Patents Examined by Motilewa A. Good-Johnson
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11775051
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: receive presentation data comprising first and second content for consecutive presentation, the first and second content associated with respective first and second spatial regions and a respective first and second presentation location; determine if the current location of a presenter user is within at least one of the first or second spatial region; if the presenter user is within the first spatial region, provide for the presentation of the first content at the first presentation location by a presentation apparatus of a consumer user in virtual reality; if the presenter user is within the second spatial region, provide for the presentation of the second content at the second presentation location by the presentation apparatus; and wherein the presentation of the first and second content is independent of the location of the consumer user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Antti Johannes Eronen, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 11776420
    Abstract: An AR system to assist with installation of wire harnesses identifies landmarks in the installation environment and continuously orients 3D models of the wire harness components with reference to the landmarks in 3D space. The 3D models are rendered in an AR device to correspond to the placement in 3D space with respect to the landmarks. The installation process is broken down into steps and sub-steps. An installer may install the wire harness according to predefined steps and be presented with higher granularity instructions upon request. The higher granularity sub-steps may include additional 3D models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: David Balfour
  • Patent number: 11769306
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a user-exhibit distance based collaborative interaction method and system for an augmented reality museum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiangdong Li, Yue Wu, Kailin Yin, Yifei Shan, Simon Perrault
  • Patent number: 11762475
    Abstract: An AR scenario-based gesture interaction method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a wireless communication terminal. The method includes: collecting a RGB image, a depth image, and corresponding IMU data of a current frame; obtaining posture information and hand information of the current frame by processing the RGB image, the depth image, and the IMU data; obtaining three-dimensional point cloud information of a hand in a reference coordinate system by performing three-dimensional dense modeling based on the posture information and the hand information of the current frame; obtaining pose information of a virtual object in the reference coordinate system; and obtaining an occlusion relationship between the hand and the virtual object by rendering the hand and the virtual object based on the three-dimensional point cloud information of the hand, the pose information of the virtual object, and preset point cloud information of the virtual object in the reference coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Fenghua Huang
  • Patent number: 11756246
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for retargeting a user's input digital design based on a selected template digital design. For example, in response to the user's selection of a template digital design, one or more embodiments described herein change various design features of the user's input digital design to match corresponding design features in the selected template digital design. One or more embodiments described herein also provide template digital designs to the user for use in retargeting after a two-step selection process that ensures the provided template digital designs are compatible with the user's input digital design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Peter O'Donovan, Adam Portilla, Satish Shankar
  • Patent number: 11741278
    Abstract: Embodiments are for using design context projection and wire editing in augmented media. Responsive to receiving an indication of an error in a design for an integrated circuit (IC), a localized area is extracted encompassing the error in the design. Augmented reality media of the localized area of the design is generated with a guide pattern, the localized area including objects. The augmented reality media of the localized area is caused to be presented in a three-dimensional (3D) projection on an augmented reality device for a user. Responsive to receiving at least one modification to the augmented media in the 3D projection, the design for the IC is updated with the modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Diwesh Pandey, Subarna Ghosh, Prashansha Gupta
  • Patent number: 11721078
    Abstract: A technology for reducing a processing delay when a plurality of mixed reality spaces are shared between terminals is provided. An information processing system includes a terminal configured to display an image representing a mixed reality space obtained by superimposing a virtual space in a real space, and a server apparatus configured to communicate with the terminal. The server apparatus manages, for each of a plurality of real spaces, information for identifying the real space and anchor information for defining a superimposition position of the virtual space in the real space and, in a case where an acquisition request for anchor information corresponding to a first real space is received from the terminal, transmits response information including anchor information corresponding to the first real space and anchor information corresponding to a second real space adjacent to the first real space to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Matsuo, Koya Mori, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11710280
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an environmental scanning tool that generates a digital model representing the surroundings of a user of an extended reality head-mounted display device. The environment is imaged in both a depth map and in visible light for some select objects of interest. The selected objects exist within the digital model at higher fidelity and resolution than the remaining portions of the model in order to manage the storage size of the digital model. In some cases, the objects of interest are selected, or their higher fidelity scans are directed, by a remote user. The digital model further includes time stamped updates of the environment such that users can view a state of the environment according to various timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ravi Durairaj, Marta Argumedo, Sean C. Mitchem, Ruthie Lyle, Nolan Serrao, Bharat Prasad, Nathan L. Post
  • Patent number: 11682180
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for rendering virtual content in a scene. An example method includes determining a surface plane in a scene of a physical environment; rendering virtual content in a perspective at a location in the scene; rendering a content placement indicator associated with the virtual content on a first space of the surface plane, the content placement indicator indicating the first space for placement of the virtual content; determining one or more locations of one or more objects on a surface associated with the surface plane; and responsive to an input, rendering the content placement indicator on a second space of the surface plane, the second space being determined based on the one or more locations and input, the content placement indicator indicating the second space for placement of the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Chad Willkie
  • Patent number: 11676311
    Abstract: A method for replicating interfaces in augmented reality for missing devices is provided. A processor identifies an expected position pattern of one or more wearable devices in conjunction with an augmented reality device based on an expected usage pattern of a user. A processor compares a current position pattern of the one or more wearables user to the expected position pattern. In response to the current position pattern not matching the expected position pattern, a processor retrieves an overlay corresponding to a use case indicated by the expected usage pattern. A processor renders the overlay in the augmented reality device, where the overlay is rendered in the expected position pattern for the one or more wearable devices relative to a view of the augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Atul Mene, Jeremy R. Fox, Kushal S. Patel, Sarvesh S. Patel, Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11663790
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing augmented reality assistance mode functionalities. Certain embodiments utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform augmented reality assistance mode functionalities by using at least one of environment familiarity predictions, assistance mode triggering need determinations, and threat detection machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventors: Kartik Chaudhary, Sudeep Choudhary, Raghav Bali, Anurag Das, Subhadip Maji
  • Patent number: 11656681
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for generating and displaying tailored advertisements in a mixed reality environment. The system is configured for continuously identifying one or more objects in a mixed reality environment, identifying the one or more objects match advertising targets, generating a tailored advertisement, transmitting the tailored advertisement to the user device, causing the user device to display the tailored advertisement, determining that the user is interacting with the tailored advertisement, and capturing one or more metrics associated with the interaction of the user with the tailored advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HYPEAR, INC.
    Inventor: Spandana Govindgari
  • Patent number: 11647350
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for providing first virtual content for presentation, which first virtual content is associated with a first space and comprises one or more first virtual objects. One of the first virtual objects may comprise one or more virtual objects having respective audio signals and another may represent a miniature representation of a second space into which the user can transition. The miniature representation may have a second scale, smaller or larger than the first scale, and may comprise one or more second virtual objects having respective audio signals audible from outside of the second space. The apparatus may further comprise means for determining whether at least part of the user is within the first space or the second space, and dependent on the determination, modifying the audio signal of one or more of the first or second virtual objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Artturi Leppänen, Miikka Tapani Vilermo
  • Patent number: 11645841
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may identify a user viewpoint of a user at a first venue, match a viewpoint at a second venue to the user viewpoint of the user at the first venue, detect a trigger condition to provide visual content of the second venue to the user at the first venue, obtain the visual content of the second venue, wherein the visual content of the second venue is obtained from the viewpoint at the second venue, and provide the visual content of the second venue to an augmented reality device of the user at the first venue, where the augmented reality device presents the visual content of the second venue as a visual overlay within a field of view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Barrett Kreiner, James Pratt, Adrianne Binh Luu, Robert T. Moton, Jr., Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 11645819
    Abstract: Augmented reality systems provide graphics over views from a mobile device for both in-venue and remote viewing of a sporting or other event. A server system can provide a transformation between the coordinate system of a mobile device (smart phone, tablet computer, head mounted display) and a real world coordinate system. Requested graphics for the event are displayed over a view of an event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Quintar, Inc.
    Inventors: Sankar Jayaram, Wayne O. Cochran, John Harrison, Timothy P. Heidmann, John Buddy Scott
  • Patent number: 11640700
    Abstract: Methods and systems for rendering a virtual overlay in an extended reality (XR) environment are described. Image data is received, representing a current field of view (FOV) in the XR environment. A spatial boundary is defined in the current FOV, based on user input. An image label representing a region of interest (ROI) within the defined spatial boundary, and one or more object labels representing one or more objects within the defined spatial boundary are generated. At least one relevant virtual object is identified. The virtual object is relevant to a semantic meaning of the ROI based on the image label and/or the one or more object labels. Identification of the at least one relevant virtual object is outputted, to be renderable in the XR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changqing Zou, Yumna Wassaf Akhtar, Szu Wen Fan, Jianpeng Xu, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11620795
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first application running on a device, a request to switch to a second application on the device, the request identifying augmented reality content to display with image data captured by a camera of the device; providing, in response to receiving the request, for switching from the first application to the second application; providing for the second application to activate the camera to capture the image data; and providing for the second application to display the image data captured by the camera with the augmented reality content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Ebony James Charlton, Patrick Mandia, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11587360
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) device and a method of predicting a pose in the AR device is provided. In the augmented reality (AR) device inertial measurement unit (IMU) values corresponding to the movement of the AR device are obtained at an IMU rate, intermediate 6-degrees of freedom (6D) poses of the AR device are estimated based on the IMU values and images around the AR device via a visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (VI-SLAM) module, and a pose prediction model for predicting relative 6D poses of the AR device is generated by performing learning by using a deep neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Yuntae Kim, Sanghoon Sull, Geeyoung Sung, Hongseok Lee, Myungjae Jeon