Patents Examined by Jennifer A. Mehmood
  • Patent number: 11281324
    Abstract: An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Nariaki Satoh, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11282476
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a flexible display that can be deformed at a deformation portion to partition the flexible display into a first portion and a second portion. One or more processors present content on the first portion of the flexible display and remediate the second portion of the flexible display to compensate performance degradation of the flexible display resulting from presenting content on the first portion of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xun, Ye Yang
  • Patent number: 11282483
    Abstract: An example display device includes a first graphics input port to receive a first video signal, and a second graphics input port to receive a second video signal. A processor is provided to select extended display identification data (EDID) information associated with the display device, and change the EDID information of a full-screen resolution of the first and second video signals while a split screen output command is generated. A video scaler is provided to generate a split screen output with a full-screen display for both the first and second video signals based on the changed EDID information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chen Wen Shih, Tim Guynes, John W. Frederick, Timothy G. Solomon
  • Patent number: 11276226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an artificial intelligence apparatus including a memory configured to store image data, and a processor configured to acquire a human object image and a inanimate object image from the image data, generate a three-dimensional human model that matches the human object image, extract coordinate information of the image data, acquire a street view data matching the coordinate information, extract a reference object image, in which a inanimate object of the inanimate object image is photographed, from the street-view data, and acquire placement information of the human object image and the inanimate object image and place the three-dimensional human model on a street view image of the street view data using the placement information and the reference object image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 11276150
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an image manipulation application receives a two-dimensional background image and projects the background image onto a sphere to generate a sphere image. Based on the sphere image, an unfilled environment map containing a hole area lacking image content can be generated. A portion of the unfilled environment map can be projected to an unfilled projection image using a map projection. The unfilled projection image contains the hole area. A hole filling model is applied to the unfilled projection image to generate a filled projection image containing image content for the hole area. A filled environment map can be generated by applying an inverse projection of the map projection on the filled projection image and by combining the unfilled environment map with the generated image content for the hole area of the environment map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Eisenmann, Zhe Lin, Matthew Fisher
  • Patent number: 11270485
    Abstract: Automatic positioning of textual content within digital images is leveraged in a digital medium environment. Initially, user input is received to add textual content to a digital image. A salient portion and a non-salient portion of the digital image are identified. The salient portion of the digital image contains a salient object which corresponds to the most important or noticeable object in a digital image, as opposed to non-salient objects which correspond to less important background objects or portions of an image. A placement region for the textual content within the non-salient portion of the digital image is automatically determined, and the digital image is modified by positioning the textual content within the automatically determined placement region of the digital image. Positioning the textual content may include automatically adjusting the textual content to fit within the placement region, such as by automatically scaling or aligning the textual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mrinal Kumar Sharma, Gourav Singhal
  • Patent number: 11270115
    Abstract: In one aspect, a headset may include at least one processor, at least one transparent display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to detect an indication accompanying audio video (AV) content, with the indication associated with augmented reality (AR) content. The AR content may be different from the AV content but associated with the AV content. The instructions may also be executable to transmit a request for the AR content, receive the AR content, and present the AR content on the at least one transparent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Allen Wayne Richey
  • Patent number: 11260750
    Abstract: A mobile sensor apparatus includes a capture device for capturing vehicle movements of the vehicle and an interface for transmitting data relating to the vehicle movements to a head-worn visual output device. A display system includes the mobile sensor apparatus and the head-worn visual output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11263798
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit having multiple groups of processor cores for rendering graphics data for allocated tiles and outputting the processed data to regions of a memory resource. Scheduling logic allocates sets of tiles to the groups of processor cores to perform a first render, and at a time when at least one of the groups has not completed processing its allocated sets of one or more tiles as part of the first render, allocates at least one set of tiles for a second render to one of the other groups of processor cores for processing. Progress indication logic indicates progress of the first render, indicating regions of the memory resource for which processing for the first render has been completed. Progress check logic checks the progress indication in response to a request for access to a region of the memory resource as part of the second render and enables access that region of the resource in response to an indication that processing for the first render has been completed for that region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: John Howson, Steven Fishwick
  • Patent number: 11263718
    Abstract: A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for the rendering of geometry of the graphics between the plurality of GPUs based on a plurality of screen regions that are interleaved, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known to the plurality of GPUs. The method including assigning a GPU a piece of geometry of an image frame generated by an application for geometry pretesting. The method including performing geometry pretesting at the GPU to generate information regarding the piece of geometry and its relation to each of the plurality of screen regions. The method including using the information at each of the plurality of GPUs when rendering the image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Cerny, Florian Strauss, Tobias Berghoff
  • Patent number: 11253181
    Abstract: A method and system for objectively tracking and analyzing the social and emotional activity of a patient using an augmented reality computing device is provided. A patient is permitted to manually manipulate a target object in the physical world while viewing an augmented version showing a unique animated character representing either an abstract language, emotions, or social skills, depending on the module. The present system tracks and records the active face and the time spent on the active face, where the active face is the face upon which the patient's focus is automatically estimated, through calculation, to be trained upon. An observer views the session, the data recorded, and an automatically generated graphical representation of the data, which permits the observer to speak to patient regarding the character or scene rendered on the face which is determined to be the active face, helping the student engage in the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: From Zero, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Chaja, Natasha Chaja
  • Patent number: 11257178
    Abstract: A computer including a subdividing section subdividing image data into plural subdivided image data, a control section that causes each of plural cores included a first processing unit to execute in parallel tasks on the subdivided image data, the tasks enabled for processing according to their precedence dependency relationship, a registration section that, if a task is executable by a second processing unit asynchronously with respect to the first processing unit, register a finish detection task to detect completion of the task on the second processing unit in a list after causing a core of the first processing unit to execute an execution instruction task instructing execution of the task on the second processing unit, and a determination section that accesses the list and to determine whether or not there is a completed finish detection task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Itagaki, Takashi Nagao
  • Patent number: 11250641
    Abstract: Mating virtual objects in virtual reality environment, involves generating a bounding box having a plurality of faces corresponding to a plurality of exterior surfaces of a subject virtual object. A spatial mesh corresponding to surfaces of the real world environment is generated. A magnetic mate is generated to initially align a bounding box first face to a first spatial mesh surface. A shadow mate is provided between a bounding box second face and a second spatial mesh surface, by projecting a virtual ray from the subject virtual object bounding box second face toward the second spatial mesh surface, determining a mate point corresponding to an intersection of the virtual ray and the second spatial mesh surface, and displaying a mating button in the virtual reality environment at the mate point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation
    Inventors: Yun Li, Yaqin Huang, Eric Hasan
  • Patent number: 11250615
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide three dimensional volume rendering of volume data for use when operating mobile structures. A three dimensional volume rendering system includes a logic device configured to communicate with a user interface and receive volume data from a volume data source. The logic device is configured to render a three dimensional representation of the volume data, generate, within the 3D representation, a two dimensional grid having several vertices, adjust vertical coordinates of the several vertices based on the volume data, and render the adjusted 2D grid as a 3D surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: FLIR Belgium BVBA
    Inventor: Paul Stokes
  • Patent number: 11250612
    Abstract: A background image is also generated, e.g., by filling portions of a captured image where a foreground object was extracted and communicated to the playback device, Foreground objects are identified and point cloud representations of the foreground objects are generated and communicated to a playback device so that they can be used in generating images including the background which is communicated separately. In the case of a point cloud representation a number of points in an environment, e.g., 3D space, are communicated to the playback device along with color information. Thus in some embodiments a foreground object is represented as a set of points with corresponding color information on a per point basis. Foreground object information is communicated and processed in some embodiments at a different rate, e.g., faster rate, then the background textures. The playback device renders images which are sent to the display by first rendering a background layer using the communicated background information, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nevermind Capital LLC
    Inventors: Hector Medina, David Cole, Alan Moss
  • Patent number: 11250643
    Abstract: A method for providing a virtual exhibition space by using a 2.5-dimensionalization is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: DIFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi Hyung Park, Dong Ree Kim, Nam Hyun Kim, In Je Cho
  • Patent number: 11244486
    Abstract: Shape joining based on proximity is leveraged in a digital medium environment. For instance, an automated system is provided to detect shape proximity and to implement automated shape joining when shapes are detected within a threshold proximity. In an example implementation, when a first shape is detected within a threshold proximity to a second shape, the described processes automatically calculate a join geometry for connecting the shapes, and automatically apply the join geometry to join the shapes and generate a joined shape. Thus, utilizing the described techniques, shapes of differing geometries can be automatically joined. Further, joined shapes can be edited and transformed in different ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Agrawal, Tarun Beri
  • Patent number: 11243567
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, which may be deformable or may include hinges to allow a display, which is flexible, to be deform by bending or other operations. One or more flex sensors detect when the electronic device is deformed at a deformation portion. One or more processors, which include an application processor, reconfigure a presentation of content along the flexible display in response to detecting deformation at the deformation portion, where the reconfiguring includes a content aspect ratio transition from a first predefined aspect ratio to a second predefined aspect ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Michael McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11238834
    Abstract: A method for adjusting image includes determining, from a background image, a background sub-image corresponding to a foreground sub-image. The foreground sub-image is within a first range of a foreground image, the background image is an image of an external environment, and the foreground image is an image produced by a display device. The method also includes determining a first image attribute of the background sub-image; and adjusting the foreground sub-image based on at least the first image attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaofei Ding
  • Patent number: 11232614
    Abstract: A density gradient analysis tool can be employed in conjunction with heat mapping systems. A data distribution of data points can be generated. The data distribution can include bins that represent an interval of time and density corresponding to a number of data points in each bin. Further, the data distribution can aggregate data points in each bin. A heat map can be generated based on the data distribution that includes regions corresponding to bins and coloration associated with aggregate values. Further, the heat maps can be interactive including an ability to transition between time periods, expand an interval of time, and select a subset of data for further inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Jones