Patents Examined by Samantha (Yuehan) Wang
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Patent number: 10762701Abstract: A system and method is provided for generating a finite element (FE) model of an anatomical structure based on a fitted model (340) of the anatomical structure and association data. A segmentation model (310) may be provided for segmenting the anatomical structure. Association data may be obtained which associates a segmentation model part (315) of the segmentation model (310) with a mesh property, the segmentation model part (315) representing a pre-determined anatomical region of interest. The segmentation model may be applied to a medical image (320) of a subject, thereby obtaining a fitted model (340) providing a segmentation of the anatomical structure (330). The finite element model (350) may then be generated based on the fitted model (340) and the association data, said generating comprising meshing a finite element model part of the finite element model in accordance with the mesh property, the finite element model part corresponding with the pre-determined anatomical region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Julian Charles Nolan, Matthew John Lawrenson, Juergen Weese
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Patent number: 10760815Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for building system commissioning using mixed reality are described herein. One system includes a computing device comprising computer readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to retrieve configuration data for a physical controller from a remote distributed database in response to receiving a query, display the configuration data for the physical controller in a mixed reality display on a mixed reality device, and install the configuration data on the physical controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Kirupakar Janakiraman, Rajesh Kulandaivel Sankarapandian, Jayaprakash Meruva
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Patent number: 10748237Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for adaptive scheduling of task assignment among heterogeneous processor cores. The system may include any number of CPUs, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and memory configured to store a pool of work items to be shared by the CPUs and GPU. The system may also include a GPU proxy profiling module associated with one of the CPUs to profile execution of a first portion of the work items on the GPU. The system may further include profiling modules, each associated with one of the CPUs, to profile execution of a second portion of the work items on each of the CPUs. The measured profiling information from the CPU profiling modules and the GPU proxy profiling module is used to calculate a distribution ratio for execution of a remaining portion of the work items between the CPUs and the GPU.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rajkishore Barik, Tatiana Shpeisman, Brian T. Lewis, Rashid Kaleem
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Patent number: 10740949Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for leveraging rendering engines to perform multi-spectral rendering by reusing the color channels for additional spectral bands. A digital asset represented by a three dimensional (3D) mesh and a material reference pointer may be rendered using a first material spectral band data set and additionally rendered using a second material spectral band data set, and the results combined to create a multi-spectral rendering. The multi-spectral rendering may then be used as part of a synthetics service or operation. By abstracting the material properties, a material translator is able to return a banded material data set from among a plurality of spectral band sets, and asset material information may advantageously be managed apart from managing each asset individually.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael J. Ebstyne, Jonathan C. Hanzelka, Emanuel Shalev, Trebor L. Connell, Pedro U. Escos
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Patent number: 10740972Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for presentation and control of a virtual vehicle view with surround view imaging. Surround view imaging may be augmented with iconography. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a stitched image view based on surround view image data for a vehicle includes the stitched image view and virtual camera position data to an augmented reality module of the first device, determining a pose estimation for the vehicle to provide vehicle position and orientation, and augmenting the stitched image view to include graphical elements based on the pose estimation and virtual camera position. Presentation of the stitched image view including the one or more graphical elements can be updated based on changes to a virtual camera position direction and angle, changes in vehicle position and control inputs. Device and systems are provided to present augmented surround view imaging.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATEDInventor: Aaron Thompson
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Patent number: 10733688Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to area-efficient implementations of graphics instructions. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a graphics subsystem including one or more of a first logic for processing of memory read-return data for single-instruction-multiple-data instructions; a second logic for assembly of memory read-return data for media block instructions into shader register format; or a third logic to remap scatter or gather instructions to untyped surface instruction types. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a graphics subsystem including a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a data port controller to control the TLB, the data port controller including an incoming request pipeline to receive an incoming request with virtual address and generate a response, an incoming response pipeline to receive the response and generate a cache request, and an invalidation flow pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: INTEL CORPOATIONInventors: Joydeep Ray, Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Vasanth Ranganathan
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Patent number: 10733701Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic visualization of genomic data are provided in which a genomic visualization system adapts presentation of information content according to scale-relevant annotations within a sequence object.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Five3 Genomics, LLCInventors: Charles Joseph Vaske, John Zachary Sanborn, Stephen Charles Benz
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Patent number: 10706610Abstract: A method and a device for displaying an object, in particular biological tissue. The method has the following steps: a) generating a first image of at least one sub-region of the object using a first device; b) generating a second image of at least one sub-region of the object using a second device; c) ascertaining first coordinates of at least some image points of the second image in a first coordinate system; d) ascertaining second coordinates of the image points of the second image by projecting the first coordinates in a second coordinate system which is different from the first coordinate system and which is assigned to the first device; and e) generating a combined image of the object from the first and the second image using the ascertained second coordinates of the image points of the second image.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Scopis GmbHInventors: Bartosz Kosmecki, Andreas Reutter, Christopher Ă–zbek
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Patent number: 10699368Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to memory allocation in a graphics shader. In some embodiments, a memory for storing input data for operations by the shader is shared for multiple different types of tasks (e.g., pixel shading tasks and compute tasks). In some embodiments, a graphics device is configured to separately process different portions (e.g., tiles) of a frame of graphics data. In some embodiments, the graphics device is configured to dynamically adjust the number of frame portions processed in parallel based on allocation information, where the allocation information is determined based on requests for other types of tasks. This may prevent pixel shading tasks from stalling other tasks for extended periods and may allow dynamic adjustments memory allocation mid-render.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Spencer, Terence M. Potter, Dimitri Tan
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Methods and systems for registration of virtual space with real space in an augmented reality system
Patent number: 10687901Abstract: A method and system to use an augmented reality device in a surgical procedure. The method includes rendering, on the display of the device, a model of a patient reference object; in response to receiving input, moving the model of the patient reference object in an augmented reality coordinate system; determining that the model is aligned with the patient reference object in real world space when viewed through the display and, based on that determination, identifying a first transform from the augmented reality coordinate system to a navigation coordinate system used by an optical navigation system for tracking the patient reference object; subsequently transferring patient image data from the navigation coordinate system to the augmented reality coordinate system using an inverse of the first transform; and displaying the patient image data on the display to augment a real world view of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc.Inventor: Monroe Milas Thomas -
Patent number: 10691318Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a processor and a memory that stores an image file having image data. The image data includes at least one object and metadata. The metadata includes information about an area corresponding to the at least one object and identification information of the at least one object. The processor outputs the area of the image file, which includes the identification information corresponding to a user input as a thumbnail of the image file, in the display in response to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Min Jung, Ba Do Lee, Seo Young Lee, Hee Kuk Lee, Dae Kyu Shin, Ji Yoon Park, Dong Hyun Yeom, Jung Eun Lee
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Patent number: 10672178Abstract: Circuitry for identifying a closest intersected bounding volume in a target grid in a 3-dimensional scene includes circuitry that generates grid coordinates of candidate x-, y-, and z-planes in the target grid that belong to bounding volumes and which are closest to the ray. Comparator circuitry determines the closest plane among the candidate x-, y-, and z-planes to the ray. Circuitry generates an identifier of the bounding volume using the grid coordinates of the closest plane. The allocation of resources for some components comprising the circuitry is based on the number of planes that define the target grid, and for other components of the circuitry is based on the number of bounding volumes being considered.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 10666292Abstract: The disclosure provided a compressing method of the grayscale compensation table of an OLED display panel, which comprising: step 10, when transmitting a set of grayscale compensation table of the OLED display panel to an encoder for encoding, firstly, performing a differential calculation on many grayscale compensation tables with a same color channel and different gray scales in the set of which to acquire a corresponding reference image and a difference image as replacements of many grayscale compensation tables; step 20, transmitting the above images to the encoder; step 30, the encoder compressing and encoding a received grayscale compensation table. The compressing method of the grayscale compensation table of the OLED display panel performs the intra-level differences between the same color component and the different grayscale compensation tables in the same OLED compensation table to improve an efficiency and a performance of the compression compensation table.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yufan Deng, Mingjong Jou, Shensian Syu, Ronggang Wang, Kui Fan, Hao Li
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Patent number: 10657696Abstract: An interactive avatar display system provides a computer-generated view of a virtual space including an avatar that moves in the virtual space in response to movements of the user that are sensed by sensors. The number of sensed movements is less than the number of degrees of freedom of avatar movement. The interactive avatar display system computes an array of accelerations to apply to movable body parts of the avatar and computes the array of accelerations by solving equations of motions from masses of the movable body parts and an array of forces computed from an array of inverse dynamics force values for the movable body parts and one or both of an array of balance control force values or an array of locomotion control force values, taking into account a set of constraints for the avatar, and possible also environmental objects in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: DeepMotion, Inc.Inventors: Weihua Jin, Kaichuan He
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Patent number: 10649711Abstract: A method of switching display of a terminal and a terminal are disclosed. The method of switching display includes: obtaining a display mode of the terminal selected by a user, herein the terminal includes a first display screen and a second display screen; determining a display way of an output object on the first display screen and the second display screen according to the display mode selected by the user; and displaying the output object on at least one of the first display screen and the second display screen according to the determined display way.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Bin Wang
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Patent number: 10642567Abstract: According to examples, multiplatform based experience generation may include determining a set of connected devices that provide services related to virtual reality, and determining a platform type of each of the connected devices. Multiplatform based experience generation may further include receiving an indication of a modification to an intrinsic property of a virtual object on one of the set of connected devices, and generating, based on the received indication of the modification to the intrinsic property of the virtual object, a modification to a master version of the virtual object. Based on the platform type of another one of the set of connected devices and based on the modification to the master version of the virtual object, an indication of a modification to an intrinsic property of a virtual object on the another one of the set of connected devices may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITEDInventors: Robert Dooley, Sunny Webb, Matthew Thomas Short
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Patent number: 10636203Abstract: Distances between geographic real-world entities modeled as geometric shapes are measured. At least two shapes are positioned in a coordinate space based on their respective sets of points. A non-empty quadrant set from a plurality of non-empty quadrant sets formed of non-empty quadrants in the coordinate space is identified such that the non-empty quadrants of the identified quadrant set associated with each of the at least two shapes satisfy a predetermined condition and a distance between portions of the at least two shapes in the non-empty quadrants of the identified non-empty quadrant set is an optimal value for the requested distance. The distance between the portions of the shapes in the identified quadrant set is determined to be the requested distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLCInventors: Ariel Cary-Huanca, Jingjie Ni
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Patent number: 10628995Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for producing an anti-aliasing effect in the rendering of graphical elements defined based on one or more mathematical functions. In various embodiments an example method may include defining a shape based on one or more functions. A view of the shape is then rendered which includes generating a plurality of fragments corresponding to pixels in a display device through which the view will be displayed. Transparency values are set for fragments corresponding to a boundary of the shape based on the one or more functions defining the shape. The transparency values set for the fragments corresponding to the boundary of the shape result in an anti-aliasing effect when the view of the shape is displayed via the display device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Tong Chen, Karim Audrey Luccin, Morien Thomas
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Patent number: 10606077Abstract: A display switching device, switching method, wearable display device and displaying method are disclosed. The display switching device includes a collector configured to operate in an enable mode for enabling a wearable display device to acquire entity information or a disable mode for disabling the wearable display device to acquire entity information, and a first controller configured to determine display switch of the wearable display device based on an operation mode of the collector. The wearable display device displays an AR image based on the entity information when the collector operates in the enable mode, and the wearable display device displays a VR image when the collector operates in the disable mode. The wearable display device includes the display switching device.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenbo Li, Yanbing Wu
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Patent number: 10607384Abstract: A scene is assigned to each page image, and an image included in the assigned scene is pasted on each page image. A page image addition instruction region is displayed between adjacent page images. In a case where the page image addition instruction region is clicked, a new page image is displayed between two page images between which the clicked page image addition instruction region is interposed. An image included in a scene assigned to a first page image of the two page images or a scene assigned to a second page image of the two page images is pasted on the new page image.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kazuma Tsukagoshi