Patents Examined by Scott E Sonners
  • Patent number: 11514625
    Abstract: Provided are a method for drawing a motion track, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: multiple video frames are acquired, where the multiple video frames includes a current video frame and at least one video frame before the current video frame (S110); a display position of a target motion element in each video frame and a display position of a background pixel point in each video frame are identified (S120); a display position of the target motion element of each video frame in the current video frame is calculated (S130); an actual motion track of the target motion element is drawn in the current video frame according to the display position of the target motion element of each video frame in the current video frame, and the current video frame in which the drawing is completed is displayed (S140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shikun Xu, Yandong Zhu, Changhu Wang
  • Patent number: 11507057
    Abstract: 3D printing slicing methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage mediums are disclosed. In an embodiment, a 3D printing slicing method includes the following steps: (1) acquiring a 3D model and a target texture picture; (2) obtaining a first model and obtaining a first picture; (3) establishing a mapping set between the first model and the first picture; (4) slicing a target layer of the first model by a slice plane to obtain at least one intersection point; (5) looking up at least one mapping point corresponding to the at least one intersection point in the first picture according to the mapping set, and obtaining corresponding outer contour points by revising coordinates of the at least one intersection point; and (6) obtaining an outer contour boundary line of the target layer by connecting the outer contour points successively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Fusion Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinjing Zhang, Jianzhe Li, Hua Feng
  • Patent number: 11481879
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first brightness level of a first video frame and a second brightness level of a second video frame, the second video frame immediately following the first video frame. In response to determining that the second brightness level differs from the first brightness level by at least a predetermined amount, the method includes modifying the brightness of the second video frame and a predetermined number of successive frames to provide successive fractional increments of brightness between the first brightness level and the second brightness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Yagiz C. Yildiz
  • Patent number: 11481949
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that provides tools for defining a scene including media objects in a multi-dimensional space. The method provides a set of user interface tools for adjusting a region of focus for rendering the space from a particular location within a particular field of view. In some embodiments, the region of focus is a first region in the space within the particular field of view and the space further includes a second region outside of the region of focus within the particular field of view. In some embodiments, the method also provides a set of effects for applying to the second region but not the first region to visually indicate the first region as the region of focus within the space and the second region as a region outside of the region of focus within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Sheeler, Gregory Niles, Gregory B. Abbas, Guido Hucking, Sidhartha Deb
  • Patent number: 11481955
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system for fast generation of ray traced reflections of virtually augmented objects into a real-world image, specifically on reflective surfaces. The system utilizes a standard raster graphics pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Reuven Bakalash, Elad Haviv
  • Patent number: 11475766
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems that allow users to report traffic violations and obtain information concerning reported violations using mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a server, one or more images or videos captured by a mobile device of an offending vehicle committing a potential traffic violation and an extended metadata tag; storing the one or more images or videos and the extended metadata tag as unstructured content in a content lake; generating database tables on top of the content lake; receiving a request from another mobile device to view traffic violation content; querying the database tables and retrieving at least one of the one or more images or videos of the offending vehicle committing the potential traffic violation from the content lake; and generating a GUI to be displayed via the other mobile device showing the traffic violation content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hayden AI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Carson, Vaibhav Ghadiok, Bo Shen
  • Patent number: 11437001
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, a program and an image processing method capable of avoiding interference with the function of another program. An image processing apparatus includes a position information detection unit configured to detect position information indicating a position on a display, a region position setting unit configured to set the position of the region of interest on the display based on the position information, and an image processing unit configured to perform image process on at least one image among an image inside of the region of interest and an image outside of the region of interest. The region position setting unit, when the position information is changed with the image process, sets the position of the region of interest based on the position information immediately before the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Haruki, Ikumi Arai, Naoaki Hirata, Yoichi Ueda, Tomoharu Yachikami
  • Patent number: 11410270
    Abstract: One or more cameras capture objects at a higher resolution than the human eye can perceive. Objects are segmented from the background of the image and scaled to human perceptible size. The scaled-up objects are superimposed over the unscaled background. This is presented to a user via an augmented reality display whereby the process selectively amplifies the size of the objects' spatially registered retinal projection while maintaining a natural (unmodified) view in the remainder of the visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerd Bruder, Gregory Welch, Kangsoo Kim, Zubin Choudhary
  • Patent number: 11380039
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for rendering an avatar in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to automatically scale an avatar or to render an avatar based on a determined intention of a user, an interesting impulse, environmental stimuli, or user saccade points. The disclosed systems and methods may apply discomfort curves when rendering an avatar. The disclosed systems and methods may provide a more realistic interaction between a human user and an avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Josh Anon, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, Rodrigo Cano, Karen Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Stephane Antoine Joseph Imbert, Anthony Marinello
  • Patent number: 11348261
    Abstract: A method for processing three-dimensional point cloud data includes a data creation step, a layering step, a gridding step, a data processing step and a two-dimensional image generation step, so that the three-dimensional point cloud data can be converted into a two-dimensional image, and the two-dimensional image can correspond to, identify and store the axial depth and information point features of the point cloud data in three axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chien-Chou Lin, Kuan-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 11328494
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain viewpoint information indicating a change over time in a viewpoint corresponding to a virtual image; and a generation unit configured to generate the virtual image from the viewpoint according to the viewpoint information obtained by the obtaining unit such that among a plurality of objects included in the generated virtual image, an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a first amount according to the change of the viewpoint indicated by the viewpoint information is lower in clearness than an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a second amount smaller than the first amount according to the change of the viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11307731
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of the present invention allows the user to draw images using augmented reality. The method is implemented by a processor executing a marker-less tracking algorithm stored in a memory of a mobile computing device. The method comprises detecting, by a page detector, an image of a drawing area; initializing a marker-less tracker, wherein said initializing comprises (a) capturing, via the page detector, a frame of the drawing area, (b) displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing device, the frame of the drawing area, and (c) uniformly distributing on the GUI a template patch over the frame of the drawing area, and wherein the template patch is a fragment of texture of a template image used for surface tracking. The method further comprises executing a template patch tracking, wherein a perspective transformation of the template image to the frame as a current image is evaluated in video streaming on the GUI of the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SKETCHAR, UAV
    Inventors: Andrey Drobitko, Aleksandr Danilin, Mikhail Kopeliovich, Mikhail Petrushan
  • Patent number: 11288855
    Abstract: Rendering system combines point sampling and volume sampling operations to produce rendering outputs. For example, to determine color information for a surface location in a 3-D scene, one or more point sampling operations are conducted in a volume around the surface location, and one or more sampling operations of volumetric light transport data are performed farther from the surface location. A transition zone between point sampling and volume sampling can be provided, in which both point and volume sampling operations are conducted. Data obtained from point and volume sampling operations can be blended in determining color information for the surface location. For example, point samples are obtained by tracing a ray for each point sample, to identify an intersection between another surface and the ray, to be shaded, and volume samples are obtained from a nested 3-D grids of volume elements expressing light transport data at different levels of granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Cuneyt Ozdas, Luke Tilman Peterson
  • Patent number: 11270514
    Abstract: A computer system for creating architectural schematics within a mixed-reality environment generates, within an architectural design application, mixed-reality rendering data that visually describes one or more virtual architectural elements in relation to a real-world environment. The computer system transmits, to a mixed-reality device, the mixed-reality rendering data, wherein the mixed-reality device renders the mixed-reality rendering data within the real-world environment. The computer system also receives a command from a user directed towards a particular virtual architectural element. Additionally, the computer system constrains a scope of the command based upon an interaction between the virtual architectural element and the real-world environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Barrie A. Loberg, Joseph Howell, Robert Blodgett, Simon Francis Stannus, Matthew Hibberd, Tyler West
  • Patent number: 11263997
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to display layers in an electronic device, wherein an operating method of the electronic device can comprise the steps of: displaying, on a display, a first layer of which at least a portion is transparent; and displaying, on the display, a second layer of which at least a portion is overlapped with the first layer, and which is disposed on a lower end of the first layer, wherein the at least portion of the second layer can be set to be transparently displayed. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kibok Kim, Chang-Do Kim, Hongseok Kwon, Youngseok Lim, Eun Jung Hyun
  • Patent number: 11238653
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory configured to store data illustrating a three-dimensional model reproducing an environment of a work site; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to specify a first partial region in which a work target is present from the three-dimensional model based on a detection result of an orientation of a work operator present at the work site, specify a second partial region corresponding to the work target from the first partial region based on at least one of a geometric shape of the first partial region and color information of the first partial region, and register, in the memory, three-dimensional coordinates of the second partial region in a coordinate space in which the three-dimensional model is formed as position information for displaying, according to a position of the work target, image information on an image in which the work site is photographed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11232534
    Abstract: A graphics processing may include implementing a vertex shader and a pixel shader with a GPU. Vertex parameter values generated by the vertex shader may be stored in a memory. The pixel shader may access the vertex parameter values stored in the memory. Accessing the vertex parameter values may include disabling or bypassing hardware that performs interpolation on vertex parameter values. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Mark Evan Cerny, David Simpson, Jason Scanlin
  • Patent number: 11164544
    Abstract: A display device including a housing; a display unit; a rotatable guide bar accommodated in the housing and configured to withdraw the display unit from the housing or insert the display unit into the housing; and a controller configured to display first content in a first region of the display unit withdrawn from the housing, in response to a second-content display command, withdraw the display unit to add a second region, and display second content in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaesun Yun
  • Patent number: 11126162
    Abstract: 3D printing slicing methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage mediums are disclosed. In an embodiment, a 3D printing slicing method includes the following steps: (1) acquiring a 3D model and a target texture picture; (2) obtaining a first model and obtaining a first picture; (3) establishing a mapping set between the first model and the first picture; (4) slicing a target layer of the first model by a slice plane to obtain at least one intersection point; (5) looking up at least one mapping point corresponding to the at least one intersection point in the first picture according to the mapping set, and obtaining corresponding outer contour points by revising coordinates of the at least one intersection point; and (6) obtaining an outer contour boundary line of the target layer by connecting the outer contour points successively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai Fusion Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinjing Zhang, Jianzhe Li, Hua Feng
  • Patent number: 11100902
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to computing devices, head-mounted display (HMD) devices, and methods for displaying an image via a display device. In one example, a method for displaying an image via a display device comprises receiving an original frame of reference, determining a rotated device orientation of the display device, and modifying the original frame of reference to a rotated frame of reference based on the rotated device orientation. The method further comprises sampling data describing a virtual world at the rotated frame of reference to produce an intermediate image frame, generating a final image frame by back-rotating the intermediate image frame to the original frame of reference, and displaying the final image frame via the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pavlos Mavridis, Dag Birger Frommhold, Adam Andrzej Cichocki