Patents Examined by Ke Xiao
  • Patent number: 10216263
    Abstract: A display system includes a display alignment tracker configured track the position of a first signal in a first waveguide and the position of a second signal in a second waveguide. The display alignment tracker optically multiplexes a portion of a first signal and a portion of the second signal into a combined optical signal and measures a differential between the first signal and the second signal. The differential is used to adjust the position, dimensions, or a color attribute of the first signal relative to the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven John Robbins, Drew Edward Steedly, Michael Edward Samples, Zhiqiang Liu, Andrew K. Juenger
  • Patent number: 10204431
    Abstract: A method for generating label positions for labeling polygons includes receiving a description of a polygon, determining an inscribed circle within the polygon, and determining a single-branch shape that fits completely within the polygon. The method also includes generating an indication of a first candidate label position, based on the inscribed circle, and generating an indication of a second candidate label position, based on the centerline. Still further, the method includes providing the indication of the first candidate label position and the indication of the second candidate label position to a rendering component for positioning a label for the polygon in accordance with at least one of the first candidate label position and the second candidate label position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tingbo Hou, Bent Hagemark
  • Patent number: 10198867
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions and a control unit is disclosed. The control unit may be configured to execute the instructions to: acquire an image of real space, detect an object of interest within the real space image, obtain a still image of the object. and display a virtual image relating to the object superimposed on the still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10198868
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a luminance value obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second luminance values of first and second captured images of a physical space, wherein the first and second captured images are respectively captured by first and second image capturing units; a parameter obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second tracking parameters of automatic exposure control corresponding to a change in brightness of the physical space for the first and second image capturing units; and a setting unit for setting a first image capturing parameter for the first image capturing unit based on the first luminance value and the obtained first tracking parameter and a second image capturing parameter for the second image capturing unit based on the second luminance value and the obtained second tracking parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10198858
    Abstract: A method based on Structure from Motion for processing a plurality of sparse images acquired by one or more acquisition devices to generate a sparse 3D points cloud and of a plurality of internal and external parameters of the acquisition devices includes the steps of collecting the images; extracting keypoints therefrom and generating keypoint descriptors; organizing the images in a proximity graph; pairwise image matching and generating keypoints connecting tracks according maximum proximity between keypoints; performing an autocalibration between image clusters to extract internal and external parameters of the acquisition devices, wherein calibration groups are defined that contain a plurality of image clusters and wherein a clustering algorithm iteratively merges the clusters in a model expressed in a common local reference system starting from clusters belonging to the same calibration group; and performing a Euclidean reconstruction of the object as a sparse 3D point cloud based on the extracted parame
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Inventors: Yash Singh, Roberto Toldo, Luca Magri, Simone Fantoni, Andrea Fusiello
  • Patent number: 10192292
    Abstract: Near-eye display systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable accommodation-invariant display control. One embodiment includes a near-eye display; a processor; a memory containing a target image and an accommodation-invariant display application; where the processor is configured by the accommodation-invariant display application to calculate an impulse response of the near-eye display; calculate a compensation image by generating a deconvolved color channel of the target image using a ratio of the target image and the impulse response, where the compensation image is a representation of the target image that remains in focus at a plurality of distances from the near-eye display; and display the compensation image on the near-eye display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Gordon Wetzstein, Robert Konrad
  • Patent number: 10186037
    Abstract: In an example, three-dimensional (3D) models of objects are combined for additive manufacturing. Two-dimensional (2D) slices are determined for each 3D model. If the 2D slices are determined to be complete, the 2D slices are combined according to a Boolean operation to generate combined 2D slices printable by an additive manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Ana Del Angel, Scott White, Sebastia Cortes I Herms
  • Patent number: 10186014
    Abstract: An electronic device and information display method are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one object, a display configured to output a screen associated with the at least one object, and a processor configured to functionally connect with the memory and the display. The processor controls to display a first object, associated with collected sensing information related to a human body, among objects stored in the memory, at a size on the display and to display a second object on the first object based on the sensing information. The processor modifies a size and region of the second object and a displayed motion of the second object according to accumulated sensing information and controls to output the modified second object on the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Keun Cho, Jong Chae Moon, Hyo Chan Song
  • Patent number: 10186057
    Abstract: In a data input device according to one aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit detects a first position based on a position of one part of a body of a user represented in a video captured by an image capturing device and a second position based on a position of another part of the body. A drawing input detection unit establishes, based on the first position, an input detection region in which a drawing input is detected, and detects, based on whether or not the second position is included in the input detection region, the drawing input. A position-of-interest detection unit detects a position-of-interest corresponding to the second position on an image display plane. An image forming unit forms an image indicating a position-of-interest in a case that the drawing input detection unit detects the drawing input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Sakae Saito
  • Patent number: 10186236
    Abstract: Techniques related to coding data including techniques for coding data using a universal codec are generally described. In some examples, such techniques may provide a universal (or unified) codec parameterized using a small set of parameters, which may be used to adapt the codec to different types of data to be compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Jim Nilsson, Magnus Andersson
  • Patent number: 10181223
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein provide for sampling the material properties of a source object within a virtual 3D drawing space, and then applying those properties to a target object within the drawing space. The material properties may include not only color, but also other physical properties like texture and sheen. For example, the way an object behaves in different lighting conditions may constitute a material property. According to aspects of the technology described herein, the manner in which an object behaves in lighting conditions, the shininess of the object, and the texture of the object may all be selected, sampled, and transferred to other target surfaces, such as a canvas or the surfaces of other objects, in the virtual 3D drawing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Aaron Stanley, Alexander Charles Cullum, Jonathan Peter Creighton, Matthew Elwyn Oliver Jones
  • Patent number: 10176555
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method for displaying input image data on a display device. The display device comprises a main display and a border display which at least partly surrounds the main display. The method comprises extrapolating the input image data to obtain extrapolated image data, displaying at least part of the input image data on the main display, and displaying at least part of the extrapolated image data on the border display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Klaus Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10176610
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with density gradient analysis tool for heat mapping systems. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving data points. The method further includes calculating a data distribution of the data points. The data distribution has bins, and the bins represent intervals. The method further includes rendering a heat map based, at least in part, on the data distribution. The heat map includes regions corresponding to the bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Jones
  • Patent number: 10170078
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing an optical coherence tomographic image. The method of processing an optical coherence tomographic image includes obtaining an optical coherence tomographic image by irradiating light to an object; generating a color space map based on the obtained optical coherence tomographic image; normalizing data of the obtained optical coherence tomographic image; realigning the normalized data of the optical coherence tomographic image; performing a tone mapping on the realigned data of the optical coherence tomographic image; and generating a color image by mapping the data of the optical coherence tomographic image on which the tone mapping is performed, by using the generated color space map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-won Ryu, Jae-guyn Lim, Woo-young Jang, Jae-duck Jang, Seo-Young Choi
  • Patent number: 10170082
    Abstract: To display an image list stored in a memory with good visibility and to display the image list at a high speed, an image display device reads an image file in an Exif format, extracts a thumbnail image included in the image file in the Exif format, and generates a displayed image having a predetermined size and a square shape, thus displaying it in the image list. It is possible to improve visibility in displaying the image file aligning square-shaped displayed image having the same size while precluding blanks. It is possible to perform high-speed processing in producing an image list using thumbnail images included in image files in the Exif format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10160319
    Abstract: A vehicle display processing apparatus includes: a first determination portion that determines whether a vehicle is at a stop; a first display processing portion that displays on a first display device, an operation screen image, the first display device being provided between a driver seat and a front passenger seat; a second display processing portion that displays a screen image relating to the operation screen image, which is displayed on the first display device, on a second display device provided to a driver seat side; and a second determination portion that determines whether a running speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed. The second display device is provided by a head-up display. When the running speed of the vehicle is lower than the predetermined speed, the second display processing portion does not display the screen image on the second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10163262
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying virtual bronchoscopy views while navigating through an airway of a virtual bronchoscopy are disclosed. The method comprises determining a first location and a first direction at the first location, storing the first location and the first direction in memory, displaying a first virtual camera view corresponding to the first location, determining a second location corresponding to movement through the airway of the virtual bronchoscopy, storing the second location in the memory, displaying a second virtual camera view corresponding to the second location, determining a second direction based on the first location and the second location, storing the second direction in the memory, determining a third location corresponding to further movement through the virtual bronchoscopy, and determining whether the further movement is in a forward direction or a backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Rahaf Merkine, Dorian Averbuch, Elad D. Lachmanovich
  • Patent number: 10163191
    Abstract: A method for scaling up an image in a display device includes acquiring luminance data and color data of a plurality of pixels in the image; generating high frequency components according to the luminance data of a first pixel and a plurality of second pixels adjacent to the first pixel in each set of adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels; adjusting the high frequency components corresponding to each set of adjacent pixels, for making a sum of the high frequency components corresponding to each set of adjacent pixels to be within a predetermined range; and transforming the luminance data of the first pixel, the high frequency components and duplicating the color data of the first pixel in each set of adjacent pixels, to generate image data of a plurality of scaling-up points between the first pixel and each of plurality of second pixels in each set of adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng-Tien Cho, Chien-Chou Hung
  • Patent number: 10163268
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a wireless communication unit; a display; and a controller configured to receive location information from an auxiliary device via the wireless communication unit, wherein the location information includes curvature information of a part of a face of a user that is in contact with the auxiliary device and movement information of the auxiliary device relative to the user; recognize a part of the face based on the location information; and cause the display to display the recognized part of the face in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyesoo Kong, Jeonghwa Yang, Jungchul Kim, Yeojeong So
  • Patent number: 10154265
    Abstract: A graphics server and method for streaming rendered content via a remote graphics rendering service. One embodiment of the graphics server includes: (1) a frame capturer configured to capture frames of rendered content at a frame rate, (2) an encoder configured to encode captured frames at the frame rate, and (3) a processor configured to cause encoded frames to be transmitted if the rendered content is at least partially changed, and cause a skip-frame message to be transmitted, the skip-frame message configured to cause the frame capturer to forgo capturing and the encoder to forgo encoding if the rendered content is unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Meier, Chong Zhang, Bhanu Murthy, Sharad Gupta, Karthik Vitjayan