Patents Examined by Xiao Wu
  • Patent number: 10013723
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for image processing apparatus for generating static image data and corresponding Spatial Coordinates as an infrastructure for receiving media input. The media input will generally be related to the image data corresponding with selected Spatial Coordinates. Image data may specifically relate to a physical memory book converted to static image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventors: Fanny Chung Davidson, Robert Davidson
  • Patent number: 10008009
    Abstract: A method of dynamically generating a graphic includes receiving, at a vector graphics engine loaded on a server system, graphic template input; receiving, at the vector graphics engine loaded on the server system, data template input; and generating, at the server system, code in a standard format representative of a vector graphic. The generating includes identifying a special tag associated with the vector graphics engine, converting code associated with this tag from a first format associated with the vector graphics engine to a second standardized format, and binding data content based on the received data template input to graphic content based on the received graphic template input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Alexis Salvatore Pecoraro, Sheppard David Narkier, David Antila, Paul Renaud
  • Patent number: 9993311
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for visualizing a surgical path for a surgical tool. The method comprises a step of receiving anatomical information about a position of at least one anatomical structure in a region to undergo surgery, geometric information describing the surgical path and at least one safety margin defining a minimal distance between the surgical tool and the anatomical structure. The method further comprises defining a critical segment of the surgical path, in which critical segment a distance to the anatomical structure is smaller than the safety margin. Then a graphical representation of the surgical path is provided, wherein the critical segment is highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Cornelis Koudijs, Martin Bergtholdt, Heinrich Schulz, Hubert Cecile Francois Martens, Gerrit-jan Bloem, Johan Gerard Kleibeuker
  • Patent number: 9996915
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing user interface validation or diagnostics, and, in particular embodiments, for implementing automated forensic artifact reconstruction and replay of captured and recorded display interface streams. In some embodiments, a computing system might retrieve stream data from a database, the stream data having been captured and recorded by a data stream recording system as display data is being sent from an embedded processor of a graphical user interface (“GUI”) system to a display device, without disturbing the display data being sent. The computing system subsequently parses pixel data from the display data, formats the parsed pixel data, reconstructs one or more display screen images based at least in part on the formatted pixel data, then compares each pixel of each screen image or frame of the reconstructed display screen images with each pixel of a model screen image of each corresponding screen image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Altia, Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Stroupe
  • Patent number: 9990722
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor configured to control an operation of the electronic device, a memory device coupled to the processor, where the memory device is configured to operate as a main memory of the electronic device, and a display device coupled to the processor, where the display device is configured to display an original image based on first image data for the original image at a first frame, and to display a bioeffect image based on second image data for the bioeffect image at a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-Nam Kim, Hak-Sun Kim, Won-Sang Park, Jong-Sung Bae, Jong-In Baek
  • Patent number: 9983841
    Abstract: A multiscreen display is formed in which changes in luminance between an image overlap area and areas outside the image overlap area are less visible across a range of low to high gradations. An offset correction value Doffset that is linearly decreased at the lowest gradation of the input image signal so that the offset correction value becomes 0 at gradations higher than the predetermined gradation Lset, is added to an input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9984499
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image based location estimation are described. In one example embodiment, a first positioning system is used to generate a first position estimate. A 3D point cloud data describing an environment is then accessed. A first image of an environment is captured, and a portion of the image is matched to a portion of key points in the 3D point cloud data. An augmented reality object is then aligned within one or more images of the environment based on the match of the 3D point cloud with the image. In some embodiments, building façade data may additionally be used to determine a device location and place the augmented reality object within an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Jurgenson, Linjie Luo, Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Rahul Sheth, Jia Li, Xutao Lv
  • Patent number: 9984609
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes an image source configured to generate image data comprising red, green, and blue data and a color-weakness determiner configured to generate color vision deficiency data comprising color-weakness information. The device also includes a color-weakness compensator configured to generate compensation data based on the image data and the color vision deficiency data and a display portion comprising a plurality of pixels each configured to emit light based on the compensation data. Each of the pixels includes first and second sub-pixels configured to emit light having a light-emitting color based on an electric field applied to the first or second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a predetermined light-emitting color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiseo Kim, Gee-Bum Kim, Jae-Kyoung Kim, Rangkyun Mok
  • Patent number: 9978182
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system and method of operating same is provided. An end user is allowed to visualize the object of interest in a three-dimensional scene. A text region is spatially associated with the object of interest. A textual message that identifies at least one characteristic of the object of interest is generated. A textual message is streamed within the text region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Philip O'Connor, Brian David Schwab, Spencer Lindsay
  • Patent number: 9971742
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a visual analyzer system that can update an existing visualization upon receiving a user request to modify a dimension of data being presented by the visualization. Embodiments may provide an updated visualization, possibly of a different visualization type and/or with pre-existing dimensions mapped to different edges, without requiring any user specification of which dimensions to be mapped to which edges of the visualization. The system can determine configurations for the various visualization types and compute, for each configuration, a visualization score. Based on the scores, the system can select a configuration and render the updated visualization on a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user. Further, in response to user specification to change a representation of data from one visualization type to another, embodiments may determine an effective and intuitive manner in which to present the same set of data in the visualization of the other type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Jonas Birger Lagerblad, Alvin Andrew Raj, Samuel Stephen Dyar
  • Patent number: 9972107
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at decomposing a graphic design into constituent parts. In embodiments, a decomposition module is configured to partition pixels of a graphic design image into superpixels. This partitioning can be based on a color analysis of individual pixels of the graphic design image. Once partitioned into superpixels, the decomposition module may group the superpixels into components such that each component includes superpixels that are within a level of similarity from one another. The decomposition module can then categorize one or more of the components as textual elements of the graphic design based on text identification features of the components. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Aseem Agarwala, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Aaron Phillip Hertzmann
  • Patent number: 9969266
    Abstract: In a display control device, in accordance with speed limit information input from an input unit, a control unit senses change in a speed limit of a road where a vehicle travels and after that, in accordance with vehicle information input from the input unit, determines whether or not whether necessity to increase conspicuity of notification of the change in the speed limit. When it is determined that the necessity is high, a display unit is caused to switch display on a display medium from a first presentation image to a second presentation image that indicates a second speed limit by a first switching method. When it is determined that the necessity is not high, the display of the first presentation image is switched to the display of the second presentation image by a second switching method different from the first switching method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Mochizuki, Koichi Emura, Shigeru Kobayashi, Takenori Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9965899
    Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality media provider system (“system”) manages data representative of an immersive virtual reality world (“world”) and receives a request from a media player device (“device”) for the device to receive a pixel data transmission representative of a particular scene of the world by way of a network. The device includes a head-mounted display screen worn by a user to view the particular scene as the user experiences the world. The system identifies pixel data representative of a set of pixels that constitute the particular scene and provides a minimized pixel data transmission representative of the particular scene to the device by transmitting a viewable pixel data subset corresponding to regions of the display screen predetermined to be viewable by the user and abstaining from transmitting an unviewable pixel data subset corresponding to regions of the display screen predetermined to be unviewable by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Ali Jaafar, Alexandr Virodov
  • Patent number: 9959453
    Abstract: A system for rendering a merged virtual 3D augmented replica of a 3D product image and a 3D model image of a body part. A 3D modeling engine transforms an acquired 2D image of a body part into a 3D augmented replica thereof. A GUI enables the merging, displaying and manipulating of the 3D product image and the 3D augmented replica of a body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AR (ES) Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Eikelis, Rami Shtainer, Darya Frolova, Alex Sadikov, Dmitry Pundik
  • Patent number: 9959646
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit that displays first content in a display region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect a physical state of a terminal device. The information display device includes a display control unit configured to direct the display unit to display second new content in the display region while changing a display mode of the first content, on the basis of the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiemi Taki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Keisuke Kimura, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Kensuke Takada
  • Patent number: 9953552
    Abstract: The present invention provides a LED display unit board, a LED display screen control card and a LED display screen system. In the LED display screen control card, an output circuit transmits data and control signals to an input-output interface to drive and control a LED display unit board(s); a data return circuit transmits return data generated from the LED display unit board(s) which represents a test result of the LED display unit board(s) to a main control circuit. The present invention disposes the data return circuit on the control card which can be used together with the LED display unit board(s) each having a data return circuit. Therefore there is no need of an additional monitoring board for building a circuit loop to perform fault detection of the LED display unit board(s), simplified connection and lower cost can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: XI'AN NOVASTAR TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengchun Yuan, Jingguo Zong, Huorong Wang, Guanghui Fan
  • Patent number: 9947114
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for modifying gradation in an image frame determine a blend factor indicating a first weighting associated with a previously processed portion of the image frame. The apparatus and methods generate a weighted value associated with a current region of the image frame based on the current region of the image frame and based on applying the first weighting to the previously processed portion of the image frame so as to modify the gradation in the image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Boris Ivanovic, Tiberiu Visan
  • Patent number: 9947296
    Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes an input unit that receives an operation instruction, a display unit that displays a screen, a changer that changes a displayed direction of the screen displayed by the display unit, and a stopper that stops the displayed direction of the screen from being changed by the changer if the input unit has received an operation instruction about information on the screen displayed by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9946071
    Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise an image-generating source to provide one or more frames of image data in a time-sequential manner, a light modulator configured to transmit light associated with the one or more frames of image data, a substrate to direct image information to a user's eye, wherein the substrate houses a plurality of reflectors, a first reflector of the plurality of reflectors to reflect transmitted light associated with a first frame of image data at a first angle to the user's eye, and a second reflector to reflect transmitted light associated with a second frame of the image data at a second angle to the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian T. Schowengerdt
  • Patent number: 9948325
    Abstract: A data processing circuit for performing a de-interleaving process in a DVB-T2 system is provided. The data processing circuit includes: a buffer, buffering a plurality of data symbols; a memory, coupled to the buffer; an address generator, generating a plurality of addresses according to an operation logic and a permutation rule, and selecting and outputting a target address from the addresses; and a memory controller, coupled to the memory, the buffer and the address generator, writing the target data into the memory according to the target address, or/and reading the target data from the memory according to the target address, until the data symbols are de-interleaved when the data symbols are read from the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Ko-Yin Lai, Yu-Shen Chou