Patents Examined by Yu-Jang Tswei
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Patent number: 10269129Abstract: A color adjustment method and device are provided. The color adjustment method comprises: obtaining frame data from a frame buffer; mapping the frame data from an original color space to a linear original color space via a de-gamma correction process, so as to obtain frame data in the linear original color space; mapping the frame data in the linear original color space to a linear target color space, so as to obtain frame data in the linear target color space; and performing a gamma correction process on the frame data in the linear target color space by using a target gamma coefficient, so as to obtain frame data in a target color space.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Anyu Liu, Chuanshun Ji, Guosheng Li
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Patent number: 10152952Abstract: A method for the safe visualization of a safety-relevant information includes the steps of: for all possible states of at least one variable input parameter, decomposing a safe visualization of the at least one variable input parameter into its safe base elements (31); for each of the decomposed safe base elements, enumerating and storing a set of all possible states of safe base element visualization (32); and for each of the decomposed safe base elements, transmitting the set of all possible states of safe base element visualization to a target system that provides safe visualization at runtime (33).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: Matthias Auchmann
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Patent number: 10140744Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for recording and viewing images of objects with specular highlights. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method may include accessing a first plurality of images, each of the images in the first plurality of images including an object recorded from a first position, and a reflection of light on the object from a light source located at a different location than in each of the other images in the first plurality of images. The method may also include generating a first composite image of the object, the first composite image comprising a superposition of the first plurality of images, and wherein each of the images in the first plurality of images is configured to change in a degree of transparency within the first composite image and in accordance with a first input based on a degree of tilt.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Todd Lane Ouzts, Monroe Williams
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Patent number: 10134167Abstract: Using curves to emulate soft body deformation in a computer-generated character is disclosed. A method can include accessing a reference model mapped to one or more deformation curves for the character. The reference model can include a mesh of vertices representing a soft body layer of the character. The deformation curve can include multiple sample points selected for mapping. Each mesh vertex on the model can be mapped to each sample point on the curve to establish a relationship between them for deformation. The method can also include receiving a movement of one or more sample points on the curve to a desired deformation position. The method can further include calculating primary and secondary movements of the mesh vertices on the model based on the movements of sample points. The method can move the mesh vertices as calculated to a desired deformation position and output the reference model with the moved vertices for rendering to emulate the soft body deformation of the character.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: DREAMWORKS ANIMATION LLCInventors: Michael Hutchinson, Guido Zimmerman, Robert Helms
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Patent number: 10134322Abstract: A pixel structure, including a first color pixel, a second color pixel and a third color pixel. The first color pixel includes a first-color normal-viewing sub-pixel and at least one first-color side-viewing sub-pixel. The second color pixel includes a second-color normal-viewing sub-pixel and at least one second-color side-viewing sub-pixel. The third color pixel includes a third-color normal-viewing sub-pixel and at least one third-color side-viewing sub-pixel. First color light emitted from the first-color normal-viewing sub-pixel, second color light emitted from the second-color side-viewing sub-pixel, and third color light emitted from the third-color side-viewing sub-pixel are mixed to obtain a white emission in a first side view direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Yi-Wen Chang
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Patent number: 10121220Abstract: A parallel processor and a method of reducing texture cache invalidation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the parallel processor includes a cache configured to receive lines of data; and a parallel execution unit associated with the cache and configured to execute parallel counterparts of an operation. The parallel counterparts, when executed, are configured to create, in the cache, corresponding aliases of a line of data pertaining to the operation such that the parallel counterparts are operable to invalidate only the corresponding aliases.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventor: Jeffrey Bolz
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Patent number: 10109110Abstract: An augmented reality display system used to diminish (for example, obscure, obfuscate, hide, make less distracting, block out, “white wash” and/or make less discernible) certain portions of a base image (for example, a user's view of a part of the real world as seen through eyeglasses). Some examples of visual subject matter that can be diminished include: (i) driver distraction phenomena; (ii) advertising; and/or (iii) subject matter the user is not authorized to view.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Butler, Rahil Garnavi, Timothy M. Lynar
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Patent number: 10102826Abstract: A method includes: determining a glare effect in a first partial region of the first display device in which an item of information is represented as an image; sorting items of information according to relevance if a plurality of items of information is represented on the first display device; checking and establishing that a glare effect in a second partial region of the first display device or on a second display device is lower than the glare effect in the first partial region; checking and establishing that no item of information, or an item of information with lower relevance, is represented in the second partial region of the first display device or on the second display device; and representing the one item of information, or the one item of information with a higher relevance, in the second partial region of the first display device or on the second display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventor: Stefan Bieger
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Patent number: 10043212Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a display control part configured to display a human-figure virtual object image in a pose from which to extract information necessary for motion capture, the human-figure virtual object image being the object to be handled corresponding to a person targeted to be recognized.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Suzuki, Shunichi Kasahara
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Patent number: 10002451Abstract: A method, which is performed by an electronic device, for resizing an image having text is disclosed. The method may include determining layout information of at least one text region in the image. The layout information may include at least one of a number, a size, a location, a shape, or a text density of the at least one text region in the image. The method may also select a seam carving operation, a cropping operation, or a scaling operation for the image based on the layout information, a size of the image, and a target image size. The selected operation may be performed to resize the image to the target image size based at least on one of the layout information, the size of the image, or the target image size. The resized image may include the at least one text region.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seungwoo Yoo, Hee-Seok Lee, Jihoon Kim
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Patent number: 9996949Abstract: Views of a virtual space may be presented based on predicted colors of individual pixels of individual frame images that depict the views of the virtual space. Predictive models may be assigned to individual pixels that predict individual pixel colors of individual pixels at individual time points. Individual models may be updated and/or reprojected to other pixels based on comparisons of the predicted pixel colors and colors specified by in a raster input signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth J. Mitchell, Charalampos Koniaris, Jose Antonio Iglesias-Guitian, Bochang Moon, Eric Smolikowski
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Patent number: 9940757Abstract: A portion of a simulated element of a graphical simulation available for modification is identified in view of a cursor location associated with a user input device. The identified portion of the simulated element is selected for modification. The selected portion of the simulated element is then modified according to a direct manipulation of a display of the selected portion of the simulated element by a user using the user input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.Inventors: Srikumar M. B. Nair, Steven Ray Rheinfrank, Glenn Shayn Song, Pawel Piotr Wrotek
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Patent number: 9916682Abstract: The power consumption of processor-based devices may be reduced by reducing the consumption of power during graphics processing. In some embodiments, the precision of pixel shading in parts of images where artifacts are less objectionable may be reduced. For example, in areas the user is not directly looking at, precision may be reduced to save power. At the same time, because a person is not focusing on those regions, even if usually perceptible artifacts occur because of the reduced precision, an overall pleasing depiction may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rahul P. Sathe, Bimal Poddar, Jon N. Hasselgren
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Patent number: 9910831Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for providing a font effect thereof are provided. The method includes obtaining character information and font information of a character; determining an attribute value of a font effect according to at least one of characteristics of the character and characteristics of the display apparatus; rendering the font effect based on the determined attribute value and applying the rendered font effect to the character; and outputting the character to which the font effect is applied.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyu-hun Jung, Bong-je Cho, Sang-Beom Cho, Han-sol Kim
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Patent number: 9905032Abstract: In scenarios involving the capturing of an environment, it may be desirable to remove temporary objects (e.g., vehicles depicted in captured images of a street) in furtherance of individual privacy and/or an unobstructed rendering of the environment. However, techniques involving the evaluation of visual images to identify and remove objects may be imprecise, e.g., failing to identify and remove some objects while incorrectly omitting portions of the images that do not depict such objects. However, such capturing scenarios often involve capturing a lidar point cloud, which may identify the presence and shapes of objects with higher precision. The lidar data may also enable a movement classification of respective objects differentiating moving and stationary objects, which may facilitate an accurate removal of the objects from the rendering of the environment (e.g., identifying the object in a first image may guide the identification of the object in sequentially adjacent images).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aaron Matthew Rogan, Benjamin James Kadlec
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Patent number: 9898841Abstract: A method for operating a computing system is provided. The method includes at a local computing device and while an ink input is occurring, rendering a local uncommitted ink stroke on a local display based on the ink input and sending uncommitted ink data corresponding to the uncommitted ink stroke to a remote computing device, the uncommitted ink data including an uncommitted ink stroke path and a global unique identifier differentiating the uncommitted ink data from other uncommitted ink data corresponding to different computing devices and ink inputs. The method further includes responsive to receiving an ink stroke commitment input, rendering a local committed ink stroke on the local display and sending committed ink data including an ink commitment command and the global unique identifier associated with the uncommitted ink stroke path to the remote computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Xiao Tu, Walker Duhon, Jason Hartman
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Patent number: 9892715Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing and a fixing mechanism configured to attach the housing to an object. The housing includes a display device and at least one processor configured to receive measurement data in a measurement mode during a physical exercise, to process the received measurement data, thus generating exercise data characterizing the exercise, and to display the exercise data through the display device during the physical exercise. The display device is configured to provide a plurality of display view orientations associated with different rotation angles between a first display view orientation, defined by attachment of the fixing mechanism to the object, and a 90-degree rotation from the first display view orientation. At least one function of the processor is associated with the rotation of the display view.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: POLAR ELECTRO OYInventors: Olli Komulainen, Lauri Lumme
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Patent number: 9837053Abstract: A display method includes steps of: receiving, by the controller, a first frame and a second frame from an input data; up-converting, by the controller, a frame rate of the input data to produce a third frame based on the first frame and the second frame; identifying, by the controller, a static image content of the third frame according to a comparison of the first frame and the second frame; controlling, by the controller, the driver circuit not to update data of pixels within a static display area of the display panel corresponding to the static image content during the period of time that the third frame is displayed by the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Po-Hsiang Fang
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Patent number: 9824496Abstract: In an information display system, an information apparatus includes a target information storage section that stores target information to be published by the information apparatus and an extraction section that extracts the target information from the target information storage section on the basis of user information that is information regarding a user of a head mounted display device, and the head mounted display device includes an information generating section that generates information for additional presentation for providing the augmented reality to the user using the target information acquired from the information apparatus and an image display section that enables the user to view the generated information for additional presentation as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Fusashi Kimura
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Patent number: 9818215Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for recording and viewing images of objects with specular highlights. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method may include accessing a first plurality of images, each of the images in the first plurality of images including an object recorded from a first position, and a reflection of light on the object from a light source located at a different location than in each of the other images in the first plurality of images. The method may also include generating a first composite image of the object, the first composite image comprising a superposition of the first plurality of images, and wherein each of the images in the first plurality of images is configured to change in a degree of transparency within the first composite image and in accordance with a first input based on a degree of tilt.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Todd Lane Ouzts, Monroe Williams