Patents Examined by Kee M. Tung
  • Patent number: 11127282
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an emergency response system (ERS) to provide an augmented reality overlay on a real-world scene through the heads-up display (HUD) of an emergency responder. In addition to displaying information known to the ERS, an emergency responder terminal of the ERS can detect propagated signals from devices not registered with the ERS. The source and location of the propagated signal can be determined, and a generic display object can be generated representing the location of the propagated signal. The generic display object can be displayed on the HUD when the location of the source of the propagated signal falls within the field of view of a camera component of the emergency responder terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TITAN HEALTH & SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Vic A. Merjanian, Michael Beaudoin, Ryan Khalili, Eduardo Juarez, Ed Merjanian
  • Patent number: 11120725
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for gamut mapping color gradient preservation is described. In one example, the method and apparatus obtains a source image having a plurality of source color gamut pixels in a source color gamut, wherein the plurality of source color gamut pixels include a same hue value and a same luminance value and define a color gradient, and converts the plurality of source color gamut pixels to a plurality of target color gamut pixels such that the color gradient of the plurality of source color gamut pixels is preserved by the plurality of target color gamut pixels in a target color gamut. The method and apparatus provides the plurality of target color gamut pixels for display on a target color gamut display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Essam Aly
  • Patent number: 11113997
    Abstract: A multi-view display device is provided. The multi-view display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix arrangement, adjacent first and second pixels of the plurality of pixels constituting a group pixel; a barrier disposed on the display panel and having an opening that transmits light and a shielding portion that shields light; and a driver configured to selectively drive the display panel in a normal driving mode, a narrow viewing angle mode, and a multi-view mode by controlling signals applied to the first and second pixels. The opening is overlapped with the first pixel, and the shielding portion is overlapped with the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Kim, HyeonHo Son, Hanchul Park
  • Patent number: 11107177
    Abstract: Synchronizing data with metadata includes simultaneously triggering a metadata generation unit to produce metadata that are stored in a reliable metadata queue, and a data unit producing unit that produces data units that are processed in a lossy processing pipeline. A synchronizer obtains a processed data unit, and considers one or more statistics associated with the metadata queue to determine whether it is likely that a data unit was dropped by the lossy processing pipeline. For example, an increase in the depth of the queue may be used to infer that a data unit was dropped. If so, enough metadata entries may be dequeued such that the next metadata entry is correctly synchronized with the data unit. The synchronized data unit and metadata unit are output together. Another technique may take the output from two or more different systems and align data units from each system based on the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Ashley, Dharm Raj
  • Patent number: 11107439
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first setting unit configured to set a target range of a luminance level, and a generation unit configured to generate a processed image by performing image processing on a first region of an image in such a manner that the first region is distinguished from a second region and a third region, the first region having a luminance level included in the target range and having a color not included in a target color gamut, the second region having a luminance level not included in the target range and having a color not included in the target color gamut, and the third region having a luminance level not included in the target range and having a color included in the target color gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Mito
  • Patent number: 11087719
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting OSD triggering region offset. Method comprises: when multimedia display device rotating is monitored, acquiring rotary angle parameter of multimedia display device; acquiring first coordinate parameter of OSD displaying region of multimedia display device according to rotary angle parameter; acquiring second coordinate parameter of OSD triggering region of multimedia display device, determining whether OSD displaying region coincides with OSD triggering region according to first coordinate parameter and second coordinate parameter, if not, redrawing OSD triggering region until OSD displaying region is detected coinciding with OSD triggering region, thus finishing correction of OSD triggering region offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHUANGWEI-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jilei Qin, Wanle Ma
  • Patent number: 11073867
    Abstract: A display device includes a display screen having a first and second ends opposite to each other in a length direction of the display screen; a receiving member connected to the first end, a visible area of the display screen includes a display area, as the second end moves forth and back relative to the receiving member in the length direction, the display screen may be gradually retracted to the receiving member or unfolded from the receiving member, so that a size of the display area changes continuously; a sensor assembly that is used for detecting motion condition of the display screen being retracted or unfolded; and a controller that is configured, according to the motion condition of the display screen, to control the display area with a size continuously changed in the display screen to display a screen corresponding to a size of the display area in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zifeng Wang, Yan Ren, Lei Cao
  • Patent number: 11076137
    Abstract: A projection management system is described. The projection management system may be configured to instruct an image projection device to project an image on a background. Sensor information and/or image information may be received that indicates an obstruction between the image projection device and the background. The projection management system may instruct the image projection device to project a modified image based on the obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremiah David Brazeau
  • Patent number: 11069093
    Abstract: In some embodiments, contextual image variations are generated for an input image. For example, a contextual composite image depicting a variation is generated based on a input image and a synthetic image component. The synthetic image component includes contextual features of a target object from the input image, such as shading, illumination, or depth that are depicted on the target object. The synthetic image component also includes a pattern from an additional image, such as a fabric pattern. In some cases, a mesh is determined for the target object. Illuminance values are determined for each mesh block. An adjusted mesh is determined based on the illuminance values. The synthetic image component is based on a combination of the adjusted mesh and the pattern from the additional image, such as a depiction of the fabric pattern with stretching, folding, or other contextual features from the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Tushar Rajvanshi, Sourabh Gupta, Ajay Bedi
  • Patent number: 11069038
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a projection instruction unit and an output unit. The projection instruction unit instructs a projection of a correction image in which one or more representative pixels are displayed. The output unit outputs a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for inputting a blur degree of each of the one or more representative pixels within the projected correction image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Suzuki, Takahiro Nagano
  • Patent number: 11051003
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) image providing method and apparatus is provided. The 3D image providing method includes detecting an eye location of a viewer and providing a 3D image based on the detected eye location, in which the providing of the 3D image includes determining an image pixel value corresponding to a display pixel of a display panel, determining a luminance weight corresponding to the display pixel based on a ray direction of a ray output from the display pixel and the detected eye location, applying the luminance weight to the image pixel value corresponding to the display pixel, and outputting, through the display pixel, the image pixel value with the luminance weight applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Lee, Juyong Park
  • Patent number: 11037347
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for augmenting at least one physical device with virtual information indicia corresponding to the at least on physical device supporting a virtualization infrastructure is observed. Based on the observed indicia, virtual information of said virtualization infrastructure correlating to the at least one physical device is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Park, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Min Cai, Uma Chingunde, Anupama Chandwani
  • Patent number: 11037369
    Abstract: A system and method may be used to assess range of motion of a target body part. A method may include comparing reference range of motion capabilities of a body part that mirrors or matches the target body part (e.g., from a camera or a database) to captured range of motion capabilities of the target body part. The comparison may result in an assessment, a virtual animation, a virtual component, or other output, such as to be displayed on a display or an augmented reality display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Zimmer US, Inc.
    Inventor: Dave Van Andel
  • Patent number: 11030713
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include an embedded local memory, and a memory extender communicatively coupled to the embedded local memory to extend the embedded local memory. The memory extender may be configured to compress information and store the compressed information in the embedded local memory. Additionally, or alternatively, the memory extender may be configured to expose the embedded local memory for non-local access. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 10762682
    Abstract: A graphics processing system and method reduce and/or eliminate artifacts during animation by modifying skinning weights used for animating three-dimensionally imaged, compound objects having at least a first object and a second object. The graphics processing system and method identifies a first vertex of a first mesh of a first object and determines that it corresponds to a second vertex from a second mesh of a second object. The graphics processing system determines skinning weights of the second vertex and generates modified skinning weights. The graphics processing system can then animate the second object in some embodiments using the modified skinning weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Pawel Piotr Wrotek, Darren Douglas Gyles
  • Patent number: 10708533
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a signal receiver configured to receive an image signal having a plurality of gradations; a display configured to display an image based on the received image signal; a storage configured to store a plurality of calibration coefficients corresponding to more than two gradations from among the plurality of gradations to calibrate a uniformity of the image; and a controller configured to control the display to apply to the received image signal, a calibration coefficient corresponding to a gradation of the received image signal from among the plurality of gradations to display the image. With this, the uniformity of the image outputted from the display apparatus is exactly calibrated with respect to the plurality of gradations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-hoon Cho, Ji-yong Park, Sang-kyun Im
  • Patent number: 10699443
    Abstract: Methods and devices for real time texture compression may include accessing graphics hardware incompatible compressed textures in a format incompatible with the GPU, and a metadata file associated with the graphics hardware incompatible compressed textures, wherein the metadata file includes at least one hint that provides information to use for compression of decompressed textures from the graphics hardware incompatible compressed textures into hardware compatible compressed textures. The methods and devices may include converting the graphics hardware incompatible compressed textures into the decompressed textures. The methods and devices may include selectively compressing the decompressed textures into the hardware compatible compressed textures usable by the GPU according to the at least one hint from the metadata file. The methods and devices may include transmitting the hardware compatible compressed textures to the GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Jon Irwin Fuller, Daniel Gilbert Kennett
  • Patent number: 10692263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal and a method of operating therefor. A terminal obtains an input for selecting at least one image, generates at least one collage wallpaper including a color area displaying at least a partial area of the entire area with single color and an image area displaying the at least one selected image on the remaining area of the entire area, and generates a collage wallpaper set including the generated at least one collage wallpaper. The terminal can display the at least one collage wallpaper included in the generated collage wallpaper set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Heo, Shinhae Lee, Hyungtae Jang, Jumin Chi, Jaeyoung Chae
  • Patent number: 10672187
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a generation unit that generates display control information for displaying a virtual space based on first operation information detected about a first real object corresponding to a virtual object in the virtual space and second operation information detected about a second real object corresponding to a virtual tool in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kae Nagano, Tomohiro Ishii, Nobuaki Kawai
  • Patent number: 10657929
    Abstract: An image receiving device includes an image processing unit that rotates at least one of first and second images in a process of restoring the first and second images if an image transfer signal received by the image receiving device includes the first and second images in which a direction in which a scan line of the first image extends is different from a direction in which a scan line of the second image extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Sumitani