Patents Examined by James T Tsai
  • Patent number: 11731643
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes an imaging device provided in a shared vehicle to capture a plurality of passengers on the vehicle, a detection unit that detects that a user, who is one of the passengers, has performed a predetermined motion which is a motion registered in advance, based on a capturing result by the imaging device, and a controller that controls the vehicle based on a predetermined command, which is a command registered in advance as a command corresponding to the predetermined motion, when the predetermined motion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto Miyake, Shinichi Okamoto, Kentaro Otomo, Daiki Saito, Koji Ishii
  • Patent number: 11681494
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AUDIOMOB LTD
    Inventors: Christian Facey, Wilfrid Obeng-Boakye
  • Patent number: 11682054
    Abstract: Media content event review systems and methods are operable to present member content reviews of a media content event by presenting a plurality of member avatars in a virtual world, wherein the member avatars present audio commentary about a media content event identified in a user request, and wherein the community members who generated the audio commentary about the media content event have an interpersonal relationship with the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicholas Newell, Rob Johannes Clerx
  • Patent number: 11681286
    Abstract: A remote movement system of the invention comprises an operation terminal and a vehicle electronic control unit. The operation terminal includes a touch sensing portion which senses a finger of a user touching the touch sensing portion and a terminal electronic control unit configured to transmit a control execution command for requesting an execution of a remote movement control to cause a vehicle to move to a target position when movement of the user's finger touching the touch sensing portion satisfies a predetermined touch interaction condition. The vehicle electronic control unit is provided in the vehicle and configured to execute the remote movement control in response to receiving the control execution command from the terminal electronic control unit. The predetermined touch interaction condition does not include a condition that the user's finger moves, touching the touch sensing portion along a predetermined specific path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Sannodo, Naoya Matsunaga, Keisuke Oyama
  • Patent number: 11669134
    Abstract: It is desired to provide a device capable of performing interactive UI expression in accordance with predetermined processing. Provided is an information processing device including a first connection portion that is connected to another device, a first antenna that performs wireless communication with a reader/writer, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication with the reader/writer via the first antenna and control wireless communication with the reader/writer via a second antenna of the another device through the first connection portion, in which the communication control unit controls reading of identification information from a memory on the basis of wireless communication with the reader/writer via the first antenna or the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Miki, Tomohiko Nagayama
  • Patent number: 11656838
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device receives, via one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to display a user interface associated with a first respective content mix, wherein the first respective content mix is associated with a first respective time period. In some embodiments in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to display the user interface associated with the first respective content mix, the electronic device displays, via a display, the user interface. In some embodiments, the user interface includes a plurality of representations of content items including visual indications of amounts of consumption, of a first consumption metric type, by a user during the first respective time period, and a plurality of representations of content creators including visual indications of consumption, of a second consumption metric type, by the user during the first respective time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Reese, Arvind S. Shenoy, David J. Davis, Evan Mills, Sebastien P. Sahuc, Uli M. Schöberl, Benjamin B. Bours, Eric R. Seshens, Jason M. Hess, Drew R. Domm, Alexander B. Grossman, Phillip A. Vasquez, Fredric R. Vinna, Agnes Won, Michael Zarcone
  • Patent number: 11651246
    Abstract: A question inference device comprises: an input unit inputting an inquiry from a user; a storage unit storing a plurality of questions prepared in advance and one or more keywords for identifying each question in association with each other; a choice unit referring to the storage unit and choosing a question associated with a keyword contained in the inquiry inputted by the input unit from among the plurality of questions; a computation unit computing the likelihood of each of the plurality of questions for the inquiry inputted by the input unit; an inference unit inferring, based on a choice result of the choice unit and a computation result of the computation unit, such a question that the user intends the substance of the question from among the plurality of questions; and an output unit outputting information based on an inference result of the inference unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Takanori Hashimoto, Yuriko Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11630631
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to manage display of content on a dual screen information handling system by recognizing dual-screen gestures and/or imparting touch awareness to at least a portion of a non-visual central region existing between the active visual areas of the two display screens of the dual screen system, e.g., between each visual area and a gap area and/or hinge area between the two display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Damon Trim, John T. Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11625220
    Abstract: A digital mixer is disclosed having a plurality of displays and which applies a mixing process on an audio signal. The digital mixer includes an input interface, one or more processors, an output interface, at least a first display and a second display, and an operator. The operator includes a mode switching button for switching between a first mode and a second mode. The one or more processors are configured to cause parameter setting screens of audio signals of different channels to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the first mode, and cause different parameter setting screens of an audio signal of a single channel to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Sato, Kazuhiko Endo, Daisuke Mitomi, Paul Youngblood
  • Patent number: 11600155
    Abstract: This disclosure illustrates a wearable detection device, configured to detect vibrations due to the impact of fingers against an object and/or to the sliding of fingertips on a rough surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: WEART S.R.L.
    Inventors: Guido Gioioso, Giovanni Spagnoletti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Mirko Aurilio
  • Patent number: 11556172
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein are directed to viewpoint coordination of multiple users on artificial reality collaboration models. Multiple users can collaborate on 3D models in an artificial reality environment. Attention indicators can indicate to the other users where a user is looking or where the user is pointing. In some implementations, there is a central model that each user sees from her own perspective (e.g., in the center of a virtual table all users are seated around) and/or instances of the model that only an individual user sees or can manipulate. The user's attention indicators can be based on where the user is looking or pointing on the model instances. Additionally, attention indicators can be translated from a controlling user's perspective to a coordinate system defined by the model, which allows the indicators to be then presented in that model coordinate system for all users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jasper Stevens, Etienne Pinchon
  • Patent number: 11532015
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for timing message notifications to be provided to mobile device users based on their geographic locations with respect to geographic areas associated with a threshold level of content consumption. The timing of message notifications may be controlled in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a threshold level of content consumption area. As mobile device users may be more likely to launch a client application in a place where other users are currently consuming content, a general message notification sent to the user's device located in a geographic area associated with a threshold level of content consumption, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bryce Barrand, Patrick McDevitt
  • Patent number: 11481730
    Abstract: 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 a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11475873
    Abstract: A method can include obtaining one or more gesture definitions. Each of the one or more gesture definitions can identify a correspondence between a set of gestures and a voice communication. The method can further include detecting that a mute function of a communication device is active. The mute function can prevent the communication device from transmitting audio data to one or more receiving devices. The method can further include obtaining gesture data from one or more input devices. The method can further include identifying a first gesture definition of the one or more gesture definitions. The identifying the first gesture definition can be based on the gesture data. The method can further include initiating a transfer of a first voice communication to the one or more receiving devices. The first voice communication can correspond to the first gesture definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Bharti, Sandeep Sukhija
  • Patent number: 11470402
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and machine-readable media for concurrent communication. One method includes displaying an interactive application on a first device of a user during a break in an entertainment segment displayed on a second device, sending a request for interaction from the user through the interactive application, pausing the interactive application when the break in the entertainment segment is over, and notifying the user when an additional break begins so the user can commence interacting with the interactive application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Maland Mortensen, Teddy J. Voutour, Emily Gray, Andrew Anaruk, Christopher T. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 11467722
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Henri C. Lamiraux, Andrew Emilio Platzer, Michael Matas, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11455178
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a user interface; at least one processor operably coupled to the user interface; and a memory operably coupled to the at least one processor, wherein memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine, when the electronic device is in a first state, whether or not a first condition is satisfied; perform a first action of changing a state of the electronic device from the first state to a second state if the first condition is satisfied; receive, through the user interface, a user input of changing the state of the electronic device from the second state to a third state; change the state of the electronic device from the second state to the third state at least partially based on the received user input; and maintain the third state even if the first condition is not satisfied in the third state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Songgeun Kim, Sangheon Kim, Kyuchul Kong, Yongkwon Kim, Donggil Son, Yunjeong Choi, Jongwu Baek
  • Patent number: 11442613
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention performs control such that a change in a first designation mode is performed in accordance with reception of a first type of operation without moving an input position in a predetermined region, wherein in the change, a specific change target is changed to a change destination that corresponds to a region to which the input position in the first type of operation belongs, and a change in a second designation mode is performed in accordance with reception a second type of operation of moving the input position in the predetermined region, wherein in the change, the specific change target is changed to a change destination that differs, by a change amount based on a movement amount in the second type of operation, from the change destination that is changed in the first type of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11422685
    Abstract: A first selection of an image may be received in accordance with image selection information inputted from a pointing device. A second selection of an image corresponding to a designated coordinate may be received by detecting the designated coordinate. A first object image for receiving an instruction to display a plurality of first images may be displayed. The plurality of first images may be displayed when an operation to select the displayed first object image is received in the first selection or the second selection. When a selection of a first image is received, the process associated with the selected first image may be executed. The plurality of first images may be displayed in a first mode when the operation is received in the first selection. The plurality of first images may be displayed in a second mode when the operation is received in the second selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusaku Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11416139
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a screen display method of the electronic device. More specifically, provided are an electronic device for providing an extension function to a second area according to a characteristic of a characteristic area in first and second areas of an extended touch screen, and a screen display method of the electronic device. Some of the disclosed embodiments provide an electronic device for providing an extension function to a second area according to a characteristic of a characteristic area of an application screen in first and second areas divided by a trigger in an extended touch screen. In addition thereto, various other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soyoung Kim, Daehyun Kim, Minsik Kim, Jongmoo Lee, Geon-Soo Kim, Jin-Wan An, Ji-Woo Lee, Hyun-Suk Choi