Patents Examined by Jed-Justin Imperial
  • Patent number: 11651552
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fine adjustment of computerized roof models are provided. The system generates a 3D roof structure model based on at least one image obtained from an aerial imagery database. Alternatively, the system could retrieve at least one stored 3D roof structure model from a 3D roof structure model database. The system weighs (e.g., scores) each 3D roof structure model candidate and determines an optimal 3D roof structure model by applying a variable neighborhood search to a 3D roof structure model candidate having a highest confidence score among the weighed 3D roof structure model candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Insurance Services Office, Inc.
    Inventors: Raúl Cabido Valladolid, Juan Carlos Nuñez Morreno, Javier Sánchez Egido
  • Patent number: 11633659
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system for evaluating movement of a body of a user. The system may include a video display, one or more digital cameras, and a processor. The processor may control the one or more cameras to generate images of at least the part of the body over a period of time. The processor may estimate a position of a plurality of joints of the body. The processor may receive a selection of a tracked pose, and determine, from the plurality of joints, a set of joints associated with the tracked pose. The processor may generate at least one joint vector connecting joints in the set of joints, and assign, based on changes in the joint vector over the period of time, a form score to a performance of the tracked pose. The processor may then generate a user interface that depicts the form score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MirrorAR LLC
    Inventors: Hemant Virkar, Leah R. Kaplan, Stephen Furlani, Jacob Borgman, Anil Bhave
  • Patent number: 11593995
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating variations of an object. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to populate an environment with variations of an object characterized by at least one visual property. In some implementations, the method includes generating the variations of the object by assigning corresponding values for the at least one visual property based on one or more distribution criterion. In some implementations, the method includes displaying the variations of the object in the setting in order to satisfy a presentation criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Hari Ferguson, Richard Ignatius Punsal Lozada, James Graham McCarter
  • Patent number: 11594003
    Abstract: In example embodiments, techniques are provided for visualizing a 3D model in an interactive editing workflow. A user modifies one or more elements of a model of the 3D model, by inserting one or more new elements having geometry, changing the geometry of one or more existing elements and/or deleting one or more existing elements having geometry. An updated view of the 3D model is then rendered to reflect the modification to the one or more elements in part by obtaining, for each new element or changed existing element of the model visible in the view, a polygon mesh that represents geometry of the individual element, obtaining a set of tiles that each include a polygon mesh that represent collective geometry of a set of elements intersecting the tile's volume, displaying the polygon mesh for each new element or changed existing element, and displaying the set of tiles while hiding any deleted or changed existing elements therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Connelly
  • Patent number: 11587299
    Abstract: Techniques for context-aware identification of anomalies in civil infrastructure. A method includes applying an anomaly identification model to features extracted from visual content showing civil infrastructure in order to determine at least one anomalous portion shown in the visual multimedia content, a type of each anomalous portion, and a quantification of each anomalous portion; wherein the anomaly identification model is selected based on a type of material of the civil infrastructure; and generating a semantically labeled three-dimensional (3D) model based on the at least one anomalous portion and the type of each anomalous portion, wherein the semantically labeled 3D model includes anomalous points; wherein each anomalous point represents one of the at least one anomalous portion; wherein the anomalous points collectively define a pattern of the at least one anomalous portion; wherein each anomalous point is visually distinguished to indicate the quantification of the respective anomalous portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: THE JOAN AND IRWIN JACOBS, TECHNION-CORNELL INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Ali Khaloo
  • Patent number: 11580713
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to motion compensation on a single photon avalanche detector (SPAD) array camera. One example provides a method enacted on an imaging device comprising a SPAD array camera and a motion sensor, the SPAD array camera comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of subframes of image data. Each subframe of image data comprises a binary value for each pixel. Based upon motion data from the motion sensor, the method further comprises determining a change in pose of the imaging device between adjacent subframes, applying a positional offset to a current subframe based upon the motion data to align a location of a stationary imaged feature in the current subframe with a location of the stationary imaged feature in a prior subframe to create aligned subframes, summing the aligned subframes to form an image, and outputting the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11574438
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a three-dimensional (3D) virtual scene are disclosed. The method includes: identifying a two-dimensional (2D) object in a 2D picture and the position of the 2D object in the 2D picture; obtaining the three-dimensional model of the 3D object corresponding to the 2D object; calculating the corresponding position of the 3D object corresponding to the 2D object in the horizontal plane of the 3D scene according to the position of the 2D object in the picture; and simulating the falling of the model of the 3D object onto the 3D scene from a predetermined height above the 3D scene, wherein the position of the landing point the model of the 3D object in the horizontal plane is the corresponding position of the 3D object in the horizontal plane of the 3D scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Guo Qiang Hu, Qi Cheng Li, Li Jun Mei, Jian Wang, Yi Min Wang, Zi Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11557047
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing an image are provided. The method may include: acquiring a set of image sequences, the set of image sequences including a plurality of image sequence subsets divided according to similarity measurements between image sequences, each image sequence subset including a basic image sequence and other image sequence, wherein a first similarity measurement corresponding to the basic image sequence is greater than or equal to a first similarity measurement corresponding to the other image sequence; creating an original three-dimensional model using the basic image sequence; and creating a final three-dimensional model using the other image sequence based on the original three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meng Yao
  • Patent number: 11526712
    Abstract: A training method for an image fusion processing model is provided. The method includes: obtaining an image set, and compressing the image set, updating a parameter of an encoder of a single image processing model and a parameter of a decoder of the single image processing model according to a single to-be-replaced face in the original image set, and updating parameters of an encoder and a decoder that are of the image fusion processing model according to different to-be-replaced faces and different target faces that are in the original image set while the parameters of the encoder and the decoder that are of the single image processing model remain unchanged. An image processing method and apparatus for an image fusion processing model, an electronic device, and a storage medium are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Fasheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11488350
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to compression of data stored at different cache levels. In some embodiments, a memory system implements a storage hierarchy that includes first cache circuitry and second cache circuitry at different levels of the hierarchy. Processor circuitry generates write data to be written to the memory system. In some embodiments, first compression circuitry is configured to compress a first block of write data in response to full accumulation of the first block in the first cache circuitry and second compression circuitry is configured to compress a second block of write data in response to full accumulation of the second block in the second cache circuitry. Write circuitry may write the first and second compressed blocks of data in a single combined write to a higher level in the storage hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony P. DeLaurier, Karl D. Mann, Tyson J. Bergland, Winnie W. Yeung
  • Patent number: 11488338
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for software-based animation. A method can include receiving data indicating a first object name, a corresponding file path of a model, a camera location, a reference point, and an animation of the first object, the animation comprising a stack of atomic animation functions that affect the view of one or more of the first object or the camera, storing the object name, the file path, the camera location, the reference location, and atomic animation functions in a memory, in response to receiving data indicating the first object was selected, automatically retrieving the model based on the file path, providing, by the display, a view of the model of the first object consistent with the camera location and the reference point, and executing the stored atomic animation functions to animate the model of the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Kyle R. Willson, Kerry P. Dinsmore, Joshua M. Regnier, Stephen B. Edwards
  • Patent number: 11482306
    Abstract: A user may select one or more potential common ancestors with a DNA match to view the target individual's relationship with them. The process may include identifying, from a first genealogical profile of the target individual. A first individual has a first linkage that connects the target individual towards the selected potential common ancestor. The process may also include identifying, from a second genealogical profile of the DNA match, a second individual who has a second linkage that connects the DNA match towards the selected potential common ancestor. The process may further include connecting the first linkage and the second linkage with the selected potential common ancestor by adding one or more individuals whose profiles are retrieved from other searchable genealogical profiles stored in the online system. With the nodes and connections available, the process may generate a map of visual connections between the target individual and the DNA match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ancestry.com DNA, LLC
    Inventors: Shiya Song, Neal Craig Varner, Ross E. Curtis, Brian Jerel Kerr, Kelly McCloy Becker, Brett Frederick Jorgensen, Bryce Damon Ririe, Michael Joseph Mulligan, Justin Matthew Robert Van Dyke, Michaela Black Bonkemeyer
  • Patent number: 11482002
    Abstract: A client device that includes a camera and an extended reality client application program is employed by a user in a physical space, such as an industrial or campus environment. The user aims the camera within the mobile device at a real-world asset, such as a computer system, classroom, or vehicle. The client device acquires a digital image via the camera and detects textual and/or pictorial content included in the acquired image that corresponds to one or more anchors. The client device queries a data intake and query system for asset content associated with the detected anchors. Upon receiving the asset content from the data intake and query system, the client device generates visualizations of the asset content and presents the visualizations via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Devin Bhushan, Seunghee Han, Caelin Thomas Jackson-King, Jamie Kuppel, Stanislav Yazhenskikh, Jim Jiaming Zhu
  • Patent number: 11475623
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for allocating local memories to virtual machines. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a command streamer to queue commands from a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) or applications, the commands to be distributed from the command streamer and executed by graphics processing resources of a graphics processing unit (GPU); a tile cache to store graphics data associated with the plurality of VMs or applications as the commands are executed by the graphics processing resources; and tile cache allocation hardware logic to allocate a first portion of the tile cache to a first VM or application and a second portion of the tile cache to a second VM or application; the tile cache allocation hardware logic to further allocate a first region in system memory to store spill-over data when the first portion of the tile cache and/or the second portion of the file cache becomes full.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, Pattabhiraman K, Balaji Vembu, Altug Koker, Niranjan L. Cooray, Josh B. Mastronarde
  • Patent number: 11468637
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of navigating a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. The method includes providing the VR environment, receiving, from a user, inputs indicative of a user-drawn path in the VR environment, the user-drawn path originating at a position of the user and terminating at a terminal point in the VR environment, generating a plurality of waypoints along the user-drawn path, moving the user to a first waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, pausing the user at the first waypoint, and moving, responsive to a criterion being met, the user to a second waypoint of the plurality of waypoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ALDIN DYNAMICS, EHF.
    Inventors: Hrafn Thorri Thorisson, Pall Arinbjarnar, Gunnar Steinn Valgardsson
  • Patent number: 11464604
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rapidly and reliably determining an arch with of a patient's dental arch. A patient's dentition may be scanned and/or segmented. Arch width may be determined between points of intersection on the occlusal surface and a long axis of each tooth between one or more of: canine, first bicuspid, first primary molar, second bicuspid, second primary molar, and permanent first molar. Arch widths of different modified versions of the patient's dentition may be dynamically compared the patient's starting dentition, or to each other, and may be dynamically updated as the user modifies or switches between one or more 3D models of the patient's dentition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Svetlana Makarenkova, Ilya Agafonov, Boris Likhtman, Pavel Sokolov, Vladimir Fedorov
  • Patent number: 11457196
    Abstract: The subject technology selects a set of augmented reality content generators from a plurality of available augmented reality content generator based on metadata associated with each respective augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a selectable graphical item from a plurality of selectable graphical items, the selectable graphical item comprising an augmented reality content generator including a 3D effect. The subject technology captures image data and depth data using at least one camera of the client device. The subject technology applies, to the image data and the depth data, the 3D effect based at least in part on the augmented reality content generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Goodrich, Samuel Edward Hare, Maxim Maximov Lazarov, Tony Mathew, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno, Dhritiman Sagar, Wentao Shang
  • Patent number: 11455779
    Abstract: In example embodiments, techniques are provided for visualizing a 3D model in an interactive editing workflow. A user modifies one or more elements of a model of the 3D model, by inserting one or more new elements having geometry, changing the geometry of one or more existing elements and/or deleting one or more existing elements having geometry. An updated view of the 3D model is then rendered to reflect the modification to the one or more elements in part by obtaining, for each new element or changed existing element of the model visible in the view, a polygon mesh that represents geometry of the individual element, obtaining a set of tiles that each include a polygon mesh that represent collective geometry of a set of elements intersecting the tile's volume, displaying the polygon mesh for each new element or changed existing element, and displaying the set of tiles while hiding any deleted or changed existing elements therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Connelly
  • Patent number: 11455748
    Abstract: This method for up-sampling a point cloud representing a 3D object, comprises: —detecting (2) points belonging to at least one under-sampled region of the point cloud on the basis of at least one desirable sampling rate (K); —obtaining (12), for each detected point, an associated tangent plane; —inserting (14) in the point cloud at least one neighboring point of each detected point if a distance between the neighboring point and the tangent plane associated with the detected point is less than a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kangying Cai, Celine Guede, Joan Llach Pinsach, Sebastien Lasserre
  • Patent number: 11449405
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a graph that represents an action of a program. On the graph, an edge represents action contents of a process in an event. Further, two nodes connected by the edge respectively represent a subject and an object of the event. The information processing apparatus outputs the generated graph. Further, the information processing apparatus also alters the generated graph. When an index value of an event satisfies a first predetermined condition which index value is based on the number of occurrences or the frequency of occurrences of the event, the information processing apparatus alters the graph with respect to an edge representing the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiaki Sakae, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Jun Nishioka