Stereoscopic Display Device Patents (Class 348/51)
  • Patent number: 12261995
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image acquisition section and an image generation section. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image, the captured image being captured by a camera section that performs imaging in all directions from a single imaging point in a virtual space. The image generation section generates, on the basis of the captured image, a display image to be displayed on a display including an outward display surface capable of being observed from all directions of a real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mitani, Yuji Nakahata
  • Patent number: 12261993
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display system and a control method of the stereoscopic display system are provided. A rotation device is controlled to rotate at 2n times an image input frequency, so that the rotation device respectively completes n rotations during a period in which stereoscopic glasses receive a left-eye image and a period in which the stereoscopic glasses receive a right-eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiung Chuang, Yen-Mo Yu, Wen-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 12262099
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) streaming system provides client-controlled adaptive streaming of 3D content in which the client may receive the 3D primitives of 3D content at different fidelities that the client selects. The system includes generating a 3D model at different fidelities, partitioning the 3D model into different volumetric spatial units, generating a manifest with an index for each volumetric spatial unit and an identifier for each fidelity, and presenting the 3D primitives in a first set of volumetric spatial units at a first fidelity and the 3D primitives in a second set of volumetric spatial units at a second fidelity in response to a request that includes indices of the first set of volumetric spatial units with a first identifier for the first fidelity and indices of the second set of volumetric spatial units with a second identifier for the second fidelity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Looper
  • Patent number: 12254579
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create a 3D video that includes determining first adjustments (e.g., first transforms) to video frames (e.g., one or more RGB images and depth images per frame) to align content in a coordinate system to remove the effects of capturing camera motion. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that playback a 3D video and includes determining second adjustments (e.g., second transforms) to remove the effects of movement of a viewing electronic device relative to a viewing environment during playback of the 3D video. Some implementations distinguish static content and moving content of the video frames to playback only moving objects or facilitate concurrent playback of multiple spatially related 3D videos. The 3D video may include images, audio, or 3D video of a video-capture-device user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Pease, Alexandre Da Veiga, Benjamin H. Boesel, David H. Huang, Jonathan Perron, Shih-Sang Chiu, Spencer H. Ray
  • Patent number: 12254800
    Abstract: A multi-layer display module includes a first display panel, and a second display panel. Dimension of long side of the first display panel is D1, and the first display panel has first pixel resolution P1. The second display panel is located on one side of the first display panel and overlapped with the first display panel. There is a space d between the first display panel and the second display panel. Dimension of the long side of the second display panel is D2, and the second display panel has the second pixel resolution P2. Transmittance of the second display panel is T2. The multi-layer display module complies with T2>40%, P1?P2, and D ? 2 * T ? 2 ? d ? D ? 2 ? "\[LeftBracketingBar]" P ? 1 - P ? 2 ? "\[RightBracketingBar]" * P ? 2 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Li Li, Kuan-Yung Liao, Sheng-Yuan Sun, Yi-Ching Chen, Zong Huei Tsai
  • Patent number: 12230218
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a display device and a display driving method. Specifically, there may be provided a display device comprising a display panel having a plurality of subpixels, a gate driving circuit supplying a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines, a data driving circuit supplying a plurality of data voltages to the display panel through a plurality of data lines, a power management circuit supplying a plurality of driving voltages to the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, and a timing controller controlling the power management circuit to change a level of a gate voltage applied to the gate driving circuit according to an output state of the gate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaesung Park, SeongHwan Hong
  • Patent number: 12219123
    Abstract: A method for rendering data of a three-dimensional image adapted to an eye position and a display system are provided. The method is used to render the three-dimensional image to be displayed in a three-dimensional space. In the method, a three-dimensional image data used to describe the three-dimensional image is obtained. The eye position of a user is detected. The ray-tracing information between the eye position and each lens unit of a multi-optical element module forms a region of visibility (RoV) that may cover a portion of the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional space. When coordinating the physical characteristics of a display panel and the multi-optical element module, a plurality of elemental images can be obtained. The elemental images form an integral image that records the three-dimensional image data adapted to the eye position, and the integral image is used to reconstruct the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LIXEL INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Chih-Hung Ting, Kai-Chieh Chang, Hsin-You Hou, Chih-Wei Shih, Wei-An Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12211156
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate context based augmented reality communication between multiple users over a network. Virtual content item configuration data indicative of a selection by a first user of virtual content item to apply to a real-world environment that is visible to a second user via a second device is received from a first device. The virtual content item configuration data also includes one or more criteria to trigger application of the virtual content item to the real-world environment. A triggering event is detected based on satisfaction of the one or more criteria determined from context data generated at the second device. The second device presents the virtual content item overlaid on the real-world environment that is visible to the second user based on the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Anthony Smith, Yu Jiang Tham, Rajan Vaish
  • Patent number: 12211223
    Abstract: A system and method for setting a viewpoint of a mediated reality (MR) device. A physical space including one or more geotags each communicating a position of such geotag in the physical space. The method including: determining a plurality of possible positions of the MR device in a coordinate system representing the physical space by determining a relative angle and distance to one or more of the geotags captured by the MR device; determining an orientation of the MR device in the coordinate system representing the physical space using the position information communicated by the one or more geotags; determining a position from the plurality of possible positions of the MR device, in the coordinate system representing the physical space, using the determined orientation of the MR device; and determining a viewpoint by aligning the determined position and orientation to a virtual position and pose in mediated reality space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Alexandre Pestov
  • Patent number: 12205228
    Abstract: An improved human-computer interface (“HCI”) is disclosed herein for viewing a three-dimensional (“3D”) representation of a real-world environment from different, changing, and/or multiple perspectives. An AR device may capture, in real-time, a 3D representation of a scene using a surface reconstruction (“SR”) camera and a traditional Red Green & Blue (“RGB”) camera. The 3D representation may be transmitted to and viewed on a user's computing device, enabling the user to navigate the 3D representation. The user may view the 3D representation in a free-third-person mode, enabling the user to virtually walk or fly through the representation captured by the AR device. The user may also select a floor plan mode for a top-down or isomorphic perspective. Enabling a user to view a scene from different perspectives enhances understanding, speeds trouble-shooting, and fundamentally improves the capability of the computing device, the AR device, and the combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Semih Energin, Jeffrey Jesus Evertt
  • Patent number: 12204710
    Abstract: A novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A semiconductor device is provided. The present inventors have reached an idea of a structure including a plurality of conductive films configured to be capacitively coupled to an approaching object, a driver circuit that selects a conductive film from a plurality of conductive films in a predetermined order, and a sensor circuit having a function of supplying a search signal and a sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12190532
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enhance the visualization of certain conditions contained in a video depicting motion in a field of view, in which the enhancements include but are not limited to one or more of: adjusting the appearance of video when objects are at different distances from a video acquisition device; aligning phase of motion obtained from different video acquisition devices; accentuating frequency phenomena that may be masked or obstructed in the presence of other frequencies of motion; differentiating motion data to obtain velocity or acceleration waveforms or spectra; applying a color scheme to pixels in a scene to highlight motion with specific characteristics or to amplify motion or provide indication of absolute motion; and determining spatial or temporal regions in the video to amplify based on the predetermined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Hay, Mark William Slemp
  • Patent number: 12192438
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotating stereoscopic display device and a display control method. A rotating stereoscopic display device includes a base, a drive assembly arranged on the base, and a display panel capable of rotating driven by the drive assembly, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of display areas, the plurality of display areas comprising at least a first display area, at least a second display area and at least a third display area, pixel densities in the first display area, the second display area and the third display area decrease in turn, and at least one of the second display area and the third display area is arranged between the first display area and an edge of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Li, Longhui Wang, Xuefeng Wang, Jinghua Miao
  • Patent number: 12188879
    Abstract: The present application provides a detection method of a wrinkle degree of a screen and a visual detection device, the detection method includes: providing detection rays and irradiating the detection rays vertically onto a surface to be measured of a folding screen by an optical element; acquiring detection rays vertically reflected by the surface to be measured of the folding screen to obtain a corresponding light source reflection image; analyzing the light source reflection image to obtain an evaluation index of a wrinkle degree of the folding screen; and evaluating the wrinkle degree of the folding screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yali Liu, Yongzhen Jia
  • Patent number: 12179783
    Abstract: Provided may be a method for providing an extended function to a vehicle according to an embodiment, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining first image information required for providing an extended function, through a first photographing unit; obtaining predetermined running information related to the running of a vehicle; performing image processing for providing an extended function, through a first ECU on the basis of the running information and the first image information; and displaying a result of the image processing. Furthermore, provided may be an extended function providing apparatus capable of performing the extended function providing method, and a non-volatile computer-readable recording medium in which a computer program for performing the extended function providing method is contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Nam Yong Park, Du Kyung Jung, Dong Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12183029
    Abstract: A device position correction method applicable to a wearable device is provided. The device position correction method includes the following steps. A wearable device image is received. An object detector detects the wearable device position, which is the position in the wearable device image. A limb detection model detects a plurality of skeleton points and a limb position, which is the position of a limb in the wearable device image, in order to determine which body part corresponds to the limb. According to the skeleton points and the limb position, correction information related to the wearable device position is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ting-Wei Lin, Min-Chia Wei
  • Patent number: 12161415
    Abstract: A method for predicting abnormal eye convergence in a human or animal subject may involve tracking eye movement of at least one eye of the subject to generate eye tracking data for the subject and using the eye tracking data to predict whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence. A method for diagnosing a brain injury in a human or animal subject may involve tracking eye movement of at least one eye of the subject to generate eye tracking data for the subject, using the eye tracking data to predict whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence, and predicting whether a brain injury has occurred in the subject, based on the prediction of whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Uzma Samadani, Abdullah Bin Zahid
  • Patent number: 12149676
    Abstract: A method for displaying an image is disclosed. 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 display. The controller receives an information of the position of the vergence surface, 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: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Yu Liou, Ruey-Jer Weng, Naoki Sumi, Chih-Yung Hsieh, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Patent number: 12148298
    Abstract: A method is designed to provide platooning information using a multi-focal plane augmented reality display of a host vehicle. The method includes receiving platooning data from at least one of a plurality of remote vehicles. Each of the plurality of remote vehicle is part of a platoon. The platooning data includes locations, trajectories, and headways of each of the plurality of remote vehicles. The method further includes determining whether the platoon is within a predetermined distance from the host vehicle using the platooning data. Further, the method includes transmitting a command signal to the multi-focal plane augmented reality display of the host vehicle to display a virtual image on the multi-focal plane augmented reality display. The virtual image is indicative of a platooning action related to the platoon that is within the predetermined distance from the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Philip McLaine, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang, Steven Landry
  • Patent number: 12141351
    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: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Artilux, Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Chung Na, Chien-Lung Chen, Han-Din Liu, Shu-Lu Chen
  • Patent number: 12141923
    Abstract: A health management system, including: a health assessment module configured to obtain human health-related health parameter information of a user, and generate a health condition assessment result on the basis of the health parameter information; a health intervention module configured to generate a health management plan on the basis of the health condition assessment result; a human body model generation module configured to generate a human body model that can be displayed on a display interface; and a human body information display model configured to display, on the basis of a received display instruction, the human body model on the display interface based on human body tissue layers, human body systems, or human body parts. In addition, also provided are a human body information display method and a human body model generation method applicable to the health management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingdong Wang, Hua Bai, Yunan Wang, Limin Yang
  • Patent number: 12137200
    Abstract: A 3D strobo-stereoscopic imaging system includes a rotary drive configured to couple to a sample to be imaged by the system, wherein the rotary drive is configured to rotate the sample about a rotational axis when coupled to the rotary drive, a stroboscopic illuminator, a stroboscopic control module coupled to the rotary drive and the stroboscopic illuminator, wherein the stroboscopic control module is configured to repeatedly activate the stroboscopic illuminator at a frequency that is based on a rotational speed of the sample about the rotational axis, a stereoscopic imaging unit including a pair of laterally spaced cameras orientable in the direction of the sample, and an image reconstruction module coupled to the stereoscopic imaging unit and configured to reconstruct a 3D image of the sample from images produced by the pair of cameras of the stereoscopic imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: ChaBum Lee
  • Patent number: 12136176
    Abstract: An augmented reality, AR, system (100) for use in a medical procedure is disclosed. The AR system (100) comprises an AR headset (2), and a processor (12), The AR headset (2) comprises a camera (6a, 6b), a near eye display (4a, 4b) and a distance sensor (10a, 10b). The processor (12) is configured to adjust the position of the image obtained by the camera (6a, 6b) on the display (4a, 4b) throughout the medical procedure based on changes in the distance measured by the distance sensor (10a, 10b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: ARSPECTRA SARL
    Inventors: Cedric Spaas, Ricardo Polar
  • Patent number: 12125132
    Abstract: A computer device for three-dimensional (3D) scene generation is provided. The computer device includes a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a processing unit coupled to the GPU. The GPU is configured to receive instructions from a graphics driver. The processing unit is configured to run the graphics driver and the application program. The processing unit is further configured to run a first program to intercept the first function calls sent from the application program to the graphics driver, to create the second function calls each corresponding to the first function calls based on interpupillary distance, and to transmit the first function calls and the second function calls to the graphics driver. The GPU is configured to render a first image according to the first function calls and to render a second image according to the second function calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Mohammad Foda
  • Patent number: 12118486
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed to generate one or more mixed-reality visualizations and objects to facilitate efficient interaction with large volumes of data. Embodiments include a computer comprising a processor and memory and a mixed-reality display device comprising a display and one or more sensors. Embodiments generate a mixed-reality object comprising a first cuboid, the first cuboid comprising one or more adjustable display dimensions corresponding to one or more key process indicators (KPIs) and one or more cubelets divided along at least one of the one or more adjustable display dimensions. Embodiments display the mixed-reality object on the display, and adjust at least one of the one or more adjustable display dimensions in response to receiving a first input to the one or more sensors. In response to a second input, embodiments transform the one or more cubelets of the first cuboid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenda Christy, Mayank Tiwari, Tushar Shekhar
  • Patent number: 12111469
    Abstract: A head-up display system includes a hologram projector adapted to project a holographic image, a waveguide positioned in front of the hologram projector, wherein the holographic image projected by the hologram projector passes through the waveguide, a glare control prism positioned in front of the waveguide assembly, and a waveplate positioned between the waveguide and the glare control prism, the waveplate adapted to adjust the polarization of the holographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 12113954
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes receiving pixel events output by an event sensor that correspond to a feature disposed within a field of view of the event sensor. Each respective pixel event is generated in response to a specific pixel within a pixel array of the event sensor detecting a change in light intensity that exceeds a comparator threshold. A characteristic of the feature is determined at a first time based on the pixel events and a previous characteristic of the feature at a second time that precedes the first time. Movement of the feature relative to the event sensor is tracked over time based on the characteristic and the previous characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Walter Nistico
  • Patent number: 12111462
    Abstract: A light display system may display an image to a user and/or an audience using a persistence of vision effect. In an embodiment, a light display system includes a light source configured to emit a plurality of light patterns that correspond to multiple frames of an image. The light source is configured to sequentially emit the plurality of light patterns based on instructions from a control system such that the multiple frames are presented in a sequence at a first rate. The light display system also includes an image expander configured to reflect the plurality of light patterns toward a user of the head-mounted device, wherein at least a portion of the image expander is configured to rotate relative to the light source at a second rate that is coordinated with the first rate by the control system to thereby display the image for visualization by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Univeral City Studios LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Jeromin
  • Patent number: 12095975
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland, Stephen Anthony Lombardi, Jason Saragih, Tomas Simon Kreuz, Shunsuke Saito, Michael Zollhoefer, Amit Raj, James Henry Hays
  • Patent number: 12094040
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to dynamic virtual element positioning in an augmented reality (AR) environment are described herein. In a method, a viewport may be output by a computing device and may comprise a virtual element and at least a portion of a scene captured by a camera associated with the computing device. A movement of the at least a portion of the scene in the viewport may be determined. An offset focal point along at least a portion of an axis of the virtual element may be determined that is the closest to a viewport focal point at the vertical and horizontal center of the viewport. The virtual element may be positioned in the viewport based on the movement of the at least a portion of the scene in the viewport and a distance between the offset focal point and the viewport focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kalila Sharafi, Ryan Duffy, Stefan Backhaus, Sabina Fletcher, Heather Hollis, Christopher Follett, Eric Campdoras, Stephan Lough, Sarbari Tina Biswas, Emily Bluedorn
  • Patent number: 12089311
    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: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    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: 12087007
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide improved navigation through tubular networks such as lung airways by providing improved estimation of location and orientation information of a medical instrument (e.g., an endoscope) within the tubular network. Various input data such as image data and CT data, are used to model the tubular networks, and the model information is used to generate a camera pose representing a specific site location within the tubular network and/or to determine navigation information including position and orientation for the medical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventors: Mali Shen, Menglong Ye
  • Patent number: 12081720
    Abstract: Immersive 3D video content includes a plurality of preferably overlapping cells, each cell representative of a volume in the content, wherein a cell providing both content corresponding to a virtual central camera in the cell and parallax information from virtual peripheral cameras around the centre position can be next to a cell providing only parallax information to be used with the content corresponding to the virtual central camera. A device for rendering immersive video, renders a viewpoint corresponding to a user's current position, tracks and predicts the user position, and if the user position moves to a cell with central camera content, retrieves the content and parallax information, and if the user position moves to a cell with only parallax information, retrieves the parallax information and, if necessary, also the cell with the content. This arrangement can reduce bandwidth and storage for the immersive 3D video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Yvon Legallais, Jean Le Roux, Charles Salmon-Legagneur
  • Patent number: 12081722
    Abstract: A stereo image generation method and an electronic apparatus using the same are provided. The stereo image generation method includes the following steps. A two-dimensional (2D) original image corresponding to a first viewing angle is obtained, and a depth map of the 2D original image is estimated. Interpupillary distance information of a user is detected. A pixel shift processing is performed on the 2D original image according to the interpupillary distance information and the depth map to generate a reference image corresponding to a second viewing angle. An image inpainting processing is performed on the reference image to obtain a restored image. The restored image and the 2D original image are merged to generate a stereo image conforming to a stereo image format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Haw Tan, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Wen Huang, Shih-Hao Lin, Sergio Cantero Clares
  • Patent number: 12050328
    Abstract: A light beam emission system includes a blower that forms a flow path in which aerosol flows, an emitter that emits a laser beam, and a light guide that guides the laser beam to the flow path in which the aerosol flows. The light guide is hollow, and at least a part of the laser beam passing through the light guide and guided to the flow path propagates along the flow path of the aerosol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Kohei Noma, Hideki Aoyama, Mitsuaki Oshima
  • Patent number: 12033266
    Abstract: A computer-executable method for generating a side-by-side three-dimensional (3D) image includes the steps of creating a 3D mesh and estimating depth information of the raw image. The method further includes the steps of updating the left mesh area and the right mesh area of the 3D mesh based on the estimated depth information of the raw image and projecting each of the mesh vertices of the left mesh area onto a coordinate system of the side-by-side 3D image based on a left eye position, and projecting each of the mesh vertices of the right mesh area onto the coordinate system of the side-by-side 3D image based on a right eye position. The method further obtains the side-by-side 3D image by coloring the left mesh area and the right mesh area projected onto the coordinate system of the side-by-side 3D image based on the raw image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sergio Cantero Clares, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Shih-Hao Lin, Chih-Haw Tan
  • Patent number: 12033555
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system includes a display, a processor and a wireless sensor. The processor receives remote wireless signals from the wireless sensor corresponding to another display. The processor determines a physical locational relationship and orientation in three-dimensional space based on the received signal. The processor logical represents the relationship and orientation in a configuration screen and sets attributes of the display based on the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Syed S. Azam, Anthony Kaplanis, Alexander Williams, Gregory Staten
  • Patent number: 12025789
    Abstract: A display system includes an image display device and a pair of shutter glasses. The image display device includes a display panel, a display communication circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the display communication circuit to transmit a shutter glasses control signal, and configured to control the display panel to alternately display a normal image and a compensate image according to a timing control signal. The pair of shutter glasses includes a pair of shutters, a glasses communication circuit and a shutter control circuit. The glasses communication circuit is configured to receive the shutter glasses control signal. The shutter control circuit is configured to alternately open and close the pair of shutters according to the shutter glasses control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Kuan-Sheng Yang, Ming-Hung Weng, Cheng-Che Tsai
  • Patent number: 12026800
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with a controller and a display. The method includes identifying, within a first memory, a first object that satisfies a locked criterion. For example, the first object corresponds to a head-locked object or a body-locked object. The first object is associated with a first plurality of pixel values. The method includes blitting, via the controller, the first plurality of pixel values from the first memory to a second memory. The method includes displaying, on the display, the first object by obtaining the first plurality of pixel values from the second memory. In some implementations, the method includes rendering, via a graphics processing unit (GPU), a second object that does not satisfy the locked criterion, such as a world-locked object. As compared with GPU rendering, blitting is less computationally expensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter
  • Patent number: 12019326
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel includes a display panel body; a first dimming layer is disposed on one side of the display panel body, the first dimming layer includes a plurality of light shielding members and a plurality of light receiving members, the plurality of light shielding members are disposed at intervals, each light receiving member is disposed between two adjacent light shielding members; wherein the plurality of light receiving members is a lens structure in a first mode. A display effect of the display panel at a specific viewing angle is improved, and the display panel has an anti-peep function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Cheng, Wenlong Ye, Rui He
  • Patent number: 12001751
    Abstract: A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can complement and enhance individual units by interpreting and reconstructing objects, surfaces, and/or an external environment with perceptive data from multiple angles and positions, which also reduces occlusions and inaccuracies. As more detailed information is available at a specific moment in time, the speed and accuracy of object recognition, hand and body tracking, surface mapping, and/or digital reconstruction can be improved. Such collaboration can provide more effective and efficient mapping of space, surfaces, objects, gestures and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Meursing, David A. Schmuck, Brian S. Lau, Jeremy C. Franklin
  • Patent number: 12002141
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus that makes it possible to automatically orient a front face of a three-dimensional object represented by a three-dimensional image to a user. There are provided: a display unit that displays the three-dimensional image, by which the three-dimensional object appears to exist in a space partitioned by members configuring an outer surface, to be visually recognizable from a plurality of circumferential directions; a direction estimation section that estimates a direction in which a user exists as seen from the display unit; and a display control section that orients a front face of the three-dimensional object displayed by the display unit in the direction in which the user exists estimated by the direction estimation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Omata, Kaoru Koike, Yuichi Miyagawa, Hisataka Izawa, Itaru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11998444
    Abstract: Systems and methods involving an intraocular implant with input and/or output electronics are described. In some embodiments, the system includes an intraocular lens having at least one optic operably coupled to a haptic, one or more input electronics on the haptic and/or the optic; and one or more output electronics on the haptic and/or the optic for receiving and/or transmitting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CROWN HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Edward Grant
  • Patent number: 11991345
    Abstract: A virtual image display device has a function of projecting a prescribed virtual image video within a visual field of a user and detects an actual visual recognition distance from the user to an object relating to a visually recognized object at which the user is gazing. A virtual image light generating unit has a function of generating a plurality of virtual image lights independent of each other and a virtual-image-light transmitting and projecting unit that has a function of transmitting and projecting the virtual image light to left and right eyes of the user through substantially the same optical path to allow a prescribed virtual image video to be visually recognized at a prescribed position within the visual field of the user. Additionally, a virtual-image visual recognition distance control unit that has a function of performing variable control of a visual recognition distance of a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kunikazu Oonishi, Seiji Murata
  • Patent number: 11978238
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods of converting media dimensions. A device may identify a set of frames from a video in a first orientation as belonging to a scene. The device may receive a selected coordinate on a frame of the set of frames for the scene. The device may identify a first region within the frame including a first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate and a second region within the frame including a second feature. The device may generate a first score for the first feature and a second score for the second feature. The first score may be greater than the second score based on the first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate. The device may crop the frame to include the first region and the second region within a predetermined display area comprising a subset of regions of the frame in a second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Mulford, Nathan Frey, Alexandros Panagopoulos, Yinquan Hao, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11972780
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating cinematic space-time view synthesis in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by one or more cameras, multiple images at multiple positions or multiple points in times, where the multiple images represent multiple views of an object or a scene, where the one or more cameras are coupled to one or more processors of a computing device. The method further includes synthesizing, by a neural network, the multiple images into a single image including a middle image of the multiple images and representing an intermediary view of the multiple views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gowri Somanath, Oscar Nestares
  • Patent number: 11940630
    Abstract: To provide a display apparatus that makes it possible to further improve a performance in controlling video presentation according to characteristics of an eyeball of a user. A display apparatus is provided that includes a light source; a processor that performs processing on a distribution of characteristics of an eyeball; a monitoring section that monitors a state of the eyeball; a matching section that performs matching on the distribution of the characteristics of the eyeball and the state of the eyeball; and an irradiator that irradiates a specified position on a retina with video display light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Imamura, Ryo Ogawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Takanobu Omata, Katsuyuki Akutsu, Itaru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11938817
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a head-up display (HUD) considering an eye tracking status are provided. The method includes identifying an eye tracking status based on a result of an eye tracking, and identifying a rendering mode for an HUD image to be one of a two-dimensional (2D) rendering mode and a three-dimensional (3D) rendering mode based on the eye tracking status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huijin Lee, Junhwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11927753
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed provided a virtual reality experience, including: a set of motorized pads for coupling to feet of a user; a means of communication between the set of motorized pads and a computing environment operating a virtual reality headset; such that the set of motorized pads are configured to provide pressure on a user's feet as an avatar within a virtual environment traverses the environment. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser virtual reality experience. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser experience including generation of a common environment viewable in the virtual reality headsets; and recording a tour including audio data as the first user describes the common environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Mark D. Wieczorek
  • Patent number: 11924392
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for mitigating 3D crosstalk and a 3D display. The method includes: detecting first and second eye positions of a user, and determining a viewing angle of the user and a rotation angle of a head of the user accordingly; estimating a first reference position and a first midpoint position between first and second eyes of the user based on the first and second eye positions of the user; obtaining a second reference position, and estimating a difference between the first and second reference positions; correcting the first midpoint position to a second midpoint position based on the rotation angle of the user and the difference; and determining a first pixel for projecting to the first eye and a second pixel for projecting to the second eye among the pixels of the 3D display based on the second midpoint position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Chao-Shih Huang