Transparency (mixing Color Values) Patents (Class 345/592)
  • Patent number: 10896661
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a memory unit; and a processor configured to store image data of all pixels of a zone set in a first image frame in an area of the memory unit, which corresponds to the zone, when at least one of the pixels of the zone does not satisfy a predefined condition, and not to store image data of each of the pixels of the zone in the area of the memory unit, which corresponds to the zone, when all the pixels of the zone satisfy the predefined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-hoon Kim, Kwang-sun Baek, Jung-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10803474
    Abstract: A system for mobile devices that facilitates the creation and dissemination of interactive advertisements to a plurality of mobile devices. A computer or PC comprising an interactive media creator is used to generate interactive advertisements and communicate it to a distribution server. Mobile devices have an interactive media client component to receive and present interactive media, such as these interactive advertisements, to a user. User response is collected, user interaction is monitored and reported. Charging for distributing advertisements is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Qualtrics, LLC
    Inventor: Bindu Rama Rao
  • Patent number: 10796343
    Abstract: A system for monetization of content includes a storage device for storage and retrieval of data, and a library of content and advertisements stored within the storage device. The library comprises an organizational structure for facilitating the storage and retrieval. The system also includes a monetization engine for identifying within the library a first content item having a first monetizable feature. The system is configured for selecting a second content item from several content items within the library, and associating the second content item to the first content item by using the first monetizable feature for presentation of the second content item in conjunction with the first content item. Further embodiments include various additional systems, methods, and computer readable media for implementation of the foregoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: R2 Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Athellina Athsani, Chris Higgins, Joseph O'Sullivan, Marc Davis, Ron Martinez
  • Patent number: 10784941
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting reference signals in a wireless network using a plurality of beams comprises obtaining a node identifier for the network node. The node identifier is unique for neighboring network nodes within a particular coverage area of the wireless network. The method further comprises obtaining a group of reference signal sequences. The group comprises a subset of a pool of possible reference signal sequences for use in the wireless network. Each reference signal sequence is associated with a beam reference identifier. The method further comprises selecting a reference signal sequence from the obtained group: scrambling a reference signal transmission pattern using the obtained node identifier and the selected reference signal sequence with associated beam reference identifier; and transmitting the scrambled reference signal transmission pattern to a user equipment on one of the beams among the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pradeepa Ramachandra, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Reza Moosavi, Edgar Ramos, Claes Tidestav, Umut Ugurlu
  • Patent number: 10785178
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a mobile device associated with a user from one or more computing devices associated with a social-networking system, content for a notification and instructions to display the notification in a user interface of the application, and displaying the content for the notification as a structured card over a background in the user interface. The method may include detecting a user interaction with the notification. The method may then include sending information about the user interaction with the notification to a third-party server associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mykyta Lutsenko, Supratik Lahiri, Fosco J. Marotto, John Jacob Blakeley
  • Patent number: 10754518
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for utilizing a push notification action engine (e.g., a push notification action engine of a client device). The techniques include receiving a push notification comprising a structured data payload, the structured data payload comprising a specification of content to be rendered on a display of the client device. The push notification action engine generates display information in accordance with the specification and sends the display information to the operating system of the client device. Sending the display information to the operating system may cause the operating system to render a user interface component on the display of the client device. The push notification action engine may receive user input associated with the user interface component and cause execution of one or more workflows in response to receipt of the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Ingram Bell, Biswadeep Das, Anirban Ghosh, Deepak Goyal, Tegdeep Kondal, Pradeep Bangalore Manjunathaiah, Vinay Vishwanath Rao, Ajay Rethinasabapathi, Vishal Mangesh Shanbhag
  • Patent number: 10754449
    Abstract: A stylus brush for creating paintbrush-like digital effects using a digitizer. The stylus brush includes sensing filaments. The sensing filaments include a conductor extending the length of the filament, wherein the conductor transmits light or current along the length of the filament; a cladding or insulator juxtaposed against the conductor; and a means for changing a light or electrical property passing through the conductor when the filament bends along the length as compared to the light or electrical property of the filament in a nonbent condition, wherein the filament has a width not more than 1 mm and length not more than 10 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David C. Fleck, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10748254
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a comparison unit and a control unit. The comparison unit compares a light-dark pattern of a plurality of pixels of an input image with a previously-stored pattern to determine a semitransparent object. The plurality of pixels include a pixel of interest and peripheral pixels thereof. The control unit changes intensity of edge correction processing to be applied to the pixel of interest in at least three levels based on a result of the comparison by the comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichirou Haruta
  • Patent number: 10725612
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a desktop icon display method and a mobile terminal, relates to the field of mobile communications, and enhances a visual effect, of a user desktop icon, produced when the mobile terminal is shaken. The display method provided by the present invention is applied to a mobile terminal. A desktop icon is displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal by using a first color set; a moving angle of the mobile terminal is obtained; and if the moving angle of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset angle, the desktop icon is displayed by using a second color set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Qian, Liwei Huang, Jianhua Li
  • Patent number: 10685608
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display including a backlight comprising a plurality of light sources and a display panel and configured to display a background image including a preset object, a sensor disposed at an outer part of the display and configured to sense an external lighting environment and a processor configured to determine a direction of a lighting based on the sensed lighting environment, to display a shadow object for the preset object at a position corresponding to the determined lighting direction, and to adjust a brightness of a light source corresponding to a position of the shadow object from among the plurality of light sources based on the sensed lighting environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-won Son, Dae-bong Lee, Ki-suk Kim, Soo-hong Kim, Jong-ho Kim, Hyun-suk Kim, Shin-woo Choi
  • Patent number: 10671242
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a desktop icon display method and a mobile terminal, relates to the field of mobile communications, and enhances a visual effect, of a user desktop icon, produced when the mobile terminal is shaken. The display method provided by the present invention is applied to a mobile terminal. A desktop icon is displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal by using a first color set; a moving angle of the mobile terminal is obtained; and if the moving angle of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset angle, the desktop icon is displayed by using a second color set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Qian, Liwei Huang, Jianhua Li
  • Patent number: 10652523
    Abstract: There is provided a method performed in a multi-sensor video camera having a first and a second sensor with partly overlapping fields of view. A first and a second received video frame being simultaneously captured each has a non-overlapping portion and an overlapping portion. A frame of a first video stream is generated by joining together image data from the non-overlapping portions of the first and the second video frame with image data from the overlapping portion of the first video frame only, and a frame of a second video stream is generated to include image data from the overlapping portion of at least the second video frame. The frame of the first video stream and the frame of the second video stream are processed in parallel, wherein the processing of the frame of the second video stream includes preparing an overlay based on the image data from the overlapping portion of at least the second video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventors: Toivo Henningsson, Song Yuan
  • Patent number: 10643370
    Abstract: A projection-based frame is generated according to an omnidirectional video frame and an octahedron projection layout. The projection-based frame has a 360-degree image content represented by triangular projection faces assembled in the octahedron projection layout. A 360-degree image content of a viewing sphere is mapped onto the triangular projection faces via an octahedron projection of the viewing sphere. One side of a first triangular projection face has contact with one side of a second triangular projection face, one side of a third triangular projection face has contact with another side of the second triangular projection face. One image content continuity boundary exists between one side of the first triangular projection face and one side of the second triangular projection face, and another image content continuity boundary exists between one side of the third triangular projection face and another side of the second triangular projection face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Jian-Liang Lin, Hung-Chih Lin, Chia-Ying Li, Shen-Kai Chang, Chi-Cheng Ju, Chao-Chih Huang, Hui Ouyang
  • Patent number: 10636177
    Abstract: A method of creating watercolor images from a source image may include some or all of: scaling down and lightening the source image; converting the lightened image to a single channel grayscale image; blending a noise pattern with the lightened image to add random jitter; overlaying an edge detection map to produce an edge buffered control image; determining a main set of colors in the source image: determining boundaries for each region where the main set of colors appear; coloring in multiple passes using one color at a time, with a diffusion of water technique emulating wet-on-wet watercoloring; coloring each of the main set of colors, by coloring from a light to dark order; enhancing the edges of the regions to model the areas where a watercolor artist would maintain separation; and compositing to add sedimentation texture; flocculation texture; a drawing layer; and a paper texture pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventor: John Balestrieri
  • Patent number: 10621932
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering data conversion apparatus including an inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit and a sub-pixel rendering circuit is provided. The inverse sub-pixel rendering circuit receives the first sub-pixel rendering data converted from the first true image data and converting the first sub-pixel rendering data to the second true image data, and the first sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the first sub-pixel rendering arrangement. The sub-pixel rendering circuit converts the second true image data to the second sub-pixel rendering data and outputs the second sub-pixel rendering data to a display panel, the second sub-pixel rendering data includes data of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement, and the display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in the manner of the second sub-pixel rendering arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Cheng-Wen Lin, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 10613215
    Abstract: A radar imaging device having a mission to produce a radar image of a given target, comprising a step of determining the trajectory of the carrier of the imaging device comprises at least: a phase of determining a segment of trajectory for the picture capture, as a function of the position of the target and of the type of image to be produced, the picture capture segment being dedicated to the picture capture of the target by the imaging device; a phase of adding a segment of trajectory of stabilizing the carrier, situated upstream in the extension of the picture capture segment; a phase of addition of a segment of trajectory for homing the carrier onto the stabilizing segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Fabien Camus, Fabien Richard, Gilles Guerrini, Vincent Corretja, Thierry Sfez, Richard Montigny
  • Patent number: 10616584
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a texture block using depth based block partitioning, which includes an apparatus for decoding an encoded texture block of a texture image, and a partitioner, determines a partitioning mask for the encoded texture block based on depth information associated to the encoded texture block, and the partitioning mask defines a plurality of partitions and to associate a texture block element of the encoded texture block to a partition of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block, and a decoder decode the partitions of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block based on the partitioning mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jacek Konieczny, Fabian Jaeger
  • Patent number: 10600247
    Abstract: A method for generating an augmented reality image from first and second images, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the first and the second image is captured from a real scene, the method comprising: identifying a confidence region in which a confident determination as to which of the first and second image to render in that region of the augmented reality image can be made; identifying an uncertainty region in which it is uncertain as to which of the first and second image to render in that region of the augmented reality image; determining at least one blending factor value in the uncertainty region based upon a similarity between a first colour value in the uncertainty region and a second colour value in the confidence region; and generating an augmented reality image by combining, in the uncertainty region, the first and second images using the at least one blending factor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: David Walton
  • Patent number: 10585567
    Abstract: A computing device can be running a current context and displaying a current interface for the current context when a communication is received on the device. The device can display an alert on a portion of a display screen in conjunction with the current interface being displayed. The alert can include information about the communication, which can allow a user to better determine whether or not the communication requires immediate attention. If the user ignores the alert, it will disappear in a specified amount of time. If the user chooses to deal with the communication, he/she can tap on the alert to bring up an overlay interface for replying to the communication without having to switch to another application specifically configured for handling (e.g., viewing, replying to) the communication. After the user replies to the communication using the overlay interface, he/she can be automatically brought back to the current interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach
  • Patent number: 10559096
    Abstract: Digital paint generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to bridge a perceived divide between functionality made available to users to create digital content and the users' understanding as to how this functionality is to be used. A variety of techniques and systems are described that support this expansion. In one example, interaction of physical digital paint properties with each other as part of generating digital paint is used to expand functionality of digital paint generation beyond conventional color selection techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Randall, Abraham Moshe Muchnick, Benoit Ambry, Kushith C. Amerasinghe Godagamage, Jean-Sylvere Charles Simonet
  • Patent number: 10515478
    Abstract: A method for processing image data includes obtaining a first set of 3D volumetric image data. The 3D volumetric image data includes a volume of voxels. Each voxel has an intensity. The method further includes obtaining a local voxel noise estimate for each of the voxels of the volume. The method further includes processing the volume of voxels based at least on the intensity of the voxels and the local voxel noise estimates of the voxels. An image data processor (124) includes a computer processor that at least one of: generate a 2D direct volume rendering from first 3D volumetric image data based on voxel intensity and individual local voxel noise estimates of the first 3D volumetric image data, or registers second 3D volumetric image data and first 3D volumetric image data based at least one individual local voxel noise estimates of second and first 3D volumetric image data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Rafael Wiemker, Tobias Klinder, Martin Bergtholdt, Cristian Lorenz
  • Patent number: 10515465
    Abstract: Digital paint generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to bridge a perceived divide between functionality made available to users to create digital content and the users' understanding as to how this functionality is to be used. A variety of techniques and systems are described that support this expansion. In one example, container representation and hierarchical storage such that previously generated digital paints and combinations of those paints may be used to generate a new digital paint, which is not possible using conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Randall, Abraham Moshe Muchnick, Benoit Ambry, Kushith C. Amerasinghe Godagamage, Jean-Sylvere Charles Simonet
  • Patent number: 10497099
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and systems for correcting distortions in spherical panorama digital images. In particular, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods correct for tilt and/or roll in a digital camera utilized to capture a spherical panorama digital images by determining a corrected orientation and generating an enhanced spherical panorama digital image based on the corrected orientation. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods identify line segments in a spherical panorama digital image, map the line segments to a three-dimensional space, generate great circles based on the identified line segments, and determine a corrected orientation based on the generated great circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Byungmoon Kim, Joon-Young Lee, Jinwoong Jung, Gavin Miller
  • Patent number: 10489938
    Abstract: Digital paint generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to bridge a perceived divide between functionality made available to users to create digital image and the users' understanding as to how this functionality is to be used. A variety of techniques and systems are described that support this expansion. In one example, a control is used to adjust color and/or physical digital paint properties to generate digital paint. Further, feedback is also supported such that the digital paint generated from properties is changed in real time as changes are made to the properties, e.g., amounts of digital paint properties used to generate the digital paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Randall, Abraham Moshe Muchnick, Benoit Ambry, Kushith C. Amerasinghe Godagamage, Jean-Sylvere Charles Simonet
  • Patent number: 10484640
    Abstract: Techniques related to compositing video content are discussed. Such techniques may include generating transparency data for a surface of first video content and storing it in a stream out buffer, accessing the transparency data via the stream out buffer when there is no change to the surface of the first video content, and compositing the first video content with second video content based on the accessed transparency data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yunbiao Lin, Changliang Wang, Tiehan Lu, Qingyuan Zhang, Li Xu, Bo Zhao, Changwon Rhee
  • Patent number: 10474341
    Abstract: Digital paint generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to bridge a perceived divide between functionality made available to users to create digital image and the users' understanding as to how this functionality is to be used. In one example, a mix control is used to adjust color and/or physical digital paint properties to generate digital paint. Further, feedback is also supported such that the digital paint generated from properties is changed in real time as changes are made to the properties, e.g., amounts of digital paint properties used to generate the digital paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Randall, Abraham Moshe Muchnick, Benoit Ambry, Kushith C. Amerasinghe Godagamage, Jean-Sylvere Charles Simonet
  • Patent number: 10445612
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an effective range acquisition unit configured to acquire an effective range of color information with respect to the color information extracted from an image of an object captured by an imaging unit, and a color region extraction unit configured to extract a color region corresponding to the color information from another captured image that is different from the captured image from which the color information is extracted, based on the effective range of the color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Nakagawa, Keiichi Sawada, Akifumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10417686
    Abstract: Apparatus, article of manufacture and methods for recommending a jewelry item that comprise receiving, at a jewelry interface, user-input data regarding: a selection of at least one jewelry item. The at least one jewelry item comprises a plurality of characteristics. User-input data also includes an indication of a level of importance for at least one characteristic of a jewelry item. Each level of importance corresponds to a co-efficient. An ideal profile is computed based in part on the selection of the at least one jewelry item and the indication of the level of importance, an ideal profile. A matching algorithm is applied to a plurality of jewelry items stored in an inventory. Based on the matching algorithm, at least one recommended jewelry item is identified as most closely matching the ideal profile. An indication of the at least one recommended jewelry item is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC COMMODITIES EXCHANGE
    Inventors: Brian Watkins, Alex Berg, Josh Marion, Matthew Jordan Kirk, Simon Tam
  • Patent number: 10406840
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method and a compensator via which the input edges of the encoder signal of an encoder may be transformed into a compensated encoder signal such that requirements with regard to a dot resolution of a printing device and with regard to a maximum activation frequency of the dot generators of the printing device are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Océ Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Werner Zollner, Michael Mayr, Guenter Gassner
  • Patent number: 10354125
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a photograph processing method and system. The method includes: performing face detection on a photograph to obtain a detected human face; performing alignment on the detected human face, so as to obtain contour points of a left eye and a right eye of the detected human face; separately calculating a left eye area, being an area of the left eye, and a right eye area, being an area of the right eye, according to the contour points of the left eye and the right eye; performing stretching transformation on each pixel in the left eye area and the right eye area to generate a stretched left eye area and a stretched right eye area; and performing histogram equalization processing on the stretched left eye area and the stretched right eye area, so as to generate a processed photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Guofu Tan
  • Patent number: 10339900
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for remediating an instance of a visual notification interfering with an output of an application on a display device of an electronic device. An instance of a visual notification is identified on a display device. The visual notification is determined to be interfering with the output of the application on the display device. User response to the output of the application is monitored. An assessment is made, based on the monitoring, of an effectiveness of the output of the application. It is determined, based on the assessment, that there exists a failure of the effectiveness of the output of the application. A remediation action is performed in response to the determined failure. The remediation action may include removal of the instance of the visual notification, terminating a parent process of the instance of the visual notification, or restarting the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Munish Goyal, Wing L. Leung, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kimberly G. Starks
  • Patent number: 10325134
    Abstract: A method of initiating a calibration operation of an optical fingerprint sensing device comprising an array of photosensitive elements for capturing a fingerprint pattern, the method comprising acquiring information indicative of a change of an environmental parameter influencing the operation of the fingerprint sensing device; and if the change is larger than a predetermined threshold value, performing a calibration operation of the fingerprint sensing device. There is also provided a fingerprint sensing device configured to perform the method, and a consumer electronic device comprising such a fingerprint sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Fingerprint Cards AB
    Inventors: Markus Andersson, Mikael Danielsson, René Nilsson, Hans Martinsson
  • Patent number: 10317948
    Abstract: A method for displaying data in at least two physical planes of a flexible display includes bending the flexible display in such a way that a first part of the display is positioned in a second plane behind a second part of the display, which is positioned in a first plane, as seen by the viewer, so that at least data relating to depth information from data which is displayed on the second part of the display can be displayed on the first part of the display. The display can be provided in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Markus Klug
  • Patent number: 10282072
    Abstract: Operations for identifying user-selectable elements are detailed in the present application, the operations comprising providing a first group of user-selectable elements having a first attribute in common, displaying the first group of user-selectable elements in a first array thereof, providing a second group of user-selectable elements having a second attribute in common, displaying the second group of user-selectable elements in a second array thereof, and displaying a visual distinctive feature in connection with a set of user-selectable elements having a third attribute in common, the set of user-selectable elements comprising at least one user-selectable element from the first group of user-selectable elements and at least one user-selectable elements from the second group of user-selectable elements, wherein the third attribute is associated with each user-selectable elements in the set of user-selectable elements irrespective of the position of each user-selectable element in relation to one another
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: 9224-5489 QUEBEC INC.
    Inventor: Mathieu Audet
  • Patent number: 10262386
    Abstract: A method of rendering an image is disclosed. A plurality of non-overlapping regions of the image is received, each region being associated with a fill compositing stack comprising a plurality of levels to be composited to determine color data of said region, each level being defined by a compositing operation and a color operand. Equivalent ones of the compositing stacks are identified, the equivalent compositing stacks being defined by equivalent sets of graphical commands applied to different color operands. Regions associated with the equivalent compositing stacks are selected. Pixels corresponding to the selected regions are combined into a data structure. The pixels are concurrently rendered using the data structure to render the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Lena Qunying Ye Qian
  • Patent number: 10231705
    Abstract: Disclosed are an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an operating method thereof. The operating method includes displaying an ultrasound image of a target object, receiving an ultrasound signal obtained from a moving object of interest (OOI) included in the target object, setting a first reference region in the ultrasound image, acquiring first moving path information of the OOI passing through the first reference region, based on the received ultrasound signal, and displaying the first moving path in the ultrasound image, based on the first moving path information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin-yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10229514
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for generating procedural textures on an object on the basis of physical ink data and physical applicator data. The system includes: access to target object data having data for initial meshing and initial contouring of the target objects; access to data pertaining to mixture rules and mixture functions; access to physical data for initial textures T; a module for generating a pre-projection virtual rendering provided to combine the physical ink data with the physical applicator data; a module for tessellating the data of the target objects so as to convert the contours of the target objects into meshing; and an integrating module for the physical parameters, the integrating module being provided to generate a new set of textures T+I for the object(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: ALLEGORITHMIC
    Inventor: Sebastien Deguy
  • Patent number: 10217187
    Abstract: The method for dynamic video magnification magnifies small motions occurring simultaneously within large motions. The method involves selecting a region of interest from a video for magnification. The region of interest is warped to obtain a stabilized sequence of frames that discounts large motions. Each frame of the stabilized sequence is decomposed to a foreground layer, a background layer, and an alpha matte layer, and each of the foreground and alpha matte layers is magnified. Then a magnified sequence is generated from the magnified layers using matte inversion. Any image holes in the magnified sequence are filled in using texture synthesis. Finally, the magnified sequence is de-warped to the original space-time coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND IMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mohamed Abdelaziz A. Mohamed Elgharib, Mohamed M. Hefeeda, William T. Freeman, Frederic Durand
  • Patent number: 10203852
    Abstract: Techniques for selection of content within web documents are described herein. In implementations, a selection tool for a browser or other client application is configured to analyze web documents to recognize different regions in the arrangement of content for the document. The selection tool may parse the underlying structure of a webpage (e.g., the mark-up code and DOM structure) to identify different discrete regions in the webpage. In addition or alternatively, the selection tool may use optical recognition techniques to visually analyze the webpage as it appears when rendered and detect different discrete regions based on the visual analysis. Recognized regions are configured as portions of the content that are individually selectable. These selectable regions may be exposed and made accessible in various ways to enable users to toggle selection of the regions quickly and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Danielle Lauren Ellbogen, Mark Benjamin Yalovsky, Kelly Rose McArthur, Adam E. Barrus, Michael John Patten
  • Patent number: 10140762
    Abstract: A tessellation method is described which uses vertex tessellation factors. For a quad patch, the method involves comparing the vertex tessellation factors for each vertex of the quad patch to a threshold value and if none exceed the threshold, the quad is sub-divided into two or four triangles. If at least one of the four vertex tessellation factors exceeds the threshold, a recursive or iterative method is used which considers each vertex of the quad patch and determines how to further tessellate the patch dependent upon the value of the vertex tessellation factor of the selected vertex or dependent upon values of the vertex tessellation factors of the selected vertex and a neighbor vertex. A similar method is described for a triangle patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Simon Fenney, Vasiliki Simaiaki
  • Patent number: 10127637
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and systems for correcting distortions in spherical panorama digital images. In particular, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods correct for tilt and/or roll in a digital camera utilized to capture a spherical panorama digital images by determining a corrected orientation and generating an enhanced spherical panorama digital image based on the corrected orientation. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods identify line segments in a spherical panorama digital image, map the line segments to a three-dimensional space, generate great circles based on the identified line segments, and determine a corrected orientation based on the generated great circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Byungmoon Kim, Joon-Young Lee, Jinwoong Jung, Gavin Miller
  • Patent number: 10127671
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a superpixel cluster for an image or a sequence of images. A primary clustering unit generates a primary superpixel cluster using a fixed reference superpixel, whereas a secondary clustering unit generates two or more secondary superpixel clusters using a propagating reference superpixel. A combining unit then combines intersections between the primary superpixel cluster and the two or more secondary superpixel clusters to generate a final superpixel cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Dirk Gandolph, Wolfram Putzke-Roeming
  • Patent number: 10108840
    Abstract: There is provided a method of initiating a calibration operation of a fingerprint sensing device comprising an array of sensing elements for sensing a fingerprint pattern, the method comprising acquiring information indicative of a change of an environmental parameter influencing the operation of the fingerprint sensing device; and if the change is larger than a predetermined threshold value, performing a calibration operation of the fingerprint sensing device. There is also provided a method of initiating a calibration operation of a fingerprint sensing device comprising an array of sensing elements for sensing a fingerprint pattern, the method comprising: receiving information indicative of an event in a device in which the fingerprint sensing device is arranged; if the event is one of a group of predetermined events, performing a calibration operation of the fingerprint sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: FINGERPRINT CARDS AB
    Inventors: Markus Andersson, Mikael Danielsson
  • Patent number: 10105187
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating augmented reality-assisted surgery are provided. In one example, a method is provided that includes receiving, by a first device including a processor, image data associated with an external portion of a tool located within a body of a patient, wherein the image data includes first information indicative of a first fiducial marker on the external portion of the tool. The method also includes determining one or more relative positions of an internal portion of the tool within the body relative to one or more anatomical structures of the body based on the image data and a defined configuration of the tool. The method also includes generating one or more representations of the tool within the body relative to the one or more anatomical structures based on the one or more relative positions and the defined configuration of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Corndorf, Andrzej M. Malewicz
  • Patent number: 10083627
    Abstract: A virtual welding station includes a virtual sequencer for simulating different welding techniques and non-welding operations. The virtual welding station can be used to train an operator on the production of complete assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Daniel, Deanna Postlethwaite, George D. Blankenship
  • Patent number: 10008011
    Abstract: A method of creating watercolor images from a source image may include some or all of: scaling down and lightening the source image; converting the lightened image to a single channel grayscale image; blending a noise pattern with the lightened image to add random jitter; overlaying an edge detection map to produce an edge buffered control image; determining a main set of colors in the source image; determining boundaries for each region where the main set of colors appear; coloring in multiple passes using one color at a time, with a diffusion of water technique emulating wet-on-wet watercoloring; coloring each of the main set of colors, by coloring from a light to dark order; enhancing the edges of the regions to model the areas where a water-color artist would maintain separation; and compositing to add sedimentation texture; flocculation texture; a drawing layer; and a paper texture pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Inventor: John Balestrieri
  • Patent number: 10007111
    Abstract: A mirror display device, which includes: a display panel; a first polarizer disposed on the display panel; and an optical structure disposed on the first polarizer. The optical structure includes: a first polarization conversion layer; and a second polarization conversion layer or a reflection layer, wherein the first polarization conversion layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarization conversion layer or the reflection layer; wherein a sum of a first reflectance and a first transmittance of the optical structure is greater than 100% and less than 150%, in which the first reflectance is referred to a percentage of external light irradiating into the mirror display device and reflected by the optical structure, and the first transmittance is referred to a percentage of light passing through a first polarizer and then irradiating into and passing through the optical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao-Yu Liou, Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Wen-Kuen Chen, Yu-Sheng Chen, Jian-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10002457
    Abstract: An image rendering apparatus comprises an image data unit for obtaining volumetric image data representative of a three-dimensional region, a rendering unit configured to perform a rendering process on the volumetric image data that includes a sampling process that comprises, for each of a plurality of sampling paths, determining a respective color or grayscale value for a corresponding pixel based on a plurality of sampled points along the sampling path. For each sampling path, the sampling process performed by the rendering unit comprises for each of at least some of the sampled points, calculating a significance factor for the sampled point based on accumulated opacity along the sampling path for the sampled point, selecting for the sampled point one of a plurality of rendering calculation processes in dependence on the calculated significance factor, and performing the selected rendering calculation process to obtain at least one image data value for the sampled point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Day, Morvyn Myles, Steven Reynolds, James Hancox
  • Patent number: 9984281
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit that images a video; a display unit that displays the imaged video on a screen; a face-position acquirer that acquires a position of a face included in the video on the screen; an operation receiver that receives a touch operation on the screen; and a make-up-image composer that composes a make-up image with a part of the face in the video. The make-up-image composer changes a composition state of the make-up image on condition that a swipe operation is performed in a direction oriented to the position of the face. The image processing apparatus further includes a stylus detector that detects a portion of a predetermined marker color as a stylus from the video when the portion of the predetermined marker color is included in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Tomita, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9959663
    Abstract: A system and method for generating textures on an object from physical ink data and physical applicator data, including: receiving, by a module for generating a rendering outside the object (RHO), the physical ink and physical applicator data and transforming this data to provide a rendering outside the object comprising compatible physical data for projection against a target object regardless of the projection mode; receiving, by a module for transforming RHO, the previously obtained RHO data, and adapting this data for a given rendering projection mode; and receiving, by a module for integrating the physical parameters, the data of the object, the data of the set of textures, the transformed RHO data, and generating a new set of textures for said objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ALLEGORITHMIC
    Inventors: Sebastien Deguy, Christophe Soum, Cyrille Damez, Eric Batut