Patents Examined by William A Beutel
  • Patent number: 11636635
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first index value obtained based on fluid analysis that is performed based on an image including a blood vessel of a subject, the first index value being related to blood flow at each of positions in the blood vessel. The processing circuitry acquires external information including a second index value related to blood flow at each of the positions in the blood vessel. The processing circuitry changes one of an arrangement direction of index values in a first graph and an arrangement direction of index values in a second graph in accordance with the other one of the arrangement directions. The processing circuitry displays the first graph and the second graph on a display unit such that the arrangement directions of the index values match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11610348
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) diagnostic tool embodied as a software application on a portable device employs AR infrastructure to enable a user to locate a failed/malfunctioning node of a cluster and, with minimal interaction, diagnose causes and provide recommendations to repair the node. The portable device may be a computer embodied as visualization technology and configured to execute the software application. Once installed, the AR diagnostic (ARD) tool is ready for use by the user, e.g., a customer service technician, to locate and repair one or more failed cluster nodes. In response to a failure/malfunction, the cluster node sends diagnostic and configuration information (i.e., failure/malfunction information) of the failed node to an analytics service. The failure information informs the technician of the cluster failure. The technician may then activate the ARD tool and AR infrastructure to locate and repair the failed node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Keith Nunez
  • Patent number: 11593997
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate context based augmented reality communication between multiple users over a network. Virtual content item configuration data indicative of a selection by a first user of virtual content item to apply to a real-world environment that is visible to a second user via a second device is received from a first device. The virtual content item configuration data also includes one or more criteria to trigger application of the virtual content item to the real-world environment. A triggering event is detected based on satisfaction of the one or more criteria determined from context data generated at the second device. The second device presents the virtual content item overlaid on the real-world environment that is visible to the second user based on the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Anthony Smith, Yu Jiang Tham, Rajan Vaish
  • Patent number: 11592296
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a nautical chart display device which enables a measurement of a distance on an electronic nautical chart, like a measuring method which is performed by using a divider. The nautical chart display device includes a display unit, an operation detector, a registration processing module, and a change processing module. The display unit has a screen and displays a nautical chart on the screen. The operation detector detects a touch operation to the screen. The registration processing module accepts two points of the touch operation on the screen, and registers a scale at which a distance between the touched points on the screen matches a distance setting on the nautical chart as an additional scale. The change processing module changes the scale of the nautical chart to the additional scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Morita, Masato Okuda
  • Patent number: 11594197
    Abstract: A method for processing an input image having an initial gamut to a targeted image having a wider gamut for display on a wide-gamut display includes determining a set of color scaling factors based on different parameters including one or more user-related characteristics of a user and the available gamut of the wide-gamut display device, applying a gamut-mapping to the input image based on the available gamut to generate a gamut-mapped image and applying the set of color scaling factors to the gamut-mapped image to generate the targeted image. A user device having a wide-gamut display device also includes an image processing module configured for performing the method for processing the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia IRYStec Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Ward, Tara Akhavan, Afsoon Soudi, Hyunjin Yoo
  • Patent number: 11586835
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for generating and displaying a dynamic language translation overlay that include accessing a frame buffer of the GPU, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a frame representing a section of a stream of displayed data that is being displayed by a display device, based on the analyzed frame, identifying a reference patch that includes an instruction to identify an object comprising original text, based on the instruction included in the reference patch, recognizing the original text, generating translated text, generating an overlay comprising an augmentation layer, the augmentation layer including the translated text, and overlaying the overlay, onto the displayed data such that the translated text is viewable while the original text is obscured from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MOBEUS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dharmendra Etwaru, Michael R. Sutcliff
  • Patent number: 11553867
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and displaying an electrophysiology (EP) map are provided. A system includes a device including at least one sensor configured to collect a set of location data points, and a computer-based model construction system coupled to the device and configured to generate a geometry surface model from the set of location data points, associate an EP parameter with each of a plurality of points on the geometry surface model to generate an EP map, calculate a confidence metric for the EP parameter associated with each point, and display the EP map based on the calculated confidence metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Don Curtis Deno, Emma K. Davis, Thomas P. Hartley, Dennis J. Morgan
  • Patent number: 11551409
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering portions of a three-dimensional environment at different sampling rates based on a focus frame within a graphical user interface. Specifically, the disclosed system provides a tool for marking a region of a graphical user interface displaying a three-dimensional environment. The disclosed system generates a focus frame based on the marked region of the graphical user interface and attaches the focus frame to a portion of the three-dimensional environment. The disclosed system assigns a first sampling rate to the portion of the three-dimensional environment displayed within the focus frame and a second sampling rate to portions of the three-dimensional environment outside the focus frame. The disclosed system renders the three-dimensional environment by sampling the portion within the focus frame at the first sampling rate and the portions outside the focus frame at the second sampling rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Christophe Lino, Tamy Boubekeur
  • Patent number: 11544031
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for capturing, using a forward-facing camera associated with a head-mounted augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD), images of portions of first and second display devices in an environment, the first and second display devices displaying first and second portions of content related to an AR presentation, and displaying a third portion of content related to the AR presentation on the AR HMD, the third portion determined based upon the images of portions of the first and second display devices captured using the forward-facing camera. Moreover, the first and second display devices may be active stereo display, and the AR HMD may simultaneously function as shutter glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PCMS Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Tatu V. J. Harviainen
  • Patent number: 11514797
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided for harmonizing output display characteristics of one component with those of other components onboard a vehicle, such as an aircraft. A line-replaceable unit (LRU) suitable includes a display driver to be coupled to a display command bus, a data storage element to maintain calibration information for the display driver, and a control module coupled to the display driver and the data storage element to identify a current state of an input command signal from the display command bus, identify an adjustment for the display driver based on the calibration information using the current state of the input command signal, and automatically operate the display driver in accordance with the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ezekiel Poulose, Sunit Saxena, Anita Sure
  • Patent number: 11508133
    Abstract: An augmented reality visualizer and measurement system for swimming pool components (e.g., liners and safety covers) is provided in some examples of the present disclosure. In one example, a system can receive images of physical markers positioned spatially around a perimeter of a swimming pool in real space. The system can identify the physical markers in the images by analyzing the images using one or more image processing techniques. The system can determine one or more characteristics of the swimming pool based on relationships between the physical markers. The system can then generate pool component information based on the determined one or more characteristics of the swimming pool, and output the pool component information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Latham Pool Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Will Cappiello, Joel Culp, Scott Mocha, Scott Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11495000
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating folding of virtual objects via a three-dimensional folding tool. In embodiments, a foldable virtual object having a set of one or more fold lines is presented. A user may select a particular fold line. Based on the user selection, a three-dimensional folding tool is presented in association with the selected fold line. The three-dimensional folding tool can include a first handle on a first panel adjacent to the selected fold line and a second handle on a second panel adjacent to the selected fold line. In accordance with detecting movement of the first handle in a direction, the first panel is folded or rotated about the fold line in the direction of the movement of the first handle, while the position of the second panel is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventor: Amanda Paige Ghassaei
  • Patent number: 11481954
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing an acceleration structure provide for subdividing a 3-D scene into a plurality of volumetric portions, which have different sizes, each being addressable using a multipart address indicating a location and a relative size of each volumetric portion. A stream of primitives is processed by characterizing each according to one or more criteria, selecting a relative size of volumetric portions for use in bounding the primitive, and finding a set of volumetric portions of that relative size which bound the primitive. A primitive ID is stored in each location of a cache associated with each volumetric portion of the set of volumetric portions. A cache location is selected for eviction, responsive to each cache eviction decision made during the processing. An element of an acceleration structure according to the contents of the evicted cache location is generated, responsive to the evicted cache location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: James A. McCombe, Aaron Dwyer, Luke T. Peterson, Neils Nesse
  • Patent number: 11460978
    Abstract: When a page image is to be displayed, a display apparatus changes a display mode in which the page image is displayed on a display section according to both the orientation of the page image and the orientation of the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakanishi, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11449845
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an augmented reality (AR)-assisted smart card for secure and accurate revision and/or submission of sensitive documents are provided. The methods may be executed via computer-executable instructions running on a microprocessor embedded in the smart card. A method may include capturing an image of a document, processing the image of the document, and computing, for one or more of the fields of the document, a recommended input. The method may further include comparing, for the one or more fields, the recommended input with an actual input, and, when the recommended input is more than a threshold difference apart from the actual input, generating a recommended revision. The method may also include displaying an AR image of the document on a display screen that is embedded in the smart card, said AR image comprising the image of the document augmented with the recommended revisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Saurabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11423608
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to render an image from volumetric image data based on illumination from at least one simulated light source. The illumination is determined from a current portion of light intensity and at least one trailing portion of light intensity if a position or other property of the at least one simulated light source is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Magnus Wahrenberg
  • Patent number: 11417033
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for extracting colors of an input image and applying such colors to a procedural texture to modify the procedural texture. For instance, the disclosed systems can extract one or more colors from an input image to generate a color palette that represents colors that are generally visually noticeable to human eyes. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can apply colors from the color palette to a target procedural texture to modify the target procedural texture to represent the colors of the color palette. Moreover, the disclosed systems can display generated color palettes and modified procedural textures/materials in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Rosalie Martin, Baptiste Manteau, Jeremy Levallois
  • Patent number: 11410267
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing graphics processor usage by modern workspaces are described. In an embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: determine a graphical processing characteristic of each of a plurality of workspaces, and identify a responsive action for a given one of the plurality of workspaces based, at least in part, upon the graphics processing characteristic of the given workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael S. Gatson, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
  • Patent number: 11410393
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for of an auto-arranging wall in an augmented reality computing environment. An embodiment operates by receiving a selection of a first one of a plurality of images from a digital wall within an augmented reality computing environment. A resize command associated with the selected first image is detected. One or more commands to increase a size of the selected first image are detected. It is determined that the increased size of the image obstructs one or more of the plurality of images on the digital wall. A visibility of a second one of the plurality of images on the digital wall is modified prior to the obstruction. The size of the image is increase in accordance with the size increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SPATIAL SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Peter Ng, Jinha Lee, Anand Agarawala
  • Patent number: 11410376
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a scene or environment surrounding a user of a spatial computing system, such as a virtual reality, augmented reality or mixed reality system, using only multiview images comprising RGB images, and without the need for depth sensors or depth data from sensors. Features are extracted from a sequence of frames of RGB images and back-projected using known camera intrinsics and extrinsics into a 3D voxel volume wherein each pixel of the voxel volume is mapped to a ray in the voxel volume. The back-projected features are fused into the 3D voxel volume. The 3D voxel volume is passed through a 3D convolutional neural network to refine the and regress truncated signed distance function values at each voxel of the 3D voxel volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Zachary Paul Murez