Sonia Lee Kahn

7372485, May 13, 2008

Nov 5, 1999

09/434703

Eric O. Bodnar - Santa Cruz CA, US
Shekhar Kirani - Capitola CA, US
Venkat V. Easwar - Cupertino CA, US
Philippe R. Kahn - Scotts Valley CA, US
Sonia Lee Kahn - Scotts Valley CA, US

LightSurf Technologies, Inc. - Santa Cruz CA

H04N 9/68
H04N 7/12

348234, 37524018, 37524019

A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i. e. , digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e. g. , desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras.

8212893, Jul 3, 2012

May 12, 2008

12/119491

Eric O. Bodnar - Santa Cruz CA, US
Shekhar Kirani - Capitola CA, US
Venkat V. Easwar - Cupertino CA, US
Philippe R. Kahn - Scotts Valley CA, US
Sonia Lee Kahn - Scotts Valley CA, US

Verisign, Inc. - Reston VA

H04N 9/68
H04N 7/12

348234, 37524018, 37524019

A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i. e. , digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e. g. , desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras.

6825876, Nov 30, 2004

Jan 21, 2000

09/489511

Venkat V. Easwar - Cupertino CA
Eric O. Bodnar - Santa Cruz CA
Shekhar Kirani - Capitola CA
Philippe R. Kahn - Scotts Valley CA
Sonia Lee Kahn - Scotts Valley CA

LightSurf Technologies, Inc. - Santa Cruz CA

H04N 968

348234, 37524018, 37524019

A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i. e. , digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. The system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e. g. , desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). This image processing technique employs an efficient color conversion process, using a GUV color space. After an RGB mosaic (image) is captured, the image may be âcompandedâ or quantized by representing it with less bits (e. g. , companding from 10 bits to 8 bits).

20210110845, Apr 15, 2021

Oct 14, 2020

16/949124

Philippe Richard Kahn - Santa Cruz CA, US
Sonia Lee Kahn - Santa Cruz CA, US
Arthur Kinsolving - Santa Cruz CA, US
Mark Andrew Christensen - Santa Cruz CA, US
Venkat Easwar - Los Gatos CA, US

G10L 25/66
G10L 15/20

The present system ensures that external noise sources do not taint sensor data recorded about a user's sleep parameters, to reduces false positives and false negatives, and provide a more accurate record of the user's sleep sounds, by cycling on and off noise sources. Additionally, the present system, in one embodiment, may be used to track changes in sound patterns from the user and from the environment. This may lead to early warning of health issues, as well as issues with the devices in the bedroom.