Patents Examined by Maurice L McDowell, Jr.
  • Methods and devices for manipulating an identified background portion of an image
    Patent number: 10657730
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selecting objects in images are described. In one example aspect, a method includes: receiving stereoscopic image data, the stereoscopic image data includes a first image obtained from a first camera and a second image obtained from a second camera; identifying an object in the first image by analyzing the first image and the second image; displaying the first image, the identified object in the first image being selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Steven Henry Fyke
  • Mixed reality system and method for determining spatial coordinates of dental instruments
    Patent number: 10657726
    Abstract: A mixed reality system and method for determining spatial positions of dental instruments without having a fixed intra oral reference point is disclosed. An intra-oral image sensor-based positioning device including at least two cameras is provided to sense and track the movements of dental instruments being used. The three-dimensional coordinates relating to the movement and orientation of the dental instruments are obtained for real time or delayed use in a mixed reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: International Osseointegration AI Research and Training Center
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Xiaoyu Lu
  • Methods and systems for simplified graphical depictions of bipartite graphs
    Patent number: 10650559
    Abstract: A method for generating a graphical display of a bipartite graph includes receiving bipartite graph data, generating, a first meta-node including at least two nodes in the first set of nodes in the bipartite graph data and a second meta-node including at least two nodes in a second set of nodes in the bipartite graph data based on the bipartite graph data using a minimum description length (MDL) optimization process to generate the first meta-node and the second meta-node. The method further includes generating a first graphical depiction of the first meta-node and the second meta-node, the graphical depiction including a single edge connecting the first meta-node and the second meta-node to provide a summarized display of the bipartite graph data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Panpan Xu, Liu Ren, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan
  • Display device, and method of controlling display device
    Patent number: 10643524
    Abstract: A projector includes a connection section to which two interface boards can be connected in a replaceable manner, a board communication section, a determination section, a power control section, and an operation receiving section adapted to receive a selection operation of the interface board, and in the state in which the power control section supplies the power to one interface board but does not supply the power to the other interface board, when the selection operation of the other interface board is received, the power control section stops supplying the power to the one interface board, and then starts supplying the power to the other interface board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Morio Matsumoto
  • Message location based on limb location
    Patent number: 10643362
    Abstract: For presenting the message in a location of a display based on a location of a user's limb, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a display that presents a first view, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. Here, the processor receives a first message to be presented to a user within the first view. The processor determines a location of a limb of the user relative to the first view. Moreover, the processor presents the first message in a location of the first view based on the limb location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Histograms based on varying data distribution
    Patent number: 10628442
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing histograms are disclosed. One method for producing a histogram includes processing a database table to produce a grouped result set, and dividing the grouped result set into a plurality of collections with each collection containing one or more intervals of the grouped result set. Further, for each collection containing one or more intervals, the method includes determining one or more statistical parameters characterizing a distribution of the data within the collection. Still further, for each collection, the method includes applying one of a plurality of different histogram-producing algorithms based on the one or more statistical parameters to produce a histogram such that at least two of the different histogram-producing algorithms are used to render a respective different portion of the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventors: Subrata Naskar, J. P. Naveen
  • Displaying images with integrated information
    Patent number: 10628114
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system and information processing method that control display of information input with a receiver of a captured image. In a case where a first Ghost and a second Ghost receive an image (first person view) captured by a Body and first information generated in accordance with input to the first Ghost and second information generated in accordance with input to the second Ghost are transmitted to the Body, a control unit 509 performs control such that an integrated image obtained by integrating the first information and the second information is displayed and output to a display unit 503.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichi Kasahara, Junichi Rekimoto
  • Apparatus and method of removing noise from sparse depth map
    Patent number: 10607317
    Abstract: Provided is a method of removing noise from a sparse depth map. The method includes setting, as nodes, sample points in a sparse depth map including depth information at a certain position of an image plane, constructing a mesh by connecting the set nodes, and removing noise from the meshed node, based on connection information between the meshed node and neighboring nodes adjacent thereto and color information about a color image corresponding to the sparse depth map. A depth value is allocated to each of the sample points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Han Shin Lim, Ik Soon Kim, Hae Dong Kim, Seong Won Ryu, Chan Ho Park, Jun Suk Lee, Kyung Ho Jang, Jae Pil Heo
  • Head-mounted electronic device
    Patent number: 10607323
    Abstract: A head-mounted electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a curved display; a frame having a mounting surface having a curvature such that the curved display is mounted thereon; and a pair of optical assemblies provided on the left and right sides of the interior of the frame, respectively, so as to provide displayed images to the left and right eyes of the user, the optical assemblies comprising a first lens that forms a view angle of a binocular field of view and a second lens arranged to slope with regard to the first lens, thereby forming an additional view angle of the left or right field of view. In addition, the above head-mounted electronic device may be implemented variously according to embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Seob Han, Myong-Jo Choi, Jae-Woo Ko, Tae-Kyung Kim
  • Information processing device and information processing method for indicating a position outside a display region
    Patent number: 10599382
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can more exactly indicate a position outside a display region. An outside-display-region-position designation unit designates a position outside a display region of an image display unit, and a drawing/sound control unit controls output of a sound of an AR object from a sound output unit while moving the AR objet toward the designated position. The present technology can be applied to a wearable computer, for example, a glasses-type device having a pair of image display units for a left eye and a right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema
  • Wearable augmented reality devices with object detection and tracking
    Patent number: 10600248
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities to view and/or interact with the real world to the user of a wearable (or portable) device using a sensor configured to capture motion and/or determining the path of an object based on imaging, acoustic or vibrational waves. Implementations can enable improved user experience, greater safety, greater functionality to users of virtual reality for machine control and/or machine communications applications using wearable (or portable) devices, e.g., head mounted devices (HMDs), wearable goggles, watch computers, smartphones, and so forth, or mobile devices, e.g., autonomous and semi-autonomous robots, factory floor material handling systems, autonomous mass-transit vehicles, automobiles (human or machine driven), and so forth, equipped with suitable sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Facilitating increased precision in mip-mapped stitched textures for graphics computing devices
    Patent number: 10593095
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating increased precision in large mip-mapped stitched textures for graphics computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a stitched texture associated with a first frame of contents associated with an application, and a first region of interest in the stitched texture, where the stitched texture includes a mip-mapped stitched texture associated with multiple mip-levels in a mip-chain. The method may further include defining, at a first mip-level, a tile offset at a position within the first region of interest, where the first mip-level corresponds to the first frame. The method may further include creating or modifying a view of the stitched texture to specify the tile offset, and rendering the stitched texture as a normal texture with a full sub-texel precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Larry Seiler
  • Animating collision-free sequences of motions for objects placed across a surface
    Patent number: 10593091
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention set forth a technique for animating objects placed across a surface of a graphics object. A CAD application receives a set of motions and initially applies a different motion in the set of motions to each object placed across the surface of the graphics object. The CAD application calculates bounding areas of each object according to the current motion applied thereto, which are subsequently used by the CAD application to identify collisions that are occurring or will occur between the objects. Identified collisions are cured by identifying valid motions in the set of motions that can be applied to a colliding object and then calculating bounding areas for the valid motions to select a valid motion that, when applied to the object, does not cause the object to collide with any other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Susan Amkraut, Michael Girard
  • Distributed compute work parser circuitry using communications fabric
    Patent number: 10593094
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing work from compute kernels using a distributed hierarchical parser architecture. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a plurality of shader units configured to perform operations for compute workgroups included in compute kernels processed by the apparatus, a plurality of distributed workload parser circuits, and a communications fabric connected to the plurality of distributed workload parser circuits and a master workload parser circuit. In some embodiments, the master workload parser circuit is configured to iteratively determine a next position in multiple dimensions for a next batch of workgroups from the kernel and send batch information to the distributed workload parser circuits via the communications fabric to assign the batch of workgroups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Havlir, Benjamin Bowman, Jeffrey T. Brady
  • Systems and methods for automating the animation of blendshape rigs
    Patent number: 10586380
    Abstract: The present specification describes systems and methods for automatically animating personalized blendshapes from three dimensional stereo reconstruction data. The disclosed inventions facilitate the animation of blendshapes using an optimization process that applies to a frame a fitting process to yield a set of weighted blendshapes and applies to that frame a temporal smoothing process to yield a another set of weighted blendshapes and repeats that optimization process for a predetermined number of iterations to yield a final set of weighted blendshapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventors: Wan-Chun Ma, Chongyang Ma
  • Motion retargeting method for character animation and apparatus thererof
    Patent number: 10586371
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motion retargeting method and apparatus for character animation, and the method may include generating an intermediate object including at least one of a skeleton and a mesh based on a source motion and a target character, extracting keyframes of the intermediate object, constituting target rig parameters based on the extracted keyframes, and performing spacetime optimization on the target rig parameters to minimize a pose error between the intermediate object and the target character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Yong Noh, Jae Won Song, Roger Blanco Ribera, Kyung Min Cho, Mi Yu, Byung Kuk Choi
  • Processing and/or transmitting 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment
    Patent number: 10586386
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for processing and/or transmitting three-dimensional (3D) data are presented. A partitioning component receives captured 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment and partitions the captured 3D data into at least one data chunk associated with at least a first level of detail and a second level of detail. A data component stores 3D data including at least the first level of detail and the second level of detail for the at least one data chunk. An output component transmits a portion of data from the at least one data chunk that is associated with the first level of detail or the second level of detail to a remote client device based on information associated with the first level of detail and the second level of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Tschudy Bell, David Alan Gausebeck, Gregory William Coombe, Daniel Ford
  • Real-time detail highlighting on 3D models
    Patent number: 10586388
    Abstract: A dental CAD/CAM application generates a 3D model representing a patient's dental anatomy. This model may be a 3D surface. The surface may also be textured with either a monochrome or color image superimposed. The display routine that is used to display the 3D model is enhanced to adjust the contrast in the region of a displayed mouse pointer (or other input device) as a user explores the display image. When this feature is activated and the mouse pointer positioned, preferably the texturing on the 3D model is recomputed in that local area and redisplayed showing greater contrast and detail. Preferably, the contrast is increased from a center to an edge of the area of contrast. Having the texturing of the model being improved and highlighted around the margin is desirable, as it allows the user to see more easily where the margin is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: D4D Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Graham, Diego Escala, Mark S. Quadling
  • Automatic hardware ZLW insertion for IPU image streams
    Patent number: 10580107
    Abstract: A system for automatic hardware ZLW insertion for IPU image streams is described herein. The system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is to store imaging data. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor is to receive an image stream request and determine a data transfer type. The processor is also to insert a zero length write (ZLW) instruction ahead of the image stream request in response to the image stream request beginning on a different page when compared to the current page in a page history. Additionally, the processor is to insert a ZLW instruction ahead of the image stream request in response to the image stream request crossing a page boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mauro Cocco, Randy B. Osborne, Alessandro Paschina
  • Method and representation system for the multisensory representation of an object
    Patent number: 10580212
    Abstract: In a method and system for the multisensory representation of an object, multidimensional digital model data of the object are provided to a processor. An actual three-dimensional object model is produced on the basis of at least part of the multidimensional digital model data of the object. The position of the object is recorded subsequently. At least part of the multidimensional digital model data of the object is displayed by an AR display device depending on the position of the object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Popescu