Patents Examined by Wesner Sajous
  • Patent number: 11194403
    Abstract: A reference position setting method according to the present disclosure is a reference position setting method for setting a reference position for recognizing whether or not an operation unit displayed as a virtual image has been operated. The reference position setting method includes: a step of displaying a marker displayed as a virtual image larger than an object approaching the marker; a step of detecting the object approaching the marker; and a step of making a color or shade of the outer edge of the marker different from a color or shade of the center of the marker after the step of detecting the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11189245
    Abstract: A system for the high-fidelity display of artwork images simulates lighting conditions (such as by, for example, varying the colour temperature, intensity, and/or lighting direction) and, for each lighting condition, compares an image of an artwork against an image of a digital display thereof. The system calculates an image adjustment (such as, for example, brightness/contrast, levels, tonal curves, exposure, vibrance, hue/saturation and/or colour balance) to minimise perceived visual differences between the original artwork and the image of a digital display thereof under the same environmental lighting conditions. As such, when displayed at a display location, the artwork image may be adjusted using the calculated image adjustment according to the actual lighting conditions at the display location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Boris Pavic
  • Patent number: 11189060
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using end-to-end differentiable pipeline for optimizing parameters of a base procedural material to generate a procedural material corresponding to a target physical material. For example, the disclosed systems can receive a digital image of a target physical material. In response, the disclosed systems can retrieve a differentiable procedural material for use as a base procedural material in response. The disclosed systems can compare a digital image of the base procedural material with the digital image of the target physical material using a loss function, such as a style loss function that compares visual appearance. Based on the determined loss, the disclosed systems can modify the parameters of the base procedural material to determine procedural material parameters for the target physical material. The disclosed systems can generate a procedural material corresponding to the base procedural material using the determined procedural material parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Milos Hasan, Liang Shi, Tamy Boubekeur, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Radomir Mech
  • Patent number: 11189061
    Abstract: A system for evaluation of an augmented reality (AR) experience provided to a user includes a backdrop, a physical light configured to project light onto the backdrop, and a display system configured to display a virtual feature. A controller is communicatively coupled to the display system and the physical light. The controller is configured to render the virtual feature, receive feedback indicative of an operational parameter of the physical light, and receive additional feedback indicative of a state of a virtual light, where the state of the virtual light defines an appearance of the virtual feature. The controller is configured to adjust the appearance of the virtual feature to an updated appearance based on the feedback indicative of the operational parameter of the physical light, adjust the operational parameter of the physical light based on the additional feedback indicative of the state of the virtual light, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Stockwell Dudley Haines, Patrick John Goergen, Martin Evan Graham, Thomas Edward Cluff, Christopher Robert Bromby, Craig Richard Maras
  • Patent number: 11189062
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to determine a color distribution of a processing target image and a color distribution of multiple sample colors prepared in advance as a set and perform an operation to modify a color of the processing target image in accordance with a relationship between the color distribution of the processing target image and the color distribution of the sample colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Makoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11182933
    Abstract: A color blindness-simulating digital image is generated from an original digital image. Wireframe versions of the original digital image and the color blindness-simulating digital image can be generated. A comparison digital image between the color blindness-simulating digital image and the original digital image is generated, such as by comparing the wireframe versions of the original digital image and the color blindness-simulating digital image to one another. The comparison digital image is indicative of the extent to which a color-blind person is unable to distinguish features within the original digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Thaua Garcia Silveria, Leandro Cado, Ricardo Redin, Ricardo Moreira, Luica Maciel, Alessandro Hunhoff, Ricardo Staudt, Alan Aguirre
  • Patent number: 11183146
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic display configured to present an image based on image data and a display pipeline having image processing circuitry to process the image data for display on the electronic display by receiving the image data, referencing a lookup table (LUT) to determine output values based on a plurality of input value sets associated with the image data, the LUT including entries respectively mapping an output value to a defined input value set, determining whether an input value set of the plurality of input value sets is represented by the entries of the LUT, performing curvature interpolation to determine an interpolated output value associated with the input value set in response to determining the input value set of the image data is not represented by the entries of the LUT, and applying the interpolated output value to the input value set to generate updated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 11183153
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image display method and device, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a layer mirroring operation for layer-based mirroring of a display image is detected, a layer mirroring instruction including identification information of a layer to be mirrored is generated; responsive to the layer mirroring instruction, a layer transmission interface is created for the layer to be mirrored; the layer mirroring instruction and information of the layer transmission interface are sent to a graphics composition thread; the graphics composition thread is triggered to send layer data of the layer to be mirrored to a multimedia module based on the identification information of the layer to be mirrored through the layer transmission interface, and the multimedia module renders and merges the layer data of the layer to be mirrored into image video data; and the image video data is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Hu
  • Patent number: 11176713
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards generating images conditioned on a desired attribute. In particular, an attribute-based image generation system can use a directional-GAN architecture to generate images conditioned on a desired attribute. A latent vector and a desired attribute are received. A feature subspace is determined for the latent vector using a latent-attribute linear classifier trained to determine a relationship between the latent vector and the desired attribute. An image is generated using the latent vector such that the image contains the desired attribute. In embodiments, where the feature space differs from a desired feature subspace, a directional vector is applied to the latent vector that shifts the latent vector from the feature subspace to the desired feature subspace. This modified latent vector is then used during generation of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Shradha Agrawal, Deepak Pai, Dhanya Raghu
  • Patent number: 11170479
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus obtains first characteristic information, which is provided according to a plurality of sections of content and corresponds to an image characteristic of a section to be displayed among the plurality of seconds, from a signal received in the signal receiver, obtains first image-quality setting information for setting image quality of the section based on the obtained first characteristic information, obtains second characteristic information corresponding to an image characteristic of a frame included in the section from the frame, obtains second image-quality setting information for setting image quality of the frame based on the obtained first image-quality setting information and the obtained second characteristic information, and controls the display to display an image of the frame, the image quality of the frame being set based on the obtained second image-quality setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Beomjoon Kim, Seungho Park, Minjae Lee, Youngseok Han
  • Patent number: 11170549
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for high dynamic range quanta burst imaging are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: an image sensor comprising single photon detectors in an array; a processor programmed to: generate a sequence of binary images representing a scene; divide the sequence of binary images into blocks; generate block-sum images from the blocks; determine alignments between the block-sum images and a reference block-sum image; warp the sequence of binary images based on the alignments; generate warped block-sum images using warped binary images; merge the warped block-sum images; display a final image of the scene based on the merged warped block-sum images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Mohit Gupta, Sizhuo Ma
  • Patent number: 11164343
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for populating a region of an image with a plurality of brush strokes. For instance, the image is displayed, with the region of the image bounded by a boundary. A user input is received that is indicative of a user-defined brush stroke within the region. One or more synthesized brush strokes are generated within the region, based on the user-defined brush stroke. In some examples, the one or more synthesized brush strokes fill at least a part of the region of the image. The image is displayed, along with the user-defined brush stroke and the one or more synthesized brush strokes within the region of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Vineet Batra, Praveen Kumar Dhanuka, Nathan Carr, Ankit Phogat
  • Patent number: 11164546
    Abstract: An example head mounted display (HMD) device includes a display for displaying a content; a detection unit for detecting the movement of the object in front of the HMD device; and a processor for changing, on the basis of the location of the object, a screen state of the display to provide image of the front of the HMD device, when the movement of the object is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong-won Han, Woo-jin Park, Dae-hyun Ban, Sangsoon Lim
  • Patent number: 11158110
    Abstract: When sampling a pair of mipmaps when performing anisotropic filtering when sampling a texture to provide an output sampled texture value for use when rendering an output in a graphics processing system, more positions along an anisotropy direction are sampled in the more detailed mipmap level than in the less detailed mipmap level. Each position that is sampled may have a single sample taken for it, or may be supersampled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Edvard Fielding, Jorn Nystad
  • Patent number: 11158350
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying emphasized text are described. A line of text having multiple words is displayed successively emphasized at the pace of human speech. Each of the words is displayed in a first state. The emphasized word is then displayed in a second state as having an outline. Next, the emphasized word is displayed in a third state as heavier-weighted text. Finally, the emphasized word is displayed in a fourth state as regular text. The words are visually emphasized one at a time such that a first word is displayed in the third state when a second word is displayed in the second state and the first word is displayed from the third state to the fourth state when the second word is displayed from the second state to the third state and a third word is displayed in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Vooks, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Powell Hirtzel, Marshall Bex, IV
  • Patent number: 11151749
    Abstract: A method of compressing image data from one or more images forming part of the digital reality content, the method including obtaining pixel data from the image data, the pixel data representing an array of pixels within the one or more images; determining a position of the array of pixels within the one or more images relative to a defined position, the defined position being at least partially indicative of a point of gaze of the user, and compressing the pixel data at least partially in accordance to the determined position so that a degree of compression depends on the determined position of the array of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: IMMERSIVE ROBOTICS PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Liam Fitzgerald, Timothy Simon Lucas
  • Patent number: 11151755
    Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for modifying pixel values of an image to improve the visibility of target pixel patterns. A pixel-simulation application accesses an initial image including an initial set of pixel values. The initial set of pixel values define, in an initial color space, a particular color of pixels that indicate a target pixel pattern. The pixel-simulation application generates, based on the initial set of pixel values, a simulated image including a modified set of pixel values that visually indicate another color of pixels in an intermediate color space. The pixel-simulation application generates a pixel map by identifying a difference between the initial set pixel values of the initial image and the modified set of pixel values of simulated image. The pixel-simulation application generates, for display, an output image based at least in part on the pixel map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Saad, Lauren Dest
  • Patent number: 11151962
    Abstract: To allow pragmatic insertion of secondary images by an apparatus connected to the final display we invented an image processing apparatus (301, 501) with an output image connection (506) for connection to a display (550), and an input (510) for receiving an input image (IM) and metadata specifying at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt), which luminance mapping function specifies the relationship between luminances in the input image and a second image with an at least 6 times higher or lower maximum luminance, and comprising a graphics generation unit (502) arranged to determine a secondary image (IMG), and an image composition unit (504) arranged to compose an output image (IMC) on the basis of the pixel colors of the input image and of the secondary image, characterized in that the image processing apparatus comprises a luminance function selection unit (505), which is arranged to output to a metadata output (507) a copy of the at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt) in case no secondary imag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Leon Maria Van De Kerkhof, Wiebe De Haan, Johan Cornelis Talstra
  • Patent number: 11129583
    Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display volumetric image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the generation of the 3-D volumetric image from measured 2-D images including the rendering parameters and styles, the choice of viewing directions and 2-D projection images based on the viewing directions, the layout of the projection images, and the formation of a video can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with sequential images making up a video displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions when reviewing Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and other volumetric mammography images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: PME IP PTY LTD
    Inventors: Malte Westerhoff, Detlev Stalling
  • Patent number: 11129578
    Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the layout of the images, as well as the rendering parameters and styles can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with images displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: PME IP PTY LTD
    Inventors: Malte Westerhoff, Detlev Stalling