Patents Examined by Schiller Hill
  • Patent number: 10178962
    Abstract: There is provided herein a method for producing a representative CO2 waveform, the method comprising obtaining two or more CO2 waveforms, for each of the two or more CO2 waveforms determining one or more scale factors and one or more shape factors, computing, based on the one or more shape and scale factors of each of the two or more CO2 waveforms, a representative set of shape factors and scale factors representing the two or more CO2 waveforms and constructing a representative waveform based on the representative set of shape and scale factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: ORIDION MEDICAL 1987 LTD.
    Inventors: Joshua Lewis Colman, Michal Ronen
  • Patent number: 10134171
    Abstract: A graphics processing pipeline comprises a tessellation stage 10 operable to tessellate a patch representing some or all of an object to be rendered, so as to generate positions for a set of vertices for one or more output primitives, and a primitive assembly stage 20 operable to assemble one or more output primitives for processing using the positions for a set of vertices generated by the tessellation stage and pre-defined information defining the connectivity between at least some of the vertices of the set of vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventor: David Robert Shreiner
  • Patent number: 10049502
    Abstract: A method for edge correction of images of a three-dimensional video content, the video content including at least one original view image and at least one depth or disparity map, the method including the following steps: detecting edges in at least one original view image for obtaining original edges; warping the original edges according to the depth or disparity map; detecting a set of warped edges altered by the warping process; and correcting the altered edges for obtaining corrected edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SISVEL TECHNOLOGY S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marco Grangetto, Maurizio Lucenteforte, Andrea Basso, Giovanni Ballocca, Muhammad Shahid Farid
  • Patent number: 10049432
    Abstract: An initial high-resolution image (D2) is generated by projection of low-resolution images (DIN) onto a high-resolution image space, an intermediate-resolution image (D31) is generated by projection of the low-resolution images (DIN) onto an intermediate-resolution image space, the intermediate-resolution image (D31) is interpolated and enlarged to generate an intermediate-resolution enlarged image (D3), and the pixel values of the undefined pixels in the initial high-resolution image (D2) are estimated using the pixel values of the corresponding pixels in the intermediate-resolution enlarged image (D3). It is possible to generate a high-resolution image of a high picture quality with higher accuracy even when less low-resolution images are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Kurihara, Yoshitaka Toyoda, Narihiro Matoba
  • Patent number: 10008037
    Abstract: An augmented reality environment allows interaction between virtual and real objects. By monitoring user actions with the augmented reality environment various functions are provided to users. Users may buy or sell items with a gesture, check inventory of objects in the augmented reality environment, view advertisements, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Spencer Worley, III, Edward Dietz Crump, Robert A. Yuan, Christopher Coley, Colter E. Cederlof
  • Patent number: 9996972
    Abstract: An augmented reality environment allows interaction between virtual and real objects. By monitoring user actions with the augmented reality environment various functions are provided to users. Users may buy or sell items with a gesture, check inventory of objects in the augmented reality environment, view advertisements, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Spencer Worley, III, Edward Dietz Crump, Colter E. Cederlof, Christopher Coley, Robert A. Yuan
  • Patent number: 9990768
    Abstract: Conflicts between the database-building and traversal phases are resolved by allowing the database bin size to be different from the display bin size. The database bin size is some multiple of the bin display bin size, and when there are multiple display bins in a database bin, each database bin is traversed multiple times for display, and the rasterizer discards primitives outside of the current display bin. This allows a trade off between memory bandwidth consumed for database building and bandwidth consumed for display, particularly when the display traversal is done multiple of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ZIILABS INC., LTD.
    Inventor: David R. Baldwin
  • Patent number: 9990063
    Abstract: Techniques for operating electronic paper displays of respective electronic devices are described. One set of techniques described below enhances user experience by utilizing multiple different waveform and/or display-update modes when rendering content on these displays. Another set of techniques are able to render lines on electronic paper displays having variable and arbitrary darkness, despite the restricted color depth inherent in these displays. In addition, this disclosure describes techniques for utilizing supersampling to select which shades to render on an electronic paper display of an electronic device. In still other implementations, the techniques described herein allocate a predefined frame rate of an electronic paper display between multiple different application components requesting to update the display, resulting smooth animation and relatively high-frame updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Julien G. Beguin, Bradley J. Bozarth, Ilya D. Rosenberg, Jay Michael Puckett
  • Patent number: 9977981
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for calibrating a three-dimensional (3D) image in a tiled display including a display panel and a plurality of lens arrays. The method includes capturing a plurality of structured light images displayed on the display panel, calibrating a geometric model of the tiled display based on the plurality of structured light images, generating a ray model based on the calibrated geometric model of the tiled display, and rendering an image based on the ray model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiming Li, Mingcai Zhou, Shandong Wang, Shaohui Jiao, Tao Hong, Haitao Wang, Ji Yeun Kim
  • Patent number: 9921641
    Abstract: An augmented reality environment allows interaction between virtual and real objects. By monitoring user actions with the augmented reality environment various functions are provided to users. Users may buy or sell items with a gesture, check inventory of objects in the augmented reality environment, view advertisements, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Spencer Worley, III, Christopher Coley, Robert A. Yuan, Edward Dietz Crump, Colter E. Cederlof
  • Patent number: 9898856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically correcting apparent distortions in close range photographs that are captured using an imaging system capable of capturing images and depth maps are disclosed. In many embodiments, faces are automatically detected and segmented from images using a depth-assisted alpha matting. The detected faces can then be re-rendered from a more distant viewpoint and composited with the background to create a new image in which apparent perspective distortion is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FotoNation Cayman Limited
    Inventors: Samuel Yang, Manohar Srikanth, Dan Lelescu, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 9807358
    Abstract: Color images designed to be displayed, for example, with a projector such as a laser pico projector, are subjected to gamut extension in respective iso-hue paths in the CIE1931xyY color space, operating for example, as follows: a plurality of iso-hue curves in the CIE1931xyY color space is determined; for the points subjected to gamut extension, the closest iso-hue curves are identified; and extension paths to be used for the operation of gamut extension are interpolated from said closest iso-hue curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Bosco, Filippo Naccari, Mirko Guarnera
  • Patent number: 9805465
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to an angiographic examination method for generating a 2D projection image. The method includes: (1) acquiring a volume dataset, (2) reconstructing a 3D volume from the volume dataset, (3) forward-projecting for generating a virtual vessel projection, (4) deriving a binary vessel mask, (5) acquiring at least one current 2D projection image, (6) combining the binary vessel mask with the at least one current 2D projection image to form a current mask, (7) thresholding the current mask to form a current binary mask, (8) back-projecting the current binary mask into the 3D volume to form a mask volume, (9) threshold value segmenting the mask volume in order to generate a final virtual vessel volume, and (10) subtracting a projection of the vessel volume from the current 2D projection images to generate a selective, overlay-free visualization of the body region of interest by selectable parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Yiannis Kyriakou
  • Patent number: 9770191
    Abstract: There is provided herein a method for producing a representative CO2 waveform, the method comprising obtaining two or more CO2 waveforms, for each of the two or more CO2 waveforms determining one or more scale factors and one or more shape factors, computing, based on the one or more shape and scale factors of each of the two or more CO2 waveforms, a representative set of shape factors and scale factors representing the two or more CO2 waveforms and constructing a representative waveform based on the representative set of shape and scale factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ORIDION MEDICAL 1987 LTD.
    Inventors: Joshua Lewis Colman, Michal Ronen
  • Patent number: 9704288
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a learning-based clothing model that enables the simultaneous animation of multiple detailed garments in real-time. A simple conditional model learns and preserves key dynamic properties of cloth motions and folding details. Such a conditional model may be generated for each garment worn by a given character. Once generated, the conditional model may be used to determine complex body/cloth interactions in order to render the character and garment from frame-to-frame. The clothing model may be used for a variety of garments worn by male and female human characters (as well as non-human characters) while performing a varied set of motions typically used in video games (e.g., walking, running, jumping, turning, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Edilson de Aguiar, Leonid Sigal, Adrien Treuille, Jessica K. Hodgins
  • Patent number: 9691169
    Abstract: A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing a glyph in a font to present the glyph on a display. In response to operations being executed to present the glyph on the display, operations include identifying one or more values shared by glyphs of the font for adjusting the appearance of the glyph, from a data table stored with the glyph in the font. Operations also include adjusting a representation of the glyph using the identified one or more shared values for presentation on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Monotype Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Sampo Juhani Kaasila, Thomas A. Rickner
  • Patent number: 9684942
    Abstract: Video data and auxiliary data may be sent between a processor and a display device via a single cable using a link aggregator. As such, the link aggregator may receive a first parallel signal that may include the video data and a second parallel signal that may include auxiliary data from the processor. The link aggregator may then send the first parallel signal and the second parallel signal as an aggregated signal to the display device. Upon receiving the aggregated signal at the display device, the link aggregator may de-aggregate the aggregated signal into the first parallel signal and the second parallel signal. The link aggregator may then send the first parallel signal and the second parallel signal to a timing controller of the display device, such that the timing controller may display the video data using the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sreeraman Anantharaman, Colin Whitby-Strevens
  • Patent number: 9552661
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for distinguishing superimposed links to a node in a drawing area. Links connected to a side of a node involved in an editing interaction are identified. The order of the identified links to be connected to the side of the node is determined by sorting the identified links based on the coordinates of the links' bend point and/or opposite end point. The connection points of these identified links are repositioned based on this determined order. By only repositioning the connection points to the node involved in the editing interaction instead of rerouting all of the links in the diagram area, the processing time is improved. Furthermore, by repositioning the connection points that were superimposed so that they are spaced apart based on the coordinates of the links' bend point and/or opposite end point, it is easier to distinguish between the different links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Durocher
  • Patent number: 9443279
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations to communicate synchronization notifications between a co-processor graphic data producer and a co-processor graphic data consumer via a direct link without passing such communications through the central processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minjiao Ye
  • Patent number: 9361733
    Abstract: A portable device is disclosed. A method of controlling a portable device, comprising the steps of capturing an image in front of the portable device, detecting a marker object from the image, displaying a virtual image corresponding to the marker object based on a location of the marker object, and terminating a display of the virtual image corresponding to the marker object, when the detecting of the marker object is terminated, terminate a display of the virtual image based on a first terminate mode if the gaze location of the user is detected at a first location, and terminate the display of the virtual image based on a second terminate mode if the gaze location of the user is detected at a second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Doyoung Lee, Sinae Chun, Yongsin Kim, Hyorim Park