Patents Examined by Donna J Ricks
  • Patent number: 10607323
    Abstract: A head-mounted electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a curved display; a frame having a mounting surface having a curvature such that the curved display is mounted thereon; and a pair of optical assemblies provided on the left and right sides of the interior of the frame, respectively, so as to provide displayed images to the left and right eyes of the user, the optical assemblies comprising a first lens that forms a view angle of a binocular field of view and a second lens arranged to slope with regard to the first lens, thereby forming an additional view angle of the left or right field of view. In addition, the above head-mounted electronic device may be implemented variously according to embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Seob Han, Myong-Jo Choi, Jae-Woo Ko, Tae-Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10599382
    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: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema
  • Patent number: 10593094
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing work from compute kernels using a distributed hierarchical parser architecture. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a plurality of shader units configured to perform operations for compute workgroups included in compute kernels processed by the apparatus, a plurality of distributed workload parser circuits, and a communications fabric connected to the plurality of distributed workload parser circuits and a master workload parser circuit. In some embodiments, the master workload parser circuit is configured to iteratively determine a next position in multiple dimensions for a next batch of workgroups from the kernel and send batch information to the distributed workload parser circuits via the communications fabric to assign the batch of workgroups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Havlir, Benjamin Bowman, Jeffrey T. Brady
  • Patent number: 10586371
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motion retargeting method and apparatus for character animation, and the method may include generating an intermediate object including at least one of a skeleton and a mesh based on a source motion and a target character, extracting keyframes of the intermediate object, constituting target rig parameters based on the extracted keyframes, and performing spacetime optimization on the target rig parameters to minimize a pose error between the intermediate object and the target character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Yong Noh, Jae Won Song, Roger Blanco Ribera, Kyung Min Cho, Mi Yu, Byung Kuk Choi
  • Patent number: 10580212
    Abstract: In a method and system for the multisensory representation of an object, multidimensional digital model data of the object are provided to a processor. An actual three-dimensional object model is produced on the basis of at least part of the multidimensional digital model data of the object. The position of the object is recorded subsequently. At least part of the multidimensional digital model data of the object is displayed by an AR display device depending on the position of the object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Popescu
  • Patent number: 10565693
    Abstract: A head-mounted electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a curved display; a frame having a mounting surface having a curvature such that the curved display is mounted thereon; and a pair of optical assemblies provided on the left and right sides of the interior of the frame, respectively, so as to provide displayed images to the left and right eyes of the user, the optical assemblies comprising a first lens that forms a view angle of a binocular field of view and a second lens arranged to slope with regard to the first lens, thereby forming an additional view angle of the left or right field of view. In addition, the above head-mounted electronic device may be implemented variously according to embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Seob Han, Myong-Jo Choi, Jae-Woo Ko, Tae-Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10545568
    Abstract: A modified sleep state graphics processing system includes a graphics processing system coupled to a central processing system that is configured to enter different sleep states. A power management engine coupled to the graphics processing system and the central processing system determines that the graphics processing system is operating above a graphics processing activity threshold and, in response, prevents the central processing system from entering a first subset of the different sleep states. The central processing system is configured to communicate with the graphics processing system to cause the graphics processing system to render graphics while prevented from entering the first subset of the different sleep states. The power management engine may then determine that the graphics processing system is operating below the graphics processing activity threshold and, in response, allow the central processing system to enter the first subset of the different sleep states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Alexander Shows, Chung Shou Wu
  • Patent number: 10540944
    Abstract: A small semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a register, switches, a memory circuit, a controller, and a display. An output terminal of the register is electrically connected to two or more of the switches. The switches are electrically connected to the memory circuit. The register has a function of retaining data corresponding to a parameter used when the controller operates. The switches have a function of selecting the memory circuit to which the data retained in the register is to be output. The memory circuit has a function of retaining the data output from the register. The controller has a function of reading the data retained in the memory circuit to control operation of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Munehiro Kozuma
  • Patent number: 10535179
    Abstract: A method comprising: causing detection of a modification of a visual appearance of a portion of the visual scene; causing determination that the portion of the visual scene that has been modified is or includes a first portion of the visual scene that has a corresponding first sound object; causing modification of the first sound object to modify a spatial extent of the first sound object; and causing rendering of the visual scene and the corresponding sound scene including rendering of the modified portion of the visual scene in the visual scene and rendering of the modified first sound object with modified spatial extent in the corresponding sound scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 10529114
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 10515431
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to global optimal path determination utilizing parallel processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU); a graphical processing unit (GPU), the GPU being capable of a plurality of processing threads; and a memory to store data for a system under evaluation, the system under evaluation including a set of nodes having a first endpoint, a second endpoint, and multiple paths between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The apparatus is to determine a most energy efficient path between the first endpoint and the second endpoint utilizing parallel processing of a push and relabel graph cut algorithm. Performance of the push and relabel algorithm includes a plurality of process iterations, each process iteration including performance of a relabel operation, a push operation in a first direction, and a push operation in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuenian Yang, Kaiyu Chen, Andrew Kuzma
  • Patent number: 10504290
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a client system receives a request to display a user interface element in a virtual reality environment. The client system determines whether the requested user interface element is a system user interface element generated by an operating system running on the client system or a third-party user interface element that is generated by a third-party application or based on third-party content. The client system selectively displays the user interface element in a first dedicated plane or a second dedicated plane of the virtual reality environment. The requested user interface element is displayed in the first dedicated plane of the virtual reality environment upon determining that the requested user interface element is a system user interface element. The requested user interface element is displayed in the second dedicated plane of the virtual reality environment upon determining that the requested user interface element is a third-party user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Justin Rogers
  • Patent number: 10469768
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing and manipulating images and video. In particular, a multi-view interactive digital media representation (MVIDMR) of a person can be generated from live images of a person captured from a hand-held camera. Using the image data from the live images, a skeleton of the person and a boundary between the person and a background can be determined from different viewing angles and across multiple images. Using the skeleton and the boundary data, effects can be added to the person, such as wings. The effects can change from image to image to account for the different viewing angles of the person captured in each image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Stephen David Miller, Pantelis Kalogiros, Matteo Munaro, Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor, Nico Gregor Sebastian Blodow, Luo Yi Tan, Mike Penz, Martin Markus Hubert Wawro, Matthias Reso, Chris Beall, Yusuke Tomoto, Krunal Ketan Chande
  • Patent number: 10445945
    Abstract: Techniques for displaying navigation information on a mobile device are provided that include a method that includes obtaining an indication of a position and an indication of a direction associated with the mobile device, using the indication of the position, the indication of the direction, information regarding identities of POIs within a geographic region of interest, and information regarding areas associated with the POIs to determine at least one relevant POI, of the POIs, that is associated with the position and direction, and displaying at least one visual indication associated with each of the at least one relevant POI on the mobile device. The appearance of the at least one visual indication is dependent on at least one of a distance from the mobile device of the relevant POI associated with the visual indication or presence of a known physical barrier between the mobile device and that relevant POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jiajian Chen, Hui Chao
  • Patent number: 10438316
    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: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshmana Prakash, Sendhil Kumar
  • Patent number: 10417729
    Abstract: Techniques to sort events of a graphics workload executed by a graphics processing unit to provide identification of events, that if addressed, may result in an improvement in performance are disclosed. The techniques can include: generating a signature and a weight for each event of a graphics workload; generating an event priority tree by organizing the events into parent and leaf nodes, where parent nodes comprise leaf nodes having a shared hash; and sorting frames based on a global weight of events corresponding to the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert B. Taylor, Pankaj Sharma, Daniel H. Walsh, Matthew B. Callaway
  • Patent number: 10394680
    Abstract: Examples described herein generally relate to reporting memory resource access by a graphics processing unit (GPU). A list of memory resources allocated for the GPU can be received by a memory tracking application. An indication of memory resource utilization based on the list of memory resources can be displayed on an interface. The memory tracking application can also receive, from the GPU, multiple indications that one or more of the memory resources allocated for the GPU are accessed, and can update the indication of memory resource utilization based at least in part on the multiple indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cole James Brooking, Brian Bo Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10387806
    Abstract: A system and methods provide for the automatic and computer-assisted generation of vectorized venue maps for event venues, including the outline, location, and label of each section in the venue, each row within each section, and in some cases, each individual seats in each row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SeatGeek, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Towfiq, Alan Wada, Yacin Bahi
  • Patent number: 10380769
    Abstract: Techniques of displaying drawing objects in a drawing application include generating a mapping table between points on a first path and a group of line segments along which drawing objects may be placed. Given the first path, a computer running the drawing application generates a subdivision of the first path. The computer then distributes the drawing objects over a second path, the second path being based on the subdivision of the first path. The computer then places the drawing objects on the second path. The computer then generates the mapping table that identifies a location of a drawing object on the second path and a respective subdivision of the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun Beri, Tarun Gehlaut
  • Patent number: 10366468
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating ray compression for efficient graphics data processing at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes forwarding a set of rays to a ray compression unit hosted by a graphics processor at a computing device, and facilitating the ray compression unit to compress the set of rays, wherein the set of rays are compressed into a compressed representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomas G. Akenine-Moller