Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

Dolby International Ab

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corproation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Scott J Daly

Xiao-Fan Feng

Robin Atkins

Jon Scott Miller

Mahdi Nezamabadi

Hao Pan

Louis Joseph Kerofsky

Gregory John Ward

Timo Kunkel

Dean Messing

Poppy Anne Carrie Crum

Samir N Hulyalkar

Chang Yuan

Guan-Ming Su

Ning Xu

Ajit Ninan

Shawmin Lei

Jeffrey R Baker

James E Crenshaw

Alexandre Chapiro

Suzanne Farrell

Alex Brandmeyer

McGregor Steele Joyner

Andrea Fanelli

Evan David Gitterman

Rajesh Reddy K Kovvuri

Jeffrey Charles Riedmiller

Sean Thomas McCarthy

Kimball Darr Thurston, Iii

Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz

M Ibrahim Sezan

Eric Kozak

Jordi Ribas-Corbera

Bongsun Lee

Doh-Suk Kim

Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

Jason Michael Cloud

Xiaofan Feng

Yasuo Ozawa

Ludovic Christophe Malfait

Shane Mario Ruggieri

Robert Wanat

Alfred She

Raphael Marc Ullmann

Laurence Meylan

Tao Chen

Jeffrey Brian Sampsell

William Ho Chang

Nicolas R Tsingos

Petrus J L Van Beek

Neil W Messmer

Walter Christian Gish

Sheng Qu

Baoxin Li

Michael J Rockwell

Andrew John Healy

Thao D Hovanky

Kevin J Stec

Qian Chen

Wenjun Zeng

William C Kress

Austin L Huang

Gopal Erinjippurath

Michiyuki Sugino

Renjit Tom Thomas

Raymond Yeung

Cristina Michel Vasco

Anustup Kumar Atanu Choudhury

Elizabeth G Pieri

Jack Van Oosterhout

Limin Liu

Ian Eric Esten

Jan Froehlich

Ivan V Bajic

Grant Haverstock Mulliken

Daniel Paul Darcy

Nathan Carl Swedlow

Satej Suresh Pankey

Vimal Puthanveed

Hadi Hadizadeh

Parvaneh Saeedi

Rafal Mantiuk

Robert Thomas Held

Mcgregor Steele Joyner

Jeffrey Ross Baker

Kimball Darr Thurston Iii

A method comprising acquiring a set of voltage signals from a set of electrodes arranged in proximity to the ears of a user, based on the set of voltage signals, determining an EOG gaze vector in ego-centric coordinates, determining a head pose of the user in display coordinates, using a sensor device worn by the user, combining the EOG gaze vector and head pose to obtain a gaze vector in display coordinates, and determining a gaze point by calculating an intersection of the gaze vector and an imaging surface having a known position in display coordinates.

Screen interaction using EOG coordinates

One or more media contents are received. A viewer's light adaptive states are predicted as a function of time as if the viewer is watching display mapped images derived from the one or more media contents. The viewer's light adaptive states are used to detect an excessive change in luminance in a specific media content portion of the one or more media contents. The excessive change in luminance in the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents is caused to be reduced while the viewer is watching one or more corresponding display mapped images derived from the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents.

Luminance adaption to minimize discomfort and improve visibility

Embodiments are disclosed for hybrid near/far-field speaker virtualization. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a source signal including channel-based audio or audio objects; generating near-field gain(s) and far-field gain(s) based on the source signal and a blending mode; generating a far-field signal based, at least in part, on the source signal and the far-field gain(s); rendering, using a speaker virtualizer, the far-field signal for playback of far-field acoustic audio through far-field speakers into an audio reproduction environment; generating a near-field signal based at least in part on the source signal and the near-field gain(s); prior to providing the far-field signal to the far-field speakers, sending the near-field signal to a near-field playback device or an intermediate device coupled to the near-field playback device; providing the far-field signal to the far-field speakers; and providing the near-field signal to the near-field speakers to synchronously overlay the far-field acoustic audio.

Method, systems and apparatus for hybrid near/far virtualization for enhanced consumer surround sound

A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.

Perceptual luminance nonlinearity-based image data exchange across different display capabilities

A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.

Personalized sensitivity measurements and playback factors for adaptive and personalized media coding and delivery

An apparatus and method of generating personalized HRTFs. The system is prepared by calculating a model for HRTFs described as the relationship between a finite example set of input data, namely anthropometric measures and demographic information for a set of individuals, and a corresponding set of output data, namely HRTFs numerically simulated using a high-resolution database of 3D scans of the same set of individuals. At the time of use, the system queries the user for their demographic information, and then from a series of images of the user, the system detects and measures various anthropometric characteristics. The system then applies the prepared model to the anthropometric and demographic data as part of generating a personalized HRTF. In this manner, the personalized HRTF can be generated with more convenience than by performing a high-resolution scan or an acoustic measurement of the user, and with less computational complexity than by numerically simulating their HRTF.

Personalized HRTFs via optical capture

Methods and systems for generating an image quality metric are described. A reference and a test image are first converted to the ITP color space. After calculating difference images &#x394;I, &#x394;T, and &#x394;P, using the color channels of the two images, the difference images are convolved with low pass filters, one for the I channel and one for the chroma channels (I or P). The image quality metric is computed as a function of the sum of squares of filtered &#x394;I, &#x394;T, and &#x394;P values. The chroma low-pass filter is designed to maximize matching the image quality metric with subjective results.

Image quality metric for HDR images and video

Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.

Creative intent scalability via physiological monitoring

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