Patents Examined by Phu K. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12215001
    Abstract: The present invention provides a guide display device capable of recognizing a feature in a work area while distinguishing whether the feature is a moving body or not. In a guide display device of a crane, 3D maps are created for continuous frames; an altitude value for each grid in a 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time is obtained as a first altitude value; altitude values for respective corresponding grids in a predetermined number of 3D maps other than the 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time are obtained, and the average of the altitude values is calculated as a second altitude value; and it is determined that the feature is a moving body when the difference between the first altitude value and the second altitude value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Keita Mashima, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Masaya Nakahara, Koki Nakahata
  • Patent number: 12211209
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for the simulation of the upper airway of a subject. One embodiments provides a method (100) including the initial step (101) of receiving one or more tomographic images of the subject. At step (102) a three dimensional geometric model of the upper airway is generated from the one or more tomographic images. The geometric model includes a network of interconnected deformable mesh elements collectively defining a fluid domain (310) and a solid domain (320). The solid domain (320) defining a single unitary model of the entire upper airway region segmented into a plurality of predefined geometric regions, each being defined by one or more common anatomical parameters. At step (103), a computer simulation is performed on the geometric model to simulate behaviour of the upper airway when the subject is positioned in a predefined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reseach Organisation
    Inventors: Omid Bafkar, Vu Thua Nguyen, Gary Rosengarten, Ivan Stuart Cole, Stefan Gulizia
  • Patent number: 12198302
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: acquiring a first image containing a target object; inputting the first image into an image processing model to obtain a second image, the second image being a mask image of the target object in the first image, a value for each pixel in the second image being in a range of 0 to 1, inclusive ([0, 1]), and the range of 0 to 1, inclusive ([0, 1]) indicating a degree of relation between each pixel in the second image and a pixel in the target object; fusing the first image and a background image according to the second image to obtain a fused image; and providing a first interface and displaying the fused image on the first interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ran Duan, Hanwen Liu, Yunhua Lu
  • Patent number: 12190512
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system is provided that includes at least one processor that is adapted to analyze a plurality of frames from a real-time video to identify frames during which an operator is interacting with an image device to examine areas of a patient. The at least one processor is further configured to generate, from the identified frames, data representations of a first area examined by the operator interacting with the image device and further generate data representations of one or more further areas examined by the operator interacting with the image device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: COSMO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE—AI LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrea Cherubini, Pietro Salvagnini, Nhan Ngo Dinh
  • Patent number: 12182940
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify a shape or camera pose of a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional image of the object. In at least one embodiment, objects are identified in an image using one or more neural networks that have been trained on objects of a similar category and a three-dimensional mesh template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Xueting Li, Sifei Liu, Kihwan Kim, Shalini De Mello, Varun Jampani, Jan Kautz
  • Patent number: 12182944
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for authoring and presenting 3D presentations. Generally, an augmented or virtual reality device for each author, presenter and audience member includes 3D presentation software. During authoring mode, one or more authors can use 3D and/or 2D interfaces to generate a 3D presentation that choreographs behaviors of 3D assets into scenes and beats. During presentation mode, the 3D presentation is loaded in each user device, and 3D images of the 3D assets and corresponding asset behaviors are rendered among the user devices in a coordinated manner. As such, one or more presenters can navigate the scenes and beats of the 3D presentation to deliver the 3D presentation to one or more audience members wearing augmented reality headsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Darren Alexander Bennett, David J. W. Seymour, Charla M. Pereira, Enrico William Guld, Kin Hang Chu, Julia Faye Taylor-Hell, Jonathon Burnham Cobb, Helen Joan Hem Lam, You-Da Yang, Dean Alan Wadsworth, Andrew Jackson Klein
  • Patent number: 12182925
    Abstract: A method (20, 40) for reducing undesirable visual effects, such as judder, in a video image having one or more frames is disclosed. A server node (16) generates graphics layers from 3D objects, and augments the layers with the Z-layer information and motion information for the objects. The server node then groups (28, 30, 32) the graphics layers, encodes (34) the groups into a video stream such that every video frame of the stream is a composite video frame of the graphics layers, adds (36) the motion information to the composite video frame, and sends (38) the stream to a client device (18). Upon receipt, the client device extracts (44) the motion information, compensates the positions of the graphics layers using the Z-layer information and the motion information, and applies a selected positional time-warp algorithm to compensate for the translational and rotational movement of the user's head (50). The resultant layers are then combined into a video image and rendered (52) for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Attila Mihály, Bence Formanek
  • Patent number: 12183305
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a timing controller thereof is disclosed. The timing controller detects a size of an image by using image data, generates first output image data according to the size of the image, and generates second output image data by using the first output image data. The second output image data is generated according to a saturation value of the first output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Jun Jun
  • Patent number: 12175903
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that may include: a housing formed to surround a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction that is the opposite direction of the first direction, and at least part of the space between the first surface and the second surface; a PCB disposed in the space of the housing; a display extending in a third direction, which is different from the first direction and the second direction, and displaying a screen; and at least one processor, wherein the PCB includes a plurality of detection units, a detection target to be detected by least one of the plurality of detection units is disposed within a specific distance in the second direction of the display, and the processor may be set to calculate movement information including at least one among the movement start position of the display, the movement end position of the display, and the movement distance of the display on the basis of at least sensing data received from the plurality of detect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myunghoon Kwak, Jooyoung Kang, Gisoo Lim, Byunghun Cho, Joongyeon Cho
  • Patent number: 12169900
    Abstract: A method of three-dimensional reconstruction of human heads using a single photo in the form of polygonal mesh, with animation and realistic rendering capabilities for novel head poses is provided. The method includes encoding, by using a first convolutional neural network, a single source image into a neural texture; estimating, by a pre-trained detailed expression capture and animation (DECA) system, a face shape, a facial expression, and a head pose by using the single source image and a target image, and providing an initial mesh; providing a predicted mesh of a head mesh based on the initial mesh and the neural texture; rendering a human image by using the predicted mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taras Andreevich Khakhulin, Vanessa Valerievna Sklyarova, Victor Sergeevich Lempitsky, Egor Olegovich Zakharov
  • Patent number: 12165253
    Abstract: Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Luke T. Peterson
  • Patent number: 12165271
    Abstract: Described are systems and method directed to generation of a dimensionally accurate three-dimensional (“3D”) model of a body, such as a human body, based on two-dimensional (“2D”) images of that body. A user may use a 2D camera, such as a digital camera typically included in many of today's portable devices (e.g., cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) and obtain a series of 2D body images of their body from different views with respect to the camera. The 2D body images may then be used to generate a plurality of predicted body parameters corresponding to the body represented in the 2D body images. Those predicted body parameters may then be further processed to generate a dimensionally accurate 3D model or avatar of the body of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Brandon Michael Smith, Visesh Uday Kumar Chari, JinJin Li, Ram Sever, Prakash Ramu, Sunil Sharadchandra Hadap, Apoorv Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 12156777
    Abstract: A method, executable by a processor, of generating a 3D digital model associated with a given tooth is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a preliminary root 3D digital model of a root portion the given tooth, and then generating an augmented root 3D digital model therefrom by obtaining data of a longitudinal axis of the given tooth, and data indicative of a tooth gingiva segmentation contour between the crown and root portions; determining for each root vertex, a respective new position relative to the longitudinal axis in which the respective new position is defined by a shift distance value and a shift direction vector; moving each of the root vertices to their respective new position by applying their respective shift distance values along their respective shift direction vector; and storing the augmented root 3D digital model for determining an orthodontic treatment for the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Oxilio Ltd
    Inventor: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov
  • Patent number: 12147740
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining one or more load cases and one or more design criteria for a modeled object, the one or more design criteria comprising a build material strength model indicating strength relationships between thickness of an object feature and build angle for that object feature resulting from additive manufacturing; iteratively modifying a three dimensional shape of the modeled object in accordance with the one or more design criteria and the one or more load cases, including applying the strength relationships between the thickness of the object feature and the build angle for that object feature on a per-element basis during numerical simulation of the modeled object; and providing the three dimensional shape of the modeled object for use in manufacturing a physical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Harris, Allin Irving Groom, Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Dagmara Lilianna Szkurlat
  • Patent number: 12143746
    Abstract: A system includes a video device for capturing, at a viewing time, a first video image corresponding to a foundation scene at a setting, the foundation scene viewed at the viewing time from a vantage position. A memory stores a library of image data including media generated at a time prior to the viewing time. A vantage position monitor tracks the vantage position and generating vantage position of a human viewer. A digital video data controller selects from the image data in the library, at the viewing time and based on the vantage position data, a plurality of second images corresponding to a modifying scene at the setting, the modifying scene further corresponding to the vantage position. A combiner combines the first video image and the plurality of second images to create a composite image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Passewall Research LLC
    Inventor: Stuart Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 12133803
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designing a patient-specific orthopedic implant can include creating a user account associated with a patient. A patient-specific orthopedic implant can be designed based on patient data and imaging data. A healthcare provider can provide feedback for a design of the patient-specific orthopedic implant, treatment protocol, or other aspects of treatment. The patient can provide data and feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Carlsmed, Inc.
    Inventor: Niall Patrick Casey
  • Patent number: 12131423
    Abstract: The analysis apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a transformation parameter used to transform a reference model indicating a three-dimensional shape of a target object into a three-dimensional shape indicated by three-dimensional sensing data indicating a result of sensing a target object after an elapse of a predetermined period of time since the reference model is generated; an update unit configured to update the reference model using the transformation parameter and three-dimensional sensing data; and a communication unit configured to transmit difference data between vertices of a reference model after the update and vertices of a reference model before the update, difference data between a representative point of the reference model after the update having the transformation parameter and a representative point of the reference model after the update, and a transformation parameter to a terminal device that shares a reference model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Fujiwaka
  • Patent number: 12125161
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for automatically modifying shape features related to overhangs such that support structures can be reduced or avoided. In an example, a shape modification processing device may obtain an initial shape and relevant production information (e.g., overhang angle threshold). The shape modification processing device may modify the shape to improve various aspects of production, including reduction or removal of the need for support materials or structures during additive manufacturing, with considerations that allow the modified portion (e.g., added features) be accessible for removal by subtractive manufacturing. For example, the shape modification processing device may modify a model to reduce or remove support structures needed during production. The added features may later be removed by subtractive manufacturing to restore any functional or desired shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Ye, Matt Patterson, Amirmassoud Mirzendehdel, Morad Behandish
  • Patent number: 12121303
    Abstract: A system for processing patient data associated with a joint of a patient. The system comprising a computing device executing instructions to generate a 3D patient bone model of the joint in a non-weighted pose. The instructions rearrange 3D first and second bone models in order to mimic a weighted pose of the joint of the patient from a 2D image of the joint of the patient in a weighted pose by performing the steps of: generating a plurality of 2D projections of poses of the 3D patient bone model; comparing the plurality of 2D projections to contour lines of the first bone and the second bone in the 2D image; identifying particular 2D projections that best-fit a shape and size of the contour lines; and arranging the 3D first and second bone models relative to each other according to orientations represented by the particular 2D projections that were identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Gangwar, Kanishk Sethi, Anup Kumar, Ryan Sellman, Peter Sterrantino, Manoj Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 12119090
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for training and utilizing generative machine learning models to generate embeddings from phenomic images (or other microscopy representations). For example, the disclosed systems can train a generative machine learning model (e.g., a masked autoencoder generative model) to generate predicted (or reconstructed) phenomic images from masked version of ground truth training phenomic images. In some cases, the disclosed systems utilize a momentum-tracking optimizer while reducing a loss of the generative machine learning model to enable efficient training on large scale training image batches. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can utilize Fourier transformation losses with multi-stage weighting to improve the accuracy of the generative machine learning model on the phenomic images during training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Oren Zeev Kraus, Kian Runnels Kenyon-Dean, Mohammadsadegh Saberian, Maryam Fallah, Peter Foster McLean, Jessica Wai Yin Leung, Vasudev Sharma, Ayla Yasmin Khan, Jaichitra Balakrishnan, Safiye Celik, Dominique Beaini, Maciej Sypetkowski, Chi Cheng, Kristen Rose Morse, Maureen Katherine Makes, Benjamin John Mabey, Berton Allen Earnshaw