Patents Examined by Xiao M. Wu
  • Patent number: 10388050
    Abstract: First or second clothing information corresponding to a first or second shape is obtained, and first or second pattern information corresponding to a first or second pattern is obtained. First or second clothing data corresponding to clothes with the first or second shape associated with the first or second clothing information is combined with first or second pattern data corresponding to the first or second pattern associated with the first or second pattern information to create composite data corresponding to a composite image of clothes with the first or second pattern and the first or second shape. The composite image corresponding to the composite data is output to and displayed in a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SEIREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiro Ogata, Junichi Hashimoto, Toshiro Kawabata, Kozo Nagata
  • Patent number: 10380772
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system that transforms one or more project plans to create a graphical project view. The project view contains a set of markers along a time axis, and one or more time axis rules which define the appearance of discontinuous timespans, non-linear timespans, or both along the time axis. Once created, users may alter its appearance by adding, removing, or changing the time axis rules to modify the set of timespans along the time axis. Timespan adjustment also causes markers to shift horizontally and adjust their widths so that the dates on the time axis always align with the dates of the markers. The system also can create templates containing time axis rules and other settings, but no markers. Templates are used to create new project views from different project plans, while maintaining the same time axis geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventors: Safford T Black, James L Black, Nathan W Black
  • Patent number: 10380793
    Abstract: A method can include receiving points representative of at least a portion of a surface of a multi-dimensional geobody; partitioning the points; computing smooth compactly supported basis functions based at least in part on differential surface areas associated with the partitioning of the points; approximating an indicator function for a body based at least in part on the computed basis functions; and, based at least in part on values of the approximated indicator function, generating a mesh that represents a surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Nader Salman
  • Patent number: 10379606
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a display configured to display a plurality of holograms superimposed upon a physical environment. The computing device may further comprise a processor configured to store in non-volatile memory a representation of the physical environment, including a plurality of hologram anchors indicating locations at which the holograms are displayed. The processor may store a priority level of each hologram anchor, wherein each priority level is selected from a plurality of priority levels including a high priority level and a low priority level, and wherein at least one hologram anchor has the low priority level. The processor may determine that a total size of the plurality of hologram anchors exceeds a predetermined size threshold. The processor may, for at least one hologram anchor assigned the low priority level, delete that hologram anchor from the representation of the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Eade, Jeroen Vanturennout, Neena Kamath, Alex Christopher Turner, David Fields, Jonathan David Hildebrandt, Michael Grabner, Gavin Dean Lazarow, Tushar Cyril Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 10373719
    Abstract: A method for modeling a patient anatomy includes applying a first modeling function to a set of volumetric image data for a patient anatomy to produce a first model of the patient anatomy, presenting the first model to a user, receiving an input from the user, and generating a revised model based upon the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy D. Soper, Tao Zhao, Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Vincent Duindam, Federico Barbagli
  • Patent number: 10373288
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations to transpose image data between a linear-type storage format and a Y-tiled-type storage format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuting Yang, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Lei Shen, John R. Hartwig, Kin-Hang Cheung
  • Patent number: 10360177
    Abstract: Described is a method and processing apparatus to improve power efficiency by gating redundant threads processing. In particular, the method for gating redundant threads in a graphics processor includes determining if data for a thread and data for at least another thread are within a predetermined similarity threshold, gating execution of the at least another thread if the data for the thread and the data for the at least another thread are within the predetermined similarity threshold, and using an output data from the thread as an output data for the at least another thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: ATI Technologies ULC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Zohaib M. Gilani, Jiasheng Chen, QingCheng Wang, YunXiao Zou, Michael Mantor, Bin He, Timour T. Paltashev
  • Patent number: 10354432
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for texture space shading. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: performing texture mapping to map one or more textures to surfaces of one or more objects in texture space within a ray tracing architecture; and performing sampling and reconstruction directly on the surfaces of the objects in the texture space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Carl J. Munkberg, Jon N. Hasselgren, Franz P. Clarberg, Magnus Andersson, Robert M. Toth, Jim K. Nilsson, Tomas G. Akenine-Moller
  • Patent number: 10339714
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a markerless approach to displaying an image of a virtual object in an environment are described. A computing device is used to capture an image of a real-world environment; for example including a feature-rich planar surface. One or more virtual objects which do not exist in the real-world environment are displayed in the image, such as by being positioned in a manner that they appear to be resting on the planar surface, based at least on a sensor bias value and scale information obtained by capturing multiple image views of the real-world environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: A9.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Corso, Michael Patrick Cutter, Yu Lou, Sean Niu, Shaun Michael Post, Colin Jon Taylor, Mark Scott Waldo
  • Patent number: 10331819
    Abstract: A method of controlling a virtual model to perform physics simulation to the virtual model in a virtual space includes: generating a first virtual model having a first object physics field which is a range with respect to a first field parameter; generating a second virtual model having a second object physics field which is a range with respect to a second field parameter; when the field parameters are capable of corresponding to each other, checking whether there is a portion where the object physics fields correspond to each other; and when there is a portion where the object physics fields correspond to each other, generating an interaction of the virtual models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Center of Human-Centered Interaction for Coexistence
    Inventors: Jung Min Park, Joongjae Lee, Jisu Kim
  • Patent number: 10332300
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that provides tools for defining a scene including media objects in a multi-dimensional space. The method provides a set of user interface tools for adjusting a region of focus for rendering the space from a particular location within a particular field of view. In some embodiments, the region of focus is a first region in the space within the particular field of view and the space further includes a second region outside of the region of focus within the particular field of view. In some embodiments, the method also provides a set of effects for applying to the second region but not the first region to visually indicate the first region as the region of focus within the space and the second region as a region outside of the region of focus within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sidhartha Deb, Gregory B. Abbas, Gregory Niles, Stephen Sheeler, Guido Hucking
  • Patent number: 10304414
    Abstract: Methods of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array and a display system having a CPU configured to output data, a display screen comprising a pixel array with viewable and non-viewable areas, a GPU configured to receive the outputted data from the CPU and graphically render the information on the viewable area of the display screen, and a GIM engine configured to determine the integrity of drawn graphical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Bargh, Timothy John Roberts, Michael Paul Jenkins, William James Davidson, Michael John Allen, Damian Francis Minihan, Timothy George Riley, Steven Anthony Martin, Gary Quelcuti, Mark Andrew Paul Edwards
  • Patent number: 10297090
    Abstract: An example information processing apparatus includes a processing system configured to control the information processing apparatus to: determine a base and a base direction in a virtual space; and determine whether an object can be generated in the virtual space relative to the base in the base direction. Based on determining that the object can be generated relative to the base in the base direction, an animated indicator may be displayed indicating at least the base direction for generating the object in the virtual space. Based on determining that a specified condition is satisfied, the object may be progressively generated relative to the base in the base direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Takayama, Yuya Sato, Sosuke Takada, Mahito Idehara
  • Patent number: 10257510
    Abstract: A method and system for media encoding using changed regions. The method includes detecting the changed regions and a static portion of a desktop of a computing device. The amount of changed regions may be determined. The changed regions may be encoded in response to the amount of changed regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Changliang Charlie Wang
  • Patent number: 10255699
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a curated digital analytics workspace. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods curate a digital analytics workspace based on a variety of factors to generate a curated digital analytics workspace capable of dynamically analyzing digital data elements. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods limit data elements and/or analytics visualizations available in a digital analytics workspace based on user characteristics, data element features, or other factors to generate a curated digital analytics workspace. In this manner, the disclosed systems and methods can generate a curated digital analytics workspace that provides access to data elements and/or analytics visualizations targeted to the needs and capabilities of an individual or group while reducing confusion that often results from traditional analytics systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: William Brandon George, Matthew Bryan, Benjamin R. Gaines, Kristopher Paries, Bret B. Gundersen
  • Patent number: 10242480
    Abstract: Methods and devices for animating variable fonts may include receiving a request to animate one or more glyphs of a variable font in a design space based on one or more animation parameters. The methods and devices may also include determining an animation path in the design space for the one or more glyphs based on the animation parameters and calculating a set of keyframes having respective keyframe positions along the animation path. The methods and devices may include constructing glyph outline data of the one or more glyphs for each keyframe in the set of keyframes. The methods and devices may include generating intermediate glyph outline data at one or more intermediate positions between the keyframe positions and transmitting the glyph outline data and the intermediate glyph outline data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shrinath Shanbhag, Worachai Chaoweeraprasit
  • Patent number: 10242029
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location. A processor recognizes content being consumed by a set of users, and identifies geographic locations of the consumption and a set of characteristics associated with the consumption. The processor further determines at least one filter for a user of the set of users and filters the set of consumption characteristics based on the at least one filter. The processor further ranks respective consumed content based on a filtered set of consumption characteristics, and displays to the user subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings and geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Annie Chen, Dominik Roblek
  • Patent number: 10235802
    Abstract: A graphics system has a rendering space divided into a plurality of rectangular areas, each being sub-divided into a plurality of smaller rectangular areas of a plurality of pixels. Data is received representing a tiled set of polygons to be rendered in a selected one of the rectangular areas. For each polygon, a determination is made whether that polygon is located at least partially inside a selected one of the smaller rectangular areas in the selected rectangular area. If so, which pixels of the plurality of pixels in the selected smaller rectangular area are inside the polygon are identified. Or, if that polygon is not located at least partially inside the selected smaller rectangular area, no further processing of the polygon is performed at one or more of the plurality of pixels in the smaller rectangular area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Piers Barber, Simon Fenney
  • Patent number: 10235976
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle, which is installed to a targeted vehicle, selectively makes one of a left side display part, which is at least one of the plurality of display parts and is a position on a more left side than the center of the display means in a lateral direction, and a right side display part, which is at least one of the plurality of display parts and is a position on a more right side than the center, show a passing section-related sign image, indicating whether the vehicles in a country have to keep to the left or keep to the right. The passing-section related sign image corresponds to a road sign representing traffic information related to whether the vehicles have to keep to the left or have to keep to the right, when the identified road sign is the passing section-related sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10217284
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a user with an augmented virtuality (AV) experience are described herein. An example of a method of providing an AV experience includes determining a location of a mobile device, determining a context based on the location, obtaining AV object information, displaying the AV object information in relation to the context, detecting an interaction with the context, modifying the AV object information based on the interaction, and displaying the modified AV object information. The context may include weighting information. The weighting information may be based on Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) or Round-Trip Time (RTT) data. The weighting information may be associated with a composition of a physical object in the context. A user gesture may be received, and the AV object information may be modified based on the received gesture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Inventors: Saumitra Mohan Das, Rajarshi Gupta, Sameera Poduri, Behrooz Khorashadi