Patents Examined by Andrew Shin
  • Light-field display with micro-lens alignment adapted color and brightness
    Patent number: 10412363
    Abstract: A light-field display with pixel to micro-lens spatial alignment adapted color or brightness. In one embodiment, a first pixel is read from memory. A map is accessed to read a first index that is mapped to a first position of a first emitter in an array of emitters. A first correction data mapped to the first index is read. The first pixel is adjusted using the first correction data. The first emitter emits light based on the adjusted first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: 3D Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall James, Nick Jameson, Ronald Larcom
  • Interactive analysis of data based on progressive visualizations
    Patent number: 10387024
    Abstract: Interactive analysis of data based on progressive visualizations is disclosed. One example is a system including a data module, a visualization module, an interaction module, and an analytics module. The data module processes a plurality of data elements. The visualization module progressively displays, via an interactive graphical user interface, an overview visualization of a sub-plurality of the plurality of data elements, the overview visualization based on at least one of data resolution and display resolution, and a detailed visualization based on an interaction with the overview visualization. The interaction module processes the interaction with the overview visualization. The analytics module analyzes the interaction to generate a deployment rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jishang Wei, Jinrong Xie, Arun Kumar Paruchuri, Nelson L. Chang
  • Rendering contiguous image elements
    Patent number: 10380774
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a sequence of image elements. For each image element in the sequence, a position in an array of contiguous image elements is determined. The position may be based on several factors, including at least: a size of the image element (large or small), an order of the image element in the sequence, and dimensions of the display array. The array of image elements may be rendered for display to the user such that the layout of the image elements is contiguous. If the user provides input re-sizing an image element or re-ordering the sequence of image elements, the array may be re-rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Serge Benjamin Chedeau, Andrew Chung, Emily B. Grewal
  • Three-dimensional model generation
    Patent number: 10373366
    Abstract: A method for determining a pixel value of a texture pixel associated with a three-dimensional scan of an object includes prioritizing a sequence of image frames in a queue based on one or more prioritization parameters. The method also includes selecting a first image frame from the queue. The method also includes determining a pixel value of the particular texture pixel in the first image frame. The method further includes selecting a second image frame from the queue. The second image frame has a higher priority than the first image frame based on the one or more prioritization parameters. The method also includes modifying the pixel value of the particular texture pixel based on a pixel value of the particular texture pixel in the second image frame to generate a modified pixel value of the particular texture pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Michel Adib Sarkis, Sairam Sundaresan
  • Data processing
    Patent number: 10372195
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to predict whether a region of output data to be generated by the apparatus for a current set of output data will be similar to a region of output data generated and stored in memory for a previous set of output data. When it is predicted that the new region of output data will be similar to the previous region of output data, the new region of output data is prevented from being generated and the previous region of output data is used for the current set of output data instead. The data processing apparatus can provide a way to avoid generating areas of sets of output data that are static from one set of output data to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventor: Daren Croxford
  • Color display method and system for mobile terminal
    Patent number: 10332480
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a color display method and system for a mobile terminal. According to the method, an environmental ambient light level for a mobile terminal is detected, a color enhancement factor is calculated according to the ambient light level, and display color of the mobile terminal is enhanced according to the color enhancement factor. A color enhancement technology widely used in a display screen is combined with the environmental ambient light level. The color enhancement is dynamically adjusted according to the intensity of ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Xiaoqing Wang
  • Method and device for providing augmented reality image and recording medium storing program to execute the method
    Patent number: 10311615
    Abstract: A device and method for providing an augmented reality (AR) image are provided. The device includes a display configured to alternately display a first image including an object at an object position and a second image including a mask for blocking transmission of light incident on the display at the object position; a processor configured to determine a time period and control the display to alternately display the first image and the second image during the time period; and a polarization switch configured alternately polarize the light incident on the display at a switching period determined based on the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jae-woo Ko, Byoung-ho Lee, Byung-hyo Lee, Ki-seung Bang, Chang-won Jang
  • Three dimensional image generation
    Patent number: 10311647
    Abstract: Apparatus, method and computer program for use in generating a three dimensional image. A three dimensional image volume comprising a three dimensional image is displayed using a visualization device in a way that the position and orientation of an input surface is visible within the three dimensional image volume. User input indicative of a two dimensional image provided in the plane of the input surface is received via the input surface. First positional data indicative of a relative position and orientation of the input surface in relation to the three dimensional image volume is then determined. Subsequently, the three dimensional image is modified to include a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional image, the three dimensional representation having a position and orientation within the three dimensional image volume determined from the first positional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Gravity Sketch Limited
    Inventors: Daniela Maria Paredes Fuentes, Guillaume Couche, Pierre-Yves Paslier, Oluwaseyi Sosanya
  • Three-dimensional model generation
    Patent number: 10304203
    Abstract: A method for texture reconstruction associated with a three-dimensional scan of an object includes scanning, at a processor, a sequence of image frames captured by an image capture device at different three-dimensional viewpoints. The method also includes generating a composite confidence map based on the sequence of image frames. The composite confidence map includes pixel values for scanned pixels in the sequence of image frames. The method further includes identifying one or more holes of a three-dimensional model based on the composite confidence map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Michel Adib Sarkis, Sairam Sundaresan
  • Three dimensional visualization of system components and data
    Patent number: 10275944
    Abstract: In an approach to three dimensional component visualization, one or more computer processors receive a request associated with one or more reference tags received from one or more requesting devices. The one or more computer processors identify component data associated with one or more requested reference tags. The one or more computer processors analyze the one or more three dimensional renderings of one or more components using component data. The one or more computer processors determine whether to augment the one or more three dimensional renderings. The one or more computer processors create an augmented three dimensional rendering using component data. The one or more computer processors send one or more three dimensional renderings of one or more components using component data to the one or more requesting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald A. Case, Juan F. Garzon, Alexandru Z. Nagy, Kaoru Stabnow
  • Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program
    Patent number: 10275940
    Abstract: A technique enables intuitive understanding of a directional relationship between a photographed image and a wide area image, such as an electronic map. An image processing device includes a display controlling unit that displays a quadrangular-shaped photographic image, which is photographed from an aerial vehicle, displays a mark indicating a photographing position of the quadrangular-shaped photographic image, on a wide area image, and performs highlight display in accordance with a corresponding relationship between a direction of the quadrangular-shaped photographic image and a direction of the mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tomizawa, Daisuke Sasaki, Takeshi Sasaki, Nobuyuki Fukaya, Tadayuki Ito
  • Animation synthesis system and lip animation synthesis method
    Patent number: 10249291
    Abstract: An animation display system is provided. The animation display system includes a display; a storage configured to store a language model database, a phonetic-symbol lip-motion matching database and a lip motion synthesis database; and a processor electronically connected to the storage and the display, respectively. The processor includes a speech conversion module, a phonetic-symbol lip-motion matching module, and a lip motion synthesis module. A lip animation display method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Lin, Tsung-Yu Hou, Min-Che Huang, Shih-Hao Ke, Shu-Hui Chou
  • Method of image processing, image processor performing the method, and display device including the image processor
    Patent number: 10249230
    Abstract: An image processor includes an average luminance calculator which calculates an average luminance of a current frame based on a first average luminance of input image data corresponding to a partial screen and a second average luminance of previous image data corresponding to an entire screen, a conversion curve generator which generates a luminance conversion curve based on the average luminance, a luminance converter which generates conversion image data by converting luminance data of the input image data based on the luminance conversion curve, and an image merger which generates output image data by merging the conversion image data and the previous image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Dae Lee, Eun-Ho Lee
  • Spatial filter for geo-enriched data
    Patent number: 10242468
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program sends a second computing system a spatial filter and a first query for a first set of geo-enriched data associated with a spatial visualization. The program further sends the second computing system the spatial filter and a second query for a second set of geo-enriched data associated with a non-spatial visualization. The program also receives, from the second computing system, a subset of the first set of geo-enriched data. The program further receives, from the second computing system, a subset of the second set of geo-enriched data. The program also generates the spatial visualization to include the subset of the first set of geo-enriched data. The program further generates the non-spatial visualization to include the subset of the second set of geo-enriched data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Mohsen Asadi, Lyndon Hiew, Christopher Bolognese, Christopher Tam, Sae-Won Om
  • Displaying system for displaying digital breast tomosynthesis data
    Patent number: 10242490
    Abstract: The invention relates to a displaying system for displaying digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) data. First and second DBT volume images of the left breast of a woman and first and second DBT volume images of the right breast of the woman are provided by an image providing unit. Moreover, for each DBT volume image a two-dimensional navigation image is provided by a navigation image providing unit, wherein a user is allowed to indicate a location in the navigation image by using a user interface, whereafter a CAD marker associated with the location is determined in a DBT volume image of a breast and a corresponding CAD marker, if present, is determined in another DBT volume image of the breast. Slices of these DBT volume images, which are associated with the CAD markers, are presented on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ScreenPoint Medical
    Inventors: Nico Karssemeijer, Albert Gubern-Mérida
  • Polygon labeling by dominant shapes
    Patent number: 10204431
    Abstract: A method for generating label positions for labeling polygons includes receiving a description of a polygon, determining an inscribed circle within the polygon, and determining a single-branch shape that fits completely within the polygon. The method also includes generating an indication of a first candidate label position, based on the inscribed circle, and generating an indication of a second candidate label position, based on the centerline. Still further, the method includes providing the indication of the first candidate label position and the indication of the second candidate label position to a rendering component for positioning a label for the polygon in accordance with at least one of the first candidate label position and the second candidate label position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tingbo Hou, Bent Hagemark
  • Accommodation-invariant computational near-eye displays
    Patent number: 10192292
    Abstract: Near-eye display systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable accommodation-invariant display control. One embodiment includes a near-eye display; a processor; a memory containing a target image and an accommodation-invariant display application; where the processor is configured by the accommodation-invariant display application to calculate an impulse response of the near-eye display; calculate a compensation image by generating a deconvolved color channel of the target image using a ratio of the target image and the impulse response, where the compensation image is a representation of the target image that remains in focus at a plurality of distances from the near-eye display; and display the compensation image on the near-eye display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Gordon Wetzstein, Robert Konrad
  • Data input device, data input method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing data input program
    Patent number: 10186057
    Abstract: In a data input device according to one aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit detects a first position based on a position of one part of a body of a user represented in a video captured by an image capturing device and a second position based on a position of another part of the body. A drawing input detection unit establishes, based on the first position, an input detection region in which a drawing input is detected, and detects, based on whether or not the second position is included in the input detection region, the drawing input. A position-of-interest detection unit detects a position-of-interest corresponding to the second position on an image display plane. An image forming unit forms an image indicating a position-of-interest in a case that the drawing input detection unit detects the drawing input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Sakae Saito
  • Selecting and transferring material properties in a virtual drawing space
    Patent number: 10181223
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein provide for sampling the material properties of a source object within a virtual 3D drawing space, and then applying those properties to a target object within the drawing space. The material properties may include not only color, but also other physical properties like texture and sheen. For example, the way an object behaves in different lighting conditions may constitute a material property. According to aspects of the technology described herein, the manner in which an object behaves in lighting conditions, the shininess of the object, and the texture of the object may all be selected, sampled, and transferred to other target surfaces, such as a canvas or the surfaces of other objects, in the virtual 3D drawing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Aaron Stanley, Alexander Charles Cullum, Jonathan Peter Creighton, Matthew Elwyn Oliver Jones
  • Vehicle display processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10160319
    Abstract: A vehicle display processing apparatus includes: a first determination portion that determines whether a vehicle is at a stop; a first display processing portion that displays on a first display device, an operation screen image, the first display device being provided between a driver seat and a front passenger seat; a second display processing portion that displays a screen image relating to the operation screen image, which is displayed on the first display device, on a second display device provided to a driver seat side; and a second determination portion that determines whether a running speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed. The second display device is provided by a head-up display. When the running speed of the vehicle is lower than the predetermined speed, the second display processing portion does not display the screen image on the second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Ogasawara