Patents by Inventor Yingen Xiong
Yingen Xiong 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).
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Patent number: 11715182Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of image frames captured by one or more cameras, classifying one or more first objects detected in one or more first image frames of the plurality of image frames as undesirable, applying a pixel filtering to the one or more first image frames to replace one or more first pixel sets associated with the one or more first objects with pixels from one or more second image frames of the plurality of image frames to generate a final image frame, providing the final image frame for display.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Euisuk Chung, Yingen Xiong, Lu Luo
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Patent number: 11704877Abstract: A method includes rendering, on displays of an extended reality (XR) display device, a first sequence of image frames based on image data received from an external electronic device associated with the XR display device. The method further includes detecting an interruption to the image data received from the external electronic device, and accessing a plurality of feature points from a depth map corresponding to the first sequence of image frames. The plurality of feature points includes movement and position information of one or more objects within the first sequence of image frames. The method further includes performing a re-warping to at least partially re-render the one or more objects based at least in part on the plurality of feature points and spatiotemporal data, and rendering a second sequence of image frames corresponding to the partial re-rendering of the one or more objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Yingen Xiong, Lu Luo
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Publication number: 20230215108Abstract: A system and method for adaptive volume-based scene reconstruction for XR platform application are provided. The system includes an image sensor and a processor to perform the method for display distortion calibration. The method includes determining a processor computation load. The method also includes, based on the determined computation load, adjusting one or more parameters for the 3D scene reconstruction to compensate for the determined computation load. The method further includes rendering a reconstructed 3D scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Christopher A Peri, Divi Schmidt, Yingen Xiong, Lu Luo
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Patent number: 11688073Abstract: A method includes accessing image data and depth data corresponding to image frames to be displayed on an extended reality (XR) display device, and determining sets of feature points corresponding to the image frames based on a multi-layer sampling of the image data and the depth data. The method further includes generating a set of sparse feature points based on an integration of the sets of feature points. The set of sparse feature points are determined based on relative changes in depth data with respect to the sets of feature points. The method further includes generating a set of sparse depth points based on the set of sparse feature points and the depth data and sending the set of sparse depth points to the XR display device for reconstruction of a dense depth map corresponding to the image frames utilizing the set of sparse depth points.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Yingen Xiong
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Patent number: 11670063Abstract: An electronic device that reprojects two-dimensional (2D) images to three-dimensional (3D) images includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: propagate an intensity for at least one pixel of an image based on a depth guide of neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel, wherein the at least one pixel is considered a hole during 2D to 3D image reprojection; propagate a color for the at least one pixel based on an intensity guide of the neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel; and compute at least one weight for the at least one pixel based on the intensity and color propagation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20230137199Abstract: A system and method for display distortion calibration are configured to capture distortion with image patterns and calibrate distortion with ray tracing for an optical pipeline with lenses. The system includes an image sensor and a processor to perform the method for display distortion calibration. The method includes generating an image pattern to encode display image pixels by encoding display distortion associated with a plurality of image patterns. The method also includes determining a distortion of the image pattern resulting from a lens on a head-mounted display (HMD) and decoding the distorted image patterns to obtain distortion of pixels on a display. A lookup table is created of angular distortion of all the pixels on the display. The method further includes providing a compensation factor for the distortion by creating distortion correction based on the lookup table of angular distortion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20230140170Abstract: A method includes obtaining first and second image data of a real-world scene, performing feature extraction to obtain first and second feature maps, and performing pose tracking based on at least one of the first image data, second image data, and pose data to obtain a 6DOF pose of an apparatus. The method also includes generating, based on the 6DOF pose, first feature map, and second feature map, a disparity map between the image data and generating an initial depth map based on the disparity map. The method further includes generating a dense depth map based on the initial depth map and a camera model and generating, based on the dense depth map, a three-dimensional reconstruction of at least pail of the scene. In addition, the method includes rendering an AR or XR display that includes one or more virtual objects positioned to contact one or more surfaces of the reconstruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Patent number: 11615594Abstract: A method by an extended reality (XR) display device includes accessing image data and sparse depth points corresponding to a plurality of image frames to be displayed on one or more displays of the XR display device. The method further includes determining a plurality of sets of feature points for a current image frame of the plurality of image frames, constructing a cost function configured to propagate the sparse depth points corresponding to the current image frame based on the plurality of sets of feature points, and generating a dense depth map corresponding to the current image frame based on an evaluation of the cost function. The method thus includes rendering the current image frame on the one or more displays of the XR display device based on the dense depth map.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20230088963Abstract: A system and method for 3D reconstruction with plane and surface reconstruction, scene parsing, depth reconstruction with depth fusion from different sources. The system includes display and a processor to perform the method for 3D reconstruction with plane and surface reconstruction. The method includes dividing a scene of an image frame into one or more plane regions and one or more surface regions. The method also includes generating reconstructed planes by performing plane reconstruction based on the one or more plane regions. The method also includes generating reconstructed surfaces by performing surface reconstruction based on the one or more surface regions. The method further includes creating the 3D scene reconstruction by integrating the reconstructed planes and the reconstructed surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20230092248Abstract: A method includes obtaining, from an image sensor, image data of a real-world scene; obtaining, from a depth sensor, sparse depth data of the real-world scene; and passing the image data to a first neural network to obtain one or more object regions of interest (ROIs) and one or more feature map ROIs. Each object ROI includes at least one detected object. The method also includes passing the image data and sparse depth data to a second neural network to obtain one or more dense depth map ROIs; aligning the one or more object ROIs, one or more feature map ROIs, and one or more dense depth map ROIs; and passing the aligned ROIs to a fully convolutional network to obtain a segmentation of the real-world scene. The segmentation contains one or more pixelwise predictions of one or more objects in the real-world scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20220406013Abstract: Generating a 3D scene reconstruction using depth fusion can include creating a high-resolution sparse depth map by mapping sensor depths from a low-resolution depth map to points corresponding to pixels of a high-resolution color image of a scene. The high-resolution sparse depth map can have the same resolution as the high-resolution color image. A fused sparse depth map can be produced by combining the high-resolution sparse depth map with sparse depths reconstructed from the high-resolution color image. The high-resolution dense depth map can be generated based on fused sparse depths of the fused sparse depth map.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Patent number: 11481871Abstract: Updating an image during real-time rendering of images by a display device can include determining a depth for each pixel of a color frame received from a source device and corresponding to the image. Each pixel's depth is determined by image-guided propagation of depths of sparse points extracted from a depth map generated at the source device. With respect to pixels corresponding to an extracted sparse depth point, image-guided depth propagation can include retaining the depth of the corresponding sparse depth point unchanged from the source depth map. With respect to each pixel corresponding to a non-sparse depth point, image-guided depth propagation can include propagating to the corresponding non-sparse depth point a depth of a sparse depth point lying within a neighborhood of the non-sparse depth point. Pixel coordinates of the color frame can be transformed for generating a space-warped rendering of the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Patent number: 11468587Abstract: A method for reconstructing a downsampled depth map includes receiving, at an electronic device, image data to be presented on a display of the electronic device at a first resolution, wherein the image data includes a color image and the downsampled depth map associated with the color image. The method further includes generating a high resolution depth map by calculating, for each point making up the first resolution, a depth value based on a normalized pose difference across a neighborhood of points for the point, a normalized color texture difference across the neighborhood of points for the point, and a normalized spatial difference across the neighborhood of points. Still further, the method includes outputting, on the display, a reprojected image at the first resolution based on the color image and the high resolution depth map. The downsampled depth map is at a resolution less than the first resolution.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Yingen Xiong
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Publication number: 20220292631Abstract: Updating an image during real-time rendering of images by a display device can include determining a depth for each pixel of a color frame received from a source device and corresponding to the image. Each pixel's depth is determined by image-guided propagation of depths of sparse points extracted from a depth map generated at the source device. With respect to pixels corresponding to an extracted sparse depth point, image-guided depth propagation can include retaining the depth of the corresponding sparse depth point unchanged from the source depth map. With respect to each pixel corresponding to a non-sparse depth point, image-guided depth propagation can include propagating to the corresponding non-sparse depth point a depth of a sparse depth point lying within a neighborhood of the non-sparse depth point. Pixel coordinates of the color frame can be transformed for generating a space-warped rendering of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20220270374Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil
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Publication number: 20220230397Abstract: A method by an extended reality (XR) display device includes accessing image data and sparse depth points corresponding to a plurality of image frames to be displayed on one or more displays of the XR display device. The method further includes determining a plurality of sets of feature points for a current image frame of the plurality of image frames, constructing a cost function configured to propagate the sparse depth points corresponding to the current image frame based on the plurality of sets of feature points, and generating a dense depth map corresponding to the current image frame based on an evaluation of the cost function. The method thus includes rendering the current image frame on the one or more displays of the XR display device based on the dense depth map.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Publication number: 20220230398Abstract: A method includes obtaining scene data, wherein the scene data includes image data of a scene and depth data of the scene, and the depth data includes depth measurement values of points of a point cloud. The method further includes defining a first detection area, wherein the first detection area includes a spatially defined subset of the scene data, defining a plane model based on points of the point cloud within the first detection area, and defining a plane based on the plane model. The method includes determining at least one value of a usable size of the plane based on points of the point cloud, comparing at least one value of a characteristic size of a digital object to the at least one value of the usable size of the plane, and generating a display including the digital object positioned upon the plane based on the plane model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Yingen Xiong, Haihui Guan
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Publication number: 20220207665Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of image frames captured by one or more cameras, classifying one or more first objects detected in one or more first image frames of the plurality of image frames as undesirable, applying a pixel filtering to the one or more first image frames to replace one or more first pixel sets associated with the one or more first objects with pixels from one or more second image frames of the plurality of image frames to generate a final image frame, providing the final image frame for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Euisuk Chung, Yingen Xiong, Lu Luo
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Publication number: 20220165041Abstract: An electronic device that reprojects two-dimensional (2D) images to three-dimensional (3D) images includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: propagate an intensity for at least one pixel of an image based on a depth guide of neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel, wherein the at least one pixel is considered a hole during 2D to 3D image reprojection; propagate a color for the at least one pixel based on an intensity guide of the neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel; and compute at least one weight for the at least one pixel based on the intensity and color propagation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
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Patent number: 11341752Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil