Patents Examined by Donna J Ricks
  • Patent number: 11146763
    Abstract: A photo filter (e.g., artistic) light field effect system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, and a depth-capturing camera. Execution of programming by a processor configures the photo filter light field effect system to apply a photo filter selection to: (i) a left raw image or a left processed image to create a left photo filter image, and (ii) a right raw image or a right processed image to create a right photo filter image. The photo filter light field effect system generates, a photo filter light field effect image with an appearance of a spatial rotation or movement, by blending together the left photo filter image and the right photo filter image based on a left image disparity map and a right image disparity map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Sagi Katz
  • Patent number: 11138788
    Abstract: A three-dimensional model creator creates individual models indicative of individual shapes of at least two objects from an integrated model created based on data obtained by imaging or measuring the objects together. The three-dimensional model creator creates a plurality of division models by dividing the integrated model with extension planes obtained by extending surfaces that define the integrated model, identifies two-dimensional regions in which the objects exist individually, based on the obtained data, tags the division models based on projections of the division models and the two-dimensional regions, and creates the individual models of the objects from the tagged division models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Rie Oota, Mamoru Kubo
  • Patent number: 11138775
    Abstract: An interactive illustration system, interactive animation system, and methods of use are presented. The present disclosure reveals an illustration and/or narrative and/or geometric figure in subsequent layers so that a user can be surprised by the coloring and engaged by the stimulus of the surprise created by the experience. The present disclosure relates to an interactive coloring system and animation system having gamification elements and interactive graphical features. More specifically, and without limitation, the present disclosure relates to interactivity and gamification in the coloring game genre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Richard R. Rosser
  • Patent number: 11132766
    Abstract: An image processing method and device are disclosed. The method is applicable to an image processing device having an operating system, and the method includes: receiving, by an image processing module of the operating system, an instruction of a first application program to call the image processing module of the operating system, where the instruction carries a to-be-displayed image and a resolution of the to-be-displayed image; and when the resolution of the to-be-displayed image is less than a first threshold, performing, by the image processing module, super-resolution processing on the to-be-displayed image, and displaying an image obtained after the super-resolution processing, to resolve a problem of a low image definition in a conventional display method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuang Ting Chuang, Xin Jin, Huihai Shen, Yuchao Lin, Junxiong Sun, Xiaodong Liu
  • Patent number: 11105651
    Abstract: A display system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a display configured to display images, and a display controller configured to cause the display to display an image representing a road shape around the vehicle recognized by the recognizer, wherein, when a lane in which the vehicle can travel in the same direction as a travel direction of the vehicle is added, the display controller causes the display to display an image about the added lane outside the image representing the road shape on the side on which the lane is added before the display is caused to display an image representing a shape of the added lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jumpei Ichinokawa
  • Patent number: 11100904
    Abstract: According to embodiments, an image drawing apparatus includes: an SRAM; and a transaction conversion unit configured to convert a transaction based on a virtual address indicating a pixel position in a storage area of the SRAM into a transaction based on a physical address in the SRAM. When the storage area is divided into a plurality of windows in a row direction and a column direction so that each window includes one or more lines, and an assigned area which is assigned the physical address in the SRAM is set in each of the windows, the transaction conversion unit converts the transaction based on the virtual address into the transaction based on the physical address based on whether the pixel position indicated by the virtual address is in the assigned area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Takemoto, Yuji Hisamatsu, Shinichi Shionoya, Michio Katsuhara
  • Patent number: 11100605
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calculating graphics resources for a virtual machine. One of the methods includes determining resources available on a graphics card device included in a computer executing a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine configured to execute a virtual desktop; determining, based on data received from a hypervisor that manages execution of at least one of the plurality of virtual machines, a graphics profile for a virtual machine included in the plurality of virtual machines executing on the computer; determining a portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine using the graphics profile; and computing an amount of resources on the graphics card device consumed by a virtual desktop of the virtual machine based on the portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshmana Prakash, Sendhil Kumar
  • Patent number: 11094092
    Abstract: A system and method include generating, by a map labeling control unit including a processor, label candidates for areas of an airport map, evaluating, by the map labeling control unit, the label candidates to determine positions of labels for the areas of the airport map, and determining, by the map labeling control unit, different sets of labels to display for different views of the airport map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Valeri Ivanov Gyurdiev
  • Patent number: 11069117
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models having regions of various resolutions are provided. In particular, imagery data can be captured and utilized to generate three-dimensional models. Regions of texture can be mapped to regions of a three-dimensional model when rendered. Resolutions of texture can be selectively altered and regions of texture can be selectively segmented to reduce texture memory cost. Texture can be algorithmically generated based on alternative texturing techniques. Models can be rendered having regions at various resolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Ford, Matthew Tschudy Bell, David Alan Gausebeck, Mykhaylo Kurinnyy
  • Patent number: 11068227
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can more exactly indicate a position outside a display region. An outside-display-region-position designation unit designates a position outside a display region of an image display unit, and a drawing/sound control unit controls output of a sound of an AR object from a sound output unit while moving the AR objet toward the designated position. The present technology can be applied to a wearable computer, for example, a glasses-type device having a pair of image display units for a left eye and a right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema
  • Patent number: 11068046
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure improves simulations based on the use of digital twins using social automatons. In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes constructing a digital twin of a physical environment, constructing a social automaton, wherein the social automaton comprises a virtual representation of an individual that is programmed to exhibit behaviors and characteristics of the individual, and inserting the social automaton into the digital twin to create an extended reality media in which interactions of the social automaton with the digital twin simulate interactions of the individual with the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Jason Decuir, Robert Gratz
  • Patent number: 11062517
    Abstract: In a method of facilitating interaction between a user of an augmented reality (AR) mobile device and a first real-world object, a display device is caused to superimpose digital information on portions of a process control environment within a field of view of a camera of the device. The superimposed information is associated with nodes in a map of the environment, and the nodes correspond to other objects in the environment. The display is caused to indicate a direction to the first object. After detecting a user input that indicates selection of the first object, the display is caused to superimpose, on a portion of the process control environment currently within the field of view, a digital model or image of the first object. A user interface is caused to provide one or more virtual controls and/or one or more displays associated with the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: James Aaron Crews, Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Benjamin Michael Bishop
  • Patent number: 11062495
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for partitioning an animatable model. The system may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to processors. The non-transitory computer-readable medium may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to perform a number of operations. One operation may include obtaining an animatable model. The animatable model may include a geometry matrix. Another operation may include obtaining user input to partition an animatable model into multiple partitions. The user input may include a connected curve in the geometry matrix. Yet another operation may include partitioning the animatable model into the multiple partitions based on the user input. Individual ones of the multiple partitions may include a partition geometry matrix and a corresponding partition animatable model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Bisceglio, Christopher Franz Moore, Daniel Sampaio Lima, Scotty Sharp, Steven Song
  • Patent number: 11049470
    Abstract: An apparatus receives pieces of image data of respective frames from a server apparatus, where each of the pieces of image data represents a display screen reflecting a result of processing corresponding to an input operation performed on the apparatus. The apparatus, in response to reception of a piece of image data of a first frame among the frames from the server apparatus, controls a display timing of the first frame, based on an occurrence state of an input operation on the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kohji Yamada
  • Patent number: 11049211
    Abstract: Systems and method for triple buffering of a graphics display without use of interrupts using at least two command buffers that are capable of operating asynchronously. A first command buffer generally contains commands, which, when executed, write frame data to a plurality of frame buffers in round-robin fashion. A second command buffer, which is executed asynchronously to the first command buffer, contains commands to handle waiting for frames to be completed, handle display timing (e.g., display synchronization interval, such vertical sync or vertical blanking intervals), and to cause the display controller to display the correct frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CHANNEL ONE HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: Aidan Fabius
  • Patent number: 11037358
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. Aspects of the present disclosure can determine at least some shading data for each of a plurality of patches. Further, aspects of the present disclosure can store the at least some shading data for each of the plurality of patches in a GMEM. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can communicate the at least some shading data for each of the plurality of patches. In some aspects, the present disclosure can configure the GMEM for storing the at least some shading data for each of a plurality of patches. Aspects of the present disclosure can also calculate when the GMEM has stored a maximum amount of shading data. Moreover, aspects of the present disclosure can divide each of the plurality of patches into one or more sub-patches when the GMEM has stored the maximum amount of shading data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kalyan Kumar Bhiravabhatla, Sreyas Kurumanghat, Vishwanath Shashikant Nikam
  • Patent number: 11037519
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD including an image display unit worn by a user on a head and transmitting external light, a six-axis sensor and a proximity sensor provided in the image display unit, and a detected value output unit configured to output, to a personal digital assistant, detected values from the sensors, an image output unit configured to output an image, a display unit configured to display the image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire the detected values from the sensors output by the HMD, and a device control unit configured to control display of the display unit, based on the detected values acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11037353
    Abstract: A system and method that provides a realistic visual dynamic simulation of water surface behavior within model scenery includes the positioning of a screen in an area of the model scenery representing or designated for a water feature. Dynamic water surface images are displayed on the screen. An optical guide may be embedded in the images for guiding a self-propelled object moving on or above the simulated water displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Michel Alain Doidic, Théo Gaërel
  • Patent number: 11030797
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing primitive fragments in a rasterization phase of a graphics processing system wherein a rendering space is subdivided into a plurality of tiles. The method includes receiving a plurality of primitive fragments, each primitive fragment corresponding to a pixel sample in a tile; determining whether a depth buffer read is to be performed for hidden surface removal processing of one or more of the primitive fragments; sorting the primitive fragments into a priority queue and a non-priority queue based on the depth buffer read determinations; and performing hidden surface removal processing on the primitive fragments in the priority and non-priority queues wherein priority is given to the primitive fragments in the priority queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Robert Brigg, Lorenzo Belli
  • Patent number: 10997954
    Abstract: Example techniques are described for generating graphics content by obtaining a rendering command for a first frame of the graphics content, rendering a full frame based on the rendering command for the first frame, storing the full frame in a buffer, obtaining a rendering command for a second frame of the graphics content, obtaining an eye position of a user, rendering a partial frame based on the rendering command for the second frame and the eye position of the user, obtaining the full frame from the buffer, and outputting the second frame, wherein the second frame is based on the full frame and the partial frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samuel Benjamin Holmes, Jonathan Wicks