Patents Examined by Yu-Jang Tswei
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Patent number: 9569078Abstract: Some embodiments provide an image editing application that edits an image. The image editing application displays an image in a display area. The image editing application displays a rotatable user interface item. In response to receiving a user input, the image editing application rotates the rotatable user interface item. The image editing application rotates the image displayed in the display area based on the rotation of the rotatable user interface item.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Timothy D. Cherna, Randy Ubillos, Zehang Sun
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Patent number: 9558719Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising first and second display units for respectively displaying first and a second composite images for the two eyes of a user, comprising: a moving unit configured to move positions of the first and second display units; a detecting unit configured to detect moving amounts of the first and second display units; first and second image capturing units configured to respectively obtain first and second captured images; an extracting unit configured to generate first and second extracted images by respectively extracting portions of the first and second captured images in extraction ranges associated with the moving amounts; and a composite image generating unit configured to generate the first and second composite images by respectively compositing first and second CG images with the first and second extracted images.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naohiro Matsushima, Toshiyuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9524008Abstract: An apparatus includes a display device having a pixel and vector storage, and a by-pass mode and an interpolation mode, wherein the interpolation mode converts input data from an input frame rate to a display refresh rate based on pixel and vector data stored in the storage. A method includes determining a selected interpolation mode to be employed by a frame interpolator, retrieving pixel data and vector data received from a host system from a storage, and generating interpolated frames of display data according to the selected interpolation mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: PIXELWORKS, INC.Inventors: Neil D. Woodall, James Zhou, Bob Zhang, Richard Miller
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Patent number: 9523772Abstract: 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: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aaron Matthew Rogan, Benjamin James Kadlec
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Patent number: 9520104Abstract: An image display device includes a microcomputer and LUTs which are tables of correction data used to correct color balance of images. The microcomputer sets LUT extensions and calculates the LUTs based on: (1) the normalized values GainLn of the L conforming adjustment values GainL and the normalized values GainHn of the H conforming adjustment values GainH; (2) the normalized values Lin of the input values Liref of the image data of the L adjustment image and the normalized values Hin of the input values Hiref of the image data of the H adjustment image; (3) the correction data of the LUTs; and (4) the correction data of the LUT extension units.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuya Nakamura
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Patent number: 9513788Abstract: 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: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Suzuki, Shunichi Kasahara
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Patent number: 9495776Abstract: In a computing apparatus, a computing unit performs statistical analysis on data including the values of a plurality of input variables and the values of a plurality of output variables optimized by adjusting the values of the plurality of input variables, thereby generating the values of intermediate variables that indicate relative positional relationship among the values of each of the plurality of input variables and the plurality of output variables. The creation unit creates scatter diagrams representing the tendency of magnitude relationship among values of a variable, by using the generated values of the intermediate variables, for the respective input variables and output variables. The display unit displays the created scatter diagrams.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Kazuhiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9495789Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controlling unit configured to, at a time of displaying content on a screen, set one axis in a three-dimensional space as a time axis, arrange pieces of content along one or more of the time axes, cause the time axis to be rotatable in a foreground direction and a background direction of the screen with one axis substantially orthogonal to the time axis regarded as a center, and, in a case where the time axis is inclined by a predetermined angle or more toward a foreground, change a display state of content after a predetermined reference time among the pieces of content arranged along the time axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takamasa Sato, Takayuki Ochi, Yorimitsu Naito, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Susumu Nagano
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Patent number: 9489766Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic maps, and provides a position searching method and apparatus based on an electronic map. The method includes: receiving a keyword of a searching object; searching the electronic map with the keyword to obtain a current geographical position; acquiring panoramic images of a plurality of scenes that are located within a geographical area around the current geo-geographical position and of a predetermined size; calculating coordinates of the searching object in one of the panoramic images according to position-related information of each scene; generating an image from an image area of the one of the panoramic images and outputting the image, wherein the image area is centered on the coordinates and of a predetermined size. The present invention can accurately position an image associated with the searching object, and has the advantages of low cost and less amount of data.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Long Liu
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Patent number: 9478066Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for adjusting vertex positions. One or more viewport dimensions are received and a snap spacing is determined based on the one or more viewport dimensions. The vertex positions are adjusted to a grid according to the snap spacing. The precision of the vertex adjustment may increase as at least one dimension of the viewport decreases. The precision of the vertex adjustment may decrease as at least one dimension of the viewport increases.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Eric Brian Lum, Henry Packard Moreton, Kyle Perry Roden, Walter Robert Steiner, Ziyad Sami Hakura
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Patent number: 9471961Abstract: A method of rotating an original image includes performing a self-learning using addresses related to at least one page miss and generating address generation rules using a result of the self-learning. The method includes pre-fetching the original image from a memory device based on the address generation rules to obtain a pre-fetched image and generating a rotated image using the pre-fetched image.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Woo Song, Min Soo Kim, Sung Chul Yoon, Jae Young Hur, Sung Min Hong
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Patent number: 9471959Abstract: To generate a description of a raster map image that includes a representation of a body of water having a color gradient that appears constant in response to a zoom operation, a description of geometry of the body of water is generated for a selected geographic area. Using a raster representation of the body of water having a color gradient, at least two blur raster images are generated: a first blur raster image is generated using a first blur radius, and a second blur raster image is generated using a second blur radius different from the first blur radius. The description of the geometry of the body of water, the first blur raster image, and the second blur raster image are provided to a client device for generating raster map images of the selected geographic area.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: David Teitlebaum, Jonah Jones, Sean Egan
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Patent number: 9472022Abstract: A scene point cloud is processed and a solution to an inverse-function is determined to determine its source objects. A primitive extraction process and a part matching process are used to compute the inverse function solution. The extraction process estimates models and parameters based on evidence of cylinder and planar geometry in the scene. The matching process matches clusters of 3D points to models of parts from a library. A selected part and its associated polygon model is used to represent the point cluster. Iterations of the extraction and matching processes complete a 3D model for a complex scene made up of planes, cylinders, and complex parts from the parts library. Connecting regions between primitives and/or parts are processed to determine their existence and type. Constraints may be used to ensure a connected model and alignment of its components.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Ulrich Neumann, Suya You, Rongqi Qiu, Guan Pang, Jing Huang, Luciano Nocera
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Patent number: 9467673Abstract: Disclosure in the description is related to a method for rhythm visualization, a system, and computer-readable storage. The invention allows the system to visualize the rhythm according to audio signals and personal features made by individual. In the method according to one embodiment, a personal image is firstly captured, and features can be extracted from the image. A personalized image is therefore created based on the features. Next, audio features are extracted from the audio signals. A personalized rhythm configuration can be obtained. A personalized rhythm video is therefore created based on the information related to the audio, personalized image, and the personalized rhythm configuration. Furthermore, a group rhythm video may also be obtained as integrating multiple personal rhythm data.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRYInventors: Shih-Chun Chou, Bo-Fu Liu, Yu Fan Lin, Yi Chun Hsieh, Shih Yao Wei
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Patent number: 9466264Abstract: There is provided a graphic meter device which improves the visibility of a needle and which allows for easy determination of the kind of indicator. The graphic meter device includes a dot matrix display (8) for displaying a needle indicator image (9) provided with a dial (10a) and a needle (10b) pointing to the dial (10a) in accordance with a measured quantity and a CPU (1) for controlling a display state of the dot matrix display (8), the CPU being arranged to display a colored region (10f) of the needle (10b) of the dial (10a) with a color different from the rest of the region in the dial (10a).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yukio Oishi
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Patent number: 9462214Abstract: An image display device includes: a projection port that projects image display light generated based on an image signal; and a combiner that presents a virtual image by reflecting the image display light projected from the projection port. With respect to a specific direction along a reflection surface of the combiner, the curvature of the combiner in the specific direction becomes smaller as a distance from the projection port becomes larger. The reflection surface of the combiner may be formed by a biconic surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventor: Manabu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9449415Abstract: Method and system for presenting a lesson plan having a plurality of keyframes is provided. The method includes initializing a fixed variable for a first keyframe; detecting an input from a user at an interactive display device; correlating the input with a gesture from a gesture set and one or more of database domains from among a plurality of database domains; displaying an image at the interactive display device when all mutable variables for the first keyframe content are determined based on the input; manipulating the image using a gesture associated with the displayed image and any associated database domains; and transitioning to a next keyframe using animation.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: MIND Research InstituteInventors: Matthew R. Peterson, Nigel Nisbet, Theodore Alteneder
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Patent number: 9437043Abstract: An ultrasound system which is capable of biplane imaging is able to display, store and export independent image frames of only the reference image (90) or only the variable orientation image, or the standard display of both images. The system is also able to sweep through a range of image plane orientations and to automatically acquire a sequence of images (92) comprising an image in each orientation over the range of plane orientations. The system is preferably operable in the biplane tilt mode, the biplane rotate mode, or the biplane elevation tilt mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Michael Schauf
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Patent number: 9418477Abstract: Method and computer system for rendering damaged-enhanced images in a computer simulation comprising a computer generated environment. During the computer simulation, determining coordinates of a virtual impact having an effective radius on 3D polygon mesh(es) of the computer generated environment, identifying rendering faces of the 3D polygon mesh(es) affected by the virtual impact, clipping at runtime the affected rendering faces to a mathematically-defined subtraction shape computed considering the effective radius, computing newly formed 3D polygon mesh(es) and rendering at least one damaged-enhanced image for display comprising a subset of rendering faces of the newly formed 3D polygon mesh(es) using a visual texture, the subset being determined from a field of view of the computer simulation.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CAE INC.Inventors: Patrick Piche, Jonathan Breton
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Patent number: 9401124Abstract: As to enhance the rendering while minimizing needed computation time, the method comprises the steps of determining noise information, said noise information being representative of noise level estimated for at least a part of said image; the noise information being determined for the achromatic component of the image; sampling said part of the image according to said noise information; and rendering said at least a part of the image according to said sampling.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Jun Teng, Li Xin Luo, Zhi Bo Chen