Patents Examined by Antonio Caschera
  • Patent number: 11314080
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a chromatic aberration of a display device includes defining a tolerance scope of chromatic aberration; determining a varying scope of chromatic aberration of the display device according to chromatic aberrations of the plurality of display screens; defining a plurality of adjusting levels of chromatic aberration according to the tolerance scope of chromatic aberration and the varying scope of chromatic aberration; setting a color offset value corresponding to each of the plurality of adjusting levels of chromatic aberration; and for each of the plurality of display screens, selecting a corresponding adjusting level of chromatic aberration in comparison to one of the plurality of display screens, and inputting a corresponding color offset value of the selected adjusting level of chromatic aberration to each of the plurality of display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chingyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11308669
    Abstract: A device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. The device performs a method that includes detecting, in a set of one or more images, appearance features that define an appearance of an object represented in the set of one or more images. The appearance includes one or more shading effects associated with the object. The method includes generating a feature map for the object that encodes the detected appearance features of the object. The method includes displaying, based on the feature map, a computer-generated graphical object with one or more simulated shading effects that are within a degree of similarity to the one or more shading effects associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shem Nguyen, Austin Caleb Germer
  • Patent number: 11301697
    Abstract: Various types of systems or technologies can be used to collect data in a 3D space. For example, LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and RADAR (radio detection and ranging) systems are commonly used to generate point cloud data for 3D space around vehicles, for such functions as localization, mapping, and tracking. This disclosure provides improved techniques for processing the point cloud data that has been collected. The improved techniques include mapping 3D point cloud data points into a 2D depth map, fetching a group of the mapped 3D point cloud data points that are within a bounded window of the 2D depth map; and generating geometric space parameters based on the group of the mapped 3D point cloud data points. The generated geometric space parameters may be used for object motion, obstacle detection, freespace detection, and/or landmark detection for an area surrounding a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Ishwar Kulkarni, Ibrahim Eden, Michael Kroepfl, David Nister
  • Patent number: 11294450
    Abstract: A method for providing data representing body parts of a person comprises at least: providing a head mounted display unit that is arranged at a head of the person, wherein the head mounted display unit has a defined screen section which is arrangeable in front of at least one eye of the person, wherein visual information is outputtable in the defined screen section for displaying the visual information to the at least one eye of the person, providing a camera means for capturing visual information in front of the person, wherein the camera means is part of the head mounted display unit or attached thereto, providing a mirror for mirroring the person while wearing the head mounted display unit, capturing the mirrored visual information with the camera means, processing the mirrored visual information by means of a processing unit, outputting the processed visual information to the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: VESTEL ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S.
    Inventor: Barbaros Kirisken
  • Patent number: 11297295
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are directed to a display device including a display unit configured to output an image, a brightness converting unit configured to acquire a brightness corrected image by correcting brightness of the image, and a controller configured to detect a face included in the image, to acquire a color corrected image by applying a gain value to a color of the brightness corrected image according to whether the face is detected, and to output the color corrected image or the brightness corrected image through the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Kyuri Kim
  • Patent number: 11289048
    Abstract: A GPU is generally configured to detect changes in the rate of frame generation that can result from, for example, changes in the complexity of the frames being generated. In response to detecting the change in the rate of frame generation, the GPU identifies a corresponding change in the refresh rate that would be required to fully synchronize the refresh rate with the rate of frame generation. If the change in the refresh rate falls outside the boundaries of a specified or dynamically generated window, the GPU limits the change in refresh rate to the corresponding boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Anthony W L Koo, Aric Cyr, Syed Athar Hussain
  • Patent number: 11282446
    Abstract: A graphical display integrated into a rotary knob vehicle shifter assembly including a surface display located outside of the knob which can incorporate any of transistor LCD or organic LED interior components, such as which can be presented into either of segmented or OLED/TFT pixelated image display variants. In either instance, a connector end of an associated harness or ribbon cable extends from the graphical display and, when connected to a remote PCB board integrated into the shifter assembly, is configured to provide variable display options not limited to shifter position and including variable supporting graphics and other designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Kuster North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Curtis, Michael Benedetto D'Annunzio, Brian Andrew Mayville
  • Patent number: 11283967
    Abstract: An image reproduction system and methods for providing colorant data to an end device. A method includes extracting general HSV value data for each pixel of an image from image data. For each pixel, the general HSV value data is transformed to generate universal perceived brightness, Bp, and universal perceived-chroma, Cp, value data. End-device colorant data associated with the general HSV value data is retrieved for each pixel and scaled using the Bp and Cp value data to obtain scaled end-device colorant data. The scaled end-device colorant data is transmitted to the end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Edward M. Granger
  • Patent number: 11273710
    Abstract: A graphical display integrated into a linear gate vehicle shifter assembly including a surface display which can incorporate any of transistor LCD or organic LED interior components, such as which can be presented into either of segmented or OLED/TFT pixelated image display variants. In either instance, a connector end of an associated harness or ribbon cable extends from the graphical display and, when connected to a remote PCB board integrated into the shifter assembly, is configured to provide variable display options not limited to shifter position and including variable supporting graphics and other designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Kuster North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Curtis, Michael Benedetto D'Annunzio, Brian Andrew Mayville
  • Patent number: 11276134
    Abstract: A reconfigurable image processing pipeline includes an image signal processor (ISP), a control processor, and a local memory. ISP processes raw pixel data for a frame based on an image processing parameter and provides lines of processed pixel data to control processor via a first interface. For each region of interest (ROI) in the frame, ISP generates auto-exposure and auto-white balance (2A) statistics based on the lines for the ROI and writes them to the local memory via a second interface. Control processor reads 2A statistics from the local memory, determines the image processing parameter based on them, and provides the image processing parameter to ISP. ISP also generates an integer N bin histogram for control processor, which sums a portion of the N total bins and compares the summed bin count to a lighting transition threshold. The image processing parameter is further based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mihir Narendra Mody, Niraj Nandan, Rajat Sagar, Shashank Dabral, Anthony Lell, Brijesh Jadav
  • Patent number: 11277543
    Abstract: In a method for dithering image data, a processor receives an input image in a first color space and a first bit depth larger than 8 bits. The processor converts the input image into a first image in a perceptually uniform color space, such as the BT. 2100 ICtCp color space, with pixel values scaled to be within a target bit depth, it quantizes the first image to generate a quantized image, it generates an error image between the first image and the quantized image, and using a random threshold, it generates a dithered image based on the random threshold, the error image, and the quantized image, allowing to reduce the bit-depth representation for visually consistent reproduction by two bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz, Robert Wanat
  • Patent number: 11276212
    Abstract: Conservative rasterization hardware comprises hardware logic arranged to perform an edge test calculation for each edge of a primitive and for each corner of each pixel in a microtile. Outer coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an OR gate. Inner coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an AND gate. An overall outer coverage result for the pixel and the primitive is calculated by combining the outer coverage results for the pixel and each of the edges of the primitive in an AND gate. The overall inner coverage result for the pixel is calculated in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Casper Van Benthem
  • Patent number: 11263767
    Abstract: A method for processing an image in a virtual reality display device comprises determining a gaze area and a non-gaze area in a display area of the virtual reality display device, performing, at a first time instant, a rendering process in the gaze area and the non-gaze area to generate a first image, performing a time warping process on the first image to generate a second image, based on attitude information of the virtual reality display device at a second time instant, and modifying the second image based on the movement information and attribute information of a motion object in the gaze area. The method can avoid problems caused by the time warping process, reduce delays, and avoid smearing or ghosting, and thus obtain a good display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhifu Li, Mingyang Yan, Jinghua Miao, Yukun Sun, Wenyu Li, Lili Chen, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11257279
    Abstract: Systems and methods perform non-parametric texture synthesis of arbitrary shape and/or material data taken from an exemplar object in accordance with embodiments of the invention. Exemplar data is first analyzed. Based upon the analysis, new unique but similar data is synthesized in a myriad of ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Artomatix Ltd.
    Inventor: Eric Andrew Risser
  • Patent number: 11244479
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Hugues Labbe, Atsuo Kuwahara, Sameer KP, Jonathan Kennedy, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Abhishek Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 11244657
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device and a host. The host is separately disposed on the display device and connected to the display device through a wireless or wired manner. The host transmits an image signal to the display device. The display device is configured to display a frame according to the image signal and enlarge a local portion of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jou Chen
  • Patent number: 11238639
    Abstract: In a computer graphics processing unit (GPU) having a texture unit, when pixel sample locations are based on a non-orthonormal grid in scene space, the texture unit receives texture space gradient values directly, e.g., from a shader unit or generates them from texture coordinates supplied, e.g., by a shader unit, and then applies a transformation to the gradient values configured to adjust the gradient values to those which would arise from the use of a orthonormal screen space grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Mark Evan Cerny
  • Patent number: 11235831
    Abstract: A straddle type vehicle includes a side mirror with which a rider confirms a rear side; a detection unit configured to detect another vehicle in a periphery of a self-vehicle; and a display unit configured to display a detection result by the detection unit. The display unit displays the detection result at a position within a contour of the side mirror and on an inner side in a vehicle width direction. In a case in which the another vehicle is detected by the detection unit, the display unit displays a color different from a display color of the detection result in a peripheral portion of a display region of the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tsubasa Fukuoka, Takashi Tetsuka
  • Patent number: 11232609
    Abstract: A method of displaying an image on a see-through display comprises: obtaining a first electro-magnetic radiation matrix of radiation intensity values of an object; dividing the first matrix into a second matrix representing a first subset of the radiation intensity values, and a third matrix representing a second subset of the radiation intensity values; generating a first grayscale image with an enhanced contrast representing the first subset of the radiation intensity values from the second matrix; colouring the first grayscale image with a first colourmap to obtain a first colour image; generating a second grayscale image representing the second subset of the radiation intensity values; colouring the second grayscale image with a second colourmap to obtain a second colour image; combining the first colour image and the second colour image; and displaying the combined colour image on the see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
    Inventors: Adrien Birbaumer, Martinus Bosch, Jason Racine, Sabine Süsstrunk
  • Patent number: 11222614
    Abstract: An image processing method with auto-adjusting gamma value is provided. This image processing method includes: receiving a detected value dependent upon a view angle between a normal direction of a screen and a sight direction of a viewer to the screen; receiving an original video frame with a plurality of pixels; determining at least one gamma table to obtain a gamma value for a pixel of the plurality of pixels according to the detected value, wherein there is an original pixel value corresponding to the pixel; and generating and outputting a corrected pixel value of the pixel based on the gamma value and the original pixel value of the pixel, wherein the screen is configured to show a corrected video frame having the pixel with the corrected pixel value. An image processing assembly and an image processing system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yun-Shu Yang, Yen-Tao Liao, Jen-Ta Yang