Computer Graphics Processing Patents (Class 345/418)
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11449504
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for pruning partitions from a database access operation based on a dependency graph. In one example, the method may include generating a dependency graph for a partition-wise operation, the dependency graph comprising nodes representing partition candidates and links between the nodes identifying dependencies of the partition candidates, receiving, at runtime, a database query comprising a partition identifier, identifying a partition candidate that can be excluded from processing the database query based on the partition identifier, pruning a second partition candidate based on a dependency in the dependency graph between the excluded partition candidate and the second partition candidate, and performing a database access for the database query based on the pruning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jung Kook Lee, Sang II Song
  • Patent number: 11443261
    Abstract: Embodiments may include systems and methods to create and edit a representation of a worksite, to create various data objects, to classify such objects as various types of predefined “features” with attendant properties and layout constraints. As part of or in addition to classification, an embodiment may include systems and methods to create, associate, and edit intrinsic and extrinsic properties to these objects. A design engine may apply of design rules to the features described above to generate one or more solar collectors installation design alternatives, including generation of on-screen and/or paper representations of the physical layout or arrangement of the one or more design alternatives. Some embodiments may provide viewing, creating, and manipulating of multiple versions of a solar collector layout design for a particular installation worksite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUNPOWER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary Wayne, Alexander Frumkin, Michael Zaydman, Scott Lehman, Jules Brenner
  • Patent number: 11439301
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a tissue specifying unit, and a specifying unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subject's eye. The tissue specifying unit is configured to acquire first shape data representing shape of a tissue of the subject's eye by performing segmentation processing on each of a plurality of tomographic images acquired by the acquisition unit. The specifying unit is configured to obtain second shape data representing shape of the tissue based on the plurality of first shape data acquired by the tissue specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mino, Jonathan Liu
  • Patent number: 11443480
    Abstract: Method for remote clothing selection includes determination of anthropometric dimensional parameters of a user, automatic assessment of correspondence of a garment to the shape and body measurements of a user, determination and provision of recommendations to a user on the selection of a particular garment and, optionally, visualization of a garment on a digital avatar of this user in the virtual fitting room, including optional change of his/her pose. The invention provides an increase in the efficiency of remote clothing selection by a user, an improvement in user's experience of remote purchase, an increase in user satisfaction and, ultimately, an increase in online sales of clothing and a decrease in the proportion of clothing returned after a purchase due to unsatisfactory matching to the shape and measurements of user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Texel LLC
    Inventors: Maxim Alexandrovich Fedyukov, Andrey Vladimirovich Poskonin, Sergey Mikhailovich Klimentyev, Vladimir Vladimirovich Guzov, Ilia Alexeevich Petrov, Nikolay Patakin, Anton Vladimirovich Fedotov, Oleg Vladimirovich Korneev
  • Patent number: 11436384
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a generative design application iteratively generates designs via a generative design process. In operation, the generative design application performs one or more layout operations on virtual objects based on a first set of design constraints to generate a first design. The generative design application then modifies the first set of design constraints based on feedback associated with a mid-air representation of the first design displayed in a virtual reality environment to generate a second set of design constraints. Subsequently, the generative design application performs one or more layout operations on the virtual objects based on the second set of design constraints to generate a second design that achieves design goal(s). Advantageously, enabling a designer to incrementally indicate design goal(s) as constraints via a virtual reality environment instead of as a predetermined objective function reduces both the time and effort required to generate designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Ariel Weingarten, George Fitzmaurice
  • Patent number: 11435821
    Abstract: An electronic device that includes a display and an eye tracker configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more of a user's eyes across the display. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry that is operatively coupled to the display and configured to generate pixel data for frames of content based at least in part on the eye tracking data such that the content is configured to be shown on the display in a dynamically foveated manner. The processing circuitry is also configured to apply a dither pattern to the frames of content independent of the gaze of one or more of the user's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11436804
    Abstract: An AR system is provided, the AR system including one or more sensors, storage, one or more communications modules, and one or more processors. The one or more sensors generate sensed data representing at least part of an environment in which the AR system is located. The one or more communications modules transmit localization data to be used in determining the location and orientation of the AR system. The one or more processors are arranged to obtain sensed data representing an environment in which the AR system is located, process the sensed data to identify a first portion of the sensed data which represents redundant information, derive localization data, wherein the localization data is derived from the sensed data and the first portion is obscured during the derivation of the localization data, and transmit at least a portion of the localization data using the one or more communication modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Roberto Lopez Mendez, Daren Croxford, Ioan-Cristian Szabo, Mina Ivanova Dimova
  • Patent number: 11436801
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images is provided. A 3D image is automatically generated from a set of 2D medical images. A machine learning based image segmentation technique is used to segment the generated 3D image. A 3D printable model of the patient specific anatomic feature is created from the segmented 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Axial Medical Printing Limited
    Inventors: Niall Haslam, Daniel Crawford, Catherine Coomber
  • Patent number: 11431593
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for visualizing analysis results of contents. Contents collected from various kinds of communication tools are read into memory. The contents are analyzed to obtain analysis results, where the analysis results include information on user groups, information on topics and degrees of involvement of users with the topic. Furthermore, user objects assigned according to the degree of involvement are dynamically displayed for a designated period of time and for each topic using the analysis results, where the displaying of each of the user objects is modified according to the degree of involvement and the information on a user group. A communication volume object which represents a communication volume between users may be further displayed between the user objects associated with these users and displayed so as to be different depending on the communication volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mihoko Hasegawa, Kensuke Matsuoka, Asako Ono, Lianzi Wen
  • Patent number: 11423595
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for generating a modified Cartesian representation of received data. In some aspects, a Cartesian graph may be transformed to form a modified Cartesian representation by connecting a first end and second end of the Cartesian graph. In further aspects, a pattern may be overlaid over the modified Cartesian representation to produce an artistic representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Gough, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Seth Benson, Curtis Flanagan, Richard Lee Marks
  • Patent number: 11423433
    Abstract: A payment system and method that changes a degree of disclosure of personal information provided for a store, including a settlement server that acquires a disclosure level of personal information when an electronic settlement from a user terminal to a store is detected, the disclosure level being set by a payer at present. A picker picks out a new disclosure level different from the acquired present disclosure level. A presenter presents first information about the present disclosure level and second information about the new disclosure level in a selectable manner at the user terminal. In accordance with a selection result in the user terminal, a provider provides the store with partial information extracted from the personal information according to the selected disclosure level. Then, an updater updates the disclosure level to the new disclosure level when the selection result is the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Daigo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11406790
    Abstract: A system and method for sleep environment management is provided. The sleep environment comprises a bed within a sleep space, sleep metric sensors, activity metric sensors, and a sleep environment controller. A server comprises a hardware processor, has access to a database, and comprises a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium for storing program code, comprising program code to receive at least one sleep metric and at least one activity metric from the sleep environment; record the metrics in the database; analyze the metrics over a period of time to generate a user report and one or more product recommendations; and provide the user report and product recommendations to the sleep environment controller as feedback. Such sleep environment management system and method can improve a user's sleep experience, and allows medical and product presentations to be made to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Walter Viveiros
  • Patent number: 11410339
    Abstract: An encoding device includes a voxel-data acquiring unit and an encoding unit. The voxel-data acquiring unit acquires voxel data expressing a three-dimensional object to be fabricated and containing, for each voxel constituting the three-dimensional object, a value of the voxel and link information indicating a link direction of the voxel. The encoding unit encodes the voxel data by setting a code based on a predicting unit that has made a correct prediction of a value of a target voxel among multiple predicting units that predict the value of the target voxel based on a value of at least one reference voxel surrounding the target voxel, the target voxel being encoded based on the link information of the target voxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Taro Yokose
  • Patent number: 11409413
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for generating electronic menu (eMenu) graphical user interface layouts for use in connection with electronic devices (e.g., tablets, phablets, smart phones, etc.). A virtual grid-based layout including rows and columns that together constitute regularly sized and shaped grid cells is defined. Input identifying items to be included in the eMenu is received. Each item has associated length and width dimensions corresponding to a number of grid cells. At least some of the items are flagged for inclusion in the eMenu. Those items marked for inclusion are automatically and programmatically arranged in the eMenu in the grid cells of the grid-based layout in a manner that minimizes the number of unused grid cells. A tag-based representation of the layout corresponding to the formatted eMenu is stored. The file is made available to the electronic device in enabling the formatted eMenu to be displayed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOUCHTUNES MUSIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Fang, Robert R. Dykes
  • Patent number: 11404021
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device and a method of processing a notification in an electronic device. The electronic device may include a display that displays at least one object on a screen, and a controller that determines a notification display area for displaying a notification on the screen based on a gesture of a user associated with at least one object displayed on the screen, and to display the notification in at least one determined notification display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Young Lee, Gyu-Chual Kim
  • Patent number: 11403802
    Abstract: Herein is presented a light-weight, high-quality texture synthesis algorithm that generalizes to other applications. We utilize an optimal transport optimization process within a bottleneck layer of an auto-encoder, achieving quality and flexibility on par with expensive back-propagation based neural texture synthesis methods, but at interactive rates. In addition to superior synthesis quality, our statistically motivated approach generalizes better to other special case texture synthesis problems such as Style Transfer, Inverse-Texture Synthesis, Texture Mixing, Multi-Scale Texture Synthesis, Structured Image Hybrids and Texture Painting. We treat the texture synthesis problem as the optimal transport between Probably Density Function of the deep neural activation vectors of the image being synthesized and the exemplar texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Unity IPR ApS
    Inventor: Eric Andrew Risser
  • Patent number: 11403815
    Abstract: Map projections necessarily distort the Earth's surface in some fashion as a result of the transformation to a coordinate system. However, different map projection systems can preserve some properties of geospatial data (e.g., area) at the expense of other properties (e.g., distance or azimuth). To produce a minimally distorted global raster, a global raster generator creates a number and variety of projections using as input geospatial data. The generator intelligently selects the projection systems based on properties of the input data and desired properties of an output global raster. The generator then applies interpolation algorithms to the projections to produce smooth and continuous projections. The generator then re-projects the interpolated projections to a desired output projection system and filters the projections to identify and remove regions of the projections which exhibit distortion. The generator merges the filtered projections which results in a minimally distorted global raster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Kohlmann, Graham Baines
  • Patent number: 11394676
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting a gesture made via a display of a first computing device during display of a message comprising first media content, determining that the gesture triggers a second graphical user interface to respond to the message by opening a camera view to capture a second media content, and based on determining that the gesture triggers the second graphical user interface, causing the second graphical user interface to display on the display of the first computing device comprising the camera view. The systems and methods further provide for detecting capture of the second media content via the second graphical user interface comprising the camera view and sending a reply message comprising the second media content in response to the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Laurent Desserrey, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Nathaniel Parrott, Jeremy Voss, David Taitz, Chang Li
  • Patent number: 11395094
    Abstract: An electronic system provides various features and functionality for managing resources. An alert may be sent when a mobile device crosses a geo-fence. The alert may describe how much of the resource is available for the types of transaction that are likely to occur within the geo-fence. The alert may request or confirm the allocation of the transaction to a resource pool or suggest alternative transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Wayne Hartman, Nathan Mahoney, Hoang Trung Vo, Joshua Samuel Leonard, Michal Leighton Van Cleave, Jeffrey Young, Luke James Gradeless, Brandon K. Esplin
  • Patent number: 11393163
    Abstract: Method for remote clothing selection includes determination of anthropometric dimensional parameters of a user, automatic assessment of correspondence of a garment to the shape and body measurements of a user, determination and provision of recommendations to a user on the selection of a particular garment and, optionally, visualization of a garment on a digital avatar of this user in the virtual fitting room, including optional change of his/her pose. The invention provides an increase in the efficiency of remote clothing selection by a user, an improvement in user's experience of remote purchase, an increase in user satisfaction and, ultimately, an increase in online sales of clothing and a decrease in the proportion of clothing returned after a purchase due to unsatisfactory matching to the shape and measurements of user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Texel LLC
    Inventors: Maxim Alexandrovich Fedyukov, Andrey Vladimirovich Poskonin, Sergey Mikhailovich Klimentyev, Vladimir Vladimirovich Guzov, Ilia Alexeevich Petrov, Nikolay Patakin, Anton Vladimirovich Fedotov, Oleg Vladimirovich Korneev
  • Patent number: 11389273
    Abstract: Methods and systems for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance with an object incorporated in a surface thereof comprising: acquiring a preliminary appliance 3D digital model; acquiring an object 3D digital model; obtaining a desired coupling location of the object on the orthodontic appliance; positioning the object 3D digital model onto a surface of the preliminary appliance 3D digital model based on the obtained coupling location; causing an initial predetermined degree of penetration; merging the object 3D digital model with the preliminary appliance 3D digital model to generate an appliance 3D digital model of the orthodontic appliance with the object incorporated in the surface; and storing the appliance 3D digital model in an internal memory of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Oxilio Ltd
    Inventors: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov, Oleksandr Khmil, Dmitrii Bubelnik, Zelimkhan Gerikhanov
  • Patent number: 11394943
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method, a file generation apparatus and method, and a program that enable a suitable occlusion image to be obtained. The image processing apparatus includes an MPD file processing unit configured to select an occlusion image to be acquired, on the basis of information regarding a viewpoint position of the occlusion image included in an MPD file, from among a plurality of the occlusion images indicated by the MPD file. The present technology can be applied to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Katsumata, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Kazuhiko Takabayashi, Toshiya Hamada, Ryohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11385912
    Abstract: A system to enable a full Desktop Experience based on a mobile device. The system includes a Linux kernel and a Linux distribution, wherein a mobile operating system, packaged on a virtual container, is running on top of a standard Linux distribution, or wherein desktop and mobile operating systems run on their own Virtual container isolated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELETRONICA DA AMAZONIA, LTDA.
    Inventors: Romeu Palos De Gouvea, Éderson Marcos Ferreira
  • Patent number: 11380049
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a finite aperture omni-directional camera is modeled by aligning a finite aperture lens and focal point with the omni-directional part of the projection. For example, each point on an image plane maps to a direction in camera space. For a spherical projection, the lens can be orientated along this direction and the focal point is picked along this direction at focal distance from the lens. For a cylindrical projection, the lens can be oriented along the projected direction on the two dimensional (2D) xz-plane, as the projection is not omni-directional in the y direction. The focal point is picked along the (unprojected) direction so its projection on the xz-plane is at focal distance from the lens. The final outgoing ray can be constructed by sampling of a point on this oriented lens and shooting a ray from there through the focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Dietger van Antwerpen
  • Patent number: 11367238
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a three-dimensional graphics processor that generates three-dimensional drawing data based on a three-dimensional drawing command, a command converter that converts the three-dimensional drawing command into a two-dimensional drawing command, a two-dimensional graphics processor that generates two-dimensional drawing data based on the converted two-dimensional drawing command and a display controller that displays the two-dimensional drawing data in place of the three-dimensional drawing data when a load of the three-dimensional graphics processor is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Azuma, Shinya Tomari
  • Patent number: 11354028
    Abstract: A method for configuring a plurality of objects in a multi-depth tree structure is disclosed. The method comprises: upon receiving a first user command including a node attribute for connecting a first object and a second object and a coordinate attribute for representing a position in the first object, associating the second object with the first object in a first mode; upon receiving a second user command including the node attribute without the coordinate attribute in the first object, associating the second object with the first object in a second mode. In the first mode the second object is inserted at the position indicated by the coordinate attribute within the first object, and in the second mode the second object is inserted into the first object with specifying no position within the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PJ FACTORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 11335052
    Abstract: A system, method and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided for hybrid rendering with deferred primitive batch binning. A primitive batch is generated from one or more primitives. A bin is identified for processing the primitive batch. At least a portion of each primitive intersecting the identified bin is processed and a next bin for processing the primitive batch is identified based on an intercept walk order. The processing is iteratively repeated for the one or more primitives in the primitive batch for successive bins until all primitives of the primitive batch are completely processed. Then, the one or more primitives in the primitive batch are further processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Michael Mantor, Laurent Lefebvre, Mark Fowler, Timothy Kelley, Mikko Alho, Mika Tuomi, Kiia Kallio, Patrick Klas Rudolf Buss, Jari Antero Komppa, Kaj Tuomi