Patents Examined by Chanté Harrison
  • Patent number: 8907982
    Abstract: The mobile device includes a visual input device, for capturing external visual information having real visual background information, and a processing device. The processing device is for associating a selected application with the external visual information, and for executing the selected application based on the external visual information and on user-related input information. The processing device for generating a visual output signal related to at least one virtual visual object in response to the application is further configured to provide the visual output signal to a projector device included within the mobile device such that the projector device will be configured to project said visual output signal related to the at least one virtual visual object onto the visual background, thereby modifying said external visual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pascal Zontrop, Marc Bruno Frieda Godon
  • Patent number: 8907988
    Abstract: A computer program product is tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium and includes executable code that, when executed, is configured to cause a data processing apparatus to display multiple objects in a single pane, where the multiple objects are visual representations of real objects and the multiple objects are dynamically sized and spaced relative to one another to fit all of the objects in the single pane. The computer program product includes executable code that, when executed, causes the data processing apparatus to display a subset of the objects and associated metadata in an examination frame. The examination frame is sized to fit within the single pane, where the subset of the objects displayed within the examination frame are sized larger than the objects outside of the examination frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricky Poston, Ting He, Michael Cooper
  • Patent number: 8907952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for visualizing, in a first bull's eye plot, results of a first quantitative analysis of an object represented in first image data, in particular for cardiac analysis. The first image data comprises a first plurality of data slices, and the system comprises a slice unit for associating a data slice of the first plurality of data slices with a concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, a radius unit for computing the length of a radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and a value unit for computing at least one value for displaying in the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, on the basis of the data slice associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and wherein the length of the radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot is defined on the basis of the position of the data slice, of the first plurality of data slices, associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, with respect to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Guillaume Leopold Theodorus Frederik Hautvast
  • Patent number: 8902250
    Abstract: An input device for the selection of medical images for representation on a large display is provided. An image configuration can be selected for display on the large display from a plurality of image configurations by the input device. Selecting the image configuration enables a plurality of images for display on the large display and their arrangement on the display to be determined. The image configuration is created according to requirements of a medical workflow associated with the image configuration. A representation suitable for a medical workflow may be displayed on the large display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernd Keuenhof
  • Patent number: 8890888
    Abstract: A method and a system for sharing location information and a recording medium using the same are provided. The present method obtains graphic location information by a first display software, and insert the document to a document corresponding to a second display software. The document is then transmitted to a remote device. Accordingly, through reading the document, the remote device can directly activate the applicable display software to display the graphic location information originally shared by the user of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng Lee, John C. Wang
  • Patent number: 8884982
    Abstract: A method for emphasizing selected objects in digital data of at least one of pictures and video that is stored in digital messages, the messages including sender addresses and being stored in a memory system of a digital messaging system for a plurality of users, includes the step of identifying picture regions including at least one of faces and persons in the digital data of the messages on the digital messaging system having the same sender address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
    Inventors: Fred Runge, Thomas Scheerbarth
  • Patent number: 8878872
    Abstract: Present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for generating an overlay of navigation chart information. A chart generator establishes an image data set comprised of chart information data. The chart information is visual navigation information appearing on a chart and drawn to a scale. The chart information, as it visually appears on the navigation chart, is reproduced in a first image. Then, an input shape selected or created by a pilot and placed over the first image is received, from which a geographical region is defined from the input shape. Then, the image data set is updated with overlay data comprised of second chart information data. The second chart information is visual navigation information appearing on a second navigation chart within the geographical region and drawn to a second scale. The second chart information is reproduced as an overlay sized as a proportion of scales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins Inc.
    Inventors: Kaushik Raghu, Chris R. Simons
  • Patent number: 8866780
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional scroll wheel is disclosed. Scroll wheel circuitry is provided to detect input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input. The scroll wheel can include a first plurality of sensor elements arranged in a first closed loop and a second plurality of sensor elements arranged in a second closed loop, the first and second closed loops being concentrically arranged about the center of the scroll wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshman Rathnam, Louis Bokma, Fletcher Rothkopf, Andrea Mucignat, Erturk Kocalar, Benjamin Lyon, Joseph Fisher
  • Patent number: 8866846
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method related to an application of a mobile terminal using an augmented reality technique capture an image of a musical instrument directly drawn/sketched by a user to recognize the particular relevant musical instrument, and provide an effect of playing the musical instrument on the recognized image as if a real instrument were being played. The apparatus preferably includes an image recognizer and a sound source processor. The image recognizer recognizes a musical instrument on an image through a camera. The sound source processor outputs the recognized musical instrument on the image on a display unit to use the same for a play, and matches the musical instrument play on the image to a musical instrument play output on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki-Yeung Kim
  • Patent number: 8866843
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a data processing apparatus including a graphics controller configured to obtain a subset of selected time zones among a plurality of available time zones and generate a plurality of clock objects. Each clock object may be a graphical representation of a different time zone of the selected subset, and each clock object may provide a visual graphical indicator for a respective time zone. The data processing apparatus may include a user interface configured to display an arrangement of the plurality of clock objects and receive a command shifting to a travel mode time. The graphics controller may be configured to update the plurality of clock objects according to the command including providing an updated local time corresponding to the travel mode time for each selected time zone and adjusting the visual graphical indicator according to the updated local time for each selected time zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Lawson
  • Patent number: 8854370
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a program that provides a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a display area for displaying an image that includes several pixels. Each pixel includes a set of color component values. The GUI includes a waveform monitor for displaying a graph that includes several graphical representations of the several pixels in the image. Each graphical representation is (1) plotted along a first axis of the graph based on a position of a corresponding pixel in the image and (2) plotted along a second axis of the graph based on the set of color component values of the corresponding pixel in the image. A color of each graphical representation is similar to a color of the corresponding pixel that is used for displaying the pixel in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bryant, Toshihiro Horie, James C. Arndt
  • Patent number: 8854393
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device includes a virtual space recognition unit for analyzing 3D space structure of a real space to recognize a virtual space, a storage unit for storing an object to be arranged in the virtual space, a display unit for making a display unit display the object arranged in the virtual space, a direction of gravitational force detection unit for detecting a direction of gravitational force of a real space, and a direction of gravitational force reflection unit for reflecting the direction of gravitational force detected by the detection unit in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishige, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8847992
    Abstract: This invention relates to navigation in a three dimensional environment using an orientation of a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method navigates a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. The method includes: receiving orientation information of the mobile device; and orienting the virtual camera in the three dimensional environment according to the orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: David Kornmann, Peter Birch
  • Patent number: 8847960
    Abstract: A method and system process a test signal in medical domain by:—acquiring an input digital signal F(t) as a function of time t in the form of two-dimensional data, said signal F(t) resulting from the excitation, within a test substrate, of a substance adapted to emit a signal in response to said excitation;—modeling said input digital signal F(t) in function of a pre-established model;—possibly, generating an output digital signal I(t) made up from said modeling; wherein said modeling is based on the following model: (formula I) where the coefficients a0, a1, a2, p, q, A and B are estimated on the basis of said two-dimensional data. The method and system are directed to the tumoral vascularization or tumoral angiogenesis detection in tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)
    Inventors: Nicolas Elie, Nathalie Lassau, Pierre Peronneau, Valerie Rouffiac
  • Patent number: 8847984
    Abstract: A system and method for forming a composite image from a secondary image reflected on to the display of a primary image is disclosed. Furthermore, applications for using the composite image in a video gaming context are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Mollie Boorman, Amy Kalson
  • Patent number: 8830260
    Abstract: Afterimages of a move-target image which is moved at high speed are reduced even if a display unit with slow response characteristics is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ogasawara, Katsuhiko Iwazaki
  • Patent number: 8823713
    Abstract: When a function is selected, and then, a character string to which the function is executed, an operation of selecting the character string is facilitated in order to reduce an operation burden of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Yasuta, Takashi Kazamaki, Ryo Honda
  • Patent number: 8823718
    Abstract: Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding processing and communication techniques are provided. For an improved graphics pipeline, the invention provides a class of co-processing device, such as a graphics processor unit (GPU), providing improved capabilities for an abstract or virtual machine for performing graphics calculations and rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles N. Boyd, Michele B. Boland, Michael A. Toelle, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Amar Patel, Iouri Tarassov, Stephen H. Wright
  • Patent number: 8817050
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an image having indication pixels that define a plurality of regions within the image that are used for resizing the image and determining, based on the indication pixels, two or more of the regions that are stretchable regions that change size when the image is resized. The method also includes resizing the image by changing a size of at least one of the determined stretchable regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Friedman, Michael A. Cleron, Dianne K. Hackborn
  • Patent number: 8810598
    Abstract: Interference-based augmented reality hosting platforms are presented. Hosting platforms can include networking nodes capable of analyzing a digital representation of scene to derive interference among elements of the scene. The hosting platform utilizes the interference to adjust the presence of augmented reality objects within an augmented reality experience. Elements of a scene can constructively interfere, enhancing presence of augmented reality objects; or destructively interfere, suppressing presence of augmented reality objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong