Patents Examined by Wesner Sajou
  • Patent number: 11687220
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform an interactive image recolorization process. The method includes receiving user input including a stroke drawn on an image presented on a client device. The stroke comprises a user-specified color. The method further includes determining a region of interest in the image. The method further includes recolorizing the region of interest on the image based on the user-specified color and causing presentation of a result of the recolorization on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Duan, Yunchao Gong, Nan Hu
  • Patent number: 11688109
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using end-to-end differentiable pipeline for optimizing parameters of a base procedural material to generate a procedural material corresponding to a target physical material. For example, the disclosed systems can receive a digital image of a target physical material. In response, the disclosed systems can retrieve a differentiable procedural material for use as a base procedural material in response. The disclosed systems can compare a digital image of the base procedural material with the digital image of the target physical material using a loss function, such as a style loss function that compares visual appearance. Based on the determined loss, the disclosed systems can modify the parameters of the base procedural material to determine procedural material parameters for the target physical material. The disclosed systems can generate a procedural material corresponding to the base procedural material using the determined procedural material parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Milos Hasan, Liang Shi, Tamy Boubekeur, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Radomir Mech
  • Patent number: 11682364
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic display configured to present an image based on image data and a display pipeline having image processing circuitry to process the image data for display on the electronic display by receiving the image data, referencing a lookup table (LUT) to determine output values based on a plurality of input value sets associated with the image data, the LUT including entries respectively mapping an output value to a defined input value set, determining whether an input value set of the plurality of input value sets is represented by the entries of the LUT, performing curvature interpolation to determine an interpolated output value associated with the input value set in response to determining the input value set of the image data is not represented by the entries of the LUT, and applying the interpolated output value to the input value set to generate updated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 11670256
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping device that allows a gamma characteristic for each color to be tuned to match a target gamma curve through color gamut mapping, a tuning method thereof, and an image processor including the same. The color gamut mapping device controls a hue and saturation of an image signal to match a target color gamut using a hue parameter assigned to each of a plurality of hue axes and a saturation parameter assigned to correspond to each of a plurality of saturation control areas of each hue axis, and the color gamut mapping device changes the saturation of the image signal by changing the saturation parameter which is assigned to each hue axis and corresponds to the uppermost saturation control area so that a gamma characteristic for each color of the image signal is changed to match a target gamma curve for each color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 11669985
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying and editing image with depth information. Image data associated with an image includes depth information associated with a subject. In response to a request to display the image, a first modified image is displayed. Displaying the first modified image includes displaying, based on the depth information, a first level of simulated lighting on a first portion of the subject and a second level of simulated lighting on a second portion of the subject. After displaying the first modified image, a second modified image is displayed. Displaying the second modified image includes displaying, based on the depth information, a third level of simulated lighting on the first portion of the subject and a fourth level of simulated lighting on the second portion of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matan Stauber, Amir Hoffnung, Matthaeus Krenn, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Joseph A. Malia, Mark Hauenstein
  • Patent number: 11670041
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that selects an anti-aliasing mode for a vertex of a primitive based on a parameter associated with the vertex and generates a coverage mask based on the selected anti-aliasing mode. Additionally, one or more pixels corresponding to the vertex may be shaded based at least partly on the coverage mask, wherein the selected anti-aliasing mode varies across a plurality of vertices in the primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray
  • Patent number: 11666298
    Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display volumetric image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the generation of the 3-D volumetric image from measured 2-D images including the rendering parameters and styles, the choice of viewing directions and 2-D projection images based on the viewing directions, the layout of the projection images, and the formation of a video can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with sequential images making up a video displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions when reviewing Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and other volumetric mammography images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PME IP PTY LTD
    Inventors: Malte Westerhoff, Detlev Stalling
  • Patent number: 11664113
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for conveying information about cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization (e.g., processing) of touchable components of a medical device using visually detectable indicators (VDIs). Information regarding processing of an ultrasound device may be conveyed by configuring the ultrasound device to include a first component with a first visual indicator to indicate a first processing level and a second component with a second visual indicator to indicate a second processing level. Implementing visual indicators to convey information about processing may reduce time, cost, and other resources used to process medical devices compared to conventional processing methods wherein the entire medical device may be processed to one processing level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Andreas Heimdal
  • Patent number: 11657551
    Abstract: The present invention comprises an improved system and method for visualizing data. In a preferred form of the invention, there is provided an improved system and method for comprehending and communicating time course or sequential numerical data, and their complex interdependencies, through the use of a novel three dimensional orthogonal chart system. In another preferred form of the invention, there is provided a three dimensional orthogonal chart system for visualizing data comprising of a plurality of data sets, wherein each of the data sets is represented as a separate ribbon propagating along the first axis. In another preferred form of the invention, there is provided a three dimensional orthogonal chart system for visualizing data comprising of a plurality of data sets, wherein each of the data sets is represented as a separate ribbon propagating along a first axis, with the separate ribbons being displaced from one another along another axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Primena Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Hurley, Andrew Najda, Joseph J. Cobau, Steven C. Fried
  • Patent number: 11657552
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for utilizing ray-tracing and mesh generation to illuminate two-dimensional digital vector images. In response to inserting a light source into a two-dimensional digital vector image including one or more vector elements, the disclosed system embeds the vector element(s) into a polygonal mesh generated for a region of the digital vector image. The disclosed system samples a plurality of rays at a plurality of points within the region and detect intersections of the rays with the vector element(s) or a bounding shape surrounding the region. Additionally, the disclosed system determines color values for mesh points in the polygonal mesh based on the intersections of the rays by interpolating color values associated with the intersected points. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed system subdivides the polygonal mesh according to a priority queue based on error scores associated with the determined color values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jakub Fiser, Ankit Phogat, Vineet Batra
  • Patent number: 11651536
    Abstract: Directional pattern generation techniques are described for digital images as implemented by a directional pattern system. In an implementation, a user input is received to specify a direction with respect to the object. A directional pattern system then fills the object using a directional pattern based on the contours of the object as well as the user-specified direction. To do so, the directional pattern system generates a directional vector field that specifies directions with respect to corresponding locations within the field defined by a mesh. Uniform field embedding is employed to transfer the directional vector field to a grid by superimposing the grid onto the mesh of the directional vector field. The directional pattern system then generates the directional pattern within the object by filling the grid with one or more pattern cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Vineet Batra, Praveen Kumar Dhanuka, Ankit Phogat
  • Patent number: 11645807
    Abstract: When performing anisotropic filtering when sampling a texture to provide an output sampled texture value for use when rendering an output in a graphics processing system, a number of positions for which to sample the texture along an anisotropy direction along which samples will be taken in the texture is determined by determining the square root of the coefficient F for an ellipse having the form Ax2+Bxy+Cy2=F corresponding to the projection of the sampling point for which the texture is being sampled onto the surface to which the texture is to be applied, and using the determined square root of the ellipse coefficient F to determine the number of positions for which samples should be taken along the anisotropy direction in the texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Edvard Fielding, Dominic Hugo Symes
  • Patent number: 11645790
    Abstract: In implementations of systems for generating accessible color themes, a computing device implements an accessibility system to receive an input color palette including original colors defined in a color space. The accessibility system generates color vision deficiency simulations that correspond to pairs of the original colors and computes perceptual color differences between the color vision deficiency simulations. Candidate colors are determined for corresponding original colors based at least partially on the perceptual color differences and a conflicting perceptual color difference. The accessibility system outputs an output color palette including replacement colors defined in the color space that are generated at least partially based on distances between the candidate colors and the corresponding original colors computed in a CIELAB color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi, Syed Mohd Mehadi, Shubham Seth, Anurag Singhal
  • Patent number: 11631202
    Abstract: A method for generating an image that includes at least one of a vignette effect or a grain effect corresponding to an input image may include obtaining the input image including at least one of the vignette effect or the grain effect; identifying at least one of a vignette parameter or a grain parameter of the input image; obtaining at least one of a vignette filter based on the vignette parameter or a grain layer based on the grain parameter; and generating the image that includes at least one of the vignette effect or the grain effect by applying at least one of the vignette filter or the grain layer to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Michael Scott Brown, Jonghwa Yim, Jihwan Choe, Kihwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11625867
    Abstract: A sewing apparatus, includes a display input unit including a display unit configured to display an image of an input screen, and an input detection unit configured to detect an input operation on the input screen; and a control apparatus that performs display control of the display unit in response to the input operation. The control apparatus performs display control in which a background of the input screen is set to a dark color as a whole, a sewing pattern image displayed on the input screen is set to brightness higher than that of the background, and an operation unit that receives the input operation on the input screen is set to a color lighter than that of the background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: JUKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuko Takemoto, Shigemi Yamamoto, Shuichi Saito
  • Patent number: 11615763
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising determining a first representation of a source gamut of an input content in a first two-dimensional (2D) device-independent color space, determining a second representation of a target gamut of a display device in a second 2D device-independent color space, and determining a color transition protection zone (TPZ) based on the source gamut and the target gamut. The method further comprises utilizing a color gamut mapping (CGM) module to perform, based on the TPZ, linear color gamut compression from the first 2D device-independent color space to the second 2D device-independent color space if the target gamut is narrower than the source gamut. The method further comprises utilizing the same CGM module to perform, based on the TPZ, linear color gamut extension from the first 2D device-independent color space to the second 2D device-independent color space if the target gamut is wider than the source gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Su, Chenguang Liu, Pradeep Nagesh
  • Patent number: 11611679
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for generating a vector object that comprises a precise circular halftone representation of an input image. A method of precise circular halftone generation includes receiving an input image, dividing the image into a grid comprising a plurality of cells, determining a color of a portion of the input image associated with a first cell, determining a radius of circular halftone elements to represent the color associated with the first cell, and generating a path object representing the portion of the input image using circular halftone elements having the determined radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventor: Dmytro Baranovskiy
  • Patent number: 11610359
    Abstract: When performing anisotropic filtering when sampling a texture in a graphics processing system, a number of positions for which to sample the texture along an anisotropy direction is determined. When the determined number of positions for which to sample the texture along the anisotropy direction is a non-integer value that exceeds a lower integer value by more than a threshold amount, samples are taken along the anisotropy direction in the texture for a number of positions corresponding to the next higher multiple of 2 to the determined non-integer number of positions to be sampled. When the determined number of positions for which to sample the texture along the anisotropy direction does not exceed the lower integer value by at least the threshold amount, samples are taken along the anisotropy direction in the texture for a number of positions corresponding to the lower integer value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Edvard Fielding, Rodolfo Luis Jalabert Castellanos
  • Patent number: 11594158
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of appropriately presenting necessary information while maintaining scenery. [Solution] An information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive sensor data detected by a sensor for grasping a surrounding situation; and a control unit configured to perform control to generate a control signal for displaying an image including appropriate information on a display unit installed around the sensor, in accordance with at least one of an attribute of a user, a situation of the user, or an environment detected from the sensor data, generate a control signal for displaying a blending image that blends into surroundings of the display unit on the display unit in a case where information presentation is determined to be unnecessary, and transmit the control signal to the display unit via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11587525
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Min Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee