Patents by Inventor Clarence Chui

Clarence Chui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250095120
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Publication number: 20250069534
    Abstract: Two-dimensional compositing that preserves the curvatures of non-flat surfaces is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mapping is associated with a two-dimensional rendering that maps a potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering to a canvas. The mapping is generated from a three-dimensional model of the potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering. The potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering is dynamically modified according to the mapping to reflect content comprising the canvas or edits received with respect to the canvas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • Patent number: 12198308
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12170044
    Abstract: Two-dimensional compositing that preserves the curvatures of non-flat surfaces is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mapping is associated with a two-dimensional rendering that maps a potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering to a canvas. The mapping is generated from a three-dimensional model of the potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering. The potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering is dynamically modified according to the mapping to reflect content comprising the canvas or edits received with respect to the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • Publication number: 20240394963
    Abstract: Techniques for generating aligned, augmented reality views are disclosed. In some embodiments, an estimate of a floorplan of a three-dimensional space is first generated based on one or more received views of the three-dimensional space from a camera located in the three-dimensional space. A camera pose of the camera in the three-dimensional space is next determined based on generating a corrected floorplan from the estimate of the floorplan based on foreknowledge associated with the floorplan. Display of a rendering having the determined camera pose is facilitated in an actual view of the camera, resulting in an aligned, augmented reality view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton, Clarence Chui
  • Publication number: 20240386654
    Abstract: Techniques for machine learning based image attribute determination are disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more unknown attributes of a received image comprising a prescribed environment are determined using a machine learning based framework. The machine learning based framework is at least in part trained on image data sets comprising a model environment that substantially simulates the prescribed environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Publication number: 20240380931
    Abstract: Techniques for rendering a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a scene definition is modified to generate a modified scene definition based at least in part on a current state of a local database at a device. The modified scene definition is constrained to include references to objects locally available in the local database, and at least one object referenced in the scene definition is substituted with a different object in the modified scene definition that is locally available in the local database. The scene is rendered at the device according to the modified scene definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Publication number: 20240346780
    Abstract: Techniques for delivering virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, elements in source content are mapped to a set of corresponding database objects, and the set of database objects is modified to generate a virtualized version of the source content. A specification of the virtualized version of the source content is provided to an output device in response to a request from the output device for the source content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Publication number: 20240346748
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Marc Mignard, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, John Le, Andrew Pang
  • Publication number: 20240346746
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing and generation framework is disclosed. In some embodiments, depth values of an object or asset in a received input image are at least in part determined using a machine learning based framework that is constrained to a known prescribed environment. Determined depth values facilitate generation of other views of the object or asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Amogh Subbakrishna Adishesha, Harshul Gupta, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri
  • Publication number: 20240346747
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an image are disclosed. In some embodiments, a received input image is transformed to generate an output image using a machine learning based framework that is trained on a constrained set of images. The generated output image comprises an attribute learned by the machine learning based framework from the set of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Amogh Subbakrishna Adishesha, Harshul Gupta, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri
  • Publication number: 20240331304
    Abstract: Techniques for tagging a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, information about a scene is inferred by at least in part automatically interpreting a metric associated with the scene that is determined by analyzing data comprising a primitive form of the scene, wherein analyzed data comprising the primitive form of the scene comprises positions of three-dimensional objects in the scene. The scene is tagged with a tag comprising the inferred information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Publication number: 20240320901
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view or perspective of an ensemble scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to a received request for a prescribed perspective of an ensemble scene comprising a plurality of assets, an output image of the ensemble scene that approximates the requested prescribed perspective is generated using existing images of each of at least a subset of the plurality of assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Brook Aaron Seaton, Himanshu Jain
  • Publication number: 20240265635
    Abstract: Various techniques associated with automatic mesh generation are disclosed. One or more center curves of an outline of an object or figure are first determined. Next, for each of a plurality of points of each of the one or more center curves, a pair of rays is cast from a center curve in opposite directions, wherein the rays collide with opposite sides of the outline, and a collision pair is generated that comprises a line connecting collision points of the pair of rays on opposite sides of the outline. A mesh model of the object or figure is generated by mapping each of a set of collision pairs to polygons used to define the mesh model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • Patent number: 12056812
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Marc Mignard, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, John Le, Andrew Pang
  • Patent number: 12051160
    Abstract: Techniques for tagging virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, a modeled three-dimensional scene of objects representing abstracted source content is generated and analyzed to determine a contextual characteristic of the scene that is based on a plurality of objects comprising the scene. The modeled scene is tagged with a tag specifying the determined contextual characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Patent number: 12003790
    Abstract: Techniques for rendering a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a scene definition is modified to generate a modified scene definition based at least in part on a current state of a local database at a device. The modified scene definition is constrained to include references to objects locally available in the local database, and at least one object referenced in the scene definition is substituted with a different object in the modified scene definition that is locally available in the local database. The scene is rendered at the device according to the modified scene definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Patent number: 12002149
    Abstract: Techniques for machine learning based image attribute determination are disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more unknown attributes of a received image comprising a prescribed environment are determined using a machine learning based framework. The machine learning based framework is at least in part trained on image data sets comprising a model environment that substantially simulates the prescribed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 11995765
    Abstract: Techniques for generating aligned, augmented reality views are disclosed. In some embodiments, an estimate of a floorplan of a three-dimensional space is first generated based on one or more received views of the three-dimensional space from a camera located in the three-dimensional space. A camera pose of the camera in the three-dimensional space is next determined based on generating a corrected floorplan from the estimate of the floorplan based on foreknowledge associated with the floorplan. Display of a rendering having the determined camera pose is facilitated in an actual view of the camera, resulting in an aligned, augmented reality view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton, Clarence Chui
  • Patent number: 11995775
    Abstract: Techniques for delivering virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, elements in source content are mapped to a set of corresponding database objects, and the set of database objects is modified to generate a virtualized version of the source content. A specification of the virtualized version of the source content is provided to an output device in response to a request from the output device for the source content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui