Patents Examined by David H. Chu
  • Patent number: 10578880
    Abstract: With a device comprising a directional antenna, obtain an interaction profile for an augmentable object and augment a sensory experience of the augmentable object according to the interaction profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomer Rider, Ron Ferens, Amit Moran
  • Patent number: 10559094
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes providing feedback by a mobile device to guide a placement of the mobile device to a predetermined orientation, identifying, utilizing a hardware camera of a mobile device, vision code data from a plurality of additional devices that are within a field of view of the hardware camera of the mobile device at an actual orientation, identifying the actual orientation of the mobile device, calculating local observations at the mobile device, sending the local observations from the mobile device to a cloud-side service, receiving a timed tile sequence at the mobile device from the cloud-side service, and outputting the timed tile sequence at the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Inseok Hwang, Gelareh Taban, Myung-Chul Kim, Chungkuk Yoo
  • Patent number: 10559133
    Abstract: An information handling system coordinates presentation of a visual item with a flat panel display and head mounted display using tokens detected by one or more sensors, such as a depth camera and ultrasonic sensor. Upon detection of a token by a sensor, gestures detected by at least one sensor manipulate a three dimensional image presented at a location by the head mounted display. A visible surface determination of the view area sorts upright extents of the items presented by the head mounted display and flat panel display so the united view of an end user is uncluttered with image overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 10559130
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to displaying image data configured to appear behind a real-world surface. One example provides, on a computing device including a display, a method including obtaining depth data representing a real-world scene, identifying a real-world surface of the real-world scene via the depth data, obtaining volumetric image data and surface image data, the volumetric image data configured to appear as being located in a volume behind the real-world surface, receiving a user input configured to remove an area of surface image data corresponding spatially to the real-world surface, and displaying at least a portion of the volumetric image data in a region in which the area of surface image data was removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Bradley Scott, Omer Bilal Orhan, John Copic, Shawn Crispin Wright, Jeffrey Kohler
  • Patent number: 10546428
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using at least one sensor, an electronic device; determining, using a processor, a type of the electronic device; and providing, on a display of an augmented reality system and based on the type of the electronic device, an indication of at least one aspect of the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese
  • Patent number: 10540941
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a cursor and a focus indicator associated with real or virtual objects in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality environment by a wearable display device are disclosed. The system can determine a spatial relationship between a user-movable cursor and a target object within the environment. The system may render a focus indicator (e.g., a halo, shading, or highlighting) around or adjacent objects that are near the cursor. The focus indicator may be emphasized in directions closer to the cursor and deemphasized in directions farther from the cursor. When the cursor overlaps with a target object, the system can render the object in front of the cursor (or not render the cursor at all), so the object is not occluded by the cursor. The cursor and focus indicator can provide the user with positional feedback and help the user navigate among objects in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: John Austin Day, Lorena Pazmino, James Cameron Petty, Paul Armistead Hoover, Chris Sorrell, James M. Powderly, Savannah Niles
  • Patent number: 10535202
    Abstract: An industrial visualization system generates and delivers virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) presentations of industrial facilities to wearable appliances to facilitate remote or enhanced interaction with automation systems within the facility. VR presentations can comprise three-dimensional (3D) holographic views of a plant facility or a location within a plant facility. The system can selectively render a scaled down view that renders the facility as a 3D scale model, or as a first-person view that renders the facility as a full-scale rendition that simulates the user's presence on the plant floor. Camera icons rendered in the VR presentation can be selected to switch to a live video stream generated by 360-degree cameras within the plant. The system can also render workflow presentations that guide users through the process of correcting detected maintenance issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Schmirler, Thong T. Nguyen, Alex L. Nicoll, David Vasko
  • Patent number: 10521949
    Abstract: A graphics animation and compositing operations framework has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media or other type of objects for an application's user interface. The application commits state changes of the layers of the layer tree. The application does not need to include explicit code for animating the changes to the layers. Instead, after a synchronization threshold has been met, an animation is determined for animating the change in state by the framework which can define a set of predetermined animations based on motion, visibility and transition. The determined animation is explicitly applied to the affected layers in the render tree. A render engine renders from the render tree into a frame buffer, synchronized with the display. Portions of the render tree changing relative to prior versions can be tracked to improve resource management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Brunner, John Harper, Peter Graffagnino
  • Patent number: 10511726
    Abstract: A device and algorithm for allowing a customer to choose a photo book cover template that is compatible with a photo having faces. The photo is compared with a set of templates arranged in a first order to determine how compatible the photo is to each of the templates, and a score indicative of compatibility is assigned. A re-sorted set of compatible templates combined with the photo is presented to the customer for consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: PLANETART, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Black, Erik Malkemus, Roger Bloxberg, Zhang Ming Jun, Fan Xiang, Wang Ping, Zhang Xui Hao
  • Patent number: 10504257
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to computer-implemented systems and methods for graphical representation of financial account outflow. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of a computer, a transaction of an account holder including an amount and frequency of the transaction, and categorizing the transaction on a continuum of discretionary spending and fixed expense spending. The transaction is displayed by the processor on a user interface using a graph having an x-axis providing a frequency of the at least one transaction, and a y-axis indicating the categorization of the transaction. The transaction is displayed as a bubble on the graph, where the bubble has a diameter that is proportional to the amount of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Erik Schutzman, Tambra Nichols, Susan Bell McCraw, H. Brock Kolls
  • Patent number: 10503977
    Abstract: Examples associated with displaying augmented images via paired devices are disclosed. Providing a trigger image from a mobile device to a paired device. The paired device is controlled to display the trigger image. The mobile device scans the trigger image being displayed on the paired device. An augmented image of the trigger image is displayed on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Severn, David Clinton Joiner, Andrew Joiner
  • Patent number: 10496238
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to three-dimensional displays and methods for displaying three-dimensional images. Some embodiments may be related to zooming for 3D image capture and display in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Joseph S. Choi, John C. Howell
  • Patent number: 10484643
    Abstract: As technology advances, customer-agent interactions require adoption of the new technologies to remain useful to customers and cost effective to contact centers. Virtual reality technology allows a customer to virtually tour a remote location and optionally interact with an agent during the virtual tour. The agent and/or customer may select virtual reality elements, including a recording of the interaction itself, to be triggered upon the customer, with a location enabled customer device, being located in the real-world at a corresponding virtual location in which the virtual reality element was created. The virtual reality element may be automatically presented and the presentation may be a full virtual reality presentation, an augmented reality presentation, or a converted presentation, such as to a more conventional format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Moran
  • Patent number: 10474197
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed An example apparatus to update a spatially adjustable display disclosed herein includes a display size monitor to acquire an indication of a size of the spatially adjustable display, a service image comparator to compare the indication of the size to a size model, and a source image adjuster to invoke visual configuration adjustments to an output image of the spatially adjustable display based on parameters identified in the size model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: David W. Browning
  • Patent number: 10475224
    Abstract: This application discloses a reality-augmented information display method performed by a first terminal that is communicatively connected to a remote server. The method includes: obtaining a first geographical location of the first terminal and a first orientation of the camera; transmitting the first geographical location and the first orientation to the server; receiving, from the server, first information, wherein the first information is released by a second terminal at a second geographical location that is within a region defined by the first geographical location and the first orientation; determining a display location of the first information on the display of the first terminal according to the second geographical location within the region defined by the first geographical location and the first orientation; and displaying, at the display location, presentation information used to represent the first information while displaying a real-time image captured by the camera on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuan Liang
  • Patent number: 10449004
    Abstract: Example methods and systems may be used intraoperatively to help surgeons perform accurate and replicable surgeries, such as knee arthroplasty surgeries. An example system combines real time measurement and tracking components with functionality to compile data collected by the hardware to register a bone of a patient, calculate an axis (e.g., mechanical axis) of the leg of the patient, assist a surgeon in placing cut guides, and verify a placement of an inserted prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AOD HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Ferro, Scott Gill, Austin Ferro, Donald Lee, Joe Phillips
  • Patent number: 10444947
    Abstract: In embodiments of document layer extraction for mobile devices, an image service can receive a request from a mobile device for a multi-layered image, and the image service generates a layer extraction as a full-resolution image of each of the layers of the multi-layered image. The image service can then generate a component representation of the layer extractions that correspond to selected layers of the multi-layered image, where the layer extractions are independently editable in the component representation. The image service can then communicate the component representation of the layer extractions that are independently editable and correspond to the selected layers of the multi-layered image to the mobile device for use with an image editing application on the mobile device, and the image service receives image edit changes made to one or more of the selected layers in the component representation of the multi-layered image from the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Clement Faydi, David J. Pond, Oliver I. Goldman, Daniel Clark, Roey F. Horns
  • Patent number: 10433922
    Abstract: A teleoperational assembly is disclosed which includes an operator control system and a plurality of manipulators configured to control the movement of medical instruments in a surgical environment. The manipulators are teleoperationally controlled by the operator control system. The system further includes a processing unit configured to display an image of a field of view of the surgical environment, project the position of distal end portions of the medical instruments into the image's coordinate space, determine initial positions for badges associated with the distal end portions of each medical instrument, evaluate a display factor for each badge based on its initial position, and determine a final display position for each badge in the image's coordinate space based on the display factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr
  • Patent number: 10417801
    Abstract: According to one example for outputting image data, an image comprising a surface and an object are captured on a sensor. An object mask based on the captured image is created on a processor. A first composite image based on the object mask and a source content file is created. In an example, the first composite image is projected to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Kar-Han Tan
  • Patent number: 10410428
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for providing support to a party who is using an augmented reality device and seeking to resolve an issue. One or more pieces of information are obtained through the augmented reality device and a cause of the issue is identified by utilizing one or more predictive models and the pieces of information as input to the models. Once the cause has been identified, a script is queried that includes instructions to be performed by the party to address the cause and media to execute on the augmented reality device to aid the party in performing the instructions. Accordingly, the instructions and media are communicated to the party through the augmented reality device so that the party may perform the instructions with the aid of the media to address the cause of the issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Noble Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis J. Reeder, Christopher S. Haggerty