Patents Examined by Andrew Shin
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Patent number: 10181223Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Mark Aaron Stanley, Alexander Charles Cullum, Jonathan Peter Creighton, Matthew Elwyn Oliver Jones
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Patent number: 10160319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Ogasawara
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Patent number: 10163191Abstract: A method for scaling up an image in a display device includes acquiring luminance data and color data of a plurality of pixels in the image; generating high frequency components according to the luminance data of a first pixel and a plurality of second pixels adjacent to the first pixel in each set of adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels; adjusting the high frequency components corresponding to each set of adjacent pixels, for making a sum of the high frequency components corresponding to each set of adjacent pixels to be within a predetermined range; and transforming the luminance data of the first pixel, the high frequency components and duplicating the color data of the first pixel in each set of adjacent pixels, to generate image data of a plurality of scaling-up points between the first pixel and each of plurality of second pixels in each set of adjacent pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Sheng-Tien Cho, Chien-Chou Hung
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Patent number: 10109077Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to implement, by specifying a process target area, an image generation device which generates an image (video) from which an image quality improving effect can be recognized and a display device which displays the image. An image generation device (1000) includes a screen duplication unit (1), a mask area determination unit (2), a composition unit (3), and an image quality adjustment unit (4). The screen duplication unit (1) extracts and outputs at least a part of an image area of an input image as a process target image. The mask area determination unit (2) determines a mask area of the process target image and generates a mask image specifying the mask area. The image quality adjustment unit (4) performs predetermined image process to the mask area, which is determined by the mask area determination unit (2) in the process target image and outputs the image, to which the image process is performed, as an image after image quality adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimitsu Murahashi, Takashi Mine, Naoki Shiobara
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Patent number: 10109041Abstract: A method of interacting with a simulated object the method comprising: generating a simulation of the object; displaying the simulation on a first display device; interacting with the simulation on the first display device; capturing a representation of the simulation from the first display device for display on a second display device; displaying the representation of the simulation on the second display device; interacting with the representation of the simulation on the second display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Nathan Summers, John Davies
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Patent number: 10093182Abstract: An adaptive instrument cluster for a vehicle actively repositions during driving so that at least one or more depicted instruments remain viewable at most steering wheel angles. The instrument cluster may include an electronic display on which one or more instruments are depicted during vehicle operation. An instrument cluster controller receives data representative of the steering wheel angle, and responsive thereto repositions the represented instruments on the electronic display so that at least one instrument remains viewable within an opening formed within the steering wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Robert A. Dziurda
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Patent number: 10032303Abstract: Particular embodiments receive a request to display images in a scrolling 3D presentation. Images are retrieved according to selection criteria. The images may be sorted according to sorting criteria. Sponsored images may be inserted into the scrolling 3D presentation. The scrolling 3D presentation of images is provided for display on a computing device associated with a viewer. Images in the scrolling 3D presentation are rendered so as to sequentially approach the viewer according to a perspective of the viewer. Control requests related to the scrolling 3D presentation may be received from the viewer, from a social-networking system, or from a third-party server. A control interface may be provided for the viewer to submit control requests.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Barak R. Naveh, Georgios Karnas
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Patent number: 10019782Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying content. The method includes receiving content displayed on an external display apparatus; displaying only a partial region of an entire region of the content on a device; generating additional information corresponding to the partial region, based on a user input; and providing the additional information to the external display apparatus, and wherein the additional information comprises information provided to the external display apparatus to be applied to the content that is displayed on the external display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sin-oug Yeo, Sun Choi
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Patent number: 10013781Abstract: A method for drawing a polygon using a graphical user interface includes a display of an object includes an indicator which remains fixed on the display of the object, e.g., at the center of the display. This indicator is referred to herein as the “focus.” The image of the object moves under the focus (by the user executing a drag operation on the image with the mouse or the finger if a touch screen is used) and the focus stays fixed. While the image is moved by the user under the focus, a trail of vertices is created which are interconnected by lines. When the user indicates they are finished with the moving step the last vertex created in the sequence is connected with the first vertex at the start of the moving with a connecting line, completing the forming of a boundary around the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Christopher Gammage, Aleksey Boyko
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Patent number: 10008039Abstract: Various approaches discussed herein enable providing a virtual reality experience of trying on clothes by augmenting an image of an article of clothing so that it appears to be worn by a particular person who is represented in a separate image. The image of the person wearing a special article of clothing containing a number of gridlines is analyzed along with an image of the special article of clothing as it appears unworn. The analysis includes calculating differences in the images to determine a change in the position of the gridlines between the images, then used to generate body shape data. The body shape data is used to augment an image of a prospective article of clothing, which modified image is then combined with the image of the person wearing a special article of clothing and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: A9.COM, INC.Inventors: Adam Moshe Neustein, William Brendel, Kaolin Imago Fire, Mark Jay Nitzberg, Sunil Ramesh, Mark Scott Waldo
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Patent number: 9996913Abstract: A system for two color image fusion blending co-registered low light level images in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum with thermal infrared images maximizes the information content of the scene by detecting in which of the two image types, IR and visible, there is more structural information and increasing the weight of the pixels in the image type having the most structural information. Additionally, situational awareness is increased by categorizing image information as “scene” or “target” and colorizing the target images to highlight target features when raw IR values are above a predetermined threshold. The system utilizes Red, Green and Blue (RGB) planes to convey different information such that for targets the Red plane is used to colorize regions when raw IR exceeds the predetermined threshold. For scene images, the Green plane provides improved situational awareness due to the above weighted blend of the two image types.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Steven D. Beck, Derek T. Robison, Michael S. Chan, John H. Koltookian, Mark R. Mallalieu, Christopher M. Houle, Kari M. Karwedsky
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Patent number: 9947292Abstract: An image processing method and device are provided. The method includes: choosing content-associated sub pixels in an image to be processed; obtaining an initial color level value of each of the content-associated sub pixels in the image to be processed; adding to least one digit to an end of the initial color level value and assigning a preset value to each added digit so as to obtain a processed color level value; and replacing the initial color level value with the processed color level value.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Anyu Liu, Guosheng Li, Hui Du
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Patent number: 9940905Abstract: Techniques are described in which a processor determines an expected performance level of a graphics processing unit (GPU) based on an amount of commands the GPU is to execute. The processor outputs information indicating the performance level, and the GPU adjusts its clock rate prior to execution of the commands that were used to determine the performance level.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mohan Maiya, Maurice Franklin Ribble, Suman Tatiraju
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Patent number: 9933915Abstract: Methods and system pertaining to displaying vehicle data parameters (VDP) are described. A vehicle service tool (VST) with a display can receive vehicle data messages or signals from a vehicle to receive the VDP. Some of the VDP can be associated with a PID. The VST can display VDP thresholds and indicators when a received VDP has breached a VDP threshold. The VST can determine being changed from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation or vice versa and responsively change the presentation of VDP graphs displayed by the display. The display can receive various inputs such as a drag-and-drop or pinch-and-expand input to alternatively change the presentation of the VDP graphs being displayed. Changing a VDP presentation of graphs can include resizing or repositioning one or more VDP graph windows including a VDP graph.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Joshua Covington, April Reynald
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Patent number: 9911240Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a method of interacting with a virtual object. In particular, it relates to referencing a virtual object in an augmented reality space, identifying a physical location of a device in at least one image of the augmented reality space, generating for display a control coincident with a surface of the device, sensing interactions between at least one control object and the control coincident with the surface of the device, and generating data signaling manipulations of the control coincident with the surface of the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Leap Motion, Inc.Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Hongyuan (Jimmy) He, David S. Holz
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Patent number: 9875563Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a creating nail polish art by providing an image, providing a hand pose stencil, including image coordinates for the fingernails of the hand pose stencil, allowing the hand pose stencil to be positioned on the image, associating the image coordinates for the fingernails to portions of the image, and displaying the portions of the image that have been associated with the image coordinates on fingernail polish stickers. Such systems and methods provide a revolutionary new way to create custom nail art by printing an image onto nail polish stickers for a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind manicure that a user can self-apply with no dry-time or waiting.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Nailsnaps, LLCInventor: Angelique Anderson
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Patent number: 9824487Abstract: A luminance computation apparatus obtains information of light sources defined in a scene that is rendered, and defines a stochastic function used to determine whether or not to use a light source in a luminance computation for an object that is a predetermined distance from the light source corresponding to a luminance attenuation function in accordance with a distance from the light source for each of the light sources that are defined; The apparatus determines for each of the defined light sources a stochastic effective area of the light source based on the stochastic function for the respective defined light source, and performs a luminance computation for the predetermined object in the scene based on the stochastic function and the attenuation function of a light source for which the determined stochastic effective area is included in the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Tokuyoshi
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Patent number: 9804395Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for calibrating a binocular optical see-through augmented reality display. A calibration application renders one or more images of a virtual object on the one or more displays of the human interface device, and receives a user input to adjust a position of the one or more images on the one or more displays. In response to the input, the calibration application identifies a first and second boundary of a target range surrounding a real-world object at a first and second depth, respectively. The calibration application determines a first and second disparity corresponding to the first and second boundary and may record the disparities in relation to the depth of the real-world object.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: RICOH CO., LTDInventors: Wanmin Wu, Ivana To{hacek over (s)}ić
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Patent number: 9767613Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a method of interacting with a virtual object. In particular, it relates to referencing a virtual object in an augmented reality space, identifying a physical location of a device in at least one image of the augmented reality space, generating for display a control coincident with a surface of the device, sensing interactions between at least one control object and the control coincident with the surface of the device, and generating data signaling manipulations of the control coincident with the surface of the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: LEAP MOTION, INC.Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Hongyuan (Jimmy) He, David S. Holz
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Patent number: 9764217Abstract: Techniques for interactive scorekeeping and animation generation are described, including evaluating a play to form an event datum associated with execution of the play, using the event datum to form an event packet, generating an animation using the event packet, the animation being associated with the execution of the play, and presenting the animation on an endpoint.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: EyezOnBaseball, LLCInventors: Kevin M. Tillman, Scot Gillis