Stereoscopic Display Device Patents (Class 348/51)
  • Patent number: 11825067
    Abstract: A naked-eye stereoscopic display system including a display, an optical element, and a controller is provided. The display is adapted to emit a plurality of image beams, and includes a plurality of display regions. Each of the display regions includes a plurality of first sub-display regions and a second sub-display region. A light configuration is performed on the image beams by the optical element, and then the image beams are projected out of the naked-eye stereoscopic display. The controller is electrically connected with the display. The controller controls the display, so that a light intensity of an image beam generated by the first sub-display regions is lower than a light intensity of an image beam generated by the second sub-display region. A display method of the naked-eye stereoscopic display is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Ya-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 11825064
    Abstract: A light field display method includes: generating a pixel light field information database (S1); processing, according to different depth positions of an original three-dimensional image, slice images corresponding to the different depth positions and pixel light field information at the different depth positions, to obtain recorded images of the slice images of the original three-dimensional image at the different depth positions (S2); and superimposing the recorded images of the slice images of the original three-dimensional image at the different depth positions, to obtain a microcell array image of the original three-dimensional image (S3). A light field display system has a database generator (101), a recorded image generator (102), and a superimposer (103) which implement the described functions. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores thereon a computer program for implementing the method. A display panel includes the non-transitory computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingxun Zhang, Jian Gao, Sen Ma, Jinye Zhu
  • Patent number: 11818327
    Abstract: A system and methods for a CODEC driving a real-time light field display for multi-dimensional video streaming, interactive gaming and other light field display applications is provided applying a layered scene decomposition strategy. Multi-dimensional scene data is divided into a plurality of data layers of increasing depths as the distance between a given layer and the display surface increases. Data layers which are sampled using an effective resolution function to determine a suitable sampling rate and rendered using hybrid rendering, such as perspective and oblique rendering, to encode light fields corresponding to each data layer. The resulting compressed, (layered) core representation of the multi-dimensional scene data is produced at predictable rates, reconstructed and merged at the light field display in real-time by applying view synthesis protocols, including edge adaptive interpolation, to reconstruct pixel arrays in stages (e.g. columns then rows) from reference elemental images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Avalon Holographics Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Hamilton, Chuck Rumbolt, Donovan Benoit, Matthew Troke, Robert Lockyer, Thomas Butyn
  • Patent number: 11818414
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Telepresence is provided through over-the-air (OTA) virtual reality (VR) broadcast streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Loren Pineda
  • Patent number: 11818330
    Abstract: A display device provided by the present disclosure includes: a plurality of display units arranged in an array, wherein each display unit includes m sub-pixels, the m sub-pixels of the display unit are in one-to-one correspondence with m preset viewing areas, and m is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and refraction structures in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of display units, wherein each refraction structure is located on a light emitting side of a display unit corresponding to the refraction structure, and the refraction structure is configured to refract light emitted from each sub-pixel of a corresponding display unit to a viewing area corresponding to the sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Tao Hong, Ming Zhu
  • Patent number: 11812046
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device that enables content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness from a reproduction device. The display comprises circuitry configured to store display information related to high dynamic range (HDR) video and to transmit to the reproduction device an extended display identification data that includes display information representing a performance of the display device. The display device includes a monitor configured to display an image of the HDR video in accordance with brightness designated by HDR information if the monitor is capable of displaying the designated brightness and to adjust a brightness of the image of the HDR video to a brightness capability of the monitor if the monitor is not capable of displaying the designated brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 11808954
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-image display apparatus including an image forming device configured to form a first image, a first polarization plate configured to transmit a first polarization component of the first image provided from the image forming device, a second polarization plate configured to transmit a second polarization component of a second image that is provided from a path different from the first image, the second polarization component being different from the first polarization component, a screen configured to reflect and diffuse the first image, and transmit the second image, and a polarization selective lens configured to focus the first image having the first polarization component, and transmit the second image having the second polarization component without refraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Changkun Lee, Seokil Moon, Byoungho Lee, Wontaek Seo, Geeyoung Sung, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11804031
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes obtaining visual information related to an object in an image, generating valid data from the image based on the visual information, and transmitting the valid data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeongon Cho
  • Patent number: 11798134
    Abstract: An image processing device according to one embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, a calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires an input image. The generation unit generates a plurality of comparison images by superimposing each of a plurality of noises with different densities from each other on a target region being at least part of the input image. The calculation unit calculates, for each of the plurality of comparison images, the degradation level of the comparison image with respect to the input image. The estimation unit estimates the noise level of the input image based on a plurality of calculated degradation levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yeongnam Chae, Jiu Xu
  • Patent number: 11799623
    Abstract: Systems and methods for HDMI signal communication over an optical communication link are described. One aspect includes receiving an HDMI control signal from an HDMI master device, and another HDMI control signal from an HDMI sink terminal via a communication resources. The method identifies half-duplex communication resource contention between the HDMI control signal and the other HDMI control signal, and transitions a communication direction of the half-duplex communication resources to give the HDMI control signal precedence over the other HDMI control signal. Subsequent to transitioning the communication direction, the method transfers the HDMI control signal to the HDMI sink terminal via the communication resources. Subsequent to transferring the HDMI control signal, the method again transitions the direction of the half-duplex communication resources, and transfers the other HMDI control signal to the HDMI master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: WINGCOMM Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianming Yu, Zuodong Wang, Wei Mao, Yun Bai
  • Patent number: 11792904
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide implementations for controlling flicker, for example caused by a plurality of light sources, in a multi-sensor environment. Various embodiments provided utilize a broadest illuminator source for capturing image data objects for processing. The broadest illuminator source minimizes the number of activation changes required between the various illuminator sources. One example embodiment includes activating a broadest illuminator source of a plurality of illuminator sources; determining, based on a plurality of image sensors and an sensor activation sequence, a chosen image sensor of the plurality of image sensors for an image processing operation; and activating a chosen illuminator source of the plurality of illuminator sources, the chosen illuminator source associated with the chosen image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Xian, Ka Man Au, David M. Wilz, Gennady Germaine, Patrick Anthony Giordano, Erik Van Horn, Michael Vincent Miraglia, Benjamin Hejl, Thomas A. Sweet
  • Patent number: 11782285
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a material identification method and a device based on laser speckle and modal fusion, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes: performing data acquisition on an object by using a structured light camera to obtain a color modal image, a depth modal image and an infrared modal image; preprocessing the color modal image, the depth modal image and the infrared modal image; and inputting the color modal image, the depth modal image and the infrared modal image preprocessed into a preset depth neural network for training, to learn a material characteristic from a speckle structure and a coupling relation between color modal and depth modal, to generate a material classification model for classifying materials, and to generate a material prediction result in testing by the material classification model of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lu Fang, Mengqi Ji, Shi Mao, Qionghai Dai
  • Patent number: 11784906
    Abstract: A display device for measuring the end-to-end latency of a computing system. The computing system includes an input device, a computing device, and the display device. The display device is directly connected with the input device and receives input data packets generated by the input device in response to received user input events. The display device passes the input packets to the computing device for graphics processing. The display device measures the end-to-end latency comprising the sum of three latencies. A first latency comprises an input delay of the input device. A second latency comprises an amount of time between generation of the input packet and a corresponding change in pixel values caused by the input event at the display device. A third latency comprises a display latency. The display device also displays latency information associated with the measured end-to-end latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Joohwan Kim, Benjamin Boudaoud, Josef B. Spjut, Morgan S. McGuire, Seth P. Schneider, Rouslan L. Dimitrov, Lars Nordskog, Cody J. Robson, Sau Yan Keith Li, Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, Tom J. Verbeure
  • Patent number: 11778290
    Abstract: System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Binder
  • Patent number: 11774641
    Abstract: A lenticular display may be formed with convex curvature. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display. To enable more curvature in the display while ensuring satisfactory stereoscopic display performance, the display may have stereoscopic zones and non-stereoscopic zones. A central stereoscopic zone may be interposed between first and second non-stereoscopic zones. The non-stereoscopic zones may have more curvature than the stereoscopic zone. To prevent crosstalk within the lenticular display, a louver film may be incorporated into the display. The pixel array may have a diagonal layout and may be covered by vertically oriented lenticular lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Manjap Singh, Cheng-Ho Yu, ByoungSuk Kim, Yi Huang, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Mathew K. Mathai, Chieh-Wei Chen, Ping-Yen Chou, Donghee Nam, Chaohao Wang, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11776531
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing speech recognition. In some implementations, acoustic data representing an utterance is obtained. The acoustic data corresponds to time steps in a series of time steps. One or more computers process scores indicative of the acoustic data using a recurrent neural network to generate a sequence of outputs. The sequence of outputs indicates a likely output label from among a predetermined set of output labels. The predetermined set of output labels includes output labels that respectively correspond to different linguistic units and to a placeholder label that does not represent a classification of acoustic data. The recurrent neural network is configured to use an output label indicated for a previous time step to determine an output label for the current time step. The generated sequence of outputs is processed to generate a transcription of the utterance, and the transcription of the utterance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hasim Sak, Sean Matthew Shannon
  • Patent number: 11755104
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for eye gesture recognition. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an electrical signal that represents a measurement, by a photodetector, of an optical signal reflected from an eye and determining a depth map of the eye based on phase differences between the electrical signal generated by the photodetector and a reference signal. Further, the method includes determining gaze information that represents a gaze of the eye based on the depth map and providing output data representing the gaze information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Artilux, Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Chung Na, Chien-Lung Chen, Han-Din Liu, Shu-Lu Chen
  • Patent number: 11750888
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content available for playback on the electronic device. The representations are optionally presented in a horizontally-scrollable row. In response to a user input to horizontally scroll the row of representations, in some embodiments, the electronic device presents an animation of moving a cropping frame/border between respective representations to scroll the presented representations. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of auxiliary content related to an item of content in a product page user interface of the item of content. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content in accordance with content consumption history of the user account. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of bonus content items associated with a series of episodic content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Juliana Diaz Delgado, Sean M. Harold, William D. Carpenter, Jose J. Aroche Martinez, Benjamin T. Christie, Anton M. Davydov, David M. Moretti, Oscar H. Walden, Justin Gaussoin, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Florian Maxime Ponson
  • Patent number: 11749209
    Abstract: A drive circuit, a display assembly, and a display device are provided. The drive circuit includes a display drive module, at least one display control module, and a discharge control module. The display control module is configured to receive a data signal and transmit a first power-supply voltage to the display drive module according to the data signal. The display drive module is configured to transmit, under control of a scan signal and the data signal, the first power-supply voltage to a light-emitting element upon reception of the first power-supply voltage, to drive the light-emitting element to emit lights. The discharge control module is configured to receive the first power-supply voltage, and discharge the light-emitting element by adjusting a potential of the scan signal when the first power-supply voltage drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Renjie Zhou, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11749018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for eye enrollment for a head-mounted enclosure are described. Some implementations may include an image sensor; and a processing apparatus configured to: access a set of images, captured using the image sensor, that depict a face of a user and a head-mounted enclosure that the user is wearing; and determine, based on the set of images, a first position of a first eye of the user relative to the head-mounted enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nick Torkos, Duncan A. McRoberts, Pierric Gimmig
  • Patent number: 11716457
    Abstract: A display method of an image is disclosed. A position of a vergence surface of a user is obtained through a gaze tracking device. An image is provided by a display, the image is located at a virtual image surface, and the image has an offset between different view directions. A controller is coupled to the gaze tracking device and the display. The controller receives an information of the position of the vergence surface obtained through the gaze tracking device, performs an algorithm processing according to the information to obtain the offset, and transmits a display information including the offset to the display. An eye of the user focuses on an accommodation surface when viewing the image, and a position of the accommodation surface is different from a position of the virtual image surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Yu Liou, Ruey-Jer Weng, Naoki Sumi, Chih-Yung Hsieh, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Patent number: 11704885
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an AR visual display to save are described. A camera of a computing device scans an area and an AR engine of the computing device extrapolates flat portions of the area. A digital representation of the area is displayed via a GUI of the computing device to allow a user to place digitally created content. The digitally created content is textual content, 2D content, 3D content, video content, and/or audio content. The AR engine receives, from a user, an action executed on a surface and at a location of the digital representation to add a tag or an anchor. The AR engine utilizes planes as indicators to save the placement of the tag or the anchor and transmits the placement of the tag or the anchor to a server. The placement of the tag or the anchor allows for viewing from other computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Fishman
  • Patent number: 11700364
    Abstract: A method of displaying a light field to at least one viewer of a light field display device, the light field based on a 3D model, the light field display device comprising a plurality of spatially distributed display elements, the method including the steps of: (a) determining the viewpoints of the eyes of the at least one viewer relative to the display device; (b) for each eye viewpoint and each of a plurality of the display elements, rendering a partial view image representing a view of the 3D model from the eye viewpoint through the display element; and (c) displaying, via each display element, the set of partial view images rendered for that display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Vergent Research Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Paul Lapstun
  • Patent number: 11694230
    Abstract: A virtual local presence display apparatus, system and method is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Josh Lehman
  • Patent number: 11694413
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for image editing and sharing in an augmented reality computing environment. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a first user, an edit command indicating a selection of an image from within an augmented reality computing environment. Responsive to the edit command, the image is moved from a first location within the augmented reality computing environment to a second location within the augmented reality computing environment closer to the first user than the first location. One or more edits to the image are received from the first user. The image including the one more edits are returned to the first location upon a completion of the one or more edits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SPATIAL SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Peter Ng, Jinha Lee, Anand Agarawala
  • Patent number: 11681395
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate, a display device and a detection method by using a display device. The display substrate includes at least one sub-pixel, the at least one sub-pixel includes a first region and a second region, and the at least one sub-pixel includes a light emitting element which is arranged in the first region, and a pixel circuit structure and a photosensitive structure which are arranged in the second region; the pixel circuit structure and the photosensitive structure are stacked, and the photosensitive structure is closer to a light exiting side of the display substrate than the pixel circuit structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Likai Deng, Yangbing Li, Xueyou Cao, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11682180
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for rendering virtual content in a scene. An example method includes determining a surface plane in a scene of a physical environment; rendering virtual content in a perspective at a location in the scene; rendering a content placement indicator associated with the virtual content on a first space of the surface plane, the content placement indicator indicating the first space for placement of the virtual content; determining one or more locations of one or more objects on a surface associated with the surface plane; and responsive to an input, rendering the content placement indicator on a second space of the surface plane, the second space being determined based on the one or more locations and input, the content placement indicator indicating the second space for placement of the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Chad Willkie
  • Patent number: 11682037
    Abstract: A signage control system comprises: a primary estimation circuitry to use signage-side images and surveillance-side images to estimate a person feature, attributes and behavior of each person captured in these frame images; a storage device to associate and store results of estimations of the person feature, the attributes and the behavior of each specific person; an estimation result linkage circuitry to use the person feature stored in the storage device to link the results of estimations based on the frame images from multiple ones of the cameras for the same person so as to generate a group of estimation results for each person; and a content change circuitry to change a content displayed on the signage to another based on the attributes of each person expected to be in a position where such person can visually recognize the content on the signage, and based on preceding behavior of such person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AWL, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 11678950
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-viewpoint video image viewing system that allows a viewer to view a multi-viewpoint video content and removes in advance video images in which hands are hidden as a video image candidate. A first invention of the present application selects video images to be displayed on a video image display section in advance and presents the selected video images to a viewer by causing an information processing apparatus to perform hand-target image recognition on motion image (video image) data that includes image data captured with a plurality of video cameras and a frame string disposed in a time region to select video images showing a hand or not to select video images showing no hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroki Kajita
  • Patent number: 11670321
    Abstract: A system includes a headset to capture sound and a visual signal of a local area including one or more sound sources. The system determines a strength of the audio signal and a portion of the visual signal associated with the audio signal, compares the strengths, selects the weaker signal, and augments the weaker signal. The headset accordingly presents augmented audio-visual content to a user, thereby enhancing the user's perception of the weak signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cesare Valerio Parise, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Philip Robinson
  • Patent number: 11659156
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automatic calibration method for image arrangement of a naked-eye 3D display screen and electronic device. The method comprise: S1, displaying a first 3D test image on a display screen according to a preset viewing distance, and acquiring a mirror image of the first 3D test image in a flat mirror through a camera, wherein the first 3D test image comprises a first monochrome 3D left image and a black 3D right image; S2, adjusting a 3D display rotation angle and a left-right offset of a display screen according to a preset algorithm, acquiring a mirror image and acquiring the number of effective pixel points of the largest pixel block in each mirror image; S3, taking the 3D display rotation angle and the left-right offset corresponding to the mirror image to which the selected maximum effective pixel point number belongs as calibration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: 3DVSTAR Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yajun Yang
  • Patent number: 11656835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for item acquisition by selection of a virtual object placed in digital environment are disclosed. A processor(s) and memory may be configured to receive a coordinate for placement of a 2D or 3D virtual object in a 3D digital environment, including a digital twin of a real-world location, control the display to display the virtual object when a position corresponding to the received coordinate is within a field of view of the image capture device. The system receives an input via the user interface for selecting virtual objects which are then tracked in both the real-world and 3D digital environment simultaneously. The system enabling the accurate updating and display of all augmented reality and virtual reality content and digital twin data for a seamless blend of both to provide a shared cross-modal experience for all users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Robert A. Rice
  • Patent number: 11656479
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a coherent light source, a display unit, a light-diffusing element, and at least one optical element. The coherent light source is configured to provide coherent light beams. The display unit is configured to form a three-dimensional image beam based on interference of the coherent light beams, wherein the three-dimensional image beam is imaged on an intermediate imaging surface after passing through the display unit. The light-diffusing element is located on the intermediate imaging surface, wherein a diffusion angle of the three-dimensional image beam is sequentially changed by passing through the light-diffusing element. The at least one optical element is located on a transmission path of the three-dimensional image beam from the light-diffusing element, and is configured to project the three-dimensional image light beam passing through the display unit out of the display apparatus to display a three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Himax Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuan-Hsu Fan-Chiang, Chi-Wen Lin
  • Patent number: 11647903
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Patent number: 11652654
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described in which the control of virtual activities is cooperatively shared among two or more interactive users. Within selected virtual actions, an initiation component is identified that, when enacted, automatically informs one or more shared-experience users of the intent by the initiator to complete the virtual action and triggers monitoring of the shared-experience users for indications signaling agreement to proceed. When the degree of agreement meets a predetermined threshold or is judged by the initiator to be adequate, the completion component of the virtual actions is enacted on all devices. Automatic incorporation of initiation and completion components during shared activities may allow for cooperative control of virtual activities without repeated and potentially monotonous questions and responses regarding when to proceed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KINOO, INC.
    Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson George Publicover
  • Patent number: 11645818
    Abstract: A virtual model placement system can generate virtual floors and virtual walls to correspond to a real-world environment. Virtual items such as doors, windows, lamps, can be placed on the generated virtual walls and the system can generate dynamic updates of the placed items in response to movement by a user's device (e.g., a smartphone moving from right to left). The virtual items can be initially placed as primitives and then rendered to new positions upon the user selecting a render or lock instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Rom, Eli Konky
  • Patent number: 11641459
    Abstract: A viewing system provides a viewing user with an experience of viewing a content that presents a character whose behaviors are controlled based on physical motions of a performer, the content being a binocular stereopsis content that presents staging in a 3D space in which a first character associated with a first performer and a second character associated with a second performer are arranged. The first character is arranged in a first region in the space, a viewpoint associated with the viewing user and the second character are arranged in a second region in the space. The system controls behaviors of the first character based on first motion information of the first performer, and controls behaviors of the second character based on at least one of second motion information of the second performer and information of an operational input performed by the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VARK Inc.
    Inventors: Takuya Kato, Norinaga Ishikawa, Takashi Ookaki
  • Patent number: 11630302
    Abstract: A driving guidance system is provided for a motor vehicle having a windshield. The system includes an input device for generating an input signal associated with the movement of the motor vehicle, a road detection module for generating a road signal associated with a road geometry, and an ARHUD for generating a plurality of images upon the windshield. The system further includes a computer having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, such that the processor is programmed to receive the input signal and the road signal. The processor is further programmed to determine a predicted trajectory and a recommended trajectory of the motor vehicle along the road geometry based on the input signal and the road signal. The ARHUD is configured to generate the images upon the windshield and overlaid onto the road geometry to notify the driver of the predicted trajectory and the recommended trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John P. Weiss, Joseph F. Szczerba, Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 11627875
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Patent number: 11625861
    Abstract: Enabling colorization and color adjustments on 3D point clouds, which are projected onto a 2D view with an equirectangular projection. A user may color regions on the 2D view and preview the changes immediately in a 3D view of the point cloud. Embodiments render the color of each point in the point cloud by testing whether the 2D projection of the point is inside the colored region. Applications may include generation of a color 3D virtual reality environment using point clouds and color-adjusted imagery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Tobias Anderberg
  • Patent number: 11619874
    Abstract: A visual partition system is provided. The system comprises a number of dry mist dispensers that generate a particle curtain comprising liquid micro-droplets. A gutter system collects liquid from the particle curtain, and at least one vacuum extractor is operably coupled to the gutter system. A liquid recirculation system collects liquid from the gutter system via the at least one vacuum extractor and returns it to the dry mist dispensers for reuse of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Cynthia Anne Vandewall, Jared Arthur Bowen, Juan Sebastian Ramirez Loaiza
  • Patent number: 11610380
    Abstract: A method for interacting with an autostereoscopic display is disclosed. The method includes initiating displaying by the autostereoscopic display a left eye view and a right eye view that contain a virtual manipulated object, determining a real-world coordinate of the virtual manipulated object perceived by a user located at a predetermined viewing position of the auto stereoscopic display, receiving an interactive action of the user's manipulating body acquired by a motion tracker, where the interaction action includes a real-world coordinate of the manipulating body, determining whether an interaction condition is triggered based at least in part on the real-world coordinate of the virtual manipulated object and the real-world coordinate of the manipulating body, and refreshing the left eye view and the right eye view based on the interactive action of the manipulating body acquired by the motion tracker, in response to determining that the interaction condition is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guixin Yan, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Minglei Chu, Wenhong Tian, Zhanshan Ma, Ziqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 11609345
    Abstract: A system includes a computing system configured to communicatively couple to a database configured to store a virtual coordinate system and a plurality of features associated with a representative environment associated with the virtual coordinate system. The computing system is configured to receive a first input indicative of a physical positioning of a user in a physical environment, determine a virtual positioning of the user in the virtual coordinate system based on the first input, receive a second input indicative of an updated physical positioning of the user in the physical environment, determine an updated virtual positioning of the user in the virtual coordinate system based on the second input, and output a first signal to a computing device in response to determining the updated virtual positioning of the user in the virtual coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thong T. Nguyen, Paul D. Schmirler, Alex L. Nicoll
  • Patent number: 11599747
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to using machine learning to determine depth maps for dual pixel images of objects are provided. A computing device can receive a dual pixel image of at least a foreground object. The dual pixel image can include a plurality of dual pixels. A dual pixel of the plurality of dual pixels can include a left-side pixel and a right-side pixel that both represent light incident on a single dual pixel element used to capture the dual pixel image. The computing device can be used to train a machine learning system to determine a depth map associated with the dual pixel image. The computing device can provide the trained machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yael Pritch Knaan, Marc Levoy, Neal Wadhwa, Rahul Garg, Sameer Ansari, Jiawen Chen
  • Patent number: 11595636
    Abstract: A volumetric content enhancement system (“the system”) can annotate at least a portion of a plurality of voxels from a volumetric video with contextual data. The system can determine at least one actionable position within the volumetric video. The system can create an annotated volumetric video that includes the volumetric video, an annotation with the contextual data, and the at least one actionable position. The system can provide the annotated volumetric video to a volumetric content playback system. The system can obtain viewer feedback associated with the viewer and can determine an emotional state of the viewer based, at least in part, upon the viewer feedback. The system can receive viewer position information that identifies a specific actionable position of the viewer. The system can generate manipulation instructions to instruct the volumetric content playback system to manipulate the annotated volumetric content to achieve a desired emotional state of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, David Gibbon, Wen-Ling Hsu, Jianxiong Dong, Richard Palazzo
  • Patent number: 11589110
    Abstract: A digital media system is configured to support any one or more of multiple features with respect to virtual-reality content. Examples of such features include directional picture-in-picture (PIP) windows based on viewing direction, directional audio based on viewing direction, user recommendations based on anomalous viewing times of certain visual features in video content, dynamic adjustment of time-to-live (TTL) durations prior to requesting deletion of video files uploaded to a content distribution network, dynamic adjustment of durations of video files to upload based on network capacity, dynamic adjustment of quantities of video files per set to upload based on network capacity, dynamic resizing of top-depicting or bottom-depicting regions within the picture areas of sets of video files, dynamic resizing of the picture areas themselves within sets of video files, or any suitable combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AlcaCruz Inc.
    Inventors: SangYoo Ha, Salomon Lee
  • Patent number: 11586337
    Abstract: An orthogonal or multi-dimensional fabric user interface is described herein. A remote server executes an operating system that provides a multi-dimensional fabric user interface for storing content for a particular user. The user can access select content by manipulating the multi-dimensional fabric user interface through a graphical user interface displayed on a personal mobile computing device. In this way, the user experiences and manipulates various data dimensions around the specific content they are accessing, rather than selecting a particular file structure location. The remote server also enables the user to enter a first location side of a portal and travel to a virtual representation a second actual physical location in the multi-dimensional fabric user interface from a virtual representation of a first actual physical location in the multi-dimensional fabric user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: PEER INC
    Inventor: Thinh Tran
  • Patent number: 11586784
    Abstract: A method for augmented reality content production based on attribute information application according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as a method for augmented reality content production based on attribute information application by a production application executed by at least one or more processors of a computing device, comprises providing a virtual object authoring space which is a virtual space for authoring a virtual object and includes at least one or more reference objects; providing a virtual object authoring interface for the virtual object authoring space; generating augmentation relationship attribute information based on a virtual object generated based on the provided virtual object authoring interface and at least one reference object of the virtual object authoring space; storing the virtual object by including the generated augmentation relationship attribute information; and displaying the stored virtual object on a reference object in a different space other than the virtual ob
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIRNECT INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Ha
  • Patent number: 11577504
    Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing a light field print using a printing press. The techniques include: identifying at least one characteristic of the printing press at least in part by printing at least one calibration pattern; obtaining content to be rendered using the light field print, the content comprising multiple scene views; generating, based at least in part on the content and the at least one characteristic of the printing press, a front target pattern and a back target pattern; and using the printing press to: print the front target pattern on a first side of a substrate; and print the back target pattern on a second side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Fathom Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Anthony Baran, Matthew Waggener Hirsch
  • Patent number: 11575874
    Abstract: Camera compensation methods and systems that compensate for misalignment of sensors/camera in stereoscopic camera systems. The compensation includes identifying a pitch angle offset between a first camera and a second camera, determining misalignment of the first and second cameras from the identified pitch angle offset, determining a relative compensation delay responsive to the determined misalignment, introducing the relative compensation delay to image streams produced by the cameras, and producing a stereoscopic image on a display from the first and second image streams with the introduced delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Ryuma, David Ben Ezra, Dunxu Hu, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons