Patents Examined by Scott E Sonners
  • Patent number: 11030754
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of the present invention allows the user to draw or preview 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 template patches 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 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Sketchar, UAB
    Inventors: Andrey Drobitko, Aleksandr Danilin, Mikhail Kopeliovich, Mikhail Petrushan
  • Patent number: 10970912
    Abstract: Aspects relate to tracing rays in 3-D scenes that comprise objects that are defined by or with implicit geometry. In an example, a trapping element defines a portion of 3-D space in which implicit geometry exist. When a ray is found to intersect a trapping element, a trapping element procedure is executed. The trapping element procedure may comprise marching a ray through a 3-D volume and evaluating a function that defines the implicit geometry for each current 3-D position of the ray. An intersection detected with the implicit geometry may be found concurrently with intersections for the same ray with explicitly-defined geometry, and data describing these intersections may be stored with the ray and resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Cuneyt Ozdas, Luke Tilman Peterson, Steven Blackmon, Steven John Clohset
  • Patent number: 10950206
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display and a processor for controlling the display. In response to the electronic apparatus operating in a first operating mode, the processor displays a content screen including a background image layer with a rear background image of the electronic apparatus and an object layer with a graphic object in the display. In response to receiving a convert command to convert to a second operating mode, the processor decreases a resolution of the content screen displayed in the display and adds a content layer including a content image enlarged gradually from a region of the content screen to the an entirety of the content screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ha-na Kim, Soo-hong Kim
  • Patent number: 10949158
    Abstract: A screenshot method includes receiving, by a local terminal, a remote screenshot instruction sent by a remote terminal, taking a screenshot by executing a screenshot logic corresponding to the remote screenshot instruction, and sending the screenshot to the remote terminal. The screenshot logic us configured in an operating system of the local terminal and corresponds to a version of the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Fang, Yanqing Jing, Dawei Sun, Xifeng Yang, Yan Huang, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 10943561
    Abstract: The image data display system according to the present invention makes it possible to comprehend a global distribution of measurement values and a change in details of the measurement values simultaneously. In the present invention, a color information conversion unit converts the measurement values to color information for representing the global distribution of the measurement values. A detail extraction unit extracts detail information of the measurement values from the measurement values. A detail adjustment unit adjusts the strength of detail information and generates adjusted detail information. A color information adding unit adds color information on the basis of the adjusted detail information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Masayuki Tanaka, Masatoshi Okutomi
  • Patent number: 10937200
    Abstract: In implementations of object-based color adjustment, an image editing system adjusts hue and saturation of a digital image so that objects in the digital image do not appear unnatural. The image editing system quantizes a CIELAB color space into classes that represent pairs of a and b channel values. The image editing system determines probabilities that pixels of a digital image belong to each of the classes, and based on the probabilities, determines a range of hue and a range of saturation for each pixel. An object detector segments objects in the digital image to determine ranges of hue and saturation for each segmented object. The image editing system selectively adjusts the hue and saturation for objects of the digital image based on whether the hue and saturation range for the object include a value of hue and saturation, respectively, selected in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, Neeraj Chaudhary
  • Patent number: 10930053
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system for fast generation of ray traced reflections of virtually augmented objects into a real-world image. The system utilizes a standard raster graphics pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ADSHIR LTD.
    Inventors: Reuven Bakalash, Elad Haviv
  • Patent number: 10922886
    Abstract: An AR system that leverages a pre-generated 3D model of the world to improve rendering of 3D graphics content for AR views of a scene, for example an AR view of the world in front of a moving vehicle. By leveraging the pre-generated 3D model, the AR system may use a variety of techniques to enhance the rendering capabilities of the system. The AR system may obtain pre-generated 3D data (e.g., 3D tiles) from a remote source (e.g., cloud-based storage), and may use this pre-generated 3D data (e.g., a combination of 3D mesh, textures, and other geometry information) to augment local data (e.g., a point cloud of data collected by vehicle sensors) to determine much more information about a scene, including information about occluded or distant regions of the scene, than is available from the local data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick S. Piemonte, Daniel De Rocha Rosario, Jason D Gosnell, Peter Meier
  • Patent number: 10922545
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention includes a first determiner and a recognizer. The first determiner is configured to determine a shutter speed and an ISO speed meeting a condition that an exposure value corresponding to a default F-number, a luminance of a subject, the shutter speed, and the ISO speed becomes a predetermined exposure value. The recognizer is configured to recognize a target object from a photographed image. The photographed image is photographed using the default F-number, and the shutter speed and the ISO speed determined by the first determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NS SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Fujinoi
  • Patent number: 10922858
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an operation input device configured to designate a data range of an observed value; an analysis condition setting device configured to determine an analysis range or an analysis parameter of the observed value, corresponding to the number of samples included in the data range; a computation device configured to analyze a waveform or a trend of the observed value on the basis of the analysis range or analysis parameter; and a display screen generation device configured to cause a display device to display a waveform or a straight line as a computation result of the computation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Fujita, Kimikazu Takahashi, Nobuaki Ema
  • Patent number: 10909759
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit for executing the instructions to send signals to display, for a user, a first virtual image superimposed onto a representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to identify a potential source of interest for the user, the potential source of interest being outside of a user focus area in the representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to notify the user of the potential source of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kaino, Yoshiaki Iwai, Kenichiro Oi, Shunichi Homma, Jianing Wu
  • Patent number: 10891760
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a graphics manipulation application accesses, for a received brushstroke input, brushstroke parameters that include a maximum alpha-deposition parameter and a fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an alpha flow increment from the maximum alpha-deposition parameter and the fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an output canvas color from the alpha flow increment and a current canvas opacity, and obtains an output canvas opacity based on the current canvas opacity and the maximum alpha-deposition parameter. If the current canvas opacity exceeds or equals the maximum alpha-deposition parameter, the current canvas opacity is selected as the output canvas opacity. Otherwise, the graphics manipulation application computes the output canvas opacity by increasing the current canvas opacity based on the alpha flow increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Byungmoon Kim, Jinyi Kwon
  • Patent number: 10885711
    Abstract: Methods and devices for performing one step compositing may include receiving at least a first surface from a first image source and a second surface from a second image source. The methods and devices may include generating a composite image with a combined first surface and second surface by contemporaneously applying position corrections to the first surface and the second surface and lens distortion corrections to the first surface and the second surface and blending the first surface and the second surface into respective positions in the composite image. The methods and devices may include transmitting the composite image representing a virtual environment for presentation to a downstream consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jack Elliott, Andrew Yeung
  • Patent number: 10852541
    Abstract: A method and system for image display with a head-mounted device, which use a see-through tunable diffractive mirror, such as a see-through tunable holographic mirror or see-through tunable LCD array mirror, which mirror is useful in providing augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Aude Bouchier, Jean-Paul Cano, Samuel Archambeau
  • Patent number: 10838682
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods and computer readable media for generating remote views in a virtual mobile device platform. A virtual mobile device platform may be coupled to a physical mobile device over a network and generate frames of data for generating views on the physical device. These frames can be generated using an efficient display encoding pipeline on the virtual mobile device platform. Such efficiencies may include, for example, the synchronization of various processes or operations, the governing of various processing rates, the elimination of duplicative or redundant processing, the application of different encoding schemes, the efficient detection of duplicative or redundant data or the combination of certain operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Intelligent Waves LLC
    Inventors: Robert David Lee, Hemal Yogesh Gandhi, Akshay P. Joshi
  • Patent number: 10832469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media related to generating a three-dimensional model of a target object. A first source image, of a plurality of source images of a target object, is analyzed to identify a first region of the first image, the first region having attributes meeting one or more pre-defined criteria. The first region is marked for exclusion from use in generating a three-dimensional model of the target object. The three-dimensional model of the target object is generated using the plurality of source images. The marked first region is excluded in the generation of the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Chapman, Steven T. Kosakura, Joseph M. Popp, Mehul A. Patel
  • Patent number: 10810968
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a housing including at least one of a display that displays an image and a speaker that outputs sound, a mounting detection unit that is disposed on a first surface of the housing to determine whether a grill is mounted, and a processor that compensates at least one of an output image of the display and an output sound source of the speaker depending on whether the grill is mounted, which is detected by the mounting detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoung Bo Min
  • Patent number: 10803666
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method, performed at a first electronic device with one or more processors, a display, and one or more input devices, includes obtaining, for a reference location in a three-dimensional space, first reference coordinates in an augmented reality coordinate system of the first electronic device. The method includes obtaining, for the reference location in the three-dimensional space, second reference coordinates based on transformation data received from a second electronic device. The method includes determining a coordinate transformation based on the first reference coordinates and the second reference coordinates. The method includes synchronizing the augmented reality coordinate system of the first electronic device with an augmented reality coordinate system of the second electronic device using the coordinate transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael E. Buerli, Andreas Moeller, Michael Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10803649
    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: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Sheeler, Gregory Niles, Gregory B. Abbas, Guido Hucking, Sidhartha Deb
  • Patent number: 10783699
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that refine anatomical models to sub-voxel resolution. In certain implementations, sophisticated, composite, digital anatomical atlases provide detailed three-dimensional models of the contents of three-dimensional medical images. However, three-dimensional medical images have limited resolutions characterized by a smallest volume, referred to as a voxel, to which an intensity is assigned by the imaging process. The currently disclosed methods employ computed percentages of different types of tissue within voxel volumes to adjust a three-dimensional model of the contents of the voxel volumes to more accurately model the contents of the voxel volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: AI Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Julia Patriarche