Conversion Of Standards (epo) Patents (Class 348/E7.003)
  • Patent number: 11963477
    Abstract: A method for observing the crop processing and/or handling working processes of an agricultural machine is provided. The method utilizes a digital video system with a plurality of digital image acquisition units, with at least one display unit and with at least one network coupling element preferably designed as a switch, via which the image acquisition units are connected to the display unit. The image acquisition units record image data for images of, in particular, a video stream, and at least one of the images, in particular of the video stream, is reproduced at least partially in one of in particular a plurality of configurable shapes comprising one or multiple image reproduction regions on the display unit that is in particular designed as a touchscreen of an EDP unit that is preferably designed as a Panel PC (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Witte, Wolfram Strothmann, Axel Schomaker
  • Patent number: 11967121
    Abstract: A difference detection device includes a difference detection unit configured to, based on association among a first image and a second image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space and encoding information of each of the first image and the second image, detect difference between a third image and a fourth image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space, and the encoding information is information acquired from data including the first image encoded and data including the second image encoded, before inverse transform processing is executed in decoding processing executed on each of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro Takagi, Kazuya Hayase, Atsushi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11954822
    Abstract: An image processing method, an image processing device, a training method of a neural network, an image processing method based on a combined neural network model, a constructing method of a combined neural network model, a neural network processor, and a storage medium are provided. The image processing method includes: obtaining, based on an input image, initial feature images of N stages with resolutions from high to low, where N is a positive integer and N>2, performing, based on initial feature images of second to N-th stages, cyclic scaling processing on an initial feature image of a first stage, to obtain an intermediate feature image; and preforming merging processing on the intermediate feature image to obtain an output image. The cyclic scaling processing includes hierarchically-nested scaling processing of N?1 stages, and scaling processing of each stage includes down-sampling processing, concatenating processing, up-sampling processing, and residual link addition processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Wenbin Chen, Hanwen Liu, Dan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11943496
    Abstract: To reduce the possibility of occurrence of problems such as missing frames and an increase in display delay even if a disturbance occurs in a communication path. A reception device includes a reception unit that sequentially receives image information transmitted by a transmission device at a given first interval by wireless communication, a display unit that sequentially displays frame images on the basis of the image information in accordance with a display clock and generates display time information indicating a time corresponding to the update time of the frame image, and a control unit that calculates a second interval indicating an interval at which the frame images are displayed on the basis of plural pieces of the display time information and controls the update cycle of the frame image in accordance with the display clock such that the second interval approximates to the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11930207
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device, a signal processing device, and a signal processing method which make it possible to realize interpolation more suitable for viewing when interpolating motion between original images. Provided is a display device which includes a signal processing unit that, when an interpolation frame is generated for original frames along a time axis, the interpolation frame interpolating between the original frames, controls an interpolation rate of the interpolation frame depending on motion between the original frames in a certain direction. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kunio Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11895434
    Abstract: A video processor chip includes a memory circuit, a frame rate converter circuit, and an image compensation circuit. The memory circuit includes first to third storage spaces. The frame rate converter circuit sequentially writes multiple frame data in video data to the first to the third storage spaces respectively, and reads second data in the frame data from the memory circuit to perform a frame rate conversion when first data in the frame data is written to the memory circuit. The second data is a previous frame data of the first data. The image compensation circuit reads third data in the frame data from the memory circuit when the frame rate converter circuit reads the second data, and performs an image compensation according to a difference between the second data and the third data. The third data is a previous frame data of the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying-Hsin Lin, Wen-Hsia Kung
  • Patent number: 11881007
    Abstract: Provided are a video cropping method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining at least one detection box of a first image frame; determining, based on at least one of an importance score, a coverage area, or a smoothing distance of any detection box in the at least one detection box, a cost of the detection box; determining a first detection box having a minimum cost among the at least one detection box as a cropping box; and cropping the first image frame based on the cropping box. Based on a cost of each detection box, the first detection box having the minimum cost among the at least one detection box is determined as the cropping box to crop the first image frame, which can not only improve flexibility of video cropping, but also improve a cropping effect while simplifying the video cropping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yuntao Ma, Changhu Wang
  • Patent number: 11838513
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for Progressive Subsampled Transmission of image data. In one embodiment, a source computer may: generate a first down-sampled frame by sampling an input image according to a first sampling pattern; generate a first encoded down-sampled frame; transmit the first encoded down-sampled frame to a recipient device to cause the recipient device to display/use a first output frame generated by decoding and up-sampling the first encoded down-sampled frame; generate a second down-sampled frame by sampling the input image according to a second sampling pattern; generate a second encoded down-sampled frame; and transmit the second encoded down-sampled frame to the recipient device to cause the recipient device to display/use a second output frame generated based on the first encoded down-sampled frame and the second encoded down-sampled frame and in accordance with the first sampling pattern and the second sampling pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Funt, Behnam Bastani, Curtis Buckoll
  • Patent number: 11836885
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes receiving a warped image representing simulated reality (SR) content (e.g., to be displayed in a display space), the warped image having a plurality of pixels at respective locations uniformly spaced in a grid pattern in a warped space, wherein the plurality of pixels are respectively associated with a plurality of respective pixel values and a plurality of respective scaling factors indicating a plurality of respective resolutions at a plurality of respective locations of the SR content (e.g., in the display space). The method includes processing the warped image in the warped space based on the plurality of respective scaling factors to generate a processed warped image and transmitting the processed warped image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Eble, Ye Cong, Cody J. White, Arthur Yasheng Zhang, Randall Rauwendaal, Moinul Khan, Jim C. Chou, Hao Pan, Nicolas Bonnier
  • Patent number: 11809998
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for processing one or more frames. For example, a region of interest can be determined in a first frame of a sequence of frames. The region of interest in the first frame includes an object having a size in the first frame. A portion of a second frame of the sequence of frames (occurring after the first frame in the sequence of frames) can be cropped and scaled to cause the object in the second frame to have a same size (and in some cases a same location) as the object in the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Songan Mao, Youngmin Huh, Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani, Ajit Chourasia, Donald Gosnell, Muhua Li, Denis Mamedov
  • Patent number: 11804048
    Abstract: A method and a driver assistance system recognize the intention of a pedestrian to move on the basis of a sequence of images of a camera. The method includes detecting a pedestrian in at least one camera image. The method also includes selecting a camera image that is current at the time t and selecting a predefined selection pattern of previous camera images of the image sequence. The method further includes extracting the image region in which the pedestrian was detected in the selected camera images of the image sequence. The method also includes classifying the movement profile of the detected pedestrian on the basis of the plurality of extracted image regions. The method outputs the class that describes the movement intention determined from the camera images of the image sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Elias Strigel, Martin Pfitzer, Stefan Heinrich, Manuel du Bois, Felix Hachfeld
  • Patent number: 11800053
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of information display, and specifically to a method, device, computer readable storage medium, and electronic device for video frame interpolation. The method comprises: obtaining, based on two input frames, two initial optical flow maps corresponding to the two input frames; optimizing the initial optical flow maps to obtain target optical flow maps; obtaining an interpolation frame kernel, two depth maps and two context feature maps based on the two input frames; obtaining an output frame using a frame synthesis method based on the target optical flow maps, the depth maps, the context feature maps, and the interpolation frame kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunhua Lu, Ran Duan, Guannan Chen, Lijie Zhang, Hanwen Liu
  • Patent number: 11711491
    Abstract: A video image de-interlacing method is provided. The method-includes: acquiring a single frame of original video image; extracting odd field data and even field data in an original video image; performing N-1 times of down-sampling on the odd field data to obtain N-1 odd field data with different resolutions and performing N-1 times of down-sampling on the even field data to obtain N-1 even field data with different resolutions; combining odd field data and even field data with the same resolution to obtain a down-sampled image; and inputting the original video image and the down-sampled image to the de-interlacing network for de-interlacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dan Zhu, Ran Duan
  • Patent number: 11683568
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique of reducing colored afterimages. To solve this problem, an image capturing system includes the following structure: A color separation optical system disperses subject light into a plurality of wavelength ranges, and forms images of a plurality of color components. A plurality of image capturing elements capture the respective images of the plurality of color components, and generate the respective color components of a video signal. A color-specific exposure setting unit sets respective exposure periods for the plurality of color components. An exposure control unit performs exposure control ? of approximately simultaneously exposure-controlling each of the plurality of image capturing elements to obtain a video signal (hereafter referred to as a reference video signal) in a common period shorter than or equal to a shortest period of the respective exposure periods set for the color components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventor: Takuhiro Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11682333
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gary B. Mandle, James M. DeFilippis
  • Patent number: 11651167
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire video data that enables playback of a video in which audio, an image, and a caption are chronologically synchronized, receive a section of a playback time of the video, the section being to be removed, and remove a partial caption that corresponds to the audio in the received section and that is at least a portion of the caption from the image in the received section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masakazu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11616895
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for converting image data. The method includes: acquiring image data of a target image, wherein the image data includes first pixel values of m pixels in the target image, each of the first pixel values includes a first color value of at least one color channel, the first color value being within a target color value interval of the at least one color channel; dividing the target color value interval into n color value partitions; determining a color value partition where the first color value falls from the n color value partitions; and converting the first color value into a second color value according to a position of the first color value in the color value partition, the number of bits occupied by the second color value being less than the number of bits occupied by the first color value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Xiuyun Chen, Zongze He, Feng Long, Pin Xiao, Yuxuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11605380
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques and systems for generating and outputting immersive, multi-device content items in user environment, such as connected homes, offices, and the like. For example, the techniques and systems may output different portions of content on different devices within a user environment based on information such as respective capabilities of the devices, a current location of the user within the environment, a time of day, which user(s) are present in the environment, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Farah Lynn Houston, Marc Randall Whitten, J. C. Connors, David Chiapperino
  • Patent number: 11601617
    Abstract: A method for forming an image sequence that is an output sequence, from an input image sequence, is provided. The input image sequence has an input spatial resolution and an input temporal resolution. The output sequence has an output temporal resolution equal to the input temporal resolution and an output spatial resolution equal to a predetermined fraction 1/N of the input spatial resolution by an integer number N higher than or equal to 2. The method, implemented for a sub-sequence of the input frame sequence that is a current input sub-sequence and including a preset number of images, includes: obtaining a temporal frequency that is an image frequency, associated with the current input sub-sequence; processing the current input sub-sequence to obtain an output sub-sequence; and inserting the output sub-sequence and the associated image frequency into an output container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: FONDATION B-COM
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Aubie, Wassim Hamidouche, Patrick Dumenil, Glenn Herrou
  • Patent number: 11528232
    Abstract: An apparatus for managing data messages comprises: one or more producers generating data streams containing data messages of varying sizes that required processing; one or more consumers for processing the data messages; a multi-message queues sub-system for queuing data messages having different processing time durations; a rate limiter for discriminating data messages based on processing speed for queuing the data messages in one or the other message queue of the multi-message queues sub-system; a fair dispatcher for dispatching the data messages to one or more consumers according to their processing statuses to maximize the processing capacity of the apparatus; and a task splitter for splitting data messages that are deemed too large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Xingxia Zhang, Ka Hung Chong, Qijun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11523085
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of aerial vehicle technologies, and disclose a method and apparatus for video data transmission, an image transmitting terminal, and an aerial vehicle image transmission system. The method includes: acquiring an original image; converting the original image into a first image, the first image being an image conforming to a format of an audio/video interface; converting the first image into a second image, the second image being an image conforming to a format of an interface of a display apparatus; encoding the second image to obtain encoded video image frames; and transmitting the encoded video image frames to the display apparatus. By means of the image transmission method provided in this embodiment of the present invention, the image is transmitted in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhaozao Li
  • Patent number: 11521291
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method of reducing latency associated with an image read-out operation is performed at a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, an image processing architecture, and an image capture device. The method includes: obtaining first image data corresponding to a physical environment; reading a first slice of the first image data into an input buffer; performing processing operations on the first slice of the first image data to obtain a first portion of second image data; reading a second slice of the first image data into the input buffer; performing the image processing operations on the second slice of the first image data to obtain a second portion of the second image data; and generating an image frame of the physical environment based at least in part on the first and second portions of the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bertrand Nepveu, Marc-Andre Chenier, Yan Cote, Yves Millette
  • Patent number: 11507224
    Abstract: A touch response method of a touch display device is provided. The touch display device includes a data buffer. The method includes: acquiring touch data generated based on a touch operation of a user on the touch display device; controlling the data buffer to buffer the touch data according to a target mode; the target mode including a single-frame first-in first-out mode or a line buffer mode; and converting a frame rate of the touch data in the data buffer based on a target frame-rate processing format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianting Wang, Jieqiong Wang, Wei Wang, Yang Shi, Cuilan Huang, Ying Xing
  • Patent number: 11508035
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining an intermediate image by preprocessing an original image, obtaining a saliency feature map of the intermediate image by performing semantic saliency analysis on the intermediate image, performing adaptability calculation according to the saliency feature map and a retargeted target equipment condition, and determining a retargeting mode of the original image according to the result of the adaptability calculation, and performing retargeting processing on the original image according to the determined mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiang Yu, Youxin Chen, Longhai Wu, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 11488510
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gary B. Mandle, James M. DeFilippis, Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi
  • Patent number: 11488383
    Abstract: A video processing method includes: extracting a plurality of video frames from a source video with a first aspect ratio; clipping each of the plurality of video frames multiple times to generate a plurality of candidate clipping boxes with a second aspect ratio; respectively determining scores of the plurality of candidate clipping boxes of each of the plurality of video frames, the scores representing playing effects of the video frames in response to that each of the candidate clipping boxes is taken as a clipping range; selecting a clipping box of each of the video frames from the plurality of candidate clipping boxes based on the scores; and clipping each of the video frames by using the selected clipping box, and generating a target video with the second aspect ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiagao Hu, Changxin Liu, Fei Wang, Pengfei Yu
  • Patent number: 11409490
    Abstract: A multi-screen control system is provided. The multi-screen control system includes a plurality of display devices, at least one console device, a video switching device, and a centralized display device. The display device respectively shows output images provided by a plurality of video sources. The console device receives a control operation to the at least one of the output images. The video switching device is connected to the display device and the at least one console device. The video switching device transmits the output images provided by the video sources to the display device, and obtains at least one partial image from the at least one of the output images according to the control operation. The centralized display device is connected to the video switching device. The video switching device outputs the at least one partial image to the centralized display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Aten International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li-Jen Chang
  • Patent number: 11412172
    Abstract: Disclosed are a video recording method, a video recording device, an Internet Protocol camera and a storage medium. In this disclosure, a relative timestamp of a current image uploaded by an image sensor is compared with a recording timestamp of a current recording frame, then an image to be recorded corresponding to the current recording frame is determined according to a comparison result, and finally video recording is performed according to the image to be recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventor: Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11386523
    Abstract: Disclosed are an LSTM based personalization viewpoint estimation apparatus and method. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a viewpoint of a user is estimated using LSTM with respect to a 360-degree raw image and a viewpoint image that is a region of interest of the user and a tile including the estimated viewpoint is transmitted over a network, so that the amount of data to transmit compared to the network bandwidth may be reduced and a viewpoint of each individual may be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Fdn. For Res. & Bus., Seoul Nat. Univ. Of Sci. & Tech.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Kim, Bong-Seok Seo, Changjong Hyun
  • Patent number: 11388315
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a generating unit and a transmitting unit. The generating unit generates synchronization format information regarding a vertical synchronizing frequency and a horizontal synchronizing frequency of a first video synchronizing signal, and generates phase difference information indicating a phase difference between the first video synchronizing signal and a first reference signal synchronized with a grand master clock. The transmitting unit transmits the synchronization format information and the phase difference information to an external apparatus that can generates a second video synchronizing signal synchronized with the first video synchronizing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hanamoto, Takashi Tokoro, Takushi Kimura, Noriaki Suzuki, Yasuhito Kigure
  • Patent number: 11363204
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that corrects image blurring with respect to image data that has been captured using a lens that forms a subject image which has been compressed in at least one of first and second directions that are orthogonal to an optical axis is disclosed. The apparatus applies geometric transformation processing to the image data based on first information related to a compression ratio of a subject image applied by the lens and on second information related to a rotation angle of the device motion. The geometric transformation processing includes correction processing for rotation transformation of the subject image attributed to the device motion around the optical axis, and shearing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 11152033
    Abstract: Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FreeWheel Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Bala Iyer, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
  • Patent number: 10629241
    Abstract: Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Visible World, LLC
    Inventors: Bala Iyer, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
  • Patent number: 10614778
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer control device capable of reducing an electric power consumption and suppressing a decrease in display quality. A host processor (101) of the present invention includes a display data transmitting circuit (11) which transmits display data to a driver (102) by an interlace method or a non-interlace method, depending on a transmission amount of the display data, which transmission amount is identified by a transmission amount identifying circuit (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidenori Kuwajima, Junki Asai
  • Patent number: 10354354
    Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products allow improved synchronization among multiple contents. One disclosed method includes receiving a first and a second content and performing watermark extraction to recover a first timecode as part of a watermark embedded into a segment of that content. The first timecode conforms to a first type of timing system. Next, a timing system associated with the second content is determined, and a mapping is obtained that allows timecode conversion between the first and the second timing systems. Using the mapping to synchronize the presentation of the second content with that of the first content. Thus synchronization of multiple contents is properly maintained even when processing operations such as format conversion and transcoding cause metadata streams that carry timing information to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Verance Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Joseph M. Winograd, Rade Petrovic
  • Patent number: 10262694
    Abstract: Average pixel luminosity is calculated for each frame comprising a content item. For each pair of adjacent frames, an IFD is calculated. The IFD represents the difference between a baseline pixel luminosity associated with each of the two frames. An initial set of cut frames is selected based on IFD values that are less than a minimum value IFDmin, or that are greater than a maximum value IFDmax. The positions of these initial cut frames are optimized using a numerical optimization technique that favors removal of frames corresponding to IFD extrema, but that also attempts to maintain a minimum time gap between cut frames. Selecting frames for removal is approached as a constraint minimization problem. Once an optimized set of cut frames is established, audio is cut and crossfaded in a temporal window surrounding cut frame positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventor: Nico Becherer
  • Patent number: 9905269
    Abstract: Average pixel luminosity is calculated for each frame comprising a content item. For each pair of adjacent frames, an IFD is calculated. The IFD represents the difference between a baseline pixel luminosity associated with each of the two frames. An initial set of cut frames is selected based on IFD values that are less than a minimum value IFDmin, or that are greater than a maximum value IFDmax. The positions of these initial cut frames are optimized using a numerical optimization technique that favors removal of frames corresponding to IFD extrema, but that also attempts to maintain a minimum time gap between cut frames. Selecting frames for removal is approached as a constraint minimization problem. Once an optimized set of cut frames is established, audio is cut and crossfaded in a temporal window surrounding cut frame positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Nico Becherer
  • Patent number: 9858635
    Abstract: An application processor includes a first scaler including a first vertical scaler and a first horizontal scaler, and a second scaler including a second vertical scaler and a second horizontal scaler, wherein the second vertical scaler is selectively shared between the first scaler and the second scaler in response to a determination of resolution for an image being processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Chul Yoon, Seong Woon Kim, Sang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8804825
    Abstract: A method for encoding pictures within a groups of pictures using prediction, where a first reference picture from a group of pictures and a second reference pictures from the subsequent group of pictures are used in predicting pictures in the group of pictures associated with the first reference picture. A plurality of anchor pictures in the group of pictures associated with the first reference picture may be predicted using both the first and second reference pictures to ensure a smooth transition between different groups of pictures within a video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Koul, Douglas Chin
  • Patent number: 8654254
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a display panel includes: a time variant signal (TVS) generator configured to generate a time variant signal group; a common pulse signal generator configured to generate a plurality of pulse signals; a selector configured to receive the time variant signal, the plurality of the pulse signals, and video data and select a grayscale voltage corresponding to the video data; and a buffer configured to buffer and transfer an output of the selector. Herein, the selector and the buffer are provided to each of a plurality of channels, and the time variant signal and the plurality of the pulse signals are inputted in common to the selector of each channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Magnachip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Jin Kim, Hee-Jung Kim, Dae-Ho Lim, Ki-Seok Cho
  • Patent number: 8558948
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for providing high resolution frames. In one embodiment, there is a method comprising receiving upscaled frames; motion estimating the upscaled frames; and motion compensating the upscaled frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Yunwei Jia, Samir Hulyalkar, Steven Hanna, Keith Lee
  • Patent number: 8483516
    Abstract: A super resolution (SR) method or system with database-free texture synthesis is disclosed. An input image is up-sampled to result in an up-sampled image. It is determined whether the input image possesses a smooth region. Edges of the up-sampled image are enhanced, and the enhancing edges step is bypassed if the smooth region has been detected. The enhanced or unenhanced up-sampled image is texture synthesized by taking the input image as texture example, thereby resulting in a synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: National Taiwan University, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Shao-Yi Chien, Yi-Nung Liu, Yi-Chun Lin, Ling-Hsiu Huang
  • Patent number: 8305425
    Abstract: A panoramic camera system is disclosed that includes an unified optical system, an image capture device, and a processing unit. The unified optical system may include a first set of lenses that guide images received from horizontal directions of a target scene that surrounds the unified optical system. The unified optical system may also include a deflecting device that deflects the images guided through the first set of lenses and a second set of lenses that projects the images deflected by the deflecting device. The image capture device collects the projected images into a determined pattern based on the second set of lenses. Moreover, the processing unit processes the collected images from the image capture device to generate at least one of image signals and video signals representing a panoramic rendition of the target scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Promos Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mei Len, Chin-Hai Chang