Patents by Inventor Ronald Azuma

Ronald Azuma 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: 20240233062
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a system interconnect and a graphics processor cluster coupled with the system interconnect. The graphics processor cluster includes circuitry configurable to generate per-frame neural representations of a multi-view video via incremental training and transferal of weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shengze Wang, Alexey Supikov, Joshua Ratcliff, Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20240135483
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a system interconnect and a graphics processor cluster coupled with the system interconnect. The graphics processor cluster includes circuitry configurable to generate per-frame neural representations of a multi-view video via incremental training and transferal of weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shengze Wang, Alexey Supikov, Joshua Ratcliff, Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20240015263
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to provide remote telepresence communication. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to identify features from a plurality of images, the plurality of images representing a first user and a second user, create a first representation of the first user, a second representation of the second user, the representations created using the plurality of images, the representations representing the respective users at specified distances and specified perspectives from a viewer, and construct a first image, the first image including the second model at a specified location within a shared environment, the first image to be presented on a first display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ronald Azuma, Joshua Ratcliff, Santiago Alfaro
  • Patent number: 11506900
    Abstract: Thin, multi-focal plane, augmented reality eyewear are disclosed. An example lens structure includes a two-layer waveguide including a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The two-layer waveguide produces a virtual object based on light from an image source. The two-layer waveguide causes the virtual object to appear at a first virtual object focal plane. The first waveguide propagates more of the light in a first wavelength range than in a second wavelength range. The second waveguide propagates more of the light in the second wavelength range than in the first wavelength range. The first wavelength range is associated with longer wavelengths than the second wavelength range. The lens structure further includes an optical lens to cause the virtual object to appear at a second virtual object focal plane associated with a shorter apparent distance from a user than the first virtual object focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Ronald Azuma, Mario Palumbo
  • Publication number: 20210173219
    Abstract: Thin, multi-focal plane, augmented reality eyewear are disclosed. An example lens structure includes a two-layer waveguide including a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The two-layer waveguide produces a virtual object based on light from an image source. The two-layer waveguide causes the virtual object to appear at a first virtual object focal plane. The first waveguide propagates more of the light in a first wavelength range than in a second wavelength range. The second waveguide propagates more of the light in the second wavelength range than in the first wavelength range. The first wavelength range is associated with longer wavelengths than the second wavelength range. The lens structure further includes an optical lens to cause the virtual object to appear at a second virtual object focal plane associated with a shorter apparent distance from a user than the first virtual object focal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Ronald Azuma, Mario Palumbo
  • Patent number: 11009766
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is display stacks for virtual reality (VR) displays arranged to present an image where a focal point of the image is presented in higher resolution than a periphery around the focal point. The disclosure provides systems and methods for presenting an image comprising a high resolution having a smaller field of view than that with which a lower resolution image is presented around a periphery of the high resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ginni Grover, Ronald Azuma, Oscar Nestares
  • Patent number: 10928639
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing an augmented reality system having one or more optical structures capable of resolving virtual objects on one or more virtual object focal planes while providing a sufficient level of transmittivity and optical correction to simultaneously resolve real-world, physical, objects. The lens structures include a plurality of waveguide layers including waveguide layers demonstrating red-green sensitivity and waveguide layers demonstrating blue-green sensitivity. One or more plano-concave lenses may be used to draw virtual objects from a relatively distant first virtual object focal plane to a relatively closer second virtual object focal plane. One or more plano-convex lenses may be used to cause physical objects to appear at a distance from the augmented reality eyewear system approximately equal to the second virtual object focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Ronald Azuma, Mario Palumbo
  • Publication number: 20190384136
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is display stacks for virtual reality (VR) displays arranged to present an image where a focal point of the image is presented in higher resolution than a periphery around the focal point. The disclosure provides systems and methods for presenting an image comprising a high resolution having a smaller field of view than that with which a lower resolution image is presented around a periphery of the high resolution image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ginni Grover, Ronald Azuma, Oscar Nestares
  • Publication number: 20190227331
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing an augmented reality system having one or more optical structures capable of resolving virtual objects on one or more virtual object focal planes while providing a sufficient level of transmittivity and optical correction to simultaneously resolve real-world, physical, objects. The lens structures include a plurality of waveguide layers including waveguide layers demonstrating red-green sensitivity and waveguide layers demonstrating blue-green sensitivity. One or more plano-concave lenses may be used to draw virtual objects from a relatively distant first virtual object focal plane to a relatively closer second virtual object focal plane. One or more plano-convex lenses may be used to cause physical objects to appear at a distance from the augmented reality eyewear system approximately equal to the second virtual object focal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Ronald Azuma, Mario Palumbo
  • Patent number: 9317133
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing augmented reality based on tracking. Information, including location information, orientation information, or a combination thereof of a device is determined. A representation of a location indicated based, at least in part, on the information is determined. One or more items are selected to associate with one or more points within the representation. Display information is determined to be generated, the display information including the one or more items overlaid on the representation based, at least in part, on the one or more points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Thommen Korah, Ronald Azuma
  • Patent number: 9122707
    Abstract: An apparatus for enabling provision of a localized virtual reality environment may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving information indicative of a current location of a mobile terminal, receiving information indicative of an orientation of the mobile terminal with respect to the current location, causing a stored image including a panoramic view of the current location to be displayed at the mobile terminal based on the orientation, and enabling provision of a virtual object on the panoramic view. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jason Robert Wither, Ronald Azuma
  • Patent number: 8838381
    Abstract: Described is a system for conveying the spatial location of an object with respect to a user's current location utilizing a video rendering following an automatically generated path from the user's location to the location of the object of interest initiated from the user's current perspective. The system comprises a display device; a virtual three-dimensional model of the user's environment; a visualization creation module; a route planner; and a video rendering following an automatically generated path from the user's location to the location of the object of interest utilizing the visualization creation module, wherein the video rendering displayed on the display device is from a first-person view. Also described is a method of utilizing the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Daily, Ronald Azuma
  • Patent number: 8515126
    Abstract: A multi-stage method of visual object detection is disclosed. The method was originally designed to detect humans in specific poses, but is applicable to generic detection of any object. A first stage comprises acts of searching for members of a predetermined general-class of objects (such as humans) in an image using a cognitive swarm, detecting members of the general-class of objects in the image, and selecting regions of the image containing detected members of the general-class of objects. A second stage comprises acts of searching for members of a predetermined specific-class of objects (such as humans in a certain pose) within the selected regions of the image using a cognitive swarm, detecting members of the specific-class of objects within the selected regions of the image, and outputting the locations of detected objects to an operator display and optionally to an automatic response system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Swarup Medasani, Yuri Owechko, Michael Daily, Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20120229487
    Abstract: A method comprising determining that light reflected by a display obstructs view of the display, and causing compensation for reflected light based on the determination that light reflected by a display obstructs view of the display is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vidyut SAMANTA, Lance WILLIAMS, Ronald AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20120086727
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing augmented reality based on tracking. Information, including location information, orientation information, or a combination thereof of a device is determined. A representation of a location indicated based, at least in part, on the information is determined. One or more items are selected to associate with one or more points within the representation. Display information is determined to be generated, the display information including the one or more items overlaid on the representation based, at least in part, on the one or more points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Thommen Korah, Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20110292076
    Abstract: An apparatus for enabling provision of a localized virtual reality environment may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving information indicative of a current location of a mobile terminal, receiving information indicative of an orientation of the mobile terminal with respect to the current location, causing a stored image including a panoramic view of the current location to be displayed at the mobile terminal based on the orientation, and enabling provision of a virtual object on the panoramic view. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Jason Robert Wither, Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20070035562
    Abstract: The present invention is generally related to image enhancement and augmented reality (“AR”). More specifically, this invention presents a method and an apparatus for static image enhancement and the use of an optical display and sensing technologies to superimpose, in real time, graphical information upon a user's magnified view of the real world.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Ronald Azuma, Ron Sarfaty
  • Patent number: 7131060
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning labels on a graphical display, which, in an illustrative embodiment, can include labels for aircraft icons in an air traffic control system's computer graphics display. The present invention advantageously identifies clusters of overlapping labels and objects, and calculates non-overlapping label positions on a cluster by cluster basis. In another aspect of the present invention, the movement of labels is accomplished in a smooth, incremental fashion so that cognitive distraction to the user of the graphical display terminal is kept to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Ronald Azuma
  • Publication number: 20040068758
    Abstract: The present invention allows a broadcaster 300a to encode a plurality of data, a portion of which may be from databases 302a, including spatial content and tracking data into a signal, the signal is sent to an overlay construction module 304a. Augmentation layers 306a, provided by users 308a are conveyed to the overlay construction module 304, where the signals are separably merged with the broadcast signal to create an augmented signal, which is transmitted, optionally via satellite 310a, to users 308a. The users 308a receive the augmented signal and display only the layers of interest to them. Thus each user may select a unique overlay combination, and experience individualized programming that more closely comports with that user's tastes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Mike Daily, Ronald Azuma, Kevin Martin, Howard Neely