Patents Examined by Jeffery A. Brier
  • Patent number: 11676347
    Abstract: A method for virtual try-on of user-wearable items is provided. The method includes capturing, in a client device, a first image of a user, the first image including a reference token for a user-wearable item and displaying, in the client device, images of multiple user-wearable items for the user, receiving an input from the user, the input indicative of a selected user-wearable item from the user-wearable items on display. The method also includes segmenting the first image to separate the reference token from a background comprising a portion of a physiognomy of the user, replacing a segment of the reference token in the first image with an image of the selected user-wearable item in a second image of the user, and displaying, in the client device, the second image of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Warby Parker Inc.
    Inventors: David Goldberg, Andrew Garrison, Adam Greenberg, Paul Johnson, Paul Mackey
  • Patent number: 11678049
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Misawa, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11676326
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for computing a texture color includes tracing a ray cone through a graphics scene, determining at least one axis of an ellipse formed by the ray cone intersecting a plane associated with geometry within the graphics scene at a hit point, computing one or more gradients along the at least one axis of the ellipse, and computing a texture color based on the one or more gradients and a texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomas Akenine-Moller, Jakub Boksansky
  • Patent number: 11676352
    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: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Eyedaptic, Inc.
    Inventors: David Watola, Jay E. Cormier, Brian Kim
  • Patent number: 11670061
    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: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Sraw Singh, Ivan Neulander, Subramanian Shyamsunder Mathur, Agustin III Olivan Venezuela
  • Patent number: 11670051
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods that enable users to virtually experience an environment at a destination location from their own user device, control their experience and even interact with others that are physically located within the environment. Likewise, the user's experience may even be improved with the inclusion of enhancements that are presented to the user as the user experiences the environment. Users may interact with the enhancements to obtain additional enhancements, interact with others physically located within the environment, interact with and direct a guide that is physically located within the environment, and receive near real-time video and audio that is transmitted from a guide device located within the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kelly, Matthew Brinkley, Ting-Hsiang Hwang, Amy Bergsieker, Cameron Charles, Elliot Chong, Gonzalo Ramos, Babak Amir Parviz
  • Patent number: 11670057
    Abstract: A context based augmented reality system can be used to display augmented reality elements over a live video feed on a client device. The augmented reality elements can be selected based on a number of context inputs generated by the client device. The context inputs can include location data of the client device and location data of nearby physical places that have preconfigured augmented elements. The preconfigured augmented elements can be preconfigured to exhibit a design scheme of the corresponding physical place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Jokubas Dargis, Eitan Pilipski, Dhritiman Sagar, Victor Shaburov
  • Patent number: 11663695
    Abstract: A display device to change an image displayed in a display area when the display area is changed includes a memory, a location output unit and a screen display unit. The memory stores size information of a display area displayed on a screen and the image data of the displayed image. The location computing unit computes a start point of the changed display area when the display area is changed. The display unit decodes data corresponding to the size of the display area based on the computed new start point from the image data to display the decoded data in the display area. Since the start point is obtained with center point of the changed display area and its size information and then a display area to be displayed is determined based on the start point, a current search location is maintained even when the screen is swung.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ho Yeon Chae, Chang Soo Ryu
  • Patent number: 11663782
    Abstract: A method and system of providing guidance and information to customers by presentation of a virtual avatar. The virtual avatar is controlled in real-time by a remote customer service agent. The method includes sharing images of a physical space with the customer service agent, and enabling the customer service agent to project a virtual avatar on the physical space such that the virtual avatar appears to interact and move through the physical space. The dynamic projection of the virtual avatar is received by the customer as an augmentation of their own view of the physical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Post, Carlos J P Chavez, Deborah Janette Schulz, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Eric David Schroeder, Gabriel Carlos Fernandez, Snehal Desai, Rachel Elizabeth Csabi, Ruthie D. Lyle, Courtney St. Martin
  • Patent number: 11657550
    Abstract: A method for generating an electronic report, an electronic device and a storage medium, related to the field of large data and the field of artificial intelligence, are disclosed. The method for generating an electronic report includes: establishing a template tree comprising a plurality of branches, wherein the branches comprise at least one intermediate node and bottom layer nodes comprising identification information; and calling, for respective branches, data groups corresponding to the identification information of the bottom layer nodes from a database, respectively, and displaying the called data groups at positions corresponding to the bottom layer nodes in an electronic report. Labor consumption may be reduced, and advantages of low cost, high efficiency, automation and routinization may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanyan Li, Airong Jiang, Dejing Dou
  • Patent number: 11645820
    Abstract: Operation of a head-worn display device in a motor vehicle includes a control device checking a condition of whether there is a vehicle occupant in the motor vehicle other than a driver, when the motor vehicle is not operated in an autonomous driving mode. If the condition is satisfied then a display of all content by the head-worn display device is stopped by the control device if the display device is virtual reality glasses and the display of exclusively traffic-relevant content by the display device is enabled by the control device if the display device is augmented reality glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Marcus Kuehne
  • Patent number: 11640812
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system included in a vehicle generates an augmented reality display, on one or more transparent surfaces of the vehicle. The augmented reality display can include an indicator of the vehicle speed which is spatially positioned according to the speed of the vehicle relative to the local speed limit. The augmented reality display can include display elements which conform to environmental objects and can obscure and replace content displayed on the objects. The augmented reality display can include display elements which indicate a position of environmental objects which are obscured from direct perception through the transparent surface. The augmented reality display can include display elements which simulate one or more particular environmental objects in the environment, based on monitoring manual driving performance of the vehicle by a driver. The augmented reality display can include display elements which identify environmental objects and particular zones in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kjell F. Bronder, Scott M. Herz, Karlin Y. Bark
  • Patent number: 11636656
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create additional depth frames where a depth camera runs at a lower frame rate than a light intensity camera. Rather than upconverting the depth frames by simply repeating a previous depth camera frame, additional depth frames are created by adjusting some of the depth values of a prior frame based on the RGB camera data (e.g., by “dragging” depths from their positions in the prior depth frame to new positions for a new frame). Specifically, a contour image is generated, and changes in the contour image are used to determine how to adjust (e.g., drag) the depth values for the additional depth frames. The contour image may be based on a mask (e.g., occlusions masks identifying where the hand occludes the virtual cube).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniele Casaburo, Adrian P. Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11631222
    Abstract: A context based augmented reality system can be used to display augmented reality elements over a live video feed on a client device. The augmented reality elements can be selected based on a number of context inputs generated by the client device. The context inputs can include location data of the client device and location data of nearby physical places that have preconfigured augmented elements. The preconfigured augmented elements can be preconfigured to exhibit a design scheme of the corresponding physical place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Jokubas Dargis, Eitan Pilipski, Dhritiman Sagar, Victor Shaburov
  • Patent number: 11625092
    Abstract: A method of generating augmented reality includes obtaining external data, obtaining current pose data corresponding to a position of an augmented reality device, through edge computing, based on the obtained external data, obtaining first future pose data and second future pose data corresponding to movement of the augmented reality device, based on the obtained current pose data, generating a virtual image through the edge computing, based on the obtained first future pose data, and generating a virtual video, based on the obtained second future pose data and the generated virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuntae Kim, Jaehwan Pi
  • Patent number: 11619812
    Abstract: A head-up display and techniques for operating a head-up display for a motor vehicle. An assignment is obtained of at least one virtual object that can be displayed to a part of the environment. The head-up display may be operated in a normal display mode when the object assigned to the part of the environment is within a field of view for the head-up display. The head-up display is then operated in an alternative display mode when the object assigned to the part of the environment is not, or not entirely, contained within the field of view for the head-up display, wherein a virtual display is generated in the alternative display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexander Kunze, Ulrich Wuttke
  • Patent number: 11615594
    Abstract: A method by an extended reality (XR) display device includes accessing image data and sparse depth points corresponding to a plurality of image frames to be displayed on one or more displays of the XR display device. The method further includes determining a plurality of sets of feature points for a current image frame of the plurality of image frames, constructing a cost function configured to propagate the sparse depth points corresponding to the current image frame based on the plurality of sets of feature points, and generating a dense depth map corresponding to the current image frame based on an evaluation of the cost function. The method thus includes rendering the current image frame on the one or more displays of the XR display device based on the dense depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
  • Patent number: 11614306
    Abstract: An electronic device determines target information about a target and recommends a target based on the target information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Philip Lyren
  • Patent number: 11614796
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) system includes a VR display and a VR movement apparatus that includes hand user interfaces (UIs) and foot UIs that can support the hands, feet, seat, and total weight of a user. The VR movement apparatus allow the user's hands and feet to move in 3-dimensional space that include vertical, lateral, and fore-aft direction movements. A computer running VR software coordinate and synchronizes the VR movement apparatus and the VR display to provide system users with simulated activities in a VR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Etherial Matter, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Summit
  • Patent number: 11615600
    Abstract: A modular computer-implemented XR health platform is adapted for diagnostic, therapeutic, and care delivery to patient. The platform incorporates one or more modules including a clinical platform module, XR platform module, configuration module, web portal and companion application module, integration module, light module, anatomy module, movement module, neurological module, mental health module, pain module, procedural and digital anesthetic module, hardware module, and billing module. A combined extended reality display and computing device are adapted for implementing one or more of the plurality of modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wellovate, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph W. Morgan, Nunzio Peter Pagano, II, Allen Ronald Rufolo, Rahul A. Patel, Jonathan Jackson