Patents Examined by Samantha (Yuehan) Wang
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Patent number: 11443404Abstract: A system configured to determine an extent to which an object in a computer-generated scene is visible from a virtual camera, including a rendering engine comprising a depth buffer and arranged to render the computer-generated scene, and a viewability testing module. The viewability testing module is configured to: generate a plurality of points distributed across a surface of the object; determine a depth map value for each point within a field of view of the virtual camera; determine whether each such point is visible from the perspective of the virtual camera based on a comparison between the determined depth map value for the point and a corresponding one or more of the depth map values stored in the depth buffer; and determine the extent to which the object is visible in dependence on which of the plurality of points are determined to be visible.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Bidstack Group PLCInventors: Arvids Kokins, Francesco Petruzzelli
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Patent number: 11437002Abstract: A simulation system includes a display device and a selection unit. The display device shows an image on an exhibit related to a building. The selection unit selects content of the image shown on the exhibit. The selection unit includes a display section that displays information corresponding to the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Suezawa, Takeshi Miki, Yuusuke Minami, Chiho Hiraoka, Shouto Iwata, Yuuta Kawazoe, Shintarou Kawakami, Tetsuya Yamato, Masayuki Ogawa
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Patent number: 11436798Abstract: A computer implemented method comprises receiving a mesh representing a 3D object, the mesh comprising a plurality of 2D shapes, receiving a strand feature comprising a plurality of virtual strands, and associating each strand of the plurality of virtual strands with a 2D shape of the mesh.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.Inventors: Simon Gomer, Jeremy O'Brien, Andrea Ferrario, Robin Taillandier, Leo Taslaman
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Patent number: 11436999Abstract: A display device for an injection molding machine is a display device for an injection molding machine configured to control a display on a display unit, wherein, on the display unit, a plurality of display areas are provided beforehand by dividing a display screen into upper, lower, left, and right sections, the display device including a first display control unit configured to display content in any one of the plurality of display areas, without combining the plurality of display areas, and a second display control unit configured to display content in a combined area configured by combining a plurality of display areas that lie adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Xinmin Zhuo, Junpei Maruyama, Masaya Tajika
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Patent number: 11432757Abstract: One variation of a method for hosting mobile access to dense electroencephalography data includes: receiving a set of signals, in a raw resolution, recorded by a set of channels in an electroencephalography headset during an electroencephalography test; receiving, from a client computing device, a view parameters for viewing the set of signals on a display; calculating a quantity of raw signal points per pixel column of the display based on the view parameters and a length of a segment of the electroencephalography test; for each signal in the set of signals, for each discrete contiguous sequence of the quantity of raw signal points within the segment of the signal, calculating a value set characterizing the discrete contiguous sequence of the quantity of raw signal points in the signal; and generating a static image representing value sets for each channel, in the set of channels, across the segment of the electroencephalography test.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Zeto, Inc.Inventors: Aswin Gunasekar, Gabor Braun, Zoltan Nadasdy
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Patent number: 11423584Abstract: A user device may receive an image of an area receiving signals from a wireless router; determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) based on a signal from the wireless router; determine an initial virtual point in the image; calculate geographical coordinates of the initial virtual point; calculate a signal strength of the wireless router at the geographical coordinates and based on the RSSI; provide for display an augmented reality indication of the signal strength in the image and at the initial virtual point; receive inputs indicating movements of the initial virtual point to new virtual points in the image; calculate new geographical coordinates of the new virtual points; calculate new signal strengths of the wireless router at the new geographical coordinates and based on the RSSI; and provide for display augmented reality indications of the new signal strengths in the image and at the new virtual points.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Viraj Chandrakant Mantri, Srividhya Parthasarathy, Ramasubramanian Radhakkrishnan, Nandhini Rajendran, Abhishek Malhotra
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Patent number: 11404023Abstract: A frame rate adjustment method to reduce frame rate jitters in a display process includes: a terminal obtains a computing-access ratio relationship, where the computing-access ratio relationship is used to reflect a ratio between computing tasks and access tasks executed by the terminal; obtains a first working frequency table corresponding to the computing-access ratio relationship, where the first working frequency table includes CPU performance parameters generated when a DDR SDRAM and a CPU work on different working frequency combinations; selects from the first working frequency table based on the CPU performance parameter, a target CPU-DDR SDRAM working frequency combination that meets preset target frame processing duration; and instructs the DDR SDRAM to work on a target DDR SDRAM working frequency in the target CPU-DDR SDRAM working frequency combination, and instructing the CPU to work on a target CPU working frequency in the target CPU-DDR SDRAM working frequency combination.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Xu Wang, Wei Du, Weilai Zhou, Song Du
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Patent number: 11403796Abstract: A computer-implemented method for shape deformation, comprising: obtaining an image; obtaining one or more positional constraints; determining a shape deformation/image map, based on the positional constraints; applying the shape deformation to the image; and outputting the image.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Förderung D. Wissenschaften E.V., Bar-Ilan UniversityInventors: Renjie Chen, Ofir Weber
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Patent number: 11398047Abstract: The disclosure provides a system to render a virtual reality (VR) scene, and a method and computer program product to determine a follower pose in a VR simulator during a simulation step. In one example, the method includes: (1) computing one or more current candidate poses utilizing input parameters, wherein each of the current candidate poses is a temporal projection of a follower pose along a respective sweep direction towards a leader pose, and wherein an obstruction is located between the follower pose and the leader pose, (2) selecting a target pose from the one or more current candidate poses, (3) refining the target pose utilizing physics-based constraints and the input parameters, wherein the physics-based constraints use a surface of the obstruction, and (4) rendering a new follower pose based on the refined target pose.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Gordon Yeoman, Michael Sauter
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Patent number: 11385850Abstract: Original pictures photographed from a plurality of photograph viewpoints are prepared, display pictures for regions corresponding to visual-lines are generated while switching to an original picture photographed from another viewpoint is being performed according to movement of a subject 81 or the like. The original pictures are associated with tag data indicating the positions of images of particular subjects. When the viewpoint is switched, the visual line is controlled such that the position indicated by a tag for a same subject is included within the visual field before and after the switching. Accordingly, a post-switching region is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Junichi Muramoto
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Patent number: 11388307Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a data sharing unit configured to cause an application selected as a data output destination to process data which is output by an application which is a data output source; a process-object-data generation control unit configured to generate process object data in one of a first format and a second format based on image data acquired by an image information interface from an image information source; and an application-information display unit configured to display identification images for identifying applications which the data sharing unit can select as the data output destination if the data sharing unit is to process either data of the first format or data of the second format.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Norihiko Asai
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Patent number: 11380024Abstract: Instant Situational Awareness Visualization Module enables new types and classes of Human Computer Interface enhancements where the Humans can easily and simultaneously see where objects are relative within or outside AR shapes as viewed as a picture-in-a-picture inset that provides an overhead view of terrain/map.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: VR REHAB, INC.Inventors: Elizabeth T. Guckenberger, Ronald J. Guckenberger
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Patent number: 11361476Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel with pixels that present an image based on image data and an application processor that generates the image data. The electronic device may include a display pipeline coupled to the electronic display and the application processor. The display pipeline may receive first image data from the application processor corresponding to a first color space used by the application processor. The display pipeline may apply a color mapping relationship to the first image data to generate second image data. The color mapping relationship may define a transform to apply to the first image data to generate the second image data corresponding to a second color space used by the electronic display. The display pipeline may transmit the second image data to a display driver that operates the electronic display to emit light according to the second image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vincent Z. Young, Can Jin, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Peter F. Holland, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier
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Patent number: 11341601Abstract: A cache system in a graphics processing system stores graphics data items for use in rendering primitives. It is determined whether graphics data items relating to primitives to be rendered are present in the cache, and if not then computation instances for generating the graphics data items are created. Computation instances are allocated to tasks using a task assembly unit which stores task entries for respective tasks. The task entries indicate which computation instances have been allocated to the respective tasks. The task entries are associated with characteristics of computation instances which can be allocated to the respective tasks. A computation instance to be executed is allocated to a task based on the characteristics of the computation instance. SIMD processing logic executes computation instances of a task outputted from the task assembly unit to thereby determine graphics data items, which can be used to render the primitives.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventors: Andrea Sansottera, Xile Yang, John Howson, Jonathan Redshaw
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Patent number: 11335061Abstract: Disclosed techniques relate to an acceleration data structure for ray intersection with a many-to-many mapping between bounding regions and primitives. In some embodiments, one or more graphics processors access data for multiple graphics primitives in a graphics scene and generate a spatially organized data structure. Some nodes of the data structure indicate graphics primitives and some nodes indicate coordinates of bounding regions in the graphics scene. In some embodiments, the spatially organized data structure includes a node with a bounding region for which multiple primitives are indicated as children and also includes a primitive for which multiple bounding regions are indicated as parents. Disclosed techniques may generate bounding regions that closely fit primitives, which may reduce primitive testing for ray tracing. This in turn may increase performance or reduce power consumption relative to traditional techniques.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Christopher A. Burns, Justin A. Hensley
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Patent number: 11330150Abstract: A method of video content synchronisation includes the steps of displaying a video content item on a first display, generating a virtual environment separate from the video content item for display, detecting a predetermined cue associated with a predetermined time in the playback of the video content item, and displaying at least part of the virtual environment, but not on the first display, where the displayed state of the at least part of the virtual environment changes in response to the detected predetermined cue.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Kavallierou
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Patent number: 11328481Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein generate a mesh representing the surfaces in a physical environment. The mesh is generated using multi-resolution voxels based on detected depth information, e.g., from a depth camera. The techniques may use multiple hash tables to store the multi-resolution voxel data. For example, the hash tables may store each voxel's 3D position and a truncated signed distance field (TSDF) value corresponding to each voxels' distance to a nearest surface. Each of the multiple hash tables may include data corresponding to a different level of resolution and those resolutions may depend upon distance/noise or other factors. For example, voxels close to a depth camera may have a finer resolution and smaller size compared to voxels that are further from the depth camera. Techniques disclosed herein may involve using a meshing algorithm that combines multi-resolution voxel information stored in multiple hash tables to generate a single mesh.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Maxime Meilland, Andrew Predoehl, Kyle L. Simek, Ming Chuang, Pedro A. Pinies Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11327629Abstract: Systems and methods are described that enable augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content to be associated with precise geo-spatial locations in a physical environment. A model of a physical environment is accessed and a three dimensional mesh definition comprising a plurality of mesh cells is received where the mesh is associated with the physical environment. A given mesh cell is associated with a logical address. Augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content may be associated with a given mesh cell. Tracking data corresponding to movement of a user in the physical environment is received. The tracking data may be compared with mesh cell locations to identify matching mesh cells. Addresses associated with the matching mesh cells are used to identify associated content. The identified associated augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content may be rendered using an augmented reality, virtual reality, or other rendering device.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Rypplzz, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Phillip Berquam, Ciara Rayne Staggs, Joshua James Pendrick, Andrew Tsui Jung
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Patent number: 11321897Abstract: An information processing device generating video data representing a video of a moving object in response to an instruction by a user includes a decision unit, a determination unit, a generation unit, and a warning unit. The decision unit decides a movement path of the object, based on an instruction by the user. The determination unit determines whether an object video showing the object moving along the movement path decided by the decision unit is equivalent to a video for repeated playback or not, based on the movement path. The generation unit generates video data based on the object video when the object video is determined by the determination unit as equivalent to the video for repeated playback. The warning unit warns the user when the object video is determined by the determination unit as not equivalent to the video for repeated playback.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Sakai
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Patent number: 11315664Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus which processes structured information including a plurality of pieces of information obtained by classifying information about an imaging diagnosis and relation information indicating the relationships between the pieces of information includes an instruction unit configured to instruct pasting of the structured information, a decision unit configured to decide the layout direction of paste information in accordance with an instruction from the instruction unit, and a generating unit configured to generate paste data obtained by laying out the paste information in accordance with the layout direction, contents of the paste information, and the relation information.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toru Kikuchi