Patents Examined by M Good Johnson
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Patent number: 9904980Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display; and a controller configured to detect an object in an input image, divide the image into a first region of the image corresponding to a location of the detected object and a second region of the image corresponding to a region of the input image excluding the first region, adjust the first region and the second region using different scale factors, and control the display to display the image having the adjusted first and second regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Ra Lim, Seon-seok Kim
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Patent number: 9898867Abstract: A method for providing information associated with a lift process to a mobile device user is presented. The method comprises receiving a request for lift environment information from a mobile device, determining a pose of the mobile interface device relative to a lift process target area, and obtaining lift environment information for at least a portion of the lift process target area. The lift environment information is used to assemble AR lift information for transmission to and display on the mobile interface device. The AR lift information is configured for viewing in conjunction with a real-time view of the lift process target area captured by the mobile interface device. The AR lift information is then transmitted to the mobile interface device for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Huntington Ingalls IncorporatedInventors: Brian Bare, Jonathan Martin, Patrick Ryan, Paul Sells, Mark Lawrence
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Patent number: 9892668Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for dynamically managing power consumption of a device capable of operating on battery power, or other power. In particular, the size of the viewable area of the display may be dynamically controlled to reduce the number of activated pixels to reduce power consumption. The resizing of the viewable area of a screen may also reduce the number of applications running, thereby reducing power consumption. An indication of the amount of operation time, battery indicator, and/or energy left in the battery may be presented, based at least in part on the dynamic resize of the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: AVAYA INC.Inventors: Jitendra Singh Wadhwa, Ramanujan S. Kashi
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Patent number: 9875571Abstract: In an embodiment, provided is an image combining apparatus coupled to a first terminal device through a network. The image combining apparatus includes: a delivery section that delivers screen data that is image data for a screen to the first terminal device; a receiving section that receives first handwriting position information indicating a position of first handwriting information input to a screen based on the screen data on the first terminal device; a generation section that produces first handwriting image data that is the image data of the first handwriting information using the first handwriting position information; and a combining section that produces combined screen data by combining the screen data with the first handwriting image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yohei Fujita, Takeshi Fujita, Tetsuro Kutsuwada, Akira Masuda, Kohichi Nishide
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Patent number: 9858703Abstract: A device connectable to a near eye display or to a virtual reality headset and to a portable computing platform having a processor is provided herein. The device may include: an illuminator configured to illuminate a proximity of a user wearing the headset or the near eye display with patterned light; and an IR camera configured to capture reflections of said patterned light coming from at least one object located in the proximity of the user, wherein the processor is configured to: establish data and power connection between the device and said portable computing platform and said near eye display; and generate a depth map of said object based on the reflections.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kobi Kaminitz, Nadav Grossinger, Moshe Meyassed, Nitay Romano
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Patent number: 9836208Abstract: In a method for displaying information with the aid of a display mounted in a motor vehicle, a user-interface device generates graphics data that control the display such that a graphical object is displayed in which a display content is shown in a specific scale, and one pixel of the display is selected with the aid of an input device, and a line is drawn on the display starting from this pixel. The scale of the display content is altered as a function of the length of the line. A display device for a motor vehicle can implement the method.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Gustav Hofmann, Mathias Kuhn
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Patent number: 9824470Abstract: A method and system for highlighting portions of a graph based on exception highlight rules is described. Highlight rules for a graph are received from a selection of a portion of an axis of the graph. Portions of the graph satisfying the highlight rules are identified. Visualization on the graph is generated to highlight the identified portions of the graph satisfying the highlight rules.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.Inventor: Heng-Chun Scott Kuo
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Patent number: 9811723Abstract: A method of authenticating and/or identifying a security article including a first image includes superimposing at least partially the first image of the article with a second image. The second image may be produced by an electronic imager. The method further includes performing a relative movement between the first and second images so as to make it possible to observe an item of information relating to authentication and/or identification of the security article during the relative movement between the first and second images.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: ARJOWIGGINS SECURITYInventors: Henri Rosset, Philippe Dietemann
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Patent number: 9805511Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide approaches for interacting with data fields on a page using an augmented reality (AR) device. Specifically, a way for a user to interact with a page having preprinted content and a user's handwritten content within a real world scene using a display screen of the AR device is provided. An image capture unit of the AR device captures image data representing the page. A processing unit performs a page scan of the captured image data to determine a set of data fields located on the page. Context data for at least one data field within the page is received by the processing unit. Augmented reality content based on the context data is incorporated into the page when viewing the page through the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gregory R. Hintermeister, Jacob A. Kugel
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Patent number: 9805695Abstract: An example information processing apparatus determines whether an orientation of a display unit capable of being held by a user is in a first state or in a second state. If it has been determined that the orientation of the display unit is in the first state, the information processing apparatus sets, in a predetermined area, a display range to be displayed in the display unit, in accordance with the orientation of the display unit. If it has been determined that the orientation of the display unit is in the second state, the information processing apparatus sets the display range, regardless of the orientation of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Matsunaga, Yugo Hayashi
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Patent number: 9799141Abstract: According to one of aspects, a display device includes: a display unit configured to stereoscopically display an aggregation configured from a plurality of regular hexahedrons arrayed along mutually perpendicular three directions, in a display space, by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn; a detection unit configured to detect movement of a body in the display space; and a control unit configured to change positions of the regular hexahedrons of the aggregation according to a detection result of the detection unit. Each of six faces of the aggregation includes external faces of the regular hexahedrons as elements, and notations with which whether all of the elements on the same face of the aggregation belong to a same group is discriminative are provided to the respective elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Ueno, Shigeki Tanabe
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Patent number: 9798139Abstract: A wearable electronic device and a display method are described. The wearable electronic device includes a fix unit, by which the wearable electronic device can maintain a position relationship with respect to a first part of a user body; a detection unit, configured to detect a posture of the first part of the user body, and to acquire a detection result; a posture determination unit, configured to determine whether the detection result meets a predetermined acquisition condition; a first acquisition unit, configured to acquire weather information when the posture determination unit determines that the detection result meets a predetermined acquisition condition; an image generation unit, configured to generate a weather image corresponding to the weather information; and a display unit, configured to display the weather information and/or the weather image.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Shifeng Peng, Xinru Hou
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Patent number: 9786075Abstract: Architecture that extracts (analyzes and selects) a set of images from repositories or sources imagery to create one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) image manifolds (or image packets—also referred to as “synth” packets). The repositories of map imagery can include aerial views and terrestrial views (from points on the earth surface). The manifolds facilitate fluid translation between manifold images thereby providing a fluid user interactive navigation experience for viewing the location.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Blaise Hilary Aguera-Arcas
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Patent number: 9779533Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for processing graphics objects. The method includes receiving a first draw-call and a second draw-call. The method also includes dividing the first draw-call into a first set of sub-draw-calls and the second draw-call into a second set of sub-draw-calls. The method further includes identifying a first screen tile. The method also includes identifying a first group of sub-draw-calls included in the first set of sub-draw-calls that overlap the first screen tile and a second group of sub-draw-calls included in the second set of sub-draw-calls that overlap the second screen tile. The method further includes causing the first group of sub-draw-calls and the second group of sub-draw-calls to be processed together.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Rouslan Dimitrov, Ziyad S. Hakura
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Patent number: 9767768Abstract: A system to facilitate AR processing includes receiving captured media from a user device and context information relating to media that is being delivered to a receiving device. The system may use the media being delivered with the captured media to generate one or more virtual objects. The user device may augment a user's view of reality that is reflected in the captured media by overlaying or otherwise incorporating the virtual objects in the user's view of reality.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Narayanan Venkitaraman, Santosh S. Basapur, Shirley A. Chaysinh, Young S. Lee, Hiren M. Mandalia, Van M. Vuong
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Patent number: 9754559Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a display device displaying a background image and a stroke image superimposed on the background image, the stroke image reproducing a stroke which is drawn by an input operation of a user, includes a recording unit recording image data of the background image and stroke data, which are related to the stroke input by the input operation, into an electronic document; a read unit reading the electronic document; a display unit displaying the background image on the display device by using the image data of the background data, reproducing the stroke image by using the stroke data, and displaying the stroke image superimposed on the background image on the display device; and an edit unit editing the stroke data in accordance with the input operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mototsugu Emori, Tomoyuki Tsukuda
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Patent number: 9747714Abstract: A device for superimposing a graphic on an image which comprises: a selection unit configured to select a plurality of specified points on the image which represent areas of background; an image processing unit configured to i) determine a color characteristic of the image at the plurality of specified points; ii) determine a location for graphic insertion; iii) determine the difference in color between at least one of the plurality of specified points and the location for graphic insert; iv) define areas within the location for graphic insert as a foreground region or a background region on the basis of the determined color difference; v) overlay the graphic on the image to form a graphic image; and vi) overlay the foreground regions of the location for composition onto the graphic image, is described.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: David Wagg
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Patent number: 9746990Abstract: Technologies for selectively augmenting communications transmitted by a communication device include a communication device configured to acquire new user environment information relating to the environment of the user if such new user environment information becomes available. The communication device is further configured to create one or more user environment indicators based on the new user environment information, to display the one or more created user environment indicators via a display of the communication device and include the created user environment indicator in a communication to be transmitted by the communication device if the created user environment indicator is selected for inclusion in the communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Glen J. Anderson, Jose K. Sia, Jr., Wendy March
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Patent number: 9733730Abstract: Systems and methods are providing for scrolling the display of information based on the displacement of the electronic device. An electronic device can include a motion sensing component operative to detect movement of the electronic device (e.g., an accelerometer). The electronic device can display any suitable information, including information that is too large to display at a single instance on the display (e.g., a multi-page text document, or a large image). To view portions of the information that are not initially displayed (e.g., to scroll displayed information), the user can move the electronic device along the plane of the device. As the motion sensing component detects movement, the electronic device can scroll the displayed information to match the detected movement. In some embodiments, the electronic device can detect tilt movements and adjust the displayed information to reflect the tilted display.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Richard H. Tsai, Andrew B. Just, Brandon B. Harris
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Patent number: 9727128Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for enhancing activation of an augmented reality mode. A method may include detecting a predefined trigger for activating an augmented reality mode. The method may further include determining, responsive to the predefined trigger, at least a portion of content visibly displayed. The method may additionally include activating the augmented reality mode, wherein content displayed in the augmented reality mode is at least partially defined by the determined content. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Mikko Antero Nurmi