Patents Examined by Jeffery A. Brier
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Patent number: 11587535Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Kunwar Handa
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Patent number: 11580592Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, from a client device of a first user, a request from the first user to engage in an AR shopping experience curated by a store; identifying a first real-world product available for purchase from the store; receiving an image of a real-world environment of the first user; generating a first AR item that represents the first real-world product; comparing visual attributes of the first AR item to physical layouts of a plurality of real-world objects depicted in the image of the real-world environment; and overlaying the first AR item on a first real-world object of the plurality of real-world objects in the image responsive to comparing the visual attributes of the first AR item to the physical layouts of the plurality of real-world objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Itamar Berger, Amar Boghani, Maria Jose Garcia Sopo, Qi Pan
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Patent number: 11574383Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for a non-uniform rasterizer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a graphics processor to process graphics data and render images using the graphics data; and a non-uniform rasterizer within the graphics processor to determine different resolutions to be used for different regions of an image, the non-uniform rasterizer to receive a plurality of polygons to be rasterized and to responsively rasterize the polygons in accordance with the different resolutions.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Robert M. Toth, Bjorn Johnsson, Jon N. Hasselgren
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Patent number: 11574450Abstract: In implementations of systems for augmented reality sketching, a computing device implements a sketch system to generate three-dimensional scene data describing a three-dimensional representation of a physical environment including a physical object. The sketch system displays a digital video in a user interface that depicts the physical environment and the physical object and the sketch system tracks movements of the physical object depicted in the digital video using two-dimensional coordinates of the user interface. These two-dimensional coordinates are projected into the three-dimensional representation of the physical environment. The sketch system receives a user input connecting a portion of a graphical element in the user interface to the physical object depicted in the digital video. The sketch system displays the portion of the graphical element as moving in the user interface corresponding to the movements of the physical object depicted in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Adobe IncInventors: Kazi Rubaiat Habib, Stephen Joseph DiVerdi, Ryo Suzuki, Li-Yi Wei, Wilmot Wei-Mau Li
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Patent number: 11574428Abstract: A CAD graph plotter and replicator tool may deliver a fast, accurate, and dynamically adjustable CAD graph that can be updated easily in real time when new data is introduced or extant data is updated. Features like scaling, point marking, point addition, smoothening, display of grid lines, range control, and quadrant control may be included to aid the user in generating the graph efficiently. The tool may also enable the user to control line thickness, color, type, legends, and decimal points in axis, among other features.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Baljit Bains, Sam Kamal Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 11562550Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for a vehicle and mobile device interface for vehicle occupant assistance. An example method can include determining, based on one or more images of an interior portion of a vehicle, a position of a mobile device relative to a coordinate system of the vehicle; receiving, from the vehicle, data associated with one or more sensors of the vehicle; and displaying, using a display device of the mobile device, virtual content based on the data associated with the one or more sensors and the position of the mobile device relative to the coordinate system of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ziad Asghar, Wesley James Holland, Seyfullah Halit Oguz, Bala Ramasamy, Leonid Sheynblat
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Patent number: 11559377Abstract: An image of a dental arch comprising a preparation tooth is generated by an image capture device associated with an augmented reality (AR) display. The image of the dental arch is registered to previous image data associated with the dental arch. A visual overlay associated with a dental prosthetic to be placed on the preparation tooth is generated based on the registering of the image of the dental arch to the previous image data associated with the dental arch. The visual overlay is output to the AR display, wherein the visual overlay is superimposed over a view of the preparation tooth on the AR display.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Avi Kopelman, Adi Levin, Eric Paul Meyer, Elad Zeiri, Amir Ashkenazi, Ron Ganot, Sergei Ozerov, Inna Karapetyan
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Patent number: 11562818Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James Jackson, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
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Patent number: 11557102Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device automatically updates the orientation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment based on a viewpoint of a user in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device automatically updates the orientation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment based on viewpoints of a plurality of users in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the electronic device modifies an appearance of a real object that is between a virtual object and the viewpoint of a user in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the electronic device automatically selects a location for a user in a three-dimensional environment that includes one or more virtual objects and/or other users.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexis Henri Palangie, Peter D. Anton, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Mckenzie, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Dorian D. Dargan, Shih-Sang Chiu, Jonathan Perron, Tong Chen
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Patent number: 11544910Abstract: An AR system includes one or more image sensors arranged to capture image data representing a scene located within a field of view of the one or more image sensors, a display arranged to enable a user of the AR system to observe a representation or view of the scene, and an augmentation engine. The augmentation engine is arranged to process the captured image data to determine one or more visual characteristics for the captured image data and to determine, in dependence on the determined one or more visual characteristics, one or more properties for an image element to be presented on the display. The augmentation engine is arranged to present the image element, with the determined one or more properties, on the display to overlay the representation or view of the scene.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Daren Croxford, Roberto Lopez Mendez
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Patent number: 11539199Abstract: A apparatus for monitoring the integrity of an electrical wire includes a clamp system, a sensor system, a user interface configured to receive input data and output wire information, and a control unit configured to process the wire data, process the input data, and generate the output wire information. The clamp system includes a clamp and the sensor system includes a sensor configured to retrieve the wire data. In another embodiment, a portable device is configured to obtain wire data from a smart clamping system, to transmit the wire data to a processor and to receive a multi-dimensional representation, and a computer system configured to receive the wire data generated and to generate the multi-dimensional representation of the wire. A method for monitoring a wire includes capturing wire data using a clamp, transmitting the wire data to a control unit, generating wire information to output, and outputting the wire information.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: UNITED AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Daryian Rhysing
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Patent number: 11532150Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of sampled data points, each data point including a y value and a t value; defining a plurality of bins; defining an array of elements; dividing the sampled data points into a plurality of sections; assigning a plurality of polynomial equations, one polynomial equation to each section, each polynomial equation having a waveform that fits the data points of the associated section; determining a plurality of section bin times, one section bin time for each bin in each section, each section bin time determined using the polynomial equation and indicating an amount of time that the waveform has values in the range of one of the bins; and adding the section bin time for each bin in each section to the histogram data in the array element pointed to by the number of the bin.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Aaron Tohlen, Mitchell Hedges Morrow
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Patent number: 11527046Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating the coordination of audio video (AV) production using multiple actors in respective locations that are remote from each other, such that an integrated AV product can be generated by coordinating the activities of multiple remote actors in concert with one another. A director can indicate in the virtual world a desired location of a stage prop, and a beacon may then be transmitted toward a real world location corresponding to the desired location to aid in placement of the prop.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.Inventors: Charles Ghislandi, Derek Crosby
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Patent number: 11523185Abstract: A system and method for rendering a video stream for display on a display device, which may comprise receiving the video stream by streaming and generating display data defining a visible display area to be displayed by the display device, wherein generating of display data comprises rendering the video stream in a sub-area of the visible display area. A selection mechanism may be provided by which a version of the video stream may be selected for streaming having a spatial resolution and/or a bitrate which is selected based on a size of the sub-area.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Hans Maarten Stokking, Alexandre da Silva Pratas Gabriel
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Patent number: 11521735Abstract: Aspects and features of this disclosure relate to delivering individualized mental health therapies via networked computing devices. A mental-health-treatment-delivery server outputs a module with video content in connection with a mental health treatment protocol for a user. The mental-health-treatment-delivery server outputs a request for the user to respond to a question or to stimuli. The mental-health-treatment-delivery server receives a response from the user to the question or the stimuli. The mental-health-treatment-delivery server compares the response to stored data to determine information to present to the user. The mental-health-treatment-delivery server receives a command from the server device to present the information to the user. The mental-health-treatment-delivery server outputs the information to an interface of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERInventors: Michael J. Hasselberg, Wendy Cross, Matthew Brown, David John Mitten, Christopher John Dasilva
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Patent number: 11514616Abstract: In a system for providing augmented reality to a person disposed in a real-world, physical environment, a camera is configured to capture multiple real-world images of a physical environment. The system includes a processor configured to use the real-world images to generate multiple images of a virtual object that correspond to the multiple real-world images. The system further includes a display configured to display to the person in real time, a succession of the generated images that correspond to then-current multiple real-world images, such that the person perceives the virtual object to be positioned within the physical environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Strathspey Crown, LLCInventor: Robert Edward Grant
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Patent number: 11514617Abstract: A method for providing a virtual environment during movement is provided. The method includes the following operations: capturing a first image associated with an interior space of a housing and also associated with part of an external environment captured outward from the interior space; classifying the first image into a first segment associated with the interior space and a second segment associated with the part of the external environment; estimating a first pose and a second pose of a mobile device associated with respective the housing and the external environment, in which the first pose is estimated by a first localization model based on the first segment, and the second pose is estimated by a second localization model based on a second image associated with the external environment; and displaying virtual objects by the mobile device according to the first and second poses.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Shih-Chieh Kuo, Yuan-Tung Chen, Wan-Ling Yang
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Patent number: 11508340Abstract: The invention includes a method including the steps of obtaining a plurality of images, each of the images in the plurality having at least one corresponding region, generating a merged image, the merged image also having the corresponding region. The step of generating includes selecting an image source from the plurality of images to source image data for the corresponding region in the merged image by comparing attributes of the corresponding regions of the plurality of images to identify the image source having preferred attributes.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Hologic, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Kreeger, Andrew P. Smith, Ashwini Kshirsagar, Jun Ge, Yiheng Zhang, Haili Chui, Christopher Ruth, Xiangwei Zhang, Liyang Wei, Jay Stein
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Patent number: 11508084Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an imaging unit, an inertial sensor, and a control unit. The imaging unit acquires image information. The inertial sensor acquires inertial information. The control unit estimates a self location of the information processing apparatus on the basis of the image information and the inertial information, recognizes a situation of a user with the information processing apparatus, and changes a ratio of reliability between the image information and the inertial information that are to be used for estimating the self location depending on the situation.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuru Nishibe
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Patent number: 11494998Abstract: A vehicle component display device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: acquire a predetermined reference shape from a captured image of a vehicle that is captured by an imaging section; read three-dimensional data of component images corresponding to the reference shape, and display the component images at a display in a state in which the component images are superimposed on the vehicle, the display being visible to a user; display a component configuration diagram at the display together with the component images; and in a case in which a component is selected in the component configuration diagram, emphasize display of the component in the component images displayed at the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Kayano, Hiroshi Sakai