Patents Examined by Thomas Lett
  • Patent number: 9883015
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device (1) according to the present invention includes a housing (10) that includes a frame (30), a housing (20) that includes a frame (40), and hinges (51 and 52) that couple the frame (30) and the frame (40) around a pivotal axis (50). The housings (10, 20) include touch panels (12, 22). The frame (30) includes supporting members (32, 33) that extend in a direction away from the pivotal axis (50) and the frame (40) includes supporting members (42, 43) that extend in a direction away from the pivotal axis (50). The hinges (51, 52) generate torque in a direction opposite to that of a stress acting on the touch panels (12, 22) when the housings (10, 20) form a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NEC MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryota Michino
  • Patent number: 9877642
    Abstract: The viewing device for the interior of a mouth of a patient includes a penetrating ray emitter adapted to take a view of an inner portion located under an outer surface of an organ arranged in the mouth. There is a pair of augmented-reality glasses having an optical glass through which a user of the pair of glasses can see the interior of the mouth and a viewing camera adapted to take an image of what the user sees through the optical glass. A central unit correlates first images corresponding to those taken by the viewing camera with second images corresponding to those taken by the penetrating-ray emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Francois Duret
  • Patent number: 9883463
    Abstract: A first user equipment transmits a beacon signal to be detected by at least one second user equipment for Device-to-Device, D2D, communication in a wireless telecommunications network. The first user equipment transmits the beacon signal in transmission bursts with a first energy level, where the transmission bursts are transmitted continually over time in order to enable detection of the beacon signal by the at least one second user equipment. The first user equipment then increases the energy of the transmission bursts at one or more intervals to a second energy level such that transmission bursts with the first energy level is alternated with transmission bursts with the second energy level, and such that transmission bursts with the first energy level recur more frequently over time than transmission bursts with a second energy level. A user equipment, a network node and a method in the network node are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Gabor Fodor, Leif Wilhelmsson, Göran N. Klang
  • Patent number: 9881423
    Abstract: An augmented reality-based hand interaction apparatus and method using image information. The augmented reality-based hand interaction apparatus using image information includes an object recognition module configured to extract feature points from an input color image, recognize an object which is a target of interest based on the extracted feature points, and estimate a three-dimensional (3D) posture of the recognized object, and an interaction module configured to extract 3D mesh information from an input depth image, match 3D coordinates of the extracted 3D mesh information with 3D coordinates of the object recognized by the object recognition module to extract 3D position information of the recognized object in 3D space, and detect whether or not an augmented 3D object and the recognized object collide with each other based on relative positional relationship information between the recognized object and the augmented 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Cho, Young Woon Lee, Sung Uk Jung
  • Patent number: 9883077
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a job processor to perform a job of the image forming apparatus, a storage unit to store apparatus use information on a user of the image forming apparatus and job performance of the job processor, a determination unit to determine whether the user is changed or not, and a controller to delete the apparatus use information on a previous user if it is determined that the user is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-min Han, Hyung-ho Lee, Ki-hun Kim, Jin-ah Heo
  • Patent number: 9870048
    Abstract: In a head-mounted display device equipped with a display section, through which an external world can visually be recognized, the head-mounted display device includes a superimposition image display control section adapted to make the display section display a predetermined image so as to be superimposed on the external world to visually be recognized in a see-through manner, an imaging section adapted to capture an image of at least a predetermined range out of the external world visually recognized in a see-through manner, a partial image determination section adapted to determine a partial image of a predetermined range, which corresponds in position to the predetermined image, out of the captured image obtained by the imaging section, and a visibility correction section adapted to correct visibility of the predetermined image displayed by the superimposition image display control section in accordance with color information related to the partial image determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9872093
    Abstract: An audio output apparatus a display configured to display an output image; a speaker configured to output audio; and a processor configured to control the speaker to output music content as the audio, determine, based on meta data and external environment information, an image category corresponding to the music content among presorted image categories, determine at least one image corresponding to the determined image category as a background image, and control the display to display the determined at least one image as the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-gwang Kim, Joon-soo Kim, Yu-li Sung, Young-soo Hong
  • Patent number: 9858694
    Abstract: Methods and devices to improve the quality of graphics objects based on adaptive stroke thickening are disclosed. The method includes receiving a graphics object having a stroke, where the stroke defines a fill region. The received graphics object is identified as a fill object based on the stroke including a first cell of a stroke color being different from a fill color of a second cell associated with the fill region. The stroke color and the fill color are compared with a background color of a third cell associated with a background according to a predefined condition, where the first cell, the second cell, and the third cell are linearly adjacent to each other. Based on the comparison, an adapted color being different from the background color of the third cell is selected to adaptively strengthen the first cell, which is associated with the stroke, away from the fill region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arindam Das, Ranita Bej, Xing Li
  • Patent number: 9852549
    Abstract: An image processing method includes capturing an image of the head of a user of a head mountable display device. The position of the head mountable display device is detected in the image captured by a camera. A region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device is identified. The portion of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device is at least partially replaced with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a modified version of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Simon Mark Benson, Jeremy David Ashforth, Ian Henry Bickerstaff
  • Patent number: 9846970
    Abstract: Described are apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with transitioning an augmented reality object between physical and digital environments, wherein the augmented reality object is embodied in at least two information carrying objects, which information carrying objects comprise a sensor-enabled physical object and a digital object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Glen J. Anderson, Reese Bowes, Ankur Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9842376
    Abstract: Techniques are described with respect to preemption in which a graphics processing unit (GPU) may execute a first set of commands in response to receiving a draw call, the draw call defining a plurality of primitives that are to be rendered by the first set of commands, receive a preemption notification during execution of the first set of commands, and preempt the execution of the first set of commands, prior to completing the execution of the first set of commands to render the plurality of primitives of the draw call, for executing a second set of commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anirudh Rajendra Acharya, Gang Zhong, Vineet Goel
  • Patent number: 9836145
    Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus comprises: a touch pad sensor that is arranged on a back surface of a housing, and detects a contact position when held by a user; and a holding pattern determining unit that determines a holding pattern having a highest similarity to a touch pad detection data detected by the touch pad sensor among a plurality of predetermined holding patterns to output the determined holding pattern. The mobile terminal apparatus controls an orientation of information displayed on a display screen of a display unit based on the holding pattern outputted by the holding pattern determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuniaki Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 9830725
    Abstract: A system for simultaneous visual data presentation is provided having a processor and memory with instructions for execution by the processor for: receiving attended data; receiving unattended data; and generating presentation data. The presentation is suitable for simultaneous presentation of the attended data and the unattended data in a manner in which the unattended data at least partially overlaps the attended data and the unattended data does not interfere with the attended data by replacing, erasing, or suppressing the attended data, and vice versa. The presented unattended data gives cues that the user can sense and provide information to the user while attending to the presented attended data, without attending to the presented unattended data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Aaron Krakowski
  • Patent number: 9826116
    Abstract: A method of performing an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus supporting peer to peer (P2P) connection includes P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to an external wireless device while the image forming apparatus is wirelessly connected to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, receiving a discovery packet from the wireless device via a P2P interface, transmitting to the wireless device a response packet including an Internet protocol (IP) address of the P2P interface, receiving from the wireless device an image forming operation performing request having the IP address of the P2P interface as a destination, and performing the requested image forming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-wook Park, Jin-hyung Kim, Sung-joon Park
  • Patent number: 9826117
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus supporting peer to peer (P2P) connection includes a print engine to perform a print operation; a first wireless interface to connect the image forming apparatus to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network; a second wireless interface to connect the image forming apparatus to an external mobile device by P2P; a soft AP module to allow the image forming apparatus to perform as an AP when the image forming apparatus is P2P connected; a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server unit to allocate an internet protocol (IP) address to the mobile device that is P2P connected to the image forming apparatus; a soft AP activating unit to activate the soft AP module; and a control unit. If a discovery packet is received from the mobile device via P2P interface, the control unit is operable to control the image forming apparatus to process the discovery packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-joon Park, Jin-hyung Kim, Hyun-wook Park
  • Patent number: 9817615
    Abstract: A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving a request from an imaging device indicating that the imaging device is unable to present textual content of an asset. The request includes one or more attributes of the textual content of the asset and the request is sent from the imaging device absent user input. Operations also include identifying an appropriate amount of font information from the received one or more attributes for the imaging device to present the asset, and, providing the identified font information to the imaging device for presenting the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Monotype Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: John Seguin, Christopher J. Roberts, Vladimir Levantovsky
  • Patent number: 9818228
    Abstract: Mixed reality social interactions are described. Techniques described herein include determining authentication information associated with a mixed reality display device and determining that a content item is visible in a mixed reality environment associated with the mixed reality display device. In an example, a content item may be determined to be visible based at least in part on content data indicating that the content item is owned by the mixed reality display device and/or has been shared with the mixed reality display device. The content data may also indicate an identification of a content item of the plurality of content items, an owner of the content item, and permissions associated with the content item. The techniques further describe causing a graphical representation of the content item to be presented via a display on the mixed reality display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jaron Lanier, Ran Gal, Wayne Chang, Javier Arturo Porras Luraschi, Viktor A. Mateevitsi, Gheric Speiginer, Joseph Menke
  • Patent number: 9805488
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring a first original image to be processed and creating a preset number copies of the first original image which the preset number copies and the first original image have a same image but different transparencies; offsetting content of each copy of the preset number copies of the first original image to obtain the preset number copies of first processed images; and overlaying the first original image and the preset number copies of the first processed images, and getting an overlaid first original image as a result of the first original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang Ma, Chunhua Luo, Zhiqiang He
  • Patent number: 9804751
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein can allow a user to efficiently generate a merged two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) view of an existing three-dimensional construction model. A processor can create new 2D views for each floor in the 3D model, and then merge those new 2D views with new 3D views of the model. The merged views can allow a construction worker to easily alternate between two-dimensional and three-dimensional views of a construction jobsite, for example, to track information particular to a floor without having to alter the 3D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Applied Software Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Petrucci, Xiao Chun Yao
  • Patent number: 9801023
    Abstract: A wireless communications device with a wireless module, a storage unit and a controller module is provided for performing positioning measurements. The wireless module receives a plurality of positioning signals from a service network during respective position occasions. The controller module processes the received signals and performs measurements on the processed signals, wherein measurement result is taken at least three processed signals with respective position occasions, wherein each measurement result is stored in the storage unit with the information of corresponding base station and respective position occasion, wherein performing the measurements further include combining the stored measurement results for all of position occasions for generating a final measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Chiou, Yuan-Wen Ting