Patents Examined by James T Tsai
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Patent number: 11983454Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising: a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display text; a first detection unit configured to detect a subject area which a user is looking at in the text; a second detection unit configured to detect a slow area where a moving speed of the subject area decreases; a storage unit configured to store a piece of location information of each slow area in the text; and a statistics unit configured to perform a statistical processing on the pieces of location information stored by the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Yukiyo Akisada, Yasuki Sakurai
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Patent number: 11983460Abstract: Method and system for playing audio on a device, the method comprising the steps of a component of a digital work initiating a request for audio data during a rendering of the digital work, the digital work including video data. In response to the request, receiving the audio data. While continuing the rendering of the digital work on the device, suspending playback of first audio data currently playing on the device and playing the received audio data on the device. When the received audio data stops playing continuing with the rendering of the digital work on the device and resuming playback of the first audio data previously playing on the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: AUDIOMOB LTDInventors: Christian Facey, Wilfrid Obeng-Boakye
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Patent number: 11983388Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: viewably displaying, on the basis of an operation performed by a user, any of a plurality of partial content items constituting content; storing view history of the content; determining, on the basis of the view history, a type of view state of the content if at least one of the partial content items constituting the content has been viewed; determining, on the basis of the type of view state, whether or not the content satisfies a display condition set for each type of view state, the display condition including a condition that the content has a partial content item that has not been viewed; and displaying, in a predetermined display area, an image indicating the content if the content satisfies the display condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.Inventors: Kiyoshi Igusa, Takashi Totsuka
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Patent number: 11977804Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for providing a dynamic loop of content for display. The method includes receiving, on a processor, first data that indicates a characteristic of a loop including a plurality of slots. The method further includes receiving, on the processor, second data that indicates content of a slide for each slot in the loop. The method further includes outputting, on a display, the loop including the content of the slide for each slot in the loop. An apparatus is also provided that it used to perform one or more steps of the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TWEVA.COM INC.Inventors: Mondi Diamand Markeci, David James Van Beekum, Saba Mario Markeci
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Patent number: 11977684Abstract: Method for generating haptic and audio feedback responses starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects first touch input on first user interface and second touch input on second user interface. Processor monitors location of the first touch input on the first user interface and location of the second touch input on the second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of first touch input on first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input on second user interface. In response to determining that the distance is below predetermined threshold, processor causes first user interface and second user interface to generate an initial haptic feedback response and an initial audio feedback response. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Alexander P. Powell, Mark Thomas
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Patent number: 11973723Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a message in an electronic device are provided. The method for transmitting a hidden message includes displaying one or more hiding frames in an input message display area of a display, and transmitting a message including information on the hiding frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Choel-Hwi Kwon
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Patent number: 11972103Abstract: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar are displayed on top of the displayed portion. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. The horizontal bar has a horizontal position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the horizontal position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar and of the horizontal bar is ceased.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Henri C. Lamiraux, Andrew Emilio Platzer, Michael Matas, Imran Chaudhri
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Patent number: 11947702Abstract: In aspects of personal content managed during device screen recording, a wireless device has a display screen to display digital image content, and a screen recording session captures the digital image content and audio data. The wireless device implements a content control module that determines the screen recording session captures personal content associated with a user of the wireless device, the personal content being captured as part of the digital image content or the audio data. The content control module can generate a user screen recording having a user authorization access level, the user screen recording including the digital image content and/or the audio data, as well as the personal content unaltered for user review. The content control module can also generate a shareable screen recording having a share authorization access level, the shareable screen recording including the digital image content and/or the audio data with the personal content obfuscated.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Gautham Prabhakar Natakala, Shaung Wu
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Patent number: 11893215Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a flexible display having a first portion disposed to be visible from an outside and a second portion extending from the first portion and accommodated in an inner space to be invisible from the outside in a slide-in state; a housing whose having a variable size wherein the flexible display is configured to be expanded in response to a change from the slide-in state to a slide-out state; a sensor disposed in the inner space and configured to detect a moving distance of the flexible display; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the flexible display, the sensor, and the memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jookwan Lee, Yongjin Kwon, Myunghoon Kwak, Changryong Heo
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Patent number: 11887056Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11875110Abstract: Provided herein are system, method, and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for seamlessly adding and removing form fields from a form. A form engine may receive a request to generate a form. The form engine may render a screen to populate the form with form fields and organize the form fields by sections. Form fields may be added to a selected section by toggling a button corresponding to a given form field, from unselected to selected. Form fields may be removed from any given section by toggling a button corresponding to a given form field from selected to unselected.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Vladimir Martinov, Charles Allen, Keld Bangsberg, Alison Meyer, Patrick Tewson
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Patent number: 11861561Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11816387Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11809215Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program code for controlling a display of dynamic data updates is provided. A scroll position is determined for a viewport. The viewport chronologically displays a sequence of dynamic data within a graphical user interface. Responsive to determining that the scroll position is a top-of-page, a set of data updates is retrieved from a buffer. The sequence of dynamic data displayed in the viewport is updated with the set of data updates. The viewport is updated only when the scroll position is the top-of-page.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: S&P Global Inc.Inventor: Jamie Matlin
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Patent number: 11797256Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11796660Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for controlling an ultrasound device. The method, for example, can include indexing a location of a part of a palm of the operator on the user interface. The method can also include indexing locations of one or more fingers of an operator on a user interface based on the location of the part of the palm. The method can further include assigning one or more functions of the ultrasound device to the indexed locations of the one or more fingers on the user interface. In addition, the method can include sensing the one or more fingers of the operator near or on the indexed locations on the user interface. The method can also include performing the assigned one or more functions based on sensing the one or more fingers of the operator near or on the indexed locations.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc.Inventor: Sara Akiko Prokop
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Patent number: 11792031Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for mixing participant audio from multiple rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a first room for virtual conferencing, display of a user interface for mixing participant audio from one or more second rooms into an audio channel for the first room; receive indication of user input via the user interface, the user input corresponding to settings for mixing the participant audio from the one or more second rooms; and provide, based on the settings and in association with virtual conferencing within the first room, for mixing the participant audio from one or more second rooms with respect to the audio channel for the first room.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Patent number: 11775246Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11762621Abstract: An object management method and a mobile terminal are provided, where the method includes: receiving a first operation performed on a target object in a first page displayed on a first screen; and moving or copying, in response to the first operation, the target object into a second page displayed on a second screen, where the first page and the second page are different directory pages.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuantao Lin
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Patent number: 11747899Abstract: In one example in accordance with the disclosure, a computing device is described. An example computing device includes a gaze tracking device. An example gaze tracking device identifies, from a captured image, a gaze region for a user viewing a display device coupled to the example computing device. The gaze region indicates a location on the display device where the user is looking. The example computing device includes a controller. An example controller determines a first window on the display device that is aligned with the gaze region and based on a determination that the first window is aligned with the gaze region, adjusts a video setting of a second window that is outside the gaze region.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Yi-Chen Chen, Nick Thamma, King Sui Kei, Chih-Hua Chen, Kun-Cheng Tsai