Using An Image Projection Screen (epo) Patents (Class 348/E13.058)
  • Patent number: 12002233
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Patent number: 11994702
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin J. Richards, Wilson Allen, Gary D. Gomes
  • Patent number: 11987385
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Kyle Garvin
  • Patent number: 11980055
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Meng Yan, Qiuyu Ling, Xiandong Meng, Gaolei Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 11947139
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Daiku
  • Patent number: 11941833
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Patent number: 11936844
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yue Ma
  • Patent number: 11935290
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Crispin Graham, David Scott Diwinsky, Julian Matthew Foxall
  • Patent number: 11926064
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
  • Patent number: 11928838
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Ehsan Azimi, Long Qian, Peter Kazanzides, Nassir Navab
  • Patent number: 11917124
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daeyeong Kim, Jaesung Lee, Kyungmin Lim, Seyong Kwon, Sunil Lee, Kangwon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11908089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: InerticX M.D.T LTD.
    Inventors: Gal Maliach, Roi Doitch
  • Patent number: 11900885
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Han, Xuehuan Feng, Yicheng Lin, Pan Xu, Guoying Wang, Xing Zhang, Zhan Gao, Mingi Chu
  • Patent number: 11892659
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nigel A Clarke, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11863914
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventor: Daniel Richter
  • Patent number: 11849103
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11843755
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZSPACE, INC.
    Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
  • Patent number: 11832884
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi
  • Patent number: 11829061
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11831860
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 11812070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Zoltan Bathory
  • Patent number: 11812154
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Realsee (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tong Rao, Yi Zhu, Chengfeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11805237
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 11789583
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Iryna Issayeva, Sleiman Itani, Allen Yang Yang, Mohamed Nabil Hajj Chehade
  • Patent number: 11792352
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventor: Yuan-Chung Lee
  • Patent number: 11785230
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for video usability information (VUI) for scalable video coding (SVC). An apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding video signal data into a bitstream. The encoder specifies video user information, excluding hypothetical reference decoder parameters, in the bitstream using a high level syntax element. The video user information corresponds to a set of interoperability points in the bitstream relating to scalable video coding (340, 355).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiancong Luo, Lihua Zhu, Peng Yin
  • Patent number: 11785203
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Noriaki Takahashi, Takaaki Suzuki, Haruka Mitsumori
  • Patent number: 11765335
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computing devices for capturing synthetic stereoscopic content are provided. An example computing device includes at least one processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the computing device to receive a three-dimensional scene. The instructions may additionally cause the computing device to reposition vertices of the three-dimensional scene to compensate for variations in camera location in a directional stereoscopic projection and generate a stereoscopic image based on the repositioned vertices. An example method includes projecting a three-dimensional scene onto a left eye image cube and a right eye image cube and repositioning vertices of the three-dimensional scene to adjust for rendering from a single camera location. The method also includes mapping pixels of a stereoscopic image to points on the left eye image cube and the right eye image cube and generating the stereoscopic image using the values of the mapped pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Chernobieff, Houman Meshkin, Scott Dolim
  • Patent number: 11755102
    Abstract: An eyewear device presents, via an image display, an initial displayed image. The initial displayed image has an initial field of view corresponding to an initial head direction or an initial eye direction. Eyewear device detects movement of a user of the eyewear device by: (i) tracking, via a head movement tracker, a head movement of a head of the user, or (ii) tracking, via an eye movement tracker, an eye movement of an eye of the user of the eyewear device. Eyewear device determines a field of view adjustment to the initial field of view of the initial displayed image based on the detected movement of the user. Field of view adjustment includes a successive field of view corresponding to a successive head direction or a successive eye direction. Eyewear device generates a successive displayed image based on the field of view adjustment and presents the successive displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, David Meisenholder, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II
  • Patent number: 11750792
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for a system generates a virtual viewpoint image based on image data obtained by performing imaging from a plurality of directions using a plurality of cameras. The information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a foreground image based on an object region including a predetermined object in a captured image for generating a virtual viewpoint image and a background image based on a region different from the object region in the captured image, wherein the obtained foreground image and the obtained background image having different frame rates, and an output unit configured to output the foreground image and the background image which are obtained by the obtaining unit and which are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yano, Masahiro Handa, Michio Aizawa, Shogo Mizuno, Katsumasa Tanaka, Akihiro Matsushita, Keisuke Morisawa, Mai Komiyama, Kenichi Fujii, Atsushi Date
  • Patent number: 11738646
    Abstract: In an information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle, an information display apparatus capable of acquiring a lot of pieces of image information while reducing point-of-view motion of a viewer is provided. An information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle includes a first information display apparatus displaying image information of a virtual image by allowing a windshield glass of a vehicle to reflect light, a second information display apparatus acquiring a practical image by scanning the windshield glass with laser light using a MEMS element and a third information display apparatus using an instrument panel of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Yasuhiko Kunii
  • Patent number: 11714296
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image forming device in a ring-shape or a shape partly using a ring-shape when viewed from above and a manufacturing method of the same, in which a plurality of first vertical light reflective members 12 are provided in one side of a transparent flat plate material 16 and a plurality of second vertical light reflective members 14 are provided in the other side of the transparent flat plate material 16. The first vertical light reflective members 12 are arranged radially around a reference point X, whereas the second vertical light reflective members 14 are arranged concentrically around a reference point Y overlapping the reference point X when viewed from above. The first vertical light reflective members 12 and the second vertical light reflective members 14 orthogonally intersect each other when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ASUKANET COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Otsubo
  • Patent number: 11670063
    Abstract: An electronic device that reprojects two-dimensional (2D) images to three-dimensional (3D) images includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: propagate an intensity for at least one pixel of an image based on a depth guide of neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel, wherein the at least one pixel is considered a hole during 2D to 3D image reprojection; propagate a color for the at least one pixel based on an intensity guide of the neighboring pixels of the at least one pixel; and compute at least one weight for the at least one pixel based on the intensity and color propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingen Xiong, Christopher A. Peri
  • Patent number: 11670086
    Abstract: A method of identifying, tracking, and counting human objects of interest based upon at least one pair of stereo image frames taken by at least one image capturing device, comprising the steps of: obtaining said stereo image frames and converting each said stereo image frame to a rectified image frame using calibration data obtained for said at least one image capturing device; generating a disparity map based upon a pair of said rectified image frames; generating a depth map based upon said disparity map and said calibration data; identifying the presence or absence of said objects of interest from said depth map and comparing each of said objects of interest to existing tracks comprising previously identified objects of interest; for each said presence of an object of interest, adding said object of interest to one of said existing tracks if said object of interest matches said one existing track, or creating a new track comprising said object of interest if said object of interest does not match any of sai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ShopperTrak RCT LLC
    Inventors: Zhiqian Wang, William C. Kastilahn
  • Patent number: 11671575
    Abstract: In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes acquiring a first item of media content from a user, where the first item of media content depicts a subject, acquiring a second item of media content, where the second item of media content depicts the subject, compositing the first item of media content and the second item of media content to create, within a metaverse of immersive content, an item of immersive content that depicts the subject, presenting the item of immersive content on a device operated by the user, and adapting the presenting of the item of immersive content in response to a choice made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Louis Alexander, David Gibbon, Wen-Ling Hsu, Tan Xu, Mohammed Abdel-Wahab, Subhabrata Majumdar, Richard Palazzo
  • Patent number: 11647244
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can provide visual guidance on presenting content on a media surface of a venue. These systems, methods, and computer program products can operate by mapping visual content onto a media surface of the venue and a key feature unique to the visual content and/or the media surface being extracted. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and computer program products can retrieve an experiment metric corresponding to the visual content and/or the media surface and can determine a viewer location metric and/or a media surface metric based on the experiment metric and the key feature. These systems, methods, and computer program products can utilize the viewer location metric and/or the media surface metric to provide a hint of the attribute to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Rodriguez, Michael Romaszewicz, Evan Schectman, Michael Graae, Clay Budin, Mateusz Marcinowski
  • Patent number: 11627302
    Abstract: Features for a lightweight stereoscopic viewing client are described. The client can generate accurate ground point coordinates from selections within the lightweight viewer by accumulating the transformations from original image sources to the images used to render the stereoscopic scene to accurately predict error for a point selection. The viewer may also be decoupled from a permanent image store allowing on-demand retrieval of images via a network for stereoscopic viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Brad Hitchcock, Vachara Tatar Nusso, Robert Murray Pardridge, Kenneth Austin Abeloe, Benjamin L. Ochoa
  • Patent number: 11606449
    Abstract: A mobile phone/device case or cover having a 3D camera, realized by integrating or connecting two cameras and a 3D viewer sheet integrated on the phone/device case or cover; wherein the 3D camera comprises: a V-shaped optical component having left and right arms, which act as light guides to guide the light from an object, onto an image sensor, and a focusing lens for focusing an image on the image sensor, where two images are formed of any object in the field of view of the V-shaped optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Medha Dharmatilleke
  • Patent number: 11605308
    Abstract: An example weld training system includes: a display device; a processor; and a machine readable storage device comprising machine readable instructions which cause the processor to: collect, from welding-type equipment during a welding-type operation, data describing the operation; collect, from a set of one or more cameras, images depicting one or more of: a) a posture of the operator or a technique of the operator during the welding-type operation; or b) a welding torch used in the welding-type operation; synchronize the collected data and the collected images; identify an anomaly associated with the data; display the collected and images together in a synchronized manner on the display device such that the processor updates the display device to display corresponding synchronized data and images when a portion of the operation is selected for viewing, the displaying comprising displaying an indicator of the anomaly in at least one of the data or images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Bruce Albrecht
  • Patent number: 11589024
    Abstract: A photo filter (e.g., multi-dimensional) light field effect system includes an eyewear device having a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, and a depth-capturing camera. Execution of programming by a processor configures the system to create an image in each of a least two dimensions and create a multi-dimensional light field effect image with an appearance of a spatial rotation or movement and transitional change, by blending together a left photo filter image and a right photo filter image in each dimension and blending the blended images from all dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Sagi Katz
  • Patent number: 11570416
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing first image data generated by a first image sensor having a first filter array that has a first filter pattern. The first filter pattern includes a number of first filter types. The method also includes accessing second image data generated by a second image sensor having a second filter array that has a second filter pattern different from the first filter pattern. The second filter pattern includes a number of second filter types, the number of second filter types and the number of first filter types have at least one filter type in common. The method also includes determining a correspondence between one or more first pixels of the first image data and one or more second pixels of the second image data based on a portion of the first image data associated with the filter type in common.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: WOVEN PLANET NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Forrest Samuel Briggs, Romain Clément, Yi Zhou
  • Patent number: 11547520
    Abstract: A system includes a robotic arm, an autosteroscopic display, a user image capture device, an image processor, and a controller. The robotic arm is coupled to a patient image capture device. The autostereoscopic display is configured to display an image of a surgical site obtained from the patient image capture device. The image processor is configured to identify a location of at least part of a user in an image obtained from the user image capture device. The controller is configured to, in a first mode, adjust a three dimensional aspect of the image displayed on autostereoscopic display based on the identified location, and, in a second mode, move the robotic arm or instrument based on a relationship between the identified location and the surgical site image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Meir Rosenberg, Dwight Meglan, William Peine, Albert Dvornik
  • Patent number: 11536887
    Abstract: A polarizing component and a display panel are provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the polarizing component comprising: a first polarizer on a light-incident side thereof, and configured to polarize a light incident thereon into a first linearly polarized light; a wave plate layer on a surface of the first polarizer facing away from the light-incident side; and a second polarizer on a surface of the wave plate layer facing away from the light-incident side, on a light-emergent side opposite to the light-incident side, and configured to polarize a light incident thereon into a second linearly polarized light; the wave plate layer comprises a phase delay portion configured to delay a phase of the first linearly polarized light incident thereon in a direction different from a direction of an optical axis of the phase delay portion such that a polarized light exiting the phase delay portion comprises a first polarized light in a first polarization direction and a second polarized light in a second polariza
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weilong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11528464
    Abstract: A stereoscopic vision system uses at least two cameras having different parameters to image a scene and create stereoscopic views. The different parameters of the two cameras can be intrinsic or extrinsic, including, for example, the distortion profile of the lens in the cameras, the field of view of the lens, the orientation of the cameras, the positions of the cameras, the color spectrum of the cameras, the frame rate of the cameras, the exposure time of the cameras, the gain of the cameras, the aperture size of the lenses, or the like. An image processing apparatus is then used to process the images from the at least two different cameras to provide optimal stereoscopic vision to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Pierre Konen, Simon Thibault, Pascale Nini, Xiaojun Du, Valentin Batalle, Jhinseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11508125
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for switching between different modes of a media content item. A media content item may include a movie that has different modes, such as a cinematic mode and an interactive mode. For example, a movie may be presented in a cinematic mode that does not allow certain user interactions with the movie. The movie may be switched to an interactive mode during any point of the movie, allowing a viewer to interact with various aspects of the movie. The movie may be displayed using different formats and resolutions depending on which mode the movie is being presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Lutz Markus Latta, Ian Wakelin, Darby Johnston, Andrew Grant, John Gaeta
  • Patent number: 11503272
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus comprising: one or more memories storing instructions; and one or more processors executing the instructions to function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain information for specifying a position of an object included in multi-viewpoint image data obtained by image capturing using a plurality of imaging apparatuses; and a generation unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint path data to generate virtual viewpoint image data by inputting the information obtained by the obtaining unit to an output unit which is a learned model learned from the virtual viewpoint path data to be training data and at least information for specifying a position of an object to be input data corresponding to the virtual viewpoint path data and is configured to output virtual viewpoint data by receiving input of information for specifying a position of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironao Ito
  • Patent number: 11496717
    Abstract: A projection system and a projection method are provided. The projection system includes a processing module, a projection module and a photographing module. The projection module projects a first projection image based on a projection scope. The photographing module captures a part of the first projection image based on a photographing scope, so as to obtain a first photographic image. The part of the first projection image includes a plurality of first positioning grid points. The processing module analyzes the first photographic image, so as to obtain a plurality of first grid point coordinates. The processing module calculates a plurality of preset grid point coordinates corresponding to a plurality of preset positioning grid points in the whole projection scope one by one according to the first grid point coordinates. The processing module determines a projection result in the projection scope according to the preset grid point coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Peng, Hsun-Cheng Tu
  • Patent number: 11468598
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining real-time image data relating to at least one scene acquired by a camera and identifying a plurality of real-time first features relating to a plurality of subjects from the real-time image data. The method may include determining one or more first estimated values corresponding to the plurality of real-time first features, the first estimated values being represented by a first coordinate system. The method may further include obtaining one or more first reference values corresponding to the plurality of real-time first features, the first reference values being represented by a second coordinate system, each of the first estimated values corresponding to one of the first reference values. The method may further include determining one or more real-time target parameters of the camera based on the first estimated values and the first reference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TRUTHVISION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11454722
    Abstract: A structure for facilitating virtual experiences comprises: a structural support having a first side facing toward an interior of the structure, a second side opposite the first side, and an intra-support hollow disposed between the first and second sides. An IR reflective surface is adjacent to at least a portion of the second side of the structural support. An IR emitter within the hollow between the first and second sides is configured to emit IR light toward the IR reflective surface, such that the IR light is reflected toward the interior of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Dorrene Elizabeth Brown, Marcelo Simoes Wolf
  • Patent number: 11422382
    Abstract: An alignment module includes a polarized dichroic mirror, a dichroic mirror, a phase retarding component and several light sources. The polarized dichroic mirror reflects specific beams and is passed by other beams. The dichroic mirror is disposed on a side of the polarized dichroic mirror, and reflects specific beams and is passed by other beams. The phase retarding component is disposed by the dichroic mirror and adapted to transform a polarization state of a beam passing the phase retarding component. The light sources are respectively disposed on different sides of the polarized dichroic mirror, and respectively output a beam toward the polarized dichroic mirror. The polarized dichroic mirror can transmit some beams toward a light pipe, and further transmit other beams toward the dichroic mirror and the phase retarding component for transforming the polarization state and then transmit the transformed beams toward the light pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Jia-Ming Zhang, Ching-Tze Huang, Tsung-Hsun Wu