Patents Examined by Wesner Sajous
  • Patent number: 11941724
    Abstract: This application provides a model inference method and apparatus based on a graphics rendering pipeline, and a storage medium for model inference based on a graphics rendering pipeline. The method includes: obtaining an instruction stream in a render thread; extracting and saving texture data information from the instruction stream, where the texture data information includes texture data; and inputting the texture data information to a graphics processing unit (GPU) rendering pipeline, where the GPU rendering pipeline is used to perform GPU model-based inference on the texture data based on a GPU model to obtain an inference result of the texture data, and the GPU model is a model running in a GPU. This implements model inference on the texture data, and avoids conversion of the texture data into another data type, thereby reducing I/O memory overheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xindong Shi, Shu Wang, Jiangzheng Wu, Mingwei Lu
  • Patent number: 11943419
    Abstract: An image processing device comprising a processor configured to generate a refocused image from an input image and an map indicating depth information for the image, by the steps of: for each of a plurality of planes associated with respective depths within the image: generating a depth mask having values indicating whether regions of the input image are within a specified range of the plane, wherein an assessment of whether a region is within the specified range of the plane is made through the evaluation of a differentiable function of the range between regions of the input image and the plane as determined from the map; generating a masked image from the input image and the generated depth mask; refocusing the masked image using a blurring kernel to generate a refocused partial image; and generating the refocussed image from the plurality of refocussed partial images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Benjamin Busam, Matthieu Hog, Steven George McDonagh, Gregory Slabaugh
  • Patent number: 11941729
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains one or plurality of images based on capturing by one or plurality of image capturing apparatuses, obtains information related to a virtual object, and generates a two-dimensional image including the virtual object, based on the one or plurality of obtained images and the obtained information related to the virtual object. The image processing apparatus generates the two-dimensional image by determining color information of the virtual object based on color information of a real object included in the one or plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keigo Yoneda
  • Patent number: 11935156
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating a virtual view of a scene associated with a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: obtaining image data including a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras of the vehicle; obtaining steering angle data captured by a sensor of the vehicle; detecting, by a processor, a shadow in at least one image of the plurality of images; determining, by the processor, auto-white balance data for each image of the plurality of images; selectively combining, by the processor, the auto-white balance data of the images based on the detected shadow, and the steering angle data; and generating, by the processor, output image data based on the combined auto-white balance data and the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sai Vishnu Aluru, Yun Qian Miao, Sravan Daruri, Mohamed A. Naiel
  • Patent number: 11934590
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a user to paint an image includes generating a display of a room image uploaded by the user are provided and include The systems and methods include employing a straight-line masking tool to block off a first area of the room image with a straight line such that color will not be applied to the first area when color is applied to a second area of the room image. The systems and methods also include employing a polygon masking tool to draw at least three lines to mask off a selected polygon area of the room image such that color can be applied by the user to an inside of the selected polygon area when the user selects the inside of the selected polygon area and an outside of the selected polygon area when the user selects the outside of the selected polygon area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Behr Process Corporation
    Inventors: Damien Reynolds, Douglas Milsom, Vincent Giosa
  • Patent number: 11925251
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of an another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
  • Patent number: 11928990
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display system includes a transparent screen that is capable of switching a light scattering degree, a projector, and a controller that controls interlocking driving of the projector and the screen. The controller drives the screen and controls a light scattering degree of at least part of an area, of the screen, in which the image is projected during a period in which the projector is driven and an image is projected on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11924519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and a control method therefor, and involves the concept of controlling a display to reduce luminance from a default luminance to a first luminance for a first reduction time when brightness of a fixed area is maintained for a first predetermined time or more, and controlling the display to increase the luminance from the first luminance to the default luminance, when a set-top box receives, from an external device within a second predetermined time, a first signal for changing a screen from a first screen to a second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngho Chun, Hyungil Lee
  • Patent number: 11922661
    Abstract: The subject technology receives image data including a representation of a physical item. The subject technology analyzes the image data to determine an object corresponding to the physical item. The subject technology identifies a set of colors corresponding to a set of regions of the determined object. The subject technology analyzes second image data to detect a second object corresponding to a representation of a particular body part of a user. The subject technology generates augmented reality content based at least in part on the identified set of colors and the detected second object. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, the augmented reality content applied to the detected second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Luo, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11914841
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for generating a stylized icon automatically. After a query text inputted by a user is obtained, a trained generator is used to generate a structured icon that can characterize a structure of an object, and then the structured icon is stylized, such as performing color padding or adding other styles, so as to generate a high-quality stylized icon for the user. In embodiments of the present disclosure, a structured icon and a stylized icon are generated respectively at two stages, where the structured icon can clearly characterize the structure of the object, while the stylized icon can be richer in color and style. Therefore, the stylized icon generated according to embodiments of the present disclosure has a higher quality and is more realistic, thereby improving the user experience of icon generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jianlong Fu, Jinpeng Wang, Chin-Yew Lin
  • Patent number: 11908356
    Abstract: An electronic device, computer program product, and method present augmented reality (AR) imagery at an AR display device with contextual, adaptive brightening control. The AR display device includes eyeglasses having lenses positioned in front of eyes of a person. A first camera sensor detects ambient light. An AR projector displays AR imagery on the lenses. A second camera sensor is configured to detect whether the eyes of the person are open or closed. A controller of the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the AR display device. The controller detects brightness of the ambient light. The controller dynamically adjusts brightness of the AR imagery in relation to the brightness of the ambient light. The controller reduces the brightness of the AR imagery in response to determining a brightness context that the eyes of the person have been closed for longer than threshold period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Alexandre Neves Creto
  • Patent number: 11900839
    Abstract: A first content image and a second content image is acquired, a first content image has first color information, a first pattern image having a first color scheme is determined based on the first color information, the first content image is displayed on a screen, the first pattern image is displayed on the screen after displaying the first content image, and the second content image is displayed on the screen after displaying the first pattern image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Kadota
  • Patent number: 11900507
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for generating a visualization of a stained wood substrate are provided. The method includes receiving an image of the wood substrate to be stained; subdividing the image i-14 into a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image corresponding to the portion of the image having a color falling in a respective one of color bands; for each sub-image, retrieving a reflectance curve representative for the wood substrate for the color corresponding to the sub-image; retrieving absorption and scattering values for the stain; for each sub-image, determining the reflectance curve representative for the stained wood based on the absorption and scattering values for the stain and the reflectance curve for the wood substrate for that sub-image; and for each pixel of each sub-image, determining a color based on the reflectance curve representative for the stained wood, resulting in a generated image of the substrate after applying the stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
    Inventors: Margot Julia Vlot, Peter Mark Spiers, Eric Jacob Jan Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11887219
    Abstract: A method for training an image colorization model may include inputting a training input image into a colorization model and receive a predicted color map as an output of the colorization model. A first color distance may be calculated between a first pixel of the predicted color map and a second pixel of the predicted color map. A second color distance may be calculated between a third pixel included in a ground truth color map and a fourth pixel included in the ground truth colorization map. The third pixel and fourth pixel included in the ground truth color map may spatially correspond, respectively, with the first pixel and second pixel included in the predicted color map. The method may include adjusting parameters associated with the colorization model based on a neighborhood color loss function that evaluates a difference between the first color distance and the second color distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Noritsugu Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 11887218
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image optimization method, system, and storage medium. The image optimization method includes extracting texture quality information from an input image. The texture quality information indicates a spatial distribution of texture quality in the input image. The image optimization method also includes performing, according to the texture quality information, texture restoration on a set region in the input image to generate a texture restored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianxing Zhang, Zikun Liu, Chunyang Li, Jian Yang, Wei Wen
  • Patent number: 11875719
    Abstract: Two corresponding color patches are displayed on two image displays until adjusted by a viewer to match visually to a common color. Two sets of code values rendered on the two corresponding color patches on the two image displays are identified. Two sets of tristimulus values for the viewer are determined based on the two sets of code values rendered on the two corresponding color patches on the two image displays. The viewer's color matching function are generated based on the two sets of tristimulus values. The viewer's CMF is used in image rendering operations on a target image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz, Elizabeth G. Pieri, Robin Atkins
  • Patent number: 11869160
    Abstract: Interference-based augmented reality hosting platforms are presented. Hosting platforms can include networking nodes capable of analyzing a digital representation of scene to derive interference among elements of the scene. The hosting platform utilizes the interference to adjust the presence of augmented reality objects within an augmented reality experience. Elements of a scene can constructively interfere, enhancing presence of augmented reality objects; or destructively interfere, suppressing presence of augmented reality objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11862055
    Abstract: A position detection method includes projecting a first pattern image on a display surface, the first pattern image including a first region having a first color corresponding to a first portion of a first identification information indicating the first region and a second region having a second color corresponding to a first portion of a second identification information, obtaining a first captured image by capturing the display surface, projecting a second pattern image onto the display surface including the first region having a third color which corresponds to a second portion of the first identification information and the second region having a fourth color corresponding to a second portion of the second identification information, obtaining a second captured image by capturing the display surface, associating a first position in an image projected with a second position in a third captured image obtained by capturing the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiki Furui, Fumiya Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11854153
    Abstract: Interference-based augmented reality hosting platforms are presented. Hosting platforms can include networking nodes capable of analyzing a digital representation of scene to derive interference among elements of the scene. The hosting platform utilizes the interference to adjust the presence of augmented reality objects within an augmented reality experience. Elements of a scene can constructively interfere, enhancing presence of augmented reality objects; or destructively interfere, suppressing presence of augmented reality objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11847949
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining time information of a target area, determining a first color of a digital clock based on the time information, where the digital clock displays a time in a screen-off state, and displaying the digital clock on a display screen of a terminal device when the terminal device is in the screen-off state, where the first color is a second color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a first moment, where the first moment is in a first time interval, where the first color is a third color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a second moment, where the second moment is in a second time interval, where the first time interval is different from the second time interval, and where the second color and the third color are different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Misu Jung, Yan Wang, Zhiyan Yang