Patents Examined by Aaron M. Richer
  • Patent number: 11334307
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image display method applied to a splice display screen included by splicing multiple screen bodies along a first direction, and a video processing device. The image display method may include: an output size in the first direction, of the splice display screen is determined according to resolutions and dot spacings in the first direction, of the multiple screen bodies; an input size in the first direction, of an input source is determined according to a resolution in the first direction, of the input source; an image scaling ratio in the first direction of the splice display screen is determined according to the input size and the output size; and display control parameters in the first direction, of the each screen body are determined according to the image scaling ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PIXELHUE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Huorong Wang, Jingguo Zong, Minfeng Ge
  • Patent number: 11328464
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus is provided. The apparatus acquires image data of a display target object. The apparatus arranges the display target object in a virtual space based on the image data, arranges a virtual light source and a virtual viewpoint in the virtual space, and generates, as the display image, an image of the display target object viewed from the virtual viewpoint, and displays the display image with a display unit. The display target object includes an instrument with a needle and a shiny dial. The apparatus generates the display image through setting an area on the display target object as a reflection area and setting reflectance of a reflection suppression area smaller than reflectance set for the dial, where the reflection suppression area is a partial area of the dial and is set to cover places overlapping with the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Nohara, Yoshio Oofuka
  • Patent number: 11328457
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for tinting of a computer-generated object. Selection of a target color to be applied to be an object is received. The target color can have a luminosity component and a chroma component (e.g., the luminosity, hue, chroma (LHC) color space). Based, at least in part, upon at least one of the luminosity component or the chroma component of the target color, one or more tinting methods of a plurality of tinting methods is selected to tint the object to the target color. The object can be tinted using the selected one or more tinting methods, and, the tinted object provided (e.g., stored and/or displayed to a user via a graphical user interface).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lisa Michelle Hazen, Dylan Michael Piepenbrok, Sarah Lynn Kisor
  • Patent number: 11302283
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a screen color conversion method, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method can include when an adjustment operation for a correlated color temperature of a color in a screen is triggered, determining target Red-Green-Blue (RGB) coefficients according to a relation curve between the RGB coefficients and a correlated color temperature, and a target correlated color temperature corresponding to the adjustment operation. The relation curve reflects a relation between a tristimulus value of a white color displayable for the screen and a correlated color temperature determined based on a black body radiation locus, and a target conversion matrix between the tristimulus value and the RGB coefficients. The method can further include converting the color in the screen to a target color corresponding to the target correlated color temperature according to the target RGB coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohuang Su, Dong Zhai
  • Patent number: 11295696
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method thereof. The image display apparatus includes: a display; a processor; a memory including a first buffer and a second buffer; and at least one program stored in the memory and executed by the processor. The instructions included in the program cause the processor to perform graphics processing on a first image, convert an attribute of the graphics-processed first image, generate an on screen display (OSD) image and control the memory to store the OSD image in the second buffer, perform image quality processing on the first image of which the attribute is converted, and control the display to display the image-quality-processed first image and the OSD image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun-soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11288774
    Abstract: This application discloses an image processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The image processing method includes performing edge expansion on an object in a scene according to a location parameter to obtain a profile of an expanded object, the location parameter being a relative location parameter of the object in the scene from a viewpoint; identifying a circle of confusion (COC) value of a vertex of the object as a COC value of a corresponding vertex of the profile of the expanded object; determining a color of each pixel of the expanded object according to the COC value of the corresponding vertex and a texture of the object in the scene; and displaying the expanded object based on the color of each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11282269
    Abstract: 2D slices/images may be extracted from a three-dimensional volume of subsurface data. Image comparison analysis across sequential 2D slices/images may identify boundaries within the corresponding subsurface region, such as changes in style of deposition or reservoir property distribution. Identification of temporal/spatial boundaries in the subsurface region where subsurface properties change may facilitate greater understanding of the scales and controls on heterogeneity, and connectivity between different locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Fabien J. Laugier, Alicia Downard, Robert Chadwick Holmes
  • Patent number: 11257461
    Abstract: Digital signage according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit; a human body sensing sensor unit; and a control unit which controls the operation of the digital signage, wherein the human body sensing sensor unit senses a motion of a human body and the distance between the human body and the digital signage, and the control unit can control so as to divide a frame buffer of content according to a predetermined set value, and to change an arbitrary pixel in a region of the divided frame buffer to black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Youngjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11244427
    Abstract: An image resolution processing method includes: obtaining motion information of a display apparatus; determining a motion direction and rate information of the display apparatus according to the motion information; determining, according to the motion direction, a target object that is at least one of a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution; determining a target value according to the rate information and a standard resolution of the display apparatus; and generating a to-be-displayed image, a value of the target object in an image resolution of the to-be-displayed image being equal to the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Huai Che Lee, Kai Wei Chen, Jhih Rong Chen
  • Patent number: 11217202
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for converting RGB image signals into RGBW image signals. The method includes converting RGB image signals of pixels of each received image frame into corresponding RGB luminance values respectively, performing a conversion from an RGB luminance value to an RGBW luminance value for each pixel, including performing a first conversion to the RGBW luminance value by determining a first conversion amount based on the corresponding RGB luminance value of the pixel to obtain a first RGBW luminance value of the pixel, performing a second conversion to the RGBW luminance value by determining a second conversion amount based on the first RGBW luminance values of the pixel and its adjacent one or more pixels to obtain a second RGBW luminance value of the pixel, and converting the second RGBW luminance values of the pixels of the image frame into corresponding RGBW image signals respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min He, Chun Cao, Wenchao Bao
  • Patent number: 11205399
    Abstract: A method comprising: applying color correction to colors in a first color gamut; displaying, on color space, the second color gamut and color gamut in which the correction is applied to the first color gamut so as to make it possible to distinguish between colors constituting the first color gamut that are determined to be inside of the second color gamut and colors constituting the first color gamut that are determined to be outside of the second color gamut; selecting colors in colors outside of the displayed second color gamut; displaying an interface; determining a correction amount of the selected color in conjunction with the interface; when the selected color is on surface/inside of the second color gamut, displaying that the selected color is on surface/inside of the second color gamut; and applying the correction and generating color conversion information for converting the first color gamut into the second color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11182943
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a plurality of swatch configurations that each define combinations for lightness values, saturation values, and hue values and receives information associated with a characteristic of an image. A swatch configuration is selected based on the information where the swatch configuration defines a plurality of combinations for lightness values, saturation values, and hue values. The method generates a plurality of colors using the plurality of combinations for lightness values, saturation values, and hue values by varying at least one of the saturation value, the lightness value, and the hue value for the plurality of colors. The plurality of colors are applied to an interface that is displaying the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Zachary Cava, Hansen Smith
  • Patent number: 11184508
    Abstract: The present principles relate to a method and device for gamut mapping from a first color gamut towards a second color gamut. The method comprises obtaining a preserved key color (prsv_colorK0) and a hue alignment angle (?K0) of the key color (colorK0) for each key color (colorK0) of at least 3 key colors to define a preserved gamut and a rotated gamut; and performing a hue mapping of a current color (color) from the first color gamut towards the second color gamut wherein in case the current color (color) is in a preserved gamut defined by the preserved key color (prsv_colorK0), the hue mapped current color is unchanged, and in case the current color is out of the preserved gamut, the hue mapped current color is calculated from the hue alignment angle (?K0) of two adjacent key colors of the current color (rotated gamut) and from the preserved area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Cedric Thebault, Jonathan Kervec, Angelo Mazzante
  • Patent number: 11131558
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a content attribute based on an attribute index included in a map content; determine an attribute proportion of the content attribute relative to a content dimension with a control unit; removing the content attribute with the attribute proportion meeting or exceeding a proportion threshold; and generate a remap content based on a remaining instance of the content attribute for displaying on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11126922
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for extracting colors from a live camera feed and applying the extracted colors to a user's input digital design. For example, in response to the user targeting the camera of a client-computing device at a fixed position for a threshold amount of time, one or more embodiments described herein extracts a palette of dominant colors from the live camera feed and maps the palette of dominant colors onto one or more colors of the user's input digital design in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Shankar, Shawn Sheridan
  • Patent number: 11127110
    Abstract: A display controller 93 in a data processing system includes a timewarp module (transformation circuitry) 100 that is operable to perform timewarp processing of a rendered frame 92 generated by a graphics processor (GPU) 91 for provision to a display panel 94. The timewarp module (transformation circuitry) 100 operates to transform an input surface 92 read by the display controller 93 based on received view orientation data to provide an appropriately “timewarped” transformed version of the input surface as an output transformed surface for display on the display 94.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: Arm Limited, Apical Limited
    Inventors: Ian Rudolf Bratt, Alexander Eugene Chalfin, Eric Kunze, Paul Stanley Hughes, Alex Kornienko, Damian Piotr Modrzyk, Metin Gokhan Ünal, Jonathan Adam Lawton
  • Patent number: 11122245
    Abstract: A display apparatus displaying, a method for controlling the display apparatus, and an image providing apparatus. The display apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive image data of an image and brightness information of the image, a processor configured to generate a tone mapping curve by using the brightness information and to apply the tone mapping curve to the image data to provide tone mapped image data, and a display configured to display the image based on the tone-mapped image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Bo Oh
  • Patent number: 11120604
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: inputting an original image and a style reference image into a convolutional neural network to generate a first feature map of the original image and a second feature map of the style reference image; calculating a correction value of any pixel point in the first feature map based on the second feature map; replacing an original value of each pixel point in the first feature map with a corresponding corrected value to obtain a third feature map; and performing a deconvolution process on the third feature map to obtain a processed image. An apparatus and a storage medium are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yunping Pang
  • Patent number: 11107258
    Abstract: A method for improving visibility of contents displayed on a GUI by providing a dark viewing mode that preserves user-generated formatting and/or style contained in the contents is disclosed. The method includes receiving content for displaying on the display, parsing the received content into one or more objects, based on at least a formatting characteristic of the objects, and comparing for each object a first color characteristic of the object with a second color characteristic to determine if a contrast between the first color characteristic and the second color characteristic satisfies a threshold requirement. Upon determining that the threshold requirement is not satisfied, the method includes adjusting the first characteristic, and displaying the objects with the adjusted first characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Loughry, Stauffer Alexander Taylor, Caleb Whitmore, Philip Zhian Loh
  • Patent number: 11042278
    Abstract: A process, and corresponding system for performing the process, is described herein for visual identification of label collision for a digital map. The process determines a set of labels to be rendered in a visual map corresponding to a digital map. For each label in the set, a label boundary is created around the label. If any of the label boundaries in the set of labels overlap, the process determines a display priority for each of the first label and the second label in an overlapping label pair. In response to the first label in the pair having a higher display priority than the second label in the pair, the boundary for the first label is rendered in a first visual style and the label boundary for the second label in a second visual style. As priorities or properties are changed, the visual map is updated to reflect the changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Mapbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Saman Bemel-Benrud, Thomas Christopher MacWright, Eden Halperin