Patents Examined by Ke Xiao
  • Method and apparatus for producing and reproducing augmented reality contents in mobile terminal
    Patent number: 10430976
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-He Jung, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Shin-Jun Lee, Sung-Joo Ahn, Ik-Hwan Cho, Tae-Hwan Son
  • Virtual reality resource scheduling of process in a cloud-based virtual reality processing system
    Patent number: 10433025
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a request for a virtual reality render project that includes information specifying virtual reality video data to be used to create a virtual reality render; determine a plurality of virtual reality jobs required to create the virtual reality render from the virtual reality video data; determine the availability of a plurality of virtual reality nodes across the network; create a virtual reality render map that specifies a processing sequence of the plurality of virtual reality jobs across the one or more virtual reality nodes to create the virtual reality render, the virtual reality render map being created based on at least the availability of the plurality of virtual reality nodes; and process the plurality of virtual reality jobs at the plurality of virtual reality nodes to create the virtual reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventors: Anatoly D. Adamov, Arthur Van Hoff, Christopher P. Redmann, Aleksandr O. Ryzhov
  • Synthetic vision augmented with multispectral sensing
    Patent number: 10415993
    Abstract: A method for augmenting a synthetic vision system of a vehicle includes receiving, with a processor, signals indicative of real-time sensor data of a terrain for the vehicle via one or more acquisition devices; creating, with the processor, a terrain mesh of the terrain in response to the receiving of the sensor data; correlating, with the processor, the terrain mesh with preloaded terrain data of the terrain; creating, with the processor, a multispectral image of the terrain in response to the correlating the terrain mesh with the preloaded data; and texturing, with the processor, the terrain mesh for display on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igor Cherepinsky, Jason C. Derenick, Christopher Stathis
  • Display device for vehicle and display method for vehicle
    Patent number: 10410514
    Abstract: A display controller is able to selectively perform a rearward normal display mode in which a first view-angle image is displayed in the display unit as an image of a first area of the rearward image and a rearward enlarged display mode in which a second view-angle image is displayed in the display unit as an image of a second area of the rearward image smaller than the first view-angle image in an enlarged manner. The display controller performs the rearward enlarged display mode when: an upward slope of a road on which an own car is traveling has increased; a vehicle speed of the own car has decreased after the upward slope of the road has increased; there is no preceding car that is closely lined up with the own car; and there is a following car that is not closely lined up with the own car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Shimizu
  • Light-field display with micro-lens alignment adapted color and brightness
    Patent number: 10412363
    Abstract: A light-field display with pixel to micro-lens spatial alignment adapted color or brightness. In one embodiment, a first pixel is read from memory. A map is accessed to read a first index that is mapped to a first position of a first emitter in an array of emitters. A first correction data mapped to the first index is read. The first pixel is adjusted using the first correction data. The first emitter emits light based on the adjusted first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: 3D Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall James, Nick Jameson, Ronald Larcom
  • Profile adjustment system, profile adjustment device, and profile adjustment method
    Patent number: 10395619
    Abstract: A profile adjustment system displays, in a display device 115, an input field of a coordinate of an adjustment point P0 disposed on a color space, and includes an adjustment coordinate reception unit U1, an adjustment influence range reception unit U3, a linking configuration reception unit U4, a linking configuration display processing unit UA, an adjustment coordinate configuration unit U5, an adjustment influence range configuration unit U6, a whole adjustment influence range display processing unit UB configured to display, in the display device 115, a whole adjustment influence range including U3, U4, U5, and U6, and a profile adjustment unit U7 configured to adjust a profile based on all adjustment points P0 configured in the adjustment coordinate reception unit U1 and an adjustment point Qx added by the adjustment coordinate configuration unit U5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Yamashita
  • Interactive analysis of data based on progressive visualizations
    Patent number: 10387024
    Abstract: Interactive analysis of data based on progressive visualizations is disclosed. One example is a system including a data module, a visualization module, an interaction module, and an analytics module. The data module processes a plurality of data elements. The visualization module progressively displays, via an interactive graphical user interface, an overview visualization of a sub-plurality of the plurality of data elements, the overview visualization based on at least one of data resolution and display resolution, and a detailed visualization based on an interaction with the overview visualization. The interaction module processes the interaction with the overview visualization. The analytics module analyzes the interaction to generate a deployment rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jishang Wei, Jinrong Xie, Arun Kumar Paruchuri, Nelson L. Chang
  • Surgical instrument guidance system
    Patent number: 10383692
    Abstract: Using the surgical instrument guidance system of the present invention, a doctor can instantly obtain a real field of view of a surgical site of a patient, a three-dimensional medical image that coincides with a surgical site of the patient, and a real-time positional relationship between the surgical instrument and the surgical site of the patient. The surgical instrument guidance system provides an entrance guiding interface, an angle guiding interface and a depth guiding interface to help the surgeon monitor whether the position relationship between the surgical instrument and the patient's surgical site conforms to the preoperative planning and specifically increases the accuracy of position, angle and depth of the surgical instrument on the surgical site of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: TAIWAN MAIN ORTHOPAEDIC BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Liang Wang
  • Rendering contiguous image elements
    Patent number: 10380774
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a sequence of image elements. For each image element in the sequence, a position in an array of contiguous image elements is determined. The position may be based on several factors, including at least: a size of the image element (large or small), an order of the image element in the sequence, and dimensions of the display array. The array of image elements may be rendered for display to the user such that the layout of the image elements is contiguous. If the user provides input re-sizing an image element or re-ordering the sequence of image elements, the array may be re-rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Serge Benjamin Chedeau, Andrew Chung, Emily B. Grewal
  • Data processing
    Patent number: 10372195
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to predict whether a region of output data to be generated by the apparatus for a current set of output data will be similar to a region of output data generated and stored in memory for a previous set of output data. When it is predicted that the new region of output data will be similar to the previous region of output data, the new region of output data is prevented from being generated and the previous region of output data is used for the current set of output data instead. The data processing apparatus can provide a way to avoid generating areas of sets of output data that are static from one set of output data to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventor: Daren Croxford
  • Fast GPU context switch
    Patent number: 10373287
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve task switching operations in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. As disclosed herein, the clock rate (and voltages) of a GPU's operating environment may be altered so that a low priority task may be rapidly run to a task switch boundary (or completion) so that a higher priority task may begin execution. In some embodiments, only the GPU's operating clock (and voltage) is increased during the task switch operation. In other embodiments, the clock rate (voltages) of supporting components may also be increased. For example, the operating clock for the GPU's supporting memory, memory controller or memory fabric may also be increased. Once the lower priority task has been swapped out, one or more of the clocks (and voltages) increased during the switch operation could be subsequently decreased, though not necessarily to their pre-switch rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwamoto, Kutty Banerjee, Rohan Sanjeev Patil
  • Three-dimensional model generation
    Patent number: 10373366
    Abstract: A method for determining a pixel value of a texture pixel associated with a three-dimensional scan of an object includes prioritizing a sequence of image frames in a queue based on one or more prioritization parameters. The method also includes selecting a first image frame from the queue. The method also includes determining a pixel value of the particular texture pixel in the first image frame. The method further includes selecting a second image frame from the queue. The second image frame has a higher priority than the first image frame based on the one or more prioritization parameters. The method also includes modifying the pixel value of the particular texture pixel based on a pixel value of the particular texture pixel in the second image frame to generate a modified pixel value of the particular texture pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Michel Adib Sarkis, Sairam Sundaresan
  • Method for rendering resolution-independent shapes directly from outline control points
    Patent number: 10373352
    Abstract: A method for rendering a shape partially defined by quadratic Bézier curves computes the winding number with respect to one or more closed contours to determine whether a sample position is colored. Numerical robustness is achieved by classifying the controls points of each Bézier curve in order to partition the set of all possible Bézier curves into eight equivalence classes that can each be processed in the same manner. A small table of binary values specifies whether the roots of a classified Bézier curve are eligible to modify the winding number at a particular pixel location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Terathon Software LLC
    Inventor: Eric Lengyel
  • Density gradient analysis tool
    Patent number: 10373355
    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 an interval of time. 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: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Jones
  • Wavefront resource virtualization
    Patent number: 10360652
    Abstract: A processor comprising hardware logic configured to execute of a first wavefront in a hardware resource and stop execution of the first wavefront before the first wavefront completes. The processor schedules a second wavefront for execution in the hardware resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc S. Orr, Bradford M. Beckmann, Benedict R. Gaster, Steven K. Reinhardt, David A. Wood
  • Enhanced avatar animation
    Patent number: 10360716
    Abstract: Avatar animation may be enhanced to reflect emotion and other human traits when animated to read messages received from other users or other messages. A message may be analyzed to determine visual features associated with data in the message. The visual features may be depicted graphically by the avatar to create enhanced avatar animation. A text-based message may include indicators, such as punctuation, font, words, graphics, and/or other information, which may be extracted to create the visual features. This information may be used to select visual features as special animation, which may be implemented in animation of the avatar. Examples of visual features include animations of laugher, smiling, clapping, whistling, and/or other animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter Sierd van der Meulen, Aditi Chandrashekhar Dixit, Sanjoy Ghosh
  • Interactive item placement simulation
    Patent number: 10347049
    Abstract: An approach for simulating items in an environment, such as a room, is disclosed. A package file can store information including an image of the environment and metadata including an identifier that uniquely identifies a selected image. The package file can be used to regenerate a simulation of the item arranged over the image of the environment. Later changes can be made to the simulation of the item by accessing the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Shaviv, Xiaoyi Huang, Aaron Yip
  • Command scheduler for a display device
    Patent number: 10339625
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present disclosure may be utilized to negate the distinction between a display device operating in video and command modes in that commands associated with either mode are prioritized and executed according to a command scheduler consistent with the present disclosure. A command scheduler consistent with the present disclosure includes a display driver stack and a scheduler coupled to the display driver stack. The scheduler is configured to receive commands from the driver stack. Further, the scheduler is configured to queue and schedule the commands to be executed during a boot environment and during runtime. A host controller may also be coupled to the scheduler and may receive at least one of the commands from the scheduler. In time, the host controller transfers the commands to a device for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aashish Pangam, Srikanth Rangarajan, Balakesan P. Thevar
  • System and method for graphical processing of medical data
    Patent number: 10332228
    Abstract: The invention provides a computer server with a graphical processor that can process data from multiple medical imaging systems simultaneously. Data sets can be provided by any suitable imaging system (x-ray, angiography, PET scans, MRI, IVUS, OCT, cath labs, etc.) and a processing system of the invention allocates resources in the form of a virtual machine, processing power, operating system, applications, etc., as-needed. Embodiments of the invention may find particular application with cath labs due to the particular processing requirements of typical cath lab systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: VOLCANO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jason Spencer
  • Color display method and system for mobile terminal
    Patent number: 10332480
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a color display method and system for a mobile terminal. According to the method, an environmental ambient light level for a mobile terminal is detected, a color enhancement factor is calculated according to the ambient light level, and display color of the mobile terminal is enhanced according to the color enhancement factor. A color enhancement technology widely used in a display screen is combined with the environmental ambient light level. The color enhancement is dynamically adjusted according to the intensity of ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Xiaoqing Wang