Google Patents

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  • Patent number: 11943290
    Abstract: A method is performed by a device of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method includes storing an index of objects in the distributed data replication system, the index being replicated while the objects are stored locally by the plurality of devices in the distributed data replication system. The method also includes conducting a scan of at least a portion of the index and identifying a redundant replica(s) of the at least one of the objects based on the scan of the index. The method further includes de-duplicating the redundant replica(s), and updating the index to reflect the status of the redundant replica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gia Datuashvili, Alexander Kesselman, Alexandre Drobychev
  • Patent number: 11943581
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described by which to enable a transparency mode in vehicles. A device comprising one or more microphones and one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The microphones may capture audio data representative of a sound scene external to a vehicle. The processors may perform beamforming with respect to the audio data to obtain object audio data representative of an audio object in the sound scene external to the vehicle. The processors may next reproduce, by interfacing with one or more speakers included within the vehicle and based on the object audio data, the audio object in the sound scene external to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Jian Guo
  • Patent number: 11943352
    Abstract: A method for outsourcing exponentiation in a private group includes executing a query instruction to retrieve a query element stored on an untrusted server by selecting a prime factorization of two or more prime numbers of a modulus associated with the query element stored on the server, obtaining a group element configured to generate a respective one of the prime numbers, generating a series of base values using the prime factorization and the group element, and transmitting the series of base values from the client device to the server. The server is configured to determine an exponentiation of the group element with an exponent stored on the server using the series of base values. The method also includes receiving a result from the server based on the exponentiation of the group element with the exponent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Yeo, Sarvar Patel, Phillipp Schoppmann
  • Patent number: 11942083
    Abstract: The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, at a processing system, a first signal including an output of a speaker device and an additional audio signal. The method also includes determining, by the processing system, based at least in part on a model trained to identify the output of the speaker device, that the additional audio signal corresponds to an utterance of a user. The method further includes initiating a reduction in an audio output level of the speaker device based on determining that the additional audio signal corresponds to the utterance of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Diego Melendo Casado, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez
  • Patent number: 11941420
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to facilitating user device and/or agent device actions during a communication session. An interactive communications system provides outputs, as outlined below, that are tailored to enhance the functionality of the communication session, reduce the number of dialog “turns” of the communications session and/or the number of user inputs to devices involved in the session, and/or otherwise mitigate consumption of network and/or hardware resources during the communication session. In various implementations, the communication session involves user device(s) of a user, agent device(s) of an agent, and the interactive communications system. The interactive communications system can analyze various communications from the user device(s) and/or agent device(s) during a communication session in which the user (via the user device(s)) directs various communications to the agent, and in which the agent (via the agent device(s)) optionally directs various communications to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Robin Dua, Andrew Tomkins, Sujith Ravi
  • Patent number: 11941354
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a summary of suggested changes made to an electronic document. A suggested change is iteratively selected from a first list of suggested changes. A second list of modified suggested changes is generated by processing each selected suggested change in the first list of suggested changes. The processing comprises marking the selected suggested change for including or excluding the summary. If the selected suggested change is marked for including the summary, the processing further comprises at least one of combining the selected suggested change with a previously processed suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list, and truncating the selected suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list. The second list of modified suggested changes is provided as the summary of suggested changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Kevin Winter, Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Yunchi Luo
  • Patent number: 11941416
    Abstract: One or more processors of a mobile computing device may receive, from a view provider, graphical user interface (GUI) view data that specifies, for each respective GUI view of a set of GUI views, a respective platform-neutral layout description and a respective one or more condition for the respective GUI view to be a relevant GUI view. The one or more processors may determine a GUI view as the relevant GUI view out of the set of GUI views based at least in part on one or more conditions for the GUI view specified by the GUI view data. The one or more processors may, in response to determining the GUI view as the relevant GUI view, output, based at least in part on a platform-neutral layout description for the GUI view specified by the GUI view data, the GUI view for display at a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Flavio Lerda, John S. Evans
  • Patent number: 11943515
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vinit Deshpande, Kishore Subramanian, Shashank Gupta, Shubham Gupta
  • Patent number: 11941678
    Abstract: Systems and methods for searching using machine-learned model-generated outputs can provide a user with a medium for generating a theoretical dataset that can then be matched to a real world example. The systems and methods can include selecting a plurality of terms, which can be utilized to generate a prompt input that can be processed by a dataset generation model to generate a plurality of model-generated datasets. A selection can then be received that selects a particular model-generated database to utilize to query a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Arash Sadr, Alice Au Quan
  • Patent number: 11942082
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to facilitating end-to-end multilingual communications with automated assistants. In various implementations, speech recognition output may be generated based on voice input in a first language. A first language intent may be identified based on the speech recognition output and fulfilled in order to generate a first natural language output candidate in the first language. At least part of the speech recognition output may be translated to a second language to generate an at least partial translation, which may then be used to identify a second language intent that is fulfilled to generate a second natural language output candidate in the second language. Scores may be determined for the first and second natural language output candidates, and based on the scores, a natural language output may be selected for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Kuczmarski, Vibhor Jain, Amarnag Subramanya, Nimesh Ranjan, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Vladimir Vuskovic, Luna Dai, Daisuke Ikeda, Nihal Sandeep Balani, Jinna Lei, Mengmeng Niu, Hongjie Chai, Wangqing Yuan
  • Patent number: 11941046
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating search results based on contextual information are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting search results is provided, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, a query related to media that is currently being presented; identifying a program that is currently being presented; identifying a plurality of keywords associated with the identified program; determining one or more of the plurality of keywords that are contextually relevant to the query; obtaining a plurality of search results based on the query and the one or more contextually relevant keywords; and causing at least one of the plurality of search results to be presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ingrid McAulay Trollope, Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich
  • Patent number: 11942094
    Abstract: A speaker verification method includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, processing a first portion of the audio data that characterizes a predetermined hotword to generate a text-dependent evaluation vector, and generating one or more text-dependent confidence scores. When one of the text-dependent confidence scores satisfies a threshold, the operations include identifying a speaker of the utterance as a respective enrolled user associated with the text-dependent confidence score that satisfies the threshold and initiating performance of an action without performing speaker verification. When none of the text-dependent confidence scores satisfy the threshold, the operations include processing a second portion of the audio data that characterizes a query to generate a text-independent evaluation vector, generating one or more text-independent confidence scores, and determining whether the identity of the speaker of the utterance includes any of the enrolled users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Roza Chojnacka, Jason Pelecanos, Quan Wang, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 11942095
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance of a voice command captured by a user device. The user device has a plurality of different users. The method includes determining a particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as a speaker of the utterance based on a comparison between the audio data and corresponding speaker verification data stored on memory hardware for each user of the plurality of different users of the user device. The method further includes, based on determining the particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as the speaker of the utterance, providing, for output from the user device, a message comprising a speaker identifier associated with the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 11941504
    Abstract: Implementations relate to using deep reinforcement learning to train a model that can be utilized, at each of a plurality of time steps, to determine a corresponding robotic action for completing a robotic task. Implementations additionally or alternatively relate to utilization of such a model in controlling a robot. The robotic action determined at a given time step utilizing such a model can be based on: current sensor data associated with the robot for the given time step, and free-form natural language input provided by a user. The free-form natural language input can direct the robot to accomplish a particular task, optionally with reference to one or more intermediary steps for accomplishing the particular task. For example, the free-form natural language input can direct the robot to navigate to a particular landmark, with reference to one or more intermediary landmarks to be encountered in navigating to the particular landmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Pararth Shah, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Juliana Kew, Marek Fiser, Aleksandra Faust
  • Patent number: 11941531
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing an input data element to generate a prediction output that characterizes the input data element. In one aspect, a method comprises: determining a respective attention weight between an input data element and each of a plurality of reference data elements; processing each of the reference data elements using the encoder neural network to generate a respective value embedding of each reference data element; determining a combined value embedding of the reference data elements based on (i) the respective value embedding of each reference data element, and (ii) the respective attention weight between the input data element and each reference data element; and processing the combined value embedding of the reference data elements using a prediction neural network to generate the prediction output that characterizes the input data element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sercan Omer Arik, Tomas Jon Pfister
  • Patent number: 11940329
    Abstract: A panel audio loudspeaker having a panel extends in a plane and an actuator is coupled to the panel. The actuator includes a voice coil attached to and extending from the panel along an axis, a magnet assembly suspended from the panel via one or more springs, and a temperature sensor in electrical contact with the coil at three different axial locations. The temperature sensor is configured, during operation of the device, to measure a temperature of the coil based on voltage measurements at the three different axial locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: James Marchant
  • Patent number: 11941240
    Abstract: A plurality of video items comprising a first subset of video items and a second subset of video items are received at a client device. A graphical user interface comprising a scrollable area to present the plurality of video items and a focus area to present one of the plurality of video items is presented. Video items of the second subset of video items are presented in or adjacent to the focus area when the first subset of video items is visible in the scrollable area and prior to the second subset of video items becoming visible in the scrollable area, and a size of the video items from the second subset of video items presented in or adjacent to the focus area is smaller than a size of video items of the first subset of video items presented in the scrollable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Olayinka Sylvia Nguessan, Samuel Edward Russell, Jr., Christopher Griffin
  • Patent number: 11941244
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method including displaying on a touchscreen display a representation of a keyboard defining a top edge and a bottom edge, and a content area adjacent to the keyboard. The method further includes receiving a user dragging input having motion directed to the bottom edge of the keyboard. The method further includes removing the keyboard from the touchscreen display and expanding the content area to an area previously occupied by the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Alastair Tse, John Nicholas Jitkoff
  • Patent number: 11941031
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for generating an online analytical processing cube (MAP) are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a cube definition file; access a data-source; generate a data-source property configuration for the data-source using the cube definition file to; determine each of respective parsed data from the data-source is a key, attribute, or measure; and generate the OLAP cube by combining the cube definition file and the data-source property configuration for the determined parsed data from the data-source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stephan Gudmundson, Nikhil Teletia, Andrew Leeds, John Sismanis
  • Publication number: 20240097321
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for providing a flexible connector between a secondary circuit board and a main logic board with a permeability shield to increase impedance of the flexible connector to reduce antenna loss from an antenna via the flexible connector to the main logic board. For example, an apparatus includes a secondary circuit board supporting one or more control pads and an antenna. A flexible connector includes a plurality of conductive traces configured to electrically couple the one or more control pads of the secondary circuit board to a coupling on a main logic board. A permeability shield is configured to be disposed along one or more portions of the flexible connector. The permeability shield is configured to increase impedance of the flexible connector to reduce antenna loss of the antenna via the control pads and the flexible connector to the main logic board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yao Ding, Qi Qi
  • Publication number: 20240096326
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a spoken utterance that includes a plurality of words, and generating, using a neural network-based utterance classifier comprising a stack of multiple Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, a respective textual representation for each word of the of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance. The neural network-based utterance classifier trained on negative training examples of spoken utterances not directed toward an automated assistant server. The method further including determining, using the respective textual representation generated for each word of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance, that the spoken utterance is one of directed toward the automated assistant server or not directed toward the automated assistant server, and when the spoken utterance is directed toward the automated assistant server, generating instructions that cause the automated assistant server to generate a response to the spoken utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nathan David Howard, Gabor Simko, Maria Carolina Parada San Martin, Ramkarthik Kalyanasundaram, Guru Prakash Arumugam, Srinivas Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20240097663
    Abstract: Various arrangements involving a bidirectional pulse driver circuit are presented herein. The driver circuit can include a forward pulse trigger circuit and a forward pulse loop circuit. The forward pulse loop circuit can include a first silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) that is activated by the forward pulse trigger circuit. The driver circuit can include a reverse pulse trigger circuit and a reverse pulse loop circuit. The reverse pulse loop circuit can include a second SCR that is activated by the reverse pulse trigger circuit. The driver circuit can also include a controller that activates the forward pulse trigger circuit and the reverse pulse trigger circuit in a first pattern to cause a current pulse to be applied to a load in a forward direction and in a second pattern to cause the current pulse to be applied to the load in a reverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventor: Roth Wiedrick
  • Publication number: 20240097752
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for determining a joint-codebook for wireless communication with a user equipment, UE, by a base station in an active coordination set, ACS, in which a base station receives capability information from one or more other base stations in the ACS. The base station generates a joint-codebook for the ACS based on the received capability information and sends the joint-codebook to the one or more other base stations in the ACS. The base station and the other base stations in the ACS jointly-transmit the joint-codebook to the UE and receive Precoding Matrix Indicator, PMI, feedback from the UE. The base station and the other base stations in the ACS jointly-process downlink data for the UE using the PMI feedback and the joint-codebook and jointly-transmit the downlink data to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240098527
    Abstract: This document describes improvements in range and reliability for wireless mesh networks implementing IEEE 802.11 networking technologies. Reducing the number of spatial streams, N, to a lower value at middle and far distance ranges using an optimized rate control algorithm, preemptively trades off a lower throughput limit for a higher link budget. This higher link budget provides longer range and higher RF link reliability by using an N×N spatial diversity of MIMO RF channels for maximizing link budget instead of network throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yu Wen, Zhifeng Cai, Srinivasa Kumar Duvvuri, Raymond Reynolds Hayes, Kevin N. Hayes, Der-Woei Wu
  • Publication number: 20240094982
    Abstract: Audio rendering devices comprising at least one audio rendering unit for playing audio streams, processing circuit and a wireless communication unit for establishing wireless links and related method are disclosed. One audio rendering device is configured to receive a remote audio stream prioritization policy comprising one or more lists of associations between audio stream attributes and priority values, update a local audio stream prioritization policy based on the remote audio stream prioritization policy, identify audio streams available via wireless links, retrieve audio stream attributes of the available audio streams, select an available audio stream to be played among the available audio streams, based on the updated local audio stream prioritization policy and based on the audio stream attributes of the available audio streams, and play the selected audio stream, by the audio rendering unit of the audio rendering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Florian Denis, Thomas Girardier
  • Publication number: 20240096320
    Abstract: A method for decaying speech processing includes receiving, at a voice-enabled device, an indication of a microphone trigger event indicating a possible interaction with the device through speech where the device has a microphone that, when open, is configured to capture speech for speech recognition. In response to receiving the indication of the microphone trigger event, the method also includes instructing the microphone to open or remain open for a duration window to capture an audio stream in an environment of the device and providing the audio stream captured by the open microphone to a speech recognition system. During the duration window, the method further includes decaying a level of the speech recognition processing based on a function of the duration window and instructing the speech recognition system to use the decayed level of speech recognition processing over the audio stream captured by the open microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Publication number: 20240095594
    Abstract: A method includes training a first differentially private (DP) model using a private training set, the private training set including a plurality of training samples, the first DP model satisfying a differential privacy budget, the differential privacy budget defining an amount of information about individual training samples of the private training set that may be revealed by the first DP model. The method also includes, while training the first DP model, generating a plurality of intermediate checkpoints, each intermediate checkpoint of the plurality of intermediate checkpoints representing a different intermediate state of the first DP model, each of the intermediate checkpoints satisfying the same differential privacy budget. The method further includes determining an aggregate of the first DP model and the plurality of intermediate checkpoints, and determining, using the aggregate, a second DP model, the second DP model satisfying the same differential privacy budget.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Om Dipakbhai Thakkar, Arun Ganesh, Virat Vishnu Shejwalkar, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Rajiv Mathews
  • Publication number: 20240094827
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for robust radar-based gesture-recognition. A radar system detects radar-based gestures on behalf of application subscribers. A state machine transitions between multiple states based on inertial sensor data. A no-gating state enables the radar system to output radar-based gestures to application subscribers. The state machine also includes a soft-gating state that prevents the radar system from outputting the radar-based gestures to the application subscribers. A hard-gating state prevents the radar system from detecting radar-based gestures altogether. The techniques and systems enable the radar system to determine when not to perform gesture-recognition, enabling user equipment to automatically reconfigure the radar system to meet user demand. By so doing, the techniques conserve power, improve accuracy, or reduce latency relative to many common techniques and systems for radar-based gesture-recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jung Ook Hong, Patrick M. Amihood, John David Jacobs, Abel Seleshi Mengistu, Leonardo Giusti, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Devon James O'Reilley Stern, Ivan Poupyrev, Brandon Barbello, Tyler Reed Kugler, Johan Prag, Artur Tsurkan, Alok Chandel, Lucas Dupin Moreira Costa, Selim Flavio Cinek
  • Patent number: 11934293
    Abstract: A method includes associating, by a computing system configured to provide a social media service, based on content of a post to the social media service, social media reactions for the content of the post with an action to be performed by an application. The method includes determining, by the computing system, a social media reaction to the content of the post. The method further includes publishing, by the computing system, an indication of the social media reaction to the social media service, and outputting, by the computing system and to a remote system that is executing the application, a command for the application to perform the action associated with the social media reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Bernadette Alexia Carter
  • Patent number: 11934768
    Abstract: An electronic document associated with users of a collaborative document platform is identified. The electronic document is associated with an approval data structure including entries that correspond to approval requests. A portion of an approval data structure is included within the content of the electronic document for presentation to a first user. A first user updates a first entry of the portion of the approval data structure included within the content of the electronic is detected. The update to the first entry corresponds to a first approval request for a second user to approve a portion of the electronic document. A first notification is transmitted to a second client device associated with the second user. The first notification indicates the first approval request. The approval data structure is updated to include data of the first entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Emily Cahill, Shamil Parbhoo, Lloyd Mckenzie, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Jeffery Hoehl, Gregory George Galante, Behnoosh Hariri, Joy Xi
  • Patent number: 11934586
    Abstract: Techniques of operating an AR system include determining hand gestures formed by a user based on a sequence of two-dimensional images through skin of the user's wrist acquired from a near-infrared camera. Specifically, an image capture device disposed on a band worn around a user's wrist includes a source of electromagnetic radiation, e.g., light-emitting diodes in the infrared (IR) wavelength band that emit the radiation into the user's wrist and an IR detector which produces the sequence of two-dimensional images of a region within a dermal layer in the user's wrist. From this sequence, gesture detection circuitry determines values of a biological flow metric, e.g., a change in perfusion index (PI) between frames of the sequence, based on a trained model that generates the metric from the sequence. Finally, the gesture detection circuitry maps the values of the biological flow metric to specific hand/finger movements that determine a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Andrea Colaco, Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan, Adam James Banfield, Shahram Izadi
  • Patent number: 11933906
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for data fusion between portable electronic devices and wearable accessories that is used to improve location information, particularly with respect to vertical location. A barometer sensor in a wearable accessory is used to obtain relative accurate height information, and an ultra wide band (UWB) radio is used to determine the distance between the wearable accessory and the portable electronic device. At a second timestamp, a barometer in a wearable device is used to calculate a difference in elevation between the first timestamp and the second timestamp. This measurement, along with a measured distance between the devices, can be used to accurately determine elevation. The wireless accessory and the portable electronic device communicate the obtained height and distance information. Accordingly, accurate navigation signals may be provided, even where multiple levels of roadways overlap, such as in parking garages or complex highway interchanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Fei He
  • Patent number: 11935199
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a two-dimensional image of a scene captured by a camera, recognizing one or more objects in the scene depicted in the two-dimensional image, and determining whether the one or more recognized objects have known real-world dimensions. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a depth of at least one recognized object having known real-world dimensions from the camera, and overlaying three-dimensional (3-D) augmented reality content over a display the 2-D image of the scene considering the depth of the at least one recognized object from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Alexander James Faaborg, Shengzhi Wu
  • Patent number: 11935286
    Abstract: A method of vertical planar surface detection includes identifying, at an electronic device, a plurality of feature points of an environment proximate the electronic device based on imagery captured at the electronic device and based on received non-visual pose information obtained from non-visual sensors. The electronic device queries the plurality of feature points to identify one or more planar surfaces in the imagery captured at the electronic device. Further, the electronic device computes a plurality of oriented point vectors associated with the one or more planar surfaces. A vertical planar surface is detected based at least in part on one or more of the plurality of oriented point vectors being aligned in a direction perpendicular to gravity within a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Luca Prasso, Seth Raphael
  • Patent number: 11934895
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to intervening notifications provided by an application for mitigating computationally wasteful application launching behavior that is exhibited by some users. A state of a module of a target application can be identified by emulating user inputs previously provided by the user to the target application. In this way, the state of the module can be determined without visibly launching the target application. When the state of the module is determined to satisfy criteria for providing a notification to the user, the application can render a notification for the user. The application can provide intervening notifications for a variety of different target applications in order to reduce a frequency at which the user launches and closes applications to check for variations in target application content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sandro Feuz, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11935232
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final progression score characterizing a likelihood that a state of a medical condition affecting eye tissue will progress to a target state in a future interval of time. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining: (i) an input image of eye tissue captured using an imaging modality, and (ii) a segmentation map of the eye tissue in the input image into a plurality of tissue types; providing the input image to each of one or more first classification neural networks to obtain a respective first progression score from each first classification neural network; providing the segmentation map to each of one or more second classification neural networks to obtain a respective second progression score from each second classification neural network; and generating the final progression score based on the first and second progression scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Yim, Reena Kumari Chopra, Terry Spitz, Jim Huibrecht Winkens, Annette Ada Nkechinyere Obika, Trevor Back, Joseph R. Ledsam, Pearse A. Keane, Jeffrey De Fauw
  • Patent number: 11935535
    Abstract: An electronic device configures a device-agnostic voice assistant library for execution on the electronic device based on the electronic device having a first device type. The electronic device also selects an implementation for the voice assistant library. After the configuring, the electronic device receives a verbal input from a user. It extracts request information from the verbal input by processing the verbal input using the voice assistant library executing on the device. It transmits a request to a remote system, the request including the extracted request information. The electronic device receives a response to the request. The response is generated by the remote system in accordance with the extracted request information. The electronic device performs an operation in accordance with the response by one or more voice processing modules of the configured voice assistant library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Mixter, Raunaq Shah
  • Patent number: 11934826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, are described for performing vector reductions using a shared scratchpad memory of a hardware circuit having processor cores that communicate with the shared memory. For each of the processor cores, a respective vector of values is generated based on computations performed at the processor core. The shared memory receives the respective vectors of values from respective resources of the processor cores using a direct memory access (DMA) data path of the shared memory. The shared memory performs an accumulation operation on the respective vectors of values using an operator unit coupled to the shared memory. The operator unit is configured to accumulate values based on arithmetic operations encoded at the operator unit. A result vector is generated based on performing the accumulation operation using the respective vectors of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Norrie, Gurushankar Rajamani, Andrew Everett Phelps, Matthew Leever Hedlund, Norman Paul Jouppi
  • Patent number: 11935530
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
  • Patent number: 11935983
    Abstract: Methods and systems for using a photosintering system to sinter one or more paint layers for a paint circuit. In one aspect, a photosintering system includes a photosintering device including a light source and multiple proximity sensors, a data communication link, and one or more processors in data communication with the photosintering device over the data communication link, and is operable to perform the operations of obtaining an image of a sintering area, generating a grid of the sintering area including multiple sub-areas, and for each sub-area of the multiple sub-areas: determine a respective fractional sintering energy for the sub-area, indicate how to position a photosintering device relative to the sub-area, obtain current positional information for the photo sintering device, determining that the current positional, determine an exposure sintering energy for the particular sub-area, and trigger exposure of the exposure sintering energy to the particular sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aleksey Bieneman, Katy Kasmai, Haydn Kirk Vestal
  • Patent number: 11936610
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate selecting videos to share in a messaging session. A system is provided that includes an accessible data mining component configured to generate a first set of data associated with a messaging session between a user and one or more other user, the first set of data excluding data that is inaccessible to the user and comprising data that is accessible to the user, and an identification component configured to identify a set of media items based on the first set of data. An inaccessible data mining component is further configured to generate a second set of data comprising data that is inaccessible to the user but accessible to at least one of the one or more other users, and a recommendation component configured to recommend a subset of the set of media items to the user based on the second set of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Davies
  • Patent number: 11936938
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for presenting media content are provided. In some implementations, a system for presenting media content is provided, the system comprising: a hardware processor that is programmed to: establish a connection with a media playback device; respond to a discovery request from a computing device presenting a media content item; establish a persistent communication channel with the computing device over a network in response to a request from the computing device to establish the persistent communication channel; receive identifying information of the media content item being presented by the computing device and identifying information of a source of the media content item being presented by the computing device; request the media content item from the identified source of the media content item as a stream of media content; and cause the media content item to be presented using the media playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Majd Bakar, Francis Tsui, John Affaki, Byungchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11935536
    Abstract: Validating actions in a digital assistant-based application is provided. The system identifies an application with a conversational interface. The system selects an action from an action repository and generates, via a natural language processor, a trigger phrase for input into the application. The system executes the application to process the trigger phrase to identify an action of the application. The system identifies a parameter used by the application to execute the action, and generates, based on the parameter and via execution of the conversational interface of the application, a first query responsive to the trigger phrase. The system generates a first response to the first query for input into the application. The system determines, based on execution of the application to process the first response, a state of the application. The system evaluates the state to determine an error code and provide a notification based on the error code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dharma Muppalla, Nikhil Rao
  • Patent number: 11936953
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joon-Hee Jeon, Vincent Dureau, Steve D. Benting, Zhenhai Lin, Michael W. Miller, Manish G. Patel
  • Patent number: 11937520
    Abstract: A stacked quantum computing device including: a first chip including a superconducting qubit, where the superconducting qubit includes a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) region, a control region, and a readout region, and a second chip bonded to the first chip, where the second chip includes a first control element overlapping with the SQUID region, a second control element displaced laterally from the control region and without overlapping the control region, and a readout device overlapping the readout region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julian Shaw Kelly, Joshua Yousouf Mutus
  • Patent number: 11934818
    Abstract: An orchestration engine that interfaces with the various clouds to implement the system solution. The orchestration engine builds, configures, and converges the single system solution. The orchestration engine builds the system by instantiating machines and services on the various clouds. The orchestration engine configures the system according to input from the client and the solution provider and then converges the various systems by establishing relationships and connections between the various services. Optionally, the orchestration engine also runs tests to verify that the system is working properly. Once the system has been built, configured and converged, the orchestration engine provides the client with a single entry point for using the system solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: John M. Keagy, Mark W. Worsey, Heather A. McKelvey
  • Patent number: 11933622
    Abstract: A system and method provides a route and turn-by-turn directions based on estimates of current and future traffic along the route. A client device may request turn-by-turn directions between an initial and a final location. A server may identify a plurality of routes between the locations. Each route of the plurality of routes may be divided into route segments. For each route segment of a particular route, the server may estimate a travel time. The travel time may be based on estimated vehicle volume data generated from information received from other users vehicle Based on the estimated travel time for each route segment of a particular route, the server may estimate a total travel time for the particular route. The server may repeat this estimate for each of the plurality of routes between the locations and select the route with the lowest estimated travel time. Based on the selected route, the server may generate turn-by-turn directions and transmit the directions to the client device for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: David M. Barth
  • Patent number: 11934321
    Abstract: A memory management method is provided, which includes assigning separate virtual addresses to processes in user space, include to a file system configured to read/write to persistent storage. Virtual memory objects (VMOs) are created in user space that are backed by a user space pager service. Such objects including pages representing a file associated with information maintained in persistent storage. A pager manages reading/writing to persistent storage. The pager populates pages for a given VMO using data retrieved from persistent storage. Upon populating the pages, a state of the VMO is set to a clean state. Upon writing to the pages, the state of the VMO is set to a dirty state. Upon initiating writing back to persistent storage, the state of the VMO is set to an awaiting clean state. Upon ending the writing back, the state of the VMO is set to clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Rasha Eqbal, Adrian Danis, Christopher James Suter
  • Patent number: 11934361
    Abstract: A method for the automatic generation of a data model from an SQL statement includes receiving a single SQL statement in a user interface to a data analytics application, parsing the single SQL statement and extracting from the SQL statement different table references. The method also includes, for each one of the table references, directing a selection of all fields available in a corresponding table and storing the available fields in a collection of fields implicated by each table referenced by the table references. Finally, the method includes generating a data model with the fields in the collection of fields and displaying a view of the data model in a user interface of the data analytics application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Colin Zima, Jonathan Swenson, Jamie Davidson, Julian Hyde
  • Patent number: D1018579
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Christopher Daniel Ramirez, Wanfang Diao