Patents Examined by Yanna Wu
  • Patent number: 10438547
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a processor. The panel has pixels including first to fourth sub-pixels. The processor determines candidates for an expansion coefficient of pixels when displaying an image of one frame, determines the coefficient for the one frame, based on each candidate, calculates the output values of a pixel, based on the coefficient and the input values of the pixel, and outputs the output values to the panel. The processor calculates a candidate for the coefficient in the second frame of a pixel, when the input values of this pixel are not substantially the same between first and second frames, and calculates no candidate for the coefficient when the input values of the pixel are substantially the same between the first and second frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tadafumi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10430551
    Abstract: In scan data retrieval, a mesh is fit (32) to surface data of a current patient, such as data from an optical or depth sensor (18). Meshes are also fit (48) to medical scan data, such as fitting (48) to skin surface segments of computed tomography data. The meshes or parameters derived from the meshes may be more efficiently compared (34) to identify (36) a previous patient with similar body shape and/or size. The scan configuration (38) for that patient, or that patient as altered to account for differences from the current patient, is used. In some embodiments, the parameter vector used for searching (34) includes principle component analysis coefficients. In further embodiments, the principle component analysis coefficients may be projected to a more discriminative space using metric learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jiangping Wang, Kai Ma, Vivek Singh, Mingqing Chen, Yao-Jen Chang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Terrence Chen, Andreas Krauss
  • Patent number: 10423223
    Abstract: A method of displaying content on a device includes sensing first color information of at least one object reflected on a transparent display of the device; comparing second color information of content displayed on the transparent display with the first color information; and changing the second color information based on a difference between the first color information and the second color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung-rae Cho
  • Patent number: 10416757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a telepresence system comprising a plurality of cameras, a head mounted display device, a processing system and a first orientation sensor, wherein the cameras are positioned at different viewpoints that are aligned so that each camera's field of view at least partly overlaps with those of an adjacent camera, wherein the processing system is arranged to receive image data from each one of the plurality of cameras, to receive orientation information from the orientation sensor, to select one or two cameras, the selection of the one or two cameras depending on the received orientation information, to send image data received from currently selected cameras to the head mounted display device, and if newly received orientation information indicates an orientation change across a predefined threshold, switch from the currently selected cameras to one or two newly selected cameras located at other viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Raymond Maurice Smit
  • Patent number: 10417803
    Abstract: A method is provided for rendering a scene including a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of a structure. The method includes traversing a scene graph composed of a hierarchical group of nodes representing respective 3D objects of the digital 3D model, and selecting nodes of the hierarchical group of nodes. The method includes adding a plurality of objects represented by the selected nodes to a render queue, performing a multiple-pass rendering of the plurality of 3D objects from the render queue. This includes in a pass of a plurality of passes, rendering a threshold portion but not all of the plurality of 3D objects to a framebuffer for output to a display device, with at least one of the plurality of 3D objects being left in the render queue after rendering the threshold portion. The method may also include a mesh simplification and/or z-occlusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Joseph Frank Floyd, Patrick James Eames, Brent Louis Hadley, Robert James Martin, Nicholas Shepherd, Ivan Rumsey, Jeremy David Scott
  • Patent number: 10417996
    Abstract: A method, an image processing device, and a display system for power-constrained image enhancement are proposed. The method is applicable to an image processing device and includes the following steps. First, an input image is received and inputted into a power-constrained sparse representation (PCSR) model, where the PCSR model is associated with a sparse representation model and a power-constraint model, where the sparse representation model is associated with an over-complete dictionary and sparse codes, and where the power-constrained model is associated with pixel intensities of the input image and a gamma correction value of a display Next, a reconstructed image outputted by the PCSR model is obtained and displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Yuan Ze University
    Inventors: Jia-Li Yin, Bo-Hao Chen, En-Hung Lai, Ling-Feng Shi
  • Patent number: 10417821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of simplifying a geometry model, the method comprises: determination (607) of an integral error rating QiS defined as being a function of a sum of the error measures associated with the points of the plurality having a lower associated Morton code than the Morton code associated with the current point; determination (614) if a given set of points of the plurality can be simplified by a new point, the points of the given set all being the points of the plurality having a Morton code associated with one and the same prefix of given length, as a function at least of a difference between: —the integral error measure QlasS determined for the point of the given set having the largest Morton code (las); and—the integral error measure Qini-1S determined for the point of the plurality having an immediately lower Morton code (ini?1) than the smallest Morton code out of the Morton codes associated with the points of the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM
    Inventors: Helene Legrand, Tamy Boubekeur
  • Patent number: 10394522
    Abstract: A display controller for a data processing system comprises two sets of display processing units, each set of display processing units comprising an input unit operable to read at least one input surface, a processing unit operable to process one or more input surfaces to generate an output surface, and an output unit operable to provide an output surface for display to a display. The display controller also includes internal data path via which pixel data of a surface may be passed between the sets of display processing units, and a control unit that can selectively activate one or both of the sets of display processing units to process one or more input surfaces to generate one or more output surfaces for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Damian Piotr Modrzyk, David Brown, Ozgur Ozkurt
  • Patent number: 10394574
    Abstract: An apparatus for enqueuing kernels on a device-side is introduced to incorporate with at least a MXU (Memory Access Unit) and a CSP (Command Stream Processor): The CSP, after receiving a first command from the MXU, executes commands of a ring buffer, thereby enabling an EU (Execution Unit) to direct the MXU to allocate space of the ring buffer for a first hardware thread and subsequently write second commands of the first hardware thread into the allocated space of the ring buffer according to an instruction of a kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengxia Wu, Tian Shen, Zhou Hong, Yuanfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10380969
    Abstract: An image processor is described. The image processor includes an I/O unit to read input image data from external memory for processing by the image processor and to write output image data from the image processor into the external memory. The I/O unit includes multiple logical channel units. Each logical channel unit is to form a logical channel between the external memory and a respective producing or consuming component within the image processor. Each logical channel unit is designed to utilize reformatting circuitry and addressing circuitry. The addressing circuitry is to control addressing schemes applied to the external memory and reformatting of image data between external memory and the respective producing or consuming component. The reformatting circuitry is to perform the reformatting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Albert Meixner, Neeti Desai, Dilan Manatunga, Jason Rupert Redgrave, William Mark
  • Patent number: 10360706
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a control section configured to execute control to generate a superimposed image by superimposing on a background image a human body image that depicts at least a part of a human body and moves in response to gestural operation of a user, in order to display the superimposed image, while adjusting a display state of the superimposed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Reiko Miyazaki, Yasuyuki Koga, Takuo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10347051
    Abstract: An Augmented Reality (AR)-system comprising a permanent marker having a defined pose relative to a coordinate system, an AR-device having a camera and a processing unit, wherein the AR-device is configured to visually detect and identify the permanent marker, determine a relative pose between the AR-device and the permanent marker, a temporary marker having a coded design and an undefined pose relative to the coordinate system and the permanent marker, wherein the AR-device is configured to visually detect and identify the temporary marker by the coded design, determine a relative pose between the permanent marker and the temporary marker, based on the determined relative pose between the permanent marker and the temporary marker, defining a pose of the temporary marker relative to the coordinate system, determine a relative pose between the AR-device and the temporary marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Metzler, Martin Havnør, Rune Fjellvang
  • Patent number: 10311539
    Abstract: A SIMD processing unit processes a plurality of tasks which each include up to a predetermined maximum number of work items. The work items of a task are arranged for executing a common sequence of instructions on respective data items. The data items are arranged into blocks, with some of the blocks including at least one invalid data item. Work items which relate to invalid data items are invalid work items. The SIMD processing unit comprises a group of processing lanes configured to execute instructions of work items of a particular task over a plurality of processing cycles. A control module assembles work items into the tasks based on the validity of the work items, so that invalid work items of the particular task are temporally aligned across the processing lanes. In this way the number of wasted processing slots due to invalid work items may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: John Howson, Jonathan Redshaw, Yoong Chert Foo
  • Patent number: 10290138
    Abstract: Device comprising a memory (2) storing sound data, three-dimensional surface data, and a plurality of control data sets which represent control points defined by data of coordinates which are associated with sound data, and a processor (4) which, on the basis of first and second successive sound data, and of first three-dimensional surface data, selects the control data sets associated with the first and second sound data, and defines second three-dimensional surface data by applying a displacement to each point. The displacement of a given point is calculated as the sum of displacement vectors calculated for each control point on the basis of the sum of first and second vectors, weighted by the ratio between the result of a function with two variables exhibiting a zero limit at infinity applied to the given point and to the control point and the sum of the result of this function applied to the point on the one hand and to each of the control points on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Slim Ouni, Guillaume Gris
  • Patent number: 10282812
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising a processing array within the parallel processor, the processing array including multiple compute blocks, each compute block including multiple processing clusters configured for parallel operation, wherein each of the multiple compute blocks is independently preemptable. In one embodiment a preemption hint can be generated for source code during compilation to enable a compute unit to determine an efficient point for preemption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Ingo Wald, David Puffer, Subramaniam M. Maiyuran, Prasoonkumar Surti, Balaji Vembu, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray
  • Patent number: 10275650
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program wherein the apparatus comprises: processing circuitry; and memory circuitry including computer program code; the memory circuitry and the computer program code configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least to perform; detecting user selection of a part of an image wherein the image is displayed on a display; obtaining context information; and determining information to be provided to the user based on the user selection, the displayed image and the obtained context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 10271054
    Abstract: Adaptive video processing for a target display panel may be implemented in or by a decoding/display pipeline associated with the target display panel. The adaptive video processing methods may take into account video content, display characteristics, and environmental conditions including but not limited to ambient lighting and viewer location when processing and rendering video content for a target display panel in an ambient setting or environment. The display-side adaptive video processing methods may use this information to adjust one or more video processing functions as applied to the video data to render video for the target display panel that is adapted to the display panel according to the ambient viewing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth I. Greenebaum, Haitao Guo, Hao Pan, Guy Cote, Andrew Bai
  • Patent number: 10269142
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for providing a digital mixed output color of two reference colors defined in an RGB model where the digital mixed output color at least generally reflects a color produced by mixing physical pigments of the two reference colors or a custom user-defined color. The systems and methods receive a selection of two reference colors to mix. Additionally, the systems and methods can determine a mixing ratio of the two reference colors. Moreover, the systems and methods query at least one predefined mixing table and identify from the at least one predefined mixing table a mixed output color correlating to a mixture of the two reference colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Zhili Chen, Daichi Ito, Byungmoon Kim, Gahye Park
  • Patent number: 10271159
    Abstract: It is determined whether or not an information processing apparatus is located at a particular place. If it is determined in the determination of the location that the information processing apparatus is located at the particular place, use of predetermined data is permitted. If the information processing apparatus satisfies a predetermined condition related to the fact that the information processing apparatus is located at the particular place, the permitted use of the data is prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 10262453
    Abstract: In order to improve depth perception for an image displayed during a laparoscopic surgery, a representation of a shadow of a tool included in the image and used in the laparoscopic surgery is identified and introduced into the image. A processor augments a three-dimensional (3D) model including a 3D representation of a surface of an object included in the image, and a representation of the tool by introducing a virtual light source into the 3D model to generate a virtual shadow within the 3D model. The processor subtracts the representation of the shadow out of the augmented 3D model and superimposes the representation of the shadow on the image to be displayed during the laparoscopic surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Mountney, Thomas Engel, Philip Mewes, Thomas Pheiffer