Patents Examined by Edward Martello
  • Patent number: 9645831
    Abstract: A guide is configured in an authoring program to aid the user in editing objects on a document. The guide can be a horizontally or vertically oriented guide line and can be created from a single ruler, either a vertical or horizontal ruler displayed on the workspace. To create a horizontal guide, the user can position the cursor on a horizontal ruler. The user can click-and-hold and drag the cursor to create and position a horizontal guide over the workspace. To create a vertical guide, the user can position the cursor in the horizontal ruler and click and release. The user can create both vertical and horizontal guides using the vertical ruler in a corresponding manner, where clicking on the vertical ruler creates a horizontal guide, and click-and-hold and dragging creates a vertical guide. Guides can be individually configured or altered in their visual characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel John Altin
  • Patent number: 9638022
    Abstract: Borehole data presentation systems and methods that facilitate communication of volumetric logging data to a surface processing system for presentation to a driller or other user interested in visualizing the formations surrounding a borehole. The disclosed systems optionally tailor the telemetry stream to match the chosen display technique, thereby maximizing the logging system utility for the driller. Variable opacity of certain data regions or certain data discontinuities greatly facilitates data comprehension, particularly when true three-dimensional display technologies are employed. Holographic or stereoscopic display technologies may be employed to show the three-dimensional dependence of measured formation properties such as resistivity, density, and porosity. Alternatively, the radial axis can be used to represent a formation parameter value, thereby enabling cylindrical cross-plots of multiple measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael S. Bittar, Martin D. Paulk, Gary Althoff, Paul F. Rodney, Frode Hveding
  • Patent number: 9619937
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing primitives in a tile-based graphics processing system includes processing circuitry which is configured to determine, for a group of plural primitives, the rendering tiles that the group of primitives should be processed for. The processing circuitry is also configured to store, for the group of primitives, a data entry containing an indication of the identity of the plurality of primitives in the group of primitives, and an indication of the rendering tiles that it has been determined the group of primitives should be processed for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ARM LIMITED
    Inventors: Hakan Persson, David Shreiner
  • Patent number: 9613596
    Abstract: A video display method is provided that displays, on a per frame basis, an image included in a video signal. The method includes generating a first visible light communication image by encoding a visible light communication signal, the first visible light communication image being an image having a stripe pattern for visible light communication, and displaying, in a predetermined frame, the image included in the video signal. The method also includes switching a pitch of the first visible light communication image to a different pitch, and generating a second visible light communication image. The method further includes displaying the second visible light communication image that has a stripe pattern configured with a different minimum pitch, which is different in resolution from the stripe pattern of the first visible light communication image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Hideki Aoyama, Koji Nakanishi, Koji Aoto, Toshiyuki Maeda, Akira Shiokawa, AKihiro Ueki, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9613460
    Abstract: For augmenting a digital image, code identifies a structure image in a digital image. The code further augments the digital image with structure information for the structure image and/or the digital image with structure image removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Feng, Paul Hilburger
  • Patent number: 9607416
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device for displaying process trends related to a process variable of a process plant. The device has a display that has a number of pixels in the horizontal axis in a row in the vertical axis, a calculator that is used for dividing the plurality of data points by the number of pixels in the horizontal axis to get a first value. The display is further used for displaying the plurality of data points in a number of lines in a corresponding column of pixels, the number of lines is the half of the first value. This advantageously also allows the operator to comprehend the shape of the graph retaining the important information of the trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vijaya Rama Raju Penumatcha
  • Patent number: 9607353
    Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yunjiu Li, Michael Green
  • Patent number: 9578336
    Abstract: A computing device (300) includes a storage (325) that over time is operable to include video and graphics content and the storage has a first set of instructions representing lossy video compression (130) and a second set of instructions representing lossless compression (120); and a processor (320) coupled with said storage (325), and said processor (320) operable to electronically analyze (110) at least a portion of the content for motion based on magnitudes of motion vectors and, on detection of a significant amount of motion, further operable to activate the first set of instructions (130) to compress at least the motion video, and otherwise to activate the second set of instructions representing lossless compression (120) to compress at least the graphics. Other devices, systems, and processes are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thanh Thien Tran, Jonathan Edward Hunter, Sriram Narayanan, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 9575628
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method for generating a touch screen display. The method includes establishing a run screen on the touch screen display, the run screen associated with a function of a work vehicle, configuring the run screen with a retractable toolbar, the retractable toolbar responsive to an action of a user of the touch screen display and deployable over a first portion of the run screen upon the action of the user and otherwise hiding to display a second portion of the run screen, the second portion of the run screen being at least a majority portion of the run screen and defining one or more transient user-definable buttons on the retractable toolbar associated with at least one of the function and the run screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Meegan, Bruce Newendorp, Joshua D. Hoffman, Kurtis Vander Wiel, Sean McKay
  • Patent number: 9552662
    Abstract: A method of removing an intersection test error in ray tracing includes obtaining an intersection by performing an intersection test on a ray and a primitive; determining location information of the intersection indicating whether the intersection is located inside or outside an object; determining an intersection error based on comparing the location information of the intersection to path information of the ray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaedon Lee, Youngsam Shin, Wonjong Lee
  • Patent number: 9552632
    Abstract: A system and method includes reception of a color image comprising a plurality of color pixels, conversion of the color image to a monochromatic image comprising a plurality of monochromatic pixels, performance of M erosion operations on the monochromatic image to generate an eroded monochromatic image, where M is equal to or greater than one, performance of N dilation operations on the eroded monochromatic image to generate a mask image, where N is equal to or greater than one, identification of one or more regions of the mask image based on the mask image, and modification of regions of the color image corresponding to the identified regions of the mask image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC.
    Inventor: Donald J. Bak
  • Patent number: 9547427
    Abstract: An application determines a colorization strategy for its graphical user interface according to colors of an input image. In particular, given one or more colors from the input image, and a plurality of elements of the graphical user interface, the colors for the elements of the graphical user interface are selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Kriese, J. Craig Hally, Georgi Tonev, Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9542764
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method includes: acquiring a first file; displaying a first content in a first region in a first display mode, the first content characterizes a first part of a display content of the first file and the first region is a region capable of triggering the display content of the first file to be displayed upon a triggering operation is detected; and displaying a second content in a second region in a second display mode if a first preset condition is satisfied, the second content characterizes a second part of the display content of the first file and the second region is a region capable of triggering the display content of the first file to be displayed upon a triggering operation is detected, the first region is different from the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Mingxiang Cai
  • Patent number: 9536334
    Abstract: A well log is obtained that includes log data gathered along a trajectory of a wellbore. An orientation parameter defining a perspective for displaying the log data along the trajectory is also obtained. Following a path of the trajectory, an image strip is rendered from the log data based on the orientation parameter, where the image strip is a pictorial representation of the log data. The image strip is displayed along the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joan Abadie
  • Patent number: 9524587
    Abstract: Technologies for adapting content to augmented reality virtual objects include a content consumption device to render selected content and a mobile computing device to render a virtual object within the physical environment of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may transfer the virtual object to the content consumption device. The content consumption device may adapt the content based on the transferred virtual object, and render the adapted content. The adapted content may be selected from a number of pre-defined scenes, or may be generated to include the virtual object. The adapted content may include other characters or objects that react to the transferred virtual object. The virtual object may be transferred back to the mobile computing device with updated attributes. The content may be streamed from a content source over a network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Glen J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9513478
    Abstract: In a mirror system for displaying an image on a mirror surface, a mirror reflects incident light from an object facing its front surface side to present a reflected image, and transmits incident light from its rear surface. A display unit generates a presentation image to be superimposed on the reflected image. An optical unit is arranged between the display unit and the rear surface of the mirror, and images the presentation image. An acquisition unit acquires distance information between the object and the mirror. A controller controls the imaging point of the presentation image by the optical unit according to the distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Katano, Masakazu Matsugu, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9514707
    Abstract: An approach is provided for automatically calculating and delivering proportional pointer locations during transition between multiple visual display devices (e.g., in regard to their characteristics, which may be heterogeneous, homogenous, or a mixture thereof). Specifically, the approaches described herein provide a solution for finding proportional locations of a pointer's on-screen graphic as the pointer is being transitioned/moved between multiple display devices (e.g., controlled by a single computer or controller).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mark G. Matel
  • Patent number: 9508185
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for rendering computer graphics using texture maps are disclosed. Multiple texture maps with disparate data types, such as a mix of integer data types for RGB colors and floating point data types for XYZ normal vector components, are passed as one texture map set to a graphics processing unit (GPU). Filter parameters and other interpolation parameters are re-used between the disparate texture maps. A user can specify a number of integer and floating point-based channels for processing at one time by the GPU, thereby customizing a texture set structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Gabor Nagy
  • Patent number: 9509699
    Abstract: Systems and methods of virtual world interaction, operation, implementation, instantiation, creation, and other functions related to virtual worlds (note that where the term “virtual world” is used herein, it is to be understood as referring to virtual world systems, virtual environments reflecting real, simulated, fantasy, or other structures, and includes information systems that utilize interaction within a 3D environment). Various embodiments facilitate interoperation between and within virtual worlds, and may provide consistent structures for operating virtual worlds. The disclosed embodiments may further enable individuals to build new virtual worlds within a framework, and allow third party users to better interact with those worlds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Utherverse Digital, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Burch, Ian Neufeld, Dirk Herling, Gary Shuster
  • Patent number: 9500527
    Abstract: Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters. An apparatus is also provided for calibrating a sensor which may be used for measuring color of a display in one or more of these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: RAH COLOR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. Holub