captured image, is provided. The image capturing apparatus obtains an execution instruction of image analysis processing, and if a device mounted in the mounting part includes a first processing function for executing the image analysis processing for an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, determines whether to cause the first processing function to execute the image analysis processing based on the execution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11625950
    Abstract: A method for enhancing facial/object recognition includes receiving a query image, and providing a database of object images, including images relevant to the query image, each image having a first attribute and a second attribute with each of the first attribute and the second attribute having a first state and a second state. The method also includes creating an augmented database by generating a plurality of artificial images for each image in the database, the artificial images cooperating with the image to define a set of images including every combination of the first attribute and the second attribute in each of the first state and the second state, and comparing the query image to the images in the augmented database to find one or more matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Yunye Gong, Srikrishna Karanam, Ziyan Wu, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jan Ernst
  • Patent number: 11533420
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a server apparatus, a recording method, a non-transitory computer-readable, and a system. In one example, the server apparatus includes a recording unit and a controller. The controller is configured to receive image data of a subject from a camera, control the recording unit to record the image data of the subject that is received from the camera, monitor the image data of the subject to determine whether the image data of the subject that is received from the camera is abnormal, and responsive to determining that the image data of the subject that is received from the camera is abnormal, control the recording unit to perform recording end processing on the image data of the subject that has already been recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Maruhashi, Kaoru Takada
  • Patent number: 11532138
    Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) content may be created and stored as an imprint on a virtual model, where the virtual model is modeled after or mimics a real world environment. Intuitive mobile device interfaces may be used to link content with objects or surfaces near a mobile device. Subsequent users may access the same content depending on one or more access parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: EDX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Ray Skidmore
  • Patent number: 11521473
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, an audio/video (A/V) device that includes a first camera for generating first image data and one or more second cameras for both motion detection and generating second image data. For instance, the A/V device may generate and then store the second image data in one or more buffers. The A/V device may then detect an event, such as possible motion of an object. Based on detecting the event, A/V device may cause the one or more second cameras to cease generating the second image data and cause the first camera to begin generating the first image data. The A/V device may then process the second image data and send the processed second image data to a computing system. Next, the A/V device may process the first image data and send the processed first image data to the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. England, Ilya Vladimirovich Brailovskiy, Jason Gluckman, Spiro Sacre, James Siminoff, Mark Siminoff, Matthew Carter, Robert Macauley, Andrii Malivanchuk, Fernando Palomar, Vadym Tkachuk
  • Patent number: 11496707
    Abstract: Techniques for receiving and processing sensor data captured by a fleet of vehicle are discussed herein. In some examples, a fleet dashcam system can receive sensor data captured by electronic devices on a fleet of vehicles and can use that data to detect collision and near-collision events. The data of the collision or near-collision event can be used to determine a simulation scenario and a response of an autonomous vehicle control to the simulation scenario and/or it can be used to create a collision heat map to aid in operation of an autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Scott Crego, Josh Alexander Jimenez, James William Vaisey Philbin, Chuang Wang
  • Patent number: 11394931
    Abstract: An image capturing device may include a recording circuit configured to record multimedia data of a field of view of the image capturing device, a receiving circuit configured to receive a wireless signal from a wireless sensor, a location determining circuit configured to determine, based on the received wireless signal, a location of the wireless sensor, and a storage circuit configured to store data associated with the wireless sensor responsive to a comparison of the determined location of the wireless sensor and the field of view of the image capturing device so as to create an association between the data associated with the wireless sensor and the recorded multimedia data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Isberg, Thomas Waldner, Käre Agardh, Ola Thörn, Simon Henning, Petter Alexandersson
  • Patent number: 11381797
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that that modify audio of played back AV content based on context in accordance with some implementations. In some implementations audio-visual content of a physical environment is obtained, and the audio-visual content includes visual content and audio content that includes a plurality of audio portions corresponding to the visual content. In some implementations, a context for presenting the audio-visual content is determined, and a temporal relationship between one or more audio portions of the plurality of audio portions and the visual content is determined based on the context. Then, synthesized audio-visual content is presented based on the temporal relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shai Messingher Lang, Alexandre Da Veiga, Spencer H. Ray, Symeon Delikaris Manias
  • Patent number: 11350103
    Abstract: One variation of a method for autonomously generating an optimized audio-visual (AV) file from an original AV file comprises: a) generating a vector cube comprising a plurality of vector matrices for an original AV file; b) for each vector matrix within the vector cube, determining an optimal subframe having a subframe size larger than or equal to a predetermined minimum subframe size; and c) generating an optimized AV file based on the optimal subframes determined for each of the vector matrices within the vector cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Videomentum Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Hardy
  • Patent number: 11310413
    Abstract: A single user input element in an image capture device is used for both photo and video capture. Based on a first user interface activity, a timing reference is engaged at a first reference time. In a first case, photo capture is performed. In the first case, a second reference time is based on a second user interface activity, and the timing reference indicates a passage of time between the two reference times is shorter than a particular time interval. In a second case, video capture is performed. In the second case, the timing reference indicates a passage of time since the first reference time is equal to or longer than the particular time interval. Video capture is stopped based on a subsequent user interface activity. The user interface activities may comprise detecting actions based on the same type of physical manipulation of the single user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Marlin, Michael J. Mathias, Kristian D. Diakov
  • Patent number: 11277774
    Abstract: A communication apparatus acquires, from an outside, first setting information for controlling the communication apparatus, sets the first setting information in the communication apparatus, establishes wireless communication with a different communication apparatus, hands over second setting information, which indicates the authority of the different communication apparatus in the wireless communication, from the different communication apparatus via the established wireless communication, sets the second setting information in the communication apparatus, and controls the establishment of the wireless communication and the setting of the second setting information in the communication apparatus when the first setting information is set in the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 11271756
    Abstract: This application relates to the transfer of audio data, and in particular to the verification that data transmitted to a data processing module, such as voice biometric module (111), did originate from a microphone. A microphone authentication apparatus (204) is described having a first input for receiving analogue audio signals from a microphone transducer (201) and an analogue-to-digital converter (202) coupled to said first input for generating digital microphone data based on the received audio signals. A data authentication module (203) generates an authentication certificate (MAC) for certifying that the digital microphone data did pass via the authentication module. The authentication certificate is based on the digital microphone data (DM) and an authentication module key. An output module outputs a digital microphone audio signal based on the digital microphone data with the authentication certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventor: John Paul Lesso
  • Patent number: 11212483
    Abstract: A computing device obtains a live video of a user and obtains selection of at least one makeup effect. The computing device generates a user interface displaying the live video in a virtual mirror with the at least one makeup effect applied to a facial region of the user and monitors for an occurrence of a first target event relating to actions by the user in the live video. In response to detecting an occurrence of the first target event during the live video, the computing device records the live video based on the occurrence of the first target event, detects an occurrence of a second target event relating to actions by the user, and stops recording of the video responsive to occurrence of the second target event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PERFECT MOBILE CORP.
    Inventors: Kuo-Sheng Lin, Wei-Hsin Tsen
  • Patent number: 11192028
    Abstract: The present specification describes systems and methods for customizing a video game to a player defined time period. Content units of a video game are selected based on at least one of multiple pre-defined criteria. Content units are then edited to fit into the player defined time period. Game gear required for playing the selected content units is determined. The edited content units and the selected game gear are provided to the player to play within the player defined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventors: Josiah Eatedali, Robert D. Schonfeld
  • Patent number: 11165848
    Abstract: A technique for evaluating qualitative streaming experience using session performance metadata is disclosed herein. A pipeline of a streaming service can be adapted to collect metadata, such as timestamps, from various components of the pipeline. The metadata can then be analyzed to calculate an objective quality metric for each streaming session using weighted scores derived from the metadata for a plurality of different components including, but not limited to, stutter, latency, and/or picture quality. The quality metric is designed to have high correlation with subjective measures of quality by users of the streaming service, but provides dense data samples compared to typical sparse responses collected from user feedback (e.g., user surveys). The objective quality metric can be utilized to quickly adjust, either manually or automatically, the streaming service parameters to improve the quality of the streaming service due to changes in, e.g., streaming content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Alan Daniel Larson
  • Patent number: 11163356
    Abstract: A device-facing human-computer interaction method and system is provided. The method includes acquiring device-facing image data acquired by an image acquisition device when a user is in a device-facing state relative to the device; acquiring current image data of the user and comparing the currently acquired image data with the device-facing image data; if the currently acquired image data is consistent with the device-facing image data, identifying a user behavior and intention by means of a device-facing recognition technique and a voice recognition technique of a computer; and according to a preset correspondence between the user behaviors and intention and an operation, controlling the device to perform an operation corresponding to the current user behavior and intention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventor: Guohua Liu
  • Patent number: 11159905
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that are capable of reproducing sound at an optional listening position with a high sense of reality. The signal processing apparatus includes a rendering unit that generates reproduction data of sound at an optional listening position in a target space on the basis of recording signals of microphones attached to a plurality of moving bodies in the target space. The present technology can be applied to a reproduction apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Namba, Masashi Fujihara, Makoto Akune, Koyuru Okimoto, Toru Chinen, Kohei Asada, Kazunobu Ookuri, Masayoshi Noguchi, Minoru Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11151481
    Abstract: A system capable of associating tickets with an account to provide ticketless entry to an event. The system may verify that a user is associated with the account using far field verification techniques, such as using facial recognition or by detecting wireless signals. The system 100 may improve a user experience by simplifying the process of entering the event, as the far field verification techniques do not require direct interaction with the user. As a result, the user may access the event without stopping at the entrance to provide proof of purchase (e.g., a physical or electronic ticket, bar code, etc.), proof of identification (e.g., driver's license, passport, biometric scans, etc.) and/or other information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Sun, Ian W Freed, Joseph Hopkins, Patrick R Schultz
  • Patent number: 11138794
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment comprising: controller circuitry configured to: insert a captured image of an object in the virtual reality environment; move the captured image within the virtual reality environment; pause the movement of the captured image in the virtual reality environment; generate a rendered representation of at least part of the captured image; replace the at least part of the captured image with the rendered representation in the virtual reality environment; and move the rendered representation within the virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael John Williams, Paul Edward Prayle, Michael Goldman, William Jack Leathers-Smith
  • Patent number: 11094076
    Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus (10) including a person extraction unit (11) that analyzes video data to extract a person, a time calculation unit (12) that calculates a continuous appearance time period for which the extracted person has been continuously present in a predetermined area and a reappearance time interval until the extracted person reappears in the predetermined area for each extracted person, and an inference unit (13) that infers a characteristic of the extracted person on the basis of the continuous appearance time period and the reappearance time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi Hirakawa, Jianquan Liu, Shoji Nishimura, Takuya Araki
  • Patent number: 11082757
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a content structure that can then be used as a content design building block. Specifically, new content can be automatically generated by combining, replacing or mixing and matching objects, actions, settings, effects, audio, etc., from any number of previously stored content structures to create a new content structure, which is then rendered as a new content segment. Content segments are then stitched together to generate a finished content stream. In this way, new and original content can be created without the traditionally expensive and labor-intensive filming or computer animation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Waterman
  • Patent number: 11070868
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data storage strategies for continuous video segment recordings on a video recording device are disclosed. The data storage strategies include the detection of various trigger events and ending events detected from the video recordings or measurements detected from sensor devices that are included in the video recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Maland Mortensen, Bradly Billman, Cleburne Robinson Burgess
  • Patent number: 11057679
    Abstract: A content delivery method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include determining an attentiveness factor in response to viewing of a media content and replaying the media content starting from a point that the attentiveness factor is determined to be less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 11019261
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is provided video headphones, including a plurality of cameras, wherein the cameras are arranged to capture a panorama of at least 270 degrees. In another aspect, there is provided a video headphones system including the video headphones and further including a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone) connectable to the video headphones, the mobile device including an application arranged to communicate with the video headphones. In another aspect, there is provided a helmet including a holder configured, in use, to receive and to secure video headphones on a head of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SOUNDSIGHT IP, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Chase, Dmitry Alekseevich Gorilovsky
  • Patent number: 11011202
    Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus. A control unit repeatedly executes a recording operation of recording data into a recording medium having a recording area that includes a plurality of partial areas. The control unit performs control so that one partial area included among the plurality of partial areas is used as a recording destination, and when the one partial area is filled with recorded data, another partial area is used as a recording destination. The control unit performs control so that a size of data recorded in a single recording operation does not exceed a remaining size of a partial area that is used as a recording destination in the single recording operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noboru Omori
  • Patent number: 10991236
    Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. Leblanc, Samuel D. Rosewall, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael Derose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
  • Patent number: 10979492
    Abstract: A system and method for balancing loads during a distribution of a video capturing task. The method may comprise determining first time information related to when a first video capturing task is to be executed, and determine a second plurality of video capturing devices from a first plurality of video capturing devices to distribute the first video capturing task. The method may also comprise, for each of the second plurality of video capturing devices, determining second time information related to when at least one second video capturing task is to be executed by the video capturing device. The method may further comprise determining, based on the first time information and the second time information, a target video capturing device from the second plurality of video capturing devices, and assigning the first video capturing task to the target video capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peng Yu
  • Patent number: 10969316
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus and method for in-situ quantitative texture measurement of a food snack. The apparatus includes an acoustic capturing device and a data processing unit. The physical interaction in the mouth with saliva, when a human being eats/drinks a food snack, sends pressure waves that propagate through the ear bone and produce an acoustic signal. The acoustic capturing device records and forwards the signal to a data processing unit. The data processing unit further comprises a digital signal processing module that smoothens, transforms and filters the received acoustic signal. A statistical processing module further filters the acoustic signal from the data processing unit and generates a quantitative acoustic model for texture attributes such as hardness and fracturability. The quantitative model is correlated with a qualitative texture measurement from a descriptive expert panel. Another method includes a food snack fingerprinting using an in-situ quantitative food property measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ou Bai, Wilfred Marcellien Bourg, Jr., Enrique Michel-Sanchez, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
  • Patent number: 10915757
    Abstract: First video information defining first video content may be accessed. The first video content may have been captured by a first image sensor from a first conveyance position. Second video information defining second video content may be accessed. The second video content may have been captured by a second image sensor from a second conveyance position. A first highlight criterion may be selected for the first video content based on the first conveyance position. A second highlight criterion may be selected for the second video content based on the second conveyance position. A first set of highlight moments within the first video content may be identified based on the first criterion. A second set of highlight moments within the second video content may be identified based on the second criterion. The identification of the first set of highlight moments and the second set of highlight moments may be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Christophe Delachanal
  • Patent number: 10814894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a smart vest for use by railyard personnel at a railyard. The smart vest utilizes many safety features, such as improved visibility, a real-time camera, an environmental monitor, high-accuracy location tracking, tracking the “state” of the railyard crew member, real-time communication, and mobile power. Each of these features may be incorporated with the smart vest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Railserve, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon A. Preston, Chris Burgess, Jeff Chastine, Anthony J. Giertych, John Roberts
  • Patent number: 10799087
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an endoscope system in which resolution and an S/N ratio are adjusted to be well-balanced depending on an imaging condition, and further capable of changing a processing load depending on the imaging condition, a method for operating the endoscope system, and a program. From an image signal in a body cavity imaged by an endoscope apparatus, a low frequency image including a low frequency component and a high frequency image including a high frequency component are extracted. The low frequency image is reduced by a predetermined reduction ratio, and, after image quality improvement processing is performed, is enlarged by an enlargement ratio corresponding to the reduction ratio. At that time, based on condition information indicating an imaging state, when brightness at the time of imaging is sufficient and the high frequency component does not include noise components a lot, the low frequency image and the high frequency image are added to be output as an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Miyai
  • Patent number: 10795926
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for suppressing search results to personally objectionable content. One of the methods includes receiving an identifier of a resource that has image content. A first classifier classifies the image content as including objectionable content or not including objectionable content. A second classifier classifies the image content as including professionally produced content or not including professionally produced content. Whenever the image content is classified as including objectionable content and as not including professionally produced content, the resource is designated as having personally objectionable content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christian von Essen, Xiaoxiang Yu, Matthias Heiler
  • Patent number: 10798289
    Abstract: A single user input element in an image capture device is used for both image and video capture, based on detecting a state change of the single user input element from a first state to a second state based on a detected user activity, and determining a duration of the second state. A first distinct signal indicating that an image capture is triggered is provided based on the duration of the second state being less than a time interval and a second distinct signal indicating that a video recording is triggered is provided based on the duration of the second state being greater than the time interval. The video recording is captured until a state change of the single user input element from the second state to the first state is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Snap, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Marlin, Michael J. Mathias, Kristian D. Diakov
  • Patent number: 10741167
    Abstract: Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to read the selected section of the document aloud to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KNFB READER, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Lucy Gibson
  • Patent number: 10735512
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for managing data. A method includes creating, by a first user equipment (UE), a data, and transferring, by the first UE, the data to a server. The method further includes editing, by a second UE, the data, the second UE comprising persistent memory, wherein only a portion of the data is maintained in the persistent memory of the second UE during the editing, and in response to completion of the editing, automatically removing, by the second UE, the data from the persistent memory of the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MyGnar, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Feess, William Africano, Patrick McGuire
  • Patent number: 10699749
    Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality system accesses metadata describing a plurality of frame sequences that each include two-dimensional color data frames and depth data frames that depict a different view of a three-dimensional (3D) scene. The virtual reality system identifies a set of experience parameters defining a particular virtual reality experience associated with the 3D scene and that is to be experienced by a user using a media player device. Based on the metadata and the set of experience parameters, the virtual reality system selects frame sequences from the plurality of frame sequences for inclusion in a frame sequence subset that is customized to the particular virtual reality experience and that collectively includes data sufficient to allow the media player device to generate a virtual 3D representation of the 3D scene. The virtual reality system also provides the selected frame sequences of the frame sequence subset to the media player device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lodato, Pai Moodlagiri, Rene Sepulveda
  • Patent number: 10674183
    Abstract: A system comprises a video hosting subsystem configured to access a database of video streams. The video hosting subsystem comprises a processor for processing data associated with the video streams, and memory for storing data. The processor is configured to receive a user request to access a selected primary video stream. The processor is further configured to identify other video streams captured at substantially the same time and location as the selected primary video stream and in which a person specified in the user request appears. The processor is configured to select, from the identified other video streams, an alternative video stream. The processor is further configured to provide the user with access to the selected primary video stream, together with an option to access the alternative video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice F. Gray, Sarah Gray, Gordon D. Hutchison
  • Patent number: 10643446
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting objects or patient safety events in a patient room. Artificial intelligence is utilized to enhance safety issue recognition capabilities by the methods and systems. Sensors collect a series of images and depth data in a room of a patient. Data (corresponding to images and depth data of an object or patient safety event) is received from the sensors and compared to stored data to identify the object or patient safety event. The images are communicated to a central video monitoring system and a user may be prompted to confirm if the object requires learning or a patient safety event occurred (or identify the object or patient safety event) or to provide additional parameters or actions. A patient safety learning system analyzes the data and incorporates the user response to enhance safety issue recognition capabilities of the system and reduce false alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
  • Patent number: 10607428
    Abstract: A door access control method includes capturing an identification information of a person in an identity verification range. A hand gesture of the person is detected when the captured identification information matches with an authenticated identification information. A door access operation is carried out to permit the person to pass through the door when the hand gesture is identified correct. On the other hand, when the person makes an incorrect hand gesture, does not make any hand gesture, or is located outside of the identity verification range, the door access operation is not carried out to prohibit any person from passing through the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: I-Ting Shen
  • Patent number: RE49105
    Abstract: An imaging sensor system, having a view of a target area comprising: a rigid mount unit having at least two imaging sensors disposed within the mount unit, wherein a first imaging and a second imaging sensor each has a focal axis passing through an aperture in the mount unit, wherein the first imaging sensor generates a first image area comprising a first data array of pixels and the second imaging sensor generates a second image area comprising a second data array of pixels, wherein the first and second imaging sensors are offset to have a first image overlap area in the target area, wherein the first sensors image data bisects the second sensors image data in the first image overlap area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: VI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Chester L. Smitherman