Using An Image Projection Screen (epo) Patents (Class 348/E13.058)
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Patent number: 12261994Abstract: A display system includes N (N is a natural number) pixel sets, and a processor. The N pixel sets are capable of displaying different images in N directions. The processor is configured to determine a direction of a person, the person being a person able to view each of the N pixel sets, the direction being a direction in which the person is located. The processor is also configured to cause an image to be displayed by a pixel set, the image being an image directed to each of less than N directions including at least the determined direction, the pixel set being at least one of the N pixel sets corresponding to each of the less than N directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Kazutoshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 12256052Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12256054Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12256053Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12256059Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for a stimulus-responsive depth-changing display. An electronic device includes a flexible display and a stimulus-responsive material disposed at least partially under the display. The electronic device receives image data and determines depth data associated with the image data. An image is displayed on the flexible display based on the image data. While displaying the image on the flexible display, the stimulus-responsive material can be activated by a stimulus to cause the stimulus-responsive material to change from a first shape to a second shape. In changing from the first shape to the second shape, the stimulus-responsive material displaces at least a portion of the flexible display. In doing so, the shape of the flexible display can be reconfigured to add depth to a displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventor: Wilfred I. Tucker
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Patent number: 12250362Abstract: A hybrid display system for a force measurement assembly, an exercise device, or an interactive game is disclosed herein. The hybrid display system includes a head-mounted visual display device having an output screen; at least one camera or a substantially transparent lens for enabling a system user to see one or more images of a real-world environment outside of the head-mounted visual display device; and a data processing device configured to generate a virtual reality environment and display the virtual reality environment on the output screen of the head-mounted visual display device, and the one or more images of the real-world environment being visible through the substantially transparent lens or the data processing device further configured to project at least a portion of the one or more images of the real-world environment captured by the at least one camera into the display of the virtual reality environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bertec CorporationInventor: Necip Berme
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Patent number: 12242055Abstract: A method of operating an AR system to display an image viewable by a user's eyes includes tracking, by an eye-tracking subsystem, a position of the user's eyes and determining, based on the position, a focus depth of the user's eyes. The method also includes selecting, from a plurality of light-guiding optical elements, a subset of light-guiding optical elements configured to focus light at a depth plane corresponding to the focus depth of the user's eyes, producing a plurality of light beams using a subset of sub-light sources of a plurality of sub-light sources, the subset of sub-light sources being configured to illuminate the subset of light-guiding optical elements, and imaging the plurality of light beams through an imaging system and onto the subset of light-guiding optical elements such that the image is generated at the depth plane corresponding to the focus depth of the user's eyes.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Scott C. Cahall, Hyunsun Chung
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Patent number: 12216296Abstract: A multiview display employs an array of multibeam elements configured to provide directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to different view directions of the multiview display. Moreover, the multiview display includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams as a multiview image to be displayed by the multiview display, where a multiview pixel of the multiview display includes a set of light valves of the light valve array corresponding to a multibeam element of the multibeam element plurality and being configured to modulate directional light beams from the multibeam element. Furthermore, a shape of the multiview pixel is dynamically reconfigurable to provide the multiview image having a dynamic field of view (FOV). The FOV may be modified based on a monitored orientation of the multiview display, a monitored position of a user relative to the multiview display, or both.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: LEIA INC.Inventor: David A. Fattal
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Patent number: 12205258Abstract: This invention relates to a method of imaging a downhole region of interest. In particular this invention relates to a method of processing images captured downhole to remove or reduce distortions due to the optical system as a function of the temperature experienced by the optical system in the downhole environment. A method of imaging a downhole region of interest comprises contemporaneously capturing an image of a region of interest and recording a temperature associated with the region of interest; selecting a pre-defined set of distortion data from a plurality of pre-defined sets of distortion data based on the recorded temperature; and applying the selected set of distortion data to the captured image to create an un-distorted image, wherein the pre-defined set of distortion data comprises distortion values associated with a range of field angles at a specified temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: E.V. OFFSHORE LIMITEDInventors: Jonathan Brian Rudd, Christopher Scott, Jonathan Thursby, John Blackwell
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Patent number: 12192434Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12147594Abstract: A ride system includes at least one ride vehicle. The at least one ride vehicle is configured to receive a ride passenger. The ride system includes electronic goggles configured to be worn by the ride passenger. The electronic goggles include a camera and a display. The ride system includes a computer graphics generation system communicatively coupled to the electronic goggles, and configured to generate streaming media of a real world environment based on image data captured via the camera of the electronic goggles, generate one or more virtual augmentations superimposed on the streaming media of the real world environment, and to transmit the streaming media of the real world environment along with the one or more superimposed virtual augmentations to be displayed on the display of the electronic goggles.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Steven C. Blum, Brian B. McQuillian
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Patent number: 12143618Abstract: From a bit stream, at least the following are decoded: a stereoscopic image of first and second views; a maximum positive disparity between the first and second views; and a minimum negative disparity between the first and second views. In response to the maximum positive disparity violating a limit on positive disparity, a convergence plane of the stereoscopic image is adjusted to comply with the limit on positive disparity. In response to the minimum negative disparity violating a limit on negative disparity, the convergence plane is adjusted to comply with the limit on negative disparity.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Veeramanikandan Raju, Wei Hong, Minhua Zhou
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Patent number: 12114099Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing dynamic camera views in a virtual environment. The system may provide a video conference session in a virtual environment. The system may provide a plurality of individual virtual cameras for capturing individual video streams of one or more 3D avatars and an environment virtual camera for capturing an environment video stream. The system may display the individual video streams and environment video stream in a video conference application.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventor: Jordan Thiel
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Patent number: 12108021Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera rig apparatus, for capturing a stereoscopic image, which is capable of adjusting the ideal interocular distance (IOD) between an object and cameras and can be easily carried around. The camera rig apparatus includes: a middle shaft having a pillar shape and having an HDMI splitter mounted on the top part; a body plate inserted through so as to be fixed to the outer surface of the middle shaft; and camera mounting members having a pair of cameras, which are cable-connected to the HDMI splitter, mounted thereon, and radially provided in a plurality so as to be movable with the body plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: VENTAVR CO., LTDInventor: Woo Yeol Jeon
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Patent number: 12100102Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses of quality assessment for three dimensional (3D) graphics modeling. In some examples, an apparatus for quality assessment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines an updated virtual camera position in response to a position change of a virtual camera for projection from a three-dimensional (3D) space to a two-dimensional (2D) space. The processing circuitry projects a reference 3D representation according to the updated virtual camera position to generate a reference 2D image, and projects a 3D representation under assessment according to the updated virtual camera position to generate an assessment 2D image. The processing circuitry calculates an assessment score associated with the updated virtual camera position based on the reference 2D image and the assessment 2D image.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Xiang Zhang, Chao Huang, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12096160Abstract: Disclosed is a light source control apparatus, which includes an image acquirer that obtains information about an image to be displayed from a light source matrix, and a controller that changes a resolution of the image based on the information about the image and controls an operation of the light source matrix such that the image having the changed resolution is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Myeong Je Kim
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Patent number: 12081730Abstract: A Dynamic Parallel Monocular Projection (DPMP) system for the provision of dynamically adjusted images to a Head Motion Box (HMB) is provided herein. The DPMP may include a picture generation unit (PGU); a projection unit, further comprising a displaying unit and at least one optical modulator, a Multi-Layered Thin Combiner (MLTC), comprising an infra-red (IR) light source and an IR detection sensor, thereby enabling the provision of images adjusted to the individual location of the observer's eyes within the HMB.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Spectralics Ltd.Inventors: Yuval Kashter, Eran Falek, Ran Bar-Yosef
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Patent number: 12062207Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for low bandwidth transmission of event data. In various implementations, a device includes one or more cameras, a non-transitory memory, and one or more processors coupled with the one or more cameras and the non-transitory memory. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining, by the device, a set of images that correspond to a scene with a person. In various implementations, the method includes generating pose information for the person based on the set of images. In some implementations, the pose information indicates respective positions of body portions of the person. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting the pose information in accordance with a bandwidth utilization criterion.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Ian M. Richter
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Patent number: 12045950Abstract: A plurality of virtual three-dimensional points distributed on a 3D reference plane for a camera array including a plurality of cameras are randomly selected. The plurality of cameras includes a host camera and one or more additional cameras. Respective two-dimensional projections of the plurality of virtual 3D points for the plurality of cameras are determined based on respective poses of the cameras. For the respective one or more additional cameras, respective homography matrices are determined based on the 2D projections for the respective camera and the 2D projections for the host camera. The respective homography matrices map the 2D projections for the respective camera to the 2D projections for the host camera. A stitched image is generated based on respective images captured by the plurality of cameras and the respective homography matrices.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava
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Patent number: 12041220Abstract: A dynamic event capturing and rendering system collects and aggregates video, audio, positional, and motion data to create a comprehensive user perspective 360-degree rendering of a field of play. An object associated with a user collects data that is stitched together and synchronized to provide post event analysis and training. Through an interface actions that occurred during an event can be recreated providing the viewer with information on what the user associated with the object was experiencing, where the user was looking, and how certain actions may have changed the outcome. Using the collected data, a virtual realty environment is created that can be manipulated to present alternative courses of action and outcomes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: FLEXXCOACH VRInventors: Keith A. Blase, Ronald G. Prociw
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Patent number: 12028502Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture to present three dimensional images without glasses. An example apparatus includes a micro lens array and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: determine a first position of a first pupil of a viewer; determine a second position of a second pupil of the viewer; align a first eye box with the first position of the first pupil; align a second eye box with the second position of the second pupil; render, for presentation on a display, at least one of a color plus depth image or a light field image based on the first position of the first pupil and the second position of the second pupil; and cause backlight to be steered through the micro lens array and alternatingly through the first eye box and the second eye box.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Tuotuo Li, Joshua J. Ratcliff, Qiong Huang, Alexey M. Supikov, Ronald T. Azuma
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Patent number: 12027113Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus comprising a plurality of display panels and a processor. The plurality of display panels may be arranged as individual display layers in a stacked formation, each configured to display video output. The processor may be configured to determine a three dimensional effect of a graphical entity and present data for the video output to each of the display panels in response to the three dimensional effect. Each of the display panels may be transparent at locations without the video output. Determining the three dimensional effect may comprise determining a portion of the three dimensional effect for the video output to display on each of the individual display layers. The video output combined on the stacked formation may comprise a real three dimensional representation of the graphical entity.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Ambarella International LPInventor: Alberto Broggi
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Patent number: 12019791Abstract: An augmented reality home console is provided. Users can wear head-mounted displays with transparent screens and can control video game indicia that are perceived as being augmented over a user's environment by displaying video game indicia onto the transparent displays. As such, for example, two users can play an airplane dog fighting game where each user controls a plane in their living room. A device that can determine surfaces of objects (e.g., walls) can be utilized such that when the airplane is flown into a wall, the airplane explodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Inventor: Jeffrey David Mullen
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Patent number: 12008723Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display configured to project light, having different amounts of wavefront divergence, to an eye of a user to display virtual image content appearing to be disposed at different depth planes. The wavefront divergence may be changed in discrete steps, with the change in steps being triggered based upon whether the user is fixating on a particular depth plane. The display system may be calibrated for switching depth planes for a main user. Upon determining that a guest user is utilizing the system, rather than undergoing a full calibration, the display system may be configured to switch depth planes based on a rough determination of the virtual content that the user is looking at. The virtual content has an associated depth plane and the display system may be configured to switch to the depth plane of that virtual content.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Lomesh Agarwal, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Daniel Farmer, Sergey Fyodorovich Prokushkin, Yonatan Munk, Edwin Joseph Selker, Erik Fonseka, Paul M. Greco, Jeffrey Scott Sommers, Bradley Vincent Stuart, Shiuli Das, Suraj Manjunath Shanbhag
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Patent number: 12002233Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLCInventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
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Patent number: 11994702Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATIONInventors: Martin J. Richards, Wilson Allen, Gary D. Gomes
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Patent number: 11987385Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for capturing images is disclosed. An example embodiment comprises a first image capturing device mounted to a mounting structure; a second image capturing device mounted to the mounting structure; and a third image capturing device mounted to the mounting structure, wherein the first image capturing device, the second image capturing device, and the third image capturing device are arranged in an octahedral array for capturing a 360 degree image, wherein the first image capturing device, the second image capturing device, and the third image capturing device face outward from a center of an octahedral shape that defines the octahedral array, and wherein image data captured by the first image capturing device, the second image capturing device, and the third image capturing device are combined to generate the 360 degree image.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Inventor: Kyle Garvin
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Patent number: 11980055Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a display method thereof. The display device includes a microlens array including a plurality of microlenses; and a display panel including a plurality of pixel islands, wherein the plurality of pixel islands are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of microlenses, each pixel island includes a plurality of sub-pixels, light emitted by the plurality of sub-pixels of each pixel island enters a human eye through a microlens corresponding to the each pixel island and forms an image in the human eye, and regions where images formed by at least two pixel islands in the plurality of pixel islands via microlenses corresponding to the at least two pixel islands are located are connected.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Wang, Meng Yan, Qiuyu Ling, Xiandong Meng, Gaolei Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Xue Dong
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Patent number: 11947139Abstract: An aerial display apparatus includes: a display device which displays an image; a mirror device which includes a plurality of optical elements each including two reflective surfaces that are orthogonally disposed, which reflects display light from the display device, and which forms an aerial image at a position that is plane-symmetrical to the display device; and a light shielding member which is disposed on an optical path between the display device and the aerial image, which includes an opening that allows a portion of incident light to pass through, and which shields light incident on a region other than the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Daiku
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Patent number: 11941833Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLCInventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
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Patent number: 11935290Abstract: Systems and methods of servicing engines, an exemplary method of servicing an engine, the method including receiving, by one or more computing devices, information corresponding to one or more components of the engine; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a location of the one or more components of the engine with respect to a location of an augmented reality device; and presenting, in a current field of view display of the augmented reality device, at least a portion of the information corresponding to the one or more components of the engine, wherein the portion of the information includes a rendering of the one or more components, instructions regarding operations to be performed on the one or more components, directional arrows or contextual information associated with the one or more components, or any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited, General Electric CompanyInventors: Andrew Crispin Graham, David Scott Diwinsky, Julian Matthew Foxall
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Patent number: 11936844Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may initially generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pre-processing circuitry may subsequently anisotropically resize each two-dimensional image. Pixel mapping circuitry may then be used to map the resized two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yue Ma
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Patent number: 11926064Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
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Patent number: 11928838Abstract: A calibration platform may obtain measurements for aligning a real-world coordinate system and a display coordinate system. For example, the calibration platform may display, via an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD), a three-dimensional virtual object and receive, from a positional tracking device, information that relates to a current pose of a three-dimensional real-world object to be aligned with the three-dimensional virtual object. The calibration platform may record a three-dimensional position of a plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object based on the current pose of the three-dimensional real-world object, based on an indication that the plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object respectively corresponds with a plurality of points on the three-dimensional virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Ehsan Azimi, Long Qian, Peter Kazanzides, Nassir Navab
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Patent number: 11917124Abstract: A display apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display comprising a first display panel, a lens array disposed on the first display panel, and a second display panel disposed on the lens array; and a processor to, based on a plurality of light field (LF) images, obtain a left (L) image and a right (R) image to drive the display by time-multiplexing, correct a second L image to drive the second display panel among the L images based on a first R image to drive the first display panel among the R images, and correct a second R image to drive the second display panel among the R images based on the first L image to drive the first display panel among the L images, and display a stereoscopic image by driving the display by time-multiplexing based on the L image which includes the corrected second L image and the R image which includes the corrected second R image.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daeyeong Kim, Jaesung Lee, Kyungmin Lim, Seyong Kwon, Sunil Lee, Kangwon Jeon
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Patent number: 11908089Abstract: An ambulation simulating apparatus, including: a user feet interface comprising foot rests; a dynamic inertia mechanism configured to provide an inertial load when a downwardly force is applied due to the foot and a kinematic connection configured to enable transmission of motion from the feet interface to the dynamic inertia and backwards as the dynamic inertia mechanism resists said downwardly applied force by the foot.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: InerticX M.D.T LTD.Inventors: Gal Maliach, Roi Doitch
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Patent number: 11900885Abstract: A display panel includes: a substrate, sub-pixels and a gate drive circuit. The sub-pixel includes a pixel drive circuit. The gate drive circuit includes cascaded shift registers, and a shift register is electrically connected to pixel drive circuits in a row of sub-pixels. The gate drive circuit further includes cascade input signal lines and cascade display reset signal lines. The cascade input signal line is configured to connect a shift signal terminal and an input signal terminal of two different shift register, and the cascade display reset signal line is configured to connect a shift signal terminal and a display reset signal terminal of two different shift register. The display panel has sub-pixel regions for arranging the sub-pixels and first gap regions each located between two adjacent columns of sub pixel regions: the cascade display reset signal lines and the cascade input signal lines are disposed in different first gap regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Ying Han, Xuehuan Feng, Yicheng Lin, Pan Xu, Guoying Wang, Xing Zhang, Zhan Gao, Mingi Chu
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Patent number: 11892659Abstract: An apparatus includes a display device having a lenticular layer. The lenticular layer includes (i) a first side, (ii) a second side opposite the first side, and (iii) particles in a fluid medium between the first and second sides of the lenticular layer. The second side of the lenticular layer includes lens elements forming a lenticular array. The particles of the lenticular layer are configured to move within the fluid medium such that (i) the lens elements are filled with the particles in a first mode or (ii) the lens elements are filled with the fluid medium in a second mode. The display device is configured to operate as a directional display in one of the first and second modes and as a single display in another of the first and second modes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nigel A Clarke, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11863914Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a light source for emitting light with an initial spectral distribution, an optical element, and a projection surface. The optical element is arranged in a beam path of light emitted from the light source between the light source and the projection surface. The optical element includes a number of pixels. The pixels of the optical element are each configured to convert light with the initial spectral distribution into light with a predetermined final spectral distribution different from the initial spectral distribution.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventor: Daniel Richter
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Patent number: 11849103Abstract: An image display module includes a display that displays a parallax image projected to eyes of a user, a barrier that causes parallax between the eyes by defining a traveling direction of image light for the parallax image, and a controller that controls the display. The controller divides the display into a plurality of display control areas based on distortion of the parallax image projected, and controls, for each of the plurality of display control areas, a minimum repeat unit and an index for the parallax image.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
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Patent number: 11843755Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ZSPACE, INC.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 11832884Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an analyzer, and a display controller. The analyzer is configured to specify one or more atrophy regions in a fundus of a subject's eye by analyzing data of the fundus acquired using optical coherence tomography. The display controller is configured to cause a plurality of images, each of which represents the one or more atrophy regions specified by the analyzer, to be displayed on a display means in chronological order, based on the plurality of data acquired at different timings.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi
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Patent number: 11831860Abstract: A displaying device, a device and method for generating data, and a displaying system. The displaying device includes a displaying screen, a driving assembly, a rotating assembly and a controlling assembly; a rotation shaft of the displaying screen is parallel to a light-exiting face of a display panel; the displaying screen includes a display panel and an optical assembly; a light ray emitted by the display panel includes an emergent light located in a reference plane, and the reference plane is perpendicular to the light-exiting face of the display panel and the rotation shaft of the displaying screen; the optical assembly is configured for adjusting the emergent light located in the reference plane into a collimated light perpendicular to the light-exiting face of the display panel; the rotating assembly is configured for driving the driving assembly to rotate; and the controlling assembly is electrically connected to the displaying screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhanshan Ma, Xue Dong, Hao Zhang, Wenhong Tian, Ke Li, Yuhong Liu, Zheng Ge, Lili Chen
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Patent number: 11829061Abstract: An image display device according to an aspect of the present technology includes an emission portion, a transparent base material, an irradiation target, and an optical portion. The emission portion emits image light along a predetermined axis. The transparent base material includes a tapered surface having a tapered shape along the predetermined axis. The irradiation target is disposed at least a part around the predetermined axis along the tapered surface. The optical portion controls an incident angle of the image light on the irradiation target, the image light having been emitted from the emission portion, the optical portion being disposed in a manner that the optical portion faces the emission portion on the basis of the predetermined axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Tomoharu Nakamura
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Patent number: 11812070Abstract: Live event production and distribution networks, systems, apparatuses and methods related thereto are described herein. The described innovations may be used not only to present live events to audiences, but to do so in a way that provides audience energy and feedback to the performer(s) (e.g., a band) in a manner akin to that which they receive during a traditional live performance, thereby energizing and motivating the performers to give the best live performance they can, even in the absence of a co-located live audience. Some or all of the audience members may be represented by a visual surrogate displayed on an audience feedback screen set up to be viewable by the performers. The screen may be sized to fill a curtain window of stage on which the performers are performing, and the performers may optionally interact with one or more people in the audience during the live performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventor: Zoltan Bathory
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Patent number: 11812154Abstract: A method for video processing is provided. The method comprises obtaining an image of a scene, obtaining a video that records an area included in the scene, determining one or more frames from the plurality of frames of the video, determining pairs of matched features, generating a plurality of composite frames by combining each of the selected one or more frames with the image of the scene based on the pairs of matched features, and generating a composite video based on the plurality of composite frames. Each of the pairs of matched features is related to an object that is in both the image and the one or more frames. Each of the pairs of matched features is associated with one or more pixels of the image of the scene and one or more pixels of a selected frame of the one or more frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Realsee (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tong Rao, Yi Zhu, Chengfeng Huang
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Patent number: 11805237Abstract: A display system is provided. The display system includes a virtual reality display apparatus, an autostereoscopic display apparatus, and a host. In response to a processing unit of the host receiving a specific input signal, the processing unit generates a display-mode control signal, executes an image-conversion software development kit of an OpenVR driver to convert a virtual-reality (VR) stereoscopic image, that is generated by a VR application executed by the host, into an autostereoscopic image, and writes the autostereoscopic image to a second image buffer of the host. In response to the display-mode control signal, the autostereoscopic display apparatus is switched to an autostereoscopic display mode, and a multiplexing circuit of the host selects the autostereoscopic image stored in the second image buffer as an output image signal, and sends the output image signal to the autostereoscopic display apparatus for displaying.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
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Patent number: 11792352Abstract: Various examples pertaining to camera view synthesis on head-mounted display (HMD) for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are described. A method involves receiving, from a plurality of tracking cameras disposed around a HMD, image data of a scene which is on a first side of the HMD. The method also involves performing, using the image data and depth information pertaining to the scene, view synthesis to generate a see-through effect of viewing the scene from a viewing position on a second side of the HMD opposite the first side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: MediaTek Inc.Inventor: Yuan-Chung Lee
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Patent number: 11789583Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for interacting with a three dimensional interface. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: generating a zone associated with a virtual object, wherein the zone includes a first space approximate to at least a portion of the object that is distinct from a second space occupied by the object; determine an uncertainty level of a sensor to identify an input in the zone; in response to the uncertainty level exceeding a first level, increasing a size of the zone, wherein the increased size of the zone increases a precision level of the sensor; and in response to the uncertainty level being below a second level, decreasing the size of the zone, wherein the decreased size of the zone decreases the precision level of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventors: Iryna Issayeva, Sleiman Itani, Allen Yang Yang, Mohamed Nabil Hajj Chehade
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Patent number: 11785203Abstract: An information processing apparatus (30) includes: a specification unit (331) that specifies a viewpoint position of an observer of a display device (10) that reproduces rays of light that have been sent out by a three-dimensional object; a setting unit (332) that sets a region that makes it possible for the observer to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object, by using, as a reference, the viewpoint position that has been specified by the specification unit (331); and a display control unit (333) that performs control to cause the display device (10) to emit a ray-of-light group that makes it possible to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object from an inside of the region that has been set by the setting unit (332), and makes it impossible to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object from an outside of the region.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Noriaki Takahashi, Takaaki Suzuki, Haruka Mitsumori