Graphic Manipulation (object Processing Or Display Attributes) Patents (Class 345/619)
  • Patent number: 12141433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for providing an interactive participation-type drawing making service, which provides a remote drawing making service that is capable of real-time interaction between a first user and a second user in a contactless environment, wherein the system includes: a first terminal that is capable of inputting a first event signal of the first user; a second terminal that is capable of inputting a second event signal of the second user; a control part that constructs a network with the first and second terminals and a web, generating a server module for using a pre-stored drawing making program while undergoing communication, reflects all of each data resulting from real-time input of the first and second event signals to the drawing making program in real time, when both of the first and second terminals connect to the generated server module, and controls a preset alarm signal so as to be output in response to a result of reflection; and an alarm part that is equipped to t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: I-Scream arts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-min Kim, Seung-ah Kim
  • Patent number: 12130660
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including: a functional area defined by an opening formed in the display panel; and a display area defined as an area where a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged, surrounding the functional area; and a functional module including a lens disposed overlapping the functional area, wherein only some of the plurality of light emitting elements of the display panel are configured to emit light in a low power mode, and wherein all of the plurality of light emitting elements are configured to emit light in a general mode; and wherein the display device is configured to, in the low power mode, provide a predetermined information to a user formed by the boundary between the functional area and the display area and an image formed by light emission of the some of the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiho Lim, Seong-nyeon Kim, Jun-woo Kim, Keehyun Nam, Hyesuk An
  • Patent number: 12123705
    Abstract: A system for detecting an alignment of a relay lens assembly and a combiner of a head-up display is disclosed. The system includes an illuminated reticle spatially coupled to the relay lens assembly, an optical sensor spatially coupled to the combiner, and a control module configured to receive an input from the optical sensor, determine a position of the combiner relative to the relay lens assembly based on the received input; and generate an output based on a determined position of the combiner relative to the relay lens assembly. In another system, the illuminated reticle is spatially coupled to the combiner, and the optical sensor is spatially coupled to the relay lens assembly. The system may also participate in a feedback loop with the head-up display to reduce jitter in the head-up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Stratton, Ian M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 12125126
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive an image comprising one or more virtual elements associated with a virtual environment and one or more real-world elements associated with a real-world environment. The system may determine a first metric and a second metric indicative of a measure of clutter in the virtual environment and the real-world environment, respectively. The system may determine gaze features associated with a user based on a user activity and predict, using a machine learning model, a reaction time of the user based on the gaze features. The system may determine a third metric indicative of the measure of clutter in the image based on predicted reaction time. The system may compute an overall clutter metric based on the first, second, and third metrics. The system may perform one or more actions to manage the clutter in the image based on the overall clutter metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Naveen Sendhilnathan, Ting Zhang, Sebastian Freitag, Tanya Renee Jonker, Peiqi Tang
  • Patent number: 12118142
    Abstract: An input system and an electronic apparatus with novel structures are provided. An electronic apparatus whose setting can be changed even when both hands are full is provided. An input system and an electronic apparatus including an imaging device having a function of taking an image of eyes and a detection device having a function of detecting a change of the shape of the eyes from data obtained by the imaging device are provided. Settings are changed in accordance with the change of the shape of the eyes. The settings are changed by a different method from a manual method and the change of the settings can be reflected in display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 12118204
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display region are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a pointer being provided at an intersection of division lines dividing a display screen of a display into three or more divided regions; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the display between a plurality of layouts set in advance according to the detected touch operation performed on the pointer. As a transition process of the plurality of layouts, the layout setting unit moves the pointer and deforms the division lines and the three or more divided regions imitating an elastic object according to drag as the touch operation performed on the pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Morita, Keita Katsuno
  • Patent number: 12118698
    Abstract: Provided are a method for inpainting a highlight region of a vegetation image captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle, a device, a medium, and a product. The method includes: acquiring an image to be inpainted, and a historic image; inputting the image to be inpainted to a trained target detection network to obtain a waterbody highlight region image block; determining a template image block of the image to be inpainted based on the waterbody highlight region image block; cropping the historical image to obtain a plurality of candidate image blocks of the image to be inpainted; determining similarity between each candidate image block and the template image block by using a deep learning image coarse matching method; and screening candidate image blocks with the similarity greater than a predetermined threshold, and determining an optimal candidate image block in the candidate image blocks by using a pixel-by-pixel matching method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jing He, Yifu Chen, Gang Liu, Weile Li
  • Patent number: 12106414
    Abstract: A multimedia communication system for enabling an end user computing device to render a moving image on a display device. The system has an image render command generator that is arranged to provide an image rendering command that is executable by a web browser of the end user computing device to cause the end user computing device to render the moving image on a frame-by-frame basis from a still image in multimedia content by slicing the still image into a plurality of rows or columns of pixels and modifying a subset of the plurality of rows or columns of pixels between frames, and a multimedia content packager arranged to assemble a multimedia content package having the multimedia content, including the still image and the image rendering command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Lemberg
  • Patent number: 12106442
    Abstract: A positioning of a digitally modeled 3D object is assisted in a particular method which also includes obtaining a first digitally modeled 3D object having a 3D position in a 3D scene, rendering a projection of said first digitally modeled 3D object on a screen according to a first axis and a first viewpoint, and while modifying, upon user action, the 3D position of the first digitally modeled 3D object along the first axis, automatically scaling the first 3D object in order to keep constant the projection of the moved object on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventors: Jeremy Lamboley, Christophe Delfino, Romain Perron, Christophe Belot, Florent Coic
  • Patent number: 12100083
    Abstract: Automating conversion of drawings to indoor maps and plans. One example is a computer-implemented comprising: preprocessing an original CAD drawing to create a modified CAD drawing, a text database containing text from the original CAD drawing, a CAD vector-image of the modified CAD drawing, and a CAD raster-image of the modified CAD drawing; determining a floor depicted in the CAD drawing, the determining results in a floor-level bounding line; sensing furniture depicted on the floor by applying the floor-level bounding line, the CAD vector-image, and the text database to machine-learning algorithms, the sensing results in a plurality of furniture entities and associated location information; identifying each room depicted in the CAD drawing, the identifying results in a plurality of room outlines; and creating an indoor map for the floor by combining the plurality of furniture entities and associated location information with the plurality of room outlines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pointr Limited
    Inventors: Ege Çentintaş, Melih Peker, Umeyr Kiliç, Can Tunca
  • Patent number: 12093448
    Abstract: An input generation system operable to generate one or more inputs for a gaze tracking system, includes an input receiving unit operable to receive one or more inputs, an input processing unit operable to generate motion data in dependence upon the received inputs, where the motion data comprises simulated gaze information, and an output unit operable to output the generated motion data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Maria Chiara Monti
  • Patent number: 12093609
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can selectively determine whether to incorporate a verbatim interpretation of portions spoken utterances into an entry field and/or incorporate synonymous content into the entry field. For instance, a user can be accessing an interface that provides an entry field (e.g., address field) for receiving user input. In order to provide input for entry field, the user can select the entry field and/or access a GUI keyboard to initialize an automated assistant for assisting with filling the entry field. Should the user provide a spoken utterance, the user can elect to provide a spoken utterance that embodies the intended input (e.g., an actual address) or a reference to the intended input (e.g., a name). In response to the spoken utterance, the automated assistant can fill the entry field with the intended input without necessitating further input from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Srikanth Pandiri, Luv Kothari, Behshad Behzadi, Zaheed Sabur, Domenico Carbotta, Akshay Kannan, Qi Wang, Gokay Baris Gultekin, Angana Ghosh, Xu Liu, Yang Lu, Steve Cheng
  • Patent number: 12095978
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to providing image data to a user in a defined space of a surrounding environment from a perspective of the user. One example provides a computing system, comprising a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to obtain information regarding a pose of a user within a defined space, based upon the pose of the user, determine a portion of an environment surrounding the defined space toward which the user is looking, obtain image data representing the portion of the environment from a perspective of the user, and provide the image data for display via a display device within the defined space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds
  • Patent number: 12086913
    Abstract: A multimedia communication system and computer-implemented method for transmitting auxiliary display content to an end-user communication device to be rendered on a display device with a special effect to emphasize an image included in the auxiliary display content, comprising a processor and a transmitter. The processor can be arranged to analyze image data included in an auxiliary display content, detect an object image or a background image in the auxiliary display content based on the analysis of the image data, determine a special effect based on the analysis of the image data, and apply the special effect to the auxiliary display content to modify display properties for the auxiliary display content such that the object image is emphasized or pops-out. The transmitter can be arranged to send the auxiliary display content with modified display properties to an end-user communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventors: Mikaël Bonnevie, Yuanzhen Li, Ce Liu
  • Patent number: 12087056
    Abstract: A video generation method and apparatus, and a promotional video generation method and apparatus are disclosed. The video generation method includes: obtaining a plurality of original files, each of the plurality of original files includes at least one subject matter; extracting multiple subject matters and labeling information corresponding to the multiple subject matters from the plurality of original files; establishing a display structure corresponding to the multiple subject matters based on the labeling information; and combining the multiple subject matters using the display structure to generate a target video. The present disclosure solves the technical problems of difficulties in automatic reconstruction and generation of video data from a product detail page in existing technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xikai Liu, Xing Gao
  • Patent number: 12067409
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the transfer of per-pixel transparency information using video codecs that do not provide an alpha channel (alternatively referred to as “transparency-agnostic video codecs”). For example, alpha information of visual elements may be transcoded into the supported channels of a video stream to generate additional samples of a supported color space, which are representative of the alpha information. After being encoded by a “transparency-agnostic video codec” and transmitted, the received alpha information may then be extracted from the supported channels of the video stream to render the received visuals with corresponding per-pixel transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Andrija Bosnjakovic, Johannes Zimmermann, Ashley Reid
  • Patent number: 12067645
    Abstract: There are provided computing devices and methods, etc. to controllably transform an image of a face, including a high resolution image, to simulate continuous aging. Ethnicity-specific aging information and weak spatial supervision are used to guide the aging process defined through training a model comprising a GANs based generator. Aging maps present the ethnicity-specific aging information as skin sign scores or apparent age values. The scores are located in the map in association with a respective location of the skin sign zone of the face associated with the skin sign. Patch-based training, particularly in association with location information to differentiate similar patches from different parts of the face, is used to train on high resolution images while minimize resource usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Julien Despois, Frederic Flament, Matthieu Perrot
  • Patent number: 12069061
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for creating and/or providing shared virtual spaces are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: provide and/or create a virtual space capable of being modified by multiple authorized users, the virtual space having an exterior perimeter defining an interior area, and the interior area having at least one volumetrically-mapped virtual item therein; receive a modification to the virtual item(s) from a first authorized user; and store the modification of the virtual item(s) in association with the virtual space such that the modification is persistent and shared among all authorized users unless and until another modification is made to the virtual item by an authorized user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ilana Orly Shalowitz, Ashley Gustafson, Laura Mary Phelps Blum, Jessica Kitchens, Hilary Hayes
  • Patent number: 12056858
    Abstract: A hole filling method for providing a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model, the hole filling method being executable on a computing device and including: acquiring an original learning image and a hole generation learning image for the original learning image, wherein the hole generation learning image is an image in which at least one hole is generated based on the original learning image; generating a hole filling learning image by performing hole filling on the hole generation learning image by using a neural network; performing a spherical transformation on each of the hole filling learning image and the original learning image; and training the neural network based on a difference between the spherically-transformed hole filling learning image and the spherically-transformed original learning image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: 3I INC.
    Inventors: Ken Kim, Ji Wuck Jung, Farkhod Rustam Ugli Khudayberganov
  • Patent number: 12045431
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentation. In some embodiments, the declutter control is a mode-selecting control that allows the navigation presentation to toggle between normal first navigation presentation and a simplified second navigation presentation, which below is also referred to as a decluttered navigation presentation. During normal mode operation, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides (1) a representation of the navigated route, (2) representations of the roads along the navigated route, (3) representation of major and minor roads that intersect or are near the navigated route, and (4) representations of buildings and other objects in the navigated scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Berk, Bradley L. Spare, Edward J. Cooper
  • Patent number: 12039594
    Abstract: A system may include a processor that may receive account information having a plurality of transactions associated with a bank account. The processor may then determine an expected burn rate of funds based on the account information, determine an expected savings balance at a first time based on the account information and the expected burn rate, generate an event in response to the expected savings balance being below a threshold, and send an alert including the event to a computing device associated with the user. The alert may indicate a status of the expected savings balance via an electronic display of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Nathan J. Rowe, Michael Aaron McGlasson, Stephen Holloway, Lea B. Sims, Joseph Wall, Richard R. Rohrbough
  • Patent number: 12033255
    Abstract: A first image processing section performs a blurring process on a target region that is at least a part of a content image. A second image processing section performs predetermined image processing on the blurring-processed target region by using brightness values of individual pixels in the target region that has not yet been blurring-processed. A text processing section displays text over the target region that is subjected to the predetermined image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: 12033271
    Abstract: A system and method enabling per-user-optimized computing, rendering, and provisioning within virtual worlds. The system comprises a server including memory and at least one processor, the memory storing a persistent virtual world system comprising a data structure in which at least one virtual replica of at least one corresponding real object is represented, and a computing optimization platform configured to store and provide rules for optimizing the computing, rendering and data provisioning to users via user devices. A plurality of connected devices connected to the server via a network provide multi-source data, user input, or combinations thereof, to the persistent virtual world system, updating the virtual replicas. The server retrieves user location, viewing position and orientation from the one or more user devices to determine a user interaction radius, thereby optimizing via the computing optimization platform the relevant computing, rendering and provisioning for the one or more user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: THE CALANY HOLDING S. À R.L.
    Inventor: Cevat Yerli
  • Patent number: 12026351
    Abstract: A system includes: a screen configured for wear by a user, the screen configured to display a 2-dimensional (2D) element; a processing unit coupled to the display; and a user input device configured to generate a signal in response to a user input for selecting the 2D element displayed by the screen; wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain a 3-dimensional (3D) model associated with the 2D element in response to the generated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Williams, Damian Franco
  • Patent number: 12026419
    Abstract: A display control method includes: acquiring a standard time; synchronizing an internal time referred to in processing by one display device with the standard time; detecting a reference time, which is the internal time when an image represented by an input image signal satisfies a predetermined condition; outputting the reference time to another display device of a plurality of display devices; acquiring a reference time detected in the another display device; and delaying a vertical synchronization signal by a time period from the reference time of the one display device to the reference time of the another display device, when the reference time of the another display device is later than the reference time of the one display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Tone
  • Patent number: 12008224
    Abstract: A system for relationship information evaluation and management. The system incorporates relationship quality parameters that define the contextual parameters of quality, which are mutually validated and are accepted by the respective parties within an existing or prospective relationship. A computer, computing device, written documents or other means are used to capture the perspectives of each person, representative, or entity within the relationship or prospective relationship. This can be done automatically, on a random, periodic, or scheduled basis, or upon manual initiation. The information or data may then be analyzed and coalesced into a meaningful whole (or segments thereof), which may then be archived, printed, reported, and presented to one or both of the parties, or others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: Danny McCall
  • Patent number: 12008771
    Abstract: A system for detecting and incorporating three-dimensional objects into a video stream reads an input video data stream. The user specifies areas of attention wherein said areas of attention or hotspots. Tracking movement of the hotspots generating a trajectory of said at least one object. Generating a cloud of points and tracking said points to detect configurations of points most similar to the initially defined hotspot. Obtaining a three dimensional topology defining a volume of interest in a three-dimensional space. Building virtual structures or pseudo objects that are placed within a spherical environment generated on the input video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: VR DRIVE SP. Z O.O.
    Inventors: Arkadiusz Rogozinski, Radoslaw Gezella, Pawel Tryzno, Piotr Kozinski
  • Patent number: 12008699
    Abstract: Automating conversion of drawings to indoor maps and plans. One example is a computer-implemented method of creating an indoor map from a CAD drawing, the method comprising: preprocessing an original CAD drawing to create a modified CAD drawing, a text database containing text from the original CAD drawing, a CAD vector-image of the modified CAD drawing, and a CAD raster-image of the modified CAD drawing; creating a floor-level outline; sensing furniture depicted on the floor, the sensing creates set of furniture entities; identifying a room depicted in the CAD drawing; and creating the indoor map for a floor using the floor-level outline, the room-level outline and the room identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Pointr Limited
    Inventors: Ege Çetintaş, Melih Peker, Umeyr Kiliç, Can Tunca
  • Patent number: 12002172
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for selecting a 3D object for display in an extended reality environment. A space in an extended reality environment is determined for placement of a 3D object. A set of space parameters are determined comprising: an amount of memory available for generating the display of the extended reality environment and an amount of computing power available for generating the display of the extended reality environment. The 3D object is selected for display in the space based on the amount of memory and the amount of computing power available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhananjay Lal, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 11989227
    Abstract: An image search system (1) is provided with: a search key information acquisition unit (110) that acquires color specifying information indicating a plurality of colors and reference information indicating a reference of proportions of the plurality of colors being occupied in an image area; a specified color proportion information acquisition unit (120) that acquires specified color proportion information indicating proportions of the plurality of colors associated with the color specifying information, being occupied in an image to be processed; and an image search unit (130) that identifies whether the image to be processed is a search target image, based on the specified color proportion information and the reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Nishimura, Tingting Dong
  • Patent number: 11980818
    Abstract: A game system includes a processor, the processor being configured to perform a reception process of receiving an operation input by a player; a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space in which at least one character is disposed; a virtual camera setting process of setting a plurality of virtual cameras; a character process of setting parts constituting the at least one character based on the operation input; and a display process of generating a plurality of character images, which are images of the at least one character viewed from the plurality of virtual cameras, and displaying a character-creation image in which the plurality of character images are arranged on a display section. In the display process, when the setting process of setting the parts is performed, the processor performs a process of displaying the character-creation image on which the result of the setting process is reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC., BANDAI NAMCO ONLINE INC., BANDAI NAMCO STUDIOS INC.
    Inventors: Daigo Okumura, Minoru Sashida, Hiroaki Kado, Yukie Kanno, Chika Ishii, Takayoshi Oi
  • Patent number: 11978384
    Abstract: A display method for an electronic device including a first display area and a second display area. In the method, the electronic device determines a first application mode, adjusts, based on the first application mode, intensity values of color channels, stored in a hardware composer (HWC), determines, using the HWC, each first layer corresponding to the first display area, and overlays, using the HWC, the first layer and a background color layer corresponding to adjusted intensity values of the color channels. In an overlay process, the background color layer is located below the first layer, and the background color layer corresponds to the second display area. Then, the display is used to display an overlaid image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiufeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11978281
    Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure describes a device, comprising: a processor resource, and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: determine an emotion based on a facial expression of a user captured within an image, apply a plurality of alterations to the image to exaggerate the facial expression of the user when the emotion has continued for a threshold quantity of time, and remove the plurality of alterations to the image when the emotion of the user has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Rafael Dal Zotto
  • Patent number: 11977960
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a workflow application generates and evaluates designs that reflect stylistic preferences. In operation, the workflow application determines a target style based on input received via a graphical user interface (GUI). Notably, the target style characterizes a first set of designs. The workflow application then generates stylized design(s) based on stylization algorithm(s) associated with the target style. Subsequently, the workflow application, displays a subset of the stylized design(s) via the GUI. A stylized design included in the subset of stylized design(s) is ultimately selected for production via the GUI. Advantageously, because the workflow application can substantially increase the number of designs that can be generated and evaluated based on the target style in a given amount of time, relative to more manual prior art techniques, the overall quality of the stylized design selected for production can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Hooman Shayani, Mark Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 11978165
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to system and method for generating recommendations for capturing images of a real-life object with essential features. The method includes detecting an Augmented Reality (AR) plane for a target object. The method further includes capturing a set of poses corresponding to the target object and a set of coordinate points in the AR plane. The set of poses includes a tracking marker, and the set of coordinate points indicates a location of the target object. The method further includes determining an instant distance between the AR imaging device and the target object, and an instant angle of the AR imaging device with respect to the target object. The method further includes dynamically generating the recommendations for adjusting a position and an orientation of the AR imaging device with respect to the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Shrivardhan Satish Suryawanshi, Gopichand Agnihotram, Vivek Kumar Varma Nadimpalli
  • Patent number: 11977717
    Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) based systems and methods are disclosed for regionizing full-size process plant displays for rendering on mobile user interface devices. A regionizer application receives a full-size process plant display that graphically represents at least a portion of a process plant that includes graphic representations of a plurality of process plant entities. The regionizer app determines display region(s) of the full-size process plant display that define corresponding view portions of the full-size process plant display. The display regions are transmitted to a mobile user interface device for rendering by a mobile display navigation app. The GUI based systems and methods can also automatically detect graphical process control loop display portions within full-size process plant displays for rendering on mobile user interface devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy, Ryan Gallardo Valderama, Dino Anton Yu, Mariana Dionisio, Daniel R. Strinden, Mark J. Nixon
  • Patent number: 11972353
    Abstract: Some embodiments herein can include methods and systems for predicting next poses of a character within a virtual gaming environment. The pose prediction system can identify a current pose of a character, generate a gaussian distribution representing a sample of likely poses based on the current pose, and apply the gaussian distribution to the decoder. The decoder can be trained to generate a predicted pose based on a gaussian distribution of likely poses. The system can then render the predicted next pose of the character within the three-dimensional virtual gaming environment. Advantageously, the pose prediction system can apply a decoder that does not include or use input motion capture data that was used to train the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Zinno, George Cheng, Hung Yu Ling, Michiel van de Panne
  • Patent number: 11972097
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of elements in the ink document that correspond to the current set of identified nodes. According to another illustrative aspect, the technology produces the data structure by modifying an original data structure provided by a text analysis engine. The technology performs this task with the objective of accommodating structured interaction by the user with the ink document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oz Solomon, Erich Søren Finkelstein, Gary Lee Caldwell, Nathan James Fish, Sergey Aleksandrovich Doroshenko
  • Patent number: 11961190
    Abstract: A content distribution system according to an embodiment is provided with at least one processor. The at least one processor: specifies a real image region and a farthest region in a space represented with a content image showing a first virtual object; disposes a second virtual object in the farthest region; and displays, on a user terminal, a content image representing a space in which the second virtual object is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11954116
    Abstract: A visual data operation method, system, and device, and a medium for one or more pieces of data, creating one or more corresponding value objects, and arranging the one or more value objects as a tree structure; and for the one or more value objects, creating corresponding database records, and defining fields of the database records by the one or more value objects. Data and database records correspond to each other and are mutually converted by using value objects. A developer only needs to arrange the value objects as a tree structure, and a system can automatically complete remaining data operations subsequently, including creating database records and synchronizing database records, and the like. A developer can quickly design a data storage format by taking a user as a unit, and the design presentation is intuitive and understandable to other developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LILITH TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Di Wu
  • Patent number: 11956512
    Abstract: A client computing device (115) determines a desired adjustment to a transmission rate of a media stream (245) received from the content server device (110), and encodes the desired adjustment to the transmission rate in an object ordering priority (255) field of a request (250) for a media portion (215). The client computing device (115) sends the request (250) to the content server device (110) to adjust the transmission rate of the media stream (245) with respect to the media portion (215). The content server device (110) receives the request (25) for the media portion (215) from the client computing device (115), and adjusts the transmission rate of the media stream (245) based on the object ordering priority (255). The content server device (110) transmits the media portion (215) to the client computing device (115) via the media stream (245) at the adjusted transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Geza Szabo, Daniel Bezerra, Wesley Davison Braga Melo, Djamel Fawzi Hadj Sadok, Jairo Matheus Vilaça Alves, Igor Nogueira de Oliveira, Sándor Rácz, Maria Silvia Ito
  • Patent number: 11949750
    Abstract: A system and method for method for monitoring and tracking browsing activity of a user on a client device. The method includes generating, based on browsing activity information of a user interacting with at least a page displayed over the client device and page information identifying in part the page displayed over the client device, an exposure map at a page-level view, wherein the exposure map indicates a salience of each area of a page-view respective of the page displayed over the client device and visited by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CONTENT SQUARE ISRAEL LTD
    Inventors: Arik Yavilevich, Yevgeny Kurliandchick
  • Patent number: 11948389
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for automatic detection of anatomical sites from tomographic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kanchan Ghimire, Quan Chen, Xue Feng
  • Patent number: 11948240
    Abstract: A method for computer animation includes receiving an input file that includes an asset geometry, where the asset geometry defines an asset mesh structure, where the asset geometry may exclude an internal support frame, and where logic for custom deformation steps may be included, altogether in a fashion portable and made to produce consistent results across multiple different software and/or hardware platform environments and/or across real-time and/or offline scenarios. The method also includes applying at least one deformer to the asset mesh structure, where the at least one deformer includes a plurality of user-selectable deformer channels, and where each deformer channel is associated with at least a portion of the asset mesh structure and is configured to adjust a visual appearance of the associated portion of the asset mesh structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: O3 Story Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Soulvie, Richard R. Hurrey, R. Jason Bickerstaff, Clifford S. Champion, Peter E. McGowan, Robert Ernest Schnurstein
  • Patent number: 11940277
    Abstract: A vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) comprises an image source for producing image data along a trajectory. The VINS further comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to produce IMU data indicative of motion of the VINS and an odometry unit configured to produce odometry data. The VINS further comprises a processor configured to compute, based on the image data, the IMU data, and the odometry data, state estimates for a position and orientation of the VINS for poses of the VINS along the trajectory. The processor maintains a state vector having states for a position and orientation of the VINS and positions within the environment for observed features for a sliding window of poses. The processor applies a sliding window filter to compute, based on the odometry data, constraints between the poses within the sliding window and compute, based on the constraints, the state estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Kejian J. Wu, Chao Guo, Georgios Georgiou
  • Patent number: 11943271
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for streaming immersive media. Content is ingested in a first two-dimension format or a first three-dimensional format, whereby the format references a neural network. The ingested content is converted to a second two-dimensional or a second three-dimensional format based on the referenced neural network. The converted content is streamed to a client end-point, such as a television, a computer, a head-mounted display, a lenticular light field display, a holographic display, an augmented reality display, or a dense light field display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Arianne Hinds, Stephan Wenger
  • Patent number: 11941112
    Abstract: Configuration discrepancies, such as server drift among different servers or malicious code installed on one or more servers, can be identified using system attribute information regarding processes, CPU usage, memory usage, etc. The system attribute information can be used to generate an image, which can be compared to other images to determine if a configuration discrepancy exists. Image recognition algorithms can be used to facilitate image comparison for different systems. By identifying configuration discrepancies, downtime and other issues can be mitigated and system performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomi Boutnaru
  • Patent number: 11940842
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a flexible display. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, a display support structure including a plurality of support bars supporting a rear surface of the flexible display, and a display support disposed to correspond to the flexible display, a first guide rail including a recess formed along a path in which the display support structure is moved when the flexible display is drawn outside the housing or introduced into the inner space of the housing, a second guide rail including a recess formed along the path and into which end portions of the plurality of support bars are inserted, and a rotation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngmin Kang, Junyoung Choi, Moonchul Shin, Yeonggyu Yoon, Seungjoon Lee, Joongyeon Cho, Byounguk Yoon
  • Patent number: 11941773
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designing a three-dimensional (3D) mesh in a 3D scene. The method comprises displaying a 3D mesh in a 3D scene and providing a global orientation and selecting, with a pointing device, one or more vertices of the 3D mesh, thereby forming a set of one or more vertices. The method comprises computing at least one picking zone that surrounds each vertex of the set. The method comprises providing a first manipulator for controlling a displacement of each vertex of the set along one or more NUV directions and determining whether the pointing device is maintained within the picking zone. If not, the method comprises providing a second manipulator for controlling a displacement of the one or more vertices of the set along one or more directions defined by the global orientation. The method improves user interactions for switching back and forth a first and second manipulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventors: Yani Sadoudi, Frédéric Letzelter, Christophe Dufau
  • Patent number: 11934647
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using modularized digital editing action blocks in a graphical user interface to generate and apply a variety of advanced modifications to a digital image. The disclosed systems can categorize the digital editing action blocks into digital editing action categories from which a user can select a digital editing action block and insert into a field of a node compositor. Once the digital editing action block is arranged at a compatible field within the digital editing user interface, the snap effects system can execute the digital editing action block to create a particular graphical effect according to the positional configuration of the digital editing action block within the node compositor. In turn, the snap effects system can save the action-block configuration within the node compositor and facilitate additional use and/or sharing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Holger Winnemoeller, Blake Williford