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  • LAYERED AUGMENTED ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES
    Publication number: 20210319623
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit NINAN, Neil MAMMEN, Tyrome Y. BROWN
  • LAYERED AUGMENTED ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES
    Publication number: 20200388077
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit NINAN, Neil MAMMEN, Tyrome Y. BROWN
  • Layered augmented entertainment experiences
    Patent number: 10991164
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Neil Mammen, Tyrome Y. Brown
  • Layered augmented entertainment experiences
    Patent number: 11361520
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Neil Mammen, Tyrome Y. Brown
  • LAYERED AUGMENTED ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES
    Publication number: 20220254126
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit NINAN, Neil MAMMEN, Tyrome Y. BROWN
  • STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD
    Publication number: 20110304700
    Abstract: A game device 10 calculates, for each of two real cameras, position/orientation information representing a relative position and orientation with respect to a predetermined image-capture object, and based on this calculates a camera interval in the predetermined coordinate system. Then, it calculates correspondence information between a unit length in the predetermined coordinate system and a unit length in a real space by using the calculated distance in the predetermined coordinate system and the camera interval in the real world.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicants: HAL Laboratory, Inc., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro ITO, Yuki NISHIMURA
  • Layered augmented entertainment experiences
    Patent number: 11893700
    Abstract: Spatial information that describes spatial locations of visual objects as in a three-dimensional (3D) image space as represented in one or more multi-view unlayered images is accessed. Based on the spatial information, a cinema image layer and one or more device image layers are generated from the one or more multi-view unlayered images. A multi-layer multi-view video signal comprising the cinema image layer and the device image layers is sent to downstream devices for rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Neil Mammen, Tyrome Y. Brown
  • Storage medium having stored therein stereoscopic image display program, stereoscopic image display device, stereoscopic image display system, and stereoscopic image display method
    Patent number: 8842166
    Abstract: A game device 10 calculates, for each of two real cameras, position/orientation information representing a relative position and orientation with respect to a predetermined image-capture object, and based on this calculates a camera interval in the predetermined coordinate system. Then, it calculates correspondence information between a unit length in the predetermined coordinate system and a unit length in a real space by using the calculated distance in the predetermined coordinate system and the camera interval in the real world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Ito, Yuki Nishimura
  • Optical injection-locked laser
    Patent number: 11108211
    Abstract: The invention is a Demodulator for an Optical Analog Pulse Position Modulated signal suitable for inclusion in receivers for Free Space Optical communication systems. In one embodiment the Demodulator may use the pulse position modulated optical information signal and the clock signal with different wavelengths. By proper biasing of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and selection of wavelengths for the information signal and the clock signal, the performance of the Demodulator is made insensitive to noise in the received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Yap, Monica Minden
  • Optical analog PPM demodulator
    Patent number: 8569675
    Abstract: The invention is a Demodulator for an Optical Analog Pulse Position Modulated signal suitable for inclusion in receivers for Free Space Optical communication systems. In one embodiment the Demodulator may use the pulse position modulated optical information signal and the clock signal with different wavelengths. By proper biasing of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and selection of wavelengths for the information signal and the clock signal, the performance of the Demodulator is made insensitive to noise in the received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Yap, Monica Minden
  • Method of and apparatus for generating auxiliary information for expediting sparse codebook search
    Patent number: 5195137
    Abstract: In many applications involving the coding and processing of speech signals the relevant applicable codebook is one which may be termed a sparse codebook. That is, the majority of elements in the codebook are zero valued. The searching of such a sparse codebook is accelerated in accord with the present invention by generating auxiliary information defining the sparse nature of the codebok and using this information to assist and speed up searches of the codebook.In a particular method of searching the calculation of the distance between a target vector and a stored codebook vector is enhanced by use of a distortion metric derived from energy terms and correlation terms of the codebook entries. Calculation of these energy and correlation terms is speeded up by exploiting the sparseness of the codebook entries. The non-zero elements (NZE) of the space codebook are each identified and are defined by their offset from a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventor: Kumar Swaminathan
  • Pictorial information processing technique
    Patent number: 4454593
    Abstract: A technique for processing pictorial information to enable its display on a desired display device independent of the latter's resolution characteristics includes a unique encoding procedure and a corresponding decoding and display procedure. Attributes of each element of a picture or image (such as its color) are specified by a group of N bits. The bits are assembled to form M-bit active portions of a series of bytes. M and N need not be integrally related. Ones of the words also define the size of the elements with respect to a unit display space (the horizontal and vertical dimensions of each element can be different), the order in which the elements are arranged in the picture (e.g., left to right or vice versa) and the value of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventors: James R. Fleming, William A. Frezza, Gerald S. Soloway
  • Non-coherent space-time trellis-coded modulations for network-coded wireless relay communications
    Patent number: 8553792
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for jointly optimizing network coding, channel coding, and signal constellations in non-coherent wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless relay networks for the case when transceivers cannot obtain any knowledge of channel state information (CSI) due to high-speed mobility of the transceivers. In the relay networks, two terminal transceivers simultaneously transmit data to an intermediate relaying transceiver, which in turn broadcasts mixed data using physical-layer network coding to both terminals. The embodiments of this invention exploit different blind space-time trellis-coded modulations (ST-TCM) for each user, whose codebook is jointly generated over a Grassmannian manifold. The method is provided by exponential mapping with affine-lattice convolution for joint optimization of channel coding, modulations, and network coding. The method is designed for fast fading channels with and without interleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Philip V. Orlik
  • Method of transforming periodic signal using smoothed spectrogram, method of transforming sound using phasing component and method of analyzing signal using optimum interpolation function
    Patent number: 6115684
    Abstract: At a smoothing spectrogram calculation portion, a triangular interpolation function having a frequency width twice that of the fundamental frequency of a signal is obtained based on information on the fundamental frequency of the signal. The interpolation function and a spectrum obtained at an adaptive frequency analysis portion are convoluted in the direction of frequency. Then, using a triangular interpolation function having a time length twice that of a fundamental period, the spectrum interpolated in the frequency direction described above is further interpolated in the temporal direction, in order to produce a smoothed spectrogram having the space between grid points on the time-frequency plane filled with the surface of a bilinear function. Using the smoothed spectrogram, a speech sound is transformed. Therefore, the influence of periodicity in the frequency direction and the temporal direction can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Hideki Kawahara, Ikuyo Masuda
  • Diagnosis, complaint or symptom-driven electronic medical record information query
    Publication number: 20070288519
    Abstract: A query protocol that retrieves all pertinent information from the electronic medical record based on the patient's current diagnosis, complaint or symptom. The query of the electronic medical record will include but not be limited to all relevant prior visits/hospitalizations (including all information contained therein ie. vital signs, review of systems, physical exam findings) surgeries, procedures, radiology studies, laboratory tests, medications and allergies. The relevant information will be organized so that it is easily interpreted for viewing or printing. A list of medical abbreviations was also developed, which may be used in conjunction with the query protocol, so as to minimize storage space needed in the organization of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventor: James Ford
  • Nanocrystals with linear and branched topology
    Patent number: 7303628
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are nanostructures comprising distinct dots and rods coupled through potential barriers of tuneable height and width, and arranged in three dimensional space at well defined angles and distances. Such control allows investigation of potential applications ranging from quantum information processing to artificial photosynthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: A. Paul Alivisatos, Delia Milliron, Liberato Manna, Steven M. Hughes
  • Adaptive optical system compensating for phase fluctuations
    Patent number: 7283751
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compensating for phase fluctuations incurred by an optical beam travelling through free space, especially a turbulent atmosphere. A transmitting station transmits a plurality of uniquely tagged optical beams through free space. The plurality of uniquely tagged optical beams are received at a receiving station, where a parameter of each uniquely tagged optical beam is quantified. Information associated with the quantified parameter for each uniquely tagged optical beam is then sent back to the transmitting station via a wireless feedback link. Using the information, the transmitting station adjusts at least one uniquely tagged optical beam to compensate for phase fluctuations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Hans W. Bruesselbach, Monica Minden, Metin S. Mangir, Cris Jones, David M. Pepper
  • Three-dimensional puzzle game apparatus and program product
    Patent number: 9072969
    Abstract: A three-dimensional puzzle game apparatus includes an LCD on which a three-dimensional puzzle is displayed. The three-dimensional puzzle includes a plurality of blocks arranged in each of three-dimensional directions in a virtual three-dimensional space. Furthermore, a hint numeral indicating the number of blocks to be left in a block row is displayed as information being a hint for searching a block to be left from the block row, for example. When a deleting instruction is performed on a block by utilizing a touch panel, for example, it is then determined that whether or not the block is a block to be left. When it is determined that the block is not a block to be left, the block is erased. When it is determined that all the remaining blocks are blocks to be left, it is determined that the three-dimensional puzzle is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mari Shirakawa, Yoshiki Suzuki
  • Tanker void space leakage detector system
    Patent number: 6216623
    Abstract: Each barge in a group of river-going tanker barges, has a double-hull construction to protect the inner hull and avoid collision-induced cargo spills. The space between hulls is partitioned to individual empty, dry compartments with a vertical, open bottomed, measuring tube fixed in each. A closed-bottom master tube is fixed in one compartment. All tubes have a quick-connect, above-deck, flange to receive an ultrasonic transducer thereon. A hand-held measuring instrument containing a computer and controls and information display contains a transducer which is selectively pulsed to periodically send ultrasonic signals down the tube, and receive echo signals, with elapsed time representing the depth of a signal reflector surface which is the master tube bottom or, for the measuring tubes, the bottom of a dry compartment or the surface of liquid in a leaking compartment. A unique bar code with each tube, distinguishes it and the barge from all others. The measuring instrument includes a code reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Electromechanical Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry C. Wilkins
  • Omni-directional cloud height indicator
    Patent number: 6650402
    Abstract: Apparatus and method is provided for 3-D measurement and visualization of cloud formations using ceilometers and computer software. Data collected from the ceilometers contains cloud range information in polar coordinates (r,&thgr;,&pgr;) which is then converted to a cloud height depiction in a 3-D space. Visualization of data is enhanced by animating consecutive sets of data in a time loop to show the movement and evolution of the clouds over the measurement site during an extended period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Oceanit Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick K. Sullivan, Christopher J. Sullivan, Robert W. Deuel
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