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).

  • Arbitrary view generation
    Patent number: 10909749
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary perspective of a composite object are disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of an orthographic view of a composite object comprises combined orthographic views of a plurality of objects, and an arbitrary perspective of the composite object is at least in part generated by populating the arbitrary perspective of the composite object with pixels harvested from existing images of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton
  • Machine learning based image processing techniques
    Patent number: 10902559
    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: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION
    Publication number: 20210019934
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an ensemble image are disclosed. In some embodiments, images associated with a plurality of independent scenes are translated to a prescribed origin, translated images associated with each independent scene are transformed into a prescribed perspective; and pixels of an image array having the prescribed perspective that is associated with each independent scene is populated with corresponding pixels from the transformed translated images associated with that independent scene. An ensemble image comprising the prescribed perspective is at least in part generated by combining at least some pixels of image arrays associated with the plurality of independent scenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Aligned augmented reality views
    Patent number: 10872464
    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 views of the three-dimensional space from a camera of a device located in the three-dimensional space. A cost function is next minimized with respect to the estimate of the floorplan to generate a corrected floorplan having less error than the estimated floorplan, and a camera pose corresponding to the corrected floorplan is determined. 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: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton, Clarence Chui
  • MACHINE LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20200394762
    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: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Generating video content
    Patent number: 10839592
    Abstract: Improved techniques for generating video content are disclosed. In some embodiments, a frame is rendered using a rendering option. It is then determined whether the frame is an independent frame (I-frame) or a predictive frame (P-frame). In the event that the frame is an I-frame, the frame is independently encoded. In the event that the frame is a P-frame, motion is estimated from a known geometry of an associated scene and motion vectors and prediction error are encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Parmar, Zhanpeng Feng, Clarence Chui
  • Arbitrary view generation
    Patent number: 10832468
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, for each image of a set of images associated with a scene, image pixels are divided into a plurality of pixel blocks, the pixel blocks are transformed into an arbitrary perspective, and pixels of an image array comprising the arbitrary perspective are populated with corresponding pixels from the transformed pixel blocks. An output image of the scene comprising the arbitrary perspective is then generated based at least in part on the populated image array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • MACHINE LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20200349678
    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: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION
    Publication number: 20200334798
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of a scene from existing images of the scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, an image of a scene having a desired perspective is at least in part generated by populating some pixels of the image having the desired perspective using pixels obtained from a transformed existing image of the scene that is selected from a stored set of existing images associated with the scene and that is transformed to the desired perspective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Machine learning based image processing techniques
    Patent number: 10810706
    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: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITING
    Publication number: 20200327838
    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: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • TAGGING VIRTUALIZED CONTENT
    Publication number: 20200320299
    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: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Multi-camera 3D content creation
    Patent number: 10791319
    Abstract: Techniques for generating three-dimensional content from the recordings of multiple independently operated cameras that are not constrained to fixed positions and orientations are disclosed. In some embodiments, data from a plurality of cameras configured to record a scene is received; a relative pose of each camera with respect to a common set of identified points in the scene is determined; relative poses of the cameras with respect to each other based on their relative poses with respect to the common set of identified points are determined; and the camera recordings and determined relative poses are processed to generate a three-dimensional reconstruction of at least a portion of the scene in the cameras' common field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL CAMERA SENSOR
    Publication number: 20200294302
    Abstract: Techniques associated with adaptive sampling are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a specification of a scene to render, a sampling of each portion of the scene is determined based at least in part on the specification of the scene such that the scene is not uniformly sampled, and the scene is rendered according to the determined sampling of each portion of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • AUTOMATED MESH GENERATION
    Publication number: 20200286285
    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: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • ADAPTIVE SAMPLING OF PIXELS
    Publication number: 20200279430
    Abstract: Adaptive sampling of pixels is disclosed. In some embodiments, a rendering of a scene is generated by sampling each pixel of the rendering with a prescribed number of samples. Subsequently, those pixels of the rendering that do not satisfy a noise threshold are iteratively sampled with an additional sample during each iteration until all pixels of the rendering satisfy the noise threshold. The noise threshold is associated with noise arising due to under sampling. Pixels comprising the completed rendering are not uniformly sampled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Machine learning based image processing techniques
    Patent number: 10762605
    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: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Arbitrary view generation
    Patent number: 10748265
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary ensemble view from existing views of a plurality of scenes are disclosed. In some embodiments, for each of a plurality of scenes, each of a corresponding set of one or more views is normalized to a desired perspective if its existing perspective is different than the desired perspective. An ensemble view comprising the plurality of scenes that has the desired perspective is generated at least in part using pixels from views of the scenes having the desired perspective including the normalized views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Tagging virtualized content
    Patent number: 10679061
    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: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Two-dimensional compositing
    Patent number: 10679539
    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: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy