Patents Examined by Jennifer A. Mehmood
  • Patent number: 11176718
    Abstract: The disclosed examples relate to arranging graph data for display on a display device. One example provides, on a computing device, a method comprising determining one or more connected groups of nodes in directed acyclic graph data, for each connected group of nodes, determining a reachability from each node with no inputs to each of one or more nodes with no outputs to determine a plurality of initial node/terminal node pairs, and for each initial node/terminal node pair, determining a path from the initial node to the terminal node. The method further comprises initializing a grid based upon the determined paths, placing each node at a corresponding initial grid location, and placing edges between nodes based upon the determined paths to form an initial grid representation, modifying the initial grid representation via a cost function to form a modified grid representation, and outputting the modified grid representation for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel David Gilbertson, Liessman E. Sturlaugson
  • Patent number: 11176715
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for color representation generation. In an aspect, the method includes: receiving three base colors; receiving a patchwork parameter; and generating a color representation having each of the three base colors at a vertex of a triangular face, the triangular face having a color distribution therein, the color distribution discretized into discrete portions, the amount of discretization based on the patchwork parameter, each discrete portion having an interpolated color determined to be a combination of the base colors at respective coordinates of such discrete portion. In further aspects, one or more color representations are generated based on an input image and can be used to modify colors of a reconstructed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Maria Shugrina, Amlan Kar, Sanja Fidler, Karan Singh
  • Patent number: 11170547
    Abstract: Need exists for information management technique that allows utilization of collapsed grain culms detection for a future farming plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Mao Kitahara, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 11170538
    Abstract: The systems described in this disclosure can be used in construction settings to facilitate the tasks being performed. The location of projectors and augmented reality headsets can be calculated and used to determine what images to display to a worker, based on a map of work to be performed, such as a construction plan. Workers can use spatially-aware tools to make different locations be plumb, level, or equidistant with other locations. Power to tools can be disabled if they are near protected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel A. Gould, Kellen Carey, Michael John Caelwaerts, Gareth J. Mueckl, Christopher S. Hoppe, Benjamin T. Jones
  • Patent number: 11170890
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for evaluating blood flow with vascular perfusion imaging are disclosed. In an embodiment, a medical system is disclosed. One embodiment of the medical system comprises a perfusion imaging system configured to obtain perfusion imaging data associated with movement of contrast through a vessel of a patient, a graphical user interface, and a medical processing unit in communication with the perfusion imaging system and the graphical user interface. The medical processing unit is configured to receive a first set of perfusion imaging data from the perfusion imaging system, determine at least one parameter representative of the movement of the contrast through the vessel of the patient, generate a first graphical representation of the first set of perfusion imaging data and the at least one parameter determined based on the first set of perfusion imaging data, and output the first graphical representation to the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: John Unser
  • Patent number: 11164355
    Abstract: Systems and methods for editing an image based on multiple constraints are described. Embodiments of the systems and methods may identify a change to a vector graphics data structure, generate an update for the vector graphics data structure based on strictly enforcing a handle constraint, a binding constraint, and a continuity constraint, adjust the vector graphics data structure sequentially for each of a plurality of sculpting constraints according to a priority ordering of the sculpting constraints, generate an additional update for the vector graphics data structure based on strictly enforcing the binding constraint and the continuity constraint and approximately enforcing the handle constraint and the sculpting constraints, adjust the vector graphics data structure sequentially for each of a plurality of sculpting constraints, and display the vector graphic based on the adjusted vector graphics data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Ankit Phogat, Kevin Wampler, Wilmot Li, Matthew David Fisher, Vineet Batra, Daniel Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11157238
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to an improved vector normalization instruction. An embodiment of a method includes responsive to receipt by a GPU of a single instruction specifying a vector normalization operation to be performed on V vectors: (i) generating V squared length values, N at a time, by a first processing unit, by, for each N sets of inputs, each representing multiple component vectors for N of the vectors, performing N parallel dot product operations on the N sets of inputs. Generating V sets of outputs representing multiple normalized component vectors of the V vectors, N at a time, by a second processing unit, by, for each N squared length values of the V squared length values, performing N parallel operations on the N squared length values, wherein each of the N parallel operations implement a combination of a reciprocal square root function and a vector scaling function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Rhisheekesan, Supratim Pal, Shashank Lakshminarayana, Subramaniam Maiyuran
  • Patent number: 11158287
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system for display. The system includes a display having a plurality of pixels, a processor, and a control logic. The processor includes a graphics pipeline configured to generate a plurality of pieces of pixel data for the plurality of pixels and a pre-processing module configured to generate a plurality of pieces of compensation data for the pixel data and compress the compensation data. The compensation data is compressed by determining a plurality of pieces of quantified down-sampled compensation data based on the compensation data, converting the quantified down-sampled compensation data into M units of index data, and converting the M units of index data into M code streams. The control logic is operatively coupled to the display and the processor and includes a post-processing module configured to decompress the compressed compensation data based on the M code streams to provide control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YUNYINGGU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongwen Jiang, Haining Xu, Jingfeng Wang, Mengya Shen, Yajun Cao, Haopeng Lian, Zhenqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11157226
    Abstract: A control apparatus that controls a robot having a movable unit, includes a display control unit that changes a display form of a virtual wall displayed on a display unit transmitting visible light based on a distance between the virtual wall on a real space and the movable unit and a velocity of the movable unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihito Yamada, Hiroki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11150482
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a virtual content to a physical object is described. A processor includes an augmented reality application. The augmented reality application creates virtual content at the head mounted device, and associates the virtual content with predefined conditions based on data from sensors embedded in the head mounted device at a time of creation of the virtual content. The virtual content is displayed in a display of the head mounted device in response to sensor data satisfying the predefined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Mullins, Matthew Kammerait
  • Patent number: 11145129
    Abstract: Automatically generating augmented reality (AR) content by constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object-including scene using images recorded during a remotely-guided AR session from a camera position defined relative to first 3D axes, the model including camera positions defined relative to second 3D axes, registering the first axes with the second axes by matching a trajectory derived from the image camera positions to a trajectory derived from the model's camera positions for determining a session-to-model transform, translating, using the transform, positions of points of interest (POIs) indicated on the object during the session, to corresponding POI positions on the object within the model, where the session POI positions are defined relative to the first axes and the model POI positions are defined relative to the second axes, and generating a content package including the model, model POI positions, and POI annotations provided during the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oded Dubovsky, Adi Raz Goldfarb, Yochay Tzur
  • Patent number: 11138864
    Abstract: An early alert system and a method for livestock disease detection are disclosed. An activity measurement zone (AMZ) is defined near an incentive device (e.g. a livestock feeder) with an RFID tag reader and a uniquely-designed feedlot fence crossbar-embedded RFID antenna, which amplifies multiple signal wavelengths in a single dipole antenna. The early alert system is configured to detect and count an animal's access into the AMZ with an RFID tag attached to the animal. If the animals' activity relative to the AMZ drops to an alarmingly low level (e.g. dropping below an alert trigger point) over time, then a user of the early alert system is informed of a potential health problem of the animal and may also be encouraged to inspect the animal in person for further determination of its current health and potential medical issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: HANA MICRON INC.
    Inventors: Seungwhan Rhee, Songtao Jin, Sung Bok Kwak
  • Patent number: 11138794
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment comprising: controller circuitry configured to: insert a captured image of an object in the virtual reality environment; move the captured image within the virtual reality environment; pause the movement of the captured image in the virtual reality environment; generate a rendered representation of at least part of the captured image; replace the at least part of the captured image with the rendered representation in the virtual reality environment; and move the rendered representation within the virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael John Williams, Paul Edward Prayle, Michael Goldman, William Jack Leathers-Smith
  • Patent number: 11132843
    Abstract: A controller outputs an image of the virtual space in correspondence with a posture of a first user wearing the mounted display, outputs an image of the virtual space to a touch panel display used by a second user, performs a first action in the virtual space in correspondence with a touch operation performed by the second user on the touch panel display, outputs an image of the virtual space reflecting the first action to the mounted display, and performs a second action in the virtual space reflecting the first action in correspondence with an operation performed by the first user on an operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11127195
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to continuous and/or binocular time warping methods to account for head movement of the user without having to re-render a displayed image. Continuous time warping allows for transformation of an image from a first perspective to a second perspective of the viewer without having to re-render the image from the second perspective. Binocular time warp refers to the late-frame time warp used in connection with a display device including a left display unit for the left eye and a right display unit for the right eye where the late-frame time warp is performed separately for the left display unit and the right display unit. Warped images are sent to the left and the right display units where photons are generated and emitted toward respective eyes of the viewer, thereby displaying an image on the left and the right display units at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Samuel A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11113785
    Abstract: A movement notification is received from a display. The movement notification corresponds to a movement. A set of movement frames that reflect the movement is rendered by a graphical processing unit. The set of movement frames is transmitted to the display. A notification that the movement has ceased is received from the display. A stop command is transmitted to the display. The stop command instructs the display to not display the first subset of frames in the set of movement frames. The first subset of frames reflects the end of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Inseok Hwang, Jinho Lee, Matthew Harrison Tong
  • Patent number: 11113884
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for generating a three-dimensional virtual environment. A 3D object/effects generator executing on a client device receives a media content item. The 3D object/effects generator receives content metadata associated with the media content item. The 3D object/effects generator generates at least a portion of a 3D virtual environment based on the content metadata. The 3D object/effects generator displays the media content item and the at least a portion of the 3D virtual environment on a display associated with a virtual reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Hambartsoum Demirchian, Madhura Pitale, Isaaca Seychelle Graetz Hoglen
  • Patent number: 11100692
    Abstract: A wearable device can include an inward-facing imaging system configured to acquire images of a user's periocular region. The wearable device can determine a relative position between the wearable device and the user's face based on the images acquired by the inward-facing imaging system. The relative position may be used to determine whether the user is wearing the wearable device, whether the wearable device fits the user, or whether an adjustment to a rendering location of virtual object should be made to compensate for a deviation of the wearable device from its normal resting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, Gary Bradski, Vijay Badrinarayanan
  • Patent number: 11100706
    Abstract: A three-dimensional reconstruction method includes: reconstructing a first three-dimensional model from a first multi-viewpoint image obtained by shooting a real space, and reconstructing a second three-dimensional model from a second multi-viewpoint image obtained by shooting the real space at a different time; and matching world coordinate systems of the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toru Matsunobu, Toshiyasu Sugio, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Tatsuya Koyama, Yoichi Sugino
  • Patent number: 11087554
    Abstract: A method for generating an augmented reality image from first and second images, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the first and the second image is captured from a real scene, identifies a confidence region in which a confident determination as to which of the first and second image to render in that region of the augmented reality image can be made, and identifies an uncertainty region in which it is uncertain as to which of the first and second image to render in that region of the augmented reality image. At least one blending factor value in the uncertainty region is determined based upon a similarity between a first colour value in the uncertainty region and a second colour value in the confidence region, and an augmented reality image is generated by combining, in the uncertainty region, the first and second images using the at least one blending factor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: David Walton