Patents Examined by Scott E Sonners
  • Patent number: 10922545
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention includes a first determiner and a recognizer. The first determiner is configured to determine a shutter speed and an ISO speed meeting a condition that an exposure value corresponding to a default F-number, a luminance of a subject, the shutter speed, and the ISO speed becomes a predetermined exposure value. The recognizer is configured to recognize a target object from a photographed image. The photographed image is photographed using the default F-number, and the shutter speed and the ISO speed determined by the first determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NS SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoma Fujinoi
  • Patent number: 10909759
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit for executing the instructions to send signals to display, for a user, a first virtual image superimposed onto a representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to identify a potential source of interest for the user, the potential source of interest being outside of a user focus area in the representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to notify the user of the potential source of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kaino, Yoshiaki Iwai, Kenichiro Oi, Shunichi Homma, Jianing Wu
  • Patent number: 10891760
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a graphics manipulation application accesses, for a received brushstroke input, brushstroke parameters that include a maximum alpha-deposition parameter and a fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an alpha flow increment from the maximum alpha-deposition parameter and the fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an output canvas color from the alpha flow increment and a current canvas opacity, and obtains an output canvas opacity based on the current canvas opacity and the maximum alpha-deposition parameter. If the current canvas opacity exceeds or equals the maximum alpha-deposition parameter, the current canvas opacity is selected as the output canvas opacity. Otherwise, the graphics manipulation application computes the output canvas opacity by increasing the current canvas opacity based on the alpha flow increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Byungmoon Kim, Jinyi Kwon
  • Patent number: 10885711
    Abstract: Methods and devices for performing one step compositing may include receiving at least a first surface from a first image source and a second surface from a second image source. The methods and devices may include generating a composite image with a combined first surface and second surface by contemporaneously applying position corrections to the first surface and the second surface and lens distortion corrections to the first surface and the second surface and blending the first surface and the second surface into respective positions in the composite image. The methods and devices may include transmitting the composite image representing a virtual environment for presentation to a downstream consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jack Elliott, Andrew Yeung
  • Patent number: 10852541
    Abstract: A method and system for image display with a head-mounted device, which use a see-through tunable diffractive mirror, such as a see-through tunable holographic mirror or see-through tunable LCD array mirror, which mirror is useful in providing augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Aude Bouchier, Jean-Paul Cano, Samuel Archambeau
  • Patent number: 10838682
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods and computer readable media for generating remote views in a virtual mobile device platform. A virtual mobile device platform may be coupled to a physical mobile device over a network and generate frames of data for generating views on the physical device. These frames can be generated using an efficient display encoding pipeline on the virtual mobile device platform. Such efficiencies may include, for example, the synchronization of various processes or operations, the governing of various processing rates, the elimination of duplicative or redundant processing, the application of different encoding schemes, the efficient detection of duplicative or redundant data or the combination of certain operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Intelligent Waves LLC
    Inventors: Robert David Lee, Hemal Yogesh Gandhi, Akshay P. Joshi
  • Patent number: 10832469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media related to generating a three-dimensional model of a target object. A first source image, of a plurality of source images of a target object, is analyzed to identify a first region of the first image, the first region having attributes meeting one or more pre-defined criteria. The first region is marked for exclusion from use in generating a three-dimensional model of the target object. The three-dimensional model of the target object is generated using the plurality of source images. The marked first region is excluded in the generation of the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Chapman, Steven T. Kosakura, Joseph M. Popp, Mehul A. Patel
  • Patent number: 10810968
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a housing including at least one of a display that displays an image and a speaker that outputs sound, a mounting detection unit that is disposed on a first surface of the housing to determine whether a grill is mounted, and a processor that compensates at least one of an output image of the display and an output sound source of the speaker depending on whether the grill is mounted, which is detected by the mounting detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoung Bo Min
  • Patent number: 10803666
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method, performed at a first electronic device with one or more processors, a display, and one or more input devices, includes obtaining, for a reference location in a three-dimensional space, first reference coordinates in an augmented reality coordinate system of the first electronic device. The method includes obtaining, for the reference location in the three-dimensional space, second reference coordinates based on transformation data received from a second electronic device. The method includes determining a coordinate transformation based on the first reference coordinates and the second reference coordinates. The method includes synchronizing the augmented reality coordinate system of the first electronic device with an augmented reality coordinate system of the second electronic device using the coordinate transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael E. Buerli, Andreas Moeller, Michael Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10803649
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that provides tools for defining a scene including media objects in a multi-dimensional space. The method provides a set of user interface tools for adjusting a region of focus for rendering the space from a particular location within a particular field of view. In some embodiments, the region of focus is a first region in the space within the particular field of view and the space further includes a second region outside of the region of focus within the particular field of view. In some embodiments, the method also provides a set of effects for applying to the second region but not the first region to visually indicate the first region as the region of focus within the space and the second region as a region outside of the region of focus within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Sheeler, Gregory Niles, Gregory B. Abbas, Guido Hucking, Sidhartha Deb
  • Patent number: 10783699
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that refine anatomical models to sub-voxel resolution. In certain implementations, sophisticated, composite, digital anatomical atlases provide detailed three-dimensional models of the contents of three-dimensional medical images. However, three-dimensional medical images have limited resolutions characterized by a smallest volume, referred to as a voxel, to which an intensity is assigned by the imaging process. The currently disclosed methods employ computed percentages of different types of tissue within voxel volumes to adjust a three-dimensional model of the contents of the voxel volumes to more accurately model the contents of the voxel volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: AI Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Julia Patriarche
  • Patent number: 10740867
    Abstract: A graphics processing may include implementing a vertex shader and a pixel shader with a GPU. Vertex parameter values may be compressed with the vertex shader and compressed vertex parameter values may be written to a cache. The pixel shader may access the compressed vertex parameter values that were written to the cache and decompress the compressed vertex parameter values. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Mark Evan Cerny, David Simpson, Jason Scanlin
  • Patent number: 10733691
    Abstract: Graphics processing may include implementing a vertex shader and a pixel shader with the GPU. Vertex indices output from a vertex shader may be written to a cache. The vertex indices written to the cache may be accessed with the pixel shader and vertex parameter values associated with the vertex indices may be accessed from a memory unit with the pixel shader. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Mark Evan Cerny, David Simpson, Jason Scanlin
  • Patent number: 10699484
    Abstract: A computer system for creating architectural schematics within a mixed-reality environment generates, within an architectural design application, mixed-reality rendering data that visually describes one or more virtual architectural elements in relation to a real-world environment. The computer system transmits, to a mixed-reality device, the mixed-reality rendering data, wherein the mixed-reality device renders the mixed-reality rendering data within the real-world environment. The computer system also receives a command from a user directed towards a particular virtual architectural element. Additionally, the computer system constrains a scope of the command based upon an interaction between the virtual architectural element and the real-world environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Barrie A. Loberg, Joseph Howell, Robert Blodgett, Simon Francis Stannus, Matthew Hibberd, Tyler West
  • Patent number: 10636222
    Abstract: Techniques of generating a virtual environment in a virtual reality system involves changing, within a user interface of the second user, an attribute of an avatar representing the first user while maintaining a spatial position of an object with which the first user is interacting. In this way, the second user may see only non-threatening or otherwise pleasant avatars within their user interface while other users may not perceive any change to the virtual environment as displayed in their respective user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Manuel Christian Clement, Stefan Welker, Tim Gleason, Ian MacGillivray, Darwin Yamamoto, Shawn Buessing
  • Patent number: 10614612
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a novel way of fast generation of physically correct reflections of virtual objects, augmented into real-world image. The method is based on global illumination ray tracing (aka path tracing) at a low computational complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ADSHIR LTD.
    Inventors: Reuven Bakalash, Elad Haviv
  • Patent number: 10614633
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein provide for projecting a two-dimensional (2D) image onto a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) graphical object within a virtual 3D drawing space. In response to a user input indicating a command to stamp the 2D image onto the 3D graphical object, the 2D image is projected, in 3D space, onto the surface of the 3D graphical object, creating the appearance that the 2D image wraps around the 3D graphical object in 3D space. In one aspect, as the 3D graphical object is rotated, translated, stretched, or otherwise manipulated, the 2D image remains fixed to the surface of the 3D graphical object and is also rotated, translated, stretched, or otherwise manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Jason Schuneman, Mark Aaron Stanley, David Mondelore, Jonathan Peter Creighton, Alexander Charles Cullum
  • Patent number: 10593298
    Abstract: A display control device is disclosed herein, which includes a plurality of data generating chips and a plurality of data processing chips, corresponding to one another in a one-to-one relationship. The plurality of data generating chips are configured to receive an image signal. The image signal includes a plurality of image region signals, each corresponding to a different region of an image frame. Each data generating chip is configured to receive, and to conduct data processing to, at least one image region signal to generate image region data, and to send the image region data to a corresponding data processing chip. Each data processing chip is configured to conduct image processing to the image region data from a corresponding data generating chip to generate an image output signal, and to output the image output signal. On this basis, a display method and a display apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ran Duan
  • Patent number: 10571696
    Abstract: A near-to-eye display device includes a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator modulates an illumination wave to create a virtual-scene wave that is steered to a useful portion of an exit pupil plane. Higher diffraction orders and noise beams are filtered out by the user's pupil acting as a spatial filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CY Vision Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Urey, Erdem Ulusoy
  • Patent number: 10559125
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to construct a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) tree includes: generating 2-dimensional (2D) tiles including primitives; converting the 2D tiles into 3-dimensional (3D) tiles; and constructing the BVH tree based on the 3D tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ankur Deshwal, Vikash Kumar, Keshavan Varadarajan, Parikshit Kolipaka, Soma Kohli