Patents Examined by Javid Amini
  • Patent number: 11010934
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shimazu, Kazuya Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10997790
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremi M Sudol, John Wiacek
  • Patent number: 10996309
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
    Inventors: Ricardo Finger, David Monasterio, Christopher Muñoz, Roberto Fuentes, Nicolás Reyes, Leonardo Bronfman, Patricio Mena
  • Patent number: 10997689
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventor: Robert C. Kunz
  • Patent number: 10942558
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device that includes a plurality of sensors. The device detects, by a first set of the sensors, information from an environment of the device. The device obtains content for display by the device. It determines, based on the information from the environment, whether a user is in close physical proximity. Based on a determination that the user is in proximity, the device determines using a second set of the sensors a location of the user relative to the device, and an orientation for displaying the content on the display based on the relative location. The device reformats the content for display on the display based on the user location and/or a rotation of the display with respect to the orientation, and displays the reformatted content on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Roger W. Ady, Rachid Alameh, Paul R. Steuer
  • Patent number: 10930038
    Abstract: A digital element located within a region near a device is identified. The digital element is located at a dynamically updated location. It is determined that the digital element is to be rendered. A representation of the digital element is generated in a rendered view of at least a portion of the region. Content of the digital element is provided upon receiving an indication that the digital element has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Lab of Misfits AR, Inc.
    Inventor: Ray Beau Lotto
  • Patent number: 10929947
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Abhishek R. Appu, Deepak S. Vembar, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Atsuo Kuwahara, Travis T. Schluessler, Linda L. Hurd, Josh B. Mastronarde, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 10902825
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for reducing burden on real-time processing when combining overlay or crawl text with a primary video image. Based on a crawl rate of the crawl text, the method includes determining fractional pixel values associated with the crawl rate and pre-filtering the overlay or crawl text based on the established fractional pixel values, and combining windows of the various and appropriate pre-filtered overlay or crawl text with the primary image for encoding and delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Nemiroff, Jing Yang Chen
  • Patent number: 10897412
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for a bifocal timescales graph for viewing a network health history at a single glance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Szigeti
  • Patent number: 10896531
    Abstract: This application is directed to modifying display of data visualizations. A computer system visualizes on its display a set of data in a first data space. A focus point is identified in the first data space and used as a starting point for constructing a set of geodesics, each of which is configured to connect the focus point to a respective data point in the first data space. A plurality of primary eigenvectors are determined in the first data space and they are used to create a second data space having fewer dimensions than the first data space. For each data point, the computer system determines a plurality of projection values associated with the primary eigenvectors. The set of data is re-visualized in the second data space created using the projection values of each data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Ting
  • Patent number: 10891793
    Abstract: In various embodiments, computerized methods and systems for virtualizing electronic devices for utilization in virtual environments are provided. An electronic device located within the vicinity is detected and identified. A virtual object that corresponds to the identified electronic device is obtained for rendering within an immersive virtual environment. The virtual object can include an interactive portion that, when rendered, can provide an interactive virtual experience with what appears to be a virtualized instance of the identified electronic device. The interactive portion of the virtual object is bound to a corresponding interactive portion of the identified electronic device, so that interaction data is properly communicated and interpreted therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick W. J. Evans
  • Patent number: 10880666
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) sensory enhancements using ray tracing. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to normalize environment information captured by multiple capture devices, and calculate, for an observer, the sound sources or sensed events vector paths. The systems, apparatuses and methods may detect and/or manage one or more capture devices and assign one or more the capture devices based on one or more conditions to provide observer an immersive VR/AR experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Prasoonkumar Surti, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Abhishek R. Appu, James M. Holland, Jeffery S. Boles, Jonathan Kennedy, Louis Feng, Atsuo Kuwahara, Barnan Das, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Mayuresh M. Varerkar
  • Patent number: 10861161
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for displaying an image showing an object. The method of displaying an image showing an object includes: displaying a model corresponding to the object; receiving a user input for selecting, from the model, a region of interest (ROI) included in the object; and displaying an image showing the ROI based on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Jin-yong Lee, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Namsik Chung, Geu-ru Hong, Chi-young Shim, Ji-hyun Yoon, In-jeong Cho, Ran Heo
  • Patent number: 10861603
    Abstract: Medical devices and related augmented reality systems and methods are provided. A method of operating an infusion device involves analyzing one or more images captured by an imaging device to identify image content indicative of an activity capable of influencing the physiological condition of the patient and in response to identifying the activity based at least in part on the one or more images, automatically adjusting delivery of the fluid to the patient based at least in part on the activity. An expected nutritional characteristic for a meal is determined based at least in part on the image content, and a delivery adjustment for delivering the fluid is determined based on the expected nutritional characteristic. A graphical indication of the delivery adjustment may also be provided using augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Chiu, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Carol A. Jerome, Kenny J. Long
  • Patent number: 10856796
    Abstract: 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 configured to generate a first image portion comprising a primary screen image for viewing by the subject and display the first image portion using the at least one visual display device, and the one or more data processing devices are further configured to generate a second image portion comprising a virtual screen surround and display the second image portion using the at least one visual display device. The virtual screen surround of the second image portion is configured to at least partially circumscribe three sides of a torso of the subject and to substantially encompass a peripheral vision of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Necip Berme, Jaswandi Tushar Pitale
  • Patent number: 10854007
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to supplementing a mixed reality system with information from a space model. The space model is a hierarchical or tree model of a physical space, where nodes represent physical places in the physical space and a parent-child relationship between nodes in the tree indicates a physical containment relationship for physical places represented by the nodes. The space model models containment relationships (e.g., building-floor-room) and does not necessarily include a two or three dimensional map of the physical place. Some of the nodes of the space model include representations of sensors and store measures therefrom. The mixed reality system includes a three-dimensional model possibly modeling part of the physical space. The mixed reality system renders views of the three-dimensional model according to the sensor measures stored in the representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Krzysztof Gawrys, Patrick James Gorman
  • Patent number: 10855955
    Abstract: A system for generating an image display comprising a digital camera for capturing digital images, a computer for automatically selecting a digital image template having a designated location for disposing one of the captured digital images, and the computer for selecting one of the captured digital images to be disposed therein, an electronic display for displaying the digital template with the captured digital image disposed in the designated location, and a transmission channel for transmitting to the electronic display the captured digital images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond W. Ptucha, William J. Bogart, Laura R. Whitby
  • Patent number: 10837781
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to providing information regarding nearby locations that may be familiar to a user to help inform the user of a current location within an area. One disclosed example provides a computing device comprising a display, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to form a list of familiar locations for a user based upon a user history regarding the familiar locations, determine that the user is within a threshold proximity to a nearby familiar location on the list of familiar locations, and in response, output directional information indicating a relative position of the nearby familiar location on the list of familiar locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Elizabeth Salowitz
  • Patent number: 10818088
    Abstract: A computer system presents a virtual object on a display of the computer system which represents an action at a location in space. If a user of the computer system approaches the location, the computer system presents one or more stimuli to encourage movement away from that location. The appearance of the object may vary as the user of the computer system moves. The appearance of the object may include information and may vary with a change of state. Multiple such virtual objects may be used to indicate a path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventors: Anthony Mark Jones, Jessica A. F. Jones, Bruce A. Young
  • Patent number: 10810703
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section configured to display images, and a controller configured to control the display section to display an indicator-needle motion-blurred image from an entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is an image previously stored in a storage unit and represents an afterimage corresponding to an entire rotation range within which an indicator needle is capable of rotating, the indicator-needle motion-blurred image representing an afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to a rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated. Consequently, the display device is effective at enabling the indicator needle to be appropriately displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maeda, Masakatsu Suyama, Takayuki Ono, Kaori Kobayashi