Graphic Manipulation (object Processing Or Display Attributes) Patents (Class 345/619)
  • Patent number: 12260485
    Abstract: A method of generating a style image is described. The method includes receiving an input image of a subject. The method further includes encoding the input image using a first encoder of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to obtain a first latent code. The method further includes decoding the first latent code using a first decoder of the GAN to obtain a normalized style image of the subject, wherein the GAN is trained using a loss function according to semantic regions of the input image and the normalized style image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Lemon Inc.
    Inventors: Guoxian Song, Shen Sang, Tiancheng Zhi, Jing Liu, Linjie Luo
  • Patent number: 12260018
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for extended reality environment interaction. An extended reality environment including an object is generated for display, and an eye motion is detected. Based on the detecting, it is determined whether the object is in a field of view for at least a predetermined period of time, and in response to determining that the object is in the field of view for at least the predetermined period of time, one or more items related to the object are generated for display in the extended virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventor: Sakura Saito
  • Patent number: 12254555
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for single pass anti-ringing clamping enabled image processing. A graphics processor may perform a filtering operation on a set of texture samples. The graphics processor may select, during a single sampling operation, a minimum value and a maximum value associated with the set of texture samples during the performance of the filtering operation on the set of texture samples. The graphics processor may adjust, during the single sampling operation, a value of a filtered texture sample associated with the set of texture samples based on the minimum value and the maximum value. The graphics processor may output an indication of the adjusted value of the filtered texture sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liang Li, Andrew Evan Gruber
  • Patent number: 12255932
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for coordinating session recordings in an IP environment can be configured so that a session is to be recorded by session recording clients, SRCs, which are located along the signaling path of the session. An SRC can attach a first SRC parameter indicating that it is available for recording the communication session upon receiving a first downstream message. The first SRC parameter can be incremented by e available SRCs downstream the signal path. One of the SRCs, can further attach a second SRC parameter indicating that this SRC records the communication session upon receiving a first upstream message as an answer to the first downstream message. In the first upstream message, the first SRC parameter can be decremented by each of the available SRCs upstream the signal path and the second SRC parameter can be propagated to each of the available SRCs upstream the signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Unify Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Athanasios Deliligkas, Georgios Tsakiris, Gerasimos Tzanetatos, Myronas Kalligeris
  • Patent number: 12238283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure from among the video coding schemes and to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding the block partitioning structure, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring block partitioning data; partitioning a block by means of the acquired block partitioning data; and encoding and decoding by means of the partitioned block. The encoding and decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention has the benefit of improving encoding efficiency with respect to the existing video compression schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Chan Ryu, Yong Jo Ahn
  • Patent number: 12229912
    Abstract: In a method for performing gaze redirection, a video stream of a user is received, each video frame from the video stream including a depiction of a gaze of the user. For each video frame from the video stream, an estimated gaze direction of the gaze of the user in that video frame is determined. A field of view (FOV) for a virtual representation associated with the user in a virtual environment is determined. An updated video frame including a modified gaze direction of the user different from the estimated gaze direction of the gaze of the user is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kickback Space Inc.
    Inventor: Rocco Haro
  • Patent number: 12229394
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a device and a method for setting a background screen in an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a display, and at least one processor, wherein the processor may: identify a plurality of content to be displayed on the display; identify screen complexity value of each content based on features included in screens of the plurality of content; obtain display information of an object to be displayed above the plurality of content in the display; set an output order of the plurality of content based on the screen complexity value of the plurality of content and the display information of the object; display the object through the display based on the display information of the object; and display the plurality of content under the object based on the output order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myungkyu Choi, Gounyoung Kim, Jiwoon Kim, Kyoungsoo Son, Chansoon Heo, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 12217377
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering portions of editable product designs are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may support a design application that may apply a rendering algorithm to an editable product design, resulting in the application rendering the editable product design for viewing by a user in a first and a second portion of a user interface. In particular, the rendering algorithm may determine whether or not to adjust the editable product design from a first configuration and first orientation to a second configuration and/or a second orientation based on a selection from the user of a portion of the editable product design within the first portion of the user interface. Based on that determination, the application may render the editable product design in the second portion of the user interface in at least one of the second configuration and/or the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventor: Zachary Ross Lynn
  • Patent number: 12209882
    Abstract: Various aspects are related to a map representation system including one or more processors configured to: obtain operation task data, the operation task data indicating one or more operation tasks associated with an operation of one or more autonomous agents within a corresponding operating space; and obtain operation task specific map data as a function of the operation task data, the operation task specific map data representing the operating space corresponding to the one or more operation tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Omesh Tickoo, Rajesh Poornachandran, David Israel González Aguirre, John Charles Weast
  • Patent number: 12205393
    Abstract: Methods, system, and non-transitory processor-readable storage medium for a website page density and readability system are provided herein. An example method includes capturing an image of a website page rendered in a web browser. The website page density and readability system determines a text density associated with text content in the image, and then removes the text content from the image. The website page density and readability system determines a graphic density associated with graphic content in the image, and determines a website page density associated with the website page using the text density and graphic density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Max Kassler
  • Patent number: 12197310
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a processor configured to receive source code at a compiler. The source code may include at least one compound conditional having a plurality of conditions. For each condition of the plurality of conditions, the source code may further include a respective code block including instructions to evaluate the condition. For each ordering of a plurality of orderings of the plurality of conditions, the processor may determine that the ordering satisfies one or more legality constraints. For each ordering of the plurality of orderings that satisfy the one or more legality constraints, the processor may determine a respective estimated computational cost for that ordering. The processor may reorder the plurality of conditions to have an ordering that has a lowest estimated computational cost of the plurality of orderings that satisfy the one or more legality constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Jayant Sabne, Eric Avi Brumer
  • Patent number: 12189076
    Abstract: A buried object scanning device includes a capacitance sensor, a search image conversion processing unit, a memory unit, a display unit, an operation input unit, and a display control unit. The capacitance sensor detects a buried object. The search image conversion processing unit converts the detection result of the capacitance sensor into a search image. The memory unit stores search images and a grid layer including grid lines corresponding to a specific scale. The display unit displays the search images and the grid layer. The display control unit controls the display unit to display the search image superimposed with the grid layer and to display the search image in a state of being movable relative to the grid layer, in response to input to the operation input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Tsurusu, Shingo Kawamoto, Ryoji Shimizu, Kohei Fujio, Yuji Makita, Akihiro Ishii, Mitsunori Sugiura
  • Patent number: 12190041
    Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system has one or more user devices each configured to display a graphical user interface, an update module configured to communicate with the one or more user devices, the update module comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory, and a processor. The one or more user devices, the update module, and the processor are configured to display the graphical user interface to a user, the graphical user interface displaying a plurality of blocks of content describing the user, receive a content update from the user, associate the content update with at least one of the plurality of blocks of content, and move the at least one of the plurality of blocks to an update position of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Travis Michael Killian
  • Patent number: 12190771
    Abstract: A display system includes: a display unit that is provided inside a housing mounted on a user's head and that displays an image to the user; a termination detection unit that detects termination of display by the display unit; and an adaptation display determination unit that determines, according to the elapsed time from start to end of display by the display unit, an adaptation display pattern that reduces a difference between an internal illuminance value indicating a brightness inside the housing and an external illuminance value indicating a brightness outside the housing by changing a brightness of the image displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12182583
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a personalized avatar experience during a system boot process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Andrzej Bylicki, Ola Jeppsson, Bernhard Jung, Aidan Rogers, Olivier Slabbert Schonken, Farid Zare Seisan
  • Patent number: 12174378
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head-worn computers (HWC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse, Manuel Antonio Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12169887
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to, in a case of adding a double-page spread in editing of a plurality of albums, determine a criterion for creating the double-page spread to be added to automatically create and add the double-page spread. A program is provided which causes a computer to function as an editing unit configured to edit layouts of a plurality of albums each having an attribute of a common double-page spread common to all of the albums and an attribute of an individual double-page spread in each of the albums as double-page spread attributes. The editing unit automatically creates a double-page spread based on one or more criteria corresponding to the attributes, and adds the created double-page spread to one album among the plurality of album.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jumpei Takeichi, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Takayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 12165270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for ingesting 3D objects from a virtual environment for 2D data representation. The system may provide a video conference session including a first video stream of a video conference participant and a second video stream of a virtual environment. The system may receive a 3D data representation of a 3D object in the virtual environment and generate a 2D data representation of the 3D object based on the 3D data representation. The system may display the 2D data representation in the video conference session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jordan Thiel
  • Patent number: 12151163
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system displays a character based on a character model of a first type in a first scene in the game, and based on a character model of a second type in a second scene. In a third scene, a wearable item is selected in response to a selection instruction. In the third scene, the character based on the character model of the first type having the appearance of wearing the selected wearable item is displayed, and the character based on the character model of the second type having the appearance of wearing the wearable item is displayed. When a confirm instruction is given, settings regarding the appearance of the character are changed so as to reflect the wearable item on the appearance of the character in the first scene and the second scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12153773
    Abstract: Computer generated objects can be associated with a plurality of bookmarked pins. In some embodiments, one pin of the plurality of bookmarked pins can be designated as an object origin and one or more other pins of the plurality of bookmarked pins can be used for other actions during editing in the computer graphics editing environment. For example, the one or more other pins can be used as a temporary locus of manipulation (e.g., for rotation, movement, resizing, etc.). The plurality of bookmarked pins can be selectable to display a manipulator element corresponding to a selected pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Bolton
  • Patent number: 12154242
    Abstract: A computer-generated environment can provide a plurality of snap points to guide a user while the user performs one or more transformations to an object. Snap points may be non-uniformly distributed. Snap point densities may vary. Snap points may vary as a function of characteristics of the object. Snap points may be exported, disassociated from the object, and/or used for other objects or other locations of the computer-generated environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eric G. Thivierge
  • Patent number: 12147910
    Abstract: A device comprises determining, if an instruction to open a first drawing file is accepted, whether the first drawing file and a second drawing file associated with the first drawing file have been edited at the same time; determining whether the second drawing file has been edited after previous editing of the first drawing file; determining, if the first drawing file and the second drawing file have been edited at the same time or if they have not been edited at the same time but the second drawing file has been edited after the previous editing of the first drawing file, whether there is a difference between attributes of identical drawing elements included in the respective drawing files; and executing, if there is a difference between the attributes, attribute change processing on the first drawing file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LANDMARK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kojima, Toshiaki Kasai
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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