Patents Examined by Yi Yang
  • Patent number: 10600216
    Abstract: A data visualization system that automatically optimizes tick mark alignment to improve readability and conceptual accessibility of multiple graphs presented in a common display area. The data visualization system optimizes the tick mark alignment by normalizing the orders of magnitudes of the data sets and minimizing an objective function that balances tick resolution versus unused chart space on the common axis. The data visualization system may optionally color code the graphs and data ranges represented on the common axis to improve readability. Automatic scaling and tick mark alignment of the data sets is based on the display dimensions, which allows the graphs to be quickly re-optimized and redrawn on the fly. For example, the graphs may be automatically re-optimized and redrawn in response to display screen rotation, display area resizing, and display on different devices in a manner that appears to be effectively instantaneous to the typical user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Flowfinity Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Mikhailov, Vadym Stetsiak
  • Patent number: 10573023
    Abstract: An augmented reality system is provided for use with a medical imaging scanner. The AR system obtains a digital image from a camera, and identifies a pose of a gantry of the medical imaging scanner based on content of the digital image. The gantry includes a movable C-arm supporting an imaging signal transmitter and a detector panel that are movable along an arc relative to a station. A range of motion of the movable C-arm along the arc is determined based on the pose. A graphical object is generated based on the range of motion and the pose, and is provided to a display device for display as an overlay relative to the medical imaging scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: 10553144
    Abstract: Provided is a correction method performed in a display device including a matrix of pixels each including an organic EL element that emits light in accordance with a luminance signal. The method includes: obtaining, in advance, first correction data for correcting the luminance signal; transforming the first correction data into second correction data smaller in data size than the first correction data; and correcting the luminance signal using the second correction data. The first and second correction data respectively include first color correction data for correcting first sub pixel luminance, second color correction data for correcting second sub pixel luminance, and third color correction data for correcting third sub pixel luminance. In the transforming, the first correction data is transformed such that a data reduction amount of the second color correction data is greater than a data reduction amount of the first color correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Shinya Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 10553015
    Abstract: An encoder includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes code as instructions that cause the processor to receive geometric data and a viewpoint associated with the geometric data, and quantize the geometric data based on the viewpoint using a plurality of view-dependent quantization values each having a quantized distance based on a proximity to the viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hemmer, Stephan Friedrichs
  • Patent number: 10546181
    Abstract: For generating data for two- or three-dimensional depiction of at least part of an object, a 3D model of the part of the object is generated while using a 3D image of the part of the object. While using the 3D model, data is provided which describes the vertices of the part of the object within the three-dimensional room and which describes the color values associated with the vertices. For generating a two- or three-dimensional depiction of at least part of an object, the data provided is transmitted, and a 2D or 3D image of the part of the object is generated while using the transmitted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Bitmanagement Software GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Schickel, Holger Grahn, Axel Koerfer, Herbert Stocker, Oliver Neubauer, Kirill Brezhnyev
  • Patent number: 10546560
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting virtual content are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system including one or more computing devices, data indicative of virtual content. The method includes obtaining, by the computing system, data indicative of a planned motion of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing system, a location for the virtual content within a virtual environment based at least in part on the data indicative of the planned motion of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes providing for display, by the computing system via one or more display devices, the virtual content at the location within the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventor: David McAllister Bradley
  • Patent number: 10535175
    Abstract: A method of creating a computer-generated animation uses a graphical user interface including a two-dimensional array of cells. The array has a plurality of rows associated with computer-generated elements and a plurality of columns associated with frames of the animation. The array includes a first cell associated with a first computer-generated element and a first frame. A first view of the array is displayed in which the first cell has a first width and includes a key frame indicator that indicates that a designated value is associated with the first computer-generated element for the first frame. A second view is displayed in which the first cell has a second width and includes an element value indicator. The second width is greater than the first width, and the element value indicator represents the designated value associated with the first computer-generated element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael Babcock, Fredrik Nilsson, Matthew Christopher Gong
  • Patent number: 10521892
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at relighting a target image based on a lighting effect from a reference image. In one embodiment, a target image and a reference image are received, the reference image includes a lighting effect desired to be applied to the target image. A lighting transfer is performed using color data and geometrical data associated with the reference image and color data and geometrical data associated with the target image. The lighting transfer causes generation of a relit image that corresponds with the target image having a lighting effect of the reference image. The relit image is provided for display to a user via one or more output devices. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Kalyan K. Sunkavalli, Sunil Hadap, Elya Shechtman, Zhixin Shu
  • Patent number: 10510168
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for editing a character image in a character image editing apparatus and a recording medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the method. The present invention is implemented through processes of enabling a character image editing apparatus to take, as an input, character information and to generate a dot image at the position corresponding to the position of the margin on the character image relevant to the input character information. According to the present invention, a development of a design can be easily performed in various articles, art work, building, craftwork, city planning in which characters such as Hangul are represented. In addition, according to the present invention, a development of industrial products with symbolized characters such as Hangul can be promoted in a variety of fields such as industry, art, design, construction, handicraft, and city planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Jungha Ryu
    Inventor: Jungha Ryu
  • Patent number: 10482662
    Abstract: An immersive video display system includes a video display to display an image and a processor coupled with the video display. The displayed image includes an augmented reality image and a virtual reality image at different moments in time. The processor is to modify one of the augmented reality image and the virtual reality image to more closely correspond to the other of the augmented reality image and the virtual reality image, and control the video display to gradually transition from displaying the one of the augmented reality image and the virtual reality image to the other of the augmented reality image and the virtual reality image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Glen J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10473482
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for monitoring and compiling weather information/data for a plurality of identified locations along a route. A central computing entity 100 may store and retrieve a weather information/data inquiry template from memory, and may populate the weather information/data inquiry template with relevant information/data identifying locations for which weather information/data is requested. The central computing entity 100 may utilize the populated inquiry template to retrieve weather information/data from one or more weather information/data sources by transmitting the populated weather information/data inquiry to the one or more weather information/data sources to cause the weather information/data sources to provide weather information/data to the one or more computer processors; and to compile the retrieved weather information/data from the one or more weather information/data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Dimitri Zacharenko
  • Patent number: 10417808
    Abstract: An image processing system is provided, including an accepting unit, an acquisition unit, a measuring unit, and an output unit. The accepting unit accepts the setting of two coordinates in a stereoscopic image of a subject displayed on a stereoscopic image display device. The acquisition unit acquires volume data coordinates that are coordinates corresponding to stereoscopic image coordinates indicating the accepted coordinates. The measuring unit executes a measuring process of measuring the distance between the two coordinates accepted by the accepting unit, based on the volume data coordinates acquired by the acquisition unit. The output unit outputs a result of measurement by the measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Noshi, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Go Mukumoto, Hiroyuki Onuki, Shinya Kawanabe, Atsushi Fukano, Tatsuya Watanabe, Tomonori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10416837
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) system identifies a bounding box including a safe region. The bounding box encloses an area that allows a user wearing a head mounted display (HMD) to safely view content of a virtual world. The VR system identifies the user's location relative to the bounding box and tracks the user's location. When it is determined that the user is located outside the safe region of the bounding box, the VR system can modify what is presented to the user via the HMD, can warn the user, and/or can suggest that the user move back to the safe region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Jacob Reif
  • Patent number: 10395334
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including: a determination unit configured to determine a state of software associated with image processing on an input image signal indicating an image captured by a medical apparatus; and an output control unit configured to have a first processed image signal that is the input image signal on which image processing has been performed by the software selectively outputted, on the basis of a result of determination of the state of the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuneo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10386996
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to avatar animation. One example provides a computing device comprising a processor and a storage device comprising instructions executable by the processor to receive non-contact biometric data of a user from a biometric sensing system, establish a baseline emotional state of the user based on the non-contact biometric data, output an avatar representing the user with an animation representing the baseline emotional state, observe a threshold change in the non-contact biometric data, and in response to observing the threshold change in the non-contact biometric data, output the avatar with an animation representing a new emotional state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Randy Santossio, Mark Kobrin
  • Patent number: 10380544
    Abstract: Improved incident scene investigation is provided by displaying the incident scene and evidence pertaining to the incident scene on a display of a portable communication device where the display is augmented with tagged evidence attributes and/or further augmented with geofenced safeguard areas surrounding pieces of evidence. The evidence attributes provide and display risk assessment information as to which pieces of evidence at an incident scene are vulnerable to being contaminated or damaged. The evidence attributes may further provide and display an impact factor indicator indicating whether a piece of evidence is likely to be impacted by a context factor from the incident scene. Alerts can be generated at the portable device upon approach to a geofenced safeguarded area surrounding vulnerable evidence. The augmented display of the incident scene can also redirect a user approaching a particular piece of evidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bing Qin Lim, Alfy Merican Ahmad Hambaly, Shijie Hua, Chew Yee Kee
  • Patent number: 10376318
    Abstract: Provided is a surgical assistance apparatus and so on that make it possible to more accurately check the state that an affected part is to be in after a surgical operation has started, in advance of the surgical operation. A surgical assistance apparatus includes an image processing unit. The image processing unit creates projection image data based on measurement data that has been obtained by measuring an affected part of a patient, and thus creates a projection image as an image that is specified by the projection image data. This projection image is an image that is to be projected onto the patient, and includes an image that shows a state that the affected part is to be in after a surgical operation has started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Tsusaka, Masahiko Hashida
  • Patent number: 10347029
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes an imaging unit that successively outputs two-dimensional images captured, a memory unit that stores the two-dimensional images outputted by the imaging unit, a three-dimensional shape model generation unit which generates a three-dimensional shape model, based on the two-dimensional images and stores the three-dimensional shape model in the memory unit, a region calculation unit that calculates, based on the two-dimensional images and the three-dimensional shape model stored in the memory unit, a measurement-completed region in the two-dimensional images, and a display image generation unit that generates, based on the measurement-completed region, a display image from the two-dimensional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Unten, Tatsuya Ishii
  • Patent number: 10346947
    Abstract: A method, implemented by a computer system, and a system of organizing data of a wide area motion imagery frame and a method and a system of retrieving objects that match a user defined AOI from an image in a WAMI frame in a WAMI collection are described. The method of organizing includes dividing, by the computer system, an image of a WAMI frame into a plurality of tiles, each tile in the plurality of tiles comprising a plurality of pixels and having a pixel width and a pixel height; storing, by the computer system, the plurality of tiles as objects in an OSD, each object having an object identifier (OID); collecting, by the computer system, object identifiers (OIDs) of the objects; and storing, by the computer system, the OIDs in the OSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: PIXIA CORP.
    Inventors: Rahul C. Thakkar, Rudolf O. Ernst, Nabil Al Ramli
  • Patent number: 10339597
    Abstract: Systems and methods for virtually measuring one or more aspects of a subject, e.g., human subject are provided. Based on a plurality of images, e.g., two images, body measurements of a subject may be derived and used to generate a virtual model. The virtual model can be used as a mechanism for modeling virtual clothing for presentation to a user. Characteristics of the clothing, e.g., sizing, colors, etc., can be rendered on the virtual model providing the user with an accurate virtual reality fitting room experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Blossey, Varun Mehta