Patents Examined by Yingchun He
  • Patent number: 12260482
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling safety settings for behavior characteristics of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character model are provided. An example method includes receiving context associated with the AI character model; determining, based on the context, a level of safety of a content generated by the AI character model; and adjusting, based on the level of safety, the safety settings associated with the content generated by the AI character model. The determination of the level of safety may include determining specific characteristics of an audience interacting with the AI character model in a virtual environment and selecting, based on the specific characteristics, the level of safety from a set of levels of safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Theai, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Mikhail Ermolenko, Kylan Gibbs, Aleksey Tikhonov, Khaled Jedoui
  • Patent number: 12254568
    Abstract: A system for georeferencing three-dimensional (3D) geometric data associated with a global positioning system (GPS)-denied environment. The system includes an apparatus couplable to a mobile platform and a computing system communicably couplable with the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processing circuit and a range sensor and/or a camera. The computing system includes a 3D generator module configured to generate a digital 3D model of the GPS-denied environment based on data acquired by the range sensor and/or the camera, a 3D survey control generator module configured to identify a survey control point within the GPS-denied environment and generate a 3D digital anchor within the 3D model of the GPS-denied environment, a georeferencing module configured to apply one or more non-rigid transformations to the 3D model of the GPS-denied environment, and a second processing circuit communicably couplable with the 3D generator module, the 3D survey control generator module and the georeferencing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mine Vision Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: L. Douglas Baker, Christopher J. Brown, Matthew A. Csencsits, Scott M. Thayer
  • Patent number: 12243464
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Baylor University
    Inventors: Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi, James M. DeFilippis, Gary B. Mandle
  • Patent number: 12236827
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Baylor University
    Inventors: Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, James M. DeFilippis, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi, Gary B. Mandle
  • Patent number: 12236509
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a series of 2-D images relating to a 3-D object or model between a server and a user terminal includes combining each of the 2-D images in the series of 2-D images into a single combined 2-D image, and transmitting the combined image to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Formus Labs Limited
    Inventors: Antonije Velevski, Ju Zhang
  • Patent number: 12236828
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Baylor University
    Inventors: Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Gary B. Mandle
  • Patent number: 12236519
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to execute ray tracing instructions. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises execution circuitry to execute a dequantize instruction to convert a plurality of quantized data values to a plurality of dequantized data values, the dequantize instruction including a first source operand to identify a plurality of packed quantized data values in a source register and a destination operand to identify a destination register in which to store a plurality of packed dequantized data values, wherein the execution circuitry is to convert each packed quantized data value in the source register to a floating point value, to multiply the floating point value by a first value to generate a first product and to add the first product to a second value to generate a dequantized data value, and to store the dequantized data value in a packed data element location in the destination register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Vaidyanathan, Michael Apodaca, Thomas Raoux, Carsten Benthin, Kai Xiao, Carson Brownlee, Joshua Barczak
  • Patent number: 12236826
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Baylor University
    Inventors: James M. DeFilippis, Gary B. Mandle
  • Patent number: 12228757
    Abstract: Color filter array patterns are provided for enhancing an image sensor's light sensitivity while preserving a color accuracy for image signal processing applications. In one example, an image sensor can include a substrate layer containing a first set of photodiodes and a second set of photodiodes, wherein each of the first set of photodiodes is larger than each of the second set of photodiodes; a first color filter array (CFA) covering the first set of photodiodes, wherein the first CFA includes a first set of color filters and a portion of the first set of color filters includes one or more clear filters; a second CFA covering the second set of photodiodes, wherein the second CFA includes a second set of color filters that is different than the first set of color filters; and one or more lenses covering the first CFA and the second CFA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Ming-Hsuan Hsu, Boyang Zhang, Shane McGuire
  • Patent number: 12217649
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes: an imaging device; and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit which function as: a detecting unit configured to detect a target subject in images captured by the imaging device; an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image capturing the target subject from an external apparatus; and a display control unit configured to display an image acquired from the external apparatus based on the detection result of the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masato Uchihara
  • Patent number: 12217364
    Abstract: A modeling system displays a three-dimensional (3D) space including a 3D object including a plurality of points and a cage model of the 3D object including a first configuration of vertices and quad faces. Each of the plurality of points is located at a respective initial location. The modeling system generates cage coordinates for the cage model including a vertex coordinate for each vertex of the cage model and four quad coordinates for each quad face of the cage model corresponding to each corner vertex of the quad. The modeling system deforms, responsive to receiving a request, the cage model to change the first configuration of vertices to a second configuration. The modeling system generates, based on the cage coordinates, the first configuration of vertices, and the second configuration of vertices, an updated 3D object by determining a subsequent location for each of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
  • Patent number: 12217771
    Abstract: Systems and procedures for transforming video into a condensed visual representation. An example procedure may include receiving video comprised of a plurality of frames. For each frame, the example procedure may create a first representation, reduced in one dimension, wherein a visual property of each pixel of the first representation is assigned by aggregating a visual property of the pixels of the frame having the same position in the unreduced dimension. The example procedure may further form a condensed visual representation including the first representations aligned along the reduced dimension according to an order of the frames in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Adeia Media Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Erik Van de Pol
  • Patent number: 12205202
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for utilizing an interactive graphing system to achieve improved dataset exploration utilizing an intelligent workflow and an interactive user interface. More specifically, the interactive graphing system facilitates generating updated network graphs that include inferred user influences based on implicit user action. Indeed, the interactive graphing system can automatically generate and present a user with an updated network graph that includes added, removed, or subsetted elements and relationships that are otherwise hidden from a user. Additionally, the interactive graphing system facilitates network graph exploration and processing of customized combined network graphs that join otherwise separate network graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Harsh Shrivastava, Maurice Diesendruck, Robin Abraham
  • Patent number: 12182904
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program causing a user to be able to appropriately select a fashion item. An information processing device includes a display control unit configured to control display of try-on images including images in which fashion items are superimposed on a user trying on try-on items corresponding to the fashion items. The information processing device is provided in, for example, a moving object such as a cart. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that performs electronic commerce of a fashion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya Suzuki, Katsuji Miyazawa, Eiji Shintani, Hiromu Yumiba
  • Patent number: 12182920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a mouth shape by using a deep learning network, and comprises the steps of: receiving a face image as an input; generating a mouth shape of the face image into a preset mouth shape by using a first mouth shape generation preprocessing deep learning model; receiving speech information as an input; generating the preset mouth shape into a mouth shape synchronizing with the speech information by using a second mouth shape generation preprocessing deep learning model; and transforming the mouth shape synchronizing with the speech information into high definition by using a high definition transform postprocessing deep learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KLLEON INC.
    Inventor: Ji-Su Kang
  • Patent number: 12170047
    Abstract: A display control method, for a terminal externally provided with a display assembly, includes: obtaining a target image including a current display frame of the terminal; determining a display region in the target image, in which the display region has a mapping relationship with a display unit included in the display assembly; determining color display data of the display region; and sending the color display data to the display assembly, to make the display unit corresponding to the display region display a color corresponding to the color display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12169881
    Abstract: An augmented reality interventional system which provides contextual overlays (116) to assist or guide a user (101) or enhance the performance of the interventional procedure by the user that uses an interactive medical device (102) to perform the interventional procedure. The system includes a graphic processing module (110) that is configured to generate at least one contextual overlay on an augmented reality display device system (106). The contextual overlays may identify a component (104) or control of the interactive medical device. The contextual overlays may also identify steps of a procedure to be performed by the user and provide instructions for performance of the procedure. The contextual overlays may also identify a specific region of the environment to assist or guide the user or enhance the performance of the interventional procedure by identifying paths or protocols to reduce radiation exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Molly Lara Flexman, Aleksandra Popovic, Ashish Panse
  • Patent number: 12165285
    Abstract: Image alignment is achieved by obtaining a fused optical flow based on a global motion estimate and an optical flow estimate. The fused optical flow may be used to warp the first image and/or the second image into aligned features or aligned images. An output image may then be obtained by combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aleksai Levinshtein, Allan Douglas Jepson
  • Patent number: 12165248
    Abstract: An interactive physical environment providing entertainment to a patron includes a scanner, a sensor within the room, and a control system. The scanner is associated with a room provided by the interactive physical environment. The scanner identifies a patron of the interactive physical environment and transmits patron identification information. The sensor determines patron game performance data and transmits the patron performance data. The control system receives patron identification information from the scanner and patron performance data from the sensor. The control system, responsive to the received patron identification information and patron performance data, modifying an avatar associated with the patron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Open World Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Matthew DuPlessie
  • Patent number: 12154221
    Abstract: A server includes an accessing means that accesses a database that stores 3D data sets for a plurality of objects. The 3D data sets include 3D modelling data and appendix data for each of the plurality of objects. The 3D modelling data also includes a plurality of elements. A receiving means receives an API request from an information processing device, the request including information that specifies an object, and an element to be used from among the plurality of elements. A transmitting means transmits to the information processing device, as an API response to the API request, data extracted from the database to output a 3D model of the object specified by the request information indicated by the 3D modelling data consisting of the specified element(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: VRC INC.
    Inventors: Yingdi Xie, Yanpeng Zhang