Patents Examined by Phi A
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Patent number: 11915345Abstract: Methods and hardware for cube mapping comprise receiving fragment coordinates for an input block of fragments and texture instructions for the fragments and then determining, based on gradients of the input block of fragments, whether a first mode of cube mapping or a second mode of cube mapping is to be used, wherein the first mode of cube mapping performs calculations at a first precision for a subset of the fragments and calculations for remaining fragments at a second, lower, precision and the second mode of cube mapping performs calculations for all fragments at the first precision. Cube mapping is then performed using the determined mode and the gradients, wherein if the second mode is used and more than half of the fragments in the input block are valid, the cube mapping is performed over two clock cycles.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventor: Rostam King
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Patent number: 11908114Abstract: A method and a system for processing an image and transform it into a high resolution and high-definition image using a computationally efficient image transformation procedure is provided. The transformation of the image comprises first transforming the image, also referred to as an intensity image, into a layered distance field (DF) image comprising an ordered sequence of multiple layers. Each layer in the ordered sequence is associated with a DF procedure and a set of rules for mapping the DF values to intensity values of the respective layer. The result of applying the DF procedures to each location in the intensity image is a transformed intensity image, which is of high definition and high resolution. The application of the DF procedures is governed by a stopping criteria based on error values between the intensity image and a reconstructed intensity image.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Ron Perry
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Patent number: 11893709Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for quantizing images using machine-learning. A plurality of input images are received from a sensor (e.g., a camera), wherein each input image includes a plurality of pixels. Utilizing an image-to-image machine-learning model, each pixel is assigned a new pixel color. Utilizing a mixer machine-learning model, each new pixel color is converted to one of a fixed number of colors to produce a plurality of quantized images, with each quantized image corresponding to one of the input images. A loss function is determined based on an alignment of each input image with its corresponding quantized image via a pre-trained reference machine-learning model. One or more parameters of the image-to-image machine-learning model and the mixer model are updated based on the loss function. The process repeats, with each iteration updating the parameters of the image-to-image machine-learning model and the mixer model, until convergence, resulting in trained models.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Mohammad Sadegh Norouzzadeh, Renan Alfredo Rojas Gomez, Anh Nguyen, Filipe J. Cabrita Condessa
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Patent number: 11887245Abstract: One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; computing one or more surface normals associated with intersections of the one or more rays with one or more surfaces, where computing each surface normal includes: computing a plurality of intermediate surface normals associated with a plurality of adjacent voxels of a grid, and interpolating the plurality of intermediate surface normals; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more surface normals.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Herman Hansson Soederlund, Alex Evans, Tomas Akenine-Moller
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Patent number: 11885143Abstract: An oval cover member is formed of high density polyethylene and sized to cover a pocket in which a lift member is secured to a pre-cast concrete structural member. The cover member can be secured to the lift member by a cable tie threaded through the opening of a first protrusion, back through a smaller opening in a second protrusion and pulled to draw the cover member tightly against the concrete structural member. The opposing protrusions form a valley therebetween for the positioning of the lift member. The size of the smaller opening in the second protrusion is too small for the passage of the head of the cable tie, enabling the cover member to be tightly secured to the lift member. A peripheral channel in the cover member can receive a gasket or adhesive that can seal the cover member against the surface of the concrete structural member.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Harry A. Thompson
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Patent number: 11885094Abstract: A sewer manhole cover includes a frame having an access aperture and a cover for covering the access aperture. A primary seal is generated when the cover is placed on the frame either by way of contact between the frame and cover or by way of a gasket received within a groove formed into one of the frame or cover, wherein the gasket is compressed between the frame and cover. A method is provided for generating a secondary seal between the frame and cover by applying an amount of a viscous compound to a circumferential surface of the frame or cover, wherein the secondary seal is formed when the cover compresses the compound when the cover is received within the frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Oatey Co.Inventor: Blake R Tresan
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Patent number: 11880931Abstract: A vehicle generates a city-scale map. The vehicle includes one or more Lidar sensors configured to obtain point clouds at different positions, orientations, and times, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform registering, in pairs, a subset of the point clouds based on respective surface normals of each of the point clouds; determining loop closures based on the registered subset of point clouds; determining a position and an orientation of each of the subset of the point clouds based on constraints associated with the determined loop closures; and generating a map based on the determined position and the orientation of each of the subset of the point clouds.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Pony AI Inc.Inventors: Mengda Yang, Weixin Jiang, Chuanchuan Liu
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Patent number: 11879255Abstract: The invention relates to a decoupling mat (1) with a continuous plastic layer (2), for example one fabricated via deep drawing, comprising elongated, rib-like formations (3) on a first broadside (B1), wherein the formations (3) simultaneously form groove-like recesses (5) on a second broadside (B2) lying opposite the first broadside (B1). In order to achieve a solution advantageous for use, emphasis is placed on having the formations (3) be bordered in their longitudinal extension (1) by sections (9) of a reduced height (h?) and/or width (c?), which simultaneously also form partial areas (10) of less depth (s?) and/or width (d?) bordered relative to the recesses (5). In addition, the invention relates to a floor structure, in particular in a building with a decoupling mat (1).Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventors: Frank Rittmann, Johannes Wendt, Daniel Meckeler, Andrea Rücker
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Patent number: 11875438Abstract: A method of automatically providing personalized augmented mathematical learning content and activities to users of an online learning platform is described. Upon detecting that a user has captured an image or a video stream, one or more points of interest in the image or video stream are determined. Augmented mathematical information is then detected for the one or more points of interest and superimposed on the captured image or video stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Chegg, Inc.Inventor: Vincent Le Chevalier
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Patent number: 11873648Abstract: Disclosed herein is a clip for positioning and securing adjacent grooved planks to a joist. The clip includes a body and a pair of legs. The body extends longitudinally from a front end to a rear end and laterally between opposite lateral edges and defining a hole. Each leg of the pair of legs extends downward from the body at a longitudinal position between the front end and rear end. Each of the front end and the rear end includes a notch in the edge between the opposite lateral edges.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: OMG, Inc.Inventors: Logan Carlson, Mitchell T. Kraucunas, Frederick A. Enko, Anthony DiSanto, Timothy F. Gillis, Peter M. Barenski, Mark J. Guthrie
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Patent number: 11869134Abstract: A system includes at least one imaging sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire detected data describing an environment of an autonomous vehicle using the imaging sensor; derive reference data which describes the environment from a predefined map; compute difference data representing a difference between the detected data and the reference data; and transfer the difference data, wherein an image computed based on the difference data and the reference data represents the detected data. Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: OTTOPIA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventor: Amit Rosenzweig
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Patent number: 11861771Abstract: A virtual hair extension system is provided. The system includes a memory device having a user image of a user having hair, a display device, and a computer that is operably coupled to the memory device and the display device. The computer has a hair segmentation module and a hair extension blending module. The hair segmentation module generates a binary hair mask based on the user image. The hair extension blending module generates a final modified user image having the hair of the user with a selected hair extension thereon utilizing the user image, the binary hair mask, and a reference image of the selected hair extension. The computer displays the final modified user image having the hair of the user with the selected hair extension thereon on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AlgoFace, Inc.Inventors: Taleb Alashkar, Amjad Hussain, Ivan Livinsky
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Patent number: 11859379Abstract: A collapsible structural frame configured to provide a structure to which building material sheets are attached to form a surface. The frame includes a first frame portion that corresponds to a first portion of the surface and is configured to receive a first sheet of the building material and a second frame portion that corresponds to a second portion of the surface and is configured to receive a second sheet of the building material. A pivoting mechanism attaches the second frame portion to the first frame portion and has a pivoting axis. The pivoting mechanism permits the second frame portion to rotate about the pivoting axis relative to the first frame portion from an undeployed state to a deployed state. A locking mechanism may fix a relative position of the first frame portion and the second frame portion in the deployed state.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AWI Licensing LLCInventor: Jason T. Cavanaugh
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Patent number: 11861780Abstract: A computer implemented method rasterizes point cloud data. A number of processor units rasterizes the point cloud data into rasterized layers based on classes in which each rasterized layer in the rasterized layers corresponds to a class in the classes. The number of processor units creates key value pairs from the rasterized layers. The number of processor units store the key value pairs in a key value store. According to other illustrative embodiments, a computer system and a computer program product for rasterizing point cloud data are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hendrik F. Hamann, Carlo Siebenschuh, Siyuan Lu, Conrad M. Albrecht
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Patent number: 11859437Abstract: A window attachment system for attaching a window to an opening in a building includes a male portion and a female portion. One of the male portion and the female portion is attached to one of the outer perimeter of the window frame or the inner perimeter of the opening in the building. The other of the male portion and the female portion is attached to the outer perimeter of the window frame or the inner perimeter of the opening in the building. The male portion is engaged with the female portion when the window is placed into the opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Seth Poundstone
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Patent number: 11859391Abstract: The present invention is regarding a structure for fastening decking lumber woods for a wooden deck. The present invention includes a first deck wood (10a) and a second deck wood (10b) with a form of a certain thickness and extended to a certain length and the cross member, the joist, placed underneath and perpendicular to the deck lumber woods, and the bracket (100) that allows to fix the first deck wood (10a) and the second deck wood (10b) onto the cross member with a fastening material through the gap space between the deck woods without touching them so the deck wood can breath freely thus, preventing them from splitting.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventors: Gihong Kim, Jong Tae Kim
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Patent number: 11854131Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating object-specific-preset edits to be later applied to other digital images depicting a same object type or applying a previously generated object-specific-preset edit to an object of the same object type within a target digital image. For example, in some cases, the disclosed systems generate an object-specific-preset edit by determining a region of a particular localized edit in an edited digital image, identifying an edited object corresponding to the localized edit, and storing in a digital-image-editing document an object tag for the edited object and instructions for the localized edit. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems further apply such an object-specific-preset edit to a target object in a target digital image by determining transformed-positioning parameters for a localized edit from the object-specific-preset edit to the target object.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Subham Gupta, Arnab Sil, Anuradha
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Patent number: 11851889Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger
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Patent number: 11854156Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing a multi-pass iterative closest point (ICP) registration in an automated facial reconstruction process includes the step of providing an automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of detecting that a face tracking application programming interface (API) misalignment has occurred during the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of implementing a multi-pass ICP process on the face tracking API misalignment by the following steps. One step includes obtaining a first point cloud (PC1) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a second point cloud (PC2) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a first face mask (mask1) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a second face mask (mask2) of the automated facial reconstruction process.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventors: Mathew Powers, Xiao Xiao, William A. Kennedy
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Patent number: 11847746Abstract: Disclosed is a best view spot generating server which includes a virtual tour providing server that communicates with a user terminal over a network and generates a best view spot associated with a three-dimensional object included in a virtual space, and a database that operates in conjunction with the virtual tour providing server and stores data associated with the virtual space, data associated with the three-dimensional object, and data associated with the best view spot.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kyung Kyu Kang, Chang Joon Park