Patents Examined by M Good Johnson
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Patent number: 8605108Abstract: A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the light intensity levels of pixels within a second range of light intensity levels that is less than the first range of light intensity levels, without reducing the range of light intensity levels in the image file.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Paul E. Debevec, Timothy S. Hawkins, Chris D. X. N. Tchou
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Patent number: 8605094Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include receiving an indication of a first future date from a user, determining that one or more friends of the user in a social network are associated with one or more future locations including a second future date that matches the first future date, displaying a geographic map including a friend representation corresponding to each of the one or more future locations where the one or more friend of the user are going to be physically present, the friend representation including a number of friends of the user that are physically present at the respective future location on the first future date, receiving, from the user, an indication at one of the friend representations, and displaying a list including at least one of one or more friends associated with the future location and one or more events associated with the future location.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
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Patent number: 8581932Abstract: An image display system including: an image acquisition section that acquires a specific number of images of an imaging subject by imaging with an imaging section from different respective imaging positions; a detection section that detects regions of attention expressing specific loci of attention in each of the specific number of images acquired by the image acquisition section; and a selection section that selects, from combinations of the images, a combination of images for display as images on a display section, the combination of images having a minimum number of images having all of the loci of attention expressed by the regions of attention detected by the detection section in the specific number of images.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Nobuhiko Kashiwagi, Ayako Muramoto
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Patent number: 8581933Abstract: A method controls display of an image by dividing a source image into a plurality of M×N blocks of pixels, selecting a first one of the blocks, and transferring the pixels in the first block from a source memory to a display memory, the pixels in the first block transferred based on orientation change information. The selecting and transferring steps are then repeated to transfer pixels in remaining ones of the blocks to the display memory. Each block corresponds to only a portion of the source image, where any given portion represents less than a full line of pixels in the source image.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Guruprasad Nagaraj, Krishna Koteshwara Sridhar Murthy, Vijayalaxmi Patil, Nataraja Kambadahalli Muniyappa, Sunil Ramappa Nyamagouda
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Patent number: 8576249Abstract: There are provided: a map display control unit that brings up a map on display at a display monitor; a stormy weather condition information reception unit that receives stormy weather condition information; and a stormy weather condition information display control unit that provides a storm path forecast, indicating a predicted path of a storm, based upon the stormy weather condition information by superimposing the storm path forecast over the map on display at the display monitor. The stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using a fan-shaped range centered on a current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through a predicted position that the storm is estimated to assume.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kunitosi Kumazawa
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Patent number: 8576246Abstract: This image processing method for the conversion of an image with a first number of bits per pixel, for example 16 bits per pixel, into an image with a second number of bits per pixel, for example 18 bits per pixel, includes generating additional coding bit values for the components (Ri, Gi, Bi) of each pixel starting from the component values of adjacent pixels and generating the converted signal from the additional coding bits.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: ST-Ericsson SAInventor: Jacques Dumarest
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Patent number: 8570347Abstract: An electronic device and method for image editing include constructing a virtual wallpaper interface, which includes an image display area and a preview window. After an image is imported from the area to the preview window, the method proportionally resizes the image. If the display ratio of the resized image is greater than that of the preview window, the electronic device and method can crop the resized image to generate an edited image that fits the aspect ratio of the preview window. If not, the electronic device and method merge at least one image with the edited image and crop the merged image to generate the edited image. By enlarging the edited image, a desired image which can cover an entire screen of the electronic device is generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.Inventor: Run Xiang
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Patent number: 8570326Abstract: A visualization mechanism may use two sets of rules having different priorities to generate points of interest for a dataset, and display the dataset with labels for the points of interest. The first set of rules may identify and label points of interest by various mechanisms, including analysis of the dataset and comparison to other datasets. The second set of rules may de-clutter the points interest by filtering and aggregating the points of interest by various mechanisms including the priority of the rule that created the point of interest. A display generator may create the visualization of the dataset along with various labels. In some embodiments, the display generator may allow real time user interaction with the data, which may include resizing the visualization in which the filtering and aggregation may be re-applied.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Alexandre Gorev
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Patent number: 8564607Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for creating textures of a building capable of storing textures of a three-dimensional building automatically extracted/obtained from spatial information convergence contents such as photographs, moving pictures, etc., including positional information and directional information, etc. together with a three-dimensional spatial information model.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Lee, Jae-Chul Kim, Yoon-Seop Chang, Sun-Rae Park, Jae-Jun Yoo, Chang-Rak Yoon, Hak-CHeol Kim, Ki-Jung Lee, Kyung-Ok Kim, Jong-Hyun Park
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Patent number: 8564617Abstract: Performing accelerated volume rendering of a scene in a computer system by: loading volumetric data into a first part of a system memory, the volumetric data represented as a three-dimensional array of data values; determining intersection points of each of a set of sample rays cast through the scene and intersecting the three-dimensional array, wherein the intersection points are determined as a function of sample times from beginning to end; using the intersection points, computing a subset of the three-dimensional array for placement into local storage; loading the subset of three-dimensional array into the local storage; and repeating the determining, computing, and loading acts for all sample times from beginning to end for all sets of sample rays cast by the processor device.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Bruce David D'Amora
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Patent number: 8558847Abstract: In accordance with a particular embodiment of the invention, a request for a geotag comprising situational information and geographic coordinates may be received from a requestor. The request may include geospatial data, such as position data and viewing angle data, that identifies a location of the requester. The position data may be latitude data, longitude data, and/or elevation data, and the viewing angle data may be azimuth data, compass direction data, and/or orientation data. The geographic coordinates of a candidate geotag may be compared to the location received in the request. If the candidate geotag is near the location received in the request, it may be sent to the requestor.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Nicholas W. Knize, Larry L. Johnson, Roberto Reta
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Patent number: 8537163Abstract: A method for displaying continuous lines on a raster-based display appliance, with a continuous line being defined by a sequence of two-dimensional support points v1 and v2 and a line width w, and with a rectangle 1, which connects the support points v1, v2, having a rectangle length predetermined by the distance between the support points v1, v2 and having a rectangle width predetermined by the line width w being displayed between two support points v1, v2. The method provides that a triangle sequence 6, which covers a gap 5 between the rectangles 1, 2, is displayed between two successive rectangles 1 and 2 whose alignment with respect to one another is at an angle ???0. The triangle sequence 6 includes a plurality of triangles which each have the support point v2, which connects the successive rectangles 1, 2, as a common corner point.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Diehl Aerospace GmbHInventors: Joachim Bader, Sven Marco Hoppe
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Patent number: 8520016Abstract: An instruction folding mechanism, a method for performing the instruction folding mechanism and a pixel processing system employing the instruction folding mechanism are described. The pixel processing system comprises an instruction folding mechanism and a pixel shader. The instruction folding mechanism folds a plurality of first instructions in a first program to generate a second program having at least one second instruction which is a combination of the first instructions. The pixel shader connected to the instruction folding mechanism fetches the second program to decode at least the second instruction having the combination of the first instructions to execute the second program. The instruction folding mechanism comprises an instruction scheduler, a folding rule checker, and an instruction combiner. The instruction scheduler connected to the folding rule checker is used to scan the first instructions according to static positions in order to schedule the first instructions in the first program.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Taichi Holdings, LLCInventor: R-Ming Hsu
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Patent number: 8497881Abstract: An image processor for combining video data and graphic data is provided. The image processor includes a scaler that is configured to scale compressed graphic data in a horizontal direction using bilinear scaling, to scale a horizontally scaled graphic data in a vertical direction using line copy, and to process a data value of a pixel at a border of a vertically scaled graphic data based on a data value of the compressed graphic data and a data combiner that is configured to combine video data with processed graphic data output from the scaler.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong Ho Roh, Sung-Jin Cho
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Patent number: 8497864Abstract: Measurement points for display on a two-dimensional pixel-based display device are formed by scanned and digitized measurement values. To this end, the resolution of each measurement point according to time and/or value is higher than the resolution of the two-dimensional pixel-based display device. The measurement points are connected into a continuous measurement point curve if they are not located on directly adjoining pixels. In order to determine the pixels to be depicted of the continuous measurement point curve between two measurement points not located on directly adjoining pixels, the positions of the adjoining measurement points within the associated pixels are taken into consideration.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Rohde & Schwartz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Reinhold, Markus Freidhof
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Patent number: 8487936Abstract: A portable electronic device including a display unit uses a still character font and a scroll character font. The display unit can scroll through one or more images on a screen. The still character font is used for characters on a still screen. The scroll character font is used for characters on a scroll screen, and has the same characters as those of the still character font, the characters of the scroll character font having at least one different visual characteristic when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Shoji Suzuki
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Patent number: 8487957Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to displaying and navigating within photo placemarks in a geographic information system. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method displays a photographic image within geographic information in a geographic information system. The photographic image is displayed at a location within the geographic information when the photographic image is located within a field of view of a virtual camera of the geographic information system. In response to a computer input event, the photographic image is displayed in greater detail.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Francois Bailly, John Rohlf, Brian McClendon, Andrew Timothy Szybalski
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Patent number: 8482566Abstract: In an electronic paper terminal device, a drawing order determination unit analyzes an image to be displayed, and determines priority of each line. A priority storage unit stores the priority of each line determined by the drawing order determination unit. A drawing unit selects lines in descending order of the priority stored in the priority storage unit, acquires image data on the selected lines from the image to be displayed, and draws on the selected lines of a display device on the basis of the acquired image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yoshinori Ito
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Patent number: 8482580Abstract: A display control apparatus that can display information which is not set to be displayed in a mode after switching, when the mode is switched. A mode of the apparatus is switched between a first mode and a second mode. Information set to be displayed in the first mode and the second mode is selected, respectively, among a plurality of kinds of information, and then the selected information are displayed on the display device, in the first mode and in the second mode. Information except for information which is set to be displayed in the second mode, among the plurality of kinds of information, is displayed in response to switching instruction from the first mode to the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kengo Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8482567Abstract: A line rasterization technique in accordance with one embodiment includes conditioning a line by pulling in the ending vertex of the line or pushing out the starting vertex of the line. Thereafter, if the line exits a diamond test area of each pixel that it touches, the pixel may be lit.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2006Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Henry Packard Moreton, Franklin C. Crow