Patents Examined by Grace Q Li
  • Patent number: 11954783
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The graphics subsystem may include a first graphics engine to process a graphics workload, and a second graphics engine to offload at least a portion of the graphics workload from the first graphics engine. The second graphics engine may include a low precision compute engine. The system may further include a wearable display housing the second graphics engine. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Prasoonkumar Surti, Murali Ramadoss
  • Patent number: 11932109
    Abstract: A display system includes: a LiDAR measuring a position of a first surrounding vehicle; a position measuring device measuring a position of a second surrounding vehicle not measured in position by the LiDAR; a display device displaying dividing line icons corresponding to dividing lines around the ego vehicle and surrounding vehicle icons corresponding to the surrounding vehicles around the ego vehicle, and a controller controlling display of the dividing line icons and the surrounding vehicle icons at the display device. The controller is configured to specify a display position in a front-back direction corresponding to a position in the front-back direction of the second surrounding vehicle measured by the position measuring device and a display position in a left-right direction corresponding to a position in the left-right direction in a lane in which the second surrounding vehicle is running, as a display position of a surrounding vehicle icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 11935500
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may receive a set of customizable characteristics corresponding to an onscreen display reference point. The onscreen display reference point may be composed based on the set of customizable characteristics. The onscreen display reference point may be stored in nonvolatile memory. The onscreen display reference point may be rendered on a display, wherein the rendering is independent of a video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy Guynes, Alexander Williams, Syed Azam
  • Patent number: 11928781
    Abstract: An initial mesh is received comprising a hand of a subject. The initial mesh includes a plurality of vertices. A smoothed mesh is generated, and a discrete curvature of the smoothed mesh is determined for each vertex. One or more candidate finger vertices are identified based upon a determination that the discrete curvature for each of the one or more candidate vertices is greater than or equal to a threshold curvature. One or more seed vertices are identified from among the one or more candidate finger vertices based upon a determination that the discrete curvature for one or more other vertices within a neighborhood of each seed vertex is greater than or equal to the threshold curvature. Dilation is performed on the one or more seed vertices to grow one or more patches from the one or more seed vertices. The one or more patches are deprioritized for mesh simplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Deboshmita Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11922548
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods provide an augmented reality visualization of a real world accident scene. The system may comprise an augmented reality visualization device in communication with a display interface. The display interface may be configured to present a graphical user interface including an accident scene that corresponds to a real world location. The augmented reality visualization device (and/or system) may comprise one or more data stores configured to store accident scene information corresponding to the real world location, such as vehicles, motorcycles, trees, road objects, etc. Additionally, the one or more data stores may also store participant information corresponding to details about other multiple participants, such as witnesses, other drivers, and/or police officers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Chase Davis, Jeraldine Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11922588
    Abstract: To reduce this amount of bandwidth needed to share 3D map images between mobile devices, according to some embodiments, a user's mobile device (i.e., a host device) may identify its origin in a 3D map and a current virtual camera position relative to the origin based on the physical position of the mobile device. The mobile device may send both the origin and the virtual camera position to another mobile device (i.e., a client device) for use in rendering a corresponding image. Separately, the client device may download the 3D map images from a server, e.g., in preparation for a meeting. In this manner, the host device may send the origin to the client device once, as well as send a data stream of the current virtual camera position for use in accessing the corresponding 3D map images at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan L. Fillhardt, Syed Mohsin Hasan, Adrian P. Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11915671
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Patent number: 11908375
    Abstract: A head-up display device that is installed in a vehicle and displays display information in a position overlapping with a window, a terminal holder installed in the vicinity of the window in a vehicle interior, a mobile terminal installation detection unit that detects whether a mobile terminal is installed on the terminal holder, and a control unit that controls the head-up display device are provided, in which the head-up display device includes a display position change unit that changes a display position of the display information, and the control unit changes the display position from a first display position to a second display position when the installation of the mobile terminal is detected by the mobile terminal installation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Kobata, Yuya Obayashi
  • Patent number: 11893965
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for providing animation in electronic communications, An image is generated by capturing multiple photographs from a camera or video camera. The first photograph is called the “key photo.” Using a graphics program, photos subsequent to the key photo are edited to cut an element common to the subsequent photos. The cut images are pasted into the key photo as layers. The modified key photo, including the layers, is stored as a web-enabled graphics file, which is then transmitted in conjunction with electronic communication. When the electronic communication is received, the key photo is displayed and each of the layers is displayed and removed in the order that each was taken with a short delay between photos. In this manner, a movie is generated with much smaller files than is currently possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Douglas G. Richardson
  • Patent number: 11894023
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating revised videos. The method includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, first video data of an environment having at least one projection on a screen from a first point of view, and generating, by the one or more processor, revised video data of the environment having the at least one projection on the screen from the first point of view based on the first video data, the revised video data comprising a plurality of frames with the at least one projection on the screen disposed in the first area relative to the environment in a plurality of frames being revised based on data for projecting the at least one projection on the screen in the first video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony L. Cole, Thomas J. Davison, Daniel Del Piccolo, Daniel Lane, James S. Luke, Martine M. Pulvenis
  • Patent number: 11892628
    Abstract: A video display system includes: a screen on which an mage for displaying a virtual image is projected; a light source that emits laser light; a scanner that projects the image onto the screen by biaxially scanning the laser light onto the screen; and a controller that generates the image and controls the light source using an image signal for causing the generated image to be projected onto the screen by the laser light, and receives an input of sensing information measured using a temperature sensor and controls the scanner in accordance with the input sensing information. When the sensing information indicates a temperature outside a given temperature range, the controller causes the scanner to reduce an amplitude of the biaxial scanning in at least one axial direction to a smaller value than when the sensing information indicates a second brightness or a temperature within the given temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito Ogata, Yoshiteru Mino, Kosuke Kubota, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 11854403
    Abstract: A method for providing a blind reveal warning on multi-focal plane augmented reality display includes receiving remote-vehicle data, which includes information about a plurality of remote vehicles. The remote vehicles include a first remote vehicle located directly in front of the host vehicle and a second remote vehicle in front of the first remote vehicle. The method further includes determining an approach rate of the first remote vehicle to the second remote vehicle. The method further includes determining a probability that the first remote vehicle will perform a blind reveal and comparing that probability with a predetermined threshold value. The method further includes, in response to determining that the probability that the first remote vehicle will perform the blind reveal is greater than the predetermined threshold value, transmitting a command signal to the display of the host vehicle to display a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11853812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided that are configured to processor sensor data using a single component specialized sensor data processing neural network. The single component data processing system is configured to receive input data from a sensor, analyze the input data using a neural network embodied by a single trained sensor data processing component, wherein the single trained sensor data processing component is trained to product output data that approximates a plurality of task-specific transformations performed in a pipeline manner, and produce the output data following transformation of the input data. Additionally, methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for training a single trained sensor data processing component to approximate a plurality of task-specific transformations performed in a pipeline manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Anirudh Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 11854260
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein combine computer vision with eye tracking by identifying, via computer vision, safety hazards in a video captured by a camera mounted on a pair of safety glasses, and generating an alert if a user wearing the safety glasses has not (recently) noticed the hazard. Whether the user has noticed the hazard is determined based on eye tracking information extracted from a video captured by another camera that is mounted on the safety glasses and points toward the user. As a result, safety hazards may be automatically detected and reported to the user. In addition, only those hazards that have not been (recently) noticed by the user cause an alert to be generated, so the user is not distracted with unnecessary notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Fraser Anderson, Jun Gong, George Fitzmaurice
  • Patent number: 11836838
    Abstract: A method of animating a digital character according to facial expressions of a user, comprising the steps of, (a) obtaining a 2D image and 3D depth map of the face of the user, (b) determining expression parameters for a user expression model so that a facial expression of the user-specific expression model represents the face of the user shown in the 2D image and 3D depth map (c) using the expression parameters and an animation prior to determine animation parameters usable to animate a digital character, wherein the animation prior is a sequence of animation parameters which represent predefined animations of a digital character (d) using the animation parameters to animate a digital character so that the digital character mimics the face of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thibaut Weise, Sofien Bouaziz, Hao Li, Mark Pauly
  • Patent number: 11816887
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) node location and activation technique for use in an AR system in a process plant or other field environment quickly and easily detects an AR node in a real-world environment and is then able to activate an AR scene within the AR system, which improves the usability and user experience of the AR system. The AR node location and activation system generally enables users to connect to and view an AR scene within an AR system or platform even when the user is not directly at an existing AR node, when the user is experiencing poor lighting conditions in the real-world environment and in situations in which the user is unfamiliar with the AR nodes that are in the AR system database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yicheng Peter Pan, Anna Velena, David R. Denison, Manikandan Nambiar, Kuo-Lung Chin, Guido Maria Re
  • Patent number: 11810473
    Abstract: A system and method of training how to use a medical device using an instrument such as a mock ultrasound probe or syringe to be tracked in 3D space with six degrees of freedom using an internal optical camera, a light source (e.g. infrared LEDs), and a display of markers arranged on a surface. By extracting corner information for each marker, a 3D transformation can be established, allowing the system to know the instrument's position and orientation in 3D space relative to that marker. Each marker also encodes a numerical value corresponding to its predetermined position and orientation on the surface, allowing the instrument to determine its own position and orientation relative to the surface. Thus, as long as the instrument is able to see at least one marker on an optical surface, the system will know its full 3D position and orientation relative to the whole optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Matthew Wang, Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Eric Savitsky
  • Patent number: 11790498
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying augmented reality image content perceived as being overlaid on background image content viewed through a light-transmissive viewing surface. Image processing circuitry may receive input augmented reality image data corresponding with a pixel position on the display panel, determine a perceived background brightness metric indicative of background brightness level at the pixel position based at least in part on captured background image data and an ambient lighting metric, determine a target tone mapping based at least in part on the perceived background brightness metric, and determine display augmented reality image data to be used by a display panel to display the augmented reality image content least in part by applying the target tone mapping to the input augmented reality image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Shuang Wang, José Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Chaohao Wang, Tobias Jung, Jun Miao
  • Patent number: 11790814
    Abstract: A system includes a first multilayer surface that includes a plurality of layers. The system further includes a plurality of sensors and circuitry. The circuitry receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors and projection data associated with a media content projectable by a projection device. The projection data includes contrast control information associated with the media content. The circuitry determines ambient condition of an enclosed space based on the received plurality of signals. The circuitry selects one or more portions of the plurality of layers of the first multilayer surface based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data. The circuitry controls an opacity level of the selected one or more portions of the first multilayer surface to provide dynamic shade control in the enclosed space or improve contrast of the projected media content based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ted Yamazaki, Tonni Larsen, Leigh Anderson, Tatsushi Nashida, Naomasa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11786206
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for augmented reality guidance of surgical procedures using multiple head mounted displays or other augmented reality display devices are described. In addition, systems, devices and methods using head mounted displays or other augmented reality display systems for operating surgical robots and/or imaging systems are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: OnPoint Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Steines, Philipp K. Lang