Patents Examined by Nicholas Augustine
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Patent number: 11673043Abstract: A movement direction of a moving object moving in a virtual space is changed based on at least a component in a first axial direction of a coordinate change of a user's input continuously performed and indicating a coordinate input, with reference to a first reference coordinate point determined by the user's input. A game operation different from a movement of the moving object in the virtual space is determined based on at least a component of the user's input in a second axial direction different from the first axial direction, and is executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yugo Hayashi, Issei Takahashi, Shigeto Murata, Shinya Nakano
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Patent number: 11669760Abstract: A system for predicting remaining useful life of a component implements a set of estimation models that generate future damage estimates for the component. The system detects damage to the component and estimates the magnitude of the current damaged. An error processor estimates the between each future damage estimate and the magnitude of current damage. A weight calculator calculates weights for the future damage estimates, wherein each weight is inversely proportional to the error. A fusion processor applies the weights respectively to future damage estimates of the estimators and combines the weighted future damage estimates.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventor: Kai F. Goebel
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Patent number: 11662812Abstract: The disclosed eye-tracking systems may include a visible light display having visible light pixels, at least one infrared pixel positioned within bounds of the visible light display, and an infrared sensor positioned and configured to detect infrared light originating from the at least one infrared pixel and reflected from an eye of the user. Related head-mounted display systems and methods for eye tracking are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew Wyman MacDonald, Dmitri Model, Mohammadhossein Daraeihajitooel, Javier San Agustin Lopez, Kirk Erik Burgess, Mohamed Hegazy, Scott Robert Ramsby, Sebastian Sztuk, Robert Dale Cavin
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Patent number: 11650729Abstract: Systems and methods for color selection are provided. A user device displays room types on a display, receives a room type selection indicating a particular room type, displays types of feelings, and receives a type of feeling selection indicating a particular type of feeling. The user device accesses a lookup table that associates the room types and types of feelings with paint colors such that each possible combination of room type and type of feeling is associated with a subset of paint colors. The user device determines the associated subset of paint colors in the lookup table for the combination of the particular room type and the particular type of feeling and displays the associated subset of paint colors as recommended paint colors for the combination of the particular room type and the particular type of feeling on the display of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Behr Process CorporationInventors: Damien Reynolds, Tanuja Singeetham
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Patent number: 11638147Abstract: Providing a method for secure collaboration amongst professionals so that the contents of a collaborative work session are only seen and accessed by those professionals who are authorized to view the contents. A privacy-preserving whiteboard device, along with a set of Augmented Reality (AR) Headsets that are securely and communicatively connected to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device are used to ensure the confidentiality of the contents of the collaboration session.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Allison Irvin, Filiz Isabell Kiral, Lenin Mehedy, Nicholas Waywood
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Patent number: 11630916Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for providing privacy in a virtual space. The method of providing privacy in a virtual space includes setting a privacy distance for guaranteeing a personal space of a user agent in a virtual space, and filtering information exposable to the user agent in the virtual space based on the privacy distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: PIAMOND CORP.Inventor: Doo Geon Hwang
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Patent number: 11632454Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining when to cease capturing video via a head-worn wearable device. The method includes capturing, via a head-worn wearable device that includes a camera, video data. The method further includes, while capturing the video data, monitoring sensor data indicating one or both of (i) a position of the head-worn wearable device and (ii) a position of a wrist-wearable device that is communicatively coupled with the head-worn device to determine when to cease capturing the video data. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that at least some of the sensor data indicates that one or both of (i) a video-capturing precondition is not present at the head-worn wearable device and (ii) a video-viewing precondition is present at the wrist-wearable device, ceasing to capture the video data and causing the video data to be displayed on a display of the wrist-wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Willy Huang, David Sven Woodland, Hind Hobeika, Benjamin Neal Bethurum
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Patent number: 11620799Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for enabling gesture interaction with invisible virtual objects. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium includes instructions to cause a processor to receive image data captured by at least one image sensor of a wearable extended reality appliance in a field of view; display a plurality of virtual objects in a portion of the field of view; receive a selection of a specific physical object; receive a selection of a specific virtual object; dock the specific virtual object with the specific physical object; when the specific physical object and the specific virtual object are outside the portion of the field of view such that the specific virtual object is invisible to a user of the wearable extended reality appliance, receive a gesture input indicating interaction with the specific virtual object; and cause an output associated with the specific virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Multinarity LtdInventors: Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan, Orit Dolev, Doron Assayas Terre
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Patent number: 11612341Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality based system for assessment and measurement of reaction time is disclosed. In various embodiments the system, methods, and computer program products relate to assessing and measuring a reaction time of a patient/user in virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) environments. The VR/AR system may provide a sensory stimulus to the patient/user in the VR/AR environment, determine a plurality of motion parameters, and determine a reaction time based on the plurality of motion parameters by applying a time window selection model. In various embodiments, a time window shrinkage model may be applied after the time window selection model.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: XR Health IL LTDInventors: Tal Arbel, Gili Karni, Omer Weissberger
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Patent number: 11615238Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating digital designs according to search queries. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may present a first template associated with a first online service, and a second template associated with a second online service. The electronic device may facilitate a search using inputted keywords, and identify a set of images and/or design elements according to the search. The electronic device may modify the first template and/or the second template by incorporating various of the images and/or design elements. A user may select different functionalities associated with the modified templates, including selecting digital design for an online service, such as a social media site and/or an online video conferencing site.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBHInventors: Christina Kayastha, Brian Hanechak
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Patent number: 11614374Abstract: A data display method of a test instrument for a rivet nut setting tool is disclosed. When the rivet nut setting tool is operated, a value of a pull force detected by the pull-force detector is transmitted to the first display area through a circuit module, and a first display area displays variation of the value of the detected pull force in waveform, and the first display area also displays an upper-limit waveform value, a waveform data unit, a current value and a historical maximum value; when the rivet nut setting tool is operated continuously, the first display area displays a continuous waveform, and the second display area displays historical data and average values of maximum pull force values.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SOL AL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sheng-Yuan Wu
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Patent number: 11598649Abstract: A system for detecting steps of a user includes processing circuitry and a sensor configured to detect a variation of electrostatic charge of the user during a step of the user and generate a charge-variation signal. An accelerometer is configured to detect an acceleration as a consequence of the step and generate an acceleration signal. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire the charge-variation signal; acquire the acceleration signal; detect, in the charge-variation signal, a first characteristic identifying the step; detect, in the acceleration signal, a second characteristic identifying the step. If both of the first and second characteristics have been detected, the presence of the step can be validated.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.Inventors: Fabio Passaniti, Enrico Rosario Alessi
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Patent number: 11599739Abstract: A data storage unit collects and stores, for each user, data related to a “room-and-image” combination preferred by the user. A generation unit generates information which indicates a “room-and-image” relationship and in which a preference of the user is reflected by using the data collected for each user. In a case where a room image (second image) captured by the user is acquired, an image selection unit selects an image (third image) in which the preference of the user is reflected, from an image group registered in a content DB or an image group registered in a user image DB, based on the acquired second image and the information which indicates the “room-and-image” relationship, and suggests the selected image to the user. Thereby, it is possible to suggest an image which matches with the user's room and in which the preference of the user is reflected, as an image for decorating the user's room.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinji Hayashi, Kazuyuki Itagaki, Takatoshi Karino, Makoto Ozeki
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Patent number: 11595508Abstract: A method of providing content in a terminal includes obtaining a first message that is input through a user interface of the terminal that is provided by a messaging application that executes a messaging service in the terminal; generating content based on the first message, and a second message stored in the terminal; and providing the generated content via the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Young-jae Kim
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Patent number: 11585675Abstract: A map data processing method is performed at a computing device, the method including: detecting a positioning result updated in a three-dimensional space; determining a field of view area corresponding to the updated positioning result; obtaining a tile corresponding to the updated positioning result and a tile corresponding to the field of view area; dynamically loading, into an internal memory space, the tile corresponding to the updated positioning result, and the tile corresponding to the field of view area; and rendering, based on the loaded tiles, an image, in the three-dimensional space, located on the positioning result and corresponding to the field of view area.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Jiulin Zhang, Bin Li, Cheng Luo
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Patent number: 11586959Abstract: An environmental state analysis method includes obtaining key data that affects an environmental state of a designated place, and determining a degree of influence of the key data on the environmental state of the designated place according to the key data by using an analysis model. The key data includes one or more of environmental protection data, pollution source data, and environmental monitoring data. The environmental state includes one or more of a diffusion speed of harmful gas and a concentration of dust in the air.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.Inventor: Shih-Cheng Wang
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Patent number: 11567787Abstract: A server system including: a memory processor including memory; a communication link, where the memory includes prior user interface experience records (PUIER), and where each PUIER represents a user interaction with a software tool's user interface screens; a first program designed to categorize user interface experience into at least two groups, where the two groups include an experienced users and an inexperienced users group, the experienced users group includes individual experienced users, and each one of the individual experienced users demonstrates a better than average proficiency of the user software tool; a second program designed to construct a user interface experience graph from the experienced users group's interface experience with the software tool; a third program using the user interface experience graph to communicate analytics to at least one external destination, the analytics are in respect to the experienced users group's interface experience with the software tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Or-Ment LLCInventors: Ilan Yehuda Granot, Zvi Or-Bach
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Patent number: 11568307Abstract: A cognitive system (artificial intelligence) is optimized by assessing different data augmentation methods used to augment training data, and then training the system using a training set augmented by the best identified method. The augmentation methods are assessed by applying them to the same set of training data to generate different augmented training data sets. Respective instances of the cognitive system are trained with the augmented sets, and each instance is subjected to validation testing to assess its goodness. The validation testing can include multiple validation tests leading to component scores, and a combined validation score is computed as a weighted average of the component scores using respective weights for each validation test. The augmentation method corresponding to the instance having the highest combined validation score is selected as the optimum augmentation method for the particular cognitive system at hand.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jalal Mahmud, Zhe Liu
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Patent number: 11562422Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of purchasing one or more goods from a physical store through a virtual environment. The method includes obtaining one or more physical store details and one or more user details from a user device for authenticating a physical user. Further, a unique avatar indicative of a virtual user corresponding to the physical user is generated. Furthermore, the virtual environment comprising one or more virtual stores is generated from a real-time video. The virtual environment is provided to the user device. Subsequently, an optimal path for traversing the virtual user in the virtual environment is determined in real-time based on one or more shopping details and a time period associated with the one or more shopping details. Finally, the virtual user is navigated in the one or more virtual stores through the optimal path for purchasing the one or more goods.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Wipro LimitedInventors: Shashidhar Soppin, Manjunath Ramachandra Iyer, Chandrashekar Bangalore Nagaraj
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Patent number: 11563797Abstract: A visual representation may be displayed at a computing device to indicate a display configuration and/or user interactions associated with a user interface for an application that may be run on other computing devices. The visual representation of the user interface may be determined based on user interface information, which may be logged at the computing device on which the application may be run. The visual representation of the user interface may include data obtained from a remote data source. The data may include market data that may be obtained from an electronic exchange that is shared with the computing device on which the application may be run for displaying the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.Inventor: Brian M. Cordonnier