Patents Examined by Sohum Kaji
  • Patent number: 9324296
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed, and a representative color acquisition section for performing a color reduction process which acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region, and acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 9313439
    Abstract: Provided are a user adaptive display device and method thereof. The user adaptive display device includes a plurality of display modules that are jointly or individually controllable and adjacent to each other. The user adaptive display device includes a communication unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The communication unit receives data on user information. The control unit analyzes the user information and changes an image configuration according to the user information. The display unit displays an image with the image configuration changed by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Juhwan Lee, Kisu Park
  • Patent number: 9214193
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display controller, a detecting unit, and a reproduction unit. The display controller is configured to control a display unit to display marks corresponding to a plurality of images. The detecting unit is configured to detect selection information entered by a user. The selection information includes path information and additional information. The reproduction unit is configured to reproduce at least one of the plurality of images based on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sawako Kiriyama
  • Patent number: 9188665
    Abstract: A medical image display apparatus for displaying medical images of a biological tissue includes a physical quantity calculator that calculates a first physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue, and a display image control unit that displays a first elastic image having a display form corresponding to the first physical quantity calculated by the physical quantity calculator and a second elastic image having a display form corresponding to a second physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue calculated by other another medical image display apparatus as the medical images. The display image control unit displays images in which portions having a same elasticity in the biological tissue in a same display form as the first and second elastic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Shunichiro Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 9189891
    Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating a camera are provided. In some aspects, a method includes identifying an initial projection of a target on a viewport of the camera. The initial projection is associated with an initial camera pose of the camera. The method also includes determining a final projection of the target on the viewport. The final projection is associated with a final camera pose of the camera. The method also includes calculating intermediate camera poses of the camera along a navigational path between the initial camera pose and the final camera pose. Each of the intermediate camera poses is associated with a corresponding intermediate projection of the target on the viewport. The intermediate camera poses is calculated such that each subsequent one of the intermediate projections is closer to the final projection than is a previous one of the intermediate projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Hernandez Esteban
  • Patent number: 9176662
    Abstract: Systems and methods for simulating liquid-on-lens effects may provide an interface through which users can add and/or manipulate fluids on a virtual camera lens. A physically based fluid simulation may simulate the behavior of the fluid as it is deposited on and/or manipulated on the virtual lens, and determine the distribution of the fluid across the lens. A ray tracing technique may be employed to determine how light is refracted through the virtual lens and the fluid, and to render a distorted output image as seen through the lens and the fluid. As the fluid is manipulated, corresponding changes in the image may be displayed in real time. The input image may be an existing single image or a direct camera feed (e.g., of a tablet type device). The user may select a fluid type and/or various fluid properties for the image editing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregg D. Wilensky, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi
  • Patent number: 9179137
    Abstract: A gate driver and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including the gate driver are disclosed. The gate driver includes a shift register block including a plurality of cascade-connected shift registers, a selection block including a plurality of selection units, which are respectively connected to the plurality of shift registers, and a buffer block including a plurality of buffers, which are respectively connected to the plurality of selection units. Each of the shift registers outputs a scan pulse, whose a phase is shifted by one horizontal period, in response to a start voltage, a first clock, a second clock, and a third clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunhaeng Lee, Kisu Park, Joongsun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9153157
    Abstract: A display device has a set of picture elements, one active matrix and a display area, the display area including a first area and a non-overlapping second area, the first area comprising monochrome picture elements, and the second area comprising color picture elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Johannes Feenstra
  • Patent number: 9152301
    Abstract: An exemplary apparatus at least partially displays a first object group on a first display portion, selects at least one first object from the first object group in response to an operation of a direction operation portion, changes a selected position in an order of alignment in a second object group in response to an operation of a first or second operation portion, displays at least one object included in the second object group and corresponding to the selected position on a second display portion, adds a new object corresponding to the selected first object at a position corresponding to the selected position in the second object group in response to an operation of a third operation portion, and displays at least one object included in the second object group on the second display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Akifusa, Masahiro Nitta, Masahiko Nagaya, Asako Kagita, Yasuhito Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 9116599
    Abstract: A system and method for visualizing a 3D scene using a flexible display are disclosed. The 3D scene reflects a model of graphics objects, where each graphics object is represented by 3D primitives such as vertices, lines, or surfaces. A display processor generates a 2D image of the 3D scene using various graphics rendering techniques such as non-linear ray-tracing algorithms. A sensor associated with the flexible display detects that a surface profile of the display has been altered, which causes the display processor to generate a new 2D image of the 3D scene. The effect is that flexing the display allows the user to view the 3D scene from a different perspective. In one embodiment, the different perspective is viewing the object from a different camera position. In another embodiment, the different perspective is provided by generating an exploded view of an assembly of graphics objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon Kurtenbach, James La Fleur
  • Patent number: 9081194
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display unit and a generating unit. The display unit includes a two-dimensional image display device includes a display surface with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of light ray control elements provided on the display surface of the two-dimensional image display device corresponding to the pixels. The generating unit generates an optimal elemental image by determining a value of at least one pixel from a weighted sum of values of at least two pixels of a generated image or an input image, and weights calculated based on light ray distributions indicating directions and scattering degrees of light rays from the light ray control elements. The display unit displays the optimal elemental image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takuma Yamamoto, Yasunori Taguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9041718
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating a bilinear spatiotemporal basis model. A method includes the steps of predefining a trajectory basis for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model, receiving three-dimensional spatiotemporal data for a training sequence, estimating a shape basis for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model using the three-dimensional spatiotemporal data, and computing coefficients for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model using the trajectory basis and the shape basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Iain Matthews, Ijaz Akhter, Tomas Simon, Sohaib Khan, Yaser Sheikh
  • Patent number: 9013504
    Abstract: The method includes the steps of displaying one or more main images within a main area in a screen, displaying one or more tab images associated with the main image within a tab area in the screen, displaying other main image within the main area in the screen according to a user's instruction so as to replace the main image that is already displayed with the other main image, and displaying other tab image within the tab area in the screen in addition to the tab image that is already displayed, in which the other tab image is associated with the other main image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Eiichi Nishina
  • Patent number: 8994722
    Abstract: An image for a virtual view of a scene is generated based on a set of texture images and a corresponding set of depth images acquired of the scene. A set of candidate depths associated with each pixel of a selected image is determined. For each candidate depth, a cost that estimates a synthesis quality of the virtual image is determined. The candidate depth with a least cost is selected to produce an optimal depth for the pixel. Then, the virtual image is synthesized based on the optimal depth of each pixel and the texture images. The method also applies first and second depth enhancement before, and during view synthesis to correct errors or suppress noise due to the estimation or acquisition of the dense depth images and sparse depth features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Yongzhe Wang, Anthony Vetro
  • Patent number: 8988417
    Abstract: A rendering system and method based on a weighted value of a sub-pixel region are provided. The rendering system may change a pixel value of a single sub-pixel using pixel values of sub-pixels that represent, as respective central viewpoints, a plurality of viewpoints represented by the single sub-pixel based on an inclined lens, and may perform rendering using the changed pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
  • Patent number: 8963947
    Abstract: Approximation errors commonly occur when color transformation values stored in color look-up tables are interpolated to produce color display drive signals, since the stored transformation values typically correspond to non-linear functions. Such errors can be reduced by applying a pre-indexing function to the transformation values before they are stored in the look-up table, and by applying the same function to values extracted from the table during look-up operations. Alternatively, such errors can be reduced by providing one or more additional look-up tables to achieve higher order (i.e. more accurate) interpolation results that are achievable by interpolation of values stored in a single look-up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Chi Wan, Terence Lau
  • Patent number: 8952994
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device capable of enhancing convenience of a user using the information processing device by considering a dominant hand, habit, or the like, of the user without imposing on the user a task of inputting information of the user's dominant hand, habit, the like. In a case where it is determined that a user's designated position is included in a determination area corresponding to an object, the object is moved in accordance with movement of the designated position. In a case where at least one of one object and another object moves, processing relevant to the objects is executed based on a result of collision determination executed with respect to the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Seiichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 8933951
    Abstract: Techniques are described that track the lines and pixels in a frame buffer in the host system that are being modified and transmit these modified scan lines and modified pixel locations to the self refresh display instead of entire contents of the frame buffer. The graphics adapter informs the self refresh display of the modified scan lines or pixel information and then sends the pixel data over the communications channel to the display. Custom codes can be used to identify and transmit modified scan lines and pixels to the self refresh display logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Siddhartha Nath, Suresh Kumar, Rama Gopal Musunuri Satyanantha
  • Patent number: 8902220
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the binding elements may further include 3D binding models as well as 2D textures on 3D surfaces to simulate 3D models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra
  • Patent number: 8860715
    Abstract: A method and system for evaluating probabilistic boosting trees is disclosed. In an embodiment, input data is received at a graphics processing unit. A weighted empirical distribution associated with each node of the probabilistic boosting tree is determined using a stack implementation. The weighted empirical distribution associated with each node is added to a total posterior distribution value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Birkbeck, Michal Sofka, Shaohua Kevin Zhou