Patents Examined by Xin Sheng
  • Patent number: 11967073
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for displaying a 3D model of a patient in a 3D scene, each voxel of the displayed 3D model being associated to a respective pixel of at least one corresponding cross-sectional image of the patient, the 3D scene further including a cursor and at least one display window. The method includes the steps of: computing a current position of the cursor in a scene coordinate system of the 3D scene based on a current position of a user point in user coordinate system; and for each active display window of the at least one display window, displaying a displayed image based on the cross-sectional image, which includes a pixel associated to the voxel that is the closest to the computed current position of the cursor and which has a corresponding image cross-section plane that matches a window cross-section plane of the active display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: AVATAR MEDICAL
    Inventor: Mohamed El Beheiry
  • Patent number: 11954777
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of expanding the range of expression in a moving image generated by use of a 3D model. The image processing apparatus includes: a virtual camera setting unit that makes settings for a virtual camera; a virtual viewpoint image generation unit that generates a virtual viewpoint image that is an image of a 3D object viewed from a viewpoint of the virtual camera; a composition unit that generates a composite image based on a plurality of the virtual viewpoint images; and a moving image generation unit that generates a moving image including a frame based on the virtual viewpoint image or the composite image, in which after arranging a plurality of the virtual cameras, the virtual camera setting unit moves at least one of the plurality of virtual cameras to integrate the plurality of virtual cameras. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus that edits a moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Asai, Yo Nonoyama
  • Patent number: 11954785
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus for rendering medical images includes a first GPU and a second GPU, each configured to read from and write to a data structure stored in virtual memory. The data structure is configured to be read by both the first GPU and the second GPU and the data structure is configured such that the first GPU can write to a first sub-space of the data structure and the second GPU can write to a second sub-space of the data structure. The first sub-space and the second sub-space are independent. The first GPU is configured to write data relating to pre-processing for rendering to the first sub-space and the second GPU is configured to read the written data and to render at least one image based on the written data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Magnus Fredrik Wahrenberg, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11941750
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a dynamic product presentation are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises identifying, by a processor, a first surface in a first view of a camera feed from a customer device; obtaining, by the processor, a three-dimensional model of a product that corresponds to the first surface; providing, by the processor, an augmented media containing an overlay of a first augmented reality representation of the three-dimensional model of the product in the first view; and responsive to the processor identifying a second surface in a second view of the camera feed from the customer device, revising, by the processor, the augmented media to contain a second augmented reality representation of the three-dimensional model of the product on the second surface in the second view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shopify Inc.
    Inventors: Russ Maschmeyer, Adam Debreczeni, Eric Andrew Florenzano, Brennan Letkeman, Sarah Hurtgen, James Harold Hall, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11919546
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a robotic system. The methods comprise: inferring, by a computing device, a first heading distribution for the object from a 3D point cloud; obtaining, by the computing device, a second heading distribution from a vector map; obtaining, by the computing device, a posterior distribution of a heading using the first and second heading distributions; defining, by the computing device, a cuboid on a 3D graph using the posterior distribution; and using the cuboid to facilitate driving-related operations of a robotic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wulue Zhao, Kevin L. Wyffels, G. Peter K. Carr
  • Patent number: 11918435
    Abstract: A method for producing an adaptive element for dental implantation includes: creating a 3D virtual model including a crown part and a root part; obtaining a boundary curve between the crown part and the root part; defining a boundary plane on the root part perpendicular to a vertical axis of the 3D virtual model and spaced apart from the boundary curve; projecting the boundary curve on the boundary plane in a direction parallel to the vertical axis; generating a tubular model having a predetermined thickness based on the boundary curve, a virtual surface connected from the boundary curve to the cutting plane, and the cutting plane; and producing the adaptive element according to the tubular model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hsin-Yu Kuo, Tsung-Fu Hung, Po-Jan Kuo
  • Patent number: 11915374
    Abstract: A three-dimensional complete virtual model of a real-world vehicle and its method of construction is disclosed. The virtual model can be used to provide virtual tours of a vehicle, which can be a land, sea, or air vehicle. The real-world vehicle can be down with both open and closed doors, and will include images of the interior and exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Lenflash.com, Corp.
    Inventor: Moysey Fatakhov
  • Patent number: 11887241
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for neural texture mapping. In some embodiments, a method of neural texture mapping includes obtaining a plurality of images of an object, determining volumetric representation of a scene of the object using a first neural network, mapping 3D points of the scene to a 2D texture space using a second neural network, and determining radiance values for each 2D point in the 2D texture space from a plurality of viewpoints using a second neural network to generate a 3D appearance representation of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zexiang Xu, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Milos Hasan, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Fanbo Xiang
  • Patent number: 11887268
    Abstract: The information display device according to a first aspect includes a storage unit that stores a three-dimensional model of a structure and damage information of each management section of the structure in association with each other; a first display control unit that causes a display device to display the damage information in a form of a list; an acceptance unit that accepts selection of the damage information that is displayed in the form of the list; a management section determining unit that determines a three-dimensional position on the three-dimensional model, the three-dimensional position corresponding to the damage information for which the selection is accepted, and determines a management section including the determined three-dimensional position; and a second display control unit that causes the display device to display an area of the three-dimensional model including at least the determined management section in a manner that the three-dimensional position is distinguishable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuma Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11882918
    Abstract: A make-up assistance method includes: acquiring a facial image of a user; acquiring a makeup effect image selected by the user; extracting a make-up region from the facial image of the user, and transmitting the makeup effect image and information about the make-up region to a makeup matching server; performing, by the makeup matching server, a skin detection on the make-up region, so as to obtain skin information of the facial image; determining, by the makeup matching server, at least one makeup plan matched with the make-up region according to the skin information and the makeup effect image; presenting the at least one makeup plan; determining a difference between the makeup effect image and the facial image using a preset algorithm; and generating makeup modification prompt information for a region in the makeup effect image or the facial image where the difference is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yonggui Yang
  • Patent number: 11880908
    Abstract: An information handling system is configured, during a pre-extensible firmware interface initialization phase of the information handling system, to learn capabilities of components of the information handling system, create a hand-off block for storage of a virtual graphical browser firmware volume payload, and store learned capabilities of the components of the information handling system in the hand-off block. During a driver execution environment phase, the information handling system may retrieve the learned capabilities of the components of the information handling system stored in the hand-off block, publish learned capabilities retrieved from the hand-off block, retrieve the virtual graphics browser firmware volume payload stored in the hand-off block, and dispatch a virtual graphics browser learning driver and a virtual graphics browser interpreter driver based on retrieved virtual graphics browser firmware volume payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Maruti Fulsing Chavan, Virupakshi Channagiri Manjunath, Yasaswi Saisriram Bhimaraju, Annappa Kumar Mn
  • Patent number: 11878212
    Abstract: A martial arts training system and method of using the same. The martial arts training system comprises an eyewear component and a user interface. The user interface is operatively connected to the eyewear component and may be integrated into the eyewear component or into a wearable article having proximity sensors. The wearable article may be a belt, gloves, footwear, or a combination thereof. The martial arts training system provides martial arts training programs that are viewable via the eyewear component in real-time or from a library database while allowing an instructor to provide feedback remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Louis Burton
  • Patent number: 11875446
    Abstract: Aspects of a system and method for procedural media generation include generating a sequence of operator types using a node generation network; generating a sequence of operator parameters for each operator type of the sequence of operator types using a parameter generation network; generating a sequence of directed edges based on the sequence of operator types using an edge generation network; combining the sequence of operator types, the sequence of operator parameters, and the sequence of directed edges to obtain a procedural media generator, wherein each node of the procedural media generator comprises an operator that includes an operator type from the sequence of operator types, a corresponding sequence of operator parameters, and an input connection or an output connection from the sequence of directed edges that connects the node to another node of the procedural media generator; and generating a media asset using the procedural media generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Augusto Guerrero, Milos Hasan, Kalyan K. Sunkavalli, Radomir Mech, Tamy Boubekeur, Niloy Jyoti Mitra
  • Patent number: 11871142
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a frame rate of video content, sets a blend amount parameter based on the frame rate, and temporally anti-aliases the video content based on the blend amount parameter. Additionally, the technology may detect a coarse pixel (CP) shading condition with respect to one or more frames in the video content and select, in response to the CP shading condition, a per frame jitter pattern that jitters across pixels, wherein the video content is temporally anti-aliased based on the per frame jitter pattern. The CP shading condition may also cause the technology to apply a gradient to a plurality of color planes on a per color plane basis and discard pixel level samples associated with a CP if all mip data corresponding to the CP is transparent or shadowed out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Travis T. Schluessler, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 11861767
    Abstract: A device executes a visualization application program on a processor. Via the visualization application, a technique for visualizing data paths are performed. The technique includes receiving a data structure from a data intake and query system, where the data stream includes event stream data associated with the data path. The data path includes a set of entities, including an origin entity and a destination entity. The technique further includes generating visualizations of the origin entity, destination entity, and the event stream data. The visualization of the event stream data includes visualizations of events streaming between the visualization of the origin entity and visualization of the destination entity. The technique also includes causing the visualizations of the origin entity, destination entity, and the event stream data to be presented in an extended reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Kelly Kong, Steven Shaun McIntyre
  • Patent number: 11842457
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for processing a slider for a virtual character, an electronic device, and a storage medium, relating to a field of virtual reality, in particular to fields of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, voice technology, cloud computing, etc. An implementation includes: acquiring a shape model associated with a target semantic tag; acquiring a skeleton and skinning information of a reference virtual character; fitting the shape model based on the skeleton and skinning information to obtain a skeleton linkage coefficient; and generating a slider associated with the target semantic tag based on the skeleton linkage coefficient, wherein the slider is used to drive the reference virtual character to obtain a target virtual character complying with a target semantic feature contained in the target semantic tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruizhi Chen, Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11836859
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image comprising a 2D object; identifying a contour of the 2D object; generating a three-dimensional (3D) mesh based on the contour of the 2D object; and applying a texture of the 2D object to the 3D mesh to output a 3D object representing the 2D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno, Kyle Goodrich
  • Patent number: 11823312
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing a device as a marker for virtual content viewed in an augmented reality environment are discussed herein. The device (or sign post) may comprise a wirelessly connectable device linked to a power source and associated with multiple linkage points. The device may provide information to a user (or a device of a user) defining virtual content and a correlation between the linkage points and a reference frame of the virtual content. When rendered by a display device, the virtual content may be presented based on the reference frame of the virtual content correlated to the real world by virtue of the position of the linkage points in the real world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventor: Nicholas T. Hariton
  • Patent number: 11823345
    Abstract: The invention presents an example-based real-time clothing synthesis method, which includes the following steps: creating the 3D human model according to the input body pose parameters and the body shape parameters; generating 3D clothing deformation on the standard shape and the input pose through a clothing pose model; searching nearby clothing shape models according to the body pose parameters; for each nearby clothing shape model, generating corresponding 3D clothing mesh based on the body shape parameters, and then deforming the clothing mesh toward the input pose using Linear Blend Skinning (LBS) method; synthesizing the clothing deformation for the input body pose and shape using the clothing data obtained in above steps; resolving the interpenetrations between the clothing data and the human model. The invention can generate real-time clothing animation results with detailed wrinkles for various body poses and shapes with different clothing types on a commodity CPU, without resizing the cloth model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nannan Wu, Xiaogang Jin
  • Patent number: 11818324
    Abstract: A three-dimensional virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: VEFXi Corporation
    Inventor: Craig Peterson