Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
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Patent number: 11995773Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for navigation and display of 3D image data is described. In the method, a 3D image dataset to be displayed is retrieved and a highlight position is identified within the 3D image dataset. A scalar opacity map is calculated for the 3D image dataset, the opacity map having a value for each of a plurality of positions in the 3D image dataset, the respective value being dependent on the respective position relative to the highlight position, and on the value of the 3D image at the respective position relative to the value of the 3D image at the highlight position. The opacity is applied to the 3D image dataset to generate a modified 3D image view.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignees: King's College London, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustInventors: John Munro Simpson, Kuberan Pushparajah, Alberto Gómez Herrero, Julia Anne Schnabel, Gavin Wheeler, Shujie Deng, Nicolas Toussaint
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Patent number: 11996024Abstract: A display device including a processor configured to extract first through third feature information corresponding to a first image, each of a plurality of regions included in the first image, and object regions included in the first image, respectively. The processor is configured to obtain a first through third contrast ratio enhancement curves, corresponding to the first image, generated by applying the first feature information to a curve generation network in which first parameter information is set, corresponding to each of the plurality of regions, generated by applying the second feature information to the curve generation network in which second parameter information is set, corresponding to each of the plurality of object regions, generated by applying the third feature information to the curve generation network in which third parameter information is set, generate a second image by applying the first through third contrast ratio enhancement curves to the first image.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Guiwon Seo, Chun Zhao
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Patent number: 11989816Abstract: A method of managing resources in a graphics processing pipeline includes, in response to selecting a task for execution within a texture/shading unit, allocating to the task both a static allocation of temporary registers for the entire task and a dynamic allocation of temporary registers. The dynamic allocation comprises temporary registers used by a first phase of the task only and the static allocation of temporary registers comprises any temporary registers that are used by the program and are live at a boundary between two phases. When the task subsequently reaches a boundary between two phases, the dynamic allocation of temporary registers are freed and a new dynamic allocation of temporary registers for a next phase of the task is allocated to the task.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventors: Panagiotis Velentzas, John W. Howson, Richard Broadhurst
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Patent number: 11985868Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area surrounding the first area and spaced apart from the first area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a plurality of pixel circuits on the substrate at the second area, each of the plurality of pixel circuits including one or more thin-film transistors, and a storage capacitor; a plurality of lines on the substrate at the third area, and electrically connected to the pixel circuits, respectively; an encapsulation member covering the pixel circuits; an input sensing section on the encapsulation member to overlap with the second area, and including sensing electrodes, and trace lines electrically connected to the sensing electrodes; and a plurality of shielding portions on the encapsulation member to overlap with at least one of the plurality of lines, the plurality of shielding portions being spaced apart from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changho Lee, Taeyong Eom, Dongjin Moon
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Patent number: 11983858Abstract: A method for real-time acquisition of point-cloud data of an ongoing scanning process, comprising a recording phase iteratively performed using an external-memory algorithm comprising an acquisition pipeline performed with parallel threads and an eviction pipeline, wherein a master thread comprises processing a master tree and a node cache, wherein the acquisition pipeline comprises continuously receiving the point-cloud data in input buffers, computing a local tree for each of a plurality of local threads, redistributing the point-cloud data onto local nodes, determining, for each local node whether the master tree comprises a corresponding node or not, either adding the point cloud data or creating the corresponding node in the master tree, wherein the eviction pipeline comprises evicting, during the ongoing scanning process, point cloud data from the node cache and writing it to one or more hard drives.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MY VIRTUAL REALITY SOFTWARE ASInventor: Joris Constant Gaston Verschaeve
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Patent number: 11977709Abstract: An input device includes: a plurality of first sensor electrodes; and a plurality of second sensor electrodes. Furthermore, the plurality of first sensor electrodes and the plurality of second sensor electrodes are electrically disconnected. Additionally, the plurality of first sensor electrodes are disposed in a radial arrangement centered on a reference point. Moreover, the plurality of second sensor electrodes are disposed in a concentric circular arrangement centered on the reference point.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Kanda, Yoshihiro Hosokawa
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Patent number: 11978134Abstract: The invention relates to a method for displaying polarizing samples, a microscopy system, and a computer program product. According to the invention, different types of polarization contrasts are to be prepared and provided for a common, simultaneous display on a user interface, wherein the same polarization angle is automatically displayed for all contrast types. If the selected polarization angle is changed, it should be changed synchronously in the display of all contrast types.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBHInventors: Markus Neumann, Corinna Sommer, Iris Grabmair, Nicolas Voessing
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Patent number: 11967003Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to drawing are disclosed. In one such method, an object on a page of a digital document is identified by an artificial intelligence determinator. The object is analyzed by the artificial intelligence determinator to determine a color palette in association with the object. The color palette is presented as a user interface for selection therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo
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Patent number: 11960667Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes that sense a touch, a plurality of code patterns formed in a preset code shape on partial areas of front surfaces of the plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of tilt sensing patterns including a light absorbent disposed in an inner area or a peripheral area of each of the plurality of code patterns, and a main processor. The main processor receives detected image data corresponding to the plurality of tilt sensing patterns from a position input device, and determines arrangement direction information and tilt information of the position input device by comparing the detected image data with each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Soon Gyu Lee
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Patent number: 11963414Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area on which an image is displayed, a substrate, and an electrode located over the substrate and disposed in the display area; and a camera photographing a front of the display panel without being exposed to the front surface of the display panel, being disposed under the display area of the display panel, and overlapping with a first area in the display area, wherein the electrode overlaps with the first area, and wherein the electrode comprises a semi-transmissive layer positioned over the substrate, an optical path compensation layer positioned on the semi-transmissive layer, and a metal layer positioned on the optical path compensation layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hoyoung Jeong, Harkjin Kim
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Patent number: 11960696Abstract: A display method. The method includes dividing at least one underlying graphics sub-resource corresponding to a parameter of a split-screen instruction in an underlying graphics resource; generating at least one virtual display screen based on the parameter corresponding to the split-screen instruction and attribute information of a default virtual display screen of an electronic device; and displaying content in the at least one underlying graphics sub-resource on a display screen of the electronic device based on the attribute information of the at least one virtual display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventor: Ke Wang
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Patent number: 11960689Abstract: A touch-control display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a touch-control display apparatus. The touch-control display panel includes a substrate, a first metal layer provided on the substrate, an insulating layer provided at the side of the first metal layer away from the substrate, and a second metal layer provided at the side of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer, one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer comprises a plurality of connection bridges, and the other one comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a through hole; at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer further comprises compensation electrodes surrounding the through hole; and the compensation electrodes comprise a first compensation electrode and a second compensation electrode, the surface of the first compensation electrode adjacent to the second compensation electrode is a first end face.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cong Fan, Fan He, Kemeng Tong, Xiangdan Dong
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Patent number: 11947762Abstract: A touch panel includes a base substrate and a touch function layer disposed on the base substrate. The touch function layer includes first and second touch units. Each first touch unit includes first touch electrodes, and each second touch unit includes second touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are insulated from each other. The base substrate has at least two mounting holes and has a gap region at a position corresponding to a region between two adjacent mounting holes. In a first touch unit passing through the gap region, first touch electrodes located in the gap region serve as a first gap electrode and a second gap electrode. In a second touch unit passing through the gap region, second touch electrodes located in the gap region serve as a third gap electrode located between the first and second gap electrodes and a fourth gap electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingran Wang, Jun Yan, Wenhui Gao, Gukhwan Song
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Patent number: 11947741Abstract: Viewing orientation of a display of a mobile device is changed by automatically tagging a change in a dynamic parameter of the device as intended or unintended based on a following change in a dynamic parameter of the device, the following change occurring within a predefined time period. The tagged change is used to train a detector to determine when a change in a dynamic parameter of the device implies a user intended change of viewing orientation. The trained detector is used to provide a determination of intention and a change of viewing orientation of the display is affected based on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventor: David Ungarish
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Patent number: 11948534Abstract: A display system modifies display cycles of one or more displays to perform a system operation while avoiding visual perturbations at the one or more displays. The display system modifies, synchronizes, or both, blanking periods of the one or more displays such that blanking periods equal or exceed a blackout duration and overlap for at least the blackout duration. Then the system performs the system operation during an overlapping portion of the one or more blanking periods, where the system operation reduces availability of display data at the one or more displays.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Jun Lei, Syed Athar Hussain, David I. J. Glen, Rajeevan Panchacharamoorthy, Fatemeh Amirnavaei, David Galiffi, Arshad Rahman, Boris Ivanovic
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Patent number: 11941499Abstract: Examples of methods for training using rendered images are described herein. In some examples, a method may include, for a set of iterations, randomly positioning a three-dimensional (3D) object model in a virtual space with random textures. In some examples, the method may include, for the set of iterations, rendering a two-dimensional (2D) image of the 3D object model in the virtual space and a corresponding annotation image. In some examples, the method may include training a machine learning model using the rendered 2D images and corresponding annotation images.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Qian Lin, Augusto Cavalcante Valente, Deangeli Gomes Neves, Guilherme Augusto Silva Megeto
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Patent number: 11942056Abstract: A display device includes a lighting device, a display panel, a memory, and a correction circuit. The lighting device includes a light exit area defined into light exit sections corresponding to light sources. The display panel includes a display area disposed opposite the light exit area and including pixels. The memory stores data of pixel matrix linked to the display sections. The memory stores position data of the pixels that are not disposed opposite the corresponding light exit sections and deviation data when a position error is caused between the light exit area and the display area. The correction circuit is configured to determine whether the memory stores the position data of the pixels and link new pixel matrix units to the corresponding display sections based on the deviation data if a determination result is affirmative.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Shinji Tomokawa, Yasutomo Nishihara, Yohji Inui, Kohichi Ohhara, Katsutoshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11941893Abstract: A virtual traffic line generation apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The virtual traffic line generation apparatus includes a controller that determines reliability of a traffic line detected for each frame and generates a virtual traffic line based on a traffic line with the highest reliability among traffic lines detected in a previous frame when the traffic line is not detected and a storage storing the reliability of the traffic line for each frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Gi Won Park
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Patent number: 11929388Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sandeep Chalasani, Steven E Molesa, Anatole Huang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xia Li, Yongjie Jiang, Mittul Gupta, Stanley B Wang
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Patent number: 11922872Abstract: In a pixel, a display device including a pixel, and a method of driving the display device, the pixel includes a first transistor connected to a first power source, a fourth node and a first node, a second transistor connected to a third node, a data line and an i-th first scan line, a third transistor connected to the first node, the fourth node, and an i-th third scan line, a fourth transistor connected to the second node, an initialization voltage, and an i-th second scan line, a first capacitor connected between the third node and the first node, a second capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and an organic light emitting diode connected between the second node and a second power source, wherein I is a natural number and the third transistor is an N-type transistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Il Hun Jeong