Jonathan L Bormet

US Patent:

20170230556, Aug 10, 2017

Filed:

Feb 10, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/040688

Inventors:

- Goleta CA, US
Jonathan Bormet - Goleta CA, US

Assignee:

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. - Goleta CA

International Classification:

H04N 5/225
H04N 5/232
H04N 5/235
G06T 7/00

Abstract:

An imaging system includes an imaging scope, a camera, an image processor, and a system controller. The imaging scope is configured to illuminate an object and capture light reflected from the object. The camera has a light sensor with a light-sensitive surface configured to receive the captured light from the imaging scope, and generate a digital image representative of the captured light. The image processor is configured to receive the digital image from the camera, and use at least one of a random sample consensus (RANSAC) technique and a Hough Transform technique to (i) identify a boundary between an active portion and an inactive portion of the digital image and (ii) generate boundary data indicative of a characteristic of the boundary. The system controller is configured to receive the boundary data from the image processor, and use the boundary data to select and/or adjust a setting of the imaging system.

US Patent:

20170230558, Aug 10, 2017

Filed:

Feb 4, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/015836

Inventors:

- Goleta CA, US
Jonathan Bormet - Goleta CA, US

Assignee:

KARL STORZ, Imaging, Inc. - Goleta CA

International Classification:

H04N 5/235
G06K 9/46
H04N 5/357
H04N 5/232
H04N 5/225

Abstract:

Improved exposure control processes, devices, and systems are provided for wide angle lens imaging systems that suffer from image distortion. The exposure control uses a model of the wide angle lens distortion that estimates the weights that respective pixels of the image would have when producing an undistorted version of the image signal, and then scales pixel intensity values by the respective weights to produce weighted pixel values. The weighted pixel values are provided to an exposure control pixel counting process to produce one or more exposure feedback control signals, which control exposure features of the imaging system.

US Patent:

20140184916, Jul 3, 2014

Filed:

Dec 31, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/731780

Inventors:

Martin Steiner - Goleta CA, US
Jonathan Bormet - Goleta CA, US
Gaurav Sharma - Goleta CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/18

US Classification:

348607

Abstract:

A method and system for real time luminance correction and detail enhancement of a video image including the steps of extracting a luminance component from a video image, separating the luminance component into an illumination layer and a scene reflectivity layer, the illumination layer having a dynamic range, compressing the dynamic range of the illumination layer to generate a corrected illumination layer, filtering the reflectivity layer to generate an enhanced reflectivity layer; and combining the corrected illumination layer with the enhanced scene reflectivity layer to generate an enhanced luminance image, is provided. A system for real time luminance correction and detail enhancement of a video image is also provided.