Patents Examined by King Y. Poon
  • Patent number: 10592042
    Abstract: A holster is provided to receive a radio (mobile communications device). The radio is operatively equipped with a front-facing touchscreen. The holster is equipped with an optical reflector. The optical reflector is adapted to change the direction of light rays passing through it in order to reflect only a portion of the front-facing touchscreen to a top window located within the holster. The top window and the touchscreen are substantially perpendicular to each other. The holster is equipped with at least one capacitive touch extension element that couples the top window to a point on the touchscreen to control an interface element on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Wai Mun Lee, Wooi Ping Teoh, Chun Wen Ooi
  • Patent number: 10594882
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a document feeding structure including a feeding path; a scanning unit, said scanning unit being arranged on one side of said feeding path to scan documents passing through said feeding path; a transmitting roller, said transmitting roller arranged opposite to said scanning unit and covering the whole feeding path; and a pressing plate, said pressing plate including a fixed end, a free end disposed in said feeding path to contact with said transmitting roller and an extending portion connecting said free end and said fixed end, wherein said pressing plate covering the whole feeding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yuan Wu, Kuo Shing Wang, Pai Hsien Su, Wen Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 10594902
    Abstract: Provided is an image conversion method that allows for the representation, on a display, the light and shade of a printed image obtained by printing the image on paper. The image conversion method includes a step of acquiring an illumination-light component and a reflectance component from an input image, a step of correcting the illumination-light component in accordance with display luminance information of a print mode in which the input image is to be printed, so that light and shade of the input image displayed on a display come close to light and shade of a printed image obtained by printing the input image in the print mode, and a step of acquiring a combined image by combining the corrected illumination-light component and the reflectance component or the corrected reflectance component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Higashi, Reo Aoki, Yuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10567608
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller controls display of a function of one device if the one device is photographed and controls display of a cooperative function that uses functions of plural devices if the plural devices are photographed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 10565689
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an example method may include receiving information indicative of an eye gaze region. The method may include improving a graphics processing pipeline by based on the information indicative of the eye gaze region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Surendra Nallam
  • Patent number: 10559120
    Abstract: A graphics processing system performs hidden surface removal and texturing/shading on fragments of primitives. The system includes a primary depth buffer (PDB) for storing depth values of resolved fragments, and a secondary depth buffer (SDB) for storing depth values of unresolved fragments. Incoming fragments are depth tested against depth values from either the PDB or the SDB. When a fragment passes a depth test, its depth value is stored in the PDB if it is a resolved fragment (e.g. if it is opaque or translucent), and its depth value is stored in the SDB if it is an unresolved fragment (e.g. if it is a punch through fragment). This provides more opportunities for subsequent opaque objects to overwrite punch through fragments which passed a depth test, thereby reducing unnecessary processing and time which may be spent on fragments which ultimately will not contribute to the final rendered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: John Howson
  • Patent number: 10554862
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for retaining color gamut. The system includes: a first converting module, configured to convert a color system of the first color gamut into a first converted color gamut; a second converting module, configured to convert a color system of the second color gamut into a second converted color gamut; a coordinate point mapping module, configured to calculate a coordinate point in the second converted color gamut corresponding to each coordinate point in the first converted color gamut according to a corresponding algorithm; a correspondence table generating module, configured to generate a correspondence table of the first converted color gamut and the second converted color gamut; a standard color comparison table generating module, configured to generate the standard color comparison table according to the correspondence table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Tiantian Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Renli Xie, Zeyin Wei
  • Patent number: 10542166
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus including a controller configured to perform an update processing for updating shading correction data stored in a memory by a generation processing of generating shading correction data based on an image signal of a reference member and perform a size determination processing for determining a size of a document based on an image signal of the document, wherein, when the document on the document platen is read, the controller performs the generation processing before the document is read, and an image processing portion performs the shading correction using the shading correction data generated before the document is read, and wherein, when the size determination processing is performed, the image processing portion performs the shading correction using the shading correction data stored in the memory, and the update processing is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Seki, Akiko Kanno
  • Patent number: 10534499
    Abstract: Systems and method for performing a cell site audit or survey remotely via a User Interface (UI) include, subsequent to capturing a plurality of photos of a cell site and linking the plurality of photos to one another based on their adjacency at the cell site, displaying the UI to a user remote from the cell site, wherein the plurality of photos cover a cell tower with associated cell site components and an interior of a building at the cell site; receiving navigation commands from the user performing the cell site audit or survey; and updating the displaying based on the navigation commands, wherein the navigation commands include one or more of movement at the cell site and zoom of a current view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10529100
    Abstract: A method for interactively visualizing a graph includes maintaining objects, operations, reactions, and interactions in volatile memory, receiving user input of interactions each specifying one or more reactions to visually transform one object when selected by one or more operations, and writing the objects, the operations, the reactions, and the interactions in a computer-readable file. The method further includes exporting a number of the objects to a render function in an application framework to render them, receiving an event from an event listener in the application framework, determining an operation selecting an object based on the event, determining an interaction corresponding to the object and the operation, determining at least one reaction corresponding to the interaction, and instructing the render function to visually transform the object with the at least one reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe Wang, Xiangjun Song
  • Patent number: 10531264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently controlling access for system load adjustment in mobile communication systems. In a wireless communication system according to one embodiment, the method for transmitting and receiving data by a terminal including a user equipment (UE) non access stratum (NAS) and a UE access stratum (AS) includes the steps of: receiving by the UE AE, information including emergency call-related information which includes barring information by type for the emergency call, from a base station; transmitting, by the UE NAS, a service request for the emergency call to the UE AS; and determining, by the UE AS, whether to bar the service request on the basis of emergency call-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Bum Kim, Kyeong In Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10523840
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry that acquires first image data, embeds electronic watermark data in a brightness component of the first image data to generate second image data, and determines a type of the second image data based on a color difference component of the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Noda
  • Patent number: 10521948
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Rickwald, Nicolas Scapel, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 10521958
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for determining a silhouette volume of a 3D object, e.g. for mesh simplification, comprises: receiving a computer representation of a 3D object; determining a silhouette volume of the object, wherein the silhouette volume is the maximal volume of space having a silhouette from every viewing direction which is identical to the silhouette of the object from the same viewing direction, and wherein points of the object which lie on the boundary of the silhouette volume also lie on the boundary of the object's projected silhouette from at least one viewing direction; determining, based on the silhouette volume, the extent to which features of the object are silhouette features; determining, for a plurality of planes and for a plurality of different axes, at least one intersection loop, wherein each intersection loop corresponds to a planar cross-section of the boundary of the object in its respective plane; and determining the convex hull of each intersection loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventor: Ashton Mason
  • Patent number: 10516802
    Abstract: A read circuit outputs input pixel blocks to a line buffer. An arithmetic processing circuit reads an input pixel block from the line buffer and executes rotation processing to derive an output pixel block. A controller sets an output block height to the largest integer fraction of an output band height so that the output pixel block fits within an input band in an input pixel coordinate system, extends the width of the output pixel block so that the output pixel block fits within a maximum width of the input pixel block in the input pixel coordinate system, reduces the width of the output pixel block according to the size of the output pixel block in the input pixel coordinate system and the number of pixel lines in the line buffer, and sets the size of the input pixel block based on the size of the output pixel block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Seiki Satomi
  • Patent number: 10515432
    Abstract: A method of managing graphics data in a graphics processing device may include: receiving a first draw call having a first identifier, generating a first lookup table having the first identifier mapped in association with a first handle value by allocating the first handle value to the first identifier, generating a second lookup table having the first handle value mapped in association with a first graphics state setting value by allocating the first handle value to the first graphics state setting value, wherein the first graphics state setting value corresponds to the first identifier, and performing at least one graphics pipeline operation to process the first draw call by using the first graphics state setting value obtained from the second lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong Seo, Santosh George Abraham
  • Patent number: 10509605
    Abstract: Multiple packages are manufactured by defining a package template, with at least one individualized image area, and selecting at least one image seed. For each package, an index key is selected and, based on the selected index key, a plurality of image attribute modifications are determined from within applicable ranges of image attribute modifications. The determined image attribute modifications are applied to the image seed or seeds to generate respective images, and the image or images are applied to the respective individualized image area of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Amir Gaash, Steve Morris, Shlomi Kramer, Muhannad Ismael, Guy Bibi, Hadar Peled Vaissman
  • Patent number: 10498928
    Abstract: A method for managing security settings of a print device using a lockdown mode includes receiving a request for enabling a lockdown mode. The lockdown mode prevents modifications to configurations of one or more components of the print device. The method further includes activating the lockdown mode. Activating the lockdown mode includes modifying a plurality of security settings corresponding to lockdown configurations of the one or more components of the print device, and disabling one or more modes that a user may use to modify the plurality of security settings. The method includes storing the plurality of security settings and the associated lockdown values in a security module, performing a compliance check to detect if current values associated with the plurality of security settings have changed by comparing to the lockdown values, and performing a remediation action in response to detecting that the one or more security settings have changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Keith G. Bunker, Kenneth B. Schleede, Susan Marie Healy
  • Patent number: 10482642
    Abstract: A method for automatic garment fit customization is provided. The method comprising steps for generating a garment by creating two-dimensional (2D) panels, in which the garment comprises a plurality of garment landmarks (GLMs) and a plurality of garment landmark lines (GLLs), which are key locations and lines on a surface of the garment, simulating draping of the garment on a reference body, where the reference body comprises body landmarks (BLMs) and body landmark lines (BLLs), performing a fit evaluation and calculating misfit measures comprising landmark (LM) misfits, landmark line (LL) misfits, and circumferential misfits, performing a fit adjustment for panel alteration operations modifying some of the 2D panels based on the fit evaluation, performing draping simulation with the modified 2D panels, and repeating until the misfit measures fall within a predetermined criterion and determining customized 2D panels that fit the reference body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TG3D STUDIO.INC.
    Inventors: Bong Ouk Choi, Wonseop Lee
  • Patent number: 10484575
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a peripheral image acquisition section, a face detection section, a face recognition section and a printing control section. The peripheral image acquisition section acquires an image of the periphery of the image forming apparatus. The face detection section detects a face of person from the image acquired by the peripheral image acquisition section. The face recognition section calculates a matching rate indicating a matching degree of the face of person detected by the face detection section with a face of a user registered in advance. The printing control section executes a processing relating to printing of the image forming apparatus in a plurality of stages corresponding to the matching rates according to the matching rate calculated by the face recognition section and a threshold value of the matching rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Miyoshi