Patents Examined by Javid A Amini
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Patent number: 11138779Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to group dipole estimation results with the same direction out of dipole estimation results of a signal source corresponding to part of biological data indicating a chronological change of a biological signal and display the grouped dipole estimation results in a manner superimposed on a plurality of biological tomographic images sliced in a predetermined direction. The display controller is configured to, when displaying a non-grouped dipole estimation result, display the non-grouped dipole estimation result in a different color or form from a color or a form of the grouped dipole estimation results depending on a direction of the dipole estimation result.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Yamagata, Eiichi Okumura, Noriyuki Tomita
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Patent number: 11137890Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a flexible display configured to display an image, a driver configured to change a screen size of the flexible display, and a processor configured to control the driver to display an image corresponding to a content, at a screen size corresponding to a size of a content to be displayed in the flexible display.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soog-yeong Woo, Eun-bi Kim, Su-hyun Na, Jong-kee Lee, Hee-young Chung
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Patent number: 11132839Abstract: A system and method for allowing riders of virtual reality rides to enjoy and interact with real world props in a virtual reality environment while at an amusement park ride. The system stores and displays to the rider virtual representations of the tagged items they've brought along for the amusement park ride. Smart merchandise utilizes RFID tags along with a database of virtual characteristics to enable the virtual world representation of real world items.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: DREAMCRAFT ATTRACTIONS LTD.Inventors: Daryl White, Peter R. Schnabel, Christopher David Glen Robertson, Joanne Parker Robertson
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Patent number: 11116303Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a method of displaying a guidance indicator to a user. The method comprises receiving a series of images of a head of a user; determining, from each image of the series of images, information relating to the position of the head of the user; and displaying to the user, on a display screen, a guidance indicator associated with a representation of the head of the user only if each of one or more defined conditions regarding the position of the head is met. According to other aspects, an apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Robert Godlieb, Matthijs Platje
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Patent number: 11100561Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh visualization are presented. An avatar representation of a user is generated. A user-specified change to the avatar representation is received and the avatar representation is changed based on the user-specified change. A current status of the user is determined, and an updated avatar representation is generated based on the current status of the user. The updated avatar is displayed in association with a communication of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Ryan Melcher, John Tapley, Robert Lee
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Patent number: 11087544Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for a wearable augmented reality system for fitness. The embodiments may include producing an avatar in the field of vision of the wearer, wherein a perceived position of the avatar may be controlled to aid the wearer in fitness training by establishing a controllable pace for the wearer. The embodiments may further include an optical system that produces the avatar such that it may be perceived by the wearer of the wearable augmented reality apparatus as a virtual running partner.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Inventors: AbdurRahman Bin Shahzad Bhatti, Jensen Rarig Steven Turner, Xander E. Fries
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Patent number: 11087542Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics processor pipeline apparatus may include a vertex fetcher to fetch vertices, a vertex shader communicatively coupled to the vertex fetcher to shade the fetched vertices, a primitive assembler communicatively coupled to the vertex shader to assemble primitives, and a primitive replicator communicatively coupled to the primitive assembler to replicate primitives for at least a first and a second viewport.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kalyan K. Bhiravabhatla, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Robert M. Toth, Tomasz Janczak
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Patent number: 11076833Abstract: Provided are an ultrasound imaging apparatus and method for displaying an ultrasound image. The ultrasound imaging apparatus includes: a display; and a processor configured to set, from among a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of scan line groups respectively corresponding to a plurality of subframes constituting a first frame, control the display to display the first frame, set, from among the plurality of scan lines, a plurality of scan line groups respectively corresponding to a plurality of subframes constituting a second frame, and control the display to display the second frame subsequently to the first frame. The processor may set the plurality of scan line groups such that a position of a boundary line between adjacent ones of the plurality of subframes in the first frame does not overlap a position of a boundary line between adjacent ones of the plurality of subframes in the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.Inventors: Seok-lai Park, Rae-Eun Kim, Sun-joong Lee
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Patent number: 11080936Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: enabling user-selection of a first sub-set of available mediated reality content based on a current point of view of a user; throughout a first period of time, causing rendering of the selected first sub-set of available mediated reality content to the user as it is selected; throughout the first period of time, storing a second sub-set of the available mediated reality content for potential future rendering, wherein the second sub-set is different to the first sub-set being rendered to the user and is not being rendered to the user during the first period of time; during at least a latter portion of the first period of time, determining whether or not to augment the user-selected first sub-set of available mediated reality content to include an alert concerning the second sub-set of available mediated reality content.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Tapani Vilermo
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Patent number: 11067598Abstract: An inspection data output device according to an embodiment includes an input unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. Information on a portion to be inspected in a circuit board is supplied to the input unit. The generation unit generates emphasis data in which an output signal path being a signal path on the circuit board and being a signal path capable of detecting an output signal of the portion to be inspected is emphasized more than another signal path. The output unit outputs the emphasis data to a display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Sakatoshi Machimura, Takuya Hibino, Hikoichi Yonetani, Tatsuya Takaoka, Soichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11062522Abstract: An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Global Medical IncInventors: Kenneth Milton Jones, John Popoolapade, Thomas Calloway, Thierry Lemoine, Christian Jutteau, Christophe Bruzy, Yannick James, Joachim Laguarda, Dong-Mei Pei Xing, Sebastien Gorges, Paul Michael Yarin
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Patent number: 11052288Abstract: A force measurement system is disclosed herein. The force measurement system includes a force measurement assembly configured to receive a subject thereon, and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly. In one or more embodiments, the one or more data processing devices are operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly, the one or more data processing devices configured to receive one or more signals that are representative of forces and/or moments being applied to a top surface of the force measurement assembly by the subject, and to convert the one or more signals into output forces and/or moments, the one or more data processing devices further configured to predict one or more balance parameters of the subject using a trained neural network.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Bertec CorporationInventors: Necip Berme, Jaswandi Tushar Pitale, Cameron Scott Hobson, Mohan Chandra Baro, Fernando Vanderlinde dos Santos
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Patent number: 11036988Abstract: A cognitive load reducing platform comprises one or more sensors that collect information about an environment as sensor data. A processor is in communication with the one or more sensors, wherein the processor executes a cognitive enhancement engines that processes the sensor data into enhanced characterization data having a reduced amount of data compared to the sensor data. An output device electronically communicate the enhanced characterization data to a user such that the enhanced characterization data reduces the cognitive load of the user, wherein the sensor and the output device comprise an assisted perception module worn by the user during an incident. A command interface device remote from the user to enable a person of authority to manage the incident and the user by receiving and displaying the enhanced characterization data, and by transmitting data and commands back to the assisted perception module.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: QWAKE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sam J. Cossman, John Davis Long, II, Omer Haciomeroglu, Michael E. Ralston
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Patent number: 11030459Abstract: Methods and apparatus for projecting augmented reality (AR) enhancements to real objects in response to user gestures detected in a real environment are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an object detector, a gesture detector, and an enhancement determiner. The object detector is to detect one or more real objects located in a real environment based on depth data obtained from a sensor array located within the real environment. The gesture detector is to detect a user gesture within the real environment based on motion data obtained from the sensor array, the user gesture being associated with a target real object from among the one or more real objects. The enhancement determiner is to determine an AR enhancement based on the user gesture and the target real object. The enhancement determiner is to instruct a projector to project the AR enhancement to the target real object.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ankur Agrawal, Glen J. Anderson, Benjamin Bair, Rebecca Chierichetti, Pete Denman
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Patent number: 11032493Abstract: Embodiments describe an approach for locating one or more light emitters proximate to a location of a physical display area. Embodiments further describe transmitting information of a target content to an augmented reality device using light generated by the one or more light emitters, wherein the information includes a light-based data stream of the target content and the target content is not pre-loaded; and responsive to a reception of the information of the target content by the augmented reality device, determining a portion of the target content for displaying on the physical display area. Embodiments also describe overlaying target contents on a physical display area using projected light grid or a grid of light emitters. Information on the target contents is transmitted from the emitters using light to an augmented reality device. The information includes light-based data stream of the target contents and physical coordinates of a frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ben Z. Akselrod, Anthony DiLoreto, Steve McDuff, Kyle D. Robeson
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Patent number: 11023001Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including: a functional area defined by an opening formed in the display panel; and a display area defined as an area where a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged, surrounding the functional area; and a functional module including a lens disposed overlapping the functional area, wherein only some of the plurality of light emitting elements of the display panel are configured to emit light in a low power mode, and wherein all of the plurality of light emitting elements are configured to emit light in a general mode; and wherein the display device is configured to, in the low power mode, provide a predetermined information to a user formed by the boundary between the functional area and the display area and an image formed by light emission of the some of the plurality of light emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiho Lim, Seong-nyeon Kim, Jun-woo Kim, Keehyun Nam, Hyesuk An
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Patent number: 11010934Abstract: An imaging apparatus 20 includes an image sensor 22 and a controller 33. The image sensor 22 is configured to capture a rear area behind a vehicle 50 and generate a first video image. The controller 33 is configured to synthesize a guide wall image 80 that indicates a predicted path of the vehicle in a display region of the first video image.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Shimazu, Kazuya Takemoto
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Patent number: 10997790Abstract: An augmented reality-based content authoring tool is presented. A content author arranges machine-recognizable markers in a physical environment. A computing device operating as the authoring tool recognizes the markers and their arrangement based on a captured digital representation of the physical environment. Once recognized, augmented reality primitives corresponding to the markers can be bound together via their primitive interfaces to give rise to a content set. The individual primitives and content set are instantiated based on the nature of the marker's arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLCInventors: Jeremi M Sudol, John Wiacek
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Patent number: 10996309Abstract: This patent concerns a compact and portable system for real-time detection and location of electromagnetic emissions in the spectrum used by mobile devices (cell phones and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth devices). The principle of detection and location is based on phased array technology, which enables the synthesis of a directional radiation beam that can be electrically controlled in terms of both its shape and direction. This technology is used primarily in military and astronomical applications. The device also includes localization and control algorithms. This device will allow for detecting and locating electromagnetic emissions by means of an antenna beam scan within a field of view of 80×80 degrees. Once the detection and location have been established, the results are overlaid to a visual image captured by a video camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILEInventors: Ricardo Finger, David Monasterio, Christopher Muñoz, Roberto Fuentes, Nicolás Reyes, Leonardo Bronfman, Patricio Mena
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Patent number: 10997689Abstract: An apparatus includes an input interface circuit and a processing circuit. The input interface circuit may be configured to receive a high dynamic range (HDR) image data stream. The HDR image data stream generally comprises a plurality of HDR image frames comprising a plurality of exposure regions having different exposure levels. The processing circuit may be configured to store image data for the plurality of HDR image frames in a memory. The processing circuit generally issues write commands to store the image data of all of the exposure regions for a particular HDR image frame in one of a plurality of memory buffers in the memory. The processing circuit generally issues row increment commands during one or both of blanking periods and sensor overlap regions of the HDR image frames based upon symbols in the HDR image data stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Ambarella International LPInventor: Robert C. Kunz