Patents Examined by Maria El-Zoobi
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Patent number: 11854356Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for separating the motion detection zone(s) of an A/V recording and communication device from the motion alert zone(s) of the A/V recording and communication device. For example, an A/V recording and communication device may be configured to generate motion alerts, and to record audio and video footage, when an event is detected within a selected motion alert zone (e.g., within a defined radius around the A/V recording and communication device). However, the A/V recording and communication device may not generate a motion alert for an event detected outside of the selected motion alert zone, even though the device may still record audio and video footage for the detected event (e.g., when the event is within a selected motion detection zone).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Aaron Harpole
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Patent number: 11848971Abstract: A data sharing method includes logging in a first account through a communication interface by a first receiver for establishing a link between the first receiver and a server corresponding to the communication interface, logging in a second account through the communication interface by a second receiver for establishing a link between the second receiver and the server corresponding to the communication interface, and transmitting image data from a first transmitter to the second receiver through the first receiver and the server for sharing the image data. The first receiver is linked to a first display. The second receiver is linked to a second display. The image data is shared with the first display and the second display.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: BenQ CorporationInventors: Chen-Chi Wu, Chin-Fu Chiang, Chia-Nan Shih, Lin-Yuan You, Jung-Kun Tseng, Chuang-Wei Wu
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Patent number: 11843896Abstract: In aspects of manage a video conference session in a multi-tasking environment, a computing device has a display screen to display a user interface of a foreground active application, such as a device application or a video conference session. The computing device implements a content control module that determines a user is designated as a participant of the video conference session, detects that a remote user connects to the video conference session from a remote device, and determines the device application is the foreground active application with the user interface of the device application displayed on the display screen. The content control module can then initiate to surface the user interface of the video conference session for display on the display screen responsive to the remote user connecting to the video conference session and the video conference session not being the foreground active application.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Amit Kumar Agrawal
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Patent number: 11838683Abstract: In aspects of manage a video conference session in a multi-tasking environment, a computing device has a display screen to display a user interface of a foreground active application, such as a device application or a video conference session. The computing device implements a content control module that determines a user is designated as a participant of the video conference session, detects that a remote user connects to the video conference session from a remote device, and determines the device application is the foreground active application with the user interface of the device application displayed on the display screen. The content control module can then initiate to surface the user interface of the video conference session for display on the display screen responsive to the remote user connecting to the video conference session and the video conference session not being the foreground active application.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Amit Kumar Agrawal
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Patent number: 11838489Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform controlling a delivery of a video conference call to a viewport, setting an event-based threshold with respect to the video conference call, determining whether the event-based threshold has been triggered based on an event and whether an amount of time having elapsed from another event is less than a predetermined amount of time, and further controlling the delivery of the video conference call to the viewport based on determining whether the event-based threshold has been triggered and whether the amount of time having elapsed from the other event is less than the predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Rohit Abhishek, Iraj Sodagar
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Patent number: 11838439Abstract: A call processing device includes: a conversion unit configured to convert a caller number of an emergency call sent from a terminal accommodation device via a wireless access line into a land line telephone number of a terminal accommodated by the terminal accommodation device; a connection unit configured to connect the emergency call with the converted caller number to an emergency service; and a notification unit configured to acquire an address corresponding to the land line telephone number and notify the emergency service of the address.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventor: Shunsuke Kanegae
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Patent number: 11825394Abstract: A computer-program product may cause one or more processors to store certain files and perform certain operations. The files may include one or more audio files, each being a sonification of a signal corresponding to one or more physical sensors located within a physical building. The operations may include rendering, from a point of view selected by a user, one or more images of a virtual model of the physical building and one or more virtual sensors. Each virtual sensor may be positioned within the virtual model so as to match a location of a corresponding physical sensor of the one or more physical sensors within the physical building. The operations may further include receiving, from the user, an instruction to play at least one audio file of the one or more audio files and playing, in response to receiving the instruction, the at least one audio file.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Tanzle, Inc.Inventors: Oliver T. Davies, Kris T. Force, Eduard J. Gregor
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Patent number: 11825017Abstract: An IA server includes a plurality of execution units that execute respective virtual machines of a plurality of disaster recovery stations corresponding one-to-one to a plurality of active stations. The plurality of disaster recovery stations includes a virtualized call control server that performs call processing when an active station is not operating, and a control unit that controls an operation of the virtual machines. The control unit activates, at normal times, the virtual machines, and deactivates, when any active station of the plurality of active stations is not operating, a virtual machine of a disaster recovery station of the plurality of disaster recovery stations other than a virtual machine of a disaster recovery station of the plurality of disaster recovery stations corresponding to the active station not operating, and operates only the virtual machine of the disaster recovery station corresponding to the active station not operating.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takato Toda, Nobuhiro Kimura, Minoru Sakuma, Kotaro Mihara
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Patent number: 11825200Abstract: Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for allowing participants of communication sessions joining from conference rooms to indicate a desire to speak using their own personal computing device, and, to automatically frame that user with the conference room camera using a position of the user determined automatically. For example, a user may have a communication application executing on their mobile device that is logged into the network-based conference. If the user wishes to speak, they may activate a control within the application instance executing on their mobile device. The in-room meeting device may then automatically locate the user, and may direct the camera to pan, tilt, or zoom so that the camera frames the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Vishnu Sandeep Nalluri
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Patent number: 11812135Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to embodiments for video communication interface for managing content that is shared during a video communication session.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fiona P. O'Leary, Sean Z. Amadio, Julio C. Hernandez Zaragoza, Johnnie B. Manzari
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Patent number: 11805399Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing bandwidth in a public safety answering point (PSAP) environment ca n include retrieving content related to emergency incidents from a Social Media (SM) server, feeding the content to a Stream Processing Module having a Machine Learning engine for determining a similarity level between the emergency call and any of the emergency incidents retrieved from the SM server. If the similarity level exceeds a predetermined threshold value, then option for downgrading the emergency call to a call comprising only audio data can be provided. If this downgrade option is selected, the RTP stream of the emergency call can be downgraded to an audio call without any video.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Zisis Tsiatsikas, Eirini Michopanou, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Sofia Anagnostou
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Patent number: 11805202Abstract: A cloud-based real-time crime center with dispatch directed digital media payloads configured to support both emergency dispatchers and emergency responders responding to an incident requiring assistance. The new dispatch system is “cloud-based” in that it provides a central hub or repository for gathering live video streams and data streams that are processed to fuse them together to provide a map-based interface for the dispatcher to access via a desktop or other computing station at a central agency location and for the responders in the field to access via vehicle-mounted or portable client devices. The dispatch system processes the video and data streams to generate a dispatch directed payload that includes data and video relevant to the identified incident and that can be readily communicated (due to its reduced or controlled size) to field responders to make their response more effective and to increase both the safety of the responders and those involved in the incident.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: FUSUS, INC.Inventors: Christopher R. Lindenau, Anthony C. Baldoni, David A. Robinson, Sahil N. Merchant
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Patent number: 11800213Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides for advanced single camera video conferencing systems and methods related thereto. The advanced single camera video conferencing system features a hybrid optical/digital camera, herein a camera device, having a controller that is configured to execute one or more of the methods set forth herein. In one embodiment, a method includes optically framing a first portion of a video conferencing environment to provide an actual field-of-view, digitally framing a second portion of the video conferencing environment to provide an apparent field-of-view that is encompassed within the actual field-of-view, generating a video stream of the apparent field-of-view, surveying the actual field-of-view to generate survey data, and detecting changes in the survey data over time. The method may be performed using a single camera device using a single image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LOGITECH EUROPE S.A.Inventors: Oleg Ostap, Henry Levak, John Scott Skeehan
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Patent number: 11800044Abstract: A method in an electronic device includes detecting the electronic device being electronically in communication with another electronic device while an image capture device of the electronic device captures one or more images from an environment of the electronic device. One or more processors determine one or more content input parameters requested by the content presentation companion device that differ from at least one content output parameter of the image capture device. The one or more processors alter the one or more images to create one or more altered images meeting the one or more content input parameters required for the presentation on the content presentation companion device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Daniel M Vacura, Bill Ryan, Jeffrey S Vanhoof, Amit Kumar Agrawal
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Patent number: 11800012Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying information regarding calls to a plurality of PSAPs is provided herein. During operation, an interface will display information as to whether a PSAP is receiving calls it normally would not be receiving, information as to whether or not a PSAP is not working correctly, and information on a status of any re-routed calls to a PSAP. In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, a reason for a PSAP call re-route is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Scott J Pappas, Richard English, Tetiana Begma, Dominik Wojtaszek, Anna Walo-Nowakowska, Leslaw Wasowicz, Kamil Kowalski, Dawid Duleba, Samuel Bard
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Patent number: 11800060Abstract: Providing a video conference for multiple participants includes choosing between at least one physical conference space and at least one virtual conference space, a first one of the participants inviting a second one of the participants to the video conference, the second one of the participants joining the video conference, and conducting the video conference by showing the participants in a same conference space in real time. The conference space may be a physical location of one of the participants or may be a virtual conference space. The participants may switch between the at least one physical conference space and the at least one virtual conference space during the video conference. The first one of the participants may invite the second one of the participants by sending a link. At least one of the participants may see the first participant and the second participant interacting in the conference space.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: mmhmm inc.Inventors: Phil Libin, Leonid Kitainik
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Patent number: 11770600Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to embodiments for video communication interface for managing content that is shared during a video communication session.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fiona P. O'Leary, Guillaume R. Ardaud, Lukas R. Girling, Julio C. Hernandez Zaragoza, Johnnie B. Manzari, Julian K. Missig
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Patent number: 11765320Abstract: According to a general aspect, a method can include receiving a photo of a virtual conference participant, and a depth map based on the photo, and generating a plurality of synthesized images based on the photo. The plurality of synthesized images can have respective simulated gaze directions of the virtual conference participant. The method can also include receiving, during a virtual conference, an indication of a current gaze direction of the virtual conference participant. The method can further include animating, in a display of the virtual conference, an avatar corresponding with the virtual conference participant. The avatar can be based on the photo. Animating the avatar can be based on the photo, the depth map and at least one synthesized image of the plurality of synthesized images, the at least one synthesized image corresponding with the current gaze direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal
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Patent number: 11765311Abstract: In various embodiments, a device receives a first video stream of a video conference. The device receives a second video stream of the video conference. The second video stream includes an indicated location for video of the second video stream relative to video of the first video stream. The device merges the first video stream and the second video stream into an overlapped video having the video of the second video stream located at the indicated location relative to the video of the first video stream. The device provides the overlapped video for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jochen Christof Schirdewahn, Deqiang Ye, Mayan Fei, Sijia Chen, Zhou Qiang, Rui Zhang, Paul Gareth Bright-Thomas
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Patent number: 11764981Abstract: Sharing data by defining a data encoding table, maintaining a data record database, defining a data encryption code, providing the data encryption code with an outgoing call, receiving an audio response including encrypted data, decrypting the encrypted data, and updating the data record database according to the data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Inventors: Ravithej Chikkala, Hamid Majdabadi, Su Liu, Manjunath Ravi