Patents Examined by Antonio A Caschera
  • Patent number: 11748937
    Abstract: A computer device includes a processor configured to simulate a virtual environment based on a set of virtual environment parameters, and perform ray tracing to render a view of the simulated virtual environment. The ray tracing includes generating a plurality of rays for one or more pixels of the rendered view of the simulated virtual environment. The processor is further configured to determine sub-pixel data for each of the plurality of rays based on intersections between the plurality of rays and the simulated virtual environment, and store the determined sub-pixel data for each of the plurality of rays in an image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pedro Urbina Escos, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Di Wang, Emanuel Shalev
  • Patent number: 11749232
    Abstract: In an image generation apparatus, an input information obtaining section obtains contents of a user operation from an input apparatus. When two images are composited, an image data generating section switches a space of image data according to a situation and stores data of images composited in the space in a frame buffer. A format control section sets a data format corresponding to the determined space in the frame buffer. An output section outputs the data read from the frame buffer as video signals corresponding to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Hisataka Suzuki, Kuniaki Oe
  • Patent number: 11738569
    Abstract: An editor controls a display of an edit screen for editing a print content to a tape to prepare a label having an object printed on the tape and a light transmission at least in a part of the label. A controller of the editor displays a label frame indicative of an outer shape of the label on the edit screen, designates a color of a substrate on which the label is arranged, displays an area in the label frame corresponding to a first part having a light transmission of the label with a color of the substrate designated in the substrate color designating processing, and displays the object in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 11733773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine, for a current frame, that a current eye position of a viewer with respect to a display is inside and within a first threshold distance to an outer edge of the display. The system may identify, based on the current eye position, pre-determined internal eye positions inside the outer edge and pre-determined external eye positions outside the outer edge, obtain pre-determined arrays of scaling factors associated with the pre-determined internal eye positions, and obtain additional arrays of scaling factors associated with the pre-determined external eye positions. The system may generate a single array of scaling factors based on the pre-determined and additional arrays, adjust pixel values of the current frame based on the single array, and output the current frame with the adjusted pixel values to the display. The arrays and adjusted pixel values may be associated with a particular color channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Thomas Scott Murdison
  • Patent number: 11735146
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include: a display, an optical sensor disposed in a rear surface of the display and overlapping the display, the optical sensor including a light emitting unit including light emitting circuitry and a light receiving unit including light receiving circuitry, a processor operatively connected with the display and the optical sensor, and a memory operatively connected with the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: obtain position information of a first area corresponding to the light emitting unit of the optical sensor in the display, and based on the light emitting unit of the optical sensor radiating light, output a visual object in the first area and/or an area adjacent to the first area on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghan Lee, Jongjin Kim, Jongah Kim, Heewoong Yoon, Jeongho Cho
  • Patent number: 11715407
    Abstract: A control section according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to: set, as a first temperature, a temperature obtained from a thermal image at a first position contained in a first infrared image corresponding to a surrounding environment in the thermal image, and set, as a second temperature, a temperature obtained from the thermal image at a second position contained in a second infrared image corresponding to a duct or the like in the thermal image; calculate an upper limit and a lower limit of a temperature range by using the first temperature and the second temperature; and control a display section to display the thermal image such that temperature distribution on the subject is represented by colors within the temperature range having the upper limit and the lower limit that have been calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Maeda, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11715411
    Abstract: The method comprises the following steps, generating and sending an output signal to LCD to drive the LCD according to the input image signal and the output image format configuration indication level signal; the output signal comprises an output control clock signal, an output vertical synchronization signal, an output horizontal synchronization signal, an output data valid signal, a combination of monochrome image data signals output in time division and an indication level indicating the monochrome image data signal; one period of the output vertical synchronization signal synchronously outputs a color period signal, the output vertical synchronization signal indicates that a plurality of different color combinations are output, and the different color combinations are controlled by the output image format configuration indication level signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN KEJINMING ELECTRONIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xianxiong Zhu, Chunrong Fan, Degang Lei, Yiwei Zheng
  • Patent number: 11706394
    Abstract: A method and a system of real-time variable refresh rate video processing for ambient light rendering, comprise: capturing a HDMI video signal and converting the HDMI video signal into a RGB signal; obtaining frame rates X1, X2, and X3 of a current video source by detecting a field frequency signal V-SYNC; setting a constant frame rate or a variable frame rate by user; setting the constant frame rate by the user and the constant frame rate is set as N, obtaining the constant frame rate N set by the user, outputting a color rendering data of the fixed frequency in real time through data processing; setting the variable frame rate by the user and the variable frame rate is set as M, obtaining the variable frame rate M set by the user, and outputting a color rendering data of a variable frequency in real time through the data processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Wenjun Xie
  • Patent number: 11687305
    Abstract: Movement data characterizing the movement of a vehicle in which electronic smartglasses are used, are sent by a portable apparatus from a data output to the electronic smartglasses for reducing simulator-sickness-induced impairments. The electronic smartglasses display data taking into account the movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Nils Wollny, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11687783
    Abstract: A training method, system, and computer program product include training a neural network including at least one of using norm-pooling as a non-linear function, using a two-sided ReLU as a non-linear function, and increasing a confidence gap and further training such that the network comprises a non-expansive network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haifeng Qian, Mark Wegman
  • Patent number: 11682182
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing avatars, and navigating avatar selection interfaces. In some examples, an avatar feature user interface includes a plurality of feature options that can be customized to create an avatar. In some examples, different types of avatars can be managed for use in different applications. In some examples, an interface is provided for navigating types of avatars for an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Scapel, Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye, Lisa K. Forssell, Robert Garcia, III, Aurelio Guzman, Jason Rickwald, Marcel Van Os, Christopher Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 11682147
    Abstract: Conservative rasterization hardware comprises hardware logic arranged to perform an edge test calculation for each edge of a primitive and for each corner of each pixel in a microtile. Outer coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an OR gate. Inner coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an AND gate. An overall outer coverage result for the pixel and the primitive is calculated by combining the outer coverage results for the pixel and each of the edges of the primitive in an AND gate. The overall inner coverage result for the pixel is calculated in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Casper Van Benthem
  • Patent number: 11682358
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store first output luminance information corresponding to a first bit image, and second output luminance information corresponding to a second bit image; a display panel; a backlight including a plurality of backlight blocks configured to provide light to the display panel; a driver configured to individually drive each backlight block of the plurality of backlight blocks; and a processor configured to, based on receiving the first bit image, identify brightness information of the first bit image, and based on the brightness information being less than a threshold value, control the driver to drive at least one backlight block, from among the plurality of backlight blocks, based on the second output luminance information, wherein a number of bits of the second bit image is greater than a number of bits of the first bit image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyuheon Lee, Jihyeok Choi
  • Patent number: 11681360
    Abstract: A blended reality user interface and gesture control system includes one or more sensors, a head-mounted display, and a blending engine. The blending engine is configured to receive a live reality and virtual reality feeds, track movement of a user using the sensors, detect a command based on the tracked movement, blend the live and virtual reality feeds into a blended view based on the detected command, and display the blended view on the head-mounted display. In some embodiments, the blending engine is further configured to detect an amount of head tilt of the user and adjust a blending factor controlling an amount of transparency of the live reality feed within the blended view based on the amount of head tilt. In some embodiments, the blending engine is further configured to detect manipulation of a controller by the user and adjust the blending factor based on the detected manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Rouslan Lyubomirov Dimitrov, Allison Phuong Huynh
  • Patent number: 11670262
    Abstract: A method for generating a plurality of on-screen display (OSD) data is used in a back-end (BE) circuit. The BE circuit is configured to process a plurality of image data to be displayed on a display device. The method includes steps of: receiving the plurality of image data from an application processor (AP); and extracting information of a detecting layer embedded in the plurality of image data, wherein the information of the detecting layer indicates the plurality of OSD data corresponding to at least one user-interface (UI) layer in the plurality of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yuan-Po Cheng, Hung-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11664128
    Abstract: An apparatus for assessing a patient's vasculature and a corresponding method identify the bifurcations in a vessel of interest on the basis of a local change in at least one geometric parameter value of the vessel of interest and adjust the fluid dynamics inside the vessel of interest to take account for said bifurcations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christian Haase, Holger Schmitt, Michael Grass, Arjen Van Der Horst
  • Patent number: 11657777
    Abstract: A control method for a display device including a display unit, a first control unit, and a second control unit, the control method comprising: holding a plurality of display setting data relating to a display state of an image by the display unit in such a way that the plurality of display setting data are available for use by the first control unit, causing the first control unit to execute display control to cause the display unit to display an image based on display data, causing the second control unit to execute an application program and output the display data, and causing the first control unit to set an one of the plurality of display setting data corresponding to the application program in response to the second control unit starting up the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nona Mimura, Mitsunori Tomono
  • Patent number: 11659149
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to input, to a learning unit, capture setting information that is used to capture an image before color conversion, a lightness of a background region of the image before the color conversion, and a set of the image before the color conversion and an image after the color conversion, and prepare color conversion characteristics for performing color conversion on an image in accordance with the capture setting information and the lightness of the background region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Sano, Satoshi Sekine
  • Patent number: 11657255
    Abstract: A generative neural network control system controls a generative neural network by modifying the intermediate latent space in the generative neural network. The generative neural network includes multiple layers each generating a set of activation values. An initial layer (and optionally additional layers) receives an input latent vector, and a final layer outputs an image generated based on the input latent vector. The data that is input to each layer (other than the initial layer) is referred to as data in an intermediate latent space. The data in the intermediate latent space includes activation values (e.g., generated by the previous layer or modified using various techniques) and optionally a latent vector. The generative neural network control system modifies the intermediate latent space to achieve various different effects when generating a new image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvain Philippe Paris, Erik Andreas Härkönen, Aaron Phillip Hertzmann
  • Patent number: 11657779
    Abstract: Controlling the illumination at an endpoint to a communication session by transmitting, over the communication session, the color of the light to be emitted by the display of the receiving endpoint. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, during a video communication session between a first endpoint operated by a first user and a second endpoint operated by a second user, transmitting first video, comprising a solid color image, from the first endpoint to the second endpoint over the video communication session, wherein the first video is prominently displayed at the second endpoint. At the first endpoint, the method provides receiving second video from the second endpoint. The second video is captured at the second endpoint while the first video is being displayed at the second endpoint. The method also includes displaying the second video to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventor: Paul Roller Michaelis