Patents Examined by Charles L Beard
  • Patent number: 10817043
    Abstract: A technique is disclosed for a graphics processing unit (GPU) to enter and exit a power saving deep sleep mode. The technique involves preserving processing state within local memory by configuring the local memory to operate in a self-refresh mode while the GPU is powered off for deep sleep. An interface circuit coupled to the local memory is configured to prevent spurious GPU signals from disrupting proper self-refresh of the local memory. Spurious GPU signals may result from GPU power down and GPU power up events associated with the GPU entering and exiting the deep sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeev Jayavant, Thomas E. Dewey, David Wyatt
  • Patent number: 10810781
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for displaying representative images within a collection viewer is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an indication of a new orientation for the collection viewer, displaying a sequence of animation frames that depict an in-place rotation animation for the representative images, generating a rotation angle in a sequence of rotation angles, and displaying a rendered representative image for each of the two or more representative images by rendering the two or more representative images, wherein each rendered representative image is rotated according to the rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: DUELIGHT LLC
    Inventors: Adam Barry Feder, Brian J. Kindle, William Guie Rivard
  • Patent number: 10810719
    Abstract: A face image processing system includes: a component extracting means which receives an input of face image information indicating a face image, and extracts a wrinkle component, a fleck component and a pore component of the face image from the face image information; a removal rate adjusting means which adjusts a removal rate of each of the wrinkle component, the fleck component and the pore component extracted by the component extracting means; a storage means which stores the removal rate; a synthesizing means which synthesizes the wrinkle component, the fleck component and the pore component which are amplified or attenuated at the removal rate adjusted by the removal rate adjusting means, and generates a face image; and an output means which outputs the face image information synthesized by the synthesizing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: MEIJI UNIVERSITY, KOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru Arakawa, Fumihiko Tsukiyama
  • Patent number: 10809159
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically generating a combined display of measurement data representing a combined measurement, such as a multiphase parameter, includes establishing, by a mobile computing device, communication connections with a plurality of measurement devices configured to generate measurement data. The mobile computing device receives the measurement data generated by the plurality of measurement devices, and in response to information indicative of the measurement data representing related parts of a combined measurement, the mobile computing device automatically groups the measurement data received from the measurement devices and automatically displays the grouped measurement data in a combined display that shares at least one axis of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: John Neeley, Bradley Honsinger, Tyler Bennett Evans, Joseph V. Ferrante
  • Patent number: 10810789
    Abstract: A mobile device is provided. The mobile device may include a communication interface; a display; a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: control the communication interface to communicate with an image display apparatus; control a viewpoint of a 360-degree image based on an input; and control the communication interface to transmit, to the image display apparatus, at least one among an image corresponding to the viewpoint of the 360-degree image, and viewpoint control information corresponding to the viewpoint of the 360-degree image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-il Kim, Kwan-sik Yang, Jeong-rok Jang, Kil-soo Choi
  • Patent number: 10810773
    Abstract: Systems and methods for display control based on pupil size in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications. In some embodiments, a method may include: identifying, via a camera mounted to a body a headset facing an eye of a user wearing the headset, a pupil state of the user; communicating an indication of the pupil state to an Information Handling System (IHS) coupled to the headset, wherein the IHS is configured to select a setting based upon the pupil state and transmit an indication of the setting to the headset; and applying the setting, via a controller of the headset, to at least one of: (a) a display mounted on the body of the headset, or (b) an image shown to the user via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Yagiz Can Yildiz, Rex W. Bryan
  • Patent number: 10748312
    Abstract: Various methods, systems and storage devices are provided for tagging chart elements and for optimizing chart visualizations. Tagged chart elements and their corresponding display attributes are preserved during chart visualization optimizations that result in a modification of untagged chart elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: B. Scott Ruble, Catherine W. Neylan
  • Patent number: 10725650
    Abstract: A handwritten music sign recognition device (10) has: a touch information obtaining part (21) which obtains, as position information, a position of an input means on a screen every time the input means moves, from when the input means touches the screen until when the input means is moved away therefrom; a vector information creation part (22) which creates attributes of a vector indicating a trace of movement of the input means as vector information based on the position information; and a stroke characteristic amount derivation part (23) which derives a characteristic amount of a stroke based on the vector information included in the stroke information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Akihiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10607404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glossy part of radiation is estimated coming from a surface illuminated by area light source(s) having source surface(s) (A) bounded by edge curves, by determining integrand function(s) representative of that glossy part. The latter corresponding to an integration of the integrand function along the edge curves. In this respect, the integrand function(s) is/are approximated by means of peak-shape function(s) having a known antiderivative over the edge curves, and the glossy part is computed from analytical expressions associated with integrations of the peak-shape function(s) along the edge curves. Such invention can offer efficient and accurate computation for specular part of reflection as well as glossy transmission, and is notably relevant to real-time rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Pascal Lecocq, Gael Sourimant, Jean-Eudes Marvie
  • Patent number: 10600213
    Abstract: A system include an light emitter to generate a primary light, a filter to filter the primary light to substantially remove a spectrum energy in a wavelength band, a display device to present visual content using the filtered primary light, and a processing device to receive a visual content, calculate, in view of the filtered primary light, a metamer of the visual content, and provide, to the display device, the metamer of the visual content to display in view of the filtered light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Focal Sharp, Inc.
    Inventor: Kuang-Tsu Shih
  • Patent number: 10600245
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for switching between different modes of a media content item. A media content item may include a movie that has different modes, such as a cinematic mode and an interactive mode. For example, a movie may be presented in a cinematic mode that does not allow certain user interactions with the movie. The movie may be switched to an interactive mode during any point of the movie, allowing a viewer to interact with various aspects of the movie. The movie may be displayed using different formats and resolutions depending on which mode the movie is being presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Lutz Markus Latta, Ian Wakelin, Darby Johnston, Andrew Grant, John Gaeta
  • Patent number: 10593074
    Abstract: Responsive to receiving an indication of a geographical area, one or more constituent areas associated with the geographical area are identified. Boundary data corresponding to the constituent areas is accessed. The boundary data for each constituent area comprises a plurality of geographical location points defining line segments that define the boundary of the corresponding constituent area. Unique portions of line segments are identified. A unique portion of a line segment is a portion of a line segment defined in the boundary data of one and only one of the constituent areas. The geographical area boundary layer is defined. The geographical boundary layer comprises a set of line segments consisting of the unique portions of line segments. A geographical map is provided for display via a user interface. The geographical map comprises a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers comprise one or more map layer sand the geographical area boundary layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Friedman, Sandeep Kumar Gupta, Vishrut Prakash Srivastava, Jason Lee Kelly, Brenton John Sellati, Christian Alexander Maas, Erin Breslin, Jon Ringer
  • Patent number: 10593304
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal supply circuit used for a display device includes a plurality of subpixels each including a memory. The signal supply circuit includes a first mode. The first mode receives first video data in a unit of n bits corresponding to the subpixels from outside, and supplies digital data for the subpixels in a unit of m bits less than n bits to the subpixels based on the first video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki Nakao
  • Patent number: 10540804
    Abstract: Images may be automatically annotated with place identifiers based on textual metadata associated with the images. The quality of these place identifiers may be scored based on a number of different factors. For example, these annotations may also include confidence and topicality values indicative of the relationships between the place identifier and the text as well as topics of the text of the textual metadata. Images that also have additional location information that includes GPS coordinates or a location specified by a user, may be used to evaluate the quality of a given place identifier, combination of confidence and topicality values, and the overall annotation system. These valuations may, in turn, be used to score the quality of such automatic annotations of other images that do not have such additional location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wenfeng Li, Allen Hutchison
  • Patent number: 10535114
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention a driver configures a graphics pipeline implemented in a cache tiling architecture to perform dynamically-defined multi-pass rendering sequences. In operation, based on sequence-specific configuration data, the driver determines an optimized tile size and, for each pixel in each pass, the set of pixels in each previous pass that influence the processing of the pixel. The driver then configures the graphics pipeline to perform per-tile rendering operations in a region that is translated by a pass-specific offset backward—vertically and/or horizontally—along a tiled caching traversal line. Notably, the offset ensures that the required pixel data from previous passes is available. The driver further configures the graphics pipeline to store the rendered data in cache lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Bolz
  • Patent number: 10510164
    Abstract: A processing unit, method, and medium for decompressing or generating textures within a graphics processing unit (GPU). The textures are compressed with a variable-rate compression scheme such as JPEG. The compressed textures are retrieved from system memory and transferred to local cache memory on the GPU without first being decompressed. A table is utilized by the cache to locate individual blocks within the compressed texture. A decompressing shader processor receives compressed blocks and then performs on-the-fly decompression of the blocks. The decompressed blocks are then processed as usual by a texture consuming shader processor of the GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantine Iourcha, John W. Brothers
  • Patent number: 10496356
    Abstract: A display system has a first tablet terminal, a second tablet terminal, and a projector capable of communicating with the first tablet terminal and the second tablet terminal via the communication network. The projector requests transmission of first data to the first tablet terminal, and at the same time requests transmission of second data to the second tablet terminal. The first tablet terminal and the second tablet terminal transmit the first data and the second data to the projector in accordance with the request from the projector at respective timings different from each other via a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10474352
    Abstract: A user can dynamically invoke and control the display of secondary data visualizations based on a selected element of a primary data visualization. Previews of the secondary data visualizations are presented as the user interacts with the primary visualization. In response to user input, previews can be dynamically expanded, allowing a user to dynamically “drill down” into selected elements of the primary data visualization. Any suitable input mechanism can be used, including for example, a gesture such as a two-finger spreading motion to invoke previews of available secondary visualizations, wherein the axis defined by two points of contact determines which of the displayed previews of secondary visualizations is highlighted and/or expanded. In various embodiments, a hierarchy of visualizations can be established, and the user can navigate among two or more levels of visualizations in the same interactive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Winters, Amir H. Raubvogel
  • Patent number: 10474927
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for precomputation of reduced deformable models. In such precomputation, a Krylov subspace iteration may be used to construct a series of inertia modes for an input mesh. The inertia modes may be condensed into a mode matrix. A set of cubature points may be sampled from the input mesh, and cubature weights of the set of cubature points may be calculated for each of the inertia modes in the mode matrix. A training dataset may be generated by iteratively adding training samples to the training dataset until a training error metric converges, wherein each training sample is generated from an inertia mode in the mode matrix and corresponding cubature weights. The reduced deformable model may be generated, including inertia modes in the training dataset and corresponding cubature weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: STC. UNM
    Inventor: Yin Yang
  • Patent number: 10460512
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for generating three-dimensional (3D) skeletons of target objects using images of the target objects captured from different viewpoints. Images of an object (such as a person) can be captured from different camera angles. Feature keypoints of the object can be identified in the captured images. Keypoints that identify a same feature in separate images can be correlated using truncated epipolar lines. For example, depth information for a keypoint can be used to truncate an epipolar line that is created using the keypoint. The correlated feature keypoints can be used to create 3D feature coordinates for the associated features of the object. A 3D skeleton can be generated using the 3D feature coordinates. One or more 3D models can be mapped to the 3D skeleton and rendered. The rendered one or more 3D models can be displayed on one or more display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Qiuyu Chen