Patents Examined by Steven Elbinger
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Patent number: 9524702Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to cause a display part to display a first captured image. In a case where a modification target region is detected from the first captured image, the display controller causes the display part to display a composite image in which a part or all of a second captured image is composited on the modification target region.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuo Ukigaya, Hiroshi Kimoto, Tomohiko Gotoh, Makoto Murata, Takeshi Yaeda, Naoki Shibuya
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Patent number: 9519667Abstract: Method of determining the spatial storage of an object by means of a flexible hierarchical structure containing a set of elements of an n-tree. Method comprises: Obtaining an object for placement in one of the set of elements of the n-tree. Determining if the boundary of the object goes beyond the boundaries of the most suitable element that is intersected by a portion of the object when the object is placed in this most appropriate element. Increasing the size of the most suitable element by adding to it a zone of presence of the object, the boundary of the zone of presence of the object being distant from the boundary of the most suitable element by the maximum value of the projection of the object beyond the boundaries of the most suitable element.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AGInventor: Anton Vasilyevich Korzunov
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Patent number: 9497501Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a see-through display and a virtual reality engine. The see-through display is configured to visually augment an appearance of a physical space to a user viewing the physical space through the see-through display. The virtual reality engine is configured to cause the see-through display to visually present a virtual monitor that appears to be integrated with the physical space to a user viewing the physical space through the see-through display.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Brian Mount, Stephen Latta, Adam Poulos, Daniel McCulloch, Darren Bennett, Ryan Hastings, Jason Scott
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Patent number: 9466130Abstract: A method of enhancing an image includes displaying an image, receiving eye-tracking information associated with the displayed image, and identifying a region of interest in the displayed image using the eye tracking information. The method further includes enhancing the region of interest and displaying the enhanced region of interest adjacent to or superimposed upon an unenhanced region of the displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventor: Lawrence Scarff
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Patent number: 9448532Abstract: Method for computing the code for the reconstruction of three-dimensional scenes which include objects which partly absorb light or sound. The method can be implemented in a computing unit. In order to reconstruct a three-dimensional scene as realistic as possible, the diffraction patterns are computed separately at their point of origin considering the instances of absorption in the scene. The method can be used for the representation of three-dimensional scenes in a holographic display or volumetric display. Further, it can be carried out to achieve a reconstruction of sound fields in an array of sound sources.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.Inventors: Enrico Zschau, Nils Pfeifer
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Patent number: 9449427Abstract: An electronic device can utilize one or more sensors and/or imaging elements to determine the relative position of at least one light source relative to the device. In various embodiments, the intensity of light can be determined in various directions around the device. By determining the relative intensity around the device, an approximate direction of one or more light sources can be determined. Utilizing the relative position of each light source, the electronic device can properly light or shade a graphical object to be rendered by the device, or otherwise process image information captured by the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Leo B. Baldwin, Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Kenneth M. Karakotsios, Isaac S. Noble
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Patent number: 9424660Abstract: A method and system for media encoding using changed regions. The method includes detecting the changed regions and a static portion of a desktop of a computing device. The amount of changed regions may be determined. The changed regions may be encoded in response to the amount of changed regions.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Changliang Charlie Wang
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Patent number: 9426443Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment is an image processing system having a terminal device including a display unit that displays a medical image. The image processing system includes an acquiring unit and a display controller. The acquiring unit acquires a position of the terminal device relative to a predetermined target. The display controller causes the display unit to display a medical image in accordance with the relative position of the terminal device relative to the target acquired by the acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Arakita, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Tatsuo Maeda, Takumi Hara, Kenta Moriyasu
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Patent number: 9418475Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to generating three dimensional (3D) models from range sensor data. According to an aspect, multiple 3D point clouds, which are captured using one or more 3D cameras, are obtained. At least two of the 3D point clouds correspond to different positions of a body relative to at least a single one of the one or more 3D cameras. Two or more of the 3D point clouds are identified as corresponding to two or more predefined poses, and a segmented representation of the body is generated, in accordance with a 3D part-based volumetric model including cylindrical representations, based on the two 3D point clouds identified as corresponding to the two predefined pose.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Gerard Guy Medioni, Jongmoo Choi, Ruizhe Wang
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Patent number: 9418482Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying visited travel destinations from a set of digital images associated with users of a social networking system. For example, one or more computing devices provide access to an individual user's account, including the individual user and other users affiliated with the individual user via the social networking system. One or more digital images are received from a computing device associated with the individual user and from one or more second computing devices associated with the other users of the social networking system. From each digital image, a geo-location is determined for each digital image. The one or more computing devices display each geo-located image on a map at a position corresponding to the determined geo-location for the geo-located image.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Lin Yang, Bryce Evans, Keith Noah Snavely, Yihui Xie, Andrew C. Gallagher
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Patent number: 9372593Abstract: In some implementations, a cursor can be rendered based on a three-dimensional model. In some implementations, the three-dimensional cursor can be manipulated to change the orientation of the three-dimensional cursor based on the context of the cursor. In some implementations, parameters associated with the three-dimensional model can be manipulated based on the context of the three-dimensional cursor to change the appearance of the cursor.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Duncan Robert Kerr
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Patent number: 9355601Abstract: Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data. Once the pixel data is received, processing data for a display includes converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data, the conversion generating the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of a horizontal and vertical axis. Next processing data for a display includes correcting the sub-pixel rendered data if a condition exists and outputting the sub-pixel rendered data.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott
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Patent number: 9350798Abstract: Various arrangements for transitioning between data visualizations are presented. A first and second general path may be determined that define a first and second shape, respectively. A plurality of pairs of drawing commands may be created such that each pair of the plurality of pairs of drawing commands includes a first drawing command from the first general path and a second drawing command from the second general path. The plurality of pairs of drawing commands may be modified such that each pair of the plurality of pairs of drawing commands includes a single type of drawing command. A visual transition may be output for presentation between the first shape and the second shape using the modified plurality of pairs of drawing commands.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Brendon Glazer, Prashant Singh, Hugh Zhang, Jairam Ramanathan, Baofeng Yu
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Patent number: 9324183Abstract: Dynamic window and cursor shadows are described. In some implementations, graphical user interface display objects can be configured with elevation offset information to give the display objects a three-dimensional surface that can have pixels of varying height. In some implementations, shadows that are rendered upon display objects configured with pixel elevation offset information can be adjusted to reflect the three-dimensional surface of the objects thereby better approximating real-life shadows. In some implementations, shadows can be dynamically rendered in real-time and adjusted according to the elevations of display objects onto which they are cast.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Duncan Robert Kerr
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Patent number: 9317746Abstract: Techniques may be used to accommodate occlusion. An occlusion accommodation application may determine a display position of a display of a computing device, an eye position of an eye of a user and an object position of an object. The object may be positioned between the display and the eye of the user. The occlusion accommodation application may identify, in real-time, an occluded area based on the display position, object position and the eye position.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventor: Garth Shoemaker
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Patent number: 9299189Abstract: In one embodiment, a stack of individual images of a scene are created. Each individual image corresponds to a respective light source or light source group associated with the scene. The individual images are combined to produce a combined image. The combined image is displayed. In response to user input indicating adjustments to a light source or light source group, an operator is applied to a corresponding individual image of the stack of individual images. An updated combined image is displayed on the display screen. Values for light sources or light source groups are generated based on the applied operator. The generated values are provided to a design session in a modeling environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Bentley Systems, IncorporatedInventors: Paul L. Chater, Jerry D. Flynn
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Patent number: 9293118Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising an image recognition unit that detects whether an image preset as a marker image exists in a captured image; a spatial recognition unit that, when the marker image is detected by the image recognition unit, constructs a real-world coordinate system computed from a position and orientation of the marker image, and computes information corresponding to a position and orientation of the information processing apparatus in the constructed real-world coordinate system; and a virtual object display unit that acquires at least one of the data stored in the storage unit, data existing on a network, and data transmitted from the one or more other information processing apparatuses and received by the communication interface, places the acquired data in the constructed real-world coordinate system, and controls the display unit to display the acquired data as one or more virtual objects.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventor: Daisuke Matsui
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Patent number: 9286858Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hit testing method and apparatus. The method includes: replacing color values of pixels of objects displayed on the screen with corresponding identifier (ID) values of the objects; storing the ID values in a bitmap array, wherein each element of the bitmap array corresponds to one or more pixels of a respective object; in response to capturing a hit event, acquiring a hit coordinate on the screen corresponding to the hit event; determining a bitmap array element corresponding to the hit coordinate; and identifying an object related to the hit event, according to the ID value associated with the bitmap array element.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Yang Yu
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Patent number: 9274675Abstract: A mobile terminal for displaying a three-dimensional image and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display a three-dimensional image including a plurality of objects; a memory unit configured to store property information of a plurality of applications respectively corresponding to the plurality of objects; and a controller configured to, upon detection of a selection of the plurality of objects, execute the plurality of applications, generate priority information in order to determine the priority levels of the executed applications based on the property information, and arrange the executed applications on the three-dimensional image based on position information mapped to the priority information.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Geumju An
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Patent number: 9269183Abstract: A method for reducing the number of samples tested for rendering a screen space region of an image includes constructing a bilinear approximation per primitive for a screen space region which is to be rendered, wherein the screen space region includes a plurality of sample points. The bilinear approximation is used to estimate coverage of a predefined primitive against one or more sample points within the screen space region. At least one sample point in the screen space region which is not covered by the predefined primitive is excluded from testing in the rendering of the screen space region.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Samuli Laine, Tero Karras