Color Or Intensity Patents (Class 345/589)
  • Patent number: 11361113
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for sensitive information leak prevention using electromagnetic rays to prevent image capture of sensitive information. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes rendering a presentation slide on a display device, identifying at least one portion of the rendered presentation slide that contains sensitive information, and determining a location of the identified at least one portion on the rendered presentation slide. The method also includes triggering at least one electromagnetic emitter to emit an electromagnetic signal within the location of the identified at least one portion of the rendered presentation slide. The emitted electromagnetic signal inhibits image capture of the sensitive information by an image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianze Jiang, Yihong Wu
  • Patent number: 11348283
    Abstract: An encoding device and a decoding device is disclosed. The encoding device includes a processor and a communication interface. The processor is configured to generate, for a 3D point cloud, a first frame representing a first attribute and a second frame representing a second attribute. The first and second frames include patches representing respective clusters of points from the 3D point cloud. The processor is configured to generate an occupancy map frame. The processor is configured to identify a query point that is positioned on a boundary of one of the patches. The processor is configured to perform smoothing with respect to the query point. The processor is configured to encode the frames and generate a compressed bitstream. The communication is configured to transmit the compressed bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Najaf-Zadeh, Madhukar Budagavi
  • Patent number: 11348287
    Abstract: A technique and computing device to render graphic objects associated with pattern paint in a digital medium environment are disclosed. The computing device comprises a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit associates a first surface to a framebuffer of the computing device, renders pattern cells at the first surface, and associates a second surface to the framebuffer of the computing device. The pattern cells correspond to pattern paints, and the pattern cells are rendered at the first surface independent of the sequential order of the pattern cells for rendering pattern paint. The graphics processing unit renders graphic objects associated with the pattern paints, and the graphic objects are rendered at the second surface in sequential order for rendering pattern paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Kumar, Anmol Sud
  • Patent number: 11341352
    Abstract: A method 140 of assessing an operator emotional state 131 and sending an alert 144 based on the emotional state 131. The method 140 includes tracking 141 during a time period, using at least one sensor 103, 105, 106, 112, 117, one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of an operator. Determining 142, using a controller 120 that is operatively connected to at least one sensor 103, 105, 106, 112, 117, a probability of a likely emotional state 131 from a list of emotional states 131 of an operator based on one of the image sensor data, voice data or the biometric parameter. Comparing 143, using a processor, the probability of one of the likely emotional states 131 of the operator with a baseline emotional state 131 of the operator. Sending 144, using the controller 120, an alert if most likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Stefan Alexander Schwindt, Alexander S. Chen, Peter H. Tu
  • Patent number: 11343477
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for correcting a color convergence error, and a device. The method includes: in a darkroom environment, acquiring a projection image obtained by projecting a test pattern containing N white shape points by a projection system, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; performing color separation on N shape image points on the projection image, to obtain N shape image points corresponding to R, G, and B color components respectively; determining color coordinates corresponding to R, G, and B according to the N shape image points corresponding to R, G, and B color components respectively; and adjusting an assembly parameter of the projection system according to the color coordinates corresponding to the R, G, and B. The present disclosure may detect and correct color convergence error of the projection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Xinxin Han, Nanjing Dong, Debo Sun
  • Patent number: 11331807
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for configuring an animatronic device. Information about a user is obtained for whom an animatronic device is to be configured to carry out a dialogue with the user and is used to select, from a plurality of selectable programs, a program related to a topic to be covered in the dialogue, where the program is to be used by the animatronic device to drive the dialogue with the user. The animatronic device is then configured based on the program for carrying out the dialogue with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DMAI, INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Nelson
  • Patent number: 11334233
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a color of an object displayed on a GUI. The method includes displaying on a graphical user interface a set of icons, each icon of the set being associated with a color, detecting a first user interaction on a first icon of the set, detecting a second user interaction that comprises at least a slide, modifying a value of a parameter of a first color associated with the first icon, the modification of the value being performed with the second user interaction, and computing a first new color that is the first color with the modified value of a parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventors: Christophe Delfino, Amal Plaudet-Hammani
  • Patent number: 11334192
    Abstract: A computing device is provided. The computing device comprises a first display device having a first capacitive touch sensor having a first current calibration map. The computing device further comprises a second display device having a second capacitive touch sensor. The computing device further comprises a processor configured to perform a first run-time calibration on the first capacitive touch sensor to generate a first calculated calibration map. The processor is further configured to perform a second run-time calibration on the second capacitive touch sensor to generate a second calculated calibration map. The processor is further configured to detect a replacement condition for the first calculated calibration map and replace the first current calibration map with the second calculated calibration map, such that the second calculated calibration map is utilized for the first capacitive touch sensor of the first display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Gilad Pundak
  • Patent number: 11336904
    Abstract: A video coder includes a processing resource and a non-transitory storage device containing instructions executable by the processing resource to compute a weighted ? frame based on a saliency map and a ? frame. The saliency map is to indicate the relative importance of each pixel in a current frame based on its perceptual significance. The ? frame is to include differences between corresponding pixels in a current frame and a motion predicted frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Q. Shaw, Jan P. Allebach, Edward J. Delp
  • Patent number: 11328342
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system receives a request for a product from a first entity that includes multiple components. The information handling system determines that the components include a set of printable 3D components and a set of non-printable 3D components. Next, the information handling system sends a set of component instructions to a second entity to print the set of printable 3D components and, in turn, sends a set of assembly instructions to the second entity to assemble the product using the set of 3D printable components and the set of non-printable 3D components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Garfield W. Vaughn, Moncef Benboubakeur, Julija Narodicka, Aaron K. Baughman
  • Patent number: 11308893
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a method for controlling brightness in mobile terminal display, a mobile terminal and a storage device, the method comprising: controlling an optical sensor and an acceleration sensor within a mobile terminal to respectively monitor in real time a change value for environmental brightness and a change value for angle of rotation; determining whether the change value for environmental brightness and the change value for angle of rotation as monitored by the mobile terminal are less than a preset brightness and a preset angle, respectively; and when yes, controlling the brightness in mobile terminal display to not change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: JRD Communication (Shenzhen) LTD.
    Inventors: Yanwen Chen, Yan Liu, Lanying He, Xiaobin Zhai, Junting Liu
  • Patent number: 11307427
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, an optical element, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to be able to switch an image displayed on subpixels between a left eye image and a right eye image. The display panel includes red subpixels and green subpixels which are different in a width in an x direction. The controller is configured to control the plurality of subpixels as a group, and is configured so that, when an image displayed by one red subpixel belonging to the group is changed from the left eye image to the right eye image, an image displayed by another red subpixel belonging to the same group is changed from the left eye image to the right eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11303862
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection section, a spectral imaging section, and a control section, wherein the control section makes the projection section project an adjusting image corresponding to a color and a gray level of an image to be projected by the projection section while changing the color and the gray level to a first color and a first gray level, the first color and a second gray level, a second color and a third gray level, and the second color and a fourth gray level, sets a measurement condition corresponding to the color to the spectral imaging section, and makes the spectral imaging section take the adjusting images projected by the projection section to obtain spectral imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Mano, Shinji Kubota, Hiroyuki Ichieda
  • Patent number: 11303781
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a combination unit configured to, in a case where print is print on a second sheet of paper out of two sheets of paper into which mark information for gradation adjustment is divided on a two colors-by-two colors basis, and a type of paper of the second sheet of paper is the same as a type of paper of a first sheet of paper, and in a case where a chart insertion job is not requested or the print is based on the chart insertion job, combine the mark information for gradation adjustment for remaining two colors or four colors with a print image in accordance with a size of the second sheet of paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kashiwagi, Junichi Mori, Aya Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11302256
    Abstract: An electroluminescence display device lowers peak brightness of a screen image based on a preset peak luminance control (PLC) curve as an average picture level (APL) of the image is increased. The electroluminescence display device includes a memory and a timing controller. The memory stores an ELVDD reference profile for defining EVDD adjusting levels for adjusting a high-potential pixel voltage applied to pixels of the screen image in units of 1 image frame and an MDATA reference profile for defining Max data adjusting values for adjusting image data applied to the pixels of the screen image in the units of 1 image frame, for matching target peak brightness for each preset APL section with the PLC curve. The timing controller calculates an EVDD adjusting value and a Max data adjusting value of a first image frame based on an analysis result of image data of the first image frame and information stored in the memory and modulates image data of the first image frame based on the Max data adjusting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Chul Kwon, Sung-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11298288
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosures relate aids for the visually impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: John N. Border
  • Patent number: 11302270
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed, the driving method includes: setting average values of a first component, a second component, and a third component of a first frame display image to be equal to a second average value, and setting the average values of both the first component and the third component of a second frame display image to be equal to a third average value, and setting the average value of the second component to be equal to a set average value; adjusting lightness of a backlight module according to the average values of the first component, the second component, and the third component corresponding to the original display image, the first frame display image, and the second frame display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Beizhou Huang
  • Patent number: 11302238
    Abstract: A display device includes: a target pixel; observation target pixels located adjacent to the target pixel; and a grayscale corrector for converting an input grayscale value corresponding to the target pixel with reference to observation target grayscale values corresponding to the observation target pixels. The grayscale corrector includes: a light emitting pixel counter for providing a number of light emitting pixels by counting a number of observation target pixels that exceeds a reference value; and a grayscale converter for providing a converted grayscale value by converting the input grayscale value, based on the number of light emitting pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Seung Kyu Lee, Choon Yul Oh, Jun Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 11302288
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques use a display device, in conjunction with various optical sensors, e.g., an ambient light sensor or image sensors, to collect information about the ambient lighting conditions in the environment of the display device. Use of this information—and information regarding characteristics of the display device—can provide a more accurate determination of unintended light being added to light driven by the display device. A processor in communication with the display device may evaluate a saturation model based, at least in part, on the received information about the ambient lighting conditions and display device characteristics to determine unintended light. The determined unintended light may prompt adjustments to light driven by the display device, such that the displayed colors remain relatively independent of the current ambient conditions. These adjustments may be made smoothly over time, such that they are imperceptible to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth I. Greenebaum, Denis V. Karch
  • Patent number: 11303861
    Abstract: A display for displaying image data includes defining virtual color gamuts based on a plurality of primary display colors associated with a light source. At least one of the virtual color gamuts is defined to approximate an established color gamut. Intensity values associated with the virtual color gamuts are generated based on received video data, and the intensity values associated with the virtual color gamuts are used to generate drive values for the primary colors of the light source. A display using one or more virtual color gamuts is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor Davies, Martin J. Richards, Ashley Penna
  • Patent number: 11297287
    Abstract: A projector includes a selection section configured to select an interface to which an image signal to be displayed by the projector out of the plurality of interfaces is input, a determination section configured to determine whether or not the interface selected is a compliant interface capable of establishing daisy chain connection, and a function control section configured to make the transition of the projector to a state of preventing a daisy chain function from being executed when the interface selected is not the compliant interface, and when the daisy chain function which can be executed in a state in which the projector is coupled to another projector with the daisy chain connection is set available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Fujimori, Shingo Yoshida, Takaaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11295644
    Abstract: A method for measuring a luminance profile of a display device including pixels divided into blocks, includes: measuring a first reference luminance profile when a partial area of each of the blocks is in a display state and a remaining area of each of the blocks is in a non-display state; measuring a first luminance profile when an entire area of a first block among the blocks is in the display state, the partial area of each of remaining blocks is in the display state, and the remaining area of each of the remaining blocks is in the non-display state; and measuring a second luminance profile when an entire area of a second block among the blocks is in the display state, the partial area of each of remaining blocks is in the display state, and the remaining area of each of the remaining blocks is in the non-display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seok Ha Hong
  • Patent number: 11297329
    Abstract: Provided is an image encoding method which inhibits deterioration in processing performance for encoding while improving transmission efficiency. The image encoding method is for generating a bitstream by encoding a picture, and includes: sequentially encoding blocks included in the picture; deriving an encoding amount of a slice segment each time one of the blocks is encoded as a current block, the slice segment including the current block; determining whether the encoding amount derived is at least a threshold; and setting end information indicating an end of the slice segment in a position in the bitstream when the encoding amount is determined to be at least the threshold, the position corresponding to the current block encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kusakabe, Shinji Kitamura, Kiyofumi Abe, Hideyuki Ohgose, Takashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11295480
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that comprises circuitry to store color data generated by a hardware graphics rendering pipeline of a graphics processing unit to a memory configured to store multiple sample locations per pixel. The circuitry is configured to determine a set of color values associated with multiple sample locations of a pixel within a scene, generate a compressed subset of the set of color values including distinct color values for the pixel, interleave the compressed subset of the set of color values for the pixel into a memory plane, apply lossless compression to the set of color values within the memory plane, and store the memory plane to a memory configured to store multiple sample locations per pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11295483
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for immersive deep learning in a virtual reality environment. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, via the extended reality platform, an image of a financial resource; electronically receive, via the extended reality platform, a first user input selecting a machine learning model type; electronically receive, via the extended reality platform, a second user input selecting one or more interaction options; initiate a machine learning model on the image; extract, using the machine learning model, one or more features associated with the image; generate, using the saliency map generator, a saliency map for the image by superimposing the one or more features on the image; and transmit control signals configured to cause the computing device associated with the user to display, via the extended reality platform, the saliency map associated with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Madhusudhanan Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 11287326
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for calibrating display devices, such as head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices. For each of a set of primary color light sources disposed in a unit, measurement points are obtained including chromaticity and luminance values as a function of temperature of the unit and drive currents of the primary color light sources. The measurement points are converted to an XYZ color space to produce XYZ values. For each of a set of target luminances and a set of discrete temperatures, primary luminances are calculated for each of the set of primary color light sources, and the drive currents and the XYZ values are interpolated or extrapolated for each of the primary luminances to obtain calculated currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Charles Capps
  • Patent number: 11289049
    Abstract: A colour processor for mapping an image from source to destination colour gamuts includes an input for receiving a source image having a plurality of source colour points expressed according to the source gamut; a colour characterizer configured to, for each source colour point in the source image, determine a position of intersection of a curve with the boundary of the destination gamut; and a gamut mapper configured to, for each source colour point in the source image: if the source colour point lies inside the destination gamut, apply a first translation factor to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a first range of values; or if the source colour point lies outside the destination gamut, apply a second translation factor, different than the first translation factor, to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a second range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Paolo Fazzini
  • Patent number: 11288845
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire target image data to be subjected to coloring, designate an area to be subjected to coloring by using reference information in the target image data, determine reference information to be used for the designated area, and perform a coloring process on the designated area by using the determined reference information, based on a learned model for coloring which has been previously learned in the coloring process using the reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Taizan Yonetsuji
  • Patent number: 11282230
    Abstract: An imaging unit acquires object information (e.g., captured image) representing a target object. A distance measurement unit measures the distance to the target object. An object detection unit detects the target object from the captured image. An object position detection unit detects the position of the target object on the basis of, for example, the position, in a captured image, of the target object, the distance to the target object, and parameter information stored in an information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Maeda
  • Patent number: 11281185
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional object data which represents, with plural voxels, a three-dimensional object including a shape obtained by repeating a unit shape and in which an attribute value is set for each of the plural voxels, a setting unit that sets a three-dimensional threshold matrix in which thresholds are arranged in a three-dimensional space in accordance with a predetermined basic shape, a correction unit that corrects a coordinate value of each of the plural voxels in a certain direction of the three-dimensional object such that the unit shape is formed from a first reference position in the certain direction, and a calculation unit that calculates, on a basis of the attribute value of each of the plural voxels whose coordinate values have been corrected and the three-dimensional threshold matrix, whether to form the voxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Torahiko Kanda, Yuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11282447
    Abstract: A method includes displaying an image on an organic light-emitting (OLED) display panel that includes a first display area having a first pixel density and a second display area having a second pixel density lower than the first pixel density, and while displaying the image, deactivating individual pixels in the first display area corresponding to a proximity of the individual pixels to the second display area such that a region of the first display area adjacent the second display area has a virtual pixel density between the first pixel density and the second pixel density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Sun-Il Chang
  • Patent number: 11282258
    Abstract: Image quality can be improved by rendering the image based on an importance map that indicates regions of the image that will benefit from more samples. Adaptive sampling determines a number of samples for each pixel of the image using a target sampling rate and the importance map for the image. The number of samples for each pixel needs to be a non-negative integer value, so the per-pixel sampling rates are quantized using per-pixel random values. The resulting quantized sampling rates provides a distribution of samples that closely matches the importance map. The per-pixel random values may vary over time so that the average of the distribution more closely matches the importance map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomas Guy Akenine-Möller, Jim Kjell David Nilsson, Johan Pontus Andersson
  • Patent number: 11270661
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an obtainer that obtains HDR video data representing a luminance of each pixel by a code value; a converter that converts the HDR video data into HDR video using a first EOTF; a region extractor that extracts a first region including a pixel having a code value included in a first range of less than a first code value corresponding to a first point at which a slope of a tangent to the first EOTF is a predetermined slope and a second region including a pixel having a code value included in a second range of greater than or equal to the first code value; an adjuster that increases a sharpness gain of the first region relative to a sharpness gain of the second region in the HDR video data; and a display that displays the HDR video using adjusted data resulting from the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Patent number: 11272039
    Abstract: A virtual reality network provides access to a number of virtual reality representations, each virtual reality representation representing a location in a virtual universe and defined by VR data stored on the network. The VR data can be in a simplified data format. A database stores the network address and the location in the universe of each virtual reality representation. A database server provides access to the database. The database server generates a list of locations in response to a location query from a visitor, and provides the network address of the virtual reality representation of a selected location. A visitor connects to the database server with a client host to visit the locations in the virtual universe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: John Cronin
  • Patent number: 11263476
    Abstract: The system and method are directed to a prototypical contrastive learning (PCL). The PCL explicitly encodes the hierarchical semantic structure of the dataset into the learned embedding space and prevents the network from exploiting low-level cues for solving the unsupervised learning task. The PCL includes prototypes as the latent variables to help find the maximum-likelihood estimation of the network parameters in an expectation-maximization framework. The PCL iteratively performs an E-step for finding prototypes with clustering and M-step for optimizing the network on a contrastive loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Junnan Li, Chu Hong Hoi
  • Patent number: 11263803
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and device for rendering virtual reality scenes. The method includes: obtaining a virtual reality scene and determining whether the virtual reality scene is in a rendering idle state; if the virtual reality scene is in the rendering idle state, performing image rendering on the virtual reality scene to generate a display image and store a correspondence between the display image and a display area; and obtaining a target area to be displayed of the virtual reality scene, calling a target display image corresponding to the target area according to the correspondence and displaying the target display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yadong Ding, Jian Sun, Ziqiang Guo, Lin Lin, Feng Zi, Bingxin Liu, Jiyang Shao, Yakun Wang, Binhua Sun
  • Patent number: 11263987
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods of contrast enhancement and dual-cell display apparatus. The method includes receiving an RGB value of each second pixel of a displayed image, and determining a brightness value of each first pixel according to the RGB value of each second pixel. The method also includes determining a local brightness adjustment factor and a global brightness adjustment factor by performing statistics processing for local region brightness values and global image brightness values according to the brightness value of each first pixel; and calculating a brightness drive signal corresponding to the first pixel, according to the brightness value of each first pixel, the local brightness adjustment factor and the global brightness adjustment factor. The brightness drive signal adjusts a transmittance of a corresponding pixel of the first panel. The global brightness adjustment factor adjusts an output brightness value of a corresponding pixel of the first panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Ge, Guang Tian
  • Patent number: 11258996
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display system including the steps of projecting, by one of the first projectors, a first image in one area, projecting, by one of the second projectors, a second image in the one area, estimating, by the control device, brightness of the plurality of first images and brightness of the plurality of second images, identifying, by the control device, a first dark image as the darkest image and a first adjustment target image, and identifying a second dark image as the darkest image and a second adjustment target image, and controlling, by the control device, a projector to thereby approximate the brightness of the first adjustment target image to the brightness of the first dark image, and controlling a projector to thereby approximate the brightness of the second adjustment target image to the brightness of the second dark image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Kashiwagi, Hiroyuki Ichieda, Shiki Furui
  • Patent number: 11257468
    Abstract: A user-mountable extended reality (XR) device capable of receiving and storing at least one of a plurality of user vision capability profiles. The user-mountable XR device comprises a data processing system configured to process input data representative of an input image to perform a modification of the input image based on performing a selection of a given profile of the at least one of the plurality of user vision capability profiles, thereby generating output data representative of an output image for display by the user-mountable XR device. Also described is a method of controlling such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Daren Croxford, Roberto Lopez Mendez
  • Patent number: 11249634
    Abstract: Provided is a method for configuring at least one rule, e.g., using a graphical user interface. The method may include displaying a graphical user interface including a polygon having at least three edges and an icon at a first position within the polygon. Each edge of the polygon may be associated with a potential outcome of at least one rule. An input to move the icon to a second position within the polygon may be received. The graphical user interface may be displayed with the icon at the second position within the polygon. A distance from the second position of the icon to each edge of the polygon may be determined. The rule(s) may be adjusted based on the distance from the second position of the icon to each edge of the polygon. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Nathan Ryan Wood, Carl David Tucker, Jr., Benjamin Scott Boding, Cory Howard Siddens, Andrew John Bruno Naumann zu Koenigsbrueck
  • Patent number: 11250761
    Abstract: Methods for driving electro-optic displays, especially bistable displays, include (a) using two-part waveforms, the first part of which is dependent only upon the initial state of the relevant pixel; (b) measuring the response of each individual pixel and storing for each pixel data indicating which of a set of standard drive schemes are to be used for that pixel; (c) for at least one transition in a drive scheme, applying multiple different waveforms to pixels on a random basis; and (d) when updating a limited area of the display, driving “extra” pixels in an edge elimination region to avoid edge effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Demetrious Mark Harrington
  • Patent number: 11244635
    Abstract: Visual safety is ensured when image switching takes place. When an image is switched by nonlinear reproduction, a display property is kept switched, during a transition display period, to a transition display property with a brightness level kept lower than a normal level, on the basis of pixel statistical information regarding the image. For example, an electro-optic conversion property is controlled to a transition property or the brightness level of a backlight is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 11238638
    Abstract: A graphics processing hardware pipeline is arranged to perform an edge test or a depth calculation. Each hardware arrangement includes a microtile component hardware element, multiple pixel component hardware elements, one or more subsample component hardware elements and a final addition and comparison unit. The microtile component hardware element calculates a first output using a sum-of-products and coordinates of a microtile within a tile in the rendering space. Each pixel component hardware element calculates a different second output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for different pixels defined relative to an origin of the microtile. The subsample component hardware element calculates a third output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for a subsample position defined relative to an origin of a pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Casper Van Benthem
  • Patent number: 11238057
    Abstract: The disclosed technique can be performed by a data intake and query system. The technique includes ingesting data including log data obtained over a network from systems, and receiving user input indicating a scope for retrieving data and a criterion expressed in a structured language. The technique further includes retrieving data based on the scope indicated by the user input and extracting a first field value and a second field value from the retrieved data based on the criterion and the scope. The first field value includes a first numerical value indicative of a measured characteristic of a computing device and the second field value includes a first dimension. The technique further includes storing a first structured metric and the first dimension in a time-series metrics store. The first structured metric includes the first numerical value. The first dimension is associated with the first numerical value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Amrittpal Singh Bath, Pratiksha Shah, Murugan Kandaswamy, Vishal Patel
  • Patent number: 11231895
    Abstract: An electronic device may include: a foldable housing; at least one sensor; a first display having a first size and a first pixel density; a second display having a second size and a second pixel density; a processor; and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: display at least one first surface image generated based on the window having the first size through the first display; change the size of the window to a third size based on information associated with the first display and the second display in response to detecting a first event through the at least one sensor based on the at least one first surface image being displayed; and display at least one second surface image generated based on the window, of which the size has been changed to the third size, through the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seonghoon Choi, Yongjin Kwon, Jeongwon Yang, Byungseok Jung, Il Jung, Jinwan An
  • Patent number: 11232765
    Abstract: Examples herein relate to monitor calibration. In some examples, monitor calibration can include a scaler processing resource and a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to cause the scaler processing resource to record, by a sensor included on a monitor, color measurements of the monitor in response to receiving record instructions from an external computing device, transmit the recorded color measurements to the external computing device, receive calibration instructions from the external computing device based on the recorded color measurements, and calibrate the monitor using the calibration instructions received from the external computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Syed S Azam, Greg Staten
  • Patent number: 11233915
    Abstract: A reading device includes a main body section, a cover configured to be opened and closed with respect to the main body section, a transport path constructed by the main body section and the cover, a roller that transports an original document, a glass plate arranged on the transport path, and a reading section that performs reading by receiving light through the glass plate, a display section, and a control section, and the control section causes the display section to display a device image in which a stain corresponding region corresponding to a position of the stain on the glass plate is specified in a glass plate image region expressing the glass plate, the device image being an image depicting the reading device in a state where the cover is opened and a configuration including a part of the transport path, the roller, and the glass plate is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kanai, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11216982
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing tools to validate color contrast are provided. To do so, three discrete color check processes are performed to ensure a user is able to identify when an icon is at risk of being inaccessible by some users. A border score considers each pixel at the edge of an icon compared to the background in which it is placed. An area score considers each discrete pixel of an icon compared to the background in which it is placed. A grid score considers a subdivision of an icon compared to the background in which it is placed. Using each of these three independent process, a summative score is provided. The summative score categories the icon into a risk level. Depending on the risk level, the icon may need to be refined to ensure it becomes more accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Noll, Eric Wilson, Mayur Rajendran, Alex Lende, Anna-Therese Fowler, Jay Vaglio
  • Patent number: 11209498
    Abstract: Automotive lighting unit is provided that includes a lighting device equipped with one or more OLED light sources, and an electronic device configured to determine a malfunctioning condition of an OLED light source. The electronic device is suitable to determine a leakage resistance of the OLED light source and determines a malfunctioning condition of the OLED light source based on the leakage resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.
    Inventors: Carlotta Burcovich, Giulio Manfreda, Sara Padovani
  • Patent number: 11209708
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display area including a liquid crystal layer disposed in a display area, the liquid crystal layer including a polymer and a liquid crystal molecule, wherein when a direction of light incident on the display area from a light source element is defined as an incident direction and a direction in which pixels are selected sequentially is defined as a scan direction, the incident direction is opposite to the scan direction, and a direction in which the polymer extends linearly crosses both the incident direction and the scan direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Tenfu Nakamura, Kentaro Okuyama