Google Patents

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  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11934285
    Abstract: An accessory interface for an electronic host device includes a digital communication bus including a plurality of communication lines configured to pass data between the electronic host device and an electronic accessory device. The accessory interface further includes detection circuitry selectively coupled to the plurality of communication lines via a multiplexer and configured to detect analog voltage levels across the plurality of communication lines, determine a device type of the electronic accessory device based on the detected analog voltage levels, and control the multiplexer to couple the plurality of communication lines to a host processor of the electronic host device upon determining the device type of the electronic accessory device. The host processor is configured to receive the device type of the electronic accessory device and transmit data via the plurality of communication lines to the electronic accessory device in accordance with the device type of the electronic accessory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Haoxing Zhang, Dietrich Shing-Quan Ho, Hung-Yang Lee, William Saperstein
  • 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: 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: 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: 11934443
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dhruv Bakshi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • 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: 11934634
    Abstract: A method and system for assessing a machine learning model providing a prediction as to the disease state of a patient from a 2D or 3D image of the patient or a sample obtained therefrom. The machine learning model produces a prediction of the disease state from the image. The method involves presenting on a display of a workstation the image of the patient or a sample obtained therefrom along with a risk score or classification associated with the prediction. The image is further augmented with high-lighting to indicate one or more regions in the image which affected the prediction produced by the machine learning model. Tools are provided by which the user may highlight one or more regions of the image which the user deems to be suspicious for the disease state. Inference is performed on the user-highlighted areas by the machine learning model. The results of the inference are presented to the user via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Marcin Sieniek
  • 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: 11934474
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving a search query, identifying potential search results responsive to the search query, the potential search results corresponding to digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that the potential search results include user-generated content that is generated using one or more computer-implemented social services, receiving data associated with the user-generated content, the data including one or more scores, determining, based on the one or more scores, that the user-generated content is to be provided as a search result, generating search results, the search results including web-based search results and at least a portion of the user-generated content, and transmitting the search results to a client computing device for display to the searching user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Belov, Matthew E. Kulick, Adam D. Bursey, David Yen, Maureen Heymans
  • 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: 11935527
    Abstract: Implementations relate to generating a proficiency measure, and utilizing the proficiency measure to adapt one or more automated assistant functionalities. The generated proficiency measure is for a particular class of automated assistant actions, and is specific to an assistant device and/or is specific to a particular user. A generated proficiency measure for a class can reflect a degree of proficiency, of a user and/or of an assistant device, for that class. Various automated assistant functionalities can be adapted, for a particular class, responsive to determining the proficiency measure satisfies a threshold, or fails to satisfy the threshold (or an alternate threshold). The adaptation(s) can make automated assistant processing more efficient and/or improve (e.g., shorten the duration of) user-assistant interaction(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11936695
    Abstract: Technology for automatic cross-device meeting authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Ho, Christopher Paul David Johnson
  • Patent number: 11934791
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides projection neural networks and example applications thereof. In particular, the present disclosure provides a number of different architectures for projection neural networks, including two example architectures which can be referred to as: Self-Governing Neural Networks (SGNNs) and Projection Sequence Networks (ProSeqoNets). Each projection neural network can include one or more projection layers that project an input into a different space. For example, each projection layer can use a set of projection functions to project the input into a bit-space, thereby greatly reducing the dimensionality of the input and enabling computation with lower resource usage. As such, the projection neural networks provided herein are highly useful for on-device inference in resource-constrained devices. For example, the provided SGNN and ProSeqoNet architectures are particularly beneficial for on-device inference such as, for example, solving natural language understanding tasks on-device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
  • Patent number: 11935544
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to management of casting requests and user inputs at a rechargeable device, which provides access to an automated assistant and is capable of rendering data that is cast from a separate device. Casting requests can be handled by the rechargeable device despite a device SoC of the rechargeable device operating in a sleep mode. Furthermore, spoken utterances provided by a user for invoking the automated assistant can also be adaptively managed by the rechargeable device in order mitigate idle power consumption by the device SoC. Such spoken utterances can be initially processed by a digital signal processor (DSP), and, based on one or more features (e.g., voice characteristic, conformity to a particular invocation phrase, etc.) of the spoken utterance, the device SoC can be initialized for an amount of time that is selected based on the features of the spoken utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrei Pascovici, Victor Lin, Jianghai Zhu, Paul Gyugyi, Shlomi Regev
  • Patent number: 11935634
    Abstract: A system for predicting and summarizing medical events from electronic health records includes a computer memory storing aggregated electronic health records from a multitude of patients of diverse age, health conditions, and demographics including medications, laboratory values, diagnoses, vital signs, and medical notes. The aggregated electronic health records are converted into a single standardized data structure format and ordered arrangement per patient, e.g., into a chronological order. A computer (or computer system) executes one or more deep learning models trained on the aggregated health records to predict one or more future clinical events and summarize pertinent past medical events related to the predicted events on an input electronic health record of a patient having the standardized data structure format and ordered into a chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Mossin, Alvin Rajkomar, Eyal Oren, James Wilson, James Wexler, Patrik Sundberg, Andrew Dai, Yingwei Cui, Gregory Corrado, Hector Yee, Jacob Marcus, Jeffrey Dean, Benjamin Irvine, Kai Chen, Kun Zhang, Michaela Hardt, Xiaomi Sun, Nissan Hajaj, Peter Junteng Liu, Quoc Le, Xiaobing Liu, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11936810
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to synthetic call status updates. In some implementations, a method includes determining, by a task manager module, that a triggering event has occurred to provide a current status of a user call request. The method may then determine, by the task manager module, the current status of the user call request. A representation of the current status of the user call request is generated. Then, the generated representation of the current status of the user call request is provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Eyal Segalis, Daniel Walevski, Yaniv Leviathan, Yossi Matias
  • Patent number: 11936937
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include detecting at least one indicator of user-initiated interaction with a computing device, obtaining data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, identifying a current state of the computing device, determining that content displayed on a first display device included in the computing device is to be casted to a second display device separate from the computing device based on the at least one indicator of the user-initiated interaction with the computing device, the data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, and the current state of the computing device, and casting the content displayed on the first display device to the second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Grafton, James Kent
  • Patent number: 11936960
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for interacting with content using a second screen device are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving, from a remote media streaming device, a request to present media content items; sending, over the Internet, interactive content to the media streaming device as a stream of video; causing the interactive content to be presented by the media streaming device; causing a notification to be sent to a computing device associated with the media streaming device indicating that the content being presented by the media streaming device is interactive content; receiving instructions from the computing device to control how an object depicted in the interactive content is presented; updating the interactive content based on the instructions; sending the updated interactive content to the media streaming device as a stream of video; and causing the updated interactive content to be presented by the media streaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Adam Champy
  • Patent number: 11936576
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for fifth generation new radio uplink multiplexing assisted by shared grant-free transmission. A user equipment (UE) inserts a first cyclical redundancy check (CRC) into a transport block (TB), encodes the TB, including the CRC, into a codeword (CW). Based on receiving a preemption indicator for part of a first physical resource, the UE selects a first part of the CW for rate matching with a length based on a received uplink (UL) grant and the received preemption indicator. The UE transmits the first part of the CW using the first physical resource, selects a second part of the CW, inserts a second CRC in the selected second part of the CW, and transmits the second part of the CW using a second physical resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Kao-Peng Chou
  • Patent number: 11935519
    Abstract: Implementations can receive, at a computing device, audio data corresponding to a spoken utterance of a user, process the audio data to generate, for one or more parts of the spoken utterance, a plurality of speech hypotheses, select a given one of the speech hypotheses, cause the given one of the speech hypotheses to be incorporated as a portion of a transcription associated with the software application, and store the plurality of speech hypotheses. In some implementations, the plurality of speech hypotheses can be loaded at an additional computing device when the transcription is accessed at the additional computing device. In additional or alternative implementations, the plurality of speech hypotheses can be loaded into memory of the computing device when the software application is reactivated and/or when a subsequent dialog session associated with the transcription is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11936180
    Abstract: A circuit for controlling an interface between an integrated circuit of an electronic device and an external device includes each of an interface control switch and an overvoltage protection switch. The interface control switch includes a controller for controlling a mode of the interface between a data communication mode that connects the external device to the integrated circuit of the electronic device via one or more communication lines of the electronic device, and a power transmission mode that connects a power source of the external device to a battery of the electronic device. The controller includes a reset line for resetting the interface control switch. The overvoltage protection switch is connected between the one or more communication ports and the reset line, and is configured to activate the reset line of the controller in response to an overvoltage condition at the one or more communication lines of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Yao Ding
  • Patent number: 11936411
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including electronic devices and computer-readable storage media, for adaptively switching wireless connections between antennas of a wearable electronic device and a host electronic device. One device includes a wearable electronic device with a first and second housing, each housing including two or more antennas. The wearable electronic device is configured to establish and monitor a wireless cross-link between two antennas in different housings, or between antennas in one housing and antennas of a host electronic device. The wearable electronic device can monitor the integrity of the wireless cross-link, and establish an updated cross-link in response to the wireless cross-link not meeting a predetermined integrity threshold. The wearable electronic device can monitor a wireless cross-head link between housings of a wearable electronic device at the same time as a wireless cross-body link between the wearable electronic device and the host electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Asrani, Jiang Zhu, Nan Xu
  • Patent number: 11937310
    Abstract: A user device includes hardware configured to select a preamble or PRACH occasion associated with a first time span for the user device to transmit at least a data portion of a random-access procedure message to a base station, and to receive a message granting the user device an occasion to transmit uplink data on a PUSCH occasion that includes a second time span (412). The hardware also determines that the first and second time spans overlap (414), and only one of (i) transmits at least the data portion of the random-access procedure message to the base station during the first time span. or (ii) transmits the uplink data to the base station during the second time span, based on a transmission precedence of (i) at least the data portion of the random-access procedure message and (ii) the uplink data (440).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Shiangrung Ye
  • Patent number: 11937323
    Abstract: Wireless networks may have thousands of configurable parameters, so manual tuning is infeasible. A self-organizing network (SON) can provide automation. However, automated algorithms are not designed to interact with a wireless network, and network experimentation can jeopardize reliability. To address the former, a SON facilitator of a wireless network management node exposes an API that can translate network configuration information for consumption by a SON enhancer, which may implement an AI algorithm for network tuning. The SON facilitator can also transform output from the SON enhancer into directions for controlling a test scenario, including generating a DL SON message describing the test to a UE. To further increase reliability during the test scenario, the UE can be provisioned with two wireless connections. A first connection is unchanged by the test scenario for stability, and a second connection is used for testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11934796
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein can generate a voice-based interface to increase the accuracy of translations. The voice-based interface can result in fewer input audio signals being transmitted between devices of a network. A method includes: receiving a first input audio signal; generating, based on the first input audio signal, a first translation string in a second language and a second translation string in a first language; determining a first translation score based on a likelihood that the first input audio signal includes an utterance in the first language and a second translation score based on a likelihood that the first input audio signal includes an utterance in the second language; selecting the first translation string based on the first translation score and the second translation score; generating an output signal from the first translation string; and transmitting the output signal to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Greenberg, Bertrand Damiba, Olivia Grace, Fei Wu, Shane Brennan
  • 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