Computer Graphics Processing Patents (Class 345/418)
  • Patent number: 11816113
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a request for information associated with a category. In response to the request, the program further accesses a storage to retrieve a first value associated with the category. The program also determines a set of values associated with the category based on a plurality of transactions. The program further determines an optimization level value associated with the category. The program also determines a second value associated with the category based on the first value, the set of values, and the optimization level value. The program further provides, by an application operating on the device, a graphical user interface (GUI) to the client device, the GUI comprising the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Hong Xu, Roberto Valdovinos, Jason Kirst
  • Patent number: 11816857
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to generate point cloud histograms. A one-dimensional histogram can be generated by determining a distance to a reference for each 3D point of a 3D point cloud. A one-dimensional histogram is generated by adding, for each histogram entry, distances that are within the entry's range of distances. A two-dimensional histogram can be determined by generating a set of orientations by determining, for each 3D point, an orientation with at least a first value for a first component and a second value for a second component. A two-dimensional histogram can be generated based on the set of orientations. Each bin can be associated with ranges of values for the first and second components. Orientations can be added for each bin that have first and second values within the first and second ranges of values, respectively, of the bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Cognex Corporation
    Inventors: Hongwei Zhu, David J. Michael, Nitin M. Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11804009
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Pingfan Meng, Michael Wu, Brian James Rush
  • Patent number: 11804003
    Abstract: High quality image rendering can be achieved in part by using inverse transform sampling to direct sampling toward regions of greater importance, such as regions with higher brightness values, to reduce noise and improve convergence. Inverse transform sampling can be achieved more efficiently by reformulating as a ray-tracing problem, using tree traversal units that can be accelerated. A geometric mesh can be generated based on a set of cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) for various rows and columns of pixels in a texture, and individual rays can be traced against this mesh, with those rays having a higher probability of intersection at a point with greater importance, such as a higher brightness value. A probability distribution function to be used for importance sampling can be derived by analyzing partial derivatives of the CDF geometry at the intersection location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Nathan Morrical
  • Patent number: 11798229
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for spinal anatomy segmentation. In one example, the method includes combining a fully convolutional network with a residual neural network. The method also includes training the combined fully convolutional network with the residual neural network from end to end. The method also includes receiving at least one medical image of a spinal anatomy. The method also includes applying the fully convolutional network with the residual neural network to at least one medical image and segmenting at least one vertebral body from the at least one medical image of the spinal anatomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Kadoury, Eric Finley
  • Patent number: 11776230
    Abstract: A method for producing a current state model of teeth of a patient from a scan of the teeth, the method including providing an old model of the teeth including first surface elements wherein each of the first surface elements is associated with precisely one tooth of the teeth to form a segmented old model of the teeth; initially bringing the scan and the old model into a coarse alignment; thereafter determining a bounding volume of at least one of the teeth in the old model; thereafter determining second surface elements in the scan of the teeth arranged within the bounding volume; thereafter copying copies of the first surface elements associated with the at least one of the teeth from the old model into a current state model; thereafter aligning the copies in the current state model with a minimum deviation from the second surface elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CA-DIGITAL GmbH
    Inventor: Yong-Min Jo
  • Patent number: 11763536
    Abstract: A learning-based clothing animation method and system for highly efficient virtual try-on simulations is provided. Given a garment, the system preprocess a rich database of physically-based dressed character simulations, for multiple body shapes and animations. Then, using a database, the system trains a learning-based model of cloth drape and wrinkles, as a function of body shape and dynamics. A model according to embodiments separates global garment fit, due to body shape, from local garment wrinkles, due to both pose dynamics and body shape. A recurrent neural network is provided to regress garment wrinkles, and the system achieves highly plausible nonlinear effects, in contrast to the blending artifacts suffered by previous methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SEDDI, INC.
    Inventors: Igor Santesteban, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas
  • Patent number: 11751946
    Abstract: A system for processing patient data associated with a joint of a patient. The system comprising a computing device executing instructions to generate a 3D patient bone model of the joint in a non-weighted pose. The instructions rearrange 3D first and second bone models in order to mimic a weighted pose of the joint of the patient from a 2D image of the joint of the patient in a weighted pose by performing the steps of: generating a plurality of 2D projections of poses of the 3D patient bone model; comparing the plurality of 2D projections to contour lines of the first bone and the second bone in the 2D image; identifying particular 2D projections that best-fit a shape and size of the contour lines; and arranging the 3D first and second bone models relative to each other according to orientations represented by the particular 2D projections that were identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Gangwar, Kanishk Sethi, Anup Kumar, Ryan Sellman, Peter Sterrantino, Manoj Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 11751975
    Abstract: A method, executable by a processor, for planning an orthodontic treatment for a patient including determining tooth movement. The method includes obtaining a tooth and gingiva mesh from image data associated with teeth and surrounding gingiva; selecting a primary tooth to be moved to a desired position; displacing a tooth mesh of the primary tooth by a basic step distance toward the desired position determined on a jaw curve obtained for the teeth of the patient; determining if the displaced primary tooth collides with at least one secondary tooth in the desired position; in response to collision, displacing a tooth mesh of the secondary tooth away from the tooth mesh of the primary tooth by the basic step distance; and repeating determination of tooth collisions and displacing tooth contours of colliding teeth until no teeth of the teeth of the patient collide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Oxilio Ltd
    Inventor: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov
  • Patent number: 11756258
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for computing a texture color includes tracing a ray cone through a graphics scene, determining a curvature of a first surface within the graphics scene at a point where the ray cone hits the first surface based on differential barycentric coordinates associated with the point, determining, based on the curvature of the first surface, a width of the ray cone at a subsequent point where the ray cone hits a second surface within the graphics scene, and computing a texture color based on the width of the ray cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomas Akenine-Moller, Jakub Boksansky, Oli Wright
  • Patent number: 11750930
    Abstract: A panoramic image system with parallax mitigation includes a controller that can generate on a display an IFOV that includes image data from both a first image sensor having a first FOV and a second image sensor having a second FOV which are overlapping FOVs. The IFOV includes a portion of the non-overlapping section of a first FOV, the overlapping sections of both the first and second FOVs, and a portion of the non-overlapping section of the second FOV. The overlapping section of the first FOV is blended with the overlapping section of the second FOV, wherein the first FOV and the second FOV both have a level of contribution to the blended overlapping section. The level of contribution to the blending from the first FOV increases as the viewer's head moves in a first angular direction and decreases as the viewer's head moves in a second angular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: John G. Suddreth, Kenneth M. Leiphon
  • Patent number: 11741626
    Abstract: Using various embodiments, systems, methods and techniques to determine whether a surface of the multidimensional object is projected on a camera on a viewport space displayed on a graphical user interface. This includes projecting a first vector normal to a surface of the multidimensional object, where the multidimensional object is rendered in an electronically generated multidimensional environment, projecting a second vector from the camera to the surface of the multidimensional object, determining an angle between the first vector and the second vector, and based on the angle determining whether the surface is projected on the viewport space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Trivver, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Bitny, Sergey Kondratov
  • Patent number: 11730568
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining orthodontic treatment based on 3D digital model of subject's teeth. The method includes determining, for a given trajectory segment of the orthodontic treatment of a given tooth in which the given tooth is moved from a start position to an end position, whether the force required to move the given tooth from the start position to the end position causes an induced stress associated with at least one other of the plurality of subject's teeth. In response to the induced stress being outside of a predetermined threshold level, determining a counter force to be applied to the at least one other of the plurality of subject's teeth. The orthodontic treatment can be thus determined as including the force to be applied to the given tooth and the determined counter force to be applied to the at least one other of the plurality if subject's teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Oxilio Ltd
    Inventor: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov
  • Patent number: 11734229
    Abstract: Techniques to reduce database fragmentation are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to store an attribute value for an entity that has a row or other entry in a first database table, wherein the first database table does not have a column for the attribute. It is determined that the value corresponds to a mapped value that is associated with not having an entry in a separate, second database table configured to store the attribute. Entries are made in the second database table only for values of the attribute other than the mapped value. Application level software code is configured to associate absence of a row in the second database table with the mapped value for the attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Manville, Julio Lopez
  • Patent number: 11734632
    Abstract: A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Integer, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Epstein, Benjamin Schmidt, David Richard Elam, Jordan Chandler Olmstead
  • Patent number: 11730561
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing three-dimensional printed oral stents are provided for head and neck radiotherapy. Movement of the jaw of the patient is simulated via a computer processor. Simulating movement of the jaw of the patient comprises rotating and translating a mandible of the jaw. A digital negative impression is transformed into a digital oral stent by adding support structures to the digital negative impression. The support structures facilitate three-dimensional (3D) printing of the patient-specific oral stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Eugene Jon Koay, Caroline Chung, Christopher T. Wilke, Clifton David Fuller, Mohamed Zaid
  • Patent number: 11734633
    Abstract: A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Integer, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Epstein, Benjamin Schmidt, David Richard Elam, Jordan Chandler Olmstead
  • Patent number: 11723748
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for optimizing a 3D model of an individual's teeth. A 3D dental model may be reconstructed from 3D parameters. A differentiable renderer may be used to derive a 2D rendering of the individual's dentition. 2D image(s) of an individual's dentition may be obtained, and features may be extracted from the 2D image(s). Image loss between the 2D rendering and the 2D image(s) can be derived, and back-propagation from the image loss can be used to calculate gradients of the loss to optimize the 3D parameters. A machine learning model can also be trained to predict a 3D dental model from 2D images of an individual's dentition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Guotu Li, Christopher E. Cramer
  • Patent number: 11726587
    Abstract: A virtual image display system and a pointing direction control method of a control device thereof are proposed. The pointing direction control method of the control device includes causing the control device to display an index pattern having a recognition pointing direction, causing a virtual image display device to capture the index pattern displayed by the control device, and causing the virtual image display device to analyze the recognition pointing direction of the index pattern and to display a control cursor according to the recognition pointing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Chu Ho, Ching-Hao Lee
  • Patent number: 11712176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact video monitoring to measure tidal volume of a patient. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for determining a region of interest of a patient and monitoring that region of interest to determine tidal volume of the patient. This may be accomplished using a depth sensing camera to monitor a patient and determine how their chest and/or other body parts are moving as the patient breathes. This sensing of movement can be used to determine the tidal volume measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien, LP
    Inventors: Paul S. Addison, Dominique Jacquel, David Ming Hui Foo
  • Patent number: 11694377
    Abstract: An editing device acquires a first image in which an occupant of a vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series and a second image in which scenery around the vehicle has been imaged in association with a time point in a time series, acquires first index information indicating feelings of the occupant when the first image has been captured on the basis of the first image, and extracts the first image and the second image from first images of the time series and second images of the time series on the basis of the first index information and the time point associated with the first image based on the first index information to generate a library including the extracted images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Aoki, Hisashi Murayama, Koichi Kono, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11675883
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a biometric authentication system. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a target user in proximity to a kiosk. Data for the target user is gathered from equipment on and in proximity to the kiosk. The gathered data is processed to generate a feature vector. The feature vector includes at least motion characteristics of the target user as the target user approaches the kiosk and touch input characteristics of the target user at the kiosk. A candidate user to compare to the target user is determined. Reference data for the candidate user is retrieved. The feature vector is compared to the reference data for the candidate user to determine a likelihood that the target user is the candidate user. A kiosk application is customized for the target user based on the determined likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Jumio Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Lee Storm, Reza R. Derakhshani
  • Patent number: 11669154
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). According to the present disclosure, a method performed by a first electronic device displaying AR content comprises obtaining measurement time information about a time when a user's pose is measured and measurement pose information about the measured pose, generating a first report including the measurement time information and the measurement pose information, transmitting the first report to a second electronic device, receiving a predicted image for a target point generated by the second electronic device, and displaying an AR image at the target point based on the predicted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungryeul Rhyu, Hakju Lee
  • Patent number: 11668556
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of imaging an object, and an optical coherent tomography (OCT) imaging system implementing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: James G. Fujimoto, Eric Michael Moult, ByungKun Lee
  • Patent number: 11669216
    Abstract: This disclosure can provide a display device, including a controller configured for determining whether an application interface of a current application supports a screen orientation after rotation; if so, outputting a rotation command so that a rotating component can drive the screen to rotate based on the rotation command; and if not, controlling the screen to display a prompt message, so that a user can determine whether to continue to control the screen to rotate via the prompt message if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenglong Liu, Yanmei Yuan, Donghang Li, Guanghai Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11663691
    Abstract: An image restoration apparatus generates a plurality of warped images by warping each of a plurality of input images based on respective depths corresponding to a plurality of disparities, and generates an output image with a high resolution based on the plurality of input images and the plurality of warped images using an image restoration model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seho Lee, Yang Ho Cho, Deokyoung Kang
  • Patent number: 11658887
    Abstract: A route viewing system includes a computing system that receives information associated with one or more routes through a network, and identifies the routes that are associated with at least one illicit user computer used by an illicit user. The computing system then obtains a source location of a source address of the routes and a destination location of a destination address of the routes, and displays the routes on a geographical display at the source location of the source address and the destination location of the destination address of each of the routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Benjamin, Skyler J. Bingham, John S. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11653999
    Abstract: A method and a system for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance are provided. The method comprises: receiving a 3D mesh including a plurality of inner vertices representative of an inner surface of the appliance; generating a reference plane positioned relative to the arch form 3D mesh according to a predetermined position; determining, based on the 3D mesh, for each one of the plurality of inner vertices, a respective distance to the reference plane, the respective distance being indicative of a thickness of the appliance after forming; generating, based on the respective distance, a plurality of outer vertices representative of an outer surface of the appliance; generating, based on the plurality of inner vertices and the plurality of outer vertices, an appliance 3D representation of the appliance including data indicative of the thickness of the appliance; causing the manufacturing of the appliance based on the appliance 3D representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ARKIMOS Ltd
    Inventor: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov
  • Patent number: 11647066
    Abstract: A method implements an embedded remote desktop in integrated module. An integrated application is received, by a client device, from an integrated server. The integrated application includes an access link to a remote server and integrated application content that references live information from a live application. The live application is executing concurrently with the integrated application and is configured to produce the live information responsive to the integrated application content. A connection is established to the remote application. The remote application establishes a connection to the live application. The live information is received at the client device. A user input is received responsive to the live information. The user input is transmitted to the integrated server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan David Kruger, Lucas R. Doran, Jeffrey Wilson Kester, Bernadette Alexandra Mora, Sandeep Nayak
  • Patent number: 11635877
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced selectable item availability processing systems with improved content and configuration update capability and enhanced selectable item availability output determinations. A computing platform may receive a selectable item availability configuration output comprising a configuration update to the selectable item availability output and a selectable item availability content output comprising a content update to the selectable item availability output. Based on the selectable item availability configuration output and the selectable item availability content output, the computing platform may generate an updated selectable item availability output. The computing platform may receive a request to access the selectable item availability output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Solutions Private Limited
    Inventors: Salvador Lopez, Dean Krieter, Pavan Neelakanthana Gouda, Vikram Narra
  • Patent number: 11631177
    Abstract: A machine learning device includes: a generation unit generating a first shape model representing a shape of an object before deformation and a second shape model representing a shape of the object after the deformation based on measurement data before and after the deformation; and a learning unit learning a feature amount including a difference value between each micro region and another micro region that constitute the first shape model, and a relation providing a displacement from the each micro region of the first shape model to each corresponding micro region of the second shape model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Megumi Nakao, Toyofumi Yoshikawa, Junko Tokuno, Hiroshi Date, Tetsuya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11626084
    Abstract: An electronic device coupled to a display includes a graphics card and a processor. The graphics card reads the extended display identification data from the display. The processor determines, according to the extended display identification data, that the display is able to display a default resolution at a first refresh rate at most, and determines, according to the extended display identification data, whether the display device is able to display the default resolution at a second refresh rate that exceeds the first refresh rate. When it is determined that the display is able to display the default resolution at the second refresh rate, the processor adds the second refresh rate into the extended display identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jun-Liang Lu, Hsin-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11625882
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more visual representations of a porous media submerged in a fluid is provided. The method can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The method includes defining a field comprising fluid parameter values for the fluid, the fluid parameter values comprising fluid velocity values and pore pressures. The method includes generating a plurality of particles that model a plurality of objects of the porous media, the plurality of objects being independently movable with respect to one another, determining values of motion parameters based at least in part on the field when the plurality of particles are submerged in the fluid, buoyancy and drag forces being used to determine relative motion of the plurality of particles and the fluid, and generating the one or more visual representations of the plurality of objects submerged in the fluid based on the values of the motion parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Unity Technologies SF
    Inventors: Alexey Stomakhin, Joel Wretborn, Gilles Daviet
  • Patent number: 11620798
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conveying virtual content in an augmented reality environment comprising images of virtual content superimposed over physical objects and/or physical surroundings visible within a field of view of a user as if the images of the virtual content were present in the real world. Exemplary implementations may: obtain user information for a user associated with a presentation device physically present at a location of the system; compare the user information with the accessibility criteria for the virtual content to determine whether any portions of the virtual content are to be presented to the user based on the accessibility criteria and the user information for the user; and facilitate presentation of the virtual content to the user via presentation device of user based on the virtual content information, the field of view, and the correlations between the multiple linkage points and the reference frame of the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Nicholas T. Hariton
  • Patent number: 11614998
    Abstract: A multi-screen display control device includes a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs) and a watchdog chip. The GPUs transform image data that a host transfers to the multi-screen display control device through a universal serial bus (USB) interface into a plurality of high-definition multi-media interface (HDMI) sub-images to be displayed by a plurality of screens. The watchdog chip is coupled to the GPUs and, when any of the GPUs crashes, the watchdog chip outputs a reset signal to reset all of the GPUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.
    Inventors: Chengliang Qi, Guangjun Lyu, Cong Li
  • Patent number: 11586168
    Abstract: A PLC system construction support program for creating a system configuration diagram depicting a configuration of a PLC system constructed causes a computing terminal to function as: an image acquisition section that acquires image data of an image of the PLC system; a system configuration recognition section that creates system configuration information including arrangement information and selected unit information; a system configuration diagram generation section that creates a system configuration diagram based on the system configuration information; and a system configuration diagram editor section that performs display processing for displaying the system configuration diagram on a display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichiro Noda
  • Patent number: 11553989
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for treating teeth to correct for malocclusions. This may be accomplished by applying a series of labels to a digital dental model and applying a rolling ball process to identify tooth boundaries separating one tooth from a neighboring tooth and to also determine the crown/gum margin. The user may further assign regions to the dental model to indicate hard regions and soft regions. With the dental model labeled and defined, the user may then generate a treatment plan for moving the labeled and defined tooth or teeth relative to one another to correct for any malocclusions. Upon approval of the treatment plan, a series of 3D printed dental appliances or aligners to be worn in series by the patient may be fabricated to ultimately move the tooth or teeth to a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: uLab Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Huafeng Wen
  • Patent number: 11547369
    Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Vektor Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Villongco
  • Patent number: 11538475
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a conversion unit, and a display controller. The acquisition unit acquires multimedia data associated with an item of record data having a plurality of items. The conversion unit performs a conversion process from the multimedia data to first display data showing a content of the multimedia data. The display controller displays the first display data when the conversion process is completed, and displays second display data showing a progress status of the conversion process when the conversion process is incomplete in association with the item of the record data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Hiroshi Fujimura, Toshiaki Nakasu
  • Patent number: 11527064
    Abstract: 2D and 3D data of a scene are linked by associating points in the 3D data with corresponding points in multiple different 2D images within the 2D data. Labels assigned to points in either data can be propagated to the other data. Labels propagated to a point in the 3D data are aggregated, and the labels ranked highest are kept and propagated back to the 2D images. 3D data including labels produced in this manner allow partially obscured objects in certain views to be more accurately identified. Thus, an object can be manipulated in all 2D views of the 2D data in which the object is at least partially visible, in order to digitally remove, alter, or replace it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: REscan, Inc.
    Inventors: John Adam Croston, Teja Yerramsetty, Botond Bognar, Donald L Alvarez
  • Patent number: 11521302
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that operates in a plurality of modes including a first mode for performing high image quality processing of image data and a second mode for performing high-speed processing of image data, performs the following processing. More specifically, the apparatus performs, in accordance with the mode to be operated, the settings of each of an operation to output image data from a first DMAC (Direct Memory Access Controller) to a common bus, an operation to input the image data from the common bus to an image processing unit, an operation of the image processing unit, an operation to output the image data from the image processing unit to the common bus, and an operation to output the image data from the common bus to a second DMAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Yoshitani, Haruna Yamazaki, Tomoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11497557
    Abstract: There is provided a method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images. The 2D medical images are uploaded by an end-user via a Web Application and sent to a server. The server processes the 2D medical images and automatically generates a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from the 2D medical images using a segmentation technique. The 3D printable model is 3D printed as a 3D physical model such that it represents a 1:1 scale of the patient specific anatomic feature. The method includes the step of automatically identifying the patient specific anatomic feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Axial Medical Printing Limited
    Inventors: Niall Haslam, Lorenzo Trojan, Daniel Crawford
  • Patent number: 11494963
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for aligning separately created 3-D mesh of a body and head of a user for resolved 3-D avatar construction, comprising the steps of: estimating frame-to-frame pixel correspondences among selected frames for each of a separately captured body and head frame for creating a 3-D mesh for each of the body and the head; aligning the body 3-D mesh with the head 3-D mesh; and applying texturing to the aligned 3-D mesh by projecting the colors frames to the mesh posed in each frame pose and averaging the textures, thereby constructing a resolved 3-D avatar of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: GOODSIZE INC.
    Inventors: Dmitrii Ulianov, Igor Pasechnik, Ahmedkhan Shabanov, Vadim Lebedev, Ilya Krotov, Nikolai Chinaev, Bulat Yakupov, Vsevolod Poletaev
  • Patent number: 11488345
    Abstract: A display apparatus including means for tracking pose of user's head, light source(s) and processor configured to: process pose-tracking data to determine position, orientation, velocity and acceleration of head; predict viewpoint and view direction of user in extended-reality environment; determine region of extended-reality environment to be presented, based on viewpoint and view direction; determine sub-region(s) of region whose rendering information is to be derived from previous rendering information of corresponding sub-region(s) of previously-presented region of extended-reality environment; generate rendering information of sub-region(s) based on previous rendering information; send, to rendering server, information indicating remaining sub-regions required to be re-rendered and pose information indicating viewpoint and view direction; receive, from rendering server, rendering information of remaining sub-regions; merge rendering information of sub-region(s) and rendering information of remaining sub-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ari Antti Peuhkurinen, Ville Miettinen
  • Patent number: 11481950
    Abstract: Graphics processing unit (GPU) performance and power efficiency is improved using machine learning to tune operating parameters based on performance monitor values and application information. Performance monitor values are processed using machine learning techniques to generate model parameters, which are used by a control unit within the GPU to provide real-time updates to the operating parameters. In one embodiment, a neural network processes the performance monitor values to generate operating parameters in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Rouslan L. Dimitrov, Dale L. Kirkland, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Sachin Satish Idgunji, Siddharth Sharma
  • Patent number: 11475607
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods, apparatus and computer programs for generating a radio coverage map. A method comprises: obtaining image data of a geographical area, the image data comprising: a representation of the environment in the geographical area; and an indication of one or more transmission point locations corresponding to the locations of one or more transmission points in a wireless communications network; and applying a generative model to the image data, to generate a radio coverage map of the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jaeseong Jeong, Martin Isaksson, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11462016
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying, via an artificial reality system, a plurality of physical objects in a real-world environment of a user and defining, based on identifying the plurality of objects, an object-manipulation objective for manipulating at least one of the plurality of objects. The method may also include determining an action sequence that defines a sequence of action steps for manipulating the at least one of the plurality of objects to complete the object-manipulation objective, and presenting, via the artificial reality system, a notification to the user indicative of the action sequence. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Alexander Newman, Kevin Thomas Carlberg, Ruta Parimal Desai, James Hillis
  • Patent number: 11461370
    Abstract: A system and method for building an event location database to identify and manage information pertaining to “unknown unknowns” such as events and host locations with no online presence and locations that never host any events, the system building the event location database by cataloging locations that host events and locations that do not host events, and subsequently cataloging events so that when the system receives input georeferenced discrete locations and subsequently metadata about their events, the system develops a more complete list of which locations have events that were previously unknown to potential event attendees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Jay Crosley
  • Patent number: 11455774
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automated 3D root shape prediction comprising: receiving data defining at least one 3D representation of a tooth and processing the data including: transforming at least part of the data into a voxel representation of a crown; a pre-processor providing the representation of the crown to the input of the neural network trained on clinical representations of real teeth; the first neural network generating a representation of a root or a tooth from the crown, wherein the generation of the representation of the root or tooth includes: determining voxel activations in a voxel space of the output of the deep learning network, each activation representing a probability measure defining the probability that a voxel is part of the root or the tooth; and, determining whether a voxel activation is part of the root or the tooth by comparing the voxel activation with a voxel activation threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: PROMATON HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Frank Theodorus Catharina Claessen, Bas Alexander Verheij, David Anssari Moin, Teo Cherici
  • Patent number: 11455390
    Abstract: A system for generating a psychographic device fingerprint includes a server in communication with a network and memory storing a program which, when executed by the server, performs steps for (a) detecting reception at a computing device of media content delivered via the network, (b) reading device elements stored on the computing device, (c) reading a geographic indicator from the computing device, (d) reading a content indicator identifying the media content, (e) determining a timing parameter associated with reception of the content at the computing device, and (f) deriving from the device type, the geographic indicator, the content indicator, and the timing parameter, the psychographic device fingerprint as computer readable code uniquely identifying a user of the computing device. The steps may further include recording media content received by multiple computing devices, and generating a viewership report relating computing devices and psychographic device fingerprints to the media content received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: UNILOC 2017 LLC
    Inventor: Craig S. Etchegoyen