Patents Examined by Ruay Ho
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Patent number: 11068125Abstract: On a computing device, an overview mode is provided to present overview windows of all applications currently running on the computing device. When one or more applications are running in a windowed mode, a first overview window is generated for each of the one or more applications running in the windowed mode; when one or more applications are running in a full-screen mode, a second overview window is generated for each of the one or more applications running in the full-screen mode. The one or more first overview windows in the first space can be arranged in one or more rows in a first overview space, and the one or more second overview windows in the second space in a stack in a second overview space. The arranged overview windows may then be displayed in the overview mode of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen, Sebastien Vincent Gabriel
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Patent number: 11068288Abstract: A dialogue system includes an inquiry step of generating and outputting inquiry information, an input step of accepting a reply, and a guidance step of generating and outputting candidates of guidance information corresponding to the answer. The dialogue system includes a mode for outputting options based on the inquiry information to the touch panel and a dialogue mode for outputting comments based on the inquiry information by the touch panel or the sound output device and selects them according to the operation situation of the dialog system A mode switching step, and the inquiring step and the guiding step use the selected mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Tokuhashi, Yoshitaka Hiramatsu, Toshimitsu Takahashi, Tasuku Soga
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Patent number: 11055631Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating a set of meta-parameters used to train invariant-based anomaly detectors are provided. Data is transformed into a first set of time series data and a second set of time series data. A fitness threshold search is performed on the first set of time series data to automatically generate a fitness threshold, and a time resolution search is performed on the set of second time series data to automatically generate a time resolution. A set of meta-parameters including the fitness threshold and the time resolution are sent to one or more user devices across a network to govern the training of an invariant-based anomaly detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Inventors: Hui Zhang, Bo Zong
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Patent number: 11036802Abstract: A system is disclosed, comprising data storage and one or more computing devices. The data storage stores a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of values, each value being associated with an attribute from a plurality of attributes, and each record representing a classification rule that is satisfied if and only if each value of the plurality of values is matched by a value in a candidate query. The computing devices comprise one or more processors and non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause processors to: provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable setting a first ordering of the plurality of attributes, receive a candidate query; and based on the ordering of the plurality of attributes, automatically determine and output a best match among a set of all classification rules that are satisfied by the candidate query.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.Inventors: Max Foxell, Pete Brooks
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Patent number: 11036300Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Carlo Formichelli, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Jason Phillip Kriese, Angela Lam, Richard Leigh Mains, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Steven Michael Sommer, Nino Yuniardi
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Patent number: 11016628Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Venkata Nagesh Babu Balivada, Blair Harold Beebe, Joseph Robert Buchta, Vibhunandan Gavini, Catherine Ann Hendricks, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Santhosh Kumar Paraliyil Krishnankutty, Richard Leigh Mains, Garret Martin Miller Graaf, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Marc Anthony Salazar, Nino Yuniardi
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Patent number: 11010936Abstract: A system implementable on a computing device for handling color assignment within a complex document includes a user interface to facilitate user modification of at least one first color to at least one second color within a previously chosen color scheme for a component of the document. The color scheme has a predetermined number X of principal colors and a predetermined number Y of associated subordinate colors per principal color. The system also includes a color handler to modify the color scheme to produce an updated color scheme to match a perceived brightness of the at least one second color throughout at least a portion of the updated color scheme and a color processor to process and apply the updated color scheme at least to the component.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.Inventors: Avishai Abrahami, Giora Kaplan, Nadav Abrahami
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Patent number: 11010035Abstract: An information processing device is provided with: a display that displays a sheet on which an object can be arranged; and a controller that controls the display, in which the controller causes the display to display a thumbnail image registration field that lists a plurality of preset registration frames for registering, as a bookmark, the sheet displayed on the display, and registers the sheet displayed on the display, as the bookmark to a registration frame selected by a user from among the plurality of registration frames displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noriyoshi Kanki
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Patent number: 10990268Abstract: An operation method and a terminal device are provided for simplifying operations between applications. The method according to an embodiment includes: receiving a screen splitting instruction, splitting a screen into an original application display region and a new display region, where the new display region is configured to display history operation content and at least one application icon, receiving a target operation instruction, determining target content and a target application icon corresponding to the instruction, and transmitting the target content to an application program corresponding to the target application icon in response to the target operation instruction, where the target content is content selected in the history operation content or content selected in the original application display region.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO LTD.Inventors: Yonghao Luo, Xiaomu Zhu, Dawei Geng
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Patent number: 10976421Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed related to generating interactive user interfaces that enable a user to alter 3D point cloud data and/or associated pose graph data generated from LiDAR scans prior to generation of a high definition map. A user may make selections in a 2D map representation with overlaid graph node indicators in order to alter graph connections, remove nodes, view corresponding 3D point clouds, and otherwise edit intermediate results from LiDAR scans in order to improve the quality of a high definition map subsequently generated from the user-manipulated data.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology and Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yan Zhang, Tingbo Hou
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Patent number: 10976805Abstract: Controlling the provision of a warning to a user in a virtual environment of a virtual reality (VR) system are presented as embodiments of a method, system, and computer program product. One example comprises identifying one or more elements within a user's virtual environment. Each element is associated with a descriptor that describes an expected user behavior associated with the element. Based on the descriptor of each of the one or more identified elements, the method then comprises controlling the provision of a warning to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Richard Pilot
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Patent number: 10955938Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Timothy Thomas Gray, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Jason Phillip Kriese, Richard Leigh Mains, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Jason Glenn Silvis
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Patent number: 10936152Abstract: A method for displaying a view and a terminal device, where the method is applied to a terminal device on which a view control and at least one application are installed. The view control is a control in an operating system of the terminal device, and the method includes grouping multiple to-be-displayed objects in a first application using the view control, allocating a group identifier to each group, establishing mapping relationships between objects in each group and the group identifier of the group, generating, using the view control, a view comprising all the group identifiers and the multiple objects, displaying at least a part of the view, and preferentially displaying an object corresponding to a first group identifier when receiving a selection instruction for the first group identifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Dong Zhang
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Patent number: 10877648Abstract: The invention proposes a client device (2) having a screen (5), having a display device (6) for displaying a first image representation on said screen (5), wherein said first image representation shows an actual image section (9) in an actual selected range (10) from an image coordinate system Px, Py. The client device also has a selection device (7) which is designed to select a desired selected range (11) from the image coordinate system Px, Py, and a communications device (8) which is designed to request and receive a desired image section (12) of the desired selected range (11).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Daniel Gottschlag, Stephan Heigl
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Patent number: 10871891Abstract: An electronic device includes: a controller and a display unit having a display screen configured for displaying an output of multi-windows on which executions of a plurality of applications are displayed. When rotation of the electronic device is detected, if frame rotation information of the multi-windows are different from each other, the controller controls a rotation of the frames of the multi-windows such that the frame rotation information respectively set for the multi-windows are maintained.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Kun Choi, Ki-Dong Hong
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Patent number: 10866718Abstract: A device with one or more input devices receives a user input for scrolling through a representation of a set of assets, determines that an attribute associated with the received input is above a threshold value, and in response, sets a scrolling mode to be an accelerated navigation mode. While the scrolling mode is in the accelerated navigation mode and while scrolling through the representation of assets in accordance with the input, the device provides one or more asset subset identifiers that identify a respective subset of the assets through which the device is currently scrolling in accordance with the input.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: William Bull, Kourtny Minh Hicks, Policarpo Wood, Eric James Hope
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Patent number: 10846039Abstract: Methods are provided for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company. The utility company has an energy management system with a control panel. The energy management system is used to access one or more source displays of a site. Rubber-banding or lassoing is used to create selected areas from at least a portion of the source displays. Lists are created dynamically. Operator defined information is displayed for each element type in a list of network elements from the selected areas that have been rubber-banded or lassoed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbHInventors: Gennaro Castelli, Michael Hackett, Michael Quinn Howard, Lawrence Edmund Jones, HuiChu Su Shung, Heath Daniel Brand
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Patent number: 10845982Abstract: One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems of creating transcribed electronic communications based on sound inputs. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively send an electronic communication that includes a textual message transcribed from a sound input. Additionally, systems and methods described herein provide an analysis of a textual message transcribed from a sound input allowing users to correct an inaccurate or incorrect transcription.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin S. Langholz
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Patent number: 10839327Abstract: A measure factory for generating analytic measures includes data sets representing business activities arranged as columnar arrays with each column being associated with a distinct source rule that applies to the column when it is used as a data source. The measure factory includes factory rules that govern which operations on available data sources may be executed under what conditions in the measure factory, such as by taking into account the source rules and other applicable factory rules. A factory rule execution hierarchy governs the execution of ready factory rules that lack dependency on other factory rules before executing ready factory rules that have dependency on other factory rules. A script generation facility generates a script to process the plurality of factory rules according to the factory rule execution hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: DIMENSIONAL INSIGHT INCORPORATEDInventors: James Clark, Frederick A. Powers, Daniel J. Jablonski, Matthew J. Gorman, George M. Dealy
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Patent number: 10824327Abstract: A screen capturing method for an electronic device is provided and includes: acquiring and parsing interface information currently displayed in an electronic device to obtain information about all view controls for a specified window; parsing the information about view controls, constructing all view controls for the specified window into a view control tree, and building a presentation interface including image views corresponding to all view controls; receiving a click instruction from a user for clicking one of the image views, removing the image view clicked by the user from the presentation interface, and saving the current presentation interface when a save instruction is received; and capturing an image of the presentation interface in the current screen and saving the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Jipeng Sun