Patents Examined by Zhengxi Liu
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Patent number: 9544579Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying three-dimensional image data on a display having a light source modulation layer and a display modulation layer. The light source modulation layer has light sources for providing spatially modulated, spectrally separated light for displaying time-multiplexed left and right eye images. The display modulation layer has pixels for spatially modulating the amount of light received from the light source modulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Brad Basler, Giorgio Giaretta
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Patent number: 9536500Abstract: A map display device includes: a processor that defines a coordinate system on a map including element polygons showing constituent elements of an urban map; a processor that sets coordinates located inside the element polygons as inner coordinates and sets coordinates located outside the element polygons as outer coordinates; a processor that calculates, for each coordinate in the coordinate system, a moving average value; a processor that resets each of the outer coordinates which has the moving average value larger than a predetermined value as the inner coordinate; a processor that sets, as an urban polygon, a polygon along an outer periphery of a region formed of an aggregate of the set and reset inner coordinates; and a processor that enables the urban map to be displayed when a current location is present inside the urban polygon.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takaomi Kinugawa
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Patent number: 9530179Abstract: A method for processing two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) images on a same display area is provided. The method includes receiving image data containing both 2D and 3D images and creating a plurality of image containers including at least one top level image container and at least one sub-level image container, where each image container is provided with a display dimension identity and a coverage area identity. The method also includes determining display positions, dimensions, and occlusion relationships of the 2D and 3D images based on the plurality of image containers. Further, the method includes displaying images in the image containers with corresponding display dimension identities and coverage area identities with the display positions, dimensions, and occlusion relationships, where the display dimension identities include a 2D display and a 3D display.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: SUPERD CO. LTD.Inventors: Peiyun Jian, Lei Song, Ning Liu, Zhang Ge
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Patent number: 9519951Abstract: Downsampling based display method and apparatus are provided. An input image including multiple pixels is obtained. At least two pixels neighboring with a to-be-calculated DS pixel on each of at least two directions from the pixels are obtained to get at least four first neighboring pixels. Theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel on the at least two directions are calculated. Errors of the theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel and a corresponding original value are obtained. Weight coefficients for calculating the DS pixel are determined according to the errors. An estimation value of the DS pixel is calculated according to the weight coefficients and the weighted cubic interpolation calculation model. As to the other DS pixels of target image, corresponding estimation values are calculated using the above steps, and then a downsampling processed image is obtained. The color aliasing is avoided and sharp image is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Houliang Hu, Hao Li, Li-wei Chu
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Patent number: 9521383Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display control section that controls a projection device to project a correction image, a captured image data acquisition section that acquires the correction image, a judgment section that judges, when the correction image expressed by the captured image data is placed in a plane with a coordinate system, which of the following functions: a function representing a straight line; and a function representing a curved line is used to make image correction based on the distance between the correction image and at least one of a line expressed by the function representing a straight line and a line expressed by the function representing a curved line, and a presentation section that presents a user with an operation screen for correction using the function judged by the judgment section.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shun Imai
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Patent number: 9513963Abstract: A SIMD processing unit processes a plurality of tasks which each include up to a predetermined maximum number of work items. The work items of a task are arranged for executing a common sequence of instructions on respective data items. The data items are arranged into blocks, with some of the blocks including at least one invalid data item. Work items which relate to invalid data items are invalid work items. The SIMD processing unit comprises a group of processing lanes configured to execute instructions of work items of a particular task over a plurality of processing cycles. A control module assembles work items into the tasks based on the validity of the work items, so that invalid work items of the particular task are temporally aligned across the processing lanes. In this way the number of wasted processing slots due to invalid work items may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventors: John Howson, Jonathan Redshaw, Yoong Chert Foo
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Patent number: 9514566Abstract: A computer-based system forms a more accurate intensity value for virtual light reflected from computer-generated images. The reflected light intensity from the images is computed pixel by pixel using the mean and variance of the depth values of a filter region associated with the pixel, as well as the maximum and minimum values of the depth values in the filter region. The computations use the normalized, incomplete beta function algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: SUNFISH STUDIO, LLCInventor: Nathan T. Hayes
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Patent number: 9514715Abstract: Technologies are presented that optimize graphics power-performance efficiency. A method of graphics processing may include beginning a graphics workload with a first voltage and a first clamping threshold; monitoring amounts of time that bursts of dynamic capacitance remain above the first clamping threshold; and, if the dynamic capacitance remains above the first clamping threshold for more than a predetermined time threshold, setting the voltage to a second voltage and setting the clamping threshold to a second clamping threshold until the end of the frame. If, at the end of an initial frame, a number of clock cycles from a start of the frame to when the predetermined time threshold is exceeded is less than a predetermined minimum number of clock cycles, the second clamping threshold and the second voltage may be maintained for processing of a predetermined number of subsequent frames.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Linda L. Hurd
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Patent number: 9501867Abstract: A system for displaying three-dimensional landscapes includes a processor and a storage device in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to identify at least one predetermined landscape element in a landscape to be displayed, individually calculate a representation of the at least one predetermined landscape element and cause a display to display the landscape based on the individually calculated representation of the at least one predetermined landscape element and the altitude data.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak
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Patent number: 9495807Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and extracting stratigraphic layers in one or more bodies representing a geological structure by performing a stratigraphic analysis on the bodies to extract the stratigraphic layers without seams or intrusions for simple identification.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Catalina Maria Luneburg, Michael David Ewing
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Patent number: 9495799Abstract: An image generation system includes a vertex split count setting section that performs a vertex split count setting process that sets a vertex split count m, a vertex split processing section that performs a vertex split process on a three-dimensional object OB in an object space using the vertex split count m, a vertex position calculation section that calculates an intersection position of a projection screen SC and a straight line that connects a vertex position of the three-dimensional object OB after the vertex split process and a position of a virtual camera VC, and calculates a vertex position of a drawing object corresponding to the three-dimensional object OB on a drawing buffer based on the calculated intersection position, and a drawing section that draws the drawing object on the drawing buffer based on the vertex position of the drawing object to generate a projection image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Jun Nagase, Takahiro Kakizawa, Motonaga Ishii, Tohru Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9495916Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional stereoscopic image includes generating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data using a left-eye or right-eye data frame, calculating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels using the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data, sequentially outputting a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data frames, corrected based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to a display panel, and sequentially providing a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color lights, generated from a light source part based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Heen-Dol Kim, Bong-Hyun You, Jai-Hyun Koh, Kuk-Hwan Ahn
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Patent number: 9489168Abstract: A system is configured to portray information about at least one electronic module in an enclosure, including at least the positions of components in the electronic module. A projection device has a projection element, a first networking circuit configured to communicate with a server, and a first processor circuit that identifies an electronic module, requests information from a server about at least physical locations of some components in the module, renders an image based on the received information, and scales the image for display on the electronic module. The projection element is configured to display the scaled image on the electronic module after the module is withdrawn from the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron R. Cox, Michael A. Curnalia, ZhenDe Fu, Lei Li, Christina M. K. Padron, Leslie Ann G. Velasco
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Patent number: 9478069Abstract: A conversion between two texture compression formats comprises calculations performed at index-level for reducing handling of values with color bit-length and an amount of calculations with color values. Format conversion can thus be performed in real time upon displaying an image using the compressed texture data, without significant slowing down of a display rate of the images. It may be implemented in particular for conversion from DXT1—to ETC1 compression format, and a non-flipped or flipped orientation of an ETC1—compressed texture data block can thus be determined from said texture data block as initially compressed in DXT1 format.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: ST-ERICSSON SAInventors: Jacob Strom, Jim Rasmusson, Gilles Ries
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Patent number: 9478192Abstract: The present invention discloses an image processing method includes steps of measuring stimulus value matrixes of trichromatic grays of a displaying image; calculating a stimulus value matrix of each pixel gray of the displaying image from the measured stimulus value matrixes; transforming the stimulus value matrixes of each pixel gray to coordinate values of each pixel in a color space; calculating a chromatic aberration between two adjacent pixels of each row and each column in the color space; selecting a pixel area and calculating a chromatic aberration value of the pixels in the selected pixel area and a chromatic aberration value between pixels of a periphery of the selected pixel area and the adjacent pixels out of the selected pixel area; executing an image process to the selected pixel area if a difference between these two chromatic aberration values and a preset chromatic aberration threshold value meets a predetermined rule.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Inventors: Lixuan Chen, Chih-tsung Kang
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Patent number: 9470801Abstract: A method for reconstructing a radioactive emission image of an overall volume having first and second volumetric regions, each volumetric region having respectively independent dynamic characteristics. The method comprises the following steps: a) obtaining radioactive emissions from the overall volume, including the volumetric regions, b) reconstructing an initial radioactive emission image of the volumetric region according to the radioactive emissions, c) segmenting the initial radioactive emission image to delineate the first and second volumetric regions, and d) separately reconstructing the first and the second volumetric regions according to the respectively independent dynamic characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Spectrum Dynamics LLCInventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Ravhon, Eli Dichterman, Leonid Gluhovsky, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Benny Rousso
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Patent number: 9449430Abstract: It is provided a computer-implemented method for designing a three-dimensional modeled object. The method comprises providing geometrical elements that represent the modeled object and that include a set in which the geometrical elements are a copy one of another. The method also comprises defining a graph, determining maximal sub-graphs of the graph, and identifying, within the determined sub-graphs, the set of connected components having the highest number of arcs and for which the rigid motions represented by the arcs all respect the identity criterion. Such a method improves the design of a 3D modeled object.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Dassault SystemesInventor: Jean-Baptiste Janvier
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Patent number: 9448633Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for moving objects such as a display window about a display frame by combining classical mechanics of motion. A window nudging method commences by receiving a discrete user interface gesture from a human interface device such as a mouse click or a keystroke, and based the discrete user interface gesture, instantaneously accelerating the window object to an initial velocity. Once the window is in motion, then the method applies a first animation to animate the window object using realistic motion changes. Such realistic motion changes comprise a friction model that combines sliding friction with fluid friction to determine frame-by-frame changes in velocity. The friction model that combines sliding friction with fluid friction can be applied to any object in the display frame. Collisions between one object and another object or between one object and its environment are modeled using a critically-damped spring model.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Michael Patrick Rodgers
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Patent number: 9440484Abstract: A method of digital continuous and simultaneous three-dimensional painting and three-dimensional drawing with steps of providing a digital electronic canvas having a screen and capable of presenting two pictures for a right eye and a left eye; providing means for continuous changing of a virtual distance between the digital electronic canvas and a painter by digitally changing a horizontal shifting between images for the right eye and the left eye on the digital electronic canvas corresponding to instant virtual canvas position; providing at least one three-axis input control device allowing digital painting or drawing on the digital electronic canvas; painting on the digital electronic canvas for any instant virtual positions of the digital electronic canvas providing simultaneous appearance of a similar stroke on the images for the right eye and the left eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Inventor: Vladimir Vaganov
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Patent number: 9443341Abstract: One exemplary process for animating hair includes receiving data representing a plurality of hairs and a plurality of objects in a timestep of a frame of animation. A first tree is populated to represent kinematic objects of the plurality of objects and a second tree is populated to represent dynamic objects of the plurality of objects based on the received data. A first elasticity preconditioner is created to represent internal elastic energy of the plurality of hairs based on the received data. Based on the first tree and the second tree, a first set of potential contacts is determined between two or more hairs of the plurality of hairs or between one or more hairs of the plurality of hairs and one or more objects of the plurality of objects. Positions of the plurality of hairs are determined based on the first set of potential contacts and the first elasticity preconditioner.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: DreamWorks Animation LLCInventors: Galen G. Gornowicz, Silviu Borac