Patents Examined by Ryan McCulley
  • Patent number: 11146860
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for service processing. The method includes, in response to receiving a startup command for a target application, obtaining texture data corresponding to a target service of the target application, the texture data being obtained from service content that is stored locally on a terminal before the startup command is received, the texture data conforming to a preset texture format, obtaining display content corresponding to the target service based at least in part on the texture data, and providing the display content corresponding to the target service on the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: BANMA ZHIXING NETWORK (HONGKONG) CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Donglei Wu, Hongbo Min, Kui Zheng, Jin Li, Bo Qiang, Jinglu Han
  • Patent number: 11128543
    Abstract: Various examples are described for enrollment data visualization using enhanced graphical user interface elements. In one example, a management service can receive device data from devices enrolled with the management service, where the management service is configured to remotely oversee operation of the devices. The management service can determine operational metrics using the device data describing operation of the client devices and generate a metric visualization region for display in a user interface. In some examples, the metric visualization region can include a graph plotting the operational metrics over a predefined period of time and a circle having a predefined width circumscribing the graph, where at least a portion of the circle is filled based on the operational metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Michael Hardy, Carlos Carbonell, Jason Bedient, Binjie Sun, Qi Gao
  • Patent number: 11112862
    Abstract: The invention provides a viewing system including an augmented reality system that generates a visual presentation to a user based at least in part on an IPD of the user, and an IPD compensator that adjusts the visual presentation based on an IPD compensation factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11107176
    Abstract: A tile-based system for processing graphics data. The tile based system includes a first screen-space pipeline, a cache unit, and a first tiling unit. The first tiling unit is configured to transmit a first set of primitives that overlap a first cache tile and a first prefetch command to the first screen-space pipeline for processing, and transmit a second set of primitives that overlap a second cache tile to the first screen-space pipeline for processing. The first prefetch command is configured to cause the cache unit to fetch data associated with the second cache tile from an external memory unit. The first tiling unit may also be configured to transmit a first flush command to the screen-space pipeline for processing with the first set of primitives. The first flush command is configured to cause the cache unit to flush data associated with the first cache tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ziyad S. Hakura, Rouslan Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 11100704
    Abstract: A computer system maintains structure data indicating geometrical constraints for each structure category of a plurality of structure categories. The computer system generates a virtual 3D representation of a structure based on a set of images depicting the structure. For each image in the set of images, one or more landmarks are identified. Based on the landmarks, a candidate structure category is selected. The virtual 3D representation is generated based on the geometrical constraints of the candidate structure category and the landmarks identified in the set of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hover Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Mishra, Manish Upendran, A. J. Altman, William Castillo
  • Patent number: 11094106
    Abstract: A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs: a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space in which a plurality of objects are arranged; a virtual camera control process of controlling a virtual camera corresponding to a point-of-view of a user wearing a head mounted display; and a display process of generating an image as viewed from the virtual camera in the virtual space as a display image on the head mounted display. In the virtual space setting process, the processor arranges at least one information display object in a line-of-sight direction of the user, and in the display process, when it is determined that a given change condition is satisfied by a change in the point-of-view of the user, the processor performs a change process of a display mode of the information display object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Jun Tamaoki, Akio Onda
  • Patent number: 11087052
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method for partitioning a 3D scene into a plurality of zones, each zone representing an area or a volume of the 3D scene and being processed by a computing resource. The method comprises obtaining a 3D scene comprising one or more objects, each object generating a computing resource cost, computing a first map that represents a density of computing costs of the provided 3D scene, defining a second map that represents constraints on the shapes of zones that will be obtained as a result of a partitioning of the 3D scene, discretizing the obtained 3D scene into cells by computing a space quantization of the 3D scene free of dynamic objects, computing, for each cell, a computing cost from the first map of the 3D scene, aggregating the cells into one or more zones in accordance with the second map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventors: Malika Boulkenafed, Philippe Robert Felix Belmans
  • Patent number: 11087534
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a percentage value for a set of points. The program further determines a triangulation based on the set of points. The program also determines an alpha value based on the triangulation and the percentage value. The program further determines an alpha shape based on the alpha value. The program also provides the client device the alpha shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Kai-Niklas Bastian, Hinnerk Gildhoff, Tim Grouisborn, Michael Jung
  • Patent number: 11055908
    Abstract: A two-stage method for iteratively inverting geophysical data for the purpose of subsurface imaging, including: obtaining at least one geophysical dataset and an initial subsurface model; representing subsurface such that a geometry of a geobody is defined using a set of basis functions, and a number of such basis functions is significantly smaller than the number of cells used in cell-based geobody representations, wherein an order of magnitude reduction is two or more for 2-D domains and 3 or more for 3-D domains; in a first stage, successively updating the initial subsurface model, only for the geobody, by performing iterative low-dimensional geophysical inversion based on minimizing a misfit between simulated geophysical data and the geophysical dataset, wherein the simulated geophysical data is generated from a current subsurface model at each iteration; generating a subsurface image from a final updated subsurface model obtained via the low-dimensional geophysical inversion, wherein the subsurface image
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ashutosh Tewari, Dimitar Trenev
  • Patent number: 11049473
    Abstract: The method of analyzing a difference of at least two gradings of an image on the basis of: obtaining a first graded picture (LDR) with a first luminance dynamic range; obtaining data encoding a grading of a second graded picture (HDR) with a second luminance dynamic range, different from the first luminance dynamic range; determining a grading difference data structure (DATGRAD) on the basis of at least the data encoding the grading of the second graded picture (HDR), allows more intelligently adaptive encoding of the imaged scenes, and consequently also better use of those pictures, such as higher quality rendering under various rendering scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Remco Theodorus Johannes Muijs, Mark Jozef Willem Mertens, Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls, Chris Damkat, Martin Hammer, Cornelis Wilhelmus Kwisthout
  • Patent number: 11007031
    Abstract: Assisting robotic arm setup in a surgical robotic system using augmented reality can include capturing a live video of a user setting up a robotic arm in a surgical robotic system. A visual guide representing a target pose of the robotic arm can be rendered onto the live video, resulting in an augmented live video for guiding the arm setup. The augmented live video can be displayed to the user while the user is following the visual guide to set up the robotic arm. The captured live video can be continuously processed to determine whether the robotic arm has reached the target pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.
    Inventors: Bernhard Adolf Fuerst, Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy
  • Patent number: 10937240
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for managing data storage for generating virtual bindings are provided. In embodiments, a user may perform one or more gestures and/or voice commands to create virtual bindings with physical objects, where the created virtual bindings may take on attributes and create/perform actions based on attributes of the physical objects. A projection device may recognize the physical objects and cause the bindings and/or projected virtual objects to perform various actions in response to different user gestures and/or voice commands. Additionally, the system may instruct some physical objects (e.g., robots, electromechanical devices, etc.) in response to user gestures/voice commands to cause those physical devices to perform various actions. Other embodiments are described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Glen J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10909653
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, a power budget analyzer to identify a power budget for one or more of the application processor, the persistent storage media, and the graphics subsystem, a target analyzer communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to identify a target for the graphics subsystem, and a parameter adjuster to adjust one or more parameters of the graphics subsystem based on one or more of the identified power budget and the identified target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Stanley J. Baran, Sang-Hee Lee, Atthar H. Mohammed, Jong Dae Oh, Hiu-Fai R. Chan, Jill M. Boyce, Fangwen Fu, Satya N. Yedidi, Sumit Mohan, James M. Holland, Keith W. Rowe, Altug Koker
  • Patent number: 10909375
    Abstract: A mobile device captures an object image using the built in imaging capability of the device. A structural recognition module analyzes the captured image to identify the 3D shape of the captured object. A color recognition module analyzes the color of the captured image to differentiate between objects that may be similar in shape. The image analysis information is sent to a server and the server selects an appropriate video file for augmented reality (AR) display on the mobile device. User selection of an operational language for the mobile device may also provided to the server. The system includes audio data files in different languages corresponding to each video AR file. The server selects the audio file corresponding to the language selection data provided by the mobile device. The language appropriate audio file is linked to the video file and the video and audio AR data are transmitted to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mobilitie, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Bernard Jabara, Harold Lee, Douglas Liang, George Pu-Yi Quan
  • Patent number: 10878611
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a deduplication application pre-processes index buffers for a graphics processing pipeline that generates rendered images via a shading program. In operation, the deduplication application causes execution threads to identify a set of unique vertices specified in an index buffer based on an instruction. The deduplication application then generates a vertex buffer and an indirect index buffer based on the set of unique vertices. The vertex buffer and the indirect index buffer are associated with a portion of an input mesh. The graphics processing pipeline then renders a first frame and a second frame based on the vertex buffer, the indirect index buffer, and the shading program. Advantageously, the graphics processing pipeline may re-use the vertex buffer and indirect index buffer until the topology of the input mesh changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ziyad Hakura, Yury Uralsky, Christoph Kubisch, Pierre Boudier, Henry Moreton
  • Patent number: 10867447
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques of overlaying a virtual object on a physical object in augmented reality (AR). A computing device may receive one or more images of the physical object, perform analysis on the images (such as image segmentation) to generate a digital outline, and determine a position and a scale of the physical object based at least in part on the digital outline. The computing device may configure (e.g., rotate, scale) a 3D model of the physical object to match the determined position and scale of the physical object. The computing device may place or overlay a 3D virtual object on the physical object in AR based on a predefined location relation between the 3D virtual object and the 3D model of the physical object, and further, generate a composite view of the placement or overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Micah Price, Geoffrey Dagley, Staevan Duckworth, Qiaochu Tang, Jason Hoover, Stephen Wylie, Olalekan Awoyemi
  • Patent number: 10832458
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product, include receiving a first input at a first element among a plurality of elements associated with at least one electronic document, determining a second element associated with the first element from the plurality of elements based on predetermined relations of the plurality of elements, and causing a view to be displayed together with an electronic document including the first element, the view at least including the second element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Dongxu Duan, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Xiaolu Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10818063
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically animating a character based on an existing corpus of animation are described. The character may be from a previously produced feature animated film, and the data used for training may be the data used to animate the character in the film. A low-dimensional embedding for subsets of the existing animation corresponding to different semantic labels may be learned by mapping high-dimensional rig control parameters to a latent space. A particle model may be used to move within the latent space, thereby generating novel animations corresponding to the space's semantic label, such as a pose. Bridges may link a first pose of a first model within the latent space that is similar to a second pose of a second model of the space. Animations corresponding to transitions between semantic labels may be generated by creating animation paths that traverse a bridge from one model into another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.
    Inventors: Stephen Bailey, Martin Watt, Bo Morgan, James O'Brien
  • Patent number: 10813700
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: accessing a virtual patient model defining a target resected contour of a hard tissue of interest; after resection of the hard tissue of interest during a surgical operation, accessing an optical scan recorded by an optical sensor facing a surgical field occupied by a patient, detecting a set of features representing the patient in the optical scan, registering the virtual patient model to the hard tissue of interest in the surgical field based on the set of features, and detecting an actual resected contour of the hard tissue of interest in the optical scan; and calculating a spatial difference between the actual resected contour of the hard tissue of interest and the target resected contour of the hard tissue of interest represented in the virtual patient model registered to the hard tissue of interest in the surgical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Arthrology Consulting, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Amanatullah
  • Patent number: 10806518
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: accessing a virtual patient model defining a target resected contour of a hard tissue of interest; after resection of the hard tissue of interest during a surgical operation, accessing an optical scan recorded by an optical sensor facing a surgical field occupied by a patient, detecting a set of features representing the patient in the optical scan, registering the virtual patient model to the hard tissue of interest in the surgical field based on the set of features, and detecting an actual resected contour of the hard tissue of interest in the optical scan; and calculating a spatial difference between the actual resected contour of the hard tissue of interest and the target resected contour of the hard tissue of interest represented in the virtual patient model registered to the hard tissue of interest in the surgical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Arthrology Consulting, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Amanatullah