Patents Examined by Melur Ramakrishnaiah
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Patent number: 11601619Abstract: In some implementations, a system may retrieve an electronic calendar associated with a user. The system may identify, based on the electronic calendar, a plurality of virtual sessions. The system may generate an electronic invitation to join an aggregated virtual session for the plurality of virtual sessions. The system may transmit the electronic invitation to a client device associated with the user. The system may receive, from the client device, a selection of the electronic invitation. The system may establish, based on the electronic invitation, the aggregated virtual session for the client device that enables the client device to connect to each of the plurality of virtual sessions associated with the aggregated virtual session.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Lee Adcock, Vamsi Kavuri, Jignesh Rangwala, Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara, Muthukumaran Vembuli, Santhi Sridharan, Soumyajit Ray, Steven Voltz
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Patent number: 11587528Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to adjusting an illumination of a user depicted in one or more images when using a video conferencing application. In one example, one or more images depicting the user may be received from an image sensor. Further, an illumination of the user depicted in the one or more images may be determined to be unsatisfactory. For example, the user's face may be too bright or too dim. Accordingly, content displayed at a display device may identified and then modified. The modified content may then be rendered to a display device thereby changing the illumination of the user depicted in subsequent images. In examples, the modified content may include a graphical element, such as a ring of a specific color at least partially surrounding content rendered to and displayed at the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade, Steven N. Bathiche
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Patent number: 11589004Abstract: Provided herein are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for streaming a video chat from a mobile device on a display device. In a given embodiment, a first mobile device and second video device can communicate audio and video data to one another, via a video chat. The incoming audio and video data for the first mobile device can be streamed to and output by an external display device. The streaming request is generated in response to the first mobile device coupling with a rotating base, controlled by the first mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: ROKU, INC.Inventor: Andre Goddard Rosa
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Patent number: 11586414Abstract: Systems and methods for altering communications captured by an incident recording device are provided. An incident recording may be captured by a recording device. The incident recording may comprise audio data. A communication activation signal may be detected by the recording device. The communication activation signal may be followed by communication audio data and the communication audio data may be captured in the audio data. Based on detecting the communication activation signal, the recording device may alter the audio data of the incident recording to at least partially alter the communication audio data captured in the audio data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Shah
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Patent number: 11589005Abstract: A video conferencing device for video conferencing between at least one local participant and a remote participant includes a video camera, a microphone array, and a speaker tracker. The video camera provides a local video input signal. The microphone array provides a local audio input signal. The speaker tracker is configured to identify a local speaker from the at least one local participant using a sound source localizer. The video conferencing device processes the local video input signal without the local speaker, based on the video conferencing device receiving a signal from a computing system, the signal dependent on a loopback audio output signal indicating that the remote participant is speaking.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: PLANTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Yibo Liu, Peter L. Chu
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Patent number: 11589003Abstract: Single point devices that connect to a display device include a port for establishing a connection to a port on the display device and for switching the display device from a first mode to a second mode; an audio video device configured to capture image data representing one or more images of physical entities in a field of view of the audio video device and further configured to capture acoustic data; a receiver device and a transmitter device configured for dedicated communication with a data processing system.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: American Well CorporationInventor: Roy Schoenberg
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Patent number: 11589008Abstract: Methods and systems described herein facilitate virtual interactions between users that more closely resemble their in-person counterparts. In particular, the methods and systems simulate in-person interactions in virtual environments through the use of complex spatial algorithms. For example, in some embodiments, the methods and systems provide avatar-based video conferencing systems in which avatars are connected by video/voice chat to any avatar based on one or more criteria.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Sophya Inc.Inventors: Vishal Vijay Punwani, Emma Kathryn Giles, Morgan Bruce DeWitt Talbot, Mark Liu, Ayse Baybars, Vinay Punwani, Edwin Walda
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Patent number: 11589006Abstract: A method implementing dynamic camera presets. An image is received. A list of bounding boxes and a list of classification values are generated from the image. A set of tags, for the image, are generated from the list of bounding boxes and the list of classification values. A tagged image incorporating the set of tags into the image is presented. In response to a user input, a tag selection identifying a tag of the set of tags is received. View settings are adjusted to focus on a bounding box, from the list of bounding boxes, corresponding to the tag selection. An adjusted image is presented using the view settings.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: PLANTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Daniel Beyette Acevedo, Andrew Pornthep Pechin, Kishore Venkat Rao Goka, Nhu Quynh Pham Nguyen, Raghavendra Balavalikar Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 11570223Abstract: Systems, methods, and software to provide intelligent detection and automatic correction of erroneous audio settings in a video conference. Electronic conferences can often be the source of frustration and wasted resources as participants may be forced to contend with extraneous sounds, such as background/ambient noises, or conversations not intended for the conference, provided by an endpoint that should be muted. Similarly, participants may speak with the intention of providing their speech to the conference while their associated endpoint is muted. As a result, the conference may be awkward and lack a productive flow while endpoints are erroneously muted or non-muted. By intelligently processing at least the video portion of a video conference, endpoints/participants may be prompted to mute/unmute or automatically muted/unmuted.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.Inventors: David Chavez, Pushkar Yashavant Deole, Sandesh Chopdekar, Navin Daga
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Patent number: 11562753Abstract: Example apparatus to improve timestamp transition resolution of watermarks are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus is to decode timestamps in respective ones of detected watermarks, estimate a first transition window indicative of a transition between a first time period to a second time period based on a first one of the timestamps and a second one of the timestamps, and when the first transition window does not satisfy a threshold, estimate a second transition window indicative of a transition between the second time period and a third time period based on the second one of the timestamps and a third one of the timestamps. The disclosed example apparatus is also to determine a first mapped transition window based on an intersection of the first transition window and the second transition window, and set the first mapped transition window as a reference time transition window for subsequent time periods.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Ken Joseph Frett, Vladimir Kuznetsov, David Gish, Sadhana Gupta
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Patent number: 11563834Abstract: A phone appliance and method of use are provided where the phone appliance can be used to make VoIP communications calls. In a preferred embodiment, the phone appliance includes an RF connection for connecting to a computer or other computing device for facilitating the placement of the VoIP communications calls. The phone appliance further includes a display or portal for depicting advertisements provided by various advertisers. The advertisements provided can be used to defray all or part of the cost associated with making VoIP communications calls. The portal can also be used to communicate with businesses for ordering products. such as ordering a pizza, and to perform various services, such as purchasing stocks. In an exemplary system, the phone appliance is used to transmit to a control center information related to the user of the phone appliance, such as interests and buying habits, and queries for receiving additional information for various advertised products and services.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventor: Ching-Yi Lin
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Patent number: 11558563Abstract: One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a collection of metadata associated with an immersive scene, identify each of a plurality of properties of the immersive scene based on the collection of metadata, receive a dynamic immersive background, receive a plurality of video streams associated with a video conference, and display each of the plurality of video streams in the immersive scene based at least in part of the plurality of properties of the immersive scene and on the dynamic immersive background.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
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Patent number: 11552812Abstract: A presentation service generates an audience interface for an electronic presentation. The audience interface may simulate an in-person presentation, including features such as a central presenter and seat locations for audience members. The audience members may select emotes which may be displayed in the audience interface. The emotes may indicate the audience members' opinion of the content being presented. The presentation service may enable chats between multiple audience members, grouping of audience members private rooms, and other virtual simulations of functions corresponding to in-person presentations.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.Inventors: Avand Amiri, Stepan Parunashvili
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Patent number: 11553159Abstract: One example method includes capturing audio data at a client engine while outputting an output video, the output video being based upon an original video stored at the client engine, delivering the captured audio data to a prediction engine upon the captured audio data being captured for a pre-determined time, receiving from the prediction engine substitute frame data used by the client engine to stitch one or more frames into the original video stored at the client engine, and following stitching the one or more frames into the output video to generate an altered output video, outputting the captured audio data and the altered video from the client engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLCInventors: Seth Jacob Rothschild, Alex Robbins
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Patent number: 11546181Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach establishes a geo-fence around a user in response to the user invoking a video conversation corresponding to a conversational context. The approach determines an action in response to detecting an entity crossing the geo-fence. The action is based on the entity and the conversational context of the video conversation. The approach invokes the action by transmitting a message to a device in proximity to the entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Shikhar Kwatra, Kiruthikalakshmi Periasamy, Aparna Seshadri
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Patent number: 11544558Abstract: A method of continual learning in an artificial intelligence system through bi-level optimization includes providing a stored data sample of a current task and providing a neural network subdivided into two parts including a parameter part and a hyper-parameter part. The method further includes performing bi-level optimization by separately training the two parts of the neural network. The neural network has been trained, prior to the bi-level optimization, on data samples of previous tasks.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ammar Shaker, Francesco Alesiani, Xiao He
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Patent number: 11545162Abstract: Provided are an audio reconstruction method and device for providing improved sound quality by reconstructing a decoding parameter or an audio signal obtained from a bitstream, by using machine learning. The audio reconstruction method includes obtaining a plurality of decoding parameters of a current frame by decoding a bitstream, determining characteristics of a second parameter included in the plurality of decoding parameters and associated with a first parameter, based on the first parameter included in the plurality of decoding parameters, obtaining a reconstructed second parameter by applying a machine learning model to at least one of the plurality of decoding parameters, the second parameter, and the characteristics of the second parameter, and decoding an audio signal, based on the reconstructed second parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho-sang Sung, Jong-hoon Jeong, Ki-hyun Choo, Eun-mi Oh, Jong-youb Ryu
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Patent number: 11546550Abstract: A method for video calling comprises, at a server computing system, receiving a plurality of segmented participant video streams from a plurality of client computing devices, each segmented participant video stream depicting a different human participant participating in a video call. One or more priority parameters for each of the plurality of human participants are recognized. One or more human participants are ranked based on a cumulative participant priority for each of the plurality of human participants. The plurality of segmented participant video streams are composited into a virtual conference view that displays each of the ranked one or more human participants at a virtual position based on their cumulative participant priority, such that human participants having higher cumulative participant priorities are displayed more prominently than human participants having lower cumulative participant priorities. The virtual conference view is sent to the plurality of client computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys
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Patent number: 11539539Abstract: Methods and apparatus for taking a break after seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for taking a break after a transition between network conferences includes operations of attending a first network conference using a first conference state and a conferencing application, and displaying Up-Next conference status about a second network conference. The method also includes operations of receiving a request to enter a break mode after joining the second network conference, joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application, and transmitting a break mode icon to participants in the second network conference.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventor: Patrick John Jensen
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Patent number: 11537356Abstract: This disclosure concerns the playback of audio, e.g. in the form of music. More particularly, the disclosure concerns the playback of streamed audio. In one example embodiment, there is a method of operating an electronic device for playback of an audio stream. While an audio stream is being played, for example at a user interface of the electronic device, a first request to adjust an energy level (e.g., a tempo) of the played audio stream is received. In response to receiving the first request, the energy level (e.g., the tempo) of the played audio stream is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Souheil Medaghri Alaoui, Miles Lennon, Kieran Del Pasqua