Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
  • Patent number: 12086379
    Abstract: At a computer system, in response to detecting a respective user input: if the respective user input meets first criteria requiring the one or both hands of the user maintain a first grip while a first type of movement of the one or both hands is detected, the computer system moves a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment relative to the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the movement of the one or both hands in the three-dimensional environment; and if the respective user input meets second criteria requiring the one or both hands of the user maintain a second grip while a second type of movement of the one or both hands is detected, the computer system replaces the view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first viewpoint with a view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE, INC
    Inventors: Philipp Rockel, William A. Sorrentino, III, Stephen O. Lemay, Peter D. Anton
  • Patent number: 12087001
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of tomographic images obtained by radially scanning measuring light on an eye to be examined, and corresponding to a plurality of locations of the eye to be examined, respectively, and an imaging parameter corresponding to each tomographic image, a modifying unit configured to modify a shape of a tomographic image corresponding to the imaging parameter by using the imaging parameter, and an aligning unit configured to align a plurality of shape-modified tomographic images with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Iwase
  • Patent number: 12087749
    Abstract: A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Bibl, Kapil V. Sakariya, Vikram Pavate
  • Patent number: 12086941
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may relate to a technique to be performed by surface partition logic. The technique may include identifying a first mesh portion that is related to a first plane of a three-dimensional (3D) space, and a second mesh portion that is related to a second plane of the 3D space. The technique may include identifying, based on a linear representation of a border between the first mesh portion and the second mesh portion, an element of the first mesh portion that at least partially overlaps the second mesh portion. The technique may further include altering the element of the first mesh portion to reduce the amount that the element overlaps the second mesh portion. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Nikilesh Urella
  • Patent number: 12079934
    Abstract: A hierarchical sphere and/or hierarchical disk distribution is used to re-sample points of a point cloud to achieve a well distributed re-sampled point distribution. The re-sampled points are represented by integer values defining a given partition in which a respective re-sampled point resides and an index value. The index value identifies a sphere (or disk) within the given partition to which the re-sampled point belongs. The spatial location of the resampled point is determined based on the location of the partition to which the re-sampled point belongs and the location of a sample bin (e.g. sphere) in the partition having an index value communicated for the re-sampled point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Arnold H Cachelin
  • Patent number: 12067677
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that estimate a three-dimensional skeleton based on images captured from a plurality of viewpoints, and generate a skeleton model by modeling the three-dimensional skeleton. The information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further model a joint in a spherical shape or a bone in a cylindrical shape in the three-dimensional skeleton, and set a radius of a sphere of the joint or a radius of a cylinder of the bone according to a distance between any one of the plurality of viewpoints or a virtual viewpoint and the joint or the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Tahara
  • Patent number: 12051148
    Abstract: The present disclosure allows for generating a virtual viewpoint image matching an object's sight. To achieve this, an image processing apparatus comprises one or more memories storing instructions; and one or more processors executing the instructions to: obtain a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices while a symbol representing a position at which an object should direct a look is being displayed; and generate a virtual viewpoint image in accordance with a position of a virtual viewpoint and a view direction from the virtual viewpoint, the position of the virtual viewpoint being a position at which the symbol is displayed, and the view direction from the virtual viewpoint being a direction specified based on the position of the virtual viewpoint and a position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazufumi Onuma
  • Patent number: 12046208
    Abstract: A current control integrated circuit of a backlight device for display includes a buffer configured to receive a column signal; a plurality of driving current controllers configured to receive the column signal outputted from the buffer and row signals corresponding to a plurality of light emitting blocks of a control unit, and control driving currents for light emission of the light emitting blocks, in response to the column signal and the row signals; and a memory unit, wherein an offset voltage of the buffer is controlled by offset correction data stored in the memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Min Seon Kim, Yong Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 12046004
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining pose using a trained neural network are described, whereby a user device receives image data of a 3-dimensional (“3D”) marker affixed to a 3D object to be tracked, provides a set of input data derived from the image data to a neural network stored on the user device, and generates a pose descriptor indicative of estimated pose of the 3D marker based on output of the neural network produced in response to receiving the set of input data. The 3D marker comprises a first surface to convey radiation in a first direction, and a second surface to convey radiation in a second direction different to the first direction, whereby the image processing system determines object pose from captured image data of at least a portion of the radiation conveyed from the first and/or second surface of the 3D marker affixed to the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZETA MOTION LTD.
    Inventor: Wilhelm Eduard Jonathan Klein
  • Patent number: 12039128
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel formed above the display panel. The touch panel includes X electrodes which extend in a first direction, and Y electrodes which extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The X electrodes and the Y electrodes respectively include intersection portions each formed where the X electrodes and the Y electrodes overlap each other, and electrode portions each formed between the intersection portions, wherein the electrode portions of one of the X electrodes is smaller in area than the electrode portions of one of the Y electrodes, and wherein floating electrodes are formed close to the electrode portion of the one of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, and over a reduced portion of the X electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANELTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Kouichi Anno
  • Patent number: 12032822
    Abstract: A method of controlling a portable device including first and second touch screens is provided. The method includes displaying first information related to a first application on the first touch screen and displaying second information related to the first application on the second touch screen; receiving a first user input moving to the first touch screen on the second touch screen; and replacing the first information and the second information with a third information and a fourth information related to the first application on the first and second touch screens, in response to receiving the first user input, wherein each of the third information and the fourth information is displayed while being slidden from the second touch screen to the first touch screen and the third information is displayed over a boundary between the first and second screens during the sliding of the third and fourth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-Kyu Seo, Kyung-A Kang, Ji-Yeon Kwak, Hyun-Jin Kim, Hyun-Jung Song, Sung-Sik Yoo, Ju-Youn Lee, Dong-Seok Ryu, Min-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 12034786
    Abstract: In a server, a client information acquiring section acquires information related to a user operation from an image processing device. An operation status identifying section of an image generating section identifies the contents displayed on the image processing device side at the time when the user operation is performed. A drawing section generates a frame corresponding to the details of the user operation and the contents displayed at the time when the user operation is performed. A discard processing section determines whether or not to discard the data, on the basis of the contents of a provisional frame generated before the detection of the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12033272
    Abstract: Delivering pre-rendered holographic content over a network is disclosed. A first camera view segment of a plurality of camera view segments that compose a holographic video is selected. Each camera view segment corresponds to a different camera view perspective of a scene and includes rendered holographic content that depicts a plurality of concurrent different viewer perspectives of the scene. The first camera view segment is streamed toward a holographic display for presentation of the first camera view segment on the holographic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Dhananjay Lal, Andrew Ip, Matthew Ringenberg, Dell Wolfensparger, Omar Alami
  • Patent number: 12033283
    Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator projects or displays a virtual space image on a screen installed at a position distant from a user in a real space and not integrally moving with the user. More specifically, the VR simulator acquires a real user position being a position of the user's head in the real space. The VR simulator acquires a virtual user position being a position in a virtual space corresponding to the real user position. Then, the VR simulator acquires the virtual space image by imaging the virtual space by using a camera placed at the virtual user position in the virtual space, based on virtual space configuration information indicating a configuration of the virtual space. Here, the VR simulator performs adjusts a focal length of the camera such that perspective corresponding to a distance between the real user position and the screen is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kaku
  • Patent number: 12008707
    Abstract: A system for simulating objects in a three dimensional virtual space, comprising a host computing node coupled to a network, padding spheres defined in the virtual space, one padding sphere fully encasing each cube in an octree; a plurality of objects, each object tracked for position in the virtual space. A visibility sphere associated with each object is provided, and at least one display, displaying objects in the virtual space. One of the objects becoming a target object, a search determines objects to be rendered in the display, identifying all padding spheres overlapped at least partially by the visibility sphere of the target object as candidate padding spheres, and identifying objects within or overlapping the candidate padding spheres, determining a visibility ratio for each object of maximum dimension of the object divided by distance from the target object, any object having a visibility to be rendered in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: David Todd Kaplan
  • Patent number: 12008152
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media that determines distances for mixed reality interaction, where the methods include determining a first position of a point of a surface and rendering a virtual reality (VR) interactive item comprising a VR interactive control. The methods further include tracking a control indicator controlled by the user by determining a first plurality of positions of the control indicator and activating the VR interactive control in response to detecting the control indicator controlled by the user transgressing a first threshold distance from the VR interactive control. The methods further include determining a closest position of the first plurality of positions to the point based on the first position, determining the point of the surface to have a second position based on the determined closest position plus a constant for the control indicator, and associating a second threshold with the point of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Lucas
  • Patent number: 12004871
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods directed to a body change journey that utilizes collected two-dimensional (“2D”) body images of a body of a user, generation and presentation of a personalized three-dimensional (“3D”) body model of the body of the user based on those 2D body images, the generation and presentation of different predicted personalized 3D body models of the body of the user at different body measurements (e.g., different body fat percentages, different muscle mass amounts, different body weights, etc.), and the generation of a body change journey that guides the user from their current body model to a selected target body model that is represented by a target personalized 3D body model of the body of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cyrus Fazeli, Apoorv Chaudhri, Ambrish Tyagi, Prakash Ramu, Amit Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 12002158
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that make it possible to grasp a state of a certain region. An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a three-dimensional model generator, and a block generator. The image acquisition section acquires image information that includes image data and position information that are associated with each other, the position information being information regarding a position at which the image data is acquired. The three-dimensional model generator generates a three-dimensional model using the image information. The block generator generates a new block that is to be coupled to a blockchain that is formed by blocks being coupled, each block recording therein the image information used to generate the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 12002408
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a display image shift controller. The display panel includes a display area in which a display image is displayed and a shift area located within the display area. The display image shift controller generates a route shift signal, where a reference point of the display image is shifted in the shift area based on the route shift signal. The route shift signal includes first and second routes corresponding to a path through which the reference point of the display image is shifted. The first route includes a first sub-route and a second sub-route. The second route includes a third sub-route and a fourth sub-route. The first, second, third, and fourth sub-routes are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daye Moon, Bonggyun Kang, Kyoungho Lim, Heesook Park
  • Patent number: 11995785
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing a standardized position for anatomic structural data (ASD) of a patient scan, in particular as a basis for individually fitting an orthosis or prosthesis to a first patient. The method comprises the steps of receiving anatomic structural data (ASD) of a body part of the first patient, receiving and/or selecting template structural data (TSD) corresponding to the body part and adapting the orientation and/or the pose of the anatomic structural data (ASD) using the armature of the template structural data (TSD). Further, the invention refers to a computer-implemented method for providing standardized measurement on anatomic structural data (ASD) of a patient scan, a data processing system and a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Khoi Lam, Max Thalmeier