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).