Patents Examined by Jared Walker
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Patent number: 11989688Abstract: Technology for optimizing automated inventory management is described. In an example implementation, a method, implemented using one or more computing devices, may generate unit identifier sets based on affinities between items uniquely identified by the unit identifiers, determine first and second contribution values for each of the unit identifier sets, and calculate a difference between the first and the second contribution values for each of the unit identifier sets. The method may further calculate an incremental carton and expense prevention opportunity (ICEPO) value for the unit identifier sets, calculate an adjusted fulfillment center stocking score using the ICEPO value and the difference between the first and the second contribution values for each of the unit identifier sets, select a subset of the unit identifier sets based on the adjusted fulfillment center stocking score, and output the subset to an inventory replenishment system that manages stocking of items.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Staples, Inc.Inventors: Amit Kalra, Maimuna Rangwala, Ehsan Ardjmand, Christine DeJesse
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Patent number: 11985322Abstract: The general intra prediction process is unnecessarily complicated with inclusion of the reference sample filtering. This application provides solutions for this problem. A method for intra prediction is provided. The method includes: during an intra predicted sample generation stage, obtaining a filtering indication, which indicates whether a filtered value or an unfiltered value of reference samples of the current coding block will be used. When the value of the filtering indication is true, a prediction sample is generated by using the filtered value of the reference samples based on the planar mode. When the value of the filtering indication is false, a prediction sample is generated by using the unfiltered value of the reference samples based on the planar mode. As a result, the reference sample filtering stage can be fully removed or can be combined with other stage.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Biao Wang, Semih Esenlik, Anand Meher Kotra, Han Gao, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina
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Patent number: 11983688Abstract: A point of sale (POS) device includes an output device such as a speaker, a display screen, or a network interface. The POS device also includes a secure enclosure housing a secure processor and tamper detection circuitry for detecting attempts to tamper with the secure enclosure. Use of the output device is shared between the secure processor and a main processor via a switch that is controlled by the secure processor. The secure processor can switch control of the output device from the main processor to itself and can output an output dataset via the output device in a number of scenarios. These scenarios include the secure processor detecting an attempt to tamper with the secure enclosure, the secure processor recognizing that the main processor is behaving suspiciously, or the secure processor wanting to output sensitive information. The output dataset may include visual data, audio data, or network data.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventors: Cory Douthat, Jason Binder, Matthew Maibach, Thomas Byrne
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Patent number: 11983675Abstract: Techniques are described for generating user interface components corresponding to services performed by merchants and periods of time for performing the services. The techniques may include a payment processing service determining service information associated with services performed for merchants for whom the payment processing service has processed payments. In examples, a duration-identification model may be trained using at least one of employee-management data, appointment data, or catalog data. The duration-identification model may be applied to stored transaction data to determine duration information associated with the service(s) performed by the merchants. Based on the service information and duration information, user interface components may be generated without user input from a user. The user interface components may correspond to the service and periods of time for performing the services.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventors: Lee Cunliffe, Edmond Chan
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Patent number: 11978033Abstract: A system includes a secondary computing device not owned by a user, a hardware processor, a memory and instructions that cause the processor to generate a transient wallet identifier (ID) for a transient mobile wallet, the transient mobile wallet being of limited duration, and provide a configuration user interface the user, presenting configuration information for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also identifies a usage specification for the transient mobile wallet defining allowed uses for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also activates the transient mobile wallet on the secondary computing device, receives a payment transaction approval request, compares the payment transaction data to the usage specification, determines that the payment transaction data is non-conforming, and transmits a rejection message for the first payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 11974040Abstract: An endoscope processor includes a processor that can be connected to an endoscope including a moving mechanism of a focusing lens included in an objective optical system and an image pickup apparatus. The processor is configured to determine whether or not a transition has been made from a screening state to a proximity state based on positional information of the focusing lens and an image in a proximity determination mode when a variation in an image height in an effective image range with control of the moving mechanism is 1% or less, and when it is determined that a transition has been made to the proximity state, the processor is configured to end the proximity determination mode and control the moving mechanism in an autofocus mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Akihiro Miyata, Toshiaki Mikami, Koichiro Yoshino
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Patent number: 11973956Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced video encoding identify patterns in sequences of raw digital video frames to extract features and identify the type of content represented by the extracted features. The system simulates many outcomes of encoding the sequence of digital video frames by using various different encoding strategies to find the relative best encoding strategy for each sequence of frames. As the encoder processes video, it passes digital video frames to a modeling system which determines whether the video, or video having that same type of content, has been previously observed by the system. The system then selectively applies a saved encoding strategy that had been determined by the system to be particularly suitable for encoding the same sequence of video frames or that same type of content.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DISH Technologies L. L. C.Inventors: Christopher Day, Rima Shah
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Patent number: 11974076Abstract: A security system includes a surveillance device that monitors a predetermined event and captures images in a monitor scene; and a controller that controls the surveillance device and transmits the captured images. The surveillance device adjusts image capture amount, image transmit amount, image transmit order or image resolution when the predetermined event is detected and an object is detected on the captured images.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Climax Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-Kai Chen
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Patent number: 11966984Abstract: A financial close automation (FCA) system receives or retrieves account data from one or more enterprise resource planning products (ERPs). The FCA examines the balance sheet for a given account and determines whether the account is auto-certifiable, and whether the unknown balance is below a threshold amount. If the answer to either inquiry is no, the FCA generates a task for the general ledger owner to provide an explanation for the discrepancy. A task is the created for a manager to review the provided explanation. If the manager does not approve of the provided explanation, additional information may be required. Once the manager approves the provided explanation for the discrepancy, the account is certified. If the account is auto-certifiable and the unknown balance is below the threshold amount, the account is auto-certified.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Ankur Tayal, Amir Vakili Jafari, Jessica Lee Tobin, Ellen Frances Espinosa
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Patent number: 11964617Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera module having a housing that houses at least (i) electronic circuitry disposed at a main printed circuit board (PCB) and (ii) an imager assembly. The imager assembly includes an imaging array sensor, an imager PCB and a lens holder that includes an elongated lens barrel that houses at least one lens. Electronic circuitry is disposed at an upper side and at a lower side of the main PCB. Image data captured by the imaging array sensor is conveyed to electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB. An electronic component of electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB is in thermal conductivity with a thermal element, which is in thermal conductivity with a lower housing portion of the housing to enhance heat transfer from the electronic component to the lower housing portion of the camera housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Garret F. Achenbach, Brian A. Gorman, Brian F. Smith, Steven G. Gebauer
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Patent number: 11954669Abstract: Authentication method and systems using RFID-enabled payment cards are disclosed herein where a server receives a request corresponding to authorization of a payment associated with a payment card from an electronic terminal. The server identifies an electronic device of a user associated with the payment card. The server then transmits an instruction to the electronic device to cause an RFID reader of the electronic device to determine whether an RFID tag corresponding to the payment card is located within a predetermined proximity to the electronic device. When the payment card is located within the predetermined proximity, the server executes a first authentication protocol. Moreover, when the payment card is not located within the predetermined proximity, the server executes a second authentication protocol, wherein the second authentication protocol is more restrictive than the first authentication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Bryan J. Osterkamp, Kelly Q. Baker, David M. Jones, Jr., Ryan Thomas Russell, Robert Andrew Massie, Jon D. McEachron
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Patent number: 11948120Abstract: Automated storage and retrieval systems for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility include a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a product picking station. A processor-based control circuit analyzes one or more business rules governing product merging between the containers being conveyed toward the picking station by the conveying system to identify two containers that are eligible for the product merging therebetween. When the control circuit detects that the two containers identified as product merging eligible arrived at the picking station, these two containers are kept by the conveying system at the picking station until all of the products are removed from a first one of these two containers and merged together with the products stored in a second one of these two containers.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Vivek Tomar, Rei E. Siew Hew Sam, Sunada S N Chakravarthy, Kaiwen Luo
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Patent number: 11942969Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for unified significance map coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (400) for encoding transform coefficients for at least a portion of a picture. The transform coefficients are obtained using a plurality of transforms. One or more context sharing maps are generated for the transform coefficients based on a unified rule. The one or more context sharing maps are for providing at least one context that is shared among at least some of the transform coefficients obtained from at least two different ones of the plurality of transforms.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Xiaoan Lu, Joel Sole, Peng Yin, Qian Xu, Yunfei Zheng
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Patent number: 11935090Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing cash back to a customer from a linked ATM after a purchase transaction are described herein. A customer initiates the transactions using a payment check. A cash back amount is determined and an authentication passcode is created. Cash back information is then transmitted to the linked ATM. The cash back information includes the cash back amount and the authentication passcode. The authentication passcode is then provided to the customer. A cash back transaction is then authenticated using the authentication passcode, and the customer is provided with the cash back amount from the linked ATM.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Dennis E. Montenegro, Alicia Y. Moore, Timothy R. Ward
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Patent number: 11936893Abstract: An encoder that includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry encodes a slice into one or more data access regions in a variable length encoding process. The circuitry encodes one or more offsets into a slice header, based on a flag written into a sequence header and a total number of the one or more data access regions. The one or more offsets each specify a head position of a corresponding one of the one or more data access regions in a bitstream. When the flag indicates that the one or more offsets are to be encoded and the total number is at least two, the one or more offsets are encoded. The flag switches between encoding and not encoding the one or more offsets regardless of whether the total number is at least two.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato
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Patent number: 11930201Abstract: The present invention includes obtaining block type identification information on a partition of the current macroblock when the current macroblock is intra-mixed specifying a bock type of the current macroblock based on the block type identification information, obtaining an intra prediction mode of the current macroblock according to the block type of the partition of the current macroblock, and predicting the current macroblock using the intra prediction mode and a pixel value of a neighboring block.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Joon Young Park, Seung Wook Park, Jung Sun Kim, Young Hee Choi, Byeong Moon Jeon
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Patent number: 11922699Abstract: According to some embodiments a system is provided. The system comprises a remote monitoring computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises where the alarm signal is associated with an alarm event at the premises, in response to the alarm signal, obtain, from a content storage computing system, metadata corresponding to video provided by a camera at the premises, in response to the metadata, store the video in a data store of the remote monitoring computing system, and enforce an access control policy on the video in the data store where the access control policy restricts access to the video in the data store based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the remote monitoring computing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: The ADT Security CorporationInventors: Lawrence David Folsom, Thomas Nakatani, Susan Carie Small, Dmitry Vaynriber, Thomas Henry King, Mitchell Patrick Smith, Jason Adukuzhiyil George
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Patent number: 11924427Abstract: A method of encoding a video stream in a video encoder is provided that includes computing an offset into a transform matrix based on a transform block size, wherein a size of the transform matrix is larger than the transform block size, and wherein the transform matrix is one selected from a group consisting of a DCT transform matrix and an IDCT transform matrix, and transforming a residual block to generate a DCT coefficient block, wherein the offset is used to select elements of rows and columns of a DCT submatrix of the transform block size from the transform matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Mangesh Sadafale, Madhukar Budagavi
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Patent number: 11922391Abstract: An article information deduction apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and an output unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires data based on a change in a detected value of a weight sensor (30) (hereinafter described as weight change data). For example, the acquisition unit (110) determines data acquired by chronologically arranging data acquired from the weight sensor (30) as weight change data. Further, the acquisition unit (110) acquires data indicating a movement of a hand of a person positioned in a shelf-front space (hereinafter described as movement data). For example, the acquisition unit (110) acquires data acquired by chronologically arranging data output from a depth sensor (40) to the article information deduction apparatus (10) as movement data. The output unit (120) outputs article determination information of the article deduced to be taken out by the hand of the person positioned in the shelf-front space, by using the weight change data and the movement data.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motoyuki Nakamura, Hisayoshi Mura, Shinya Yamasaki
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Patent number: 11916691Abstract: A security system can be configured to mount to a power outlet. The security system can include an outwardly facing portion configured to face away from the power outlet and an inwardly facing portion having a first electrical prong and a second electrical prong that protrude into the power outlet to mount the security system to the power outlet. The security system can also include a detection system comprising a camera and a motion detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SkyBell Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Joseph Frank Scalisi