Patents Examined by Jeffery A. Brier
  • Patent number: 12136163
    Abstract: Measures, including a method, system, and computer program, for performing in-mission photogrammetry while an imaging platform is surveying a target environment. A plurality of images of the target environment are captured by the imaging platform. At the imaging platform, a representative subset of images is identified from the captured plurality of images. The imaging platform transmits the identified representative subset to a processing node. At the processing node, the transmitted representative subset is processed to generate a virtual model of the target environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventor: Stuart Taylor
  • Patent number: 12136219
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal comprising: a frame which is expanded in a first direction or is contracted in a second direction which is a reverse direction of the first direction; a display unit which is provided on one surface of the frame and includes: a screen expanded or contracted in correspondence to the expansion or contraction of the frame; a camera for obtaining an image corresponding to a specific angle of view; and a control unit for controlling, when the screen is expanded in the first direction, the display unit to output an image which continues in the first direction, on the expanded screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseo Choi, Hamin Jeong, Haiwon Jung
  • Patent number: 12130181
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication section configured to communicate with a colorimeter including a colorimeter display section, and a processing section configured to perform display processing on a terminal display section, wherein the processing section performs determination processing as to whether to display a color of a color measurement result produced by the colorimeter both on the colorimeter display section and the terminal display section or display the color only on the terminal display section based on a distance from the colorimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masami Ishihara
  • Patent number: 12131561
    Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to impement obtaining a dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) video bitstream comprising one or more subpictures, determining whether the one or more subpictures include Versatile Video Coding (VVC) compliant subpictures, in response to the DASH video bitstream including the VVC compliant subpictures, annotating the one or more subpictures based on one or more flags, and manipulating the DASH video stream based on the annotated one or more subpictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 12112436
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of implementing real-world limitations in shared environment, an environment engine is configured to receive a user selection of a shared environment, wherein the shared environment represents a real-world environment. The environment engine retrieves spatial data associated with the shared environment and retrieves environmental sensor data associated with the shared environment. The environmental sensor data is contemplated to capture a varying ambient environment of the shared environment, which includes at least one of audio data and image data associated with the real-world environment. The environment engine is further configured to render a first user avatar and a second user avatar within the shared environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Wormhole Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Hutten, Robert D. Fish
  • Patent number: 12081917
    Abstract: A projection system and calibration method therefore relate to a light source configured to emit a light in response to an image data, an optical system configured to project the light emitted by the light source; receiving an input associated with a plurality of light values corresponding to a plurality of primary lightfields; converting the input associated with the plurality of light values to a plurality of projector primary color values; determining a gain map based on the plurality Values of projector primary color values; applying the gain map to an image to perform a chromaticity uniformity correction by adjusting levels of the plurality of primary lightfields so that a primary mixture is the same over an image frame, and projecting the image with the optical system in the image frame, wherein the second image is corrected by the gain map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome D. Shields
  • Patent number: 12070375
    Abstract: A system comprises an image capture device, an augmented reality (AR) display to display, and a processing device. The processing deice receives image data of a dental arch from the image capture device and processes the image data using a plurality of detection rules, where each detection rule detects one or more dental conditions. The processing device determines a dental condition for the dental arch based on the processing, determines a position of an area of interest on the dental arch, wherein the area of interest is associated with the dental condition, generates a visual overlay comprising an indication of the dental condition at the position of the area of interest, and outputs the visual overlay to the AR display, wherein the visual overlay is superimposed over a view of the dental arch on the AR display at the position of the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi Kopelman, Adi Levin, Eric Paul Meyer, Elad Zeiri, Amir Ashkenazi, Ron Ganot, Sergei Ozerov, Inna Karapetyan
  • Patent number: 12056808
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and apparatuses are provided to facilitate a positioning of an item of virtual content in an extended reality environment. For example, a placement position for an item of virtual content can be transmitted to one or more of a first device and a second device. The placement position can be based on correlated map data generated based on first map data obtained from the first device and second map data obtained from the second device. In some examples, the first device can transmit the placement position to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pushkar Gorur Sheshagiri, Pawan Kumar Baheti, Ajit Deepak Gupte, Sandeep Kanakapura Lakshmikantha
  • Patent number: 12045384
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems are disclosed for altering displayed content on a display device responsive to a user's proximity. In accord with an example, a computing system includes a display, a sensor to output a signal, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to be programmed in accordance with the instructions to intermittingly determine a distance between the compute system and a person based on the signal, and cause a size of at least one object to be presented on the display to be adjusted based on the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiancheng Tao, Hong W. Wong, Xiaoguo Liang, Yanbing Sun, Jun Liu, Wah Yiu Kwong
  • Patent number: 12046002
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for depth guided structure from motion. A system may obtain a plurality of image frames from a digital content item that corresponds to a scene and determine, based at least in part on a correspondence search, a set of 2-D keypoints for the plurality of image frames. A depth estimator may be used to determine a plurality of dense depth map for the plurality of image frames. The set of 2-D keypoints and the plurality of dense depth maps may be used to determine a corresponding set of depth priors. Initialization and/or depth-regularized optimization may be performed using the keypoints and depth priors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohan Nie, Michael Thomas Pecchia, Leo Chan, Ahmed Aly Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Raffay Hamid, Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 12038577
    Abstract: A mixed reality system and a method of using the mixed reality system to adjust or vary the focus of virtual content and virtual objects as a user's eye varies its focal point, resulting in a perceptually consistent focus or a perceptual match to the focus of objects in the real world. The mixed reality system is designed to optimize the definition of virtual objects without compromising the focus on reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventor: Alexandria M. Allen
  • Patent number: 12033278
    Abstract: A method for generating a three-dimensional model of a head including at least a portion of a face, comprising: obtaining a distance image of the head using a distance-measuring device having an imaging position, the distance image comprising for each of a two-dimensional array of distance pixels, a respective distance value indicating a distance from the measuring position to a corresponding point in a field of view of the distance-measuring device, the distance image including a face portion corresponding to the at least a portion of a face; estimating the position, relative to the imaging position, of a longitudinal axis of the model of the head based on the at least one dimension; based on the longitudinal axis, generating the three dimensional model of the head based on the position of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Peter John Myerscough-Jackopson, Leonardo Rubio Navarro
  • Patent number: 12033291
    Abstract: Adaptive Control Driven System/ACDS 99, supports visual enhancement, mitigation of challenges and with basic image modification algorithms and any known hardware from contact lenses to IOLs to AR hardware glasses, and enables users to enhance vision with user interface based on a series of adjustments that are applied to move, modify, or reshape image sets and components with full advantage of the remaining useful retinal area, thus addressing aspects of visual challenges heretofore inaccessible by devices which learn needed adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Eyedaptic, Inc.
    Inventors: David Watola, Jay E. Cormier, Brian Kim
  • Patent number: 12033256
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a map data processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium, relates to a technical field of data processing, and in particular to the field of map data processing. A specific implementation solution is as follows: receiving first data encapsulated in a form of offline data, the first data being used to characterize low-frequency data in the map data; obtaining second data after initiating a first online request, the second data being used to characterize high-frequency data in the map data; and performing merging processing on the first data and the second data to obtain target data to be displayed in a map. By adopting the present disclosure, the timeliness of map data display may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kailong Yan, Juntao Tong, Changjun Sheng, Yingjie Niu
  • Patent number: 12026808
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter aims to a system and method directed to artificially color images acquired from image acquisition channels, cameras, imaging systems (such as, multispectral image acquisition systems, hyperspectral image acquisition systems, etc.) and the like, and present them as pseudo-Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) images to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS ELECTRO-OPTICS—ELOP LTD.
    Inventors: Uriel Ankor, Michael Gilichinsky
  • Patent number: 12014467
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating augmented reality prerenderings can provide the benefit of an augmented reality rendering without requiring the use of user data. Template images can be used instead of user data to protect the user's privacy while enabling the user to see an object or product rendered onto a preferred template image or a variety of template images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Sraw Singh, Ivan Neulander, Subramanian Shyamsunder Mathur, Agustin Ill Olivan Venezuela
  • Patent number: 12014527
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for compressing and decompressing a stream of indices associated with graphics primitives. A group of delta values is determined based on a group of indices of the stream of indices. The group of delta values is compared to delta values in a lookup table. The group of indices is compressed based on an entry in the lookup table if the group of delta values matches all delta values in the entry, otherwise, the group of indices is compressed based on variable-length encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiia Kallio, Mika Tuomi, Ruijin Wu, Anirudh R. Acharya
  • Patent number: 12008978
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Kunwar Handa
  • Patent number: 12009089
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a task to be completed by a user, receiving information about the user and receiving information about a physical environment of the user. The subject disclosure may further include creating one or more immersion objects based on the information about the task, the information about the user and the information about the physical environment, creating an immersive environment including the one or more immersive objects and at least a portion of the physical environment of the user, and communicating to an extended reality (XR) device of the user information about the immersive environment to create an immersive experience for completion of the task by the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Jackson, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Patent number: 12002129
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for an apparatus for generating a display data structure from an input signal. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive an input signal, apply a momentum processing module to the input signal, receive at least one directional momentum signal for the at least a time series from the momentum processing module, apply an autoregressive signal processing module to the at least one directional momentum signal to determine at least one filtered momentum, generate a display data structure using the at least one filtered momentum signal and a plurality of threshold values, and transmit the display data structure to a remote device, wherein the display data structure is configured to cause the remote device to display the dynamic vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sherman IP, LLC
    Inventor: William Sherman