Patents Examined by Edward Martello
  • Patent number: 10861125
    Abstract: When a processing resource of a data processing system is to perform processing tasks for applications executing on a host processor, the host processor prepares a plurality of command streams to cause the processing resource to perform the processing tasks. When a processing task to be added to a command stream has a dependency on a processing task or tasks that will be included in another command stream, a wait command is added to the command stream that is to include the processing task that has a dependency on a processing task or tasks that will be included in the another command stream, to cause the processing resource to delay executing subsequent commands in the command stream after the wait command, until the processing resource has reached a particular position in the another command stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Arne Aas, Sandeep Kakarlapudi, Hakan Lars-Goran Persson
  • Patent number: 10839614
    Abstract: Systems and methods to rapidly create, view, and modify three-dimensional experiences may include a two-dimensional content editing device and application and a three-dimensional experience viewing device and application. Using the two-dimensional content editing application, two-dimensional objects may be created, and properties of the two-dimensional objects may be defined. Using the three-dimensional experience viewing application, the two-dimensional objects may be rendered within a three-dimensional environment based on the defined properties. In this manner, three-dimensional experiences may be quickly created, viewed, modified, reviewed, and published without the need for specialized tools, training, or experience in three-dimensional modeling or programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lane Daughtry, David Robert Cole, Jason Andrew Brightman
  • Patent number: 10825200
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed to determine a pixel count of an object of interest in a multidimensional digital environment, based on the texture of the multidimensional object considered as an object of interest. In one embodiment, a first pass in a rendering pipeline is performed to render the objects of interest. Depth information of each pixel of the objects of interest is determined. A second pass in the rendering pipeline is performed that renders the entire scene. Each object of interest is rendered in a first predetermined color and a second depth information of each pixel within the scene is determined. The first and second depth information for each pixel is compared. When the depth information is different, the pixel is rendered with a second predetermined color. A total number of pixels having the first predetermined color is determined as a pixel count of the object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Trivver, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Kondratov, Igor Bitny, Alexander Arbuznikov
  • Patent number: 10810780
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive virtual model information associated with a virtual deformable geometric model. The virtual model information comprises a complex rig comprising a plurality of transforms and a first plurality of vertices defined by a default model, and a simplified rig comprising a second plurality of transforms and a second plurality of vertices. The second plurality of vertices correspond to the first plurality of vertices defined by the default model. The simplified rig and the complex rig are deformed based on an animation to be applied to the virtual deformable geometric model. A set of offset data is calculated. The set of offset data comprises, for each vertex in the first plurality of vertices, an offset between the vertex and a corresponding vertex in the second plurality of vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Baobab Studios Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Scott Hutchinson, Nathaniel Christopher Dirksen, Lawrence David Cutler, Apostolos Lerios
  • Patent number: 10810795
    Abstract: Techniques of refining a model of a complex surface can include refining, upon insertion of a new control point, only those blending functions corresponding to the control points adjacent to the control point being inserted. The resulting curves cannot be considered as B-splines because the relationship between blending functions corresponding to adjacent control points no longer has a fixed relationship. Rather, the resulting blending functions, denoted herein as “S-splines,” sacrifice this fixed relationship in exchange for the ability to specify how many blending functions corresponding to adjacent control points are refined when performing exact local refinement. S-splines do not produce excess control points and have a simple representation. While the resulting functions representing the surface are not B-splines, they allow for exact refinement without affecting the blending functions corresponding to control points not neighboring the new control point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: S-SPLINES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas W. Sederberg, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 10809899
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing marine information is provided including a user interface, a processor, and a memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to establish data communication with a remote computing device, receive user interface display data from the remote computing device, determine a display mode for the user interface, generate a mirror user interface display based on the user interface display data and the display mode, and cause the mirror user interface display to be displayed on the user interface in a predetermined orientation based on the display mode to maximize utilization of space allocated to the mirror user interface display on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: NAVICO HOLDING AS
    Inventors: Andrew Corbett, Phillip King Gaynor
  • Patent number: 10803628
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques to display rectangular content in non-rectangular display areas without clipping or cutting off the content. These bounding path techniques can be employed for electronic devices with rounded corners and for display of content within software windows for applications, in which the windows have non-rectangular corners. The techniques disclosed include content shifting, aspect fit, run length encoding and corner encoding. These techniques can be applied to both static content and for dynamic content. Memory optimization techniques are disclosed to reduce the memory requirements for encoding display bitmaps and for optimal performance. The run length encoding feature can reduce the time and decrease the memory requirements for determining a location where the content can fit within a viewable area of the display. The corner encoding technique provides for encoding areas with non-linear curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler M. Fox, Kyle T. Howarth, James R. Montgomerie, Stephen F. Holt
  • Patent number: 10789754
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that use style-aware puppets patterned after a source-character-animation sequence to generate a target-character-animation sequence. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate style-aware puppets based on an animation character drawn or otherwise created (e.g., by an artist) for the source-character-animation sequence. The style-aware puppets can include, for instance, a character-deformational model, a skeletal-difference map, and a visual-texture representation of an animation character from a source-character-animation sequence. By using style-aware puppets, the disclosed systems can both preserve and transfer a detailed visual appearance and stylized motion of an animation character from a source-character-animation sequence to a target-character-animation sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Kim, Wilmot Li, Marek Dvoro{hacek over (z)}{hacek over (n)}ák, Daniel Sýkora
  • Patent number: 10789914
    Abstract: A computer system receives an input of a predetermined area within a screen which is screen-shared, and performs a mosaic process so as to cause a sharing destination not to visually recognize either the predetermined area or an area within the screen other than the predetermined area. The computer system extracts and stores a character or an image of a part on which the mosaic process is performed by receiving the input, and performs, when it is displayed on the screen, the mosaic process on it in addition to either the predetermined area or an area within the screen other than the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10785443
    Abstract: A platform for synchronizing augmented reality (AR) views and information between two or more network connected devices is disclosed. A first device captures a video stream and associated spatial information, and transmits the video stream and spatial information to a second device. A user of the second device views the video stream, and inserts one or more AR objects into the video stream, with reference to the spatial information. The second device transmits the AR objects and spatial information references to the first device, which then renders the one or more AR objects into the video stream, using the spatial information references to locate the AR objects in each video stream frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: STREEM, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan R. Fink, Sean M. Adkinson, Trey Trahin
  • Patent number: 10755459
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are described herein that support improved object painting in digital images through use of perspectives and transfers in a digital medium environment. In one example, a user interacts with a two-dimensional digital image in a user interface output by a computing device to apply digital paint. The computing device fits a three-dimensional model to an object within the image, e.g., the face. The object, as fit to the three-dimensional model, is used to support output of a plurality of perspectives of a view of the object with which a user may interact to digitally paint the object. As part of this, digital paint as specified through the user inputs is applied directly by the computing device to a two-dimensional texture map of the object. This may support transfer of digital paint by a computing device between objects by transferring the digital paint using respective two-dimensional texture maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhili Chen, Srinivasa Madhava Phaneendra Angara, Duygu Ceylan Aksit, Byungmoon Kim, Gahye Park
  • Patent number: 10750146
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for correcting color values. The technique includes downsampling first color space values to generate downsampled color space values and upsampling the downsampled color space values to generate second color space values. The technique further includes modifying at least one component value included in the downsampled color space values based on a first component value included in the first color space values, a second component value included in the second color space values, and an approximation of a nonlinear transfer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: Andrey Norkin
  • Patent number: 10742986
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for correcting color values. The technique includes downsampling first color space values to generate downsampled color space values and upsampling the downsampled color space values via a first upsampling filter type to generate second color space values. The technique further includes modifying at least one component value included in the downsampled color space values based on a first component value included in the first color space values, a second component value included in the second color space values, and an approximation of a nonlinear transfer function. The technique further includes at least one of (i) storing an indication of the first upsampling filter type in conjunction with a video bitstream associated with the at least one component value, and (ii) transmitting the indication of the first upsampling filter type to a receiving device in conjunction with the video bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: Andrey Norkin
  • Patent number: 10733777
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems, and devices for generating annotations in images that can include receiving image data including images associated with locations. The images can include key images comprising one or more key annotations located at one or more key annotation locations in the one or more key images. At least one image and a pair of the key images that satisfies one or more annotation criteria can be selected based in part on one or more spatial relationships of the plurality of locations associated with the images. An annotation location for an annotation in the image can be determined based in part on the one or more key annotation locations of the one or more key annotations in the pair of the key images that satisfies the one or more annotation criteria. An annotation can be generated at the annotation location of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Joshua Sam Schpok
  • Patent number: 10726276
    Abstract: A method of an electronic apparatus for providing a sight securing image to a vehicle is provided, in which the method for providing a sight securing image includes determining at least one external vehicle from among a plurality of external vehicles, acquiring an external image at the determined external vehicle, acquiring an external vehicle image of the determined external vehicle, generating a sight securing image corresponding to a view obstructed by the external vehicle, by compositing at least part of the acquired external image and at least part of the acquired external vehicle image, and providing the generated sight securing image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-won Han, Woo-jin Park, Dae-hyun Ban, Kyu-haeng Lee, Sangsoon Lim
  • Patent number: 10715772
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for correcting color values. The technique includes downsampling first color space values to generate downsampled color space values, upsampling the downsampled color space values to generate second color space values, and determining a first new value for at least one component value included in the downsampled color space values based on a first component value included in the first color space values, a second component value included in the second color space values, and an approximation of a nonlinear transfer function. The technique further includes determining that a first color component value associated with the first new value is outside of a color space range, and determining a second new value for the at least one component value, where the first color component associated with the second new value is within the color space range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventor: Andrey Norkin
  • Patent number: 10679410
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the artificial reality system displays a virtual content to a first user. The virtual content has a first opacity. The system determines a first vergence distance of the first user and compare the first vergence distance of the first user to a first distance between the virtual content and the first user. The system adjusts the virtual content to have a second opacity that is less opaque than the first opacity in response to a determination that the first vergence distance of the first user is greater than the first distance by a first threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Terrano
  • Patent number: 10672136
    Abstract: An active depth detection system can generate a depth map from an image and user interaction data, such as a pair of clicks. The active depth detection system can be implemented as a recurrent neural network that can receive the user interaction data as runtime inputs after training. The active depth detection system can store the generated depth map for further processing, such as image manipulation or real-world object detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Duan, Daniel Ron, Chongyang Ma, Ning Xu, Shenlong Wang, Sumant Milind Hanumante, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Patent number: 10657656
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to generate virtual motion sensor data from computer animations are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a tracker component that can track virtual location data corresponding to a feature of a computer animated character in a virtual environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a virtual motion sensor component that, based on the virtual location data, can generate virtual motion sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marco Cavallo, Ravi Tejwani, Patrick Watson, Aldis Sipolins, Jenna Reinen, Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 10657717
    Abstract: A simulator is disclosed. A cockpit model comprising a plurality of cockpit model parts that collectively correspond to a simulated cockpit in a simulated vehicle is maintained. For each frame of a plurality of frames, a plurality of cockpit view frustums are determined, each cockpit view frustum corresponding to a different cockpit view of a plurality of cockpit views of the simulated cockpit. Shared cockpit scene information comprising a set of cockpit model parts that are within any of the plurality of cockpit views is generated based on the plurality of cockpit view frustums. A processing device submits to a graphics processing unit (GPU) the shared cockpit scene information and GPU instructions that direct the GPU to generate a plurality of cockpit view images that correspond to the plurality of cockpit views from the shared cockpit scene information. The GPU generates the plurality of cockpit view images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Howell B. Hollis, Adam R. Breed, Robert C. McCarthy, Kevin D. Cartrette