Patents Issued in November 20, 2018
  • Patent number: 10134078
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for completion of item purchases without merchant interaction. A payment provider may generate a purchase request for a first user, where the purchase request includes a sale of an item to the first user. The purchase request may be generated by first receiving a purchase of an item from another user, where the other user designates that a purchase request should be transferred to the first user. However, the purchase request may also be generated based on purchasing preferences of the first user, such as a specific item that was previously unavailable at a merchant. Once the purchase request is received by the first user, the first user may select a purchase option, which transmits acceptance to the payment provider. The payment provider may then complete the purchase request with the merchant without the first user interacting with the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Keith Bentrup
  • Patent number: 10134079
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for offline ecommerce purchases using an item catalog for a user. A user may receive a catalog of items from a server, such as a merchant server and/or payment provider server, at a user device while the user device is connected to a network. The catalog of items may be transmitted to the user prior to the user entering an offline mode with the user device, where the user device is no longer connected to the network. While the user device operates in the offline mode, the user may browse the catalog and select items to purchase. On a future connection to the network, the user device may transmit a purchase request for the selected items to the merchant server and/or payment provider server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Maxim Fainshtein
  • Patent number: 10134080
    Abstract: A system and method for preparing and delivering product orders, such as consumer products, and is applicable in the field of “B-to-C” (“business-to-consumer”) marketing of such products (food—general merchandise—DIY, etc.), and more particularly according to a “Drive” marketing mode. The products are distributed into at least two different categories based on their nature. For each product category, an order preparation zone is provided, including: one or more storage and preparation zones for products to be withdrawn, one or more storage and reconciliation zones for storing containers containing the withdrawn products, including at least one device for supplying complete orders for that product category, a conveying system for conveying empty or full containers from the storage and preparation zone(s) for products to be withdrawn toward the storage and reconciliation zone(s), and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FIVES INTRALOGISTICS S.A.
    Inventor: David Zak
  • Patent number: 10134081
    Abstract: A method and system for providing multiple authorization request messages for multiple products offered by respectively different merchants in a single order are disclosed. If one of the authorization request messages is declined, then an order interrupt message may be sent to the consumer. In order interrupt message may indicate that the single order is canceled, even though authorization request messages for the purchase of other products in the order are approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Lance Weber
  • Patent number: 10134082
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for a virtual display device for an interactive merchant sales environment. A device, such as a communication device, may allow a user to view virtual images of items in a user environment so that a user may view what their potential purchase may look like when placed into the user environment. The user environment may include a residential room, an office, a car interior, or other location where a user may place purchased items. The user may submit a request to view an item in the user environment to the device, which may communicate the request to a merchant or a service provider. The virtual image may correspond to digital image(s) of an item used to present a three dimensional virtual image of the item in the user environment. The device may receive the virtual image(s) and display them to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Rohan Benkar, Jaya Kumar Murari, Leo Hsieh, Yu Jiang
  • Patent number: 10134083
    Abstract: Methods for generating and sharing a virtual body model of a person, created with a small number of measurements and a single photograph, combined with one or more images of garments. The virtual body model represents a realistic representation of the users body and is used for visualizing photo-realistic fit visualizations of garments, hairstyles, make-up, and/or other accessories. The virtual garments are created from layers based on photographs of real garment from multiple angles. Furthermore the virtual body model is used in multiple embodiments of manual and automatic garment, make-up, and, hairstyle recommendations, such as, from channels, friends, and fashion entities. The virtual body model is sharable for, as example, visualization and comments on looks. Furthermore it is also used for enabling users to buy garments that fit other users, suitable for gifts or similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: METAIL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tom Adeyoola, Nick Brown, Nikki Trott, Edward Herbert, Duncan Robertson, Jim Downing, Nick Day, Robert Boland, Tom Boucher, Joe Townsend, Edward Clay, Tom Warren, Anoop Unadkat, Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10134084
    Abstract: A method of facilitating an augmented reality experience to purchase an item at a merchant location may be provided. The method may include storing profile data, receiving location data and environmental data from a computing device associated with the stored profile data. Upon determining that the user device has entered a predefined merchant location, the method may include initiating a sequence of augmented reality modes including at least a first augmented reality mode associated with the selection of an item and a second augmented reality mode associated with the payment of the item. The user device may display virtual content in association with each mode, and upon detecting predetermined user inputs such as gestures, fixed gazes, or moving through thresholds, the system may enable the selection and payment of one or more items by sending a purchase request to a merchant terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: David Gabriele, Justin Smith, Damaris Kroeber
  • Patent number: 10134085
    Abstract: A bidding system for a mobile device includes a database module for selecting a target audience including a plurality of registered customers to deliver content, a streaming module connected to the database module for serving content to the plurality of registered customers, and a priority module connected to the streaming module for implementing a content delivery schedule. The database module assists a user in identifying a product or service to offer to the plurality of registered customers, assists the user in matching the product or service to the selected plurality of registered customers, and assists the user in designating an auction parameter applicable to the product or service offered. The streaming module delivers an auction notification to a registered customer via the mobile device. The registered customer enables the delivery of a content program including auction data to the mobile device according to a schedule implemented by the priority module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: David A. Hurowitz, Gregory F. Welteroth
  • Patent number: 10134086
    Abstract: An environment is established in which a variety of participating entities, including but not limited to auction houses, manufacturers, third party product and service providers, individuals, etc., can interface and benefit from the vast amount of data that is naturally collected or assimilated in the process of evaluating products to be introduced to an auction line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: XCIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Nancy J Rabenold, James A Simmons
  • Patent number: 10134087
    Abstract: Architectures and techniques are configured to distribute and activate payment cards. The techniques include providing payment cards to distributors, who then sell or distribute these cards to other users. Each of these payment cards may include activation information for activating the card as well as redemption information for redeeming a value associated with the card. The distributor may activate a card by, for instance, taking a picture of or scanning an identifier on the card and sending this image to a provider of the card. In response, the provider may activate the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michal J. Geller, Gregory M. Hart, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Michael Carr, Brian R. Williams
  • Patent number: 10134088
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing seller-initiated financing in a sale of an item between private parties. A financial service system configures a financing program to give sellers the opportunity to offer prospective buyers financing directly. The financial service system enrolls a given seller in the program, providing resources and services to the seller to help market the sale and select a credit-worthy buyer. Once the transaction is completed, the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller, then configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer. Alternatively, the program can be implemented with an intermediate service provider, such as an online marketplace retailer. The service provider enrolls the seller and assists with marketing and buyer selection, and the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller and service provider, and configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke A. Hammock, Janusz Michael Niczyporuk
  • Patent number: 10134089
    Abstract: Management of transaction message flow utilizing a transaction message queue. The system and method are for use in financial transaction messaging systems. The system is designed to enable an administrator to monitor, distribute, control and receive alerts on the use and status of limited network and exchange resources. Users are grouped in a hierarchical manner, preferably including user level and group level, as well as possible additional levels such as account, tradable object, membership, and gateway levels. The message thresholds may be specified for each level to ensure that transmission of a given transaction does not exceed the number of messages permitted for the user, group, account, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Allan Kemp, II, Jens-Uwe Schluetter, Sagy Pundak Mintz, David W. Garrison
  • Patent number: 10134090
    Abstract: A method, and associated system and computer program product, for configuring a network of interconnected sources and users of a commodity, the method comprises: providing a partition of the users into a plurality of disjoints parts; initializing a grouping of the sources and parts into a plurality of disjoint groups each one comprising one or more interconnected sources and parts; repeating selecting an enlarging group among the groups being over-supplied, selecting an adding part among the parts adjacent to the enlarging group being under-supplied, merging the adding part and the possible group thereof into the enlarging group, and updating the supply balance of the merged enlarging group and the residual demand of the parts thereof according to the merging until all the parts belong to a single group; and determining an arrangement of intercepting/regulating elements according to the conditions of the inter-part connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Marcello Vitaletti
  • Patent number: 10134091
    Abstract: A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers at least one vehicle and at least one driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with at least one of the vehicle(s), concerning use of the at least one vehicle(s); the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by at least one vehicle(s), and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the at least one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based at least in part on the at least one risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device or user transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Isaac D. Adams, Steven J. Fernandes, Marc J. Natrillo, Paul Brendan Olson, Pankaj Prakash
  • Patent number: 10134092
    Abstract: A method and system may assess the damage to insured properties in a neighborhood using aerial images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or from a satellite device. The neighborhood may be selected by identifying a neighborhood affected by a catastrophe and having a large concentration of properties which are insured by a particular insurance provider. Aerial images of the entire neighborhood may then be captured and received from the UAV or the satellite device. For each insured property in the neighborhood, a condition and the extent and/or severity of the damage may be automatically determined based on the received aerial images. The aerial images along with indications of the extent of the damage may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian N. Harvey, Nathan L. Tofte, Roger D. Schmidgall, Michael Jeffrey Aviles, Kyle Pott, Rosemarie Geier Grant, Michael Shawn Jacob
  • Patent number: 10134093
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for dynamically reconciling a retailer receiving invoice with a distributor invoice for products sold and invoiced under multiple UPC codes and in multiple units of quantity. A retailer receiving invoice is matched to to a distributor invoice. For each line item in both invoices, the UPC, quantity, and unit-price are normalized. Invoiced UPCs are normalized to a hierarchy level in a product family a master product database. Also, invoiced unit prices are compared to upper and lower price limits for invoiced UPCs to determine whether an invoiced UPC correlates to an invoiced unit price. Quantity and unit-price are normalized by converting price-correlated units to base-level units in a product hierarchy. Normalized UPCs, quantities, and unit price are compared to match line items across invoices and discover any discrepancies. Credits are matched to discrepancies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: iControl Systems USA, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Edward Lopez, William Arthur Heine, Kent Donavan McKinstray, Gilad Keren
  • Patent number: 10134094
    Abstract: Remotely modifying a display of a client. The server transmits first instructions to the client to modify the display to present, on a first area, a plurality of different taxable entities to which the client has access, and to modify the display to present, on a second area, a plurality of different report types. The server determines, based on input from the client, a plurality of different specific forms which relate only to a first subset and are also only within a second subset. The first subset is user input from the first area of a plurality of different taxable entities to which the client has information access. The second subset is user input from the second area of the display from the plurality of different report types. The server transmits second instructions to the client to modify the second area to display only the plurality of different specific forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Julien Maculan, Rhonda M. Vollmuth, Richard Anderson, David R. Pfrommer, Thomas J. Petite
  • Patent number: 10134095
    Abstract: A method and system connects brands, users and communities via socially shared content elements that take the form of, for example, words, pictures/images, videos and/or audio objects. The method creates a social media engagement and distribution capability of dynamic, interactive impressions linking users to users and users to brands around shared “day in the life” moments. The spectrum of reach and range of content types combined with user daily lives creates a ubiquitous new web medium of social content. The user experience created by this method and system creates a sustainable stickiness for members, capturing, creating, sharing and responding to each other interactively in any communication format, at any time, in any place and for any reason.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Brabble TV.Com LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Kennon, Jeffrey DePalma
  • Patent number: 10134096
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a social network coupon platform, a request to display coupon data regarding a particular coupon that is provided by a coupon provider, wherein a user that is registered with a social network provider initiated the request; in response to receiving the request, sending, from the social network coupon platform, the coupon data to be displayed to the user; receiving, at the social network coupon platform, from the social network provider, profile data that includes profile information of the user; in response to receiving the profile data, allowing the user access to the particular coupon; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Eichstaedt, Deepak Goel, Sunil Keshav Bopardikar
  • Patent number: 10134097
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a smart grid system and a method for distributing resources in the system. The smart grid system according to the present invention comprises at least one non-shiftable device; at least one controllable device; and at least one shiftable device; wherein price data are provided at each stage, the non-shiftable device is always provided with its resource requirements, the controllable device is provide with resources in the range of its resource requirements, and the shiftable device has its nominal resource requirements but not allowed to be provided with resources at the stage when resource price is highest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS
    Inventors: Seung-Ho Hong, Mengmeng Yu
  • Patent number: 10134098
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may include a memory and a computing a system in communication with said memory. The computing system may be configured to receive data from network management systems. In one embodiment, the network management system includes a network gateway. Users at venues may access external network resources using the network management system. Further, the network management systems may extract device identifiers from network packets sent from user devices to request access to external network resources. In some embodiments, the network management system may provide transmission control protocol handshake completion data to user devices. In some embodiments, the computing system also receives one or more attributes associated with the venue, user data associated with the user device, and connection data associated with communication between the user device and said external network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NOMADIX, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Farrar, Charles Reed, Nicolas Mercier, Kenneth Reed
  • Patent number: 10134099
    Abstract: Intelligent cold storage system for storing pharmaceutical product containers, such as vials, ampules, syringes, bottles, medication tubes, blister packs and cartons, at the point of dispensing. Embodiments of the invention use product identification technology, such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and barcode readers, to uniquely identify containers as they are added to or removed from the cold storage compartment, and automatically retrieve from a local or remote database a variety of details associated with the containers and their contents, such as manufacturing data, expiration dates, time out of refrigeration, inventory levels, safety information, usage statistics, known contraindications and warnings, etc. If the details indicate that there is a problem with a particular pharmaceutical (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventor: Alan J. Lowenstein
  • Patent number: 10134100
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention discloses a watermark embedding method. The method includes: inputting an original bitstream; determining a first frame for embedding a watermark in the input original bitstream; selecting one of frames after the first frame as a second frame; generating the first frame a bidirectional-coded frame (B frame) referring to the second frame; generating the second frame as a reference frame of the first frame; and embedding the watermark in the first frame generated as the B frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MARKANY INC.
    Inventors: So Won Kim, Tai Yoon Lee, Dong Young Lee, Gyeong Gi Noh, Min Soo Park, Ji Seop Moon
  • Patent number: 10134101
    Abstract: An analysis of the cost of processing tiles may be used to decide how to process the tiles. In one case two tiles may be merged. In another case a culling algorithm may be selected based on tile processing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rasmus Barringer, Tomas G. Akenine-Moller
  • Patent number: 10134102
    Abstract: A GPU is configured to read and process data produced by a compute shader via the one or more ring buffers and pass the resulting processed data to a vertex shader as input. The GPU is further configured to allow the compute shader and vertex shader to write through a cache. Each ring buffer is configured to synchronize the compute shader and the vertex shader to prevent processed data generated by the compute shader that is written to a particular ring buffer from being overwritten before the data is accessed by the vertex shader. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Evan Cerny, David Simpson, Jason Scanlin, Michael Mantor
  • Patent number: 10134103
    Abstract: A method of data processing, the method comprising receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a command stream, the command stream including one or more commands to be performed by the GPU and at least one command stream marker, the at least one command stream marker indicating a workload type of the command stream, determining, by the GPU, an operation algorithm for the GPU based on the at least one command stream marker prior to executing the command stream, and executing, by the GPU, the command stream based on the operation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anirudh Rajendra Acharya, David Rigel Garcia Garcia, Nigel Terence Poole
  • Patent number: 10134104
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can determine a depth of rendering a user interface (UI) element organized as a tree structure including one or more elements, wherein each element of the one or more elements is associated with a customary rendering logic and an alternative rendering logic. Whether an element in the tree structure is at a boundary for rendering the UI element can be determined based on the depth of rendering the UI element. In response to determining that the element is at the boundary for rendering, the element can be rendered according to the alternative rendering logic associated with the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Harrison Imm
  • Patent number: 10134105
    Abstract: A medical signal processing device processes an image signal received in accordance with a result of examining inside of a subject. The image signal includes pixel data groups that are data of respective pixels different from each other and received by the medical signal processing device in parallel. The medical signal processing device includes a distribution processing unit configured to generate distributed image signals by distributing the pixel data groups, and the distribution processing unit distributes the pixel data groups such that, among the pixel data groups, pieces of data at bit positions of most significant digits of the pixel data groups of pixels adjacent to each other are included in the respective distributed image signals different from each other. The distributed image signals are transmitted to an external medical control device through respective signal transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Taihei Michihata
  • Patent number: 10134106
    Abstract: A method of and device for providing image frames is provided. The method includes outputting portions of a first frame that have changed relative to the one or more other frames without outputting portions of the first frame that have not changed relative to the one or more other frames. Each of the portions are determined to be changed if a rendering engine has written to a frame buffer for a location within boundaries of the portion. This outputting is done in response to one or more portions of a first frame having changed relative to one or more other frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Gabriel Abarca, David I. J. Glen
  • Patent number: 10134107
    Abstract: A data arrangement method includes following steps: obtaining pixel data of a plurality of first N-bit pixels of a picture; and storing the obtained pixel data of the first N-bit pixels in a plurality of M-bit storage units of a first buffer according to a block-based scan order of the picture. The picture includes a plurality of data blocks, and the block-based scan order includes a raster-scan order for the data blocks. At least one of the M-bit storage units is filled with part of the obtained pixel data of the first N-bit pixels, M and N are positive integers, M is not divisible by N, and the first N-bit pixels include at least one pixel divided into a first part stored in one of the M-bit storage units in the first buffer and a second part stored in another of the M-bit storage units in the first buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Chia Chen, Chi-Cheng Ju, Yung-Chang Chang, Ping Chao
  • Patent number: 10134108
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at image synthesis utilizing sampling of patch correspondence information between iterations at different scales. A patch synthesis technique can be performed to synthesize a target region at a first image scale based on portions of a source region that are identified by the patch synthesis technique. The image can then be sampled to generate an image at a second image scale. The sampling can include generating patch correspondence information for the image at the second image scale. Invalid patch assignments in the patch correspondence information at the second image scale can then be identified, and valid patches can be assigned to the pixels having invalid patch assignments. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Sohrab Amirghodsi, Aliakbar Darabi, Elya Shechtman
  • Patent number: 10134109
    Abstract: The invention relates to a depiction arrangement for security papers, value documents, electronic display devices or other data carriers, having a grid image arrangement for depicting a target image (40) that is broken down into two or more partial target images (42, 44), having a motif image that is subdivided into a plurality of periodically or at least locally periodically arranged cells (24) in each of which are arranged mapped regions of one or more of the partial target images (42, 44), a viewing grid (22), composed of a plurality of viewing grid elements, that, when the motif image is viewed, reconstructs the complete target image (40) from the mapped regions arranged in the cells (24), the motif image being, independently of the cell subdivision, split into at least first and second microinformation regions (60, 62) in which the cells each include different combinations of mapped regions of the partial target images (40, 42), and the microinformation regions (60, 62) being arranged in the shape of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Wittich Kaule, Michael Rahm, Wolfgang Rauscher
  • Patent number: 10134110
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a processor, a frame of input image data, generating at least one motion vector field between a first frame of input image data and an adjacent frame of input image data, refining the at least one motion vector field to provide refined motion vectors, temporally filtering a frame of input image data to produce a temporally filtered frame of image data, and generating a frame of interpolated image data using the temporally filtered frame of image data and the refined motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PIXELWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Guodong Liu, Bob Zhang, Neil Woodall, Junhua Chen, Yue Ma
  • Patent number: 10134111
    Abstract: A method, device, system, and article of manufacture are provided for generating an enhanced image of a predetermined scene from images. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a computing device, a first indication associated with continuous image capture of a predetermined scene being enabled; in response to the continuous image capture being enabled, receiving, by the computing device, from an image sensor, a reference image and a first image, wherein each of the reference image and the first image is of the predetermined scene and has a first resolution; determining an estimated second resolution of an enhanced image of the predetermined scene using the reference image and the first image; and in response to the continuous image capture being disabled, determining the enhanced image using the reference image and the first image, wherein the enhanced image has a second resolution that is at least the first resolution and about the estimated second resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Michael D McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 10134112
    Abstract: A system for displaying information from a mobile computer in a vehicle is provided. The system is comprised of a screen, means for projecting images from the mobile computer onto the screen, means to determine a driver of the vehicle's position with respect to the vehicle, and means to adjust the orientation of the images on the screen based upon the position of the driver. The screen is transparent and is mounted on the vehicle. The screen is viewable from inside the vehicle and from outside the vehicle. The system is configured to reverse the orientation of the images on the screen based upon the driver being in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventor: B. Frank Ventress, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10134113
    Abstract: Techniques for removal of interference patterns from digital images are described, in which a spatially-adaptive filter is applied to a pixel based on a context of the pixel. In an example, an edge of an object in a digital image is located in a digital image creation system. Then, context data is generated for a pixel in the digital image. The context data includes a distance from the edge of the object to the pixel. The digital image creation system can also generate color data and luminance data for the pixel, representing a similarity of color and luminance between the pixel and surrounding pixels within the digital image. Then, the digital image creation system constructs a spatially-adaptive filter for the pixel based on the context data for the pixel. The digital image creation system removes an effect of the interference pattern at the pixel in the digital image by applying the spatially-adaptive filter to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Vipul Aggarwal, Sumeet Sahu, Naveen Prakash Goel
  • Patent number: 10134114
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for video image post-processing for segmentation based interpolation. In one embodiment, a computerized apparatus is utilized in order to obtain a first frame of video data; segment one or more objects within the first frame of video data; obtain a second frame of video data; segment one or more objects within the second frame of video data; match at least a portion of the one or more objects within the first frame of video data with the one or more objects within the second frame of video data; compute the motion of the pixels for the matched portion of the one or more objects; compute the motion of pixels associated with a background image; and generate an interpolated frame of video data, the interpolated frame of video data residing temporally between the first frame of video data and the second frame of video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: GOPRO, INC.
    Inventors: Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli, Ryan Lustig, Aaron Staranowicz
  • Patent number: 10134115
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processor comprising a fragment processing unit configured to generate pixel color data in a graphics processing pipeline, the fragment processing unit output color data to a multisample render target; and a memory allocator to allocate memory to store color data associated with the multisample render target, the memory allocator to merge a memory allocation for multiple pixels having a sample associated with equal color data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Joydeep Ray, Michael J. Norris
  • Patent number: 10134116
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes a computing device accessing a deconvolution function for a point spread function describing at least part of a user's eyesight. The computing device applies the deconvolution function to an image to be displayed on a display to the user. The computing device then displays on the display the image as deconvolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Benoit M. Schillings
  • Patent number: 10134117
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for viewing images on an interactive computing device comprises displaying an image from a stack comprising a display image and at least one compressed sub-image of nominally the same scene, each of the sub-images of the stack having been acquired at respective focal distances. Responsive to a user selecting a portion of the displayed image, the selected portion is mapped to a corresponding mapped portion of a sub-image within the stack according to the difference in focal distances between the displayed image and the sub-image. At least one row of compressed image blocks of the at least one sub-image extending across the mapped portion; and a reference value for a point in the compressed image stream of the sub-image preceding the row of compressed image blocks is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Valentin Mocanu, Petronel Bigioi, Peter Corcoran, Christopher Dainty, Ferenc Papai
  • Patent number: 10134118
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a projection surface on which a projection unit projects a target image, a storage unit configured to store first information indicating a first position, on the projection surface, of the target image projected on the projection surface by the projection unit in a first projection state, and a control unit configured to control a position, on the projection surface, of the target image to move from a second position on the projection surface where the target image is projected by the projection unit in a second projection state to the first position on the projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Asuka Wada
  • Patent number: 10134119
    Abstract: An image generation device generates an output image based on an input image captured by a camera attached to a shovel. Further, the image generation device includes an output image generation unit that associates a value of an input pixel in the input image with a value of an output pixel in the output image to generate the output image. A value of an output pixel specified by an integer coordinate point on an output image plane is determined based on values of two input pixels specified by two integer coordinate points selected from four integer coordinate points in the vicinity of a real number coordinate point on an input image plane corresponding to the integer coordinate point on the output image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyota, Tomoko Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10134120
    Abstract: Dimensioning systems may automate or assist with determining the physical dimensions of an object without the need for a manual measurement. A dimensioning system may project a light pattern onto the object, capture an image of the reflected pattern, and observe changes in the imaged pattern to obtain a range image, which contains 3D information corresponding to the object. Then, using the range image, the dimensioning system may calculate the dimensions of the object. In some cases, a single range image does not contain 3D data sufficient for dimensioning the object. To mitigate or solve this problem, the present invention embraces capturing a plurality of range images from different perspectives, and then combining the range images (e.g., using image-stitching) to form a composite range-image, which can be used to determine the object's dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian L. Jovanovski, Jingquan Li
  • Patent number: 10134121
    Abstract: There is provided a computerized method and system of controlling a quality measure in a compression quality evaluation system, the method comprising: calculating a value indicative of a characteristic of an input image; and configuring the quality measure upon a criterion being met by the value, the quality measure being indicative of perceptual quality of a compressed image compressed from the input image. The value can be a smoothness value indicative of an extent of smoothness of an input image, and the configuration of the quality measure can be performed upon a smoothness criterion being met by the smoothness value. Alternatively, the value can be a gradient value indicative of an extent of gradual spatial changes of an input image, and the configuration of the quality measure can be performed upon a gradient criterion being met by the gradient value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BEAMR IMAGING LTD
    Inventors: Sharon Carmel, Dror Gill, Tamar Shoham, Udi Yehuda Shrot
  • Patent number: 10134122
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designating a portion of a machine-vision analysis to be performed on a worker. A set of machine-vision algorithms is obtained for analyzing a digital image of a product. An overall time estimate is determined that represents the processing time to analyze the digital image using the entire set of machine-vision algorithms. If the overall time estimate is greater than a threshold value, then an algorithm time estimate for each of two or more algorithms of the set of machine-vision algorithms is obtained. A rank associated with each of the two or more algorithms is computed based on the algorithm time estimates. A designated algorithm to be performed on the worker is selected based on the rank associated with each of the two or more algorithms. The digital image may then be analyzed on the worker using the designated algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SIGHT MACHINE, INC.
    Inventor: Nathan Oostendorp
  • Patent number: 10134123
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for inspecting goods. The method comprises steps of: obtaining a transmission image of inspected goods; processing the transmission image to obtain a suspicious region; extracting local texture features of the suspicious region and classifying the local texture features of the suspicious region based on a pre-created model to obtain a classification result; extracting a contour line shape feature of the suspicious region and comparing the contour line shape feature with a pre-created standard template to obtain a comparison result; and determining that the suspicious region contains a high atomic number matter based on the classification result and the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Yaohong Liu, Qili Wang, Qiang Li, Jianping Gu
  • Patent number: 10134124
    Abstract: A method for reference image contour generation includes generating a mask pattern based on design target information, generating a reference image based on a simulation of photolithographic effects on the mask pattern, generating a reference image contour pattern based on edge detection in the reference image, and generating a scanned image contour pattern as a function of the reference image contour pattern and a scanned image of an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Dongfang Jingyuan Electron Limited
    Inventors: Weimin Ma, Zongqiang Yu
  • Patent number: 10134125
    Abstract: Techniques for processing ultrasound data. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform obtaining ultrasound data generated based, at least in part, on one or more ultrasound signals from an imaged region of a subject; calculating shadow intensity data corresponding to the ultrasound data; generating, based at least in part on the shadow intensity data and at least one bone separation parameter, an indication of bone presence in the imaged region, generating, based at least in part on the shadow intensity data and at least one tissue separation parameter different from the at least one bone separation parameter, an indication of tissue presence in the imaged region; and generating an ultrasound image of the subject at least in part by combining the indication of bone presence and the indication of tissue presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Rivanna Medical LLC
    Inventors: Frank William Mauldin, Jr., Kevin Owen
  • Patent number: 10134126
    Abstract: Provided herein are various systems and methods of adjusting images of an image series that are preloaded (and/or otherwise processed) in view of behavior data associated with viewing of other previous exams having similar characteristics (e.g., same modality) and/or by the same user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: D.R. Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Evan K. Fram
  • Patent number: 10134127
    Abstract: A method for generating fluid flow images of a region of interest is disclosed. The method includes: scanning the region of interest to acquire a set of 4D-Flow magnetic resonance images, wherein the set comprises an anatomical magnitude image, a first velocity component image, a second velocity component image, and a third velocity component image; isolating the anatomical magnitude image, the first velocity component image, the second velocity component image, and the third velocity component image from the set of 4D-Flow magnetic resonance images; converting the first, second, and third velocity component images into a velocity vector field; modeling a location of an anatomical wall within the region of interest; calculating at least one flow dynamics parameter for the region of interest; and generating a visual representation of the anatomical wall and the at least one flow dynamics parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Ahmad Falahatpisheh, Arash Kheradvar