Attributes (surface Detail Or Characteristic, Display Attributes) Patents (Class 345/581)
  • Patent number: 9275496
    Abstract: A computer system is described for automatically generating a 3D model, including hardware and non-transitory computer readable medium accessible by the hardware and storing instructions that when executed by the hardware cause it to create wire-frame data of structures within a geographic area; identify a geographic location of a structure of the structures; receive multiple oblique images representing the geographic location and containing a real façade texture of the structure; locate a geographical position of a real façade texture of the structure; select one or more base oblique image from the multiple oblique images by analyzing, with selection logic, image raster content of the real façade texture depicted in the multiple oblique images, and, relate the real façade texture of the one or more base oblique image to the wire-frame data of the structure to create a three dimensional model providing a real-life representation of physical characteristics of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph G. Freund, Ran Gal
  • Patent number: 9250328
    Abstract: A graphics-aided geodesic device is provided. The device may include a display, camera, distance meter, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System, including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo) receiver and antenna, and horizon sensors. Data from the camera and horizon sensors may be displayed to assist the user in positioning the device over a point of interest. In one example, the distance meter may be used to determine the position of the point of interest. In another example, images of the point of interest taken from multiple locations may be used to determine the position of the point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Javad GNSS, Inc.
    Inventors: Javad Ashjaee, Mikhail Gribkov, Lev Rapoport
  • Patent number: 9246904
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow for secure access to websites and web-based applications and other resources available through the browser. Also described are systems and methods for invocation of a secure web container which may display data representative of a requesting party's application at a user's machine. The secure web container is invoked upon receipt of an API call from the requesting party. Thus, described in the present specification are systems and methods for constructing and destroying private, secure, browsing environments (a secure disposable web container), insulating the user and requesting parties from the threats associated with being online for the purposes of providing secure, policy-based interaction with a requesting party's online services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Authentic8, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Rajagopal, Scott M. Petry, James K. Tosh, Peter K. Lund, Fredric L. Cox, Adam P. Moore
  • Patent number: 9241165
    Abstract: A method of controlling a compression of an image according to a degree of photo-realism in the image, comprising computing a value indicating a degree of photo-realism for an input image based on a distribution of pixel luminance values within the image, calculating a configuration parameter based on the photo-realism value for the image, and configuring an encoder to compress the image according to the configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: BEAMR IMAGING LTD
    Inventors: Sharon Carmel, Dror Gill, Tamar Shoham
  • Patent number: 9232154
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of methods, machine-readable media, and computing devices allowing object selection in an image are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include detecting one or more features of an object in a machine-readable image file, simulating an electrostatic charge distribution by assigning a virtual point charge to each of the one or more detected features, determining a virtual electric potential field resulting from the simulated electrostatic charge distribution, and selecting a portion of the object in the machine-readable image file that is bounded by an equipotential line in the virtual electric potential field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dmitry Vasilievich Ragozin, Iliya Mikhailovich Mironov
  • Patent number: 9218224
    Abstract: A disclosed electronic apparatus in which an application program is installable includes an interface information extracting unit configured to extract interface information of a method from an intermediate code of a first application program; and an interface providing unit configured to provide an interface for the method indicated by the interface information, wherein the interface providing unit calls the first application program for the method corresponding to the identification information in response to a request including the identification information of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Araki
  • Patent number: 9218573
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a model using parameter server shards. One of the methods includes receiving, at a parameter server shard configured to maintain values of a disjoint partition of the parameters of the model, a succession of respective requests for parameter values from each of a plurality of replicas of the model; in response to each request, downloading a current value of each requested parameter to the replica from which the request was received; receiving a succession of uploads, each upload including respective delta values for each of the parameters in the partition maintained by the shard; and updating values of the parameters in the partition maintained by the parameter server shard repeatedly based on the uploads of delta values to generate current parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Corrado, Kai Chen, Jeffrey A. Dean, Samy Bengio, Rajat Monga, Matthieu Devin
  • Patent number: 9216346
    Abstract: A workflow for 3D content authoring, delivery, and rendering is facilitated based on pre-authored image projections to obtain improvements in authoring efficiency. Additionally, a content delivery platform centered on such pre-authored image projections provides a mechanism for significantly improving streaming efficiency for 3D worlds. Multiple images encode primary surface detail of 3D worlds in real-time applications. Examples of such projections include images that can be as rich as film frames, feature animation frames, high end digital renders, concept paintings, or any suitable combination thereof. An algorithm for improved image projection camera path trajectories, sampling selection, and blending may be implemented by various systems and methods to facilitate smooth transitions during movements of a player within a game set in the 3D space. In addition, a back-projection technique may be implemented by various systems and methods to propagate revisions of one or more projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: James Ho, Szymon Swistun, Sulabh Patel, Nils Jonas Norberg
  • Patent number: 9219903
    Abstract: One or more techniques to reduce or eliminate the false depth of objects that move along the axis of ocular separation when displayed using time division multiplexing. Experiments can be performed to determine a perceived depth of an object moving with known velocity. Then, when rendering stereoscopic image pairs, the location of the object can be modified to change the perceived stereoscopic depth of the object to compensate for the false depth. In one technique, the images can be displayed with alternating left- and right-precedence to reduce the perception of false depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Dominic Glynn, Rod Bogart
  • Patent number: 9215126
    Abstract: This information processing system processes information through communication between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The second information processing device has a recording unit and a control unit. The recording unit records a first OS and a second OS. The control unit selects one of the first OS and the second OS, according to a connection state with the first information processing device. The control unit controls the second information processing device or a combination of the first information processing device and the second information processing device, using the OS selected here.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Tahara, Dai Fujikawa, Hirofumi Asakura, Hikaru Fujiwara, Shinji Goto, Takehiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9208605
    Abstract: Multisampling techniques provide temporal as well as spatial antialiasing. Coverage for a primitive is determined at multiple sample locations for a pixel. In one embodiment, coverage is determined using boundary equations representing a boundary surface of the primitive in a three-dimensional space-time. A shading value for the primitive is computed for the pixel and stored for each coverage sample location of the pixel that is covered by the primitive. The sample locations are distributed in both space and time, and multiple sample locations share a single shading computation. The multisampling techniques are extendable to other dimensions that correspond to other image attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Cass W. Everitt, Rui M. Bastos
  • Patent number: 9196090
    Abstract: It is provided a computer-implemented method for designing a 3D modeled object. The method comprises providing a base mesh controlling a subdivision surface. The subdivision surface models the 3D modeled object. The method also comprises providing a polyline consisting of connected edges of the base mesh and defining a smooth portion of the polyline comprising an extremity of the polyline and a sharp portion of the polyline upstream the smooth portion. The method also comprises converting faces of the mesh adjacent to the polyline into parametric patches approximating the subdivision surface. The patches have a G0 connection across the sharp portion of the polyline, and the patches have a Gi connection across the smooth portion of the polyline, where i is an integer higher or equal to 1. Such a method improves the design of a 3D modeled object modeled by a subdivision surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes
    Inventor: Richard Maisonneuve
  • Patent number: 9183304
    Abstract: An efficient fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The efficient fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information efficiently and/or provides a status of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 9177053
    Abstract: A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LINKEDIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 9170682
    Abstract: An image processing method for an optical touch system includes the steps of obtaining an image and generating a light distribution curve pattern from the image, selecting a target signal of the light distribution curve pattern in accordance with light intensity information of the light distribution curve pattern, determining at least one rising slope and at least one falling slope of the target signal, and selecting the target signal as an object signal when the absolute values of the at least one rising slope and at least one falling slope are greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Tzung Min Su, Yu Chia Lin, Teng Wei Hsu, Chih Hsin Lin, Cheng Nan Tsai
  • Patent number: 9171349
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for application broadcasting. For one embodiment, pixel data being broadcast from a moderator to one or more participants is divided into tiles. Display data is generated for each tile. Each display data segment (segment) contains the pixel data for the tile, and also contains a tile identifier. The segments are periodically evaluated. If the pixel data has changed, the segment is replaced with the most recent segment corresponding to that tile. A time indicator is also included within each segment for each tile indicating the time at which the segment was updated. A participant DPS requests data from the server and provides the time indicator for the last segment it received. The server then transmits the current segment for each tile that has been updated subsequently. This allows presentation at the participant's DPS of the most current version of the moderator's display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: InterCall Canada, Inc.
    Inventor: Doug Lauder
  • Patent number: 9165071
    Abstract: A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 9159269
    Abstract: A display device includes: a reflective image display unit having a display region provided with an array of pixels; an illumination unit that illuminates the display region of the image display unit; and a light control unit that controls the intensity of the illumination light from the illumination unit according to ambient illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yata, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9152970
    Abstract: A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a collaborative application session between client computing devices and content providers in conjunction with a network computing provider. The client computing devices request access to a group browsing context at a network computing provider. The network computing provider provides processing results corresponding to processed representations of requested content to the client computing devices. The client computing devices may each display the representations of the requested content in a browser. The network computing provider may further provide co-interaction data to the client computing devices for display. The co-interaction data may represent interactions of one or more users with the representations of content displayed at the user's respective client computing devices. Additionally, one or more interactions may be associated to be local to client computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew L. Trahan, Brett R. Taylor, Jonathan A. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 9152601
    Abstract: An approach and a method for efficient execution of nested map-reduce framework workloads to take advantage of the combined execution of central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) and lower latency of data access in accelerated processing units (APUs) is described. In embodiments, metrics are generated to determine whether a map or reduce function is more efficiently processed on a CPU or a GPU. A first metric is based on ratio of a number of branch instructions to a number of non-branch instructions, and a second metric is based on the comparison of execution times on each of the CPU and the GPU. Selecting execution of map and reduce functions based on the first and second metrics result in accelerated computations. Some embodiments include scheduling pipelined executions of functions on the CPU and functions on the GPU concurrently to achieve power-efficient nested map reduce framework execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Patryk Kaminski, Mauricio Breternitz, Gary R. Frost, Christophe Harle
  • Patent number: 9142736
    Abstract: The present invention provides an LED encapsulation and a manufacturing method thereof. The LED encapsulation includes: a first frame (10), a plurality of LED elements (20), encapsulant (30), and the quantum dot rail (40). The first frame (10) includes a PCB (12) and four sidewalls (14). The four sidewalls (14) surround and circumferentially delimit an accommodation space (18). The plurality of LED elements (20) is mounted on the PCB (12) and in electrical connection therewith. The encapsulant (30) is filled in the accommodation space (18). The four sidewalls (14) each have a top end portion forming a mounting section (16). The quantum dot rail (40) is mounted in the mounting sections (16) so that the quantum dot rail (40) is located above the encapsulant (30). The first frame (10), the plurality of LED elements (20), and the quantum dot rail (40) are collectively and integrally encapsulated so as to be fixedly assembled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yongyuan Qiu, Chihtsung Kang, Shengjer Chang Chien, Zanjia Su
  • Patent number: 9135734
    Abstract: A method for rendering a page including: obtaining an electronic document (ED) having: a container object with a first member and a second member; multiple shadow parameters defining a shadow of the container object; and multiple shadow parameters defining a shadow of solely the first member; determining a main bounding box surrounding the container object on the page but excluding the shadow of the first member; creating a main brush having the container object but excluding the shadow of the first member; calculating a shadow bounding box based on the main bounding box surrounding the container; creating a shadow brush by applying a shadow transformation matrix to the main brush having the container object; outputting the shadow of the first container object to a framebuffer for the page; and outputting, by processing the first member, the first member and the shadow of the first member to the framebuffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Darrell Bellert
  • Patent number: 9123300
    Abstract: Electrophoretic displays (EPDs) and methods for controlling EPDs are disclosed herein. An embodiment of an EPD includes a first operating format, wherein pixels on at least one area of the EPD are driven individually. The EPD has a second operating format, wherein a plurality of pixels constituting at least one area of the EPD are driven simultaneously. Both the first operating format and the second operating format are performable simultaneously on the EPD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Philippe Gentric, Julien Sylvain Carre, Sathish Thoppay Egambaram
  • Patent number: 9100678
    Abstract: An image display method comprises uploading images from a terminal of users to a server via a network, storing the images uploaded by the users in the server, calculating a value of the stored images, displaying a predetermined number of images among the stored images at the terminal in a manner in accordance with the value of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Houjou
  • Patent number: 9081801
    Abstract: A method for creating and using metadata supersets for matching images includes identify images from a first source of images and identify images from a second source of images. Images from the first source that match images from the second source are identified as matching images. Metadata associated with the matching images are extracted to form a superset of metadata for the matching images. The superset of metadata is analyzed to create a product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Lyons, Feng Tang
  • Patent number: 9077833
    Abstract: Display operation portion of electronic apparatus includes screen on which information is displayed, and accepts touching operation. Control portion executes predetermined function. Option image display portion treats, as one set, plurality of option images corresponding to plurality of options that can be setting content of function, and displays one set of option images on screen so as to be arranged along first direction set in advance on screen. Selecting operation accepting portion accepts selecting operation of selecting one of plurality of option images. Determining operation accepting portion accepts determining operation of moving selected option image from display position of one set of option images to determination area which is provided, on screen, separately from display position in second direction different from first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kenta Nakatsu
  • Patent number: 9053427
    Abstract: An efficient fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The efficient fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information efficiently and/or provides a status of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 9043396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for annotating electronic meetings are generally provided. Embodiments herein may include receiving an indication of one or more trusted users for an electronic meeting. The one or more trusted users may include a subset of a plurality of attendees of the electronic meeting. Annotation privileges may be associated with the one or more trusted users for the electronic meeting. An annotation associated with the electronic meeting may be received from at least one of the one or more trusted users. An output representative of the annotation may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mette Friedel Margareta Hammer, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
  • Publication number: 20150138219
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for processing an image just-in-time, e.g., upon receiving a request for an image (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology include processing one or more original images based on a recipe and attributes of the end user device on which the image is viewed to generate a rendered image. A recipe can specify various image processing operations such as a target size, resolution, or color pattern of the image to be rendered, a target portion of the image to be highlighted or cropped etc. In some embodiments, the recipe and the one or more original images can be provided by a client who wishes to publish the rendered image. The end user device attributes such as a type of the end user device, a display size, a display resolution, ambient lighting etc. are also considered for rendering the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Zebrafish Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Zacharias, Jeremy Larkin, David Birdsong
  • Patent number: 9035963
    Abstract: A display control apparatus including a first image data input unit to which first image data is input, a second image data input unit to which second image data is input, a user operation reception unit that receives a user operation, an image quality correction unit that performs image quality correction processing of input first image data in response to the user operation and generates and outputs image data for display of the first image data or of corrected first image data, an image quality adjustment unit that performs image quality adjustment processing of the image data output from the image quality correction unit and the second image data using preset parameters, and a control unit that controls the image quality adjustment unit to disable/enable the image quality adjustment processing with the image quality correction unit in on/off state, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Miyako Minobe
  • Patent number: 9036860
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for editing propagation of video and image content based on local feature structure preservation, comprising: mapping all pixels in the input original image and/or video key frames to a selected feature space; finding K nearest neighbor pixels for each pixel according to feature vectors' Euclidean distance in the selected feature space; using Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) dimension reduction to construct the locally linear relationship between each pixel and its K nearest neighbor pixels in the selected feature space; According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately perform such image or video processing as automatic color transformation, interactive color editing, gray image colorization, video cloning and image matting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xiaowu Chen, Dongqing Zou, Qinping Zhao, Jianwei Li, Feng Ding
  • Patent number: 9030474
    Abstract: A three-dimensional computer graphics rendering system allows a tile-based rendering system to operate with a reduced amount of storage required for tiled screen space geometry by using an untransformed display list to represent the screen's geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies, Limited
    Inventor: John W. Howson
  • Patent number: 9030539
    Abstract: This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 9025173
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display device configured to display a plurality of images. At least one common setting is provided in common for the images, and an individual setting is allowed to be set individually for each image. A controller controls the display device to display the at least one common setting when the images displayed on the display device are being scrolled. When the images displayed on the display device are not being scrolled, the controller controls the display device to display at least one individual setting and at least one image of the images such that each of the at least one individual setting is displayed in association with a corresponding one of the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 9025083
    Abstract: The device (1) comprises means (7) for assigning, for each pixel of a second image, a part of the three components (red, green, blue) defining the color constituting the pixel, to a component alpha containing an item of information relating to transparency and allowing management thereof, in such a way as to obtain a coded image, and means (2) comprising a digital electronic card (9) which is formed in such a way as to decode said coded image so as to extract the information relating to transparency, and to merge this image thus decoded with a first image, while taking account of said item of information relating to transparency, the image resulting from this merging being displayed by appropriate means (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: MBDA France
    Inventors: Xavier Gauquelin, Hervé Picard, Jérôme Pilchen
  • Patent number: 9026466
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, financial data is extracted from a financial manager, and the financial data is mapped to compliance data from a compliance manager. One or more controls of one or more accounts from compliance data is selected to be in scope, and an assessment plan is created for the selected one or more controls within scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Appla Jagadesh Padala, Dane Roberts, Bhaskar Ghosh, Hernan Capdevila
  • Publication number: 20150116343
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an image processor, a processor, and a controller. The image processor configured to determine a boundary of displays and images on both sides of the boundary from an image captured by an image capturer, and configured to extract a difference of image reproducing characteristics of the images of the both sides of the boundary. The processor configured to set an image reproducing characteristics setting value to change image reproducing characteristics of the image on one side of the boundary extracted by the image processor. The controller configured to supply the image reproducing characteristics setting value to one of the display devices through a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9019193
    Abstract: A method of compensating image data, the method includes generating a compensation data of an image data in accordance with a temperature value by using a compensation data of a previous frame and a compensation data generated through a look-up table which is mapped with corresponding to a compensation data of a previous frame and a set temperature value which is smaller than and closest to the temperature value or which is greater than and closest to the temperature value among set temperature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Im Park, Jun-Pyo Lee, Ik-Huyn Ahn, Ho-Seok Son, Kang-Min Kim, Jung-Won Kim, Seon-Ki Kim
  • Publication number: 20150109318
    Abstract: An inspection record apparatus includes: a display unit; a memory unit configured to store inspection record data including image information concerning a subject and information concerning a damaged state of the subject, and information indicating whether the information concerning the damaged state is in a confirmed status or not; a display control unit configured to read the inspection record data to develop the information concerning the damaged state on an image corresponding to the image information, and display the resultant image onto the display unit; a detection unit configured to detect an operation for the information concerning the damaged state; a storage unit configured to store the information indicating that the information concerning the damaged state is in the confirmed status into the memory unit; and a changing unit configured to change a display manner of the information concerning the damaged state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Shingo ITO, Koki TATEISHI, Masumi NOMURA, Tatsuya SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20150109316
    Abstract: A system and method for making a map is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method for making a map can comprise the steps storing in a map file within a data store a first set of shapes that together define a geographic region, and storing in the data store data related to a landmark at least partially within the geographic region. The shapes each comprising a unique track code. Additionally, the method further comprising the steps associating the landmark with each of the shape files comprising a relationship to the landmark and displaying on a map of the geographic region, visual representations of the attributes. The display viewable on a computer screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: eQuisition, LLC.
    Inventors: James Norman Burgin, Heather Womble, Robert Gould
  • Patent number: 9013477
    Abstract: A system for output of virtual output images includes an array of image capturing devices for providing image data. This image data is processed by convolving the image data with a function, e.g., the path, and thereafter deconvolving them, either after or before summation, with an inverse point spread function or a filter equivalent thereto to produce all-focus image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz, Frederik Jan De Bruijn
  • Patent number: 9013496
    Abstract: Some implementations disclosed herein provide techniques and arrangements to render global light transport in real-time or near real-time. For example, in a pre-computation stage, a first computing device may render points of surfaces (e.g., using multiple light bounces and the like). Attributes for each of the points may be determined. A plurality of machine learning algorithms may be trained using particular attributes from the attributes. For example, a first machine learning algorithm may be trained using a first portion of the attributes and a second machine learning algorithm may be trained using a second portion of the attributes. The trained machine learning algorithms may be used by a second computing device to render components (e.g., diffuse and specular components) of indirect shading in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jiaping Wang, Peiran Ren, Minmin Gong, Xin Tong, Stephen S. Lin, Baining Guo
  • Patent number: 9013492
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuya Sano, Kazuto Nishizawa, Iori Nishiuchi
  • Patent number: 9013497
    Abstract: An approach for determining transducer functions for mapping objective image attribute values to estimated subjective attribute values. The approach includes determining objective attribute values for each of one or more aesthetic attributes for each image in a first set of images. The approach further includes determining, for each aesthetic attribute, a mapping from the objective attribute values to respective estimated subjective attribute values based on the objective attribute values and corresponding experimentally-determined attribute values. Using the determined mappings, aesthetic signatures, which include estimates of subjective image aesthetics across multiple dimensions, may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Tunc Ozan Aydin, Aljosa Smolic
  • Patent number: 9007392
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing contrast of a color image displayed on a display system and an image processing system utilizing the same. In the present invention, the gray values of R, G, and B components of one color image are separately counted during processing the image. When calculating the corresponding output values for the gray values of R, G, and B components in each pixel, they are adapted to ratios between the gray values of R, G, and B components. Therefore, the present invention can effectively maintain the color distribution for a considerable degree and greatly enhance the image contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-rong Chen, Chun-chieh Chiu
  • Patent number: 9008860
    Abstract: A vehicle remote control device includes a communications device for transferring vehicle movement control signals to a remote vehicle and a touch-screen interface configured to present a graphical representation of the remote vehicle and to allow a user to manipulate the graphical representation on the touch-screen. A conversion component converts the manipulation of the graphical representation into vehicle control signals for transfer by the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Anthony James Waldock, Gemma Anne Innes-Jones, Peter Stephen Day
  • Patent number: 9007397
    Abstract: An image control apparatus wherein an acquisition unit acquires position information from attribute information of the image, a setting unit sets a display scale of a map when displaying the image on the map, and a generation unit generates display data for displaying the map and the image on a display device using the acquired position information and the set display scale, when the set display scale is lower than a predetermined display scale, the generation unit generates display data in which the image is laid out at a position corresponding to the position information on the map, and when the display scale is higher than the predetermined display scale, the generation unit generates display data in which the image and the map are laid out without laying out the image on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Chiaki Mikawa
  • Patent number: 9007388
    Abstract: Surfaces without a global surface coordinate system are divided into surface regions having local surface coordinate systems to enable the caching of surface attribute values. A surface attribute value for a surface region may include contributions from two or more adjacent surfaces. Sample points may be arranged at the corners, rather than centers, of surface regions and include prefiltered values based on two or more surfaces. A renderer may sample the surface attribute function using these prefiltered values without accessing any adjacent surfaces, even if the renderer's filter crosses a surface boundary. A multiresolution cache stores surface attribute values at different resolution levels for surface regions of one or more surfaces, which may be discontiguous. Two or more resolution levels may have the same number of sample points but have values based on filters with different areas and spatial frequency limits. Resolution levels may be selected based on geodesic distance on a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Robert L. Cook, Peter-Pike Sloan, Manuel Kraemer, Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn
  • Publication number: 20150091936
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display unit and M sensing units, and an operating system and K applications based on the operating system are installed on the electronic device, M and K are positive integers. The method includes: detecting N sensed parameters by N sensing units in the M sensing units, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M; determining an object corresponding to the N sensed parameters; recording the N sensed parameters and the object; and adjusting a display parameter for a display object displayed on the display unit according to the N sensed parameters and object that are recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicants: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Shifeng Peng, Xiangyang Li, Gaoge Wang, Kai Kang, Zhixiang Wang
  • Patent number: RE45451
    Abstract: The system control section 50 displays the entire original image as a display image, or scrolls a display image with a part of the original image being the display image, depending on relationship between the aspect ratios of the original image and the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masato Sanno