Patents Examined by Wesner Sajous
  • Patent number: 11557266
    Abstract: Adaptive recoloring of displayed digital content automatically pursues specified active color palette goals while adhering to specified active color palette constraints. Source code editors, word processors, and other programs are enhanced by adaptive recoloring. Recoloring rules may specify coloring roles, colors, tolerances, color spaces, metrics, and other criteria. Recoloring may be triggered by a zoom or another change in user focus, by a brightness change, a screen size change, by notice of a user perception change, or by another event. Recoloring improves text legibility, assists user focus, compensates for differences in color perception and emotional impact, and increases color availability without degrading usability, for example. Transitions between words or other display items can be heightened. Branding colors may be preserved, in logos and text. Automatic selections may be overridden by a user command or by interactive tuning, with warnings given as appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Christopher Harwell
  • Patent number: 11557265
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a computing device, a working color space of a source content and a resulting content. The computing device models color saturation variations of different hues in the working color space with one or more properties of responses of a human vision system (HVS) to color stimulus. The computing device generates one or more color saturation variation models based on the responses of the HVS to color stimulus. An input color is mapped from the source content to an output color in the working color space using the one or more color saturation variation models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Su, Chenguang Liu, Pradeep Nagesh
  • Patent number: 11551638
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for modifying user interface colors are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a video and color palette information, wherein each color of the color palette information indicates a color of an element of a user interface in which the video is to be presented; identifying a first color for the element, wherein the first color corresponds to a first portion of the video; causing the first portion of the video to be presented, wherein the element of the user interface having the first color is presented; identifying a second color for the element, wherein the second color corresponds to a second portion of the video; and modifying an appearance of the element by changing the color of the element from the first color to the second color while presenting the second portion of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Maegan Clawges, Samuel Keene
  • Patent number: 11551385
    Abstract: The present invention discloses system and method for replacing a texture of a background region in a multimedia. The system is an AI-based multi-media processing system for replacing the original texture of the background of the multimedia with a texture template. The system applies a foreground mask to hide and protect the foreground region and multiple textures of the background. The system uses deep learning to segment specific texture from images or video sequences. The system replaces the texture of the original input image with a texture template to form a processed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Xibeijia Guan, Tiecheng Wu, Bo Li
  • Patent number: 11538440
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling brightness of a screen widget, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining display data; determining a widget area of the screen widget based on the display data, in which the screen widget is configured to display multimedia information in a form of a small window on the display screen; and controlling a brightness of the widget area to be adjusted to a target brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weiguang Liu
  • Patent number: 11532073
    Abstract: A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module is configured to produce adaptive sampling maps for a renderer to achieve more uniform residual noise distribution. An asymmetric loss function may be used for training the neural networks, which can provide control over the variance-bias trade-off during denoising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Pixar, Disnev Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Thijs Vogels, Fabrice Rousselle, Jan Novak, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Alex Harvill
  • Patent number: 11527216
    Abstract: A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Crounse
  • Patent number: 11527023
    Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for modifying pixel values of an image to improve the visibility of target pixel patterns. A pixel-simulation application accesses an initial image including an initial set of pixel values. The initial set of pixel values define, in an initial color space, a particular color of pixels that indicate a target pixel pattern. The pixel-simulation application generates, based on the initial set of pixel values, a simulated image including a modified set of pixel values that visually indicate another color of pixels in an intermediate color space. The pixel-simulation application generates a pixel map by identifying a difference between the initial set pixel values of the initial image and the modified set of pixel values of simulated image. The pixel-simulation application generates, for display, an output image based at least in part on the pixel map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Saad, Lauren Dest
  • Patent number: 11521574
    Abstract: A computing device may include a processor and a display device communicatively coupled to the processor wherein the display device includes a wide gamut mode wherein the wide gamut mode comprises a plurality of different gamut profiles and wherein the display device adjusts from a first gamut profile to a second gamut profile based on a gamut profile associated with an image to be represented on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alois Bonnet, Greg Staten
  • Patent number: 11521302
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that operates in a plurality of modes including a first mode for performing high image quality processing of image data and a second mode for performing high-speed processing of image data, performs the following processing. More specifically, the apparatus performs, in accordance with the mode to be operated, the settings of each of an operation to output image data from a first DMAC (Direct Memory Access Controller) to a common bus, an operation to input the image data from the common bus to an image processing unit, an operation of the image processing unit, an operation to output the image data from the image processing unit to the common bus, and an operation to output the image data from the common bus to a second DMAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Yoshitani, Haruna Yamazaki, Tomoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11521334
    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: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Luo, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11514652
    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: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11516370
    Abstract: An image display apparatus displays an image to be printed on a desired printing medium by using a desired printing apparatus. In this process, medium images corresponding to the tint of the printing medium illuminated with one of illumination light fluxes having a plurality of color temperatures are displayed on a specific display with the medium images associated with the color temperatures of the illumination light fluxes, and specification of one of the medium images or the color temperature associated with the medium image is accepted. When the specification is made, an illumination light flux reflecting image having the tint of the image printed on the printing medium by the printing apparatus and illuminated with the illumination light flux having the color temperature corresponding to the specification is displayed on the specific display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Fujino, Takumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11508331
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image uniformity compensation device. The image uniformity compensation device includes a local pre-compensation circuit, a chromaticity uniformity compensation circuit, a local post-compensation circuit, and a luminance uniformity correction circuit. A local pre-conversion performed by the local pre-compensation circuit includes the following. An image frame is divided into multiple regions, and each of the regions is converted from an optical non-linear domain to an optical linear domain to generate a corresponding region in multiple regions of a converted frame. A local post-conversion performed by the local post-compensation circuit includes the following. An image frame is divided into multiple regions, and each of the regions is converted from the optical linear domain to the optical non-linear domain to generate a corresponding region in multiple regions of a converted frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chi Lin, Chin-Chu Wu, Chung-Wen Hung
  • Patent number: 11508099
    Abstract: A method and system for color mapping digital visual content for improved viewing by a color vision deficient observer includes receiving the digital visual content to be color mapped, clustering color values of the digital visual content into a plurality of color clusters, assigning each color cluster to a respective one of a set of target color values in which the set of target color values have increased visual distinguishability for the color vision deficient observer; and for each color cluster, mapping the color values of the color cluster to the target color value, thereby generating a color-mapped digital visual content. One or more regions of interest of the content can be identified and the color mapping may be applied onto to those regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FAURECIA IRYSTEC INC.
    Inventors: Greg Ward, Tara Akhavan, Hyunjin Yoo, Mina Rafi Nazari
  • Patent number: 11508329
    Abstract: Provided are a color control method and apparatus of a to-be-displayed object, a measurement device, and a medium. The method includes: acquiring to-be-displayed object information of the to-be-displayed object, and generating a corresponding to-be-displayed object interface according to the to-be-displayed object information; configuring color information of the to-be-displayed object interface based on a preset to-be-displayed object color mapping frame, where the to-be-displayed object color mapping frame is used for configuring a mapping relationship between the color information and the to-be-displayed object information of the to-be-displayed object on a current display interface; and displaying the to-be-displayed object information of the to-be-displayed object interface according to the configured color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: RIGOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Yue Wang, Tieiun Wang, Weisen Li
  • Patent number: 11508335
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a processing unit, a display control unit, and a setting unit. The processing unit is configured to perform first image processing and second image processing. The display control unit is configured to perform control to perform a first display based on a result of the first image processing and a second display based on a result of the second image processing, together. The setting unit is configured to set upper-limit brightness of the second display. An Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) type of the first display and an EOTF type of the second display are EOTF types dealing with high dynamic range (HDR). The processing unit converts brightness of an image according to the upper-limit brightness and the EOTF type of the first display in the second image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11494960
    Abstract: A display assembly generates environmentally matched virtual content for an electronic display. The display assembly includes a display controller and a display. The display controller is configured to estimate environmental matching information for a target area within a local area based in part on light information received from a light sensor. The target area is a region for placement of a virtual object. The light information describes light values. The display controller generates display instructions for the target area based in part on a human vision model, the estimated environmental matching information, and rendering information associated with the virtual object. The display is configured to present the virtual object as part of artificial reality content in accordance with the display instructions. The color and brightness of the virtual object is environmentally matched to the portion of the local area surrounding the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jiangtao Kuang, Edward Buckley, Honghong Peng, Sapna Shroff, Romain Bachy
  • Patent number: 11495190
    Abstract: Apparatus for determining configuration settings for a display apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor where the processor is configured to determine configuration settings for a display apparatus in dependence on one or more first input parameters indicative of one or more conditions that affect a user experience when a user views content reproduced on the display apparatus, predict an expected user response as a result of operating the display apparatus according to the determined configuration settings, search for an updated set of configuration settings that are expected to produce a user response closer to an intended result than the predicted user response, and control the display apparatus to operate according to the updated set of configuration settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Albert Saa-Garriga, Alessandro Vandini, Antoine Larreche, Prashant Sharma, Robert Sharp
  • Patent number: 11494954
    Abstract: Examples relate to an optical system and to a corresponding apparatus, method and computer program. The optical system comprises a display module for providing a visual overlay to be overlaid over an object in an augmented reality or mixed reality environment. The optical system comprises at least one sensor for sensing at least one optical property of the object. The optical system comprises a processing module configured to determine the at least one optical property of the object using the at least one sensor. The processing module is configured to determine a visual contrast between the visual overlay to be overlaid over the object and the object, as perceived within a field of view of the augmented reality or mixed reality environment, based on the at least one optical property of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LEICA INSTRUMENTS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: George Themelis