Patents Examined by Mark Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 9392045
    Abstract: A computing device to receive remote graphics based on a size of a display component from a second computing device, display a user interface to include the remote graphics, detect a user repositioning a region of the user interface, transmit information of the repositioned region to the second computing device and receive remote graphics corresponding to the repositioned region for display on the display component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Joel Walls, Derek Lukasik, Karen Ellen Thayer
  • Patent number: 9390201
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for merging a first and second modeled object which are modified versions of an initial modeled object and are defined by a first and second graphs. The method comprises merging the first graph and the second graph. For this, the method comprises computing a first rewriting rule and a second rewriting rule corresponding respectively to a transformation of an initial graph into the first graph and the second graph, determining a third rewriting rule by assembling the first rewriting rule and the second rewriting rule, and computing a merged graph by applying the third rewriting rule to the initial graph. Such a method is an improvement for the merging of modeled objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Rameau, Thomas Doumenc
  • Patent number: 9384591
    Abstract: A computer-aided design (CAD) system provides for designing, modeling and simulating objects in 3D. Both 2D and 3D objects can be provided in a 3D space and associated to one another by one or more constraints. Modification to the objects is calculated to satisfy the constraints as well as the geometric and functional properties of the objects. The objects can then be updated according to the calculated modification, thereby satisfying various requirements of the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Enventive Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: James Hurt, Don Luhring, Vincent Huffaker, Kurt Andersen, Ralph Gifford
  • Patent number: 9373184
    Abstract: A method for rendering data on a display device is described. Data representative of graphics objects rendered on the display device is received. The data is analyzed to identify white space areas. The white space areas are compared to a display area to be rendered on the display device. The white space areas are areas that are substantially free of displayed objects according to a criterion. Based on the comparison, one or more of the white space areas are identified for rendering the display area. The display area is automatically rendered in the identified white space areas on the display device without user intervention. When the white space areas are insufficient to render the display area, the display area may be automatically rendered based on one or more criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Nico Zimmer, Brian A. Azcuenaga, Krzysztof Pytel, Bo Vaaben
  • Patent number: 9355451
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including a data acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor data indicating the direction of gravity exerted on an imaging device configured to image an image in which a physical space is projected, a decision unit configured to decide a relative attitude of a plane in the physical space with respect to the image based on the sensor data, and a conversion unit configured to perform conversion between a three-dimensional position of a given point on the plane and a two-dimensional position in the corresponding image using the attitude decided by the decision unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Oi, Hiroyuki Ishiwatari
  • Patent number: 9355497
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an imaging unit for imaging an outside world to generate a captured image, a position and orientation estimation unit for estimating a position and orientation of the imaging unit, a feature point estimation unit for estimating a position of a feature point in the captured image, a clipping unit for clipping an image for combining, and clipping an image for feature detection, a measurement unit for detecting a feature point from the image for feature detection, and measuring a position and orientation of the imaging unit, a generation unit for generating a CG image based on the position and orientation measured by the measurement unit, a combining unit for combining the image clipped by the clipping unit with the CG image, and a display control unit for displaying the image combined by the combining unit on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 9355491
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. A splitting unit of the image processing apparatus may split a first space within an input three-dimensional (3D) model into a plurality of subspaces in order to generate an acceleration structure of the input 3D model. A decision unit of the image processing apparatus may set a subspace determined as having a relatively high probability of including a ray progress path among the plurality of subspaces, as a child node having a relatively high traversal priority in the acceleration structure among a plurality of child nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chan Min Park, Tack Don Han, Jin Woo Kim, Jeong Soo Park, Jae Ho Nah
  • Patent number: 9342915
    Abstract: The present application provides an image display method and device. A frame of 3D image including a left eye image and a right eye image is received, two fields of compensation images are inserted between the left eye image display and the right eye image display, so that the superposed effect of displaying four fields of images of the frame of 3D image is the left eye image or the right eye image, to achieve a 2D image, furthermore, the left spectacle lens of the 3D glasses is opened when the left eye image is displayed, the right spectacle lens of the 3D glasses is opened when the right eye image is displayed, and both the left spectacle lens and the right spectacle lens are closed when the compensation images are displayed, to achieve the 3D image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Hisense Hiview Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Yang, Aichen Xu, Shunming Huang
  • Patent number: 9342919
    Abstract: An image rendering apparatus may include a buffer memory unit and a processor. The buffer memory unit may store input ray data for image rendering according to a ray tracing scheme while shape data corresponding to the input ray data is being fetched from a cache. The processor may output the received shape data together with the input ray data to an operation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Chan Min Park, Jae Ho Nah, Tack Don Han, Jeong Soo Park
  • Patent number: 9338589
    Abstract: The systems and methods allow users of mobile computing devices to generate augmented reality scenarios. Augmented reality content is paired with a real world trigger item to generate the augmented reality scenario. The augmented reality content is overlaid onto frames on a video when a trigger item is detected. Each mobile computing device may have an augmented reality application resident on the mobile computing device to allow a user to generate the augmented reality scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Aurasma Limited
    Inventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
  • Patent number: 9329677
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a social system and process used for bringing virtual social network into real life, which is allowed for gathering and analyzing a social message of at least one interlocutor from virtual social network so as to generate at least one recommended topic, allowing a user to talk with the interlocutor through the utilization of the recommended topic, and then capturing and analyzing at least one speech and behavior and/or physiological response of the interlocutor during talking so as to generate an emotion state of the interlocutor. The user is allowed to determine whether the interlocutor is interested in the recommended topic through the emotion state of interlocutor. Thus, it is possible to bring the social message on virtual network into real life, so as to increase communication topics between persons in real life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Shao-Yi Chien, Jui-Hsin Lai, Jhe-Yi Lin, Min-Yian Su, Po-Chen Wu, Chieh-Chi Kao
  • Patent number: 9324176
    Abstract: An image saving apparatus may extract an object from a photographed picture, and may store position information. The image saving apparatus may selectively perform image processing of each object using the position information and may provide a user with a dynamic image in which a change in the photograph range is considered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Gyu Choi, Sang Houn Kim, Yong Guk Park
  • Patent number: 9324296
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed, and a representative color acquisition section for performing a color reduction process which acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region, and acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 9324188
    Abstract: Easy-to-learn, efficient, and/or unambiguous methods for controlling rotation and/or other manipulation of multi-dimensional (for example, 2D and/or 3D) images and/or objects are disclosed. The systems and methods may be used for any type of image display/manipulation on a wide variety of computer systems and coupled displays including personal computers with monitors, phones, tablets, and televisions. In general, a user may select a particular rotation plane (for example, rotation only in x axis) by placement of a cursor, or touch of a finger, over a certain portion of the image such that subsequent movements of the mouse result in only rotations in the particular plane, and unwanted rotations and/or other manipulations in other planes do not occur. In this way, the user can more precisely control rotations of the 3D image and/or object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: DR Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan K. Fram, Murray A. Reicher, Howard T. Lam
  • Patent number: 9317968
    Abstract: The system and methods described herein operate on a plurality of images that include multiple views of the same scene, typically from slightly different viewing angles and/or lighting conditions. One of the images is selected as a reference image. For each image ray in a non-reference image, the system and methods resample a local region from the non-reference image's space to the reference image's space. The resampling is performed multiple times, each time with a different surface orientation hypothesis. The system and methods run cross-correlation style correlators on the resampled images, evaluate correlation scores for each of the resampled images, and select the surface orientation hypothesis associated with the highest correlation score. The system and methods project a peak of the correlation surface back through a geometry model for the selected surface orientation hypothesis to determine a three-dimensional (ground) location for the image ray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Stephen J. Raif
  • Patent number: 9317889
    Abstract: A hybrid processing-based image processing system performs image chain flattening, token queue creation and pipeline prior to image rendering in order to allow various portions of the image processing to be performed in parallel. Tokens are passed between the filters of the pipeline generated from the flattened image chain to allow order-preserving operations to be performed which result in the same image as would have been produced by the original image chain using sequential processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Exelis Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Decker
  • Patent number: 9318079
    Abstract: In a mobile terminal apparatus, a display unit displays a diagnostic image read from an image storage device. The image storage device stores plural image groups, each of which includes plural diagnostic images. Movement of the display unit is detected. Assuming that the display unit is moved in a mode of transverse movement while a first diagnostic image included in a first image group is displayed on the display unit, then changeover is carried out to display a second diagnostic image being included in the first image group and different from the first diagnostic image. Assuming that the display unit is moved in a mode of a single shake different from the mode of transverse movement while the first diagnostic image is displayed on the display unit, then changeover is carried out to display a third diagnostic image being included in an image group different from the first image group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Okusu, Satoshi Ueda, Yuya Kudo, Hironori Matsumasa, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 9313439
    Abstract: Provided are a user adaptive display device and method thereof. The user adaptive display device includes a plurality of display modules that are jointly or individually controllable and adjacent to each other. The user adaptive display device includes a communication unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The communication unit receives data on user information. The control unit analyzes the user information and changes an image configuration according to the user information. The display unit displays an image with the image configuration changed by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Juhwan Lee, Kisu Park
  • Patent number: 9311740
    Abstract: A method for providing tomosynthesis 3-D volume image data, executed at least in part on a computer, acquires a number of radiographic projection images of a subject over a range of angles. Reconstructed volume image data is generated from the acquired projection images. A number of regions of interest are defined within the reconstructed volume image data, wherein each region of interest has a number of image voxels. Image voxel data values are conditioned within at least one of the regions of interest to enhance contrast within the at least one region of interest. The conditioned image voxel data values are adjusted within the at least one of the regions of interest according to interpolation with two or more neighboring regions of interest. An image slice having at least a plurality of the adjusted image voxel data values is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Lao, Ravi K. Nareppa, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 9300938
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided to map a video range of image data to the video range of a display. Embodiments apply a weighted combination of values in input image data streams to generate image data having a range which matches the display capabilities. The weighted combination may be determined based on relative capabilities of the display and input image data. The video range of the image data and display may be a range of colors (gamut) and/or luminance (dynamic range).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Robin Atkins