Patents Examined by James A. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11353966
    Abstract: The disclosed handheld controllers may include at least one finger force-feedback mechanism. The finger force-feedback mechanism may include a rotational element positioned to have an axis of rotation that is located along a palm side of a finger of an intended user's hand when holding the handheld controller, a proximal linkage element positioned and configured to rotate with the intended user's finger about the major knuckle when the user squeezes the handheld controller, and a distal linkage element positioned and configured to rotate relative to the proximal linkage element with the intended user's finger about the second knuckle when the user squeezes the handheld controller. Various other handheld controllers, artificial-reality systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
  • Patent number: 11354877
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates systems and methods for automatically adjusting a following 3D asset based on a deformation of a related base 3D asset. The systems and methods may use geomaps to index the relationship between the following 3D asset and base 3D asset. By automatically adjusting a following 3D asset based on the base 3D asset, the following 3D asset may retain full functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DG Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Janzer, Jon Middleton, Berkley Frei
  • Patent number: 11340850
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a virtual label display process program for executing steps. The steps include a composite image generating step, a composite image output step, a determining step, and a notifying step. In the composite image generating step, a real image data of a desired field of view and a virtual image data of a label are combined. In the composite image output step, a composite image data is output to a display device, and a virtual image of the label on the display device is superimposed and displayed. In the determining step, it is determined whether a desired suitability is satisfied between an exterior appearance of a background object and an exterior appearance of the label based on the real image data and the virtual image data. In the notifying step, a predetermined suitability notification is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Feng Zhu, Keigo Kako
  • Patent number: 11337670
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed, which improves the analysis of an object within a scanned bag. Specifically, the techniques disclosed herein overcome the problem of measurement errors due to imaging artifacts, which can occur during imaging examinations like CT scans. This process also discloses a method of using an improved accuracy of data units of an object lead to more accurate classification of the material that makes up the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: RED PACS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, David Byron Douglas
  • Patent number: 11328477
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus includes: a shape generation unit configured to generate data indicating a schematic shape of an object; a shape decomposition unit configured to decompose the data indicating the schematic shape of the object into a plurality of pieces of partial data in accordance with a shape of a cross section of the schematic shape of the object; and a shape fitting unit configured to fit a corresponding basic shape for each piece of the partial data, and generates three-dimensional shape data on the object based on the fitted basic shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyori Iwao
  • Patent number: 11304666
    Abstract: A method for creating a virtual patient model includes acquiring image data of the patient from a number of directions and in a number of positions of the patient. A virtual patient is created based upon the acquired image data. The virtual patient is adjusted to a posture of the patient during a planned examination with a medical engineering examination apparatus. A patient model creation apparatus is also described. Moreover, a medical engineering examination system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Mathias Hoernig, Ralf Nanke
  • Patent number: 11302285
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of determining a visual appearance of a user interface (UI) element overlaid in an underlying physical environment is performed at a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anselm Grundhoefer, Geoffrey Grant Stahl
  • Patent number: 11295527
    Abstract: A method for providing automated video analytics includes receiving, at a computing device, an image and detecting a person within the image. A pose of the person within the image is determined and a plurality of points are identified based on the pose. Each point is indicative of a location of a body part of the person. A posture skeleton is generated based on the plurality of points. The posture skeleton includes lines interconnecting at least some of the plurality of points. The image is outputted with the posture skeleton superimposed over the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sprongo, LLC
    Inventor: Muzaffer Gazioglu
  • Patent number: 11295537
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing an angiographic simulation is disclosed. A vascular structure is segmented within a 3D imaging dataset, such as a CT scan or MRI scan. The voxels corresponding to virtual contrast are placed within the segmented vascular structure. Multi-phase simulations can be performed to track contrast flow through the vascular tree. Some embodiments comprises inserting virtual contrast in conjunction with performing a deformity of the vascular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TIPPING POINT MEDICAL IMAGES, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, David Byron Douglas
  • Patent number: 11282162
    Abstract: A method and system for generating and shading a computer graphics image in a tile based computer graphics system is provided. Geometry data is supplied and a plurality of primitives are derived from the geometry data. One or more modified primitives are then derived from at least one of the plurality of primitives. For each of a plurality of tiles, an object list is derived including data identifying the primitive from which each modified primitive located at least partially within that tile is derived. Alternatively, the object list may include data identifying each modified primitive located at least partially within that tile. Each tile is then shaded for display using its respective object list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Steven J. Fishwick, John W. Howson
  • Patent number: 11282280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for vectorising nodes within a plurality of 360 degree images. The method includes identifying a set of points of interest within a first 360 degree image of the plurality of 360 degree images; identifying a corresponding set of points of interest within a second 360 degree image of the plurality of 360 degree images; and calculating the 3D coordinates of the points of interest using triangulation of both sets of points of interest. A system and software are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TIME2MARKET SA
    Inventors: Gérard Philibert Crittin, Camille Cottagnoud, Matthieu Claude Léon Garrigues, Lionel Robert Daniel Crassier
  • Patent number: 11276142
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for synthesizing virtual viewpoint image. The apparatus for synthesizing virtual viewpoint images includes one or more processors, and an execution memory for storing at least one program that is executed by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one program is configured to receive multiple viewpoint images from cameras that capture images of multiple viewpoints, and back-project the multiple viewpoint images onto a world coordinate system in a three-dimensional (3D) space, generate warped images by performing triangular warping of projecting the multiple viewpoint images, back-projected onto the world coordinate system, onto a virtual viewpoint image coordinate system, and generate a finally synthesized virtual viewpoint image by blending the warped images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joung-Il Yun, Sang-Woon Kwak, Won-Sik Cheong, Gi-Mun Um
  • Patent number: 11269295
    Abstract: Disclosed is a holographic display including a spatial light modulator (SLM) with pixels, the SLM pixels being on a substrate, the SLM including circuitry which is on the same substrate as the SLM pixels, the circuitry operable to perform calculations which provide an encoding of the SLM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
    Inventors: Bo Kroll, Robert Missbach, Alexander Schwerdtner
  • Patent number: 11263809
    Abstract: A TBM-mounted virtual reconstruction system and method for a tunnel surrounding rock structure, the method including: obtaining image information of surrounding rock; receiving the image information of the surrounding rock; transforming and splicing pictures taken at different angles, to form a complete image reflecting the surrounding rock; recognizing and describing a surrounding rock feature of the complete image, and transmitting the annotated image to a virtual reconstruction module; displaying the complete image with a description of the surrounding rock feature by using a virtual reality device, to reflect surrounding rock situations at different angles/different positions. This has the advantages of high equipment automation, not prolonging the construction time, not requiring the sketcher to enter the tunnel, precise surrounding rock feature parameters, and supporting remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shucai Li, Heng Shi, Zhenhao Xu, Peng Lin, Fumin Liu, Si Chen, Xiaote Wang
  • Patent number: 11263729
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device including one or more position sensors and a processor. The processor may receive a rendered image of a current frame. The processor may receive position data from the one or more position sensors and determine an updated device pose based on the position data. The processor may apply a first spatial correction to color information in pixels of the rendered image at least in part by reprojecting the rendered image based on the updated device pose. The head-mounted display device may further include a display configured to apply a second spatial correction to the color information in the pixels of the rendered image at least in part by applying wobulation to the reprojected rendered image to thereby generate a sequence of wobulated pixel subframes for the current frame. The display may display the current frame by displaying the sequence of wobulated pixel subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Neil Margolis, Bernard Charles Kress
  • Patent number: 11250626
    Abstract: A virtual stage based on parallel simulation, includes a stage modeling unit, a motion simulation unit, a display simulation unit, and a data extraction output unit. The stage modeling unit performs stage simulation modeling according to the designed stage styling; the motion simulation unit simulates a stage motion in a simulation system according to the designed stage animation; the display simulation unit is configured to simulate LED screen display of the stage in the simulation system according to the designed stage background. The data extraction output unit includes a styling extraction output unit, a motion extraction output unit and a display extraction output unit, which are configured to extract data from the stage modeling unit, the motion simulation unit, and the display simulation unit respectively for processing and conversion, and output geometric styling parameters of an actual stage, stage mechanical motion parameters, and stage LED screen display parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Gangyi Ding, Tianyu Huang, Lijie Li, Peng Li, Mingxiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11249308
    Abstract: Display device included in a moving body includes road information acquisition unit that acquires road information about a road in a traveling direction of the moving body and display controller that displays a virtual image illustrating at least one graphic as seen from the moving body on a display medium while superimposing the virtual image on a real space in the traveling direction when the at least one graphic is assumed to be disposed at a predetermined position in the traveling direction. Display controller updates a mode of the at least one graphic using the road information acquired by the road information acquisition unit, and displays the virtual image illustrating the updated at least one graphic on the display medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chisato Yamashita, Keiichiro Obayashi, Makoto Funabiki, Jun Imamura
  • Patent number: 11250619
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that generates a virtual viewpoint image: obtains information related to installation of cameras for capturing images used for generating a virtual viewpoint image and viewpoint information related to a virtual viewpoint; determines based on the information related to installation of the cameras and the viewpoint information an image processing method to be used for generating a virtual viewpoint image; and generates the virtual viewpoint image corresponding to the virtual viewpoint by using the determined image processing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eito Sakakima
  • Patent number: 11216084
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for remote-controlling a target apparatus using a mobile communication terminal. A communication link is established with the target apparatus having a display screen adapted to visualize an object. An amount of movement of the mobile communication terminal is detected. Motion information for moving the object is generated using the amount of movement of the mobile communication terminal. The motion information is transmitted to the target apparatus. The amount of movement is detected based on at least one of current position information, acceleration information, and angular velocity information of the mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyeok Cha, Tae-Jeong Bae
  • Patent number: 11216904
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: performing detection on an image to be processed to determine a contour line of a target object in the image to be processed and a plurality of regions; determining, for a target region in the plurality of regions, first adjustment parameters of target pixel points according to one or more set parameters, where the target pixel points includes one or more first pixel points on the contour line and one or more third pixel points inside the contour line; determining, for the target region, second adjustment parameters of one or more second pixel points according to the first adjustment parameters; and adjusting the image to be processed according to the first adjustment parameters and the second adjustment parameters to obtain an adjusted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Liu, Chen Qian