Computer Graphics Processing Patents (Class 345/418)
  • Patent number: 10331221
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for analyzing interactions between a user and a computing device include analyzing user interaction data to identify a plurality of user gestures, and analyzing the gestures to identify those likely to represent user struggles or difficulties encountered with a user interface. A predictive model is generated from this analysis for use in identifying user gestures likely to represent user struggles during further user sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SessionCam Limited
    Inventors: Richard Churchill, Joao Duarte
  • Patent number: 10325616
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquiring data including sound information uttered by a subject; a detection unit detecting feelings of the subject using the acquired data; a decision unit deciding weighting coefficients for data in accordance with the feelings of the subject; a calculation unit calculating energy which involves in human emotions and organ activities; a plurality of elements outputting signals each of which indicates the change in a state of the element as homeostasis in each of the human emotions and the organ activities; an emergence unit deciding feelings and intentions in accordance with the signals output from the elements; and a control unit performing phase transition of the state of the elements when an amount of change in the state of at least one element is equal to or less than a predetermined amount or when the state of at least one element is in a predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventor: Shunji Mitsuyoshi
  • Patent number: 10326923
    Abstract: One or more medical image processing apparatuses, methods for same and storage mediums are provided herein. At least one medical image processing apparatus obtains a medical image including a tubular structure picked up by a medical image pickup apparatus and generates a virtual endoscope image of the tubular structure on the basis of the obtained medical image. The obtained medical image accepts a specification of a target portion on the tubular structure, performs control to generate a cross-sectional image of the target portion on a cross section observation line indicating a cross section of the target portion from the medical image and displays the cross-sectional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriaki Miyake
  • Patent number: 10320631
    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 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mihoko Hasegawa, Kensuke Matsuoka, Asako Ono, Lianzi Wen
  • Patent number: 10311629
    Abstract: A level of detail node may hold in a bounding volume hierarchy, an object identifier, a distance at which a transition occurs between levels of detail and a bias. When a level of detail node is encountered in the hierarchy, the distance value may be used to select a level of detail. Sometimes a different level of detail is loaded because the preferred level is not available. The different level may be marked in a register. Then for a subsequence frame, the correct level is used. A node bias may be used to override the level of detail selection is some cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: David Baldwin, Karthik Vaidyanathan
  • Patent number: 10311857
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a multiplayer session. The examples allow a user that is unable to speak, or that is incapable of speaking, to participate in an in-session voice chat by inputting text and having the text converted to speech (e.g., synthesized voice data) that can then be sent to other devices participating in the session. The user enables a text-to-speech conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, functionality enabling text to be entered is activated and the entered text is converted into speech data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Kepner, Evelyn R. Thomas, David Ruzyski, Jeremy L. Dewey, Martin Hall, Joshua R. McCammon, Stephen E. Giscombe, Thomas Cooper, Dana Ludwig
  • Patent number: 10307674
    Abstract: A user-activity video signal can be received. The user-activity video signal can comprise a video capture characterizing a user's interaction with a software application on a client. The software application can have an interface display space on the client and the software application can execute on the client in operation with at least one remote backend computing system. Backend user interaction data corresponding to the user's interaction with the software application as generated by the at least one remote backend computing system can be received. A new video comprising a plurality of divided segments of the user-activity video signal can be generated automatically using the backend user interaction data and a plurality of predefined rules. The new video can be provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Skillz Inc
    Inventors: Andrew Paradise, James Daniels, Jason Petralia
  • Patent number: 10306292
    Abstract: A system includes one or more hardware processors, a display device, a memory storing 2-dimensional (2D) content and 3-dimensional (3D) content associated with a content item, and a playback engine. The playback engine is configured to receive the 2D content, the 2D content including one or more reference identifiers (IDs), display the 2D content on the display device for a user and, during display of the 2D content, receive an indication of a transition event. The playback engine is also configured to determine a transition reference identifier (ID) from the one or more reference IDs, identify the 3D content based on the transition reference ID, render a 3D environment based on the 3D content, and transition the display device from the displaying the 2D content to the 3D environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Unity IPR ApS
    Inventor: Sylvio Herve Drouin
  • Patent number: 10303945
    Abstract: A display method is for a display apparatus to display an image, and includes: obtaining a captured display image and a decode target image by an image sensor capturing an image of a subject; obtaining a light ID by decoding the decode target image; transmitting the light ID to a server; obtaining, from the server, an AR image and recognition information which are associated with the light ID; recognizing a region according to the recognition information as a target region from the captured display image; and displaying the captured display image in which the AR image is superimposed on the target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Aoyama, Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Maeda, Akihiro Ueki, Kengo Miyoshi, Tsutomu Mukai
  • Patent number: 10304161
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains an input image acquired by image capturing, and classifies the input image into a main subject region and a background region. The image processing apparatus determines virtual image capturing conditions corresponding to an output image to be generated, based on the positional relationship between a main subject and a background subject in an image capturing environment when the input image was captured. The image processing apparatus deforms, of the input image, an image classified into the background region, and generates a background image of the output image that corresponds to the determined virtual image capturing conditions. The image processing apparatus composes, of the input image, an image classified into the main subject region and the background image, thereby generating the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumitaka Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10306266
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a decoder for decoding a block of a depth map are provided. An ordered list of decoding modes is obtained, wherein the ordered list of decoding modes comprises a plurality of decoding modes each of which is capable of being used for decoding of the block. A plurality of depth modeling modes (DMMs) each of which is capable of being used for decoding of the block are obtained. And whether a DMM of the plurality of DMMs is to be added into the ordered list of decoding modes in accordance with a decision condition is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10298794
    Abstract: An image reading device comprises: a feeder that feeds a document along with a predetermined path; a first reading part that reads a first side of the document at a first position in the path and creates a first image; a second reading part that reads a second side of the document at a second position which is located posterior to the first position in the path and creates a second image; a synthesizing part that lays the first image and the second image on top of one another and creates a composite image; and a detecting part that detects a characteristic pattern of a specific document from the composite image created by the synthesizing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kubo, Katsuhiko Akita, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kazusei Takahashi, Akihiro Torigoshi, Yuji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10297080
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing an automatically meshable shape is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a continuous boundary of the automatically meshable shape, the continuous boundary being defined by a spline formed by two or more spline segments, wherein each segment has a terminal point at each end of the segment; parameterizing shape properties of the segments such that selected ones of the shape properties can be varied under operation of an optimization algorithm; linking each segment to its immediately adjacent segments such that the terminal points of the segment remain coincident with the terminal points of its immediately adjacent segments under operation of the optimization algorithm; and using the optimization algorithm to vary selected ones of the shape properties of the segments, whereby the spline defines an adjusted boundary that remains continuous so that the shape remains automatically meshable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Shahrokh Shahpar
  • Patent number: 10293258
    Abstract: Enhanced methodology and apparatus for use in a multi-player video game for generating a array of user selectable options for choosing real or computer generated users to play with and/or compete against. For example, in a simulated multiple driver racing game application, the user of a computing device is presented with an option for selecting any of various “ghost data” packages for downloading over a communication network such as the Internet. For example, the user may be presented with the option of selecting one of an array of ghost data packages to race against such as the top five buddies of the user with highest scores, five buddies with scores similar to a user's own score, and teams/groups of various varieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Darren C. Smith
  • Patent number: 10293254
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to continuously and effectively motivate players playing a game to create and upload play-videos. At a server 1, an event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a demand-invoking event that has been processed as being negative in the game from a terminal 2-1, etc. on which the demand-invoking event has occurred. The event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a possible supply event that has been processed as being positive in the game from a terminal 2-2 on which the possible supply event has occurred. A demand-level calculating unit 13 selects demand-invoking events related to the possible supply event from one or more demand-invoking events on the basis of the individual log data obtained and calculates the level of potential demand on the basis of the result of selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 10296663
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional model of an object in a two-dimensional environment. The method may include moving and aligning the three-dimensional model of the object along a plane in the two-dimensional environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventor: Milos Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 10275285
    Abstract: Data transformation caching in an artificial intelligence infrastructure that includes one or more storage systems and one or more graphical processing unit (‘GPU’) servers, including: identifying, in dependence upon one or more machine learning models to be executed on the GPU servers, one or more transformations to apply to a dataset; generating, in dependence upon the one or more transformations, a transformed dataset; storing, within one or more of the storage systems, the transformed dataset; receiving a plurality of requests to transmit the transformed dataset to one or more of the GPU servers; and responsive to each request, transmitting, from the one or more storage systems to the one or more GPU servers without re-performing the one or more transformations on the dataset, the transformed dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Gold, Emily Watkins, Ivan Jibaja, Igor Ostrovsky, Roy Kim
  • Patent number: 10268336
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user interface displaying and processing method comprising following steps: applying Surface from a SurfaceFlinger to serve as a drawing board for drawing an interface; binding an OpenGL ES after being initialized and the Surface which is applied to server as the drawing board; controlling a function of the OpenGL ES to draw the interface on the Surface which is applied to server as the drawing board; after the interface has already been drawn, combining all Surfaces to form drawing board window data and exchanging the drawing board window data with display frame buffer window data; outputting to display the exchanged display frame buffer window data. The present disclosure further provides a user interface displaying and processing device. The present disclosure can improve the portability of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Quanqing Liang, Weilong Lv, Qiumei Ning
  • Patent number: 10269062
    Abstract: A mobile banking reconciliation application allows a user to reconcile a business's records with banking records associated with one or more accounts of the business. The mobile banking reconciliation application can access an accounting system to obtain business records and banking records associated with the business. The banking records and business records may be displayed as a set of cards that a user can scroll and/or flip through (e.g., using the touch screen of a mobile device). The related business records displayed may be a suggestion that is based on a determination that the banking record likely matches the business record. The user may identify the appropriate business record for the particular bank record being reconciled from existing business records, or the user may create a new business record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Xero Limited
    Inventor: Brock Stephen Abernethy
  • Patent number: 10270867
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a mobile apparatus which is configured for enabling multimedia content which is being output on the mobile apparatus to be output via a predetermined multimedia apparatus when the mobile apparatus is connected to a home network, a display apparatus, and a multimedia output method using the same. The multimedia content may include at least one of a picture, music, video, and text. The mobile apparatus includes: an output unit configured to output the multimedia content; and a controller configured to output, if the mobile apparatus enters a predetermined area, the multimedia content being output on the output unit via the predetermined external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wan Su Kim
  • Patent number: 10271111
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods are provided for automatically creating time-based video metadata for a video source and a video playback mechanism. An automated logging process can be provided for receiving a digital video stream, analyzing one or more frames of the digital video stream, extracting a time from each of the one or more frames analyzed, and creating a clock index file associating a time with each of the one or more analyzed frames. The process can further provide for parsing one or more received data files, extracting time-based metadata from the one or more parsed data files, and determining a frame of the digital video stream that correlates to the extracted time based metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Daniel Stieglitz
  • Patent number: 10262071
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a database that stores management data in connection with a network protocol implemented within a network that includes a plurality of NMSes and (2) a processing unit having access to the database, wherein the processing unit (A) receives, from an NMS within the plurality of NMSes, a request for at least a portion of the management data stored in the database and then, in response to receiving the request from the NMS, (B) retrieves the requested portion of management data from the database, (C) provides the requested portion of management data to the NMS, and (D) provides the requested portion of management data to at least one additional NMS within the plurality of NMSes even though the additional NMS did not initiate the request for the portion of management data. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
    Inventor: Abhinav Tandon
  • Patent number: 10262278
    Abstract: Systems and methods differentiate and uniquely identify electronic devices to enable their virtual interaction with an augmented reality device. According to certain aspects, an augmented reality device can differentiate between electronic devices in an environment that have a substantially similar appearance. A user can subsequently use the augmented reality device to virtually interact with the uniquely identified electronic devices. An improved user experience and greater user satisfaction with the augmented reality device may result through the use of these systems and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: Vivek K. Tyagi, Sudhir C. Vissa
  • Patent number: 10258881
    Abstract: Methods for tagging content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, and social sharing methods. One method includes receiving a pause indication during the game play and suspending the game play to hold the video game title in a current frame image, storing the game state, and receiving the tag data that is associated to a location in the current frame image and to a user identifier for the current frame image. The method further includes generating a video recording of the game play having the tag data and generating a mini-game from a portion of the video game title. The mini-game includes a playable portion to enable view of a portion of the video recording for the mini-game and an executable portion to enable the play of game code for the mini-game that is a portion of the video game title.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: David Perry, Michael Taylor, Warren Benedetto, Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Patent number: 10245509
    Abstract: A system and method is provided that generates a game log that specifies game events during gameplay to enable efficient distribution of video game playback, facilitates the annotation of gameplay through content from users and others, and generates a video game stream that includes the game log and content. The system facilitates the efficient sharing of video game playback, as well as annotations from users and others. For example, e-sportscasters may use the system to broadcast video game playback with their commentary and/or graphical overlays. Video game players may use the system to share video game playback efficiently with other users. The system may also facilitate the sharing of loadout conditions and micro-transactions relevant to video game playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, INC.
    Inventors: Michael D. Marr, Keith S. Kaplan
  • Patent number: 10249016
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit is configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles. The graphics processing unit comprises one or more processing cores configured to process graphics data. The graphics processing unit also comprises cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles. The graphics processing unit also comprises scheduling logic configured to schedule, in dependence upon the cost indications, the sets of one or more tiles for processing on the one or more processing cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Richard Broadhurst, John W. Howson, Steven Fishwick
  • Patent number: 10242488
    Abstract: The present invention is a unique method for tubular object visualization. The method involves rendering the exterior of the tube invisible while keeping the interior visible. This “One-sided-transparency” technique renders a more complete view of the tube's interior. When applied to virtual colonoscopy (VC), it compares favorably to existing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Kentucky Imaging Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aly Farag, Robert Curtin, Salwa Elshazly
  • Patent number: 10244012
    Abstract: A system and method to visualize activities through the use of avatars. The system includes a display engine configured to display at least one automated activity as an avatar. The system also includes a management system configured to monitor the progress of the at least one automated activity and alter at least one of an appearance and a movement of the avatar in relation to the progress of the at least one automated activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Michael J. Osias, Brian W. Sledge
  • Patent number: 10234940
    Abstract: A gaze tracker and a computer-implemented method for gaze tracking, comprising the steps of: recording video images of a being's eye such that an eye pupil and a glint on the eye ball caused by a light source ( ) are recorded; processing the video images to compute an offset between the position of the predetermined spatial feature and a predetermined position with respect to the glint; by means of the light source such as a display, emitting light from a light pattern at a location selected among a multitude of preconfigured locations of light patterns towards the being's eye; wherein the location is controlled by a feedback signal; controlling the location of the light pattern from one location to another location among the predefined locations of light patterns, in response to the offset, such that the predetermined position with respect to the glint caused by the light source tracks the predetermined spatial feature of the being's eye; wherein the above steps are repeated to establish a control loop with
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ITU Business Development A/S
    Inventors: Diako Mardanbegi, Dan Witzner Hansen
  • Patent number: 10230916
    Abstract: A remote control apparatus is provided, which includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a display apparatus, a first input including a plurality of direction keys, a second input disposed on an edge of the first input and including a plurality of keys corresponding to the plurality of direction keys, and a processor configured to transmit to the display apparatus a first control command to perform a function corresponding to a first direction and a first unit in response to selection of a first direction key among the plurality of direction keys of the first input, and transmit to the display apparatus a second control command to perform a function corresponding to the first direction and a second unit greater than the first unit in response to selection of a key corresponding to the first direction key among the plurality of keys of the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-min Hyun, Sung-hyuk Kwon, Jin-woo Ro, Won-jun Lee, Bum-ho Chun, So-young Jung, Jeong-hye Choi
  • Patent number: 10228562
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving an image for presenting on a display screen of a head mounted display (HMD). The image is provided by an application. The received image is pre-distorted to enable optics provided in a HMD to render the image. An alignment offset is identified for an eye of a user wearing the HMD by determining a position of the eye relative to an optical axis of at least one lens of the optics of the HMD. The pre-distorted image provided by the application is adjusted to define a corrected pre-distorted image that accounts for the alignment offset. The corrected pre-distorted image is forwarded to the display screen of the HMD for rendering, such that the image presented through the optics of the HMD removes aberrations caused by the alignment offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Eric Larsen
  • Patent number: 10217274
    Abstract: A digitally controlled lighting system where aspects have a central media server connected to remote media servers. The connection may have separate networks for control versus media. Automatic synchronization of the contents of the media servers may be carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Reese, Mark A. Hunt
  • Patent number: 10218508
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide isolated execution environments are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a machine status register to determine whether excess micro operations are available during an instruction cycle to execute a pico-application in response to a request for computing provided by a host application. The pico-application is a fragment of microcode. The microcode comprises a plurality of micro operations. The machine status register is also to determine whether space is available in a memory to load the pico-application. The example apparatus also includes a loader to load a virtual machine and the pico-application into the memory in response to the excess micro operations and the space in the memory being available. The virtual machine validates the pico-application and loads the pico-application into the memory. The example apparatus also includes a processor to execute the pico-application via the excess micro operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vincent J. Zimmer, Rajesh Poornachandran, Mingqiu Sun, Gopinatth Selvaraje
  • Patent number: 10210650
    Abstract: Processing of non-real-time and real-time workloads is performed using discrete pipelines. A first pipeline includes a first shader and one or more fixed function hardware blocks. A second pipeline includes a second shader that is configured to emulate the at least one fixed function hardware block. First and second memory elements store first state information for the first pipeline and second state information for the second pipeline, respectively. A non-real-time workload executing in the first pipeline is preempted at a primitive boundary in response to a real-time workload being dispatched for execution in the second pipeline. The first memory element retains the first state information in response to preemption of the non-real-time workload. The first pipeline is configured to resume processing the subsequent primitive on the basis of the first state information stored in the first memory element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Anirudh R. Acharya, Swapnil Sakharshete, Michael Mantor, Mangesh P. Nijasure, Todd Martin, Vineet Goel
  • Patent number: 10210636
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to ink a drawing. A coarse original sketch is loaded. User input drawing an initial stroke over the coarse original sketch is accepted. A stroke smoothness of the initial stroke is measured. A similarity between the initial stroke and the coarse original sketch is measured to determine a snap affect. The stroke smoothness and the snap affect are combined. The initial stroke is automatically/dynamically, without additional user input, modified based on the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Ning Liu, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 10204391
    Abstract: A tile-based graphics processing pipeline that uses primitive lists that can encompass plural rendering tiles includes a primitive list reading unit that reads primitive lists for a tile being rendered to determine primitives to be processed for the tile and a rasterizer that rasterizes input primitives to generate graphics fragments to be processed. The pipeline further comprises a comparison unit between the primitive list reading unit and the rasterizer that for primitives that have been read from primitive lists that include plural rendering tiles, compares the location of the primitive in the render target to the location of the tile being rendered, and then either sends the primitive onwards to the rasterizer if the comparison determines that the primitive could lie at least partially within the tile, or does not send the primitive to the rasterizer if the comparison determines that the primitive definitely does not lie within the tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Frode Heggelund, Jorn Nystad
  • Patent number: 10188945
    Abstract: A method, including: executing, by a cloud gaming system, a session of a video game; recording the user's gameplay of the video game; analyzing the user's recorded gameplay to determine a region of interest, the region of interest being a region of the video game having social network sharing levels that exceed a predefined threshold; during the session of the video game, receiving a request from the client device, the request being initiated from a button of a controller device interfaced to the client device; responsive to the request, presenting, through the client device, the region of interest; generating, by the cloud gaming system, a gameplay video of the video game based on the region of interest; sharing the gameplay video of the video game over the social network to one or more additional client devices for viewing by one or more additional users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Victor Octav Suba Miura, David Perry, Philippe Dias, Kelvin Yong
  • Patent number: 10187651
    Abstract: There is provided a decoding device including circuitry configured to receive coded data and conversion information, the coded data pertaining to an image having luminance in a first dynamic range and the conversion information pertaining to a conversion of dynamic range of the luminance of the image from the first dynamic range into a second dynamic range; and decode the received coded data so as to generate the image, wherein the conversion uses a knee function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kenichi Kanai, Toshiya Hamada, Takumi Tsuru, Hiroaki Eto
  • Patent number: 10179290
    Abstract: A method for gaming, including receiving from a client device of a user selection of a video recording of game play of a player for a gaming application, and streaming the video recording to the client device. The video recording is associated with a snapshot captured at a first point in the recorded game play. Selection of a jump point in the recorded game play is received from the client device. An instance of the gaming application is initiated based on the snapshot to initiate a jump game play. Input commands used to direct the game play and associated with the snapshot are accessed. Image frames are generated based on the input commands for rendering at the client device, the image frames replaying the game play to the jump point. Input commands from the client device are handled beginning from the jump point for the jump game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventor: Warren Benedetto
  • Patent number: 10180885
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for backing up and recovering data that allows the data to be modified and backed up even while recovery is still in progress. In some embodiments, the method includes performing a data recovery procedure on a computing system. The data recovery procedure includes identifying a set of data objects stored on a recovery system; retrieving the set of data objects; and storing data of the retrieved set of data objects to at least one storage device. Data objects may be prioritized so that data that is in demand is retrieved first. Data that is modified during the data recovery procedure is tracked and backed up to an object-storage system during the data recovery procedure. In some embodiments, backing up the modified data is part of an incremental backup procedure that excludes data objects that contains only unmodified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Mitch Blackburn, Charles Binford, Reid Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 10178380
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for predicting an eye position includes a storer configured to store detected position information of an eye of user during a sample time interval, a calculator configured to calculate a weighted average value of a variation of the detected position information, and a predictor configured to generate prediction position information of the eye of user at a target time based on the weighted average value, and the calculator is configured to apply a weight to the variation of the detected position information such that the weight increases as the target time is approached during the sample time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byong Min Kang, Jingu Heo, Dong Kyung Nam, Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10176627
    Abstract: A set of primitives is divided into plural sub-sets of primitives, and a tree representation for representing the set of primitives in which each leaf node of the tree represents one of the sub-sets, and each parent node of the tree represents a sub-set of primitives corresponding to the combination of the sub-sets of primitives of all of its child nodes, is generated. For each node of the tree representation data indicating: the sub-set of primitives that the node represents; the vertices that are used by the primitives in the sub-set of primitives that the node represents; and the volume of space that the sub-set of primitives that the node represents falls within, is determined. The tree representation is then used to determine a set of primitives and a set of vertices to be processed when processing the set of primitives for the output frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Brian Pearson, Ting Wei, Sergey Solovyev, Andreas Danner Nilsen, Alexander Galazin, Michel Iwaniec
  • Patent number: 10175310
    Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) system for determining at least one measuring point-in-time in a cardiac cycle for conducting diffusion measurements of the myocardium of an examination object, a sequence of MR images of the heart is acquired and a time curve of a parameter of the cardiac geometry is determined in the sequence of MR images. At least one mean of the parameter of the cardiac geometry is determined from the time curve of the parameter. For the determined at least one mean of the parameter, the associated point-in-time in the time curve of the parameter is determined in which the determined mean occurs, wherein the determined point-in-time defines the at least one measuring point-in-time in a cardiac cycle during which the diffusion measurements of the myocardium are carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Speier
  • Patent number: 10169494
    Abstract: In a slice image creation device, a topology construction processor constructs a topology to create a topology list of a target object model. A division determination processor determines whether or not there is a ridgeline or an apex at which the target object model is divisible in correspondence with topology groups. A division processor, in a case that, for example, there is a ridgeline that is in contact with 4 planes, divides the target object model into at least a first divided object model and a second divided object model along the ridgeline that is in contact with 4 planes. A slice image creation processor creates a first divided slice image and a second divided slice image respectively corresponding to the first divided object model and the second divided object model. A synthesis processor synthesizes the first divided slice image and the second divided slice image to create a target slice image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10169591
    Abstract: A tiered credentialing approach provides assurance to customers having virtual machines running in a remote environment that the virtual images for these machines are in a pristine state and running in a trusted execution environment. The environment can be divided into multiple subsystems, each having its own cryptographic boundary, secure storage, and trusted computing capabilities. A trusted, limited subsystem can handle the administrative tasks for virtual machines running on the main system of a host computing device. The limited system can receive a certificate from a certificate authority, and can act as a certificate authority to provide credentials to the main system. Upon an attestation request, the subsystems can provide attestation information using the respective credentials as well as the certificate chain. An entity having the appropriate credentials can determine the state of the system from the response and verify the state is as expected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew John Campagna, Gregory Alan Rubin, Eric Jason Brandwine, Matthew Shawn Wilson, Cristian M. Ilac
  • Patent number: 10169914
    Abstract: An indoor positioning method, indoor positioning system and indoor maps creating device thereof are provided. The method includes converting a panorama image corresponding to an indoor environment into a plurality of perspective images, and extracting a plurality of reference feature points and descriptors of the reference feature points from the perspective images; taking a shooting position of the panorama image as an origin, and recoding a plurality of 3D reference coordinate values corresponding to a central position of each perspective images; calculating 3D coordinate values of the reference feature points base on the 3D reference coordinate values, and storing the 3D coordinate values and the descriptors of the reference feature points as an indoor map corresponding to the indoor environment. The method also includes determining a 3D target coordinate value of a portable electronic device with respect to the origin of the indoor maps in the indoor environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Osense Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiung-Yao Huang, You-Kwang Wang
  • Patent number: 10169164
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating graphical maps showing the backup degrees of data modules located across one or more client computers in a network, and directing backup and recovery operations for those data modules. According to one embodiment, the backup system sends information requests to the client computers, and receives in response the backup degrees of the data modules contained by the client computers. The backup system then generates and displays the graphical map. The backup system then can direct backup and recovery operations by sending operation requests to the client computers and updating the graphical map when necessary. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Shelesh Chopra, Shilpa Mehta, Asif Khan
  • Patent number: 10169906
    Abstract: A system, method and a computer program product are provided for hybrid rendering with deferred primitive batch binning. A primitive batch is generated from a sequence of primitives. Initial bin intercepts are identified for primitives in the primitive batch. A bin for processing is identified. The bin corresponds to a region of a screen space. Pixels of the primitives intercepting the identified bin are processed. Next bin intercepts are identified while the primitives intercepting the identified bin are processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    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
  • Patent number: 10169839
    Abstract: A method of executing a graphics pipeline includes calculating, while executing the graphics pipeline on a current frame, a resource for processing properties of an object included in a following frame, determining, based on a result of the calculating, whether to perform a pre-process for the object included in the following frame, performing the pre-processing, when the pre-process is determined to be performed, comprising transforming the properties of the object that are to be processed in a graphics pipeline for the following frame, and executing, when the pre-process is to be performed, the graphics pipeline for the following frame by using the transformed properties of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changmoo Kim, Yeongon Cho, Soojung Ryu, Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10163260
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a map tool displaying a three-dimensional view of a map based on a three-dimensional model of the surrounding environment. The three-dimensional map view of a map may be based on a model constructed from multiple data sets, where the multiple data sets include mapping information for an overlapping area of the map displayed in the map view. For example, one data set may include two-dimensional data including object footprints, where the object footprints may be extruded into a three-dimensional object based on data from a data set composed of three-dimensional data. In this example, the three-dimensional data may include height information that corresponds to the two-dimensional object, where the height may be obtained by correlating the location of the two-dimensional object within the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Howard, Christopher Blumenberg