Patents Examined by Patrick F Valdez
  • Patent number: 11961178
    Abstract: A method for reducing the effects of latency in an extended reality (XR) experience is disclosed. The method includes: i) distinguishing between two types of imagery to be rendered; ii) differentially computing and communicating data, dependent upon the imagery type, such that when the imagery is of: a) a first type, which is background or distant imagery, it is rendered in a known frame of reference by a server and sent to a user's device from the server where it is transformed to a second frame of reference by the user's device and re-rendered; and b) a second type, which is fast-moving imagery, fast-changing imagery, or imagery very close to a user's point of view relative to the first type imagery, it is rendered locally by the user's device; and iii) compositing the first type imagery and the second type imagery, by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventor: Roderick V. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11955102
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a surrounding display area, below which at least one panel driving circuit is positioned, and a main display area surrounded by the surrounding display area, the display panel including first pixels having a first pixel density and disposed in the surrounding display area and second pixels having a second pixel density greater than the first pixel density and disposed in the main display area; and a display panel driver to divide an input image to be displayed on the display panel in each frame into a first image to be displayed on the surrounding display area and a second image to be displayed on the main display area, calculate a luminance deviation of the first image, and determine whether to display the first image in the surrounding display area based on the luminance deviation of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukhun Lee, Bon-Seog Gu
  • Patent number: 11942019
    Abstract: An electronic appliance is provided. The electronic appliance includes a communication interface, a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor which is connected with the memory and the communication interface and controls the electronic apparatus. Here, the processor may, by executing the at least one instruction, based on an event for reading extended display identification data (EDID) stored in the memory at an external apparatus connected through the communication interface occurring, toggle a first signal related to the communication interface, and after the first signal is toggled, monitor a signal output from the external apparatus and identify whether the external apparatus failed to read the EDID information, and based on identifying that the external apparatus failed to read the EDID information, toggle a second signal related to the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11943560
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes: one or more processors functioning by executing instructions stored in one or more memories as the following units: a setting unit configured to set a parameter with which a display condition of additional information that is displayed in a virtual viewpoint image, identification information indicating the additional information, and virtual viewpoint information on a virtual viewpoint image that is generated are associated; and an output unit configured to output a parameter that is set by the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 11931213
    Abstract: A method and system provide segmenting a digital tooth in a 3D digital model of dentition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Nikolskiy, Fedor Chelnokov
  • Patent number: 11922903
    Abstract: An image display method includes displaying a first image and a second image on a display and, when the first image to which a first additional image identifying the first image is added and the second image to which a second additional image identifying the second image is added are displayed on the display along a first axis in a still state, making a display mode different between the first additional image added to the first image and the second additional image added to the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 11922561
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to generate media data for an immersive media experience. A set of parameters for processing a scene description for an immersive media experience are accessed. Multimedia data for the immersive media experience is accessed, including a plurality of media tracks, each media track comprising an associated series of samples of media data for a different component of the immersive media experience, and a derived track comprising a set of derivation operations to perform to generate a series of samples of media data for the client for the immersive media experience. A derivation operation is performed to generate a portion of media data for a derived media track, including processing the plurality of media tracks to generate a first series of samples of the media data for the immersive media experience, and outputting the derived media track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lulin Chen
  • Patent number: 11922089
    Abstract: A vehicle controller is configured to control a plurality of display units disposed in a vehicle interior. The vehicle controller includes: a single display processing unit that is configured to perform preprocessing on a plurality of link images for the plurality of display units such that each of the plurality of link images is able to be output to a corresponding one of the plurality of display units, the plurality of link images being to be displayed in a linked manner across the plurality of display units; and a plurality of image output units each of which is configured to output a respective one of the plurality of link images to the corresponding one of the plurality of display units after the plurality of link images are subject to the preprocessing by the single display processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko Ino
  • Patent number: 11887276
    Abstract: An image processing method and a display apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes: acquiring an input image and an image output specification; determining image processing information for the input image; performing image processing, in accordance with the image processing information, on a plurality of images in the input image in a parallel and matrix manner. The performing image processing on the plurality of images in the parallel and matrix manner is referred to as performing processing on the plurality of images in parallel, and processes performed on each image include a preprocessing process, an image quality enhancement process and a post-processing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chunshan Zu
  • Patent number: 11887222
    Abstract: A method and system for converting a filled shape to a run length encoded RLE vector is disclosed. The method includes creating a virtual pixel array of pixel cells corresponding to a graphical array of pixels comprising the filled shape. The method includes determining a border on the virtual pixel array corresponding to the filled shape, storing a pixel-type value within each pixel cell that corresponds to a border line element within the pixel, and creating a shape RLE group corresponding to a line of pixels aligned along a first axis of the virtual pixel array. Once created, the position and length of the shape RLE group is stored as an RLE vector. The method for clipping filled shapes is also disclosed, which includes converting a clipping region to a clip RLE group, then comparing the clip RLE group to the shape RLE group, forming a clipped image RLE vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeff M. Henry
  • Patent number: 11881143
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a computing system of a device may determine a display peak power budget allocated for a display component of the device. The system may determine display information including display workload and display telemetry associated with the display component. The system may determine, in accordance with a display peak power management policy applied to the display peak power budget and the display information, one or more display-controlling parameters for maintaining the display component to operate within the display peak power budget. The system may determine, based on the one or more display-controlling parameters, a plurality of grayscales for a plurality of regions on a display screen of the device. The system may adjust a rendered frame based on the plurality of grayscales and output the adjusted rendered frame on the display screen of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nilanjan Goswami, Eugene Gorbatov, Steve John Clohset, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: 11875162
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing a computer-generated reality (CGR) platform for generating CGR environments including virtual and augmented reality environments. In some embodiments, information related to an object to be simulated and rendered in the CGR environment is provided to the CGR platform, and a three-dimensional representation of the object is displayed in the CGR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helmut Garstenauer, Martin Garstenauer, Edwin Iskandar, Timothy R. Oriol, Geoffrey Stahl, Cody J. White
  • Patent number: 11869459
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display region setting unit configured to dynamically change a size of one or a plurality of display regions provided on a screen by changing a position of a boundary line of the display regions, a display control unit configured to dynamically change a size of an arrangement region provided in the display region in response to a dynamic change in size of the display region, and control display of at least one or more display objects arranged in the arrangement region, and a priority setting unit configured to set relative priority of the display objects provided in the same arrangement region, wherein the display control unit controls display of the display object by visual processing, based on the set priority, in response to a dynamic change in size of the display region and the arrangement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Katsurada, Jitsu Ezaki
  • Patent number: 11861779
    Abstract: Digital object animation techniques are described. In a first example, translation-based animation of the digital object operates using control points of the digital object. In another example, the animation system is configured to minimize an amount of feature positions that are used to generate the animation. In a further example, an input pose is normalized through use of a global scale factor to address changes in a z-position of a subject in different digital images. Yet further, a body tracking module is used to computing initial feature positions. The initial feature positions are then used to initialize a face tracker module to generate feature positions of the face. The animation system also supports a plurality of modes used to generate the digital object, techniques to define a base of the digital object, and a friction term limiting movement of features positions based on contact with a ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Saito, Jimei Yang, Duygu Ceylan Aksit
  • Patent number: 11854513
    Abstract: A video input interface receives video data on which a known character is to be drawn. A memory stores reference graphic data describing the known character. A visibility detector checks the visibility of the known character drawn on the video data based on the reference graphic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroharu Endo
  • Patent number: 11818321
    Abstract: A method for calibrating the color space on multiple displays in a computing system includes determining a native color space for each of multiple displays; dynamically selecting a target color space to implement on each of the multiple displays based at least in part on the determined native color space of each one of the multiple displays; and instructing one of the multiple displays to map the associated native color space to the target color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samu Matias Kallio, Kari Jussi Ropo, Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 11810252
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, and systems for blending geographic data when combining geographic data sources. The methods, devices, and systems identify a blend region for transitioning between a first dataset and a second dataset. The methods, devices, and systems extrapolate geographic data from the second dataset to blend with the geographic data from the first dataset to create blended elevation data in the blend region. The methods, devices, and systems may generate an image for a geographic region with the first set of geographic data, the second set of geographic data, and the blended elevation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Duncan Murray Lawler
  • Patent number: 11790479
    Abstract: When generating a graphics processing output, a sequence of one or more of primitives to be processed when generating the output is assembled from a set of vertex indices provided for the output based on primitive configuration information provided for the output, each assembled primitive of the sequence of assembled primitives comprising an identifier for the primitive and a set of one or more vertex indices for the primitive. One or more attributes for vertices of the assembled primitives are then shaded and fetched based on the vertex indices of the assembled primitives. The assembled primitives including their shaded fetched vertex attribute(s) are then provided to later stages of the graphics processing pipeline for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Frank Klaeboe Langtind, Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt
  • Patent number: 11783493
    Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to techniques for facial reconstruction from a sparse set of facial markers. In one implementation, a method comprises: obtaining data comprising a captured facial performance of a subject with a plurality of facial markers; determining a three-dimensional (3D) bundle corresponding to each of the plurality of facial markers of the captured facial performance; using at least the determined 3D bundles to retrieve, from a facial dataset comprising a plurality of facial shapes of the subject, a local geometric shape corresponding to each of the plurality of the facial markers; and merging the retrieved local geometric shapes to create a facial reconstruction of the subject for the captured facial performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Cong, Ronald Fedkiw, Lana Lan
  • Patent number: 11763417
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes an image signal processor, a scaler, and an ROI (Region of Interest) controller. The image signal processor executes image processing including demosaic processing and stores the image after the image processing in memory. The scaler reduces the capture image from the image sensor to generate a reduced entire image and causes the image signal processor to execute image processing on the reduced entire image. The ROI controller cuts out a partial region of the captured image from the image sensor to generate an ROI image and causes the image signal processor to execute image processing on the ROI image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Terashima, Isao Nagayoshi, Atsushi Nakamura