Patents Examined by Chante? Harrison
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Patent number: 9171391Abstract: Systems and methods for imaging a volume-of-interest, which may include an object or point of interest to be analyzed in a display of three-dimensional data.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventor: Stuart Smith
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Patent number: 9167998Abstract: Methods and systems for assessing and treating vestibular disorders can include displaying a graphic and providing relative movement between the graphic and a user's head. Information can be obtained either directly or indirectly from the user regarding her perception of the graphic. A graphic display parameter and/or a relative movement parameter can be modified in response to the information regarding the user's perception. An indicator of the user's ability to perceive the graphic can be generated through a series of iterations. A graphic display parameter and/or a relative movement parameter for use in a subsequent series of iterations can be modified based at least in part on the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: University of RochesterInventor: Benjamin T. Crane
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Patent number: 9164723Abstract: Techniques for displaying content using an augmented reality device are described. Embodiments provide a visual scene for display, the visual scene captured using one or more camera devices of the augmented reality device. Embodiments adjust physical display geometry characteristics of the visual scene to correct for optimal projection. Additionally, illumination characteristics of the visual scene are modified based on environmental illumination data to improve realism of the visual scene when it is displayed. Embodiments further adjust display characteristics of the visual scene to improve tone mapping output. The adjusted visual scene is then output for display on the augmented reality device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zurich (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)Inventors: Stefan C. Geiger, Wojciech Jarosz, Manuel J. Lang, Kenneth J. Mitchell, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Robert W. Sumner, Thomas Williams
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Patent number: 9165535Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for determining a zoom factor of content displayed on a display device is presented. An image is obtained from a camera oriented toward a viewing position of the display device, where the image includes a viewer of the display device. The image is normalized based on specification of the camera to produce a normalized image. The normalized image is analyzed to determine a distance between the display device and the viewer of the display device. A zoom factor for content is determined based on the distance between the display device and the viewer of the display device. Content is displayed on the display device using the zoom factor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Vincent L. Dureau, Jae Seo
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Patent number: 9159116Abstract: Voice commands and gesture recognition are two mechanisms by which an individual may interact with content such as that on a display. In an implementation, interactivity of a user with content on a device or display may be modified based on the distance between a user and the display. An attribute such as a user profile may be used to tailor the modification of the display to an individual user. In some configurations, the commands available to the user may also be modified based on the determined distance between the user and a device or display.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Christian Plagemann, Alejandro Kauffmann
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Patent number: 9158875Abstract: A package definition system enables a user to dynamically modify a package design by altering a dimension of less than all of the package's faces. The system uses a functional representation of a package having links and nodes that represent faces or functional elements and connecting relationships between them.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Stephen C. Morgana, Reiner Eschbach
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Patent number: 9158446Abstract: A method and apparatus for interfacing includes outputting at least one object to a display embodying a three-dimensional space and determining a radius of rotation of the at least one object, based on a distance between the at least one object and a rotation axis in the three-dimensional space. The method and apparatus further include controlling the at least one object to rotate around the rotation axis based on the radius of rotation when a rotation command for the at least one object is received.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Chun-eon Park, Seok-jae Jeong, Sun-gi Hong, Du-il Kim
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Patent number: 9153137Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described herein for integrating geo-spatially enabled and time-encoded textual weather information into a graphical map display. Time-encoded textual weather information regarding one or more geographic locations is received, parsed, and interpreted in light of a temporal context of the graphical map display. Weather symbology relating the weather conditions within the temporal context of the graphical map display is generated from the parsed textual weather information and displayed at positions on the map corresponding to the geographic locations. The weather symbology may include weather pictograms that relate past, current, and future weather conditions at the corresponding geographic locations according to the temporal context of the graphical map display.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Theo Hankers, Thorsten Wiesemann
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Patent number: 9152395Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that enable direct response to user input, e.g., in accordance with storyboards. For instance, applications can predefine storyboards which describe output in terms of received input. The predefined storyboards can be used externally and independently from the applications to process user input on behalf of the applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ross Luengen, Song Zou
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Patent number: 9147221Abstract: A mobile device uses an image-driven view management approach for annotating images in real-time. An image-based layout process used by the mobile device computes a saliency map and generates an edge map from a frame of a video stream. The saliency map may be further processed by applying thresholds to reduce the number of saliency levels. The saliency map and edge map are used together to determine a layout position of labels to be rendered over the video stream. The labels are displayed in the layout position until a change of orientation of the camera that exceeds a threshold is detected. Additionally, the representation of the label may be adjusted, e.g., based on a plurality of pixels bounded by an area that is coincident with a layout position for a label in the video frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Raphael Grasset, Markus Tatzgern, Tobias Langlotz, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstieg
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Patent number: 9147275Abstract: Certain text editing techniques are provided to enable the user to select a few characters or words from an original collection of text by a limited number of user inputs, such as by touching or swiping a character or word to be edited. Options for probable edits of the original text can be automatically presented to the user in a manner that also only requires a minimal number of user inputs. Such techniques may facilitate text editing that is easier and more convenient for users of portable electronic devices. These techniques may be particularly advantageous for enabling editing of text acquired from an optical character recognition (OCR) process on any computing device. Other text editing shortcuts and similar approaches are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Sonja E. Hyde-Moyer, Joel D. Tesler, Leslie Kunling Wang
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Patent number: 9129367Abstract: In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Noregin Assets N.V., L.L.C.Inventors: Michael Doyle, Zeenat Jetha, Garth Shoemaker
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Patent number: 9123178Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for updating map tiles. The method includes receiving updates to features in geospatial information that describes a map. The map is represented by multiple tiles. The method further includes rerendering at least one tile from the tiles based on the update to generate an individual rerendered instance of the tile. The method further includes storing a tile version identifier and an association between the tile version identifier and the individual rerendered instance of the tile. The method further includes providing the tile version identifier, instructions for using the tile version identifier to send a request for the individual rerendered instance of the tile, instructions for replacing an existing instance of the tile with the individual rerendered instance of the tile, and instructions for ceasing overlaying of a temporary display object on the map.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Yatin Dilip Chawathe, Chandan Kashinath Shanbhag
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Patent number: 9122785Abstract: Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a supplemental bolus and a representation of programmed doses of a therapy schedule for an implantable fluid delivery device with a programmer device. In one example, a device includes a user interface to present a graphical representation of doses of fluid to be delivered to a patient via an implantable fluid delivery device and a processor that controls the user interface to simultaneously present a first graphical representation of a supplemental bolus to be delivered by the implantable fluid delivery device and a second graphical representation of programmed doses of a therapy schedule of the implantable fluid delivery device, wherein at least a portion of the programmed doses of the therapy schedule follows delivery of the supplemental bolus by the implantable fluid delivery device. A user of the device may determine whether the representations indicate an excessive dosage risk to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Sarah B. Alme, Touby A. Drew, Lance Beall
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Patent number: 9088771Abstract: A mobile terminal as disclosed and broadly embodied herein may include a 3D display configured to display an object that includes a first and second images and a controller configured to change a magnification of the object that includes a first scaled image and a second scaled image and to correct a binocular disparity between the first and second scaled images. The controller may be configured to determine a binocular disparity between the first and second scaled images, determine whether the binocular disparity is within a prescribed range of disparity, reposition at least one of the first or second magnified images based on the determined binocular disparity, and control the display to display the corrected first and second scaled images.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hayang Jung, Seungmin Seen, Shinhae Lee, Jinsool Lee, Dongok Kim, Taeyun Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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Patent number: 9070319Abstract: Method, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for selective transformation of overlapping image objects. One method includes identifying, in a computer graphics illustration, an overlapping region formed by a region of an overlapping image object having transparency positioned over a region of an overlapped image object, wherein the overlapping image object and the overlapped image object are resolution independent image objects, combining the region of the overlapping image object and the region of the overlapped image object to form a transformed region that is resolution independent, and storing the transformed region and other regions of the computer graphics illustration, which other regions are not combined to form the transformed region to provide for further processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Sachin Soni, Anmol Dhawan, Ganesh Sahai
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Patent number: 9070229Abstract: One or more graphical objects are displayed in a fixed orientation with reference to a sensed reference direction. Manipulation is achieved by fixing the orientation or position of a displayed graphical object with reference to an apparatus, such as the display itself or a proxy device, detecting a change in orientation of that apparatus and editing the orientation of the graphical object based on the detected change.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Williamson, Lorna M. Brown, James W. Scott, Stephen E. Hodges
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Patent number: 9049383Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for displaying a photo on a screen having any shape. The method includes: extracting photographing information about a photo having a first shape; adjusting the photo for display with a shape optimized for a screen having a second shape, based on the extracted photographing information; and displaying the adjusted photo on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-hyun Yoon, Moon-sang Lee
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Patent number: 9047692Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage mediums are provided for creating a scene scan from a group of photographic images. An exemplary method includes determining a set of common features for at least one pair of photographic images. The features include a portion of an object captured in each of a first and a second photographic image included in the pair. The first and second photographic images may be captured from different optical centers. A similarity transform for the at least one pair of photographic images is the determined. The similarity transform is provided in order to render the scene scan from each pair of photographic images. At least one of the rotation factor, the scaling factor, or the translation factor associated with the similarity transform is used to position each pair of photographic images such that the set of common features between a pair of, at least in part, align.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Steven Maxwell Seitz, Rahul Garg
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Patent number: 9047703Abstract: A method, augmented reality driving system and device safely guide a vehicle driver to perform a left turn. A vehicle navigator detects a left turn based upon proximity and speed for a vehicle. A target sensor determines a current position and a relative vector for an oncoming vehicle in a lane for opposing traffic that is approaching the left turn. An augmented reality controller three dimensionally maps a forward view including the oncoming vehicle and spatially overlays an augmented reality display on a volumetric heads up display for a driver of the vehicle by projecting a target path of the oncoming vehicle based upon the vector and relative vector and by projecting a left turn path.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lee Beckwith, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing