Patents Examined by Xin Sheng
  • Patent number: 9367950
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a user virtual reality experience to visualize a three-dimensional design produced using three-dimensional design software are disclosed. The user may be enabled to visualize the three-dimensional design through a virtual reality application while the design is in progress. Changes to the three-dimensional design may be obtained dynamically and virtual reality information may be determined based on the dynamically obtained changes. The determined virtual reality information may be provided to the user for implementation of a virtual reality visualizing the three-dimensional design on a client device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: IrisVR, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane S. Scranton, Thomas N. Beatty, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9361731
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments disclose a method of projecting an image onto a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) electronic map. The method includes: extracting nearest intersecting points for each of a plurality of virtual view angle vectors with respect to a position of a virtual photographing apparatus and a plurality of polygons that constitute the 3D electronic map; comparing 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points and 3D coordinates of a plurality of pixels constituting the plurality of polygons to select pixels that are within a range of the 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points; converting 3D coordinates of the selected pixels to two-dimensional (2D) coordinates to display the selected pixels on a 2D display; and superimposing an input image on top of the selected pixels to output the superimposed image in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Duck Kim
  • Patent number: 9355501
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including selecting a model from a storage device storing assembly data of an assembly; projecting in multiple directions, the selected model to a first area in a color different from a background color of the first area to generate first projection images, and to a second area equivalent in size to the first area, the model in a different color and another model in the same color as the background color, to generate second projection images; comparing the first and second projection images, according to verification direction to calculate scores indicating matching degree between the projection images; and determining as a disassembly direction for the model, a direction opposite to the verification direction of the projection image having the highest calculated score, to associate and store the disassembly direction and the model to the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Terutoshi Taguchi, Masahiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9355608
    Abstract: A receiving unit acquires a zoom instruction to enlarge or reduce a displayed image. An image processing unit is provided with a function of enlarging or reducing a displayed image in accordance with a zoom instruction. A zoom processing unit can enlarge or reduce a displayed image until the zoom factor of the displayed image reaches the limit. If the zoom factor of a displayed image reaches the limit, the indicator generating unit generates an indicator for notifying a user thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Mamoru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9349203
    Abstract: Disclosed are an operation sequence display method and an operation sequence display system, wherein operation scenes to attach or remove one or a plurality of components are displayed by switching the scenes. And in at least one operation scene, the attachment or removal target components are displayed in a different manner from other components by changing gray scales using a single color, marking displays for emphasizing operation portions of the target components or the moving directions of the target components in the screen are blinked at a constant interval, and after the marking displays are blinked, the operations to the operation portions or the movements of the target components are displayed by animation, and displays regarding the operations to the operation portions or the movements of the target components are performed at a constant rhythm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Takao, Katsuro Kamijo
  • Patent number: 9342859
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computing device that includes: a processor; a graphic processing unit having N graphic processing cores, N being an integer greater than 1; a random access memory (RAM); a video port; a non-volatile memory, and a display processing unit. The non-volatile memory stores a virtual desktop client (VDC). The VDC can communicate with a first virtual machine (VM) of a hypervisor running on a remote computing device and receive an encoded image frame from the first VM; instruct the plurality of graphic processing cores to decode the encoded image frame in parallel; and generate a decoded image frame of the encoded image frame. The display processing unit can generate display signals representing the decoded image frame and transmit the display signals to the video port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.
    Inventors: Varadachari Sudan Ayanam, Samvinesh Christopher, Yugender P. Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9342926
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a low resolution indirect illumination buffer having a resolution less than an indirect illumination buffer information used for specifying a specular reflection direction in a position of an object and a reflection characteristic of the object in a 3D scene corresponding to each pixel of the indirect illumination buffer to be generated. Then it generates an indirect illumination buffer by increasing the resolution of the low resolution indirect illumination buffer. Here the apparatus generates the pixels of the indirect illumination buffer generated by the increase in resolution based on at least the level of similarity of the specular reflection lobes of objects corresponding to the pixels and objects corresponding to the pixels of the low resolution indirect illumination buffer used for the generation of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tokuyoshi
  • Patent number: 9317175
    Abstract: Systems and approaches provide for a user interface (UI) that is based on the position of a user's head with respect to a computing device. In particular, a three-dimensional (3D) rendering engine that is independent of a particular operating system can be integrated with the UI framework of the operating system such that a window or view into a fully 3D world can be drawn using the independent renderer. This window or view can then be laid out and manipulated in a manner similar to other elements of the UI framework. Further, the 3D window or view can be configured to monitor head tracking data as input events to the UI framework. The contents of the window or view can be redrawn or rendered based on the head tracking data to simulate three-dimensionality of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Wayne Lockhart
  • Patent number: 9317946
    Abstract: A measuring device has a storage unit, a processing unit and a display device for displaying a digitised and stored first partial signal and at least one digitised and stored second partial signal. In this context, the first partial signal and the second partial signal are partial signals of different bands of the multiband signal. The processing unit is embodied to display in a first window in the display device a first signal derived from the first partial signal and a first analysis line, and to display in a second window in the display device a second signal derived from the second partial signal and a first analysis line corresponding in time to the first analysis line of the first window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Florian Lang
  • Patent number: 9319663
    Abstract: An image display device has a matrix screen having a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and a periodic grating arranged in front of the matrix screen having a structure extending parallel to the columns. A lateral direction grating period corresponds to a whole number multiple of adjacent column spacing of the matrix screen. In a use of this image display device, at least two different viewing positions are detected and disjunctive excerpts of columns of the matrix screen are determined in accordance with the detected viewing positions such that a respective excerpt is associated with each of the detected viewing positions, this excerpt including all columns at least partly visible through the grating from this viewing position, wherein the matrix screen is controlled in dependence with image information of at least two different images such that exactly one of the images is displayed on each of the excerpts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventor: René de la Barré
  • Patent number: 9304933
    Abstract: Techniques are described to configure a cache line structure based on attributes of a draw call and access direction of a texture. Attributes of textures (e.g., texture format and filter type), samplers, and shaders used by the draw call can be considered to determine the line size of a cache. Access direction can be considered to reduce the number of lines that are used to store texels required by a sample request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kebing Wang, Jun Ye, Jianyu Li
  • Patent number: 9240062
    Abstract: A node arranging apparatus includes: a node arranging unit that arranges, in a virtual three-dimensional space, nodes indicated by inter-node information stored in an inter-node information storage unit; a node moving unit that moves each node using a movement amount and a movement direction of that node determined by arrangement relationship of that node with a first plane, arrangement relationship with another node arranged in the virtual three-dimensional space, and arrangement relationship with at least one other node associated therewith by the inter-node information and arranged in the virtual three-dimensional space; a display information generating unit that generates display information of a node connection image where nodes are projected and connected; and an output unit that outputs the display information. The node moving unit repeatedly performs at least once the node moving process until a predesignated condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: SOFTWARE CRADLE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 9224247
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional object processing device which is configured to: project a three-dimensional object that is disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space onto each of a plurality of projection planes that are set in the virtual three-dimensional space to obtain projected objects; deform each of the projected objects in a corresponding one of the plurality of projection planes; and deform the three-dimensional object in the virtual three-dimensional space based on each of the projected objects, which have been deformed in the corresponding one of the plurality of projection planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Wada, Masaaki Oka
  • Patent number: 9225818
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a display device and a processor. The processor acquires first display information about a first virtual machine. The first display information does not prompt a user operation. The processor displays the acquired first display information in a first display area on the display device. The processor acquires second display information about the first virtual machine. The second display information prompts a user operation. The processor displays the acquired second display information in a second display area on the display device. The processor determines, in response to an instruction for changing display, whether mixed display is allowed by referencing status information. The processor acquires, when the mixed display is allowed, third display information about a second virtual machine. The third display information does not prompt a user operation. The processor displays the acquired third display information in a third display area on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahide Noda, Naoki Nishiguchi, Noboru Iwamatsu
  • Patent number: 9201660
    Abstract: A method and a mobile terminal for controlling display of waiting information during program startup are disclosed, relating to the field of computers. In the invention, a step of initializing a liquid crystal display (LCD) by a kernel is eliminated, and an LCD controller is reinitialized after the waiting information data in a bootloader display memory is copied to the display memory of the kernel, therefore, the LCD can directly read the waiting information data in the display memory of the kernel according to a display memory first address in the LCD controller. The waiting information data in the bootloader display memory is copied to the display memory of the kernel in advance, therefore, the displayed content is not changed completely for users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Zuo
  • Patent number: 9202315
    Abstract: A displacement map generation section generates, for a stereoscopic image, a displacement map indicating a displacement of a second viewpoint image relative to a first viewpoint image. A first new image generation section performs rotation processing in accordance with a given rotation angle on the first viewpoint image to generate a new first viewpoint image. A displacement map correction section performs correction processing on the displacement map on the basis of the rotation angle to generate a corrected displacement map. A second new image generation section generates a new second viewpoint image from the new first viewpoint image on the basis of the corrected displacement map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kobayashi, Yuki Maruyama, Kentaro Matsumoto, Yasunobu Ogura
  • Patent number: 9196096
    Abstract: One embodiment involves receiving selection of a first quadrilateral and a second quadrilateral in an image being edited in an image editing application. An edge of the first quadrilateral may be shared with an edge of the second quadrilateral. In this embodiment, one or more manipulations associated with the first quadrilateral and/or the second quadrilateral may be received. In response to the received manipulation(s), an updated view of the image is generated or otherwise displayed according to one embodiment. The updated view may be based at least in part on the image, the received manipulation(s), and/or one or more constraints. For example, the updated view may be based at least in part on a three-dimensional scene constraint. In embodiments, the updated view is consistent with a three-dimensional scene in the image. In some embodiments, the updated view is generated in real-time or substantially real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Aseem Agarwala
  • Patent number: 9182756
    Abstract: To provide a display device capable of displaying a trajectory of a specific portion of a program controlled control target device regardless of whether the control program is a simple sequential execution type or a situation adaptive type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Oyama, Kenichiro Mori
  • Patent number: 9171351
    Abstract: An image processing device, includes: an obtaining unit which successively obtains a plurality of images; a synthesis unit which partially superimposes the plurality of images obtained by the obtaining unit to generate a synthesis image when the obtaining unit obtains the images; a first judgment unit which judges whether the synthesis image contains a feature region having a predetermined feature when the synthesis image is generated by the synthesis unit; and a control unit which makes predetermined processing be executed when the first judgment unit judges that the synthesis image contains the feature region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Kita
  • Patent number: 9135848
    Abstract: A display device includes a data request unit in a frame rate controller, and requires and transmits necessary data for the frame data buffer receiving and storing the image data of an entire pixel area and the rest of the frame rate controllers. In a case of a motion picture that is moved among a plurality of display areas, the image data corresponding to a plurality of regions is transmitted from the frame data buffer or a plurality of frame rate controllers, and in a case of the motion picture that is moved between neighboring pixel areas, the image data of the neighboring pixel area is transmitted from the frame data buffer or the neighboring frame rate controller for processing. Accordingly, a fast-moving motion picture may be realized without the need for an additional memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Jae Sung Bae, Bong Hyun You, Sang-Je Lee