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Recent Patents in Signal Processing (September 2014) – Compressed Sensing in Signal Processing

For our September 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of compressed sensing. The section below covers patents granted recently for contributions to image enhancement, tomography, image and video compressing & decompressing, signal reconstruction and augmented reality gaming. Number: 8,813,009 Title: Computing device mismatch variation contributions Inventors:  H. Liu and W. Zhang Issued:  August 19, 2014 Assignee:  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA) Number:  8,811,768 Title: Image enhancement system and method Inventors:  Ronald Everett Meyers and Keith Scott Deacon Issued:  August 19, 2014 Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army Number: 8,811,758 Title: Lossy compression of data points using point-wise error constraints Inventors:  Randy C. Paffenroth, Ryan Nong, Woody D. Leed and Scott M. Lundberg Issued:  August 19, 2014 Assignee: Numerica Corporation (Loveland, CO) Number: 8,811,700 Title: Exact local computed tomography based on compressive sampling Inventors: Ge Wang and Hengyong Yu Issued: August 19, 2014 Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) Number: 8,805,845 Title: Framework for large-scale multi-label classification Inventors: Liyun Li, Hyun Chul Lee and Shuai Li Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: LinedIn Corporation (Mountain View, CA) Number: 8,805,697 Title: Decomposition of music signals using basis functions with time-evolution information Inventors: Erik Visser, Yinyi Guo, Mofei Zhu, Sang-Uk Ryu, Lae-Hoon Kim, Jongwon Shin Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA) Number: 8,805,115 Title: Correction of variable offsets relying upon scene Inventors: Bradley A. Flanders and Ian S. Robinson Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA) Number: 8,805,106 Title: System and method for compressing and decompressing images and video Inventors: Bing Han, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Jun Tian and Hong Heather Yu Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX) Number: 8,804,862 Title: Method of performing peak reduction and clipping mitigation Inventors: Ebrahim Basil Al-Safadi and Tareo Y. Al-Naffouri Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, SA) Number: 8,804,811 Title: Method for compressive sensing , reconstruction, and estimation of ultra-wideband channels Inventors: Ali Hussein Muqaibel and Mohammad Tamim Alkhodary Issued: August 12, 2014 Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, SA) Number: 8,792,869 Title: Method and apparatus for using proximity sensing for augmented reality gaming Inventors: Adrian J. Prentice, Anthony G. Persaud, George Joseph and Mark R. Storch Issued: July 29, 2014 Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA) Number: 8,792,700 Title: Tomographic reconstruction of a moving object Inventors: Cyril Riddell and Lorenzo Audibert Issued: July 29, 2014 Assignee: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) If you have an interesting patent to share when we next feature patents related to compressed sensing, or if you are especially interested in a signal processing research field that you would want to be highlighted in this section, please send email to Csaba Benedek (benedek.csaba AT sztaki DOT mta DOT hu).