Patents by Inventor Ajit Shanware

Ajit Shanware 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).

  • Patent number: 11991039
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20230155885
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20230008596
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 11539577
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 11353949
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20210377104
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 11146446
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20200272226
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10691199
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10674208
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset include initializing a rating of an audio description track of a media asset to a default value; receiving a first video frame and a second video frame of the media asset; detecting an object in the first video frame and the second video frame; determining that a difference in a characteristic of the object between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold difference; determining that an audio characteristic in a portion of the audio description track that corresponds to the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold audio characteristic; and increasing the rating of the audio description track by a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Thomas, Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10496255
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for accentuating candidate characters of strings relating to promotional content. To this end, a media guidance application may receive user input of a character through a user interface. The media guidance application may identify a plurality of strings that the character could be used to achieve, compare each string of the plurality of strings to entries of a promotional database, and identify, based on the comparing, a string that is designated as a promotional string. The media guidance application may then determine a next character of the promotional string, and may accentuate a portion of the user interface that corresponds to the next character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20190069023
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset include initializing a rating of an audio description track of a media asset to a default value; receiving a first video frame and a second video frame of the media asset; detecting an object in the first video frame and the second video frame; determining that a difference in a characteristic of the object between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold difference; determining that an audio characteristic in a portion of the audio description track that corresponds to the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold audio characteristic; and increasing the rating of the audio description track by a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: William L. Thomas, Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20180359139
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10154308
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset include initializing a rating of an audio description track of a media asset to a default value; receiving a first video frame and a second video frame of the media asset; detecting an object in the first video frame and the second video frame; determining that a difference in a characteristic of the object between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold difference; determining that an audio characteristic in a portion of the audio description track that corresponds to the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold audio characteristic; and increasing the rating of the audio description track by a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Thomas, Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20180299949
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10063408
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 10025376
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling a user to perform a full body movement while viewing a virtual reality environment on a head up displays without interfering with viewing of content on the heads up display. Specifically, a full body movement of the user is detected. In response to detecting the full body movement, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a foreground area of the user's visual field. The additional content assists the user perform the full body movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20180035163
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset include initializing a rating of an audio description track of a media asset to a default value; receiving a first video frame and a second video frame of the media asset; detecting an object in the first video frame and the second video frame; determining that a difference in a characteristic of the object between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold difference; determining that an audio characteristic in a portion of the audio description track that corresponds to the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold audio characteristic; and increasing the rating of the audio description track by a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: William L. Thomas, Ajit Shanware
  • Patent number: 9851792
    Abstract: Methods and systems for presenting additional content in virtual reality environments on heads up displays showing main content without interfering with a user's viewing of the main content. Specifically, a movement of a center of gaze of the user is detected. A visual field of the user based on the movement of the center of gaze is determined. If it is determined that the portion of the virtual reality environment in which the additional content is generated for display corresponds to a foreground area of the user's visual field, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a peripheral area of the user's visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware
  • Publication number: 20170315612
    Abstract: Methods and systems for presenting additional content in virtual reality environments on heads up displays showing main content without interfering with a user's viewing of the main content. Specifically, a movement of a center of gaze of the user is detected. A visual field of the user based on the movement of the center of gaze is determined. If it is determined that the portion of the virtual reality environment in which the additional content is generated for display corresponds to a foreground area of the user's visual field, the additional content is generated for display in a portion of the virtual reality environment corresponding to a peripheral area of the user's visual field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Ajit Shanware