Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
  • Patent number: 12118653
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for reducing GPU load by programmatically controlling shading rates in computer graphics. GPU load may be reduced by applying different shading rates to different screen regions. By reading the depth buffer of previous frames and performing image processing, thresholds may be calculated that control the shading rates. The approach may be run on any platform that supports VRS hardware and primitive- or image-based VRS. The approach may be applied on a graphics driver installed on a client device, in a firmware layer between hardware and a driver, in a software layer between a driver and an application, or in hardware on the client device. The approach is flexible and adaptable and calculates and sets the variable rate shading based on the graphics generated by an application without requiring the application developer to manually set variable rate shading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Yu Huang, Shih-Chin Lin, Jen-Jung Cheng, Tu-Hsiu Lee
  • Patent number: 12118927
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first light emitting array and a second light emitting array. The first light emitting array includes first light-emitting units disposed in a first region and a first sub region. The second light emitting array is disposed adjacent to the first light emitting array. The second light emitting array includes second light-emitting units disposed in a second region and a second sub region. The difference between the average brightness in the first region and the average brightness in the second region is in a range from 0% to 20%, and the difference between the average brightness in the first sub region and the average brightness in the second sub region is less than the difference between the average brightness in the first region and the average brightness in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Liang Chang, Yi-Hua Hsu
  • Patent number: 12118666
    Abstract: A method, a device and a system for cooperatively constructing a point cloud map, relating to the field of point cloud map construction. The method includes acquiring point cloud data of corresponding road sections respectively acquired by a plurality of vehicles when moving on different road sections, an overlap region being provided between any first road section and second road section which are adjacent; determining, by using the point cloud data of the overlap region, a transformation matrix for transforming the point cloud data of the second road section into the point cloud data of the first road section; using the transformation matrix to transform the point cloud data of the second road section; and splicing the point cloud data of the first road section and the transformed point cloud data of the second road section to construct a point cloud map of the preset route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING JINGDONG QIANSHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Kong, Jinfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12118924
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, and a power supply to supply a first initialization voltage to the pixels through a first initialization power line, and to supply a second initialization voltage to the pixels through a second initialization power line. At least one of the pixels includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong Hwan Oh, Jin Tae Jeong, Ji Hyun Ka, Won Kyu Kwak, Hyung Jun Park, Chang Soo Pyon, Ji Eun Lee, Hai Jung In, Won Mi Hwang
  • Patent number: 12113511
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for a bridge-type filter. In example aspects, the apparatus includes a filter circuit having a first port, a second port, and a filter core. The filter core is coupled between the first port and the second port. The filter core includes at least one transformer, a first resonator arrangement, and a second resonator arrangement. The first resonator arrangement is coupled to the at least one transformer and includes multiple acoustic resonators. The second resonator arrangement is coupled to the at least one transformer and includes multiple acoustic resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: RF360 Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgar Schmidhammer, Marc Esquius Morote, Juha Sakari Ella
  • Patent number: 12106697
    Abstract: Image display device and method have a display arranged at a user's preferred position and displaying images with comfortable image quality and arrangement that match a user's viewing position and preference. The image display device includes an external input interface, a memory for storing image data, an arithmetic processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a display, and a setting mode suitable for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ATMOPH INC.
    Inventors: Kyohi Kang, Kyohei Nakano, Yoko Tarui, Shin Sugiyama, Takashi Kubota, Kwei Yuan Chiou
  • Patent number: 12096988
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a method to determine an operation pathway for a patient. The method includes constructing a three-dimensional model of the patient; obtaining image information of the patient; selecting a first set of two-dimensional feature points associated with the three-dimensional model and a second set of two-dimensional feature points associated with the image information; transforming the first set of two-dimensional feature points to a first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of two-dimensional feature points to a second set of three-dimensional feature points, respectively; matching between the first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of three-dimensional feature points to determine a relationship that aligns the first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of three-dimensional feature points; and determining the operation pathway in a coordinate system associated with a robotic arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BRAIN NAVI BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chieh Hsiao Chen, Kuan Ju Wang
  • Patent number: 12094063
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) and 3 DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6 DoF and 3 DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Patent number: 12094041
    Abstract: A method for restoration of a kinetic event using video. The method includes obtaining video involving the kinetic event including a plurality of frames. An absolute location of a frame of the plurality of frames is determined. Movement of a feature point cloud corresponding to an object in motion in the plurality of frames is analyzed. A 3D object model with substantially similar dimensions to the object in motion is selected. The 3D object model is displayed emulating the analysed movement on the 3D map based on the absolute location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nuo Xu, Yuan Yuan Ding, Ke Yong Zhang, Tian Tian Chai, Yi Chen Zhong, Hong Bing Zhang
  • 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: 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: 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 (ā€œ3Dā€) 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: 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