Patents Examined by Said Broome
  • Patent number: 11978252
    Abstract: A communication system includes circuitry. The circuitry receives an input of language information. The circuitry performs recognition on the input language information. The circuitry displays one or more images corresponding to the input language information on a display, based on a result of the recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hori, Eri Watanabe, Takuro Yasuda, Kentaroh Hagita, Takuroh Naitoh, Hiroaki Tanaka, Terunori Koyama
  • Patent number: 11972514
    Abstract: An animation file processing method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a bitmap image sequence corresponding to an original animation file; encoding a differential pixel region between a bitmap image in the bitmap image sequence and a corresponding key bitmap image when the bitmap image is a non-key bitmap image, to obtain an encoded picture corresponding to the bitmap image; and generating an animation export file corresponding to the original animation file according to encoded pictures corresponding to bitmap images in the bitmap image sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Renjian Chen, Xinxing Chen, Guopeng Qi, Hailong Gong
  • Patent number: 11972547
    Abstract: There is provided a video distribution system, a video distribution method, and a display terminal enabling more reliable video distribution, the video distribution system including: an image acquisition unit that acquires a low-resolution image from a low-resolution camera while acquiring a high-resolution image from a high-resolution camera; an abnormality determination unit that determines whether or not there is an abnormality in any one of a first signal representing the low-resolution image and a second signal representing the high-resolution image; and a transmission control unit that transmits first synthetic images to a display terminal in a case where it is determined that there is no abnormality, the first synthetic images having continuity between the low-resolution image and the high-resolution image, and transmits second synthetic images to the display terminal in a case where it is determined that there is an abnormality, the second synthetic images substantially reproducing continuity by repla
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Oi, Tomohiro Ooi, Hiroki Gohara
  • Patent number: 11966998
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a graphics processing apparatus that includes a memory device and a graphics processing unit (GPU). In some examples, the GPU is configured to execute a shader program that is to identify at least two code blocks that are independent from each other and cause execution of an unexecuted independent code block with available data based on use of a scoreboard to track data availability for independent code blocks. In some examples, execution of the shader program is to cause the GPU to select a first code block identifier for tracking completion of a dependency of the first independent code block. In some examples, execution of the shader program is to cause the GPU to identify an offset to a first instruction position in a sequence of instructions of the first independent code block in an instruction queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rafal Rudnicki, Przemyslaw Szymanski
  • Patent number: 11961169
    Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to capture needs of the user, including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to identify face parts, analyzes the face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Mindy Christine Troutman, Sandrine Gadol, Francesca Cruz
  • Patent number: 11954885
    Abstract: A tracked device may be used in an extended reality system in coordination with a tracking device. The tracked device may be ordinarily difficult to track, for example due to changing appearances or relatively small surface areas of unchanging features, as may be the case with an electronic device with a relatively large display surrounded by a thin physical outer boundary. In these cases, the tracked device may periodically present an image to the tracking device that the tracking device stores as an indication to permit tracking of a known, unchanging feature despite the image not being presented continuously on the display of the tracked device. The image may include a static image, designated tracking data overlaid on an image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation, or extracted image features from the image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation. Additional power saving methods and known marker generation methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Di Febbo, Anthony Ghannoum, Michele Stoppa, Kiranjit Dhaliwal
  • Patent number: 11956334
    Abstract: A process includes receiving data representing states of a plurality of nodes of a cluster. The process includes, based on the states, generating data to display, in a text mode on a display device, a plurality of text character status indicators. First text character status indicators are arranged in a first grid that correspond to a physical layout of first nodes in a first computer system rack, and each first text character status indicator represents a status of a corresponding first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Peter Guyan, Lee M. Morecroft, Andrew J. Barrington
  • Patent number: 11947977
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a system and method for adapting executable object to a processing unit. An embodiment of a method to adapt an executable object from a first processing unit to a second processing unit, comprises: adapting the executable object optimized for the first processing unit of a first architecture, to the second processing unit of a second architecture, wherein the second architecture is different from the first architecture, wherein the executable object is adapted to perform on the second processing unit based on a plurality of performance metrics collected while the executable object is performed on the first processing unit and the second processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Xu, Haihao Xiang, Feng Chen, Travis Schluessler, Yuheng Zhang, Sen Lin
  • Patent number: 11941741
    Abstract: A graphics system includes an effect engine and a graphics pipeline. The graphics pipeline performs pipeline operations on graphical objects in a frame. The graphics pipeline includes at least a fragment shader stage. An application programming interface (API) provides an instruction that specifies a subset of the graphical objects in the frame for the effect engine to execute. When detecting the instruction, the graphics pipeline invokes the effect engine to perform a predefined set of graphics operations on the subset of the graphical objects in the frame. The predefined set of graphics operations has a higher computational complexity than the pipeline operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Wang, Ying-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 11941722
    Abstract: A kernel comprising at least one dynamically configurable parameter is submitted by a processor. The kernel is to be executed at a later time. Data is received after the kernel has been submitted. The at least one dynamically configurable parameter of the kernel is updated based on the data. The kernel having the at least one updated dynamically configurable parameter is executed after the at least one dynamically configurable parameter has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sayantan Sur, Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones, Shahaf Shuler
  • Patent number: 11915366
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method comprising creating 3D models of an orchard with multiple plants in the form of a densified point cloud using oblique aerial RGB imaging and photogrammetry, identifying and segmenting individual plants of the orchard from the 3D models, simulating sunlight radiation in the 3D models, determining a shading effect of branches and neighboring plants on each individual plant at any time of the day, determining canopy light interception of each plant, analyzing canopy geometry of each plant in the 3D models, forecasting potential yield of each plant based on the measured canopy light interception and calculating nitrogen and water requirements of each plant based on the potential yield and other predetermined field, environmental and climate factors and validating the yield forecasting model using the canopy light interception data by measuring the actual yield for each plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Alireza Pourreza
  • Patent number: 11910791
    Abstract: A graded early warning system for pest quantity counting includes: at least one image capturing device used to capture images of at least one pest trapping device in an environment to generate at least one pest trapping image; at least one environment monitoring and sensing device used to detect the environment to generate at least one environment parameter; at least one pest detecting and identifying device used to detect quantities and species of multiple pests based on the at least one pest trapping image; and a cloud server used to receive the at least one pest trapping image, the at least one environment parameter, and the quantities and species of multiple pests; wherein the cloud server immediately establishes pest probability models, generates early warning signals, and prompts suppression decisions according to the at least one environment parameter and the quantities and species of multiple pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Ta-Te Lin, Dan Jeric Arcega Rustia, Lin-Ya Chiu
  • Patent number: 11908151
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for three-dimensional scanning and measurement by a device having a processor. The processor is configured to receive images of an object from at least. two angles; preprocess the images using morphological refinement; create a source point cloud based on the images; remove outliers from the source point cloud; globally register the source point cloud to generate a transformed source point cloud; compare the transformed source point cloud with a target point cloud to generate a stitched point cloud that thereby creates a stitched 3D model; measure the resulting stitched 3D model; and provide the resulting stitched 3D model for comparison to a digitized item to assess sizing of the 3D model to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Xesto Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Afiny Affan Akdemir, Christian Garcia Salguero, Victoria Sophie Howe
  • Patent number: 11908451
    Abstract: A text-based virtual object animation generation includes acquiring text information, where the text information includes an original text of a virtual object animation to be generated; analyzing an emotional feature of the text information; performing speech synthesis according to the emotional feature, a rhyme boundary, and the text information to obtain audio information, where the audio information includes emotional speech obtained by conversion based on the original text; and generating a corresponding virtual object animation based on the text information and the audio information, where the virtual object animation is synchronized in time with the audio information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Mofa (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Movu Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Congyi Wang, Yu Chen, Jinxiang Chai
  • Patent number: 11908150
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for three-dimensional scanning and measurement by a device having a processor. The processor is configured to receive images of an object from at least two angles; preprocess the images using morphological refinement; create a source point cloud based on the images; remove outliers from the source point cloud; globally register the source point cloud to generate a transformed source point cloud; compare the transformed source point cloud with a target point cloud to generate a stitched point cloud that thereby creates a stitched 3D model; measure the resulting stitched 3D model; and provide the resulting stitched 3D model for comparison to a digitized item to assess sizing of the 3D model to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Xesto Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Afiny Affan Akdemir, Christian Garcia Salguero, Victoria Sophie Howe
  • Patent number: 11900512
    Abstract: A content sharing device includes a content acquisition circuit configured to acquire main content and sub-content, at least one of which is derived from digital ink, and a transmission processing circuit configured to, in response to receipt of a request made by a terminal device operated by a user, select either first provision data or second provision data depending on usage rights of the user and transmit the first or second provision data that has been selected to the terminal device. The first provision data includes only the main content, while the second provision data includes both the main content and the sub-content. The sub-content includes content generated using a plurality of content elements that are generated before the main content is published or content generated using a plurality of content elements that are generated after the main content is published.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Ide
  • Patent number: 11896341
    Abstract: A wireless device for facilitating visualization of a state of a patient being monitored by monitoring equipment. The device includes a wireless network interface, a camera, and a touch-sensitive display. A processor is in communication with the wireless network interface, the camera, a memory and the touch-sensitive display over a system bus. The device wirelessly receives data representative of a state of a first physiological parameter of a patient over a time interval. The visualization data includes a plurality of visualization data values, each of the visualization data values being generated by a data visualization module of the data visualization server from multiple values of machine data produced by the monitoring equipment in connection with monitoring the first physiological parameter. A first portion of a monitoring screen displayed by the device includes a graphical representation of the visualization data over the time interval along with or more range indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nicolette, Inc.
    Inventors: Phil Martie, Michel Mikhael, Seth Brickman, Bryan Wilson, Lee Martie
  • Patent number: 11900502
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a software and hardware optimization that manages scenarios where a write operation to a register is less than an entirety of the register. A compiler detects instructions that make partial writes to the same register, groups such instructions, and provides hints to hardware of the partial write. The execution unit combines the output data for grouped instructions and updates the destination register as single write instead of multiple separate partial writes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra S. Gurram, Gang Y. Chen, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Supratim Pal, Ashutosh Garg, Jorge E. Parra, Darin M. Starkey, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11892411
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for determining quantitative hormone and chemical analyte results from qualitative test results. An image is taken of an ovulation test device. The image is analyzed to identify a darkness intensity ratio (T/C ratio) between a darkness value of a test-line to a darkness value of a control-line. Additionally, a quantitative substance level may be determined using the T/C ratio, by identifying the type of test device and referencing a data structure that relates quantitative substance levels to T/C ratios for the identified type of test device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaolian Liu, Li Zou
  • Patent number: 11893675
    Abstract: Various implementations set forth a computer-implemented method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, in a first time interval, a first extended reality (XR) stream based on a first set of meshes representing a 3D environment, transmitting, to a remote device, the first XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of a first portion of the 3D environment in a remote XR environment, determining that the 3D environment has changed based on a second set of meshes representing the 3D environment and generated subsequent to the first time interval, generating a second XR stream based on the second set of meshes, and transmitting, to the remote device, the second XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of at least a portion of the changed 3D environment in the remote XR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Devin Bhushan, Caelin Thomas Jackson-King, Stanislav Yazhenskikh, Jim Jiaming Zhu