Patents Examined by Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11375739
    Abstract: A method for identifying and removing tissue from a food product that includes generating a three-dimensional model of a food product using a scanner and mapping the three-dimensional model onto the food product. The method also includes scanning the food product such that cross-sectional scanning images are generated based on the model, and, for each cross-sectional scanning image, determining a maximum thickness of the model and identifying a corresponding estimated tissue point, by using an identification method based on suitable characteristics of the food product model. The method includes fitting a curve to the estimated tissue points and generating a cut path based on the fitted curve, wherein the cut path defines an area of unwanted tissue that includes the estimated tissue points. The method further includes cutting the food product along the cut path, thereby, removing the area of unwanted tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MP EQUIPMENT, LLC
    Inventor: Ernest Merrill
  • Patent number: 11367416
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, one or more input devices, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a reader interface including one or more portions of reading content. The method further includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first positional change input. The first positional change input is indicative of the electronic device changing from a first position to a second position. The method further includes, in response to detecting the first positional change input, ceasing to display the reader interface including the one or more portions of reading content, and displaying, on the display, one or more computer-generated representations corresponding to the one or more portions of reading content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ian M. Richter, Andrew Scott Robertson
  • Patent number: 11361473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for techniques for including a physical object in a computer-generated reality environment. A context associated with the computer-generated reality environment is identified and a physical object located in a real environment is detected. If the detected physical object is associated with the context of the computer-generated reality environment, then the computer-generated reality environment is displayed with a representation of the physical object inserted into the computer-generated reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Krishna Dayanidhi, Patrick Dillon, Aaron R. Zinman
  • Patent number: 11361735
    Abstract: A head-mountable device can help a user distinguish between the physical objects and the virtual objects when desired. Indications provided by the head-mountable device can be visually applied to physical objects and/or virtual objects within a view provided by the head-mountable device. The indications can be provided to notify the user of objects outside the view provided by the head-mountable device. The indications can be visual, auditory, and/or haptic in nature. The indications can be provided based on a user's detected action, intention, and/or attention so that the indication is more targeted to a user's needs. The indications can be provided under particular conditions, so that the user can more easily maintain an immersive experience when the indications are not desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Jie Gu, Pol Pla I Conesa
  • Patent number: 11360556
    Abstract: A display device includes an eyeball tracking inductor, a display panel and a processor, where the processor is electrically connected to the eyeball tracking inductor and the display panel separately; the eyeball tracking inductor is configured to identify user eyeball image information; the processor is configured to determine a gaze region and a split view region of a user viewing the display panel, according to the user eyeball image information, control the gaze region to be displayed at a first resolution, and control the split vision region of the display panel to be displayed at a second resolution, where the first resolution is greater than the second resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Shuang Cheng, Jinghua Niu, Mingzhi Dai, Yinhe Liu, Yuhao Liu, Zhi Zhang, Jianyun Wang
  • Patent number: 11355088
    Abstract: A display driver device including a driver circuit and a control circuit is provided. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel to display an animated image for a display period under an always on display mode according to display information of the animated image stored in a storage circuit. The display period includes a writing period and a non-writing period after the writing period. The control circuit is configured to write the display information of the animated image received from an external device into the storage circuit during the writing period of the display period. The control circuit is configured to stop receiving the display information from the external device and writing any display information into the storage circuit during the non-writing period of the display period. A display device including the display driver device and an operating method for the display driver device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chia-Hsin Tung
  • Patent number: 11341935
    Abstract: An object is to enhance usability when browsing through a measurement result from a sensor on an external computer. A data relay device includes a first connection part to which one or more sensors are connected, a second connection part to which an industrial network for communication with a control device is connected, a relay memory that temporarily stores first data received from the one or more sensors connected to the first connection part to relay the first data to the control device via the second connection part, a third connection part to which a computer network for communication with an external computer is connected, a creation unit that creates display screen information for use in displaying the first data stored in the relay memory in a predetermined display form, and a provision unit that provides the display screen information to the external computer via the third connection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Koyama, Yohei Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11334325
    Abstract: Provided is a coding training method using augmented reality as a method performed by a computing device including a camera, the coding training method including: a first step of obtaining coding training content; a second step of selecting one or more points included in the coding training content; a third step of obtaining an image photographed by the camera; a fourth step of recognizing the photographed image and matching one or more objects included in the photographed image with the one or more points; a fifth step of displaying an image and the matched one or more points; a sixth step of displaying a virtual robot on the photographed image; a seventh step of displaying one or more instruction blocks each including one or more instructions for controlling a movement of the virtual robot; an eighth step of arranging the one or more instruction blocks at the one or more points based on user input for the one or more instruction blocks displayed; a ninth step of controlling the virtual robot in order in whi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventor: Kyung Hee Ryoo
  • Patent number: 11323617
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a video transmission apparatus, a video reception apparatus, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, and a system. The image transmission apparatus includes a detection circuitry, a generation circuitry, and a transmission circuitry. The generation circuitry is configured to generate a first image based on a first piece of positional information from a plurality of pieces of positional information, the first image including the overlap region and corresponding to a first region of interest of two or more regions of interest. The generation circuitry is also configured to generate one or more second images based on an overlap region and the plurality of pieces of positional information, the one or more second images excluding the overlap region and corresponding to regions of interest other than the first region of interest of the two or more regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugioka, Tomohiro Takahashi, Hiroki Ui, Yoshiaki Inada, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Masaru Takamoto
  • Patent number: 11302293
    Abstract: According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for overlay display. The method may include displaying, by the one or more processors, information in an overlay; determining, by the one or more processors, a field of view of the user based on determining a positioning of the user device; determining, by the one or more processors, whether the overlay meets a minimum visibility criteria based on the positioning of the user device; and displaying, by the one or more processors, a minimum viewable portion of the overlay in the field of view of the user upon determining that the overlay does not meet the minimum visibility criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International S.R.O.
    Inventors: David Chrapek, Michal Kosik, Sergij Cernicko, Katerina Chmelarova
  • Patent number: 11287896
    Abstract: Displayed is a display apparatus and a control method thereof. A display apparatus includes a communicator including circuitry, a display, a one or more motors, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to, through the communicator, identify a user terminal apparatus present within a threshold distance of the display apparatus and receive a location and position information of the user terminal apparatus from the identified user terminal apparatus, identify a first angle of a yaw direction, a second angle of a roll direction, and a third angle of a pitch direction between the display and the user terminal apparatus, identify whether at least one of the first angle, the second angle, and the third angle exceeds a threshold, and control the one or more motors to move the display about an axis direction of the at least one angle by at least one move angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joonhyun Yang
  • Patent number: 11288875
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a virtual world creation system detecting a request from a user of a user computing device to experience a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world, dynamically generating, in response to the request, a 3D mesh that defines a structure of a custom 3D virtual world to be experienced by the user, and providing, by the virtual world creation system, the custom 3D virtual world for experiencing by the user. The generating of the custom 3D virtual world includes selecting, based on profile information for the user and a set of virtual world building rules, a custom set of modules for inclusion in the custom 3D virtual world, and using the selected custom set of modules to generate the 3D mesh based on the set of virtual world building rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Craig Elliott Brown, Joseph M. Knight
  • Patent number: 11282481
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment is an information processing device controlling a motion of a user object in a virtual space that is associated with a user wearing an HMD, the information processing device including: a motion information acquiring unit that acquires motion information of the head and eyes of the user detected in an actual space; a provisional line-of-sight determining unit that determines a provisional line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of the motion information; a line-of-sight control unit that controls a line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of a positional relation between the provisional line-of-sight and one or more objects in the virtual space; and an image generating unit that generates an image which the line-of-sight of the user object controlled by the line-of-sight control unit is reflected in and are displayed on the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Yuuta Higuchi, Kazuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 11270671
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for configuring objective-effectuators. A device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. A method includes, while displaying a computer-generated reality (CGR) representation of a first objective-effectuator in a CGR environment, determining to display a CGR representation of a second objective-effectuator in association with the CGR representation of the first objective-effectuator. In some implementations, the second objective-effectuator is associated with a set of configuration parameters. In some implementations, the method includes determining a value for at least a first configuration parameter of the set of configuration parameters based on a type of the first objective-effectuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Cameron J. Dunn, Peter Gregory Zion, Stuart Harl Ferguson, Peter Justin Dollar, David Adam Lipton
  • Patent number: 11270669
    Abstract: A rendering method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence. In a specific implementation, the rendering method includes: acquiring a content to be rendered, a category of the content to be rendered, information on a device on which a rendered content is to be displayed, and information on a server providing the content to be rendered; determining information on a first rendering template according to the category of the content to be rendered, the information on the device, and the information on the server; searching for the first rendering template according to the information on the first rendering template; and rendering the content to be rendered with the first rendering template, in a case that the first rendering template is searched out. In the embodiments of the application, rendering is implemented flexibly and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sheng Lv, Yuanhang Zhang, Yan Wang, Jie Wang, Hongwei Cao
  • Patent number: 11262892
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are clutch and boom features that can enable the manipulation of user interface elements when using a touch-sensitive component to build or otherwise design a graphical display, such as a website, video game, magazine layout, etc. Upon touching user interface element to be manipulated, the user interface element can be targeted for manipulation. In response to a clutch user interface element being engaged, the targeted user interface element can be enabled for manipulation (e.g., colored, rotated, moved, etc.) by the user, while the non-targeted user elements are protected from manipulation. Boom is an example of manipulation functionality provided by some embodiments, which can be configured to move the targeted user interface element a precise amount (e.g., pixel-by-pixel).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Newman Infinite, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Allan Newman
  • Patent number: 11263257
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for automatically exposing 3D production assets to an editorial workstation in a content creation pipeline. A production asset management system transmits, to an editorial workstation, a first content library that includes first metadata associated with a 3D production asset that is included in an editorial cut. The first metadata allows a user to see what versions of the 3D production asset are available for incorporation into the editorial cut. The production asset management system retrieves second metadata associated with a second version of the 3D production asset from a production database. The production asset management system retrieves, based on the second metadata, the second version of the 3D production asset from the production database. The production asset management system transmits the second version of the 3D production asset to the editorial workstation for incorporation into the editorial cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Breymann, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Katharine S. Navarre, Avner Swerdlow, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu
  • Patent number: 11257269
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for intelligently blending inverse kinematic (IK) solutions to more naturally depict joint positioning and/or movement of digital animated characters. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the character animation system can blend two IK solutions for an elbow joint based on a shoulder angle. For example, the character animation system can utilize a blending region to dynamically blend IK solutions as the shoulder angle moves through the blending region, thereby smoothly modifying bend direction and elbow position of the animated character arm. Based on the modified elbow position relative to a wrist position and a shoulder position, the animated character system can simulate more accurate, natural arm movements while reducing time and interactions needed to generate realistic animation sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Saito, James Acquavella, David Werner
  • Patent number: 11250819
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, an image system comprises a display and a controller. A portion of the display is capable of a first visual fidelity level which is the highest visual fidelity capability of the display. The controller is configured to determine a first location of a point on the display where the center of gaze of a user intersects the display and determine a plurality of concentric regions on the display sharing a common center determined at least in part on the first location of the point. The controller is further configured to communicate a command to the display to reduce the angular and spatial resolution of selected regions below the first visual fidelity level, the reduction in visual fidelity of each region determined at least in part on a proximity of each region from the first location of the point, such that the regions farther from the point have greater levels of reduction in visual fidelity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Lamkin, Kyle Martin Ringgenberg, Jordan David Lamkin
  • Patent number: 11243309
    Abstract: A ranging system includes a terminal device, a ranging apparatus, and an angle sensor disposed in the terminal device or in the ranging apparatus. The ranging apparatus includes a measuring wheel, a rotating shaft disposed on the measuring wheel, and an electronic counter connected to the rotating shaft and configured to obtain distance information, in real time, of a route which the measuring wheel has already traveled. The angle sensor is configured to obtain angle information in real time. The terminal device and the ranging apparatus are configured to transmit data between each other. The terminal device is configured to generate a traveling trajectory diagram of the measuring wheel, in real time, based on the distance information from the electronic counter and the angle information from the angle sensor, and perform optimization processing on the traveling trajectory to generate an optimized trajectory diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NORTHWEST INSTRUMENT INC.
    Inventors: Xin Shi, David Xing