Patents Examined by Leon T Cain, II
  • Patent number: 8605082
    Abstract: A digital screen rendering resolution adjustment can allow users who are conventionally dependent upon corrective lenses to view the digital screen to, after the resolution adjustment, view the contents of this screen with 20×20 vision (considered normal vision), without the use of these corrective lenses. A linear algebraic transform (performing essentially the inverse of the Lensmaker's Equation) can be applied and enact matrix manipulation that when rendering the graphical display to autocompensate for a viewer's visual abnormalities, can result in a distorted screen that is equivalent to the inverse of a corrective lens prescription. A screen rendering customization to autocompensate for a user's visual impairment can be applied for each eye in 3D capable devices due to the inherent nature of 3D to display separate images per eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 8599194
    Abstract: A system includes an analysis system for performing an analysis and a motion capture environment interfaced with the analysis system. The motion capture system includes at least one sensor-tracker for tracking a location of a tracked object within the motion capture environment and one or more computers collectively operable to generate a virtual reality environment corresponding to the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: George Steven Lewis, John Valentino, Christopher Michael Bothwell
  • Patent number: 8599205
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a battery residual quantity of a portable terminal having a self-luminescence display are provided. The brightness of an image frame is determined by analyzing a histogram of the image frame output through the self-luminescence display. A power consumption of the self-luminescence display is determined based on the brightness of the image frame output through the self-luminescence display. A battery voltage and a battery voltage variance value are determined. The battery residual quantity is displayed in accordance with the power consumption of the self-luminescence display and the battery voltage variance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hun Cho, Min-Woo Lee, Sung-Dae Cho, Yong-Deok Kim
  • Patent number: 8593467
    Abstract: A method of managing multiple contexts for a single mode display includes receiving a plurality of tasks from one or more applications and determining respective contexts for each task, each context having a range of memory addresses. The method also includes selecting one context for output to the single mode display and loading the selected context into a graphics processor for the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Warren Schreyer, Michael James Elliot Swift
  • Patent number: 8570332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power-gating control method for a graphics processing unit having a unified shader unit, which includes a plurality of shaders. The method includes the steps of: rendering a plurality of previous frames; calculating a first number of active shaders for rendering each previous frame, and a corresponding frame rate of each previous frame; determining a second number of active shaders for rendering a next frame immediately following the previous frame according to the first number of active shaders and the corresponding frame rate of each previous frame; and activating corresponding shaders through one or more power-gating control elements according to the second number of active shaders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Chia-Lin Yang, Po-Han Wang, Yu-Jung Cheng
  • Patent number: 8564593
    Abstract: An improved method for processing image voxel data representative of 3-dimensional images of a colon to remove the effects of tagged stool. The method uses parabolic curve intensity-gradient models at a transition between two material types as a function of the fraction of the two materials for each of a plurality of two-material type classes, including a gas-tissue transition model, a gas-stool transition model and a stool-tissue transition model. The voxels are classified into one of a plurality of substance classes including tagged stool, gas, tissue and unknown classes. The unknown class voxels are processed to classify the unknown class voxels into one of the two-material type classes. The two-material type class voxels are processed to determine the fractions of materials in each voxel. The intensity of the two-material type class voxels is then adjusted as a function of the fraction of the materials in the voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: C. Daniel Johnson, Michael J. Carston, Armando Manduca
  • Patent number: 8542232
    Abstract: Avatars focal points are monitored as the Avatars move within a virtual environment to determine, statistically, where users are looking at in the virtual environment. The Avatar's focal point may be used to control a virtual brush that may paint the virtual environment in an attention monitoring function. A statistical distribution about the focal point is used to affect the coloration, and other known information about the virtual environment may be used to affect the statistics. As attention records from multiple users are collected, they may be overlaid to obtain a very accurate picture of how users are interacting with the virtual environment and with objects in the virtual environment. The attention monitoring function may generate a thermal overlay to the virtual environment to visually show where users tend to focus within the virtual environment. Users' attention on three dimensional and graphic objects may be monitored as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Arn Hyndman, Nicholas Sauriol
  • Patent number: 8537172
    Abstract: A method of assembling an image. The method comprises receiving an image depicting a pattern, identifying a stochastic field and a deterministic field of the pattern, separately increasing resolution of each the stochastic and deterministic fields, and assembling the resolution increased stochastic and deterministic fields to create an additional image of the pattern. The pattern in the additional image having a higher spatial resolution than in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Shira Nemirovsky, Moshe Porat
  • Patent number: 8520008
    Abstract: A picture display device including a display unit which displays a picture in accordance with a picture signal included in a broadcast signal. A display control unit displays a picture for an electronic program guide including characters on the display unit in accordance with program information included in the broadcast signal. A brightness information retriever retrieves information related to the brightness of the picture displayed on the display unit. The display control unit adjusts the size of the characters in the electronic program guide displayed on the display unit in accordance with the brightness information retrieved by the brightness information retriever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takafumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8514222
    Abstract: Device, system, and method of Computer-Aided-Design (CAD). A system of CAD may include a client application to communicate with a server and to render to a user a viewport including at least a portion of a CAD model based on data received from the server, wherein the client application is capable of receiving section information from the server, wherein the section information defines a plurality of geometric sections of the CAD model; selecting at least one section of the plurality of sections based on a relationship between the viewport and the boundaries of the plurality of geometric sections; requesting from the server one or more files corresponding to the at least one selected section; receiving the one or more files corresponding to the at least one selected section; and rendering the viewport based on the one or more files. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seroussi, Tal Weiss
  • Patent number: 8502826
    Abstract: A music visualization system and methods involving a central processing unit capable of converting waveform data to geometry data, a graphics processing unit capable of recognizing and accepting the geometry data and rendering a plurality of graphical images, a custom shader software program being operable on the graphics processing unit, an embeddable platform being in electronic communication with the graphics processing unit, and an audiovisual display device in electronic communication with the graphics processing unit and the embeddable platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suranjit Adhikari, Eric Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8493403
    Abstract: Color transformation sample point identification is described. A subset of points from a superset of points representing a colorimetric relationship is identified. The subset of points defines an initial n-simplex with (n+1) points representing an approximation of the colorimetric relationship, where n represents a number of dimensions. An additional point from the superset of points is selected and added to the subset of points to replace the n-simplex with a set of at least two n-simplices. The additional point is selected such that a volume of an (n+1)-simplex formed by the (n+1) points of the initial n-simplex and the additional point is increased. An error value for the approximation is determined by calculating an error volume between the (n+1)-simplex and the superset of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ingeborg Tastl, John Ludd Recker, Yao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8487959
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a baseline resource and one or more candidate change resources at a computing device, the baseline resource and the one or more candidate resources being displayable on a display, rendering the baseline resource as an image to provide an image file including corresponding image data, rendering the one or more candidate change resources as respective images to provide one or more image files each including corresponding image data, processing the image files using the computing device to determine one or more statistics of interest, the one or more statistics of interest reflecting a user behavior in interacting with a resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rehan Khan, Nicholas Chamandy
  • Patent number: 8482572
    Abstract: Display control means displays, on display means, an image based on first conversion target image data in which color information is set for each of a plurality of image elements. Coordinate determination means determines a first coordinate in accordance with an instruction performed by using the pointing device. Conversion target condition setting means obtains color information of an image element, in the first conversion target image data, which corresponds to the first coordinate, and sets a first conversion target condition in accordance with the obtained color information. Color conversion means performs color conversion processing of changing color information of an image element, in the first conversion target image data, which satisfies the first conversion target condition, and displays an after-conversion image on the display means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naonori Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 8477143
    Abstract: Embodiments enable a graphics processor to more efficiently process graphics and compositing processing commands. In certain embodiments, a client application submits client graphics commands to a graphics driver. The client in certain embodiments can notify a window server that client graphics commands have been submitted. In response, the window server can generate compositing processing commands and provide these commands to the graphics driver. Advantageously, a graphics processor can execute the client graphics commands while the window server generates compositing processing commands. As a result, processing resource can be used more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John Harper, Kenneth C. Dyke
  • Patent number: 8471870
    Abstract: A method of rendering magnified pointing indicia including the steps of monitoring application program interface messaging and intercepting a call for a unique system pointer identifier. A stored collection of predefined vector shapes is accessed and from that a predefined vector shape from the collection is selected which is correlated to the current system pointer identifier. A convergence point may be established for maximum pointing indicia magnification in addition to a user-selectable desktop magnification level. The vector shape is scaled in synchronization with the desktop magnification level up to the convergence point whereby the vector shape is no longer scaled up once the convergence point is reached. The scaled vector shape is rasterized and displayed to an end user operating a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Bowman Stringer, Garald Lee Voorhees
  • Patent number: 8466914
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for rendering an ultrasound volume. An external image of an ultrasound volume is generated. A fractional part of the external image corresponds to a fractional portion of the ultrasound volume. A composite image of the ultrasound is generated using the external image, wherein the fractional part of the external image is replaced with an internal image of the ultrasound volume fractional portion. The internal image may be generated by changing a value of a visualization parameter used to generate the external image to a value more suitable for rendering an internal image. The ultrasound volume may include a organic structure, wherein the external image depicts an outer surface of the organic structure, and the internal image depicts a vascularity of the organic structure, such that the composite image simultaneously depicts both an outer surface and the vascularity of the organic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Vion, Allen David Snook, Rohit Garg
  • Patent number: 8400455
    Abstract: A method for use in animation includes establishing an influence primitive, associating the influence primitive with a model having a plurality of model points, and for each of the plurality of model points on the model, determining an offset primitive that passes through the model point. Another method includes deforming the model, and determining a deformed position of each of the plurality of model points by using a separate offset primitive for each model point. A computer readable storage medium stores a computer program adapted to cause a processor based system to execute one or more the above steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Gregory, Dan Weston
  • Patent number: 8379053
    Abstract: Interest mapping systems and/or methods determine areas of interest on a web page or other information resource based on the time a user spends in various scroll positions on the page. The system identifies scroll positions on a web page that are maintained for at least a predetermined period of time. The system may further generate one or more interest maps for web page or other information resource indicative of those areas of the web page which seem to be of relatively more or less interest to users. The system may further generate trend data for the web page based on the scroll position data over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Jason Phillips, Steven Gregory Woods
  • Patent number: 8379042
    Abstract: User interfaces are provided that allow for the display of a target element that may be used to adjust a gamma value of a display device. The target element includes three layers. These layers include a bottom static layer, a gray static layer, and a progressive layer that gradually changes from a fully transparent are to an opaque area. Additionally, a manipulation area is provided, which may be a sliding mechanism. The user may adjust the gamma to a higher value when the fully transparent area appears lighter than the opaque area, and may adjust the gamma to a lower value when the fully transparent area appears darker than the opaque area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Bourgoin