Patents by Inventor Aaron Michael Donsbach
Aaron Michael Donsbach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11163813Abstract: The technology relates to selecting and displaying images captured at different points in time. As an example, a user of a computing device may view a first street level image as viewed from a particular location and oriented in a particular direction. The user may select other time periods for which similar images are available. Upon selecting a particular time period, a second street level image may be displayed concurrently with the first street level image, wherein the second street level image was captured on or around the selected time period. If the user changes the perspective of the first image an automatic change in perspective of the second image may occur.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Su Chuin Leong, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Jonathan Siegel, Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Patent number: 11159763Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
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Publication number: 20210303968Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provide feedback to a user of an image capture device that includes an artificial intelligence system that analyzes incoming image frames to, for example, determine whether to automatically capture and store the incoming frames. An example system can also, in the viewfinder portion of a user interface presented on a display, a graphical intelligence feedback indicator in association with a live video stream. The graphical intelligence feedback indicator can graphically indicate, for each of a plurality of image frames as such image frame is presented within the viewfinder portion of the user interface, a respective measure of one or more attributes of the respective scene depicted by the image frame output by the artificial intelligence system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Christopher Breithaupt, Li Zhang, Arushan Rajasekaram, Navid Shiee
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Publication number: 20210240322Abstract: A computing device can be running a current context and displaying a current interface for the current context when a communication is received on the device. The device can display an alert on a portion of a display screen in conjunction with the current interface being displayed. The alert can include information about the communication, which can allow a user to better determine whether or not the communication requires immediate attention. If the user ignores the alert, it will disappear in a specified amount of time. If the user chooses to deal with the communication, he/she can tap on the alert to bring up an overlay interface for replying to the communication without having to switch to another application specifically configured for handling (e.g., viewing, replying to) the communication. After the user replies to the communication using the overlay interface, he/she can be automatically brought back to the current interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Publication number: 20210142826Abstract: A mobile image capture device is provided that can include an image capture system operable to capture image frames and be configured to: provide a live video stream for display in a viewfinder portion of a user interface that depicts at least a portion of a current field of view of the image capture system; store a video segment from the live video stream in a temporary image buffer that includes a plurality of image frames captured by the image capture system; receive a user input that is directed to the viewfinder portion of the user interface that requests a rewind operation; and, in response to such user input, perform the rewind operation in the viewfinder portion of the user interface with respect to the video segment in which at least two of the image frames of the video segment can be provided for display in the user interface in a reverse chronological order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Donald A. Barnett, David Karam, Anton Vayvod, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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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: 10908791Abstract: A computing device can be running a current context and displaying a current interface for the current context when a communication is received on the device. The device can display an alert on a portion of a display screen in conjunction with the current interface being displayed. The alert can include information about the communication, which can allow a user to better determine whether or not the communication requires immediate attention. If the user ignores the alert, it will disappear in a specified amount of time. If the user chooses to deal with the communication, he/she can tap on the alert to bring up an overlay interface for replying to the communication without having to switch to another application specifically configured for handling (e.g., viewing, replying to) the communication. After the user replies to the communication using the overlay interface, he/she can be automatically brought back to the current interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Publication number: 20200351466Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
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Publication number: 20200278780Abstract: A computing device can be running a current context and displaying a current interface for the current context when a communication is received on the device. The device can display an alert on a portion of a display screen in conjunction with the current interface being displayed. The alert can include information about the communication, which can allow a user to better determine whether or not the communication requires immediate attention. If the user ignores the alert, it will disappear in a specified amount of time. If the user chooses to deal with the communication, he/she can tap on the alert to bring up an overlay interface for replying to the communication without having to switch to another application specifically configured for handling (e.g., viewing, replying to) the communication. After the user replies to the communication using the overlay interface, he/she can be automatically brought back to the current interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Patent number: 10732809Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. The mobile image capture device is operable to input an image into at least one neural network and to receive at least one descriptor of the desirability of a scene depicted by the image as an output of the at least one neural network. The mobile image capture device is operable to determine, based at least in part on the at least one descriptor of the desirability of the scene of the image, whether to store a second copy of such image and/or one or more contemporaneously captured images in a non-volatile memory of the mobile image capture device or to discard a first copy of such image from a temporary image buffer without storing the second copy of such image in the non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Hugh Brendan McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Emily Anne Fortuna, Divya Tyamagundlu, Jess Holbrook, Kristine Kohlhepp, Juston Payne, Krzysztof Duleba, Benjamin Vanik, Alison Lentz, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Patent number: 10728489Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
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Publication number: 20200166988Abstract: A user interface (UI) enables a user to access a set of options relating to an element of the UI by contacting a region of a touchscreen, or hovering a feature over the region, associated with that element. Upon contacting or hovering for at least a determined period of time, an arranged set of options is displayed and the user can swipe or move the feature in a specified direction to select a specific option. The options can be the same for each instance of a type of item. When a user learns the direction of one of these options, the user does not have to contact or hover long enough to bring up the menu, but can contact or hover long enough to indicate the element of interest and then perform the appropriate motion, which can cause the action to be performed without first displaying the menu.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Mark R. Privett
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Patent number: 10643385Abstract: In one aspect, a request to generate an automated tour based on a set of panoramic images is received. Each particular panoramic image is associated with geographic location information and linking information linking the particular panoramic image with one or more other panoramic images in the set. A starting panoramic image and a second panoramic image are determined based at least in part on the starting panoramic image and the linking information associated with the starting and second panoramic images. A first transition between the starting panoramic image and the second panoramic image is also determined based at least in part on the linking information for these panoramic images. Additional panoramic images as well as a second transition for between the additional panoramic images are also determined. The determined panoramic images and transitions are added to the tour according to an order of the tour.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alan Sheridan, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Joseph Filip
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Patent number: 10585567Abstract: A computing device can be running a current context and displaying a current interface for the current context when a communication is received on the device. The device can display an alert on a portion of a display screen in conjunction with the current interface being displayed. The alert can include information about the communication, which can allow a user to better determine whether or not the communication requires immediate attention. If the user ignores the alert, it will disappear in a specified amount of time. If the user chooses to deal with the communication, he/she can tap on the alert to bring up an overlay interface for replying to the communication without having to switch to another application specifically configured for handling (e.g., viewing, replying to) the communication. After the user replies to the communication using the overlay interface, he/she can be automatically brought back to the current interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach
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Patent number: 10564806Abstract: A user interface (UI) enables a user to access a set of options relating to an element of the UI by contacting a region of a touchscreen, or hovering a feature over the region, associated with that element. Upon contacting or hovering for at least a determined period of time, an arranged set of options is displayed and the user can swipe or move the feature in a specified direction to select a specific option. The options can be the same for each instance of a type of item. When a user learns the direction of one of these options, the user does not have to contact or hover long enough to bring up the menu, but can contact or hover long enough to indicate the element of interest and then perform the appropriate motion, which can cause the action to be performed without first displaying the menu.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Timothy T. Gray, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Mark R. Privett
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Patent number: D871491Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michael Robert Arens, John Lapetina, Tressa Christie Scott, Matthew Donald Wilson, Eva Ariella Siobhan Snee, Juston Payne, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Kenneth Sweet, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Natalie Naruns, Dong Rim Lee
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Patent number: D877765Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
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Patent number: D884061Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michael Robert Arens, John Lapetina, Tressa Christie Scott, Matthew Donald Wilson, Eva Ariella Siobhan Snee, Juston Payne, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Kenneth Sweet, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Natalie Naruns, Dong Rim Lee
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Patent number: D933691Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong
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Patent number: D934281Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong