Patents Examined by Beau D Spratt
  • Patent number: 11511645
    Abstract: A display device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a use status of a battery that stores electric power for traveling of a vehicle; a display unit configured to display an image; and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display an image in which a state of the battery is represented by an anthropomorphic character based on an acquisition result of the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Namiki
  • Patent number: 11500679
    Abstract: A method for operating a controller, including: executing a first task-program in a first time pattern of first time-slots, performing a second task-program in a second time pattern of second time-slots, ascertaining a status variable, indicating whether a result of the first task-program is released, ascertaining the result of the first task-program in an instantaneous first time-slot and transmitted in this slot to a memory area assigned to the second task-program, the second task-program ascertains a second result as a function of the status variable value and the result of the first task-program, the status variable value is transmitted in the instantaneous time-slot to a status memory area assigned to the second task-program, the result of the first task-program and the status variables values are ascertained and transmitted after the beginning of execution of the first task-program and before another execution of the first task-program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sagar Subbaramaiah, Eckart Schlottmann, Hakan Atasayar
  • Patent number: 11501208
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to providing transition-related assistance during a presentation. One example provides a method comprising, during a rehearsal of a presentation, receiving content of the presentation. Based on the content received, a transition within the presentation is determined via a machine learning model. During a performance of the presentation, the transition is automatically enacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Patrick Spotanski, Daniel Y. Parish, Tracy ThuyDuyen Tran, Ling Lu, Kiruthika Selvamani, Carlos Esteban Lopez Rivas, Ajitesh Kishore
  • Patent number: 11494859
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to allowing permissioned legal entity managers to define rules for a legal entity to derive an association of an application with a legal entity. The application manager may then be presented with an option to accept suggested associations or perform an override. Once a legal entity is ready, applications may be published to a system of record. Due to the vast amount of applications and entities available, the solution provides automation while still allowing overrides. The results of the classification may then be stored in a system of record and data quality suggestions sent to the source systems to clean source system data. An embodiment of the present invention may also associate other attributes to applications and deployments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan Scully, Justin Clarke, Elliott Adler, SonasalaMuthu Kuppusamy
  • Patent number: 11496460
    Abstract: A cloud-based access to child care planning and outcome resource is described. The resource allows multiple end-users to access content related to child care. Such content includes reports, table, graphs, multimedia, lists, forms, reminders, and/or other appropriate elements. The content may be presented via one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Each such GUI may include various input elements such as tabs, buttons, icons, etc. and various content elements such as portlets, or frames, etc. Each GUI may be customized for a particular end-user and/or a particular group of end-users. In this way, an administrator or super-user may generate multiple GUIs, where each is associated with a user group (e.g., parents, teachers, administrators, etc.). In addition, each end-user may be able to customize the GUIs available to the end user. Such customization may include selection of input and/or content elements, layout of elements, graphical features, and/or other appropriate customizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Hamid Kelishadi
  • Patent number: 11494051
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing an augmented reality user interface, including: receiving, by an image sensor of an electronic device, an image of a physical document; determining a document type associated with the physical document by performing image recognition on the image of the physical document; determining an augmented reality template to display on a display of the electronic device; displaying the augmented reality template on the display of the electronic device, wherein the augmented reality template is aligned in three dimensions with the physical document; determining a distance between the physical document and the electronic device; and enabling one or more interactive user interface elements within the augmented reality template displayed on the display of the electronic device if the determined distance between the physical document and the electronic device is less than a threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Molly Beth Davis, Timothy Joseph Mueller, Mark Anders Holmberg, Jessica Jaiyeon Cho, Anoop Pratap Singh Tomar
  • Patent number: 11489944
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a data transmission method thereof are provided. The data transmission method is adapted to an electronic apparatus including a screen, and the data transmission method includes the following steps. An image frame is displayed through the screen. A selection marquee is displayed on the image frame through the screen, and the selection marquee is configured for selecting a partial image frame from the image frame. Connection information is displayed within the selection marquee through the screen, and feature information of data to be transmitted is recognized from the partial image frame selected by the selection marquee. A connection with another electronic apparatus is established according to the connection information. The data to be transmitted is sent to the another electronic apparatus via the connection according to the feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Chieh Huang, Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang, Ling-Fan Tsao, Chueh-Pin Ko, Chih-Chiang Chen, Tai Ju, Yu-Shan Ruan
  • Patent number: 11481687
    Abstract: Machine learning techniques are used in combination with graph data structures to perform automated classification of accounts. Graphs may be constructed using a seed node and then expanded outward to second-degree nodes and third-degree nodes that are connected to a seed user account node via direct interaction between the accounts. Characterization information regarding the interaction between accounts can be stored in the graph (e.g., quantity of interactions, types of interactions) as well as other metrics and metadata. A classifier, using random forest or another technique, may be trained using a number of different graphs that can then be used to reach a determination as to whether a user account falls into one particular category or another. These techniques can identify accounts that may be violating terms of service, committing a security violation, and/or performing illegal actions in a way that is not ascertainable from human analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Chuanyun Fang, Matias Rotenberg, Adam Cohen, Chunmao Ran, Kun Fu, Itzik Levi
  • Patent number: 11481088
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach displays, on a user interface during a first user session, a set of objects with a first level of detail based on a prioritization model. The approach adjusts the prioritization model based on a set of user selections to the set of objects captured during the first user session that indicates a second level of detail of at least one object in the set of objects. The approach displays the set of objects to the user on the user interface during a second user session based on the adjusted prioritization model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Cardinal, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Ramratan Vennam, Belinda Marie Vennam
  • Patent number: 11481640
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to configuring artificial-intelligence (AI) decision nodes throughout a communication decision tree. The decision nodes can support successive iteration of AI models to dynamically define iteration data that corresponds to a trajectory through the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Tara U. Roberts, Jonathan Stanesby, Michael Pearmain, Kevin Yordy, Karen Sutthakorn
  • Patent number: 11481540
    Abstract: A system is provided that can execute one or more scripts to cause a discrepancy resolution processor to be executed on a first exported image file (having a raster-based image format such as PNG), and a second exported image file (having a vector-based image format such as SVG) to programmatically compare, fix, and flag discrepancies or differences between the first exported image file and the second exported image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel McCulloh, Christopher Shawn Corwin, Isaac James Heyveld
  • Patent number: 11461071
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus for a plurality of channels includes: a display device for displaying parameters of audio processing; a plurality of operation controllers, each associated with one of the plurality of channels, disposed in channel strips; and a processor configured to detect an operation amount of each of the plurality of operation controllers for changing the parameter associated therewith, including: in a first mode, a first operation amount of a first parameter for a first operation controller, among the plurality of operation controllers, displayed on the display device; and in a second mode, a second operation amount of a second parameter for each of the plurality of operation controllers for the plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Saito, Takeshi Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11460973
    Abstract: Node-link data can be converted into audio outputs. For example, a system can generate a graphical user interface (GUI) depicting a node-link diagram having nodes and links. The GUI can include a virtual reference point in the node-link diagram and a virtual control element that is rotatable around the virtual reference point by a user to contact one or more of the nodes in the node-link diagram. The system can receive user input for rotating the virtual control element around the virtual reference point, which can generate a contact between the virtual control element and a particular node of the node-link diagram. In response to detecting the contact, the system can determine a sound characteristic configured to indicate an attribute associated with the particular node. The system can then generate a sound having the sound characteristic, for example to assist the user in exploring the node-link diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC:.
    Inventors: Sean Patrick Mealin, Claude Edward Summers, II, Mitchel Stanley Soltys, II, Ralph Johnson Marshall, Jr., Jesse Daniel Sookne, Brice Joseph Smith, Gregory David Kraus, Eric Colin Bolender, Julianna Elizabeth Langston, Lisa Beth Morton Robinson
  • Patent number: 11462121
    Abstract: Method and system for visualizing dynamic virtual sub-systems of a virtual simulated element in an interactive computer simulation system comprising a computer generated environment. One or more tangible instruments control the virtual simulated element in the computer generated environment. A graphical user interface comprising an interactive display portion depicting a rendered view of the virtual simulated element. While an interactive computer simulation of the virtual simulated element is performed in the interactive computer simulation system, a storage system logs dynamic data in relation to the dynamic virtual sub-systems. At least one of the dynamic virtual sub-systems of the virtual simulated element is selected and a subset of dynamic data related to the selected virtual sub-system is loaded from the storage system. The selected virtual sub-system is displayed together with the related dynamic data on the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CAE Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-François Delisle
  • Patent number: 11455093
    Abstract: One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems of capturing and sending multimedia content items as electronic message. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively capture multimedia content items for inclusion in a communication session without navigating away from the communication session. Additionally, systems and methods described herein allow a multimedia content item to be sent to one or more co-users immediately following the capture of the multimedia content item without further user interaction. In other words, the system and methods can capture and automatically send a multimedia content item in response to a single user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Langholz, Lucy Congyun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11455086
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software are described herein for providing a user interface that, in one example, indicates the current point in progress for various items that are available for selection. Upon selection of one of the items of content and/or services that present the items of content, the item of content may be accessed (e.g., for display, recording, or other type of consumption) at the point in progress or at another location within the item of content that may correspond to or otherwise depend upon the point in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Y. Fong
  • Patent number: 11449128
    Abstract: An augmented reality provision server according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a reception unit configured to receive capture information generated by a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal capturing a target thing from the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal, a control unit configured to select first augmented reality information corresponding to the capture information acquired from the reception unit from among a plurality of pieces of augmented reality information, and a transmission unit configured to deliver the first augmented reality information to the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal. The reception unit may receive predetermined input information from the first mobile terminal. The control unit may generate second augmented reality information including the input information. The transmission unit may transmit the second augmented reality information to the first mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ROBOPRINT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jung Kyu Park, Min Su Kim
  • Patent number: 11435979
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user can play a music track from a dynamically generated playlist. The user can provide input indicating that the user likes or dislikes the music track and the playlist can be adjusted based on the user input. In some implementations, information can be presented to the user so that the user can preview changes to the playlist before the changes are made to the playlist. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria (configuration) by adjusting specific music characteristics. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria by manipulating a list of representative music tracks. In some implementations, a user can compare the user's playlist to playlists of other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon E. Friesen, Jorge S. Fino, Jason A. Skinder
  • Patent number: 11436484
    Abstract: In various examples, physical sensor data may be generated by a vehicle in a real-world environment. The physical sensor data may be used to train deep neural networks (DNNs). The DNNs may then be tested in a simulated environment—in some examples using hardware configured for installation in a vehicle to execute an autonomous driving software stack—to control a virtual vehicle in the simulated environment or to otherwise test, verify, or validate the outputs of the DNNs. Prior to use by the DNNs, virtual sensor data generated by virtual sensors within the simulated environment may be encoded to a format consistent with the format of the physical sensor data generated by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Farabet, John Zedlewski, Zachary Taylor, Greg Heinrich, Claire Delaunay, Mark Daly, Matthew Campbell, Curtis Beeson, Gary Hicok, Michael Cox, Rev Lebaredian, Tony Tamasi, David Auld
  • Patent number: 11435820
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a method that includes receiving one or more two-dimensional images of one or more light patterns incident on an eye proximate to an eye region of a near-eye display device, and computing a gaze direction associated with the eye based on the one or more two-dimensional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Seth Michael Hirsh, Qing Chao, Robert Dale Cavin, Elias Daniel Guestrin, Michael Hall