Patents by Inventor Carsten Schwesig
Carsten Schwesig 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: 10685550Abstract: An audio device includes a sensor communicatively coupled to a processor and configured to generate a presence signal in response to detecting an object within an interaction region, a loudspeaker communicatively coupled to the processor, at least one light-emitting device that is communicatively coupled to the processor, and the processor. The processor is configured to vary light output of the at least one light-emitting device based on the presence signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Harman International Industries, IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Verbeke, Davide Di Censo, Daniel Pye, Stefan Marti, Carsten Schwesig, Hakim Raja
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Publication number: 20200150776Abstract: Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall, Durrell Grant Bevington Bishop
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Patent number: 10572027Abstract: Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall, Durrell Grant Bevington Bishop
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Patent number: 10503373Abstract: Disclosed are approaches for user interface control. In one embodiment, a method can include: indicating a highlight of a first object of a plurality of objects displayed on a display screen; accepting a signal deriving from a first gesture input of a user indicating a neutral position relative to the highlighted first object; accepting a signal deriving from a second gesture input of the user indicating a directional position at least a predetermined distance from the neutral position; and indicating, in response to the second gesture input, a movement of the highlight from the first object to a second object adjacent to the first object, and where the directional position of the second gesture input correlates to a position on the display screen of the second object relative to the first object.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Carsten Schwesig, Marvin Demerchant, Steven Friedlander, Brian Johnson, Sebrina Yeh, Hyehoon Yi, David Young
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Patent number: 10482121Abstract: A system and method for employing a user interface to facilitate user access to games. The example method includes displaying a band of plural adjacent tiles, wherein each tile represents a game, and wherein the band is scrollable in response to a specific user input; and arranging adjacent tiles based on a sorting rule, wherein the sorting rule includes arranging each tile according to a time of use and/or a time of download of a game associated with each tile. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes illustrating, via the adjacent tiles, one or more games corresponding to one or game recommendations obtained in response to accessing a social network associated with a user of the user interface. Menu selections can allow access to recommendations; access to related games; access to games based on social network usage, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig, Brian Johnson, Michael Bauerly
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Publication number: 20190287380Abstract: An audio device includes a sensor communicatively coupled to a processor and configured to generate a presence signal in response to detecting an object within an interaction region, a loudspeaker communicatively coupled to the processor, at least one light-emitting device that is communicatively coupled to the processor, and the processor. The processor is configured to vary light output of the at least one light-emitting device based on the presence signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Joseph Verbeke, Davide Di Censo, Daniel PYE, Stefan Marti, Carsten Schwesig, Hakim Raja
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Publication number: 20190179517Abstract: A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: c/o Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Shuji HIRAMATSU, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Taku SUGAWARA, Shinji KIMURA, Yumiko TANAKA, George ARRIOLA, Carsten SCHWESIG
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Patent number: 10318124Abstract: A screen generating unit 287 generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor 204. The screen generating unit 287 further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Taku Sugawara, Shinji Kimura, Yumiko Tanaka, George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig
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Patent number: 10296169Abstract: A method for interactive delivery of cloud-based content to a user viewing a display comprises displaying a main interface screen on the display. The main interface screen comprises a background, presenting selected streamed content; a foreground overlay, comprising a timeline-based cross information bar; and a header presenting a plurality of control icons. In one aspect, the background reaches the boundaries of the display, the cross information bar comprises a vertical bar, comprising a scrollable listing of content categories, and a horizontal bar, comprising a listing of representations of cloud-based content the user is authorized to access, such that when the user selects one of the content categories, the horizontal bar extends to the right from the selected category listing, and is populated with representations of content corresponding to the selected category.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Amit Nag, Daniel Myers, Benjamin Ackerman, Mathieu Verbeeck, Carsten Schwesig
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Publication number: 20190138109Abstract: Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall, Durrell Grant Bevington Bishop
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Publication number: 20190102685Abstract: Techniques for generating solutions from aural inputs include identifying, with one or more machine learning engines, a plurality of aural signals provided by two or more human speakers, at least some of the plurality of aural signals associated with a human-perceived problem; parsing, with the one or more machine learning engines, the plurality of aural signals to generate a plurality of terms, each of the terms associated with the human-perceived problem; deriving, with the one or more machine learning engines, a plurality of solution sentiments and a plurality of solution constraints from the plurality of terms; generating, with the one or more machine learning engines, at least one solution to the human-perceived problem based on the derived solution sentiments and solution constraints; and presenting the at least one solution of the human-perceived problem to the two or more human speakers through at least one of a graphical interface or an auditory interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Nicholas John Foster, Carsten Schwesig
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Publication number: 20190102827Abstract: Techniques for improving a customer experience include presenting a selectable component to a user through a graphical user interface of a computing device that is communicably coupled to a server system through a network, the selectable component particularly associated with the user, the server system associated with a vendor and including a plurality of vendor product descriptions; receiving an activation of the selectable component from the user; based on the activation, identifying a plurality of profile data associated with the user; culling the plurality of vendor product descriptions to generate, based on the plurality of profile data, a subset of vendor product descriptions from the plurality of vendor product descriptions; and presenting the subset of vendor product descriptions to the user through the graphical user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Nicholas John Foster, Carsten Schwesig
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Patent number: 10203763Abstract: Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Inventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall, Durrell Grant Bevington Bishop
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Patent number: 10088908Abstract: Gesture detection and interaction techniques are described. Object detection used to support the gestures may be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as by using radio waves as part of a radar technique. In a first example, the techniques are implemented such that one hand of a user sets a context for a gesture that is defined by another hand of the user. In another example, a gesture recognition mode is utilized. In yet another example, detection of distance is used such that the same motions may be used to different between operations performed. In a further example, split gestures are supported. In another instance, entry into a gesture recognition mode may be implemented through touch and then recognized through three-dimensional orientation and motion of that hand or another.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten Schwesig, Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall, Durrell Grant Bevington Bishop
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Publication number: 20180129375Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a user interface to allow for navigating a hierarchical menu. In one embodiment a method includes displaying a user interface including one or more menu elements, wherein each menu element is associated with a row of content titles that may be displayed by the user interface and detecting an input command associated with a menu element. The method may further include updating the display of the user interface based on the input command, wherein presentation of a row of content titles associated with the menu element is updated to allow for navigation within the row, and wherein content titles presented by the user interface for the menu element are a subset of content titles that may be accessed based on the menu element. The method may allow for bypassing one or more levels of the hierarchical menu.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: George A. Arriola, Michael P. Bauerly, Manabu Sakamoto, Carsten Schwesig, Nicholas Trotta
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Publication number: 20170329412Abstract: Systems and methods of providing gesture-based control are provided. For instance, signals indicative of a presence of a user within a first interaction zone proximate a user computing device can be received. A first feedback indication can be provided based at least in part on the signals indicative of the presence of the user in the first interaction zone. Signals indicative of a presence of the user in a second interaction zone proximate the user computing device can be received. A second feedback indication can be provided based at least in part on the signals indicative of the presence of the user in the second interaction zone. A control gesture performed by the user while in the second interaction zone can be determined. A third feedback indication can be provided based at least in part on the determined control gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Carsten Schwesig, Ivan Poupyrev, Constantin Schmidt, Reto Wettach
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Patent number: 9779097Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of controlling a user interface can include: displaying first objects in a foreground on a display screen, where each first object represents media content, and where the first objects are displayed with a first display characteristic; accepting a signal indicating user selection of one of the first objects; displaying media content for the selected object in a background on the display screen, where the media content is displayed in the background with a second display characteristic, where the second display characteristic includes a changed cinematic characteristic from the first display characteristic in order to reduce attraction of attention for the second display characteristic relative to the first display characteristic; and displaying second objects in the foreground on the display screen, where the second objects are associated with the selected object, and where the second objects are displayed with the first display characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig, Michael Bauerly
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Patent number: 9633693Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing an interface for media publishing. In one implementation, a method of publishing media data includes: accessing a media interface of a media device; capturing media data using a media capture component of said media device; storing said captured media data in a media file in storage of said media device; modifying said captured media data; and publishing said modified media data to a network server; wherein said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using said media interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Carsten Schwesig, John Poisson, Eduardo Sciammarella, Norikazu Hiraki, Ryoichi Imaizumi
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Patent number: D772253Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Taku Sugawara, Takahiro Fujii, Fumiko Hara, Carsten Schwesig, Shinji Kimura
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Patent number: D837256Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: George Arriola, George Williams, Carsten Schwesig, Corianda Rocklein, Michael Bauerly, Kenichi Yamaura, Keisuke Yanagisawa, Kou Kusanagi