Patents Examined by Motilewa A. Good-Johnson
  • Patent number: 11961206
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a Bayer input image. The method also includes generating, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, multiple YUV image frames based on the Bayer input image using non-linear scaling, where the YUV image frames are associated with different exposure settings. The method further includes generating, using the at least one processing device of the electronic device, a fused image based on the YUV image frames. In addition, the method includes applying, using the at least one processing device of the electronic device, global tone-mapping to the fused image in order to generate a tone-mapped fused image, where the global tone-mapping is based on a first cubic spline curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaimo Lin, Hamid R. Sheikh
  • Patent number: 11954243
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) device can be configured to generate a virtual representation of a user's physical environment. The AR device can capture images of the user's physical environment to generate or identify a user's location. The AR device can project graphics at designated locations within the user's environment to guide the user to capture images of the user's physical environment. The AR device can provide visual, audible, or haptic guidance to direct the user of the AR device to explore the user's environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Amy Dedonato, James Cameron Petty, Griffith Buckley Hazen, Jordan Alexander Cazamias, Karen Stolzenberg
  • Patent number: 11935201
    Abstract: An information handling system operating an HMD device may include a video display device to display application images or a fiducial image when the HMD device is worn by a user; the HMD device including: a display device in the HMD device to present to a user an XR (XR) image of a surrounding XR environment; a pass-through camera to detect the fiducial image displayed by the video display device; and an HMD processor to receive data from an HMD wearing sensor indicating that the user is wearing the HMD device and execute computer readable program code to display an XR environment to the user including an XR image version of the application images presented to the user via the video display device; wherein detection of the fiducial image triggers an API with the XR image version of the video display application images via the video display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products LP
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Patent number: 11933986
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for extracting and displaying information and data from a stream of information on a pair of smart glasses. One or more content filters describing the desired information and data may be communicated to a content filtering module. The content filtering module may process the stream of information to search for the desired information and data. When the desired information is found within the stream of information, the content filtering module may highlight the desired information, while blurring all other information, within a display on the pair of smart glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Sandeep Verma, Nandini Rathaur, Pavan Chayanam, Srinivas Dundigalla
  • Patent number: 11928778
    Abstract: A method for human body model reconstruction and a reconstruction system are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a target image, and acquiring a segmented image by segmenting the target image based on an object to be reconstructed in the target image, the target image being one front image of the object; acquiring an initial estimate shape and a part of texture information of the object respectively, according to the segmented image; determining an initial 3D model of the object through the initial estimate shape, the initial 3D model being a 3D model without texture; acquiring complete texture information of the object according to the part of texture information and a texture generation model; and generating a 3D reconstruction model of the object based on the initial 3D model and the complete texture information, the 3D reconstruction model being a 3D model with texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhong Li, Yi Xu, Shuxue Quan
  • Patent number: 11900506
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving an image that includes a depiction of a person wearing a fashion item; generating a segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person depicted in the image; identifying a facial expression of the user depicted in the image; and in response to identifying the facial expression, applying one or more augmented reality elements to the fashion item worn by the person based on the segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Itamar Berger, Gal Dudovitch, Gal Sasson, Ma'ayan Shuvi, Matan Zohar
  • Patent number: 11900525
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for compressing attributes of volumetric and hypervolumetric datasets. An example system performs operations including obtaining a reference dataset comprising attributes indexed by a domain of multidimensional coordinates; subdividing the domain into a plurality of blocks respectively associated with a plurality of attribute subsets; inputting, to a local nonlinear operator, a latent representation for an attribute subset associated with at least one block of the plurality of blocks; obtaining, using the local nonlinear operator and based on the latent representation, an attribute representation of one or more attributes of the attribute subset; and updating the latent representation based on a comparison of the attribute representation and the reference dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Chou, Berivan Isik, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Milo Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 11872468
    Abstract: A sport training method and system and a head-mounted VR device are disclosed. The method is performed by a head-mounted VR device. The head-mounted VR device is wirelessly connected to a hand-motion tracker and a foot-motion tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11869149
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an unsupervised training application executes a neural network on a first point cloud to generate keys and values. The unsupervised training application generates output vectors based on a first query set, the keys, and the values and then computes spatial features based on the output vectors. The unsupervised training application computes quantized context features based on the output vectors and a first set of codes representing a first set of 3D geometry blocks. The unsupervised training application modifies the first neural network based on a likelihood of reconstructing the first point cloud, the quantized context features, and the spatial features to generate an updated neural network. A trained machine learning model includes the updated neural network, a second query set, and a second set of codes representing a second set of 3D geometry blocks and maps a point cloud to a representation of 3D geometry instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Eckart, Christopher Choy, Chao Liu, Yurong You
  • Patent number: 11861898
    Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) servicing guidance uses a mobile device (30, 90) with a display and a camera. Computer vision (CV) processing (102) such as Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM) is performed to align AR content (80) with a live video feed (96) captured by the camera. The aligned AR content is displayed on the display of the mobile device. In one example, the mobile device is a head-up display (HUD) (90) with a transparent display (92, 94) and camera (20). In another example the mobile device is a cellphone or tablet computer (30) with a front display (34) and a rear-facing camera (36). The AR content (80) is generated by CV processing (54) to align (70) AR content with recorded video (40) of a service call. The aligning (72) includes aligning locations of interest (LOIs) identified in the recorded video of the service call by a user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Sven Peter Prevrhal, Jörg Sabczynski
  • Patent number: 11861801
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for enhanced augmented reality (AR) reading are provided, where the methods include entering a reading mode, capturing an image of a section of reading materials such as a page of a book, identifying a code within the image, and identifying a code module corresponding to the code. The methods further include executing the code module, the code module providing an augmented reality object or virtual reality object related to an object depicted on the section or page, entering a sleep mode for a sleep duration based on an estimated reading time duration of a section or page, awaking after the sleep duration, and capturing a next image. The sleep duration is adjusted based on times when identifiers of the sections of the reading materials such as numbers are captured. The user may manually wake the AR reading device using an external user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piotr Gurgul, Tomasz Zakrzewski
  • Patent number: 11854121
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a water ripple effect, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method obtaining a current image frame in an original video; selecting a water ripple map corresponding to the current image frame from a pre-obtained water ripple map sequence; determining displacements of respective pixels in the water ripple map, and forming a displacement vector diagram by using the displacements of the pixels; determining coordinates of respective pixels in the current image frame based on the displacement vector diagram to obtain a first water ripple distortion image; and determining a water ripple effect image corresponding to the current image frame based on the first water ripple distortion image and the water ripple map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jingye Wang
  • Patent number: 11847820
    Abstract: The invention relates to method and system for classifying faces of a Boundary Representation (B-Rep) model using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The method includes extracting topological information corresponding to each of a plurality of data points of a B-Rep model of a product; determining a set of parameters based on the topological information corresponding to each of the plurality of data points; transforming the set of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of data points of the B-Rep model into a tabular format to obtain a parametric data table; and assigning each of the plurality of faces of the B-Rep model a category from a plurality of categories based on the parametric data table using an AI model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Girish Ramesh Chandankar, Hari Krishnan Elumalai, Pankaj Gupta, Rajesh Chakravarty, Akash Agarwal, Raunaq Pandya, Yaganti Sasidhar Reddy
  • Patent number: 11830249
    Abstract: Augmented reality, computer vision, and digital ticketing system techniques are described that employ a location determination system. In one example, the location determination system is configured to receiving at least one digital image as part of a live camera feed, identify an object included in the at least one digital image using object recognition, determine a location of the object in relation to a digital map of a physical environment, generate augmented reality digital content indicating the determined location in relation to the digital map, and render the augmented reality digital content as part of the live camera feed for display by a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Robert Neumann, Marcus Walter Shelksohn, Khashayar Dehdashtinejad, Jonathan Xiaohang Zhang, Edward Tang, Garrett Canan Reeb, Ninglin Li
  • Patent number: 11817003
    Abstract: A content presentation system includes: a trainee terminal that presents training content to the trainee; a worker terminal used by a worker; a tool recognition device that acquires a work video of the worker and recognizes the tool being used by the worker; a determination device that determines success or failure of the work at a specific stage based on the information about the work tool recognized by the tool recognition device; and a content creation device that creates and updates the training content based on the determination result of the determination device. When the determination result is determined to be the failure of the work by the determination device, the content creation device identifies a portion of the training content corresponding to the specific stage in the work procedure and updates the portion of the training content so as to suppress a factor of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsuchiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Patent number: 11816800
    Abstract: In an exemplary process for providing a guided consumer experience, product information comprising an image of a product is displayed. A communication session with a remote user is provided. While providing the communication session, the display of product information is adjusted using information received from the communication session. A representation of the product is displayed in computer-generated reality by capturing an image using a camera, generating a view of an environment by compositing a virtual object representing the product and the captured image, and displaying the view of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Oser, Jonathan S. Reiling, Wai Ki Chan, Paul C. Hikiji, Wilson W. Yin
  • Patent number: 11816825
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for evaluating the installation position of a measuring device in a system using an augmented reality device, wherein the augmented reality device has at least one capturing unit for capturing the system, at least one computing unit and at least one display unit, the method comprising the following steps: at least partially capturing the system using the at least one capturing unit; visually representing the system on the display unit on the basis of the at least partial capturing of the system; assigning at least one measuring device installed in the system in an installation position and/or placing at least one virtual measuring device in an installation position in the visual representation of the system; evaluating the installation position of the at least one recognized and/or virtual measuring device using the computing unit; and representing the evaluation on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Förster, Martin Krawczyk-Becker
  • Patent number: 11793119
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, in which Synecoculture (registered trademark) can be assisted. An ecosystem object indicating an ecosystem constituent configuring an ecosystem of an agricultural field in which a plurality of types of vegetation are mixed up and a task object indicating a task performed with respect to the ecosystem constituent are acquired, and the ecosystem object is subjected to augmented reality (AR) display in a position in a predetermined background space, corresponding to a real position of the ecosystem constituent, and the task object is subjected to AR display in the background space. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a case or the like where information of assisting Synecoculture (registered trademark) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masatoshi Funabashi
  • Patent number: 11792625
    Abstract: A planned navigation route of a first motor vehicle is established as a reference navigation route. A second motor vehicle having a planned navigation route which satisfies a prespecified synchronization condition is selected, and a route length of the navigation route of the second motor vehicle is scaled to a route length of the reference navigation route. A route section of the reference navigation route is identified as a synchronizable route section, the route section satisfying a prespecified homogeneity criterion, and a route section of the scaled navigation route is assigned to the synchronizable route section. When the first motor vehicle is on the synchronizable route section and when the second motor vehicle is on the route section of the scaled navigation route assigned to the synchronizable route section, the provided output content which describes an avatar for the second motor vehicle is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11776225
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable presenting environments including visual representations of multiple applications. In one implementation, a method includes presenting a view of an environment at an electronic device on a display. The view includes visual representations of a plurality of applications. The method further includes determining to provide a first application with access to a control parameter. The control parameter is configured to modify at least a portion of the view of the environment with virtual content, and the portion of the view includes at least a portion of content outside of a view of a visual representation associated with the first application. The method further includes restricting access to the control parameter by other applications which prevents the other applications from modifying the at least the portion of the view of the environment via the control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Burns, Alexis H. Palangie, Nathan Gitter, Pol Pla I. Conesa