Computer Graphics Display Memory System Patents (Class 345/530)
  • Patent number: 11911701
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically present suitable content for a particular audience. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method receiving virtual experience content associated with a first virtual experience associated with a first target audience and including content that is restricted as not viewable by a second target audience, receiving at least one content alternative, generating a first rating for the received virtual experience content and a second rating for the at least one content alternative, and automatically providing only one of the received virtual experience content or the at least one content alternative to user devices based on the first rating and the second rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Jakob Cassel, Matthew Dean, Alevtina Stolpnik, Alex Michael Quartulli, Craig Harris Collins, Jr., Gavin Fynbo, Chen Zou
  • Patent number: 11915060
    Abstract: A graphics processing management system includes a virtual machine coupled to client devices and a graphics processing system including graphics processing device(s). A graphics processing management subsystem is coupled to the virtual machine system and the client devices, and operates to monitor a usage of the graphics processing device(s) via the virtual machine system by a first client device. The graphics processing management subsystem then uses a graphics processing usage class equation to determine that feature(s) of the usage of the graphics processing device(s) by the first client device identifies a first graphics processing usage class. Based on determining that the usage of the graphics processing device(s) by the first client device identifies the first graphics processing usage class, the graphics processing management subsystem then performs a usage action with the first user that is associated with the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: John Kelly
  • Patent number: 11893925
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F Holland, Christopher P Tann, Ramana V Rachakonda
  • Patent number: 11875600
    Abstract: The subject technology captures first image data by a computing device, the first image data comprising a target face of a target actor and facial expressions of the target actor, the facial expressions including lip movements. The subject technology generates, based at least in part on frames of a source media content, sets of source pose parameters. The subject technology receives a selection of a particular facial expression from a set of facial expressions. The subject technology generates, based at least in part on sets of source pose parameters and the selection of the particular facial expression, an output media content. The subject technology provides augmented reality content based at least in part on the output media content for display on the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Golobokov, Alexandr Marinenko, Aleksandr Mashrabov, Aleksei Bromot, Grigoriy Tkachenko
  • Patent number: 11861782
    Abstract: Data structures, methods and tiling engines for storing tiling data in memory wherein the tiles are grouped into tile groups and the primitives are grouped into primitive blocks. The methods include, for each tile group: determining, for each tile in the tile group, which primitives of each primitive block intersect that tile; storing in memory a variable length control data block for each primitive block that comprises at least one primitive that intersects at least one tile of the tile group; and storing in memory a control stream comprising a fixed sized primitive block entry for each primitive block that comprises at least one primitive that intersects at least one tile of the tile group, each primitive block entry identifying a location in memory of the control data block for the corresponding primitive block. Each primitive block entry may comprise valid tile information identifying which tiles of the tile group are valid for the corresponding primitive block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Xile Yang, Robert Brigg, Michael John Livesley
  • Patent number: 11817050
    Abstract: A display system including a host processor and a display driver integrated circuit may be provided. The host processor may generate a clock signal that swings swinging between a high level and a low level, generate and output a first synchronization signal based on the clock signal, generate a wakeup interrupt by measuring a frame update period of a display panel, generates frame data based on the first synchronization signal by enabling an image providing path based on the wakeup interrupt, and output the frame data for every frame update period. The display driver integrated circuit may receive the first synchronization signal and the frame data from the host processor, and control the display panel such that a frame image corresponding to the frame data is displayed on the display panel based on the first synchronization signal without storing the frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changju Lee, Yonjun Shin, Hoonmo Yang, Sungchul Yoon, Junghak Lee
  • Patent number: 11790828
    Abstract: A control method for a display apparatus includes receiving a first control signal transmitted from a first terminal and a second control signal transmitted from a second terminal, storing priority information in which data showing that the second control signal has lower priority than the first control signal is recorded, and, when processing by the first control signal and processing by the second control signal are incompatible with each other, preferentially executing the processing by the first control signal according to the priority information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Koya Kokubo
  • Patent number: 11727474
    Abstract: A sales person at a retail store which traditionally does not sell paint assists a consumer in selecting and purchasing a non-paint product and thereafter employs a computer terminal and display in conjunction with a website operated by a paint manufacturer to provide a paint color recommendation to the consumer. The sales person may thereafter respond to consumer selection of a particular paint color by employing an on-line electronic ordering tool to transmit a paint order to an order processing terminal located at a paint manufacturer facility. Thereafter, the paint manufacturer may proceed to process the order, perform tinting and shaking steps to formulate paint of the particular color, package the tinted paint, and cause the packaged paint to be shipped to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Behr Process Corporation
    Inventors: Leonard Ludovic Hamacher, Sunil Palakodati, Jill Dawn Ehnes, Nicholas Robert Thompson, Jr., Miles Anthony Poole
  • Patent number: 11721306
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide a picture-in-picture (PIP) overlay window on a single physical monitor by displaying a first swap chain of the single physical monitor, reporting to an operating system (OS), a display level request for a fake connection to a non-existent second monitor, and displaying on the single physical monitor a virtual display defined by a second swap chain of the non-existent second monitor, as the PIP overlay window on the displayed content of the first swap chain on the single physical monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Nitant Patel, Parimalkumar Patel, Anthony Brown
  • Patent number: 11720628
    Abstract: A method includes logging first user interactions associated with a playlist of content items and generating first metrics based on the logged first user interactions with the playlist. The first metrics include a first metric indicating a first duration of playback of a first content item of the playlist during playback of the playlist. The first duration of playback of the first content item during the playback of the playlist is greater than a first default duration of playback. The method further includes reporting at least the first metric to a creator or curator of the playlist, logging second user interactions associated with the playlist, and generating second metrics based on the logged second user interactions with the playlist. The logged first user interactions correspond to more deviations from a default playback sequence of the playlist than the logged second user interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Keekim Heng, Martin Landers, Anders Torp Brodersen, Theodore Kent Hamilton, Dror Shimshowitz
  • Patent number: 11704850
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a series of 2-D images relating to a 3-D object or model between a server and a user terminal includes combining each of the 2-D images in the series of 2-D images into a single combined 2-D image, and transmitting the combined image to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Formus Labs Limited
    Inventors: Antonije Velevski, Ju Zhang
  • Patent number: 11706388
    Abstract: Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant messaging address. Additionally, before the deep tag is created, it can be checked whether the content owner of the movie is known. If known, the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging are followed. If unknown, a set of registered content owners can be alerted of the presence of new content. When ownership of the new content is established, the already-created deep tags can be updated in accordance with the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Thomas S. Gilley, Eric Hoffert, Brenda Pomerance, Razvan Pop
  • Patent number: 11695079
    Abstract: An oxide thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode, a metal oxide active layer and a source-drain metal layer, which are on a base substrate. The metal oxide active layer includes a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer stacked on the first metal oxide layer in a direction away from the base substrate; the first metal oxide layer is a carrier transport layer; the second metal oxide layer is a carrier isolation layer; an electron transfer rate of the carrier transport layer is greater than an electron transfer rate of the carrier isolation layer. The first metal oxide layer includes a primary surface facing toward the base substrate and a primary surface away from the base substrate; the first metal oxide layer further includes a lateral surface around the primary surfaces; the second metal oxide layer covers the lateral surface of the first metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhong Wang, Tianmin Zhou, Hehe Hu, Xiaochun Xu, Nianqi Yao, Dapeng Xue, Shuilang Dong
  • Patent number: 11694384
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for fast incremental shared constants. In aspects, a CPU may determine/update shared constant data for a first draw call of a plurality of draw calls. The shared constant data, which may correspond to at least one shader, may be updated based on a draw call update for the first draw call. The CPU may communicate the updated shared constant data for the first draw call to a GPU. The GPU may receive, in at least one register, the updated shared constant data from the CPU and configure the at least one register based on the updated shared constant data corresponding to the draw call update of the first draw call of the plurality of draw calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Edwin Frisinger, Richard Hammerstone, Andrew Evan Gruber, Gang Zhong, Yun Du, Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar
  • Patent number: 11676653
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a read/write control method and device for a DDR (Double Data Rate) dynamic random access memory, and a system. The device comprises a read control signal generating unit and a read memory controller, and the read control signal generating unit is in signal connection with the read memory controller; the read control signal generating unit is configured for determining a minimum frame period from multiple received signal sources, generating a read control signal based on the minimum frame period, and providing the read control signal to the read memory controller; and the read memory controller is configured for controlling the reading of video frames from the DDR dynamic random access memory according to the read control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xitong Ma
  • Patent number: 11676325
    Abstract: A method of generating an intermediate layer comprises generating local surface properties for a graphics object from parameter image maps, generating a first object image surface layer based on the local surface properties, storing intermediate surface results as an object image layer from the object local surface properties, and rendering a second object image surface layer based on the stored intermediate surface results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Oxide Interactive, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James Kipp, Daniel Kurt Baker
  • Patent number: 11670013
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computing platforms are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: identify and store anatomical landmarks on a first reference digital image of a region of a human body; insert biopsy site identification data on the first reference digital image with the anatomical landmarks to form a second reference digital image; transform the second reference digital image into a mesh mask image; and overlay the mesh mask image on a third digital image of the region of the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Jigar Patel, Ayushi Patidar, Parth Patidar
  • Patent number: 11671382
    Abstract: Technologies for coordinating access to packets include a network device. The network device is to establish a ring in a memory of the network device. The ring includes a plurality of slots. The network device is also to allocate cores to each of an input stage, an output stage, and a worker stage. The worker stage is to process data in a data packet with an associated worker function. The network device is also to add, with the input stage, an entry to a slot in the ring representative of a data packet received with a network interface controller of the network device, access, with the worker stage, the entry in the ring to process at least a portion of the data packet, and provide, with the output stage, the processed data packet to the network interface controller for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Browne, Seán Harte, Tomasz Kantecki, Pierre Laurent, Chris MacNamara
  • Patent number: 11637564
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses the data size of a data frame to be transmitted to a control device at every control period even if oversampling is performed. A counter unit (10) compresses the data size of sampling data (Sd) indicating a second or subsequent count value (Ct) to the number of bits by which the maximum (Vmax) of a count value countable in one sampling processing can be represented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshimi Niwa
  • Patent number: 11599798
    Abstract: A method operating a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) memory can be provided by accessing specified training parameters used to train a Deep Neural Network (DNN) using a GPU with a local GPU memory, the specified training parameters including at least a specified batch size of samples configured to train the DNN. A sub-batch size of the samples can be defined that is less than or equal to the specified batch size of samples in response to determining that an available size of the local GPU memory is insufficient to store all data associated with training the DNN using one batch of the samples. Instructions configured to train the DNN using the sub-batch size can be defined so that an accuracy of the DNN trained using the sub-batch size is about equal to an accuracy of the DNN trained using the specified batch size of the samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Danny Ziyi Chen, Xiaoming Chen
  • Patent number: 11573760
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display apparatus includes acquiring a plurality of first images from a plurality of first terminals, displaying the plurality of first images on a first screen via a display device, storing a maximum number of first images to be placed on the first screen in a storage circuit, in response to a signal transmitted from a second terminal that supplies a second image and requesting display of the second image, permitting the second terminal to display a second screen containing only the second image via the display device when the number of first images on the first screen is equal to the maximum number, and in response to the signal transmitted from the second terminal, permitting the second terminal to place the second image on the first screen when the number of first images being placed on the first screen is smaller than the maximum number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirohiko Kihara
  • Patent number: 11544115
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for optimizing computer system resource utilization during in-game resource farming. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, the present disclosure describes a method for optimizing computer system resource utilization during in-game resource farming, the method including detecting a gameplay state associated with an executing instance of a gaming application and based on the detected gameplay state selecting a gaming application mode from among a plurality of available gaming application modes. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, the method may also include implementing the selected gaming application mode for subsequent execution of the gaming application on the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Bluestack Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Suman Saraf, Ravi Prakash
  • Patent number: 11531546
    Abstract: An instruction to perform an operation selected from a plurality of operations configured for the instruction is executed. The executing includes determining a value of a selected operand of the instruction. The determining the value is based on a control of the instruction and includes reading the selected operand of the instruction from a selected operand location to obtain the value of the selected operand, based on the control having a first value, and using a predetermined value as the value of the selected operand, based on the control having a second value. The value and another selected operand of the instruction are multiplied to obtain a product. An arithmetic operation is performed using the product and a chosen operand of the instruction to obtain an intermediate result. A result from the intermediate result is obtained and placed in a selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Mark Schwarz, Stefan Payer, Petra Leber, Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Michael Klein, Timothy Slegel, Reid Copeland, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11531898
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for training an artificial neural network having a succession of neuron layers with interposed synaptic layers each having a respective set of N-bit fixed-point weights {w} for weighting signals propagated between its adjacent neuron layers, via an iterative cycle of signal propagation and weight-update calculation operations. Such a method includes, for each synaptic layer, storing a plurality p of the least-significant bits of each N-bit weight w in digital memory, and storing the next n-bit portion of each weight w in an analog multiply-accumulate unit comprising an array of digital memory elements. Each digital memory element comprises n binary memory cells for storing respective bits of the n-bit portion of a weight, where n?1 and (p+n+m)=N where m?0 corresponds to a defined number of most-significant zero bits in weights of the synaptic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manuel Le Gallo-Bourdeau, Riduan Khaddam-Aljameh, Lukas Kull, Pier Andrea Francese, Thomas H. Toifl, Abu Sebastian, Evangelos Stavros Eleftheriou
  • Patent number: 11532269
    Abstract: A display system including a host processor and a display driver integrated circuit may be provided. The host processor may generate a clock signal that swings swinging between a high level and a low level, generate and output a first synchronization signal based on the clock signal, generate a wakeup interrupt by measuring a frame update period of a display panel, generates frame data based on the first synchronization signal by enabling an image providing path based on the wakeup interrupt, and output the frame data for every frame update period. The display driver integrated circuit may receive the first synchronization signal and the frame data from the host processor, and control the display panel such that a frame image corresponding to the frame data is displayed on the display panel based on the first synchronization signal without storing the frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changju Lee, Yonjun Shin, Hoonmo Yang, Sungchul Yoon, Junghak Lee
  • Patent number: 11514960
    Abstract: Disclosed is a protection circuit of a memory in a display panel. The circuit includes: a timing controller, for outputting a first control signal; a memory, for storing software data of the timing controller; a power supply circuit, for outputting a power signal; and a monitor circuit, having three input ends and a signal output end, two input ends being respectively connected to the power supply circuit and a control signal output end, and the other one input end being input with a write control signal; the monitor circuit controls the memory to be in a write protection state when in a normal state, and controls the memory to be in a write enable state when a level state collection of the power signal, the first control signal, and the write control signal satisfies a preset level state collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 11425079
    Abstract: A method and an electronic device employing an uninterrupted media play and call management system (UMPCMS) are provided for managing an incoming call without interrupting playing of media on the electronic device. The UMPCMS receives an indication of the incoming call, generates a notification object with one or more call management options for the incoming call in a configurable format based on preconfigured criteria, and overlays the generated notification object with the call management options on a graphical user interface (GUI) provided by the UMPCMS, while supporting continued playing of the media on the electronic device via the GUI without interruption by the incoming call. The UMPCMS receives a selection of a call management option from the electronic device and performs one or more executable actions on the incoming call and/or the playing of the media on the electronic device based on the received selection of the call management option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: All Phase Consulting, Inc.
    Inventors: Elvis Abreu, Osvaldo Rodamez Abreu
  • Patent number: 11385700
    Abstract: An apparatus calculates, based on attribute information of a new job and jobs that have been executed, a first similarity level of the attribute information between the new job and the jobs by using a calculation expression, identifies a job whose attribute information is most similar to that of the new job as a first candidate job, and estimates power consumption to be consumed by the new job at power consumption of the first candidate job. The apparatus calculates, for at least one of the jobs, a second similarity level of power consumption between the at least one of the jobs and the new job, identifies a job whose power consumption is most similar to that of the new job as a second candidate job, and adjusts the calculation expression to increase the first similarity level to be calculated between the new job and the second candidate job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shigeto Suzuki, Michiko Shiraga, Hiroshi Endo, Takashi Shiraishi, Yoshiyasu Doi, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Takuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11347430
    Abstract: An apparatus for calculating feature planes by hierarchically performing filter operation processing for input image data, comprises an operation unit configured to perform a convolution operation, a holding unit including memories configured to store image data and an operation result of the operation unit, a unit configured to receive the operation result, and write, out of the operation result, data of successive lines of the same feature plane in different memories of the memories and write data at the same coordinates of feature planes in the same layer in different memories of the memories, and a unit configured to read out the data of the successive lines from the different memories, read out the data at the same coordinates of the different feature planes in the same layer, and transmit the data to the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shiori Wakino
  • Patent number: 11327665
    Abstract: An approach is disclosed for placing data on volumes. Accesses to data entries at a source location are analyzed to determine locations of the data entries in one or more files. Types of data are identified at the one or more data entries. Types of accesses are identified for the data entries. Durations of the types of accesses to the data entries are identified. An access value is calculated by mapping the one or more types of data combined with the one or more types of accesses combined with the one or more durations of the types of accesses. Confidential sensitive data is moved according to the calculated access value, where a highly accessed confidential data is separated from lighted accessed confidential data by moving a selected portion of data from the source location to the destination location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Corville O. Allen
  • Patent number: 11327707
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an interactivity agent provides display data from a plurality of devices to a touch screen display via a network for simultaneous presentation on the touch screen display. The interactivity agent receives touch information regarding a touch action performed via the touch screen display with respect to the display data from a particular one of the plurality of devices. The interactivity agent translates the received touch information from the touch screen display into translated touch information for the particular device. The interactivity agent sends, to a particular device via the network, the translated touch information. The translated touch information causes the particular device to replicate the touch action on a display of the particular device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Gruszka, Axel Jean Georges Taldir, Eyal Shiber Shalev, Andre Surcouf
  • Patent number: 11308998
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a strobe signal generation circuit and a data output control circuit. The strobe signal generation circuit delays a mode register command by a first predetermined delay period to generate a mode register strobe signal during a mode register read operation. The strobe signal generation circuit adjusts a timing of the mode register strobe signal by detecting variation of timings of first and second variable delay mode register commands, which is generated based on the mode register command, during the mode register read operation. The data output control circuit delays an operation code, which is generated based on the mode register command, by a second predetermined delay period to generate a delayed operation code. The data output control circuit outputs the delayed operation code as data in synchronization with the mode register strobe signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Woongrae Kim
  • Patent number: 11307826
    Abstract: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes: a memory cell configured to store weight data, a buffer memory configured to read the weight data from the memory cell, an input/output pad configured to receive input data and a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operator configured to receive the weight data from the buffer memory and receive the input data from the input/output pad to perform a convolution operation of the weight data and the input data, wherein the input data is provided to the MAC operator during a first period, and wherein the MAC operator performs the convolution operation of the weight data and the input data during a second period overlapping with the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ga Ram Kim
  • Patent number: 11276150
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an image manipulation application receives a two-dimensional background image and projects the background image onto a sphere to generate a sphere image. Based on the sphere image, an unfilled environment map containing a hole area lacking image content can be generated. A portion of the unfilled environment map can be projected to an unfilled projection image using a map projection. The unfilled projection image contains the hole area. A hole filling model is applied to the unfilled projection image to generate a filled projection image containing image content for the hole area. A filled environment map can be generated by applying an inverse projection of the map projection on the filled projection image and by combining the unfilled environment map with the generated image content for the hole area of the environment map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Eisenmann, Zhe Lin, Matthew Fisher
  • Patent number: 11233510
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for efficiently performing operations system are disclosed. A computing system uses a memory for storing data, and one or more processing units. The memory includes multiple rows for storing the data with each intersection of a row and a column being a memory bit cell. The memory processes operations. For particular operations, the two or more operands are accessed simultaneously for generating a result without being read out and stored. Two indications are generated specifying at least a first row and a second row targeted by the operation. The memory generates a result by performing the operation for each of the one or more cells in the first row a stored value with a respective stored value in the one or more cells in the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Wuu, Edward Chang
  • Patent number: 11183102
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sub-pixel unit, a display panel, a display apparatus, and a driving method of the display apparatus, which belongs to the field of display technology. The sub-pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels; any of the sub-pixels includes a display module, a control module, and a driving module; wherein the control module is connected to a second gate line, a data line, a first voltage end and a first node, and configured to receive a data signal on the data line under control of a signal on the second gate line, and control one of the data line and the first voltage end to be connected to the first node according to the received data signal; and the driving module is connected to a first gate line, the first node and the display module, and configured to drive the display module according to a signal on the first node under control of a signal on the first gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxuan Chen, Guangquan Wang, Xiuyun Chen, Zongze He, Pin Xiao, Yu Zhang, Feng Long, Jiguo Wang, Xiaoyan Yang
  • Patent number: 11077372
    Abstract: A control process of a display element, the process comprising the steps: measuring a position of a control lever, projecting in a base plane the position of the lever to determine a first set of coordinates, determining a homothetic figure on a mechanical stop of the lever, determining a circumscribed square on the homothetic figure, projecting onto the circumscribed square at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates, calculating a second set of coordinates in a Cartesian reference frame, on the basis of the projection of said at least one coordinate of the first set of coordinates on the circumscribed square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NACON SA
    Inventors: Alain Falc, Yannick Allaert, Alexandre Notebaert, Stephen Dudoyer
  • Patent number: 11062020
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a processor checking method, a checking device and a checking system. The method includes acquiring an access record to a memory by a processor during a running process, the access record includes a read operation information and a corresponding time information, determining whether there is a read operation information corresponding to a high access authority in the access record, and when there is a read operation information corresponding to a high access authority, determining whether the read operation information corresponding to the high access authority belongs to an unauthorized operation. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the behavior of the processor reading data from the memory is checked and analyzed, thereby preventing the security problems caused by malicious use of unauthorized reading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Leibo Liu, Ao Luo, Shouyi Yin, Shaojun Wei
  • Patent number: 11048431
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flip-flop based on a nonvolatile memory. The flip-flop based on the nonvolatile memory includes a flip-flop unit to output output data, a nonvolatile memory unit electrically connected to the flip-flop unit and to store backup data, and a backup controller to selectively control a backup operation for backing up the output data to the backup data, based on whether the backup data are the same as the output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jongsun Park, Gyuseong Kang
  • Patent number: 10996761
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing time feedback on an electronic device, and in particular to providing non-visual time feedback on the electronic device. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback include detecting an input and, in response to detecting the input, initiating output of a first type of non-visual indication of a current time or a second type of non-visual indication of the current time based on the set of non-visual time output criteria met by the input. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback also include, in response to detecting that a current time has reached a first predetermined time of a set of one or more predetermined times, outputting a first non-visual alert or a second non-visual alert based on a type of watch face that the electronic device is configured to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Kevin Will Chen, Shawn Henning, Stephen O. Lemay, Catherine B. B. Morrison, Camille Moussette, Tu Nguyen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 10976986
    Abstract: A system and method for forwarding an application user interface from a first computing platform to a second computing platform. The application user interface is generated using source content. The application user interface is encoded into two or more encoded content streams where the two or more encoded content streams contain source content representable as the application user interface and composition metadata associated with the application user interface. The two or more encoded content stream are sent to the second computing platform. The two or more encoded content streams are received where the two or more encoded content streams contain information reproducible as the application user interface. The two or more encoded content streams are decoded. The application user interface is generated using the two or more decoded content streams and composition metadata associated with the two or more decoded content streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Danny Thomas Dodge, Etienne Belanger, Jason Robert Mawdsley
  • Patent number: 10976983
    Abstract: In an approach for smart collaboration, a plurality of images are received. Each image of the plurality of images is from a different device of a plurality of devices. The plurality of images are combined into a single combined image. The combined image is transferred to the plurality of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Der-Joung Wang, David Shao Chung Chen, Lilian Lai, Louis Huang, Wei-Te Chiang, Molly Chang, Po-Hsun Tseng, Kuo-Liang Chou
  • Patent number: 10956592
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store contents, a display configured to output the contents, and a processor operatively connected with the memory and the display. The memory is further configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to, in response to a first user input, select at least one contents satisfying a specified condition among a plurality of contents stored in the memory, output a first screen composed of the selected at least one contents in the display, and if a second user input to end the output of the first screen is received, output a second screen for verification of a user of the electronic device in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ankit Bhandari, Jong Hyuk Jang, Jae Woong Lee
  • Patent number: 10958876
    Abstract: Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant messaging address. Additionally, before the deep tag is created, it can be checked whether the content owner of the movie is known. If known, the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging are followed. If unknown, a set of registered content owners can be alerted of the presence of new content. When ownership of the new content is established, the already-created deep tags can be updated in accordance with the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Thomas S. Gilley, Eric Hoffert, Brenda Pomerance, Razvan Pop
  • Patent number: 10891723
    Abstract: A mobile device can implement a neural network-based style transfer scheme to modify an image in a first style to a second style. The style transfer scheme can be configured to detect an object in the image, apply an effect to the image, and blend the image using color space adjustments and blending schemes to generate a realistic result image. The style transfer scheme can further be configured to efficiently execute on the constrained device by removing operational layers based on resources available on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jaewook Chung, Christopher Yale Crutchfield, Emre Yamangil
  • Patent number: 10840446
    Abstract: A memory device according to an embodiment includes a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; a first metal oxide layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and includes at least one first metal element selected from the group consisting of aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), zirconium (Zr), and hafnium (Hf); and a second metal oxide layer that is provided between the first metal oxide layer and the second conductive layer and includes at least one second metal element selected from the group consisting of zinc (Zn), titanium (Ti), tin (Sn), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), and tungsten (W). The first metal oxide layer includes a third metal element. The third metal element has a lower valence than a metal element having the highest atomic percent in the first metal oxide layer among the at least one first metal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tachikawa, Masumi Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10799120
    Abstract: An image processing method for a fluorescence reaction region of teeth. The image processing method includes emitting blue light from a light source to illuminate the teeth in a mouth, so that the teeth generate fluorescence; capturing a first teeth image of the teeth by an image capturing unit; separating the first teeth image into a first red-value image, a first green-value image, and a first blue-value image by a processing unit; transforming the first red-value image into a second red-value image by the processing unit using a pixel value transforming function; and combining the second red-value image, the first green-value image, and the first blue-value image into a second teeth image by the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Kai-Ju Cheng, Chin-Yuan Ting, Hsin-Lun Hsieh, Tsung-Hsin Lu, Yu-Hsun Chen, Hao-Ping Lee
  • Patent number: 10795825
    Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one compression-decompression functional block and a hierarchy of cache memories with a first cache memory and a second cache memory. The at least one compression-decompression functional block receives data in an uncompressed state, compresses the data using one of a first compression or a second compression, and, after compressing the data, provides the data to the first cache memory for storage therein. When the data is retrieved from the first cache memory to be stored in the second cache memory, when the data is compressed using the first compression, the compression-decompression functional block decompresses the data to reverse effects of the first compression on the data, thereby restoring the data to the uncompressed state and provides the data compressed using the second compression or in the uncompressed state to the second cache memory for storage therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Tomei, Philip B. Bedoukian, Shomit N. Das
  • Patent number: 10726530
    Abstract: An augmented/virtual reality device includes a display panel, a driver, an optical lens and a timing controller. The display panel displays image and the driver drives the display panel. The optical lens penetrates the image displayed on the display panel. The timing controller performs an image processing for compensation which converts flat image data input from outside into distorted image data and supplies the distorted image data to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hochul Lee, Sanglyn Lee
  • Patent number: RE48494
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for provisioning, via a projector, client software for accessing the projector from a network. The projector includes a light emitting unit that projects visible light representing image information onto a screen, a network interface, and a control unit. The control unit provides client software to network devices that enables the network devices to interact with the projector, receives input via the network interface from the client software operating on multiple network devices, processes the input from the client software to generate image information for the light emitting unit, and provides the generated image information to the light emitting unit for projection onto the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Haixia Yu, Max E. McFarland, Michael G. E. Griffin, Jay Dautcher, Yuko Ihara