Patents Examined by Grace Q Li
  • Patent number: 11789260
    Abstract: A head-up display of the present disclosure projects a display image on a transparent reflecting member. The head-up display includes: a display device that displays the display image; and a projection optical system that projects the display image displayed on the display device. On an assumption that light reaching a center of a viewpoint region of the observer and corresponding to a center of the virtual image is reference light, the projection optical system includes a prism element that has an incident surface, a reflection surface, and an emitting surface different from the incident surface sequentially in an optical path from the display device. The emitting surface is inclined to the reference light. An inclination amount ?2 of the reference light emitted from the emitting surface with respect to the emitting surface lies in a range of 15°<|?2|<45° in the optical path from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroaki Okayama
  • Patent number: 11771499
    Abstract: A surgical implant planning computer is connectable to a fluoroscopy imager, a marker tracking camera, and a robot having a robot base coupled to a robot arm that is movable by motors relative to the robot base. Operations include performing a registration setup mode that determines occurrence of a first condition indicating the marker tracking camera can observe to track reflective markers that are on a fluoroscopy registration fixture of the fluoroscopy imager, and determines occurrence of a second condition indicating the marker tracking camera can observe to track dynamic reference base markers attached to the robot arm and/or an end-effector connected to the robot arm. While both of the first and second conditions occur, operations are allowed to be performed to obtain a first intra-operative fluoroscopic image of a patient along a first plane and to obtain a second intra-operative fluoroscopic image of the patient along a second plane that is orthogonal to the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: 11766937
    Abstract: In a display control method, a first information image is displayed on a head-up display. The first information image includes a first vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a first character string arranged above the first vehicle icon. A second information image is displayed on a meter display. The second information image includes a second vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a second character string which is arranged below the second vehicle icon, and includes the first character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 11762696
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhishek R Appu, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Joydeep Ray, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kiran C. Veernapu, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar, Eric J. Asperheim, Guei-Yuan Lueh, David Puffer, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Bhushan M. Borole, Josh B. Mastronarde, Linda L. Hurd, Travis T. Schluessler, Tomasz Janczak, Abhishek Venkatesh, Kai Xiao, Slawomir Grajewski
  • Patent number: 11744465
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for generating a three-dimensional brain map, comprising the steps of: acquiring a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image of an object; segmenting the brain MRI image into a plurality of regions; generating a three-dimensional brain image of the object including the plurality of regions by using the segmented brain MRI image; and generating a three-dimensional brain map of the object capable of simulating a process of transferring electrical stimulation to the brain of the object based on properties of each of the plurality of regions included in the three-dimensional brain image, wherein the step of segmenting includes the step of acquiring a segmented brain MRI image of the object by inputting a brain MRI image of the object into a model learned by using a plurality of processed brain MRI images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROPHET INC.
    Inventor: Dong Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11734895
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for displaying a real-world vehicle in an augmented reality environment. The system employs a user device camera to obtain image data of an environment that includes a real-world vehicle. The system analyzes the image data to identify the vehicle within the environment. A wireframe model of the vehicle is then generated and registered to the vehicle. The image data is displayed on the user device. In response to user input, the system may then attach a virtual vehicle accessory to the wireframe model. The accessory is then displayed on the user device display in an augmented reality environment such that the vehicle appears to seamlessly incorporate the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony D. Sanor, David Kleiner, Jazmieka Smith, Gary Banks
  • Patent number: 11731512
    Abstract: A display panel for displaying at least one graphical display object and a control device are part of a display apparatus in a motor vehicle. The display panel is freestanding in a space and has a multiplicity of predetermined sections, each having a settable degree of light transmittance. As a result, an environment of the display panel may be visible in the display panel, depending on the degree of light transmittance. The control device is configured to individually set a respective light transmittance to a predetermined degree for each of the multiplicity of predetermined sections of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Immo Redeker, Joris Mertens, Anna Hufnagel
  • Patent number: 11715268
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for rendering a three-dimensional virtual object in a video clip. The method and system include capturing, using a camera-enabled device, video content of a real-world scene and movement information collected by the camera-enabled device during capture of the video content. The captured video and movement information are stored. The stored captured video content is processed to identify a real-world object in the scene. An interactive augmented reality display is generated that: adds a virtual object to the stored video content to create augmented video content comprising the real-world scene and the virtual object and adjusts, during playback of the augmented video content, an on-screen position of the virtual object within the augmented video content based at least in part on the stored movement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Tony Mathew
  • Patent number: 11709526
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The electronic apparatus includes: a display; and a processor configured to: control the display to display an image on the display, identify a screen mode of the display displaying an image among a plurality of screen modes having different aspect ratios, and provide information on content corresponding to the identified screen mode among a plurality of pieces of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kangchun Lee, Sungsik Park, Yongman Son
  • Patent number: 11703684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing cluster information using a three-dimensional (3D) image. The apparatus for providing the cluster information using the 3D image according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive display mode setting information and driving information, a memory configured to store a cluster information providing program that uses a 3D image, and a processor configured to execute the cluster information providing program, wherein the processor controls a light source disposed in a cluster according to the display mode setting information to display the driving information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Joon Ahn, Myung Bin Choi, Seung Hwan Lee, Tae Hun Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11694435
    Abstract: Systems and methods of disabling user control interfaces during attachment of a wearable electronic device to a portion of a user's clothing or accessory are disclosed. The wearable electronic device can include inertial measurement units (IMUs), optical sources, optical sensors or electromagnetic sensors. Based on the information provided by the IMUs, optical sources, optical sensors or electromagnetic sensors, an electrical processing and control system can make a determination that the electronic device is being grasped and picked up for attaching to a portion of a user's clothing or accessory or that the electronic device is in the process of being attached to a portion of a user's clothing or accessory and temporarily disable one or more user control interfaces disposed on the outside of the wearable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Carlos Julio Suate Pedroza, Todd Daniel Hendry, Guillermo Padin Rohena, Paul M. Greco, Vinosh Christopher Diptee, Evan Francis Rynk
  • Patent number: 11653900
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method for managing healthcare resources including receiving information selecting a first outcome perspective, calculating first impactibility scores for the first outcome perspective, determining a first subarea based on the first impactibility scores, and designating an allocation of healthcare resources and cost for the first subarea based on the first outcome perspective. The first impactibility scores are calculated for respective subareas including the first subarea, and the first outcome perspective corresponds to a first ratio of healthcare resources and cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek, Jun Seob Shin
  • Patent number: 11644928
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to be rotatable; a plurality of cameras; and a processor configured to: based on the display being oriented in a vertical direction, control one camera of the plurality of cameras to perform photographing; and based on a user command being received while the one camera is performing photographing, rotate the display to be oriented in a horizontal direction and control the one camera to stop photographing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunsok Kang, Byungseok Soh, Seungil Yoon, Eungsik Yoon, Suhwan Jin, Taedon Hwang
  • Patent number: 11631380
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method enabling a user to visually recognize a surrounding environment promptly based on a sudden change in brightness. An information processing apparatus of the present technology includes an acquisition section that acquires environmental information which is information associated with an environment including an object present in a real space, and a display control section that exercises display control based on the environmental information with respect to form information representing a form of the object over a display section that displays predetermined information in a visually recognizable state while superimposing the predetermined information on the real space based on occurrence of a change in brightness of the real space higher than a threshold. The present technology is applicable to an HMD that displays information while superimposing the information on a scene in front of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yuasa, Kazuma Aiki
  • Patent number: 11620855
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for memory mapping is provided. The present invention may include identifying an augmented reality device and at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device which observes at least one biometric parameter. The present invention may include defining at least one user attention pattern based on the at least one biometric parameter. The present invention may include predicting an attentiveness of a user based on the at least one attention pattern. The present invention may include recording data from the augmented reality device, based on the attentiveness of the user dropping below a certain point. The present invention may include storing the recorded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, John D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11609626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a virtual reality headset in a vehicle, in which at least an instantaneous orientation of the virtual reality headset is determined by means of an inertial measurement unit arranged on the virtual reality headset, and a corresponding control device. Based thereon and on vehicle localisation data, a virtual perspective of a virtual environment displayed in the virtual reality headset is simulated. Therein, a relative arrangement of the virtual reality headset with respect to the vehicle interior is determined through an optical capture device arranged on the virtual reality headset. Corresponding data from the inertial measurement unit and the optical capture device are fused together to determine a corrected orientation or pose of the virtual reality headset with respect to the vehicle interior for simulating the virtual perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HOLORIDE GMBH
    Inventors: Simona Nobili, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11574468
    Abstract: A model can be trained to detect interactions of other drivers through a window of their vehicle. A human driver behind a window (e.g., front windshield) of a vehicle can be detected in a real-world driving data. The human driver can be tracked over time through the window. The real-world driving data can be augmented by replacing at least a portion of the human driver with at least a portion of a virtual driver performing a target driver interaction to generate an augmented real-world driving dataset. The target driver interaction can be a gesture or a gaze. Using the augmented real-world driving data set, a machine learning model can be trained to detect the target driver interactions. Thus, simulation can be leveraged to provide a large set of useful training data without having to acquire real-world data of drivers performing target driver interactions as viewed from outside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrien David Gaidon
  • Patent number: 11544418
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. The method may include superimposing a first 3D model of an object onto the 2D environment, and replacing the first 3D model of the object with a second 3D model of an object. Further, the method may include superimposing a smart 3D model of an object onto the 2D environment. Additionally, the method may include a code or mark to identify images of the 2D environment to which 3D models of objects have been superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: WEST TEXAS TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventor: Milos Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 11535261
    Abstract: Virtual humans exhibit behaviors associated with inputs and outputs of an autonomous control system for medical monitoring of patients. To foster the awareness and trust, the virtual humans exhibit situational awareness via apparent (e.g., rendered) behaviors based on inputs such as physiological vital signs. The virtual humans also exhibit situational control via apparent behaviors associated with outputs such as direct control of devices, functions of control, actions based on high-level goals, and the optional use of virtual versions of conventional physical controls. A dynamic virtual human who continually exhibits awareness of the system state and relevant contextual circumstances, along with the ability to directly control the system, is used to reduce negative feelings associated with the system such as uncertainty, concern, stress, or anxiety on the part of real human patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Welch, Gerd Bruder
  • Patent number: 11514559
    Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Masanaga Tsuji