Patents by Inventor Eric Liu
Eric Liu 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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Publication number: 20230085959Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to conserve computing resources while providing special effects that are aligned with a text source being read aloud. An example method includes identifying effects data for a text source, wherein the effects data correlates a physical effect with an audible action of a user; receiving audio data comprising a plurality of audible actions, wherein at least one of the plurality of audible actions comprises a spoken word of the text source; determining, by a processing device, that a triggering condition pertaining to the effects data and the text source is satisfied; loading content for the physical effect prior to an occurrence of the audible action, and providing the physical effect to modify an environment of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Chaitanya GHARPURE, Evan FISHER, Eric LIU, Peng YANG, Emily HOU, Victoria FANG
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Patent number: 11526671Abstract: An example method for identifying a reading location in a text source as a user reads the text source aloud includes determining phoneme data of the text source, the text source comprising a sequence of words; receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with the text source; comparing, by a processing device, the phoneme data of the text source and phoneme data of the audio data; and identifying a location in the sequence of words based on the comparing phoneme data.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chaitanya Gharpure, Evan Fisher, Eric Liu, Peng Yang, Emily Hou, Victoria Fang
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Patent number: 11504867Abstract: A razor handle with a counterbalance of a weight and/or magnet disposed therein are disclosed. The handle may include upper and lower enclosures extending between two opposing ends and may be divided into two parts: a base and an arm. The weight and/or magnet may be disposed within the base and between the upper and lower enclosures, and a horizontal length of the base may be less than the horizontal length of the arm. The counterbalance creates a center of mass of the base which is horizontally closer to a pivot surface than a center of mass of the arm. As a result, whenever a lower surface of the arm or a surface of an upper enclosure is placed in a resting position on a horizontal surface when the razor is not employed by a user, a cartridge coupled to the razor handle will not contact the horizontal surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Beauty Perspectives, LLCInventors: Daniel Jerome Sims, Yiqian Eric Liu, Hailey Hwang
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Patent number: 11501769Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enabling a computing device to provide context sensitive special effects that supplement a text source as it is read aloud. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device, audio data comprising a spoken word of a user, analyzing contextual data associated with the user, determining a match between the audio data and data of a text source; and initiating a physical effect in response to the determining the match, wherein the physical effect corresponds to the text source and is based on the contextual data.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Chaitanya Gharpure, Evan Fisher, Eric Liu, Peng Yang, Emily Hou, Victoria Fang
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Publication number: 20220341793Abstract: A flexible fiber optic temperature probe is disclosed. The probe includes a plurality of fiber optic elements, a sensing member having a first and a second end, the first end connected to distal portions of the plurality of fiber optic elements, and a flexible jacket surrounding the plurality of fiber optic elements. The flexible jacket is engaged with the sensing member to prevent relative movement between the flexible jacket and the sensing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Photon Control Inc.Inventors: Celestino Andrew BORJA, Jose Jay Ruben Joven APELES, Lewis Vernon Milino JANZEN, Eric LIU
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Patent number: 11417325Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to conserve computing resources while providing special effects that are aligned with a text source being read aloud. An example method includes identifying effects data for a text source, wherein the effects data correlates a physical effect with an audible action of a user; receiving audio data comprising a plurality of audible actions, wherein at least one of the plurality of audible actions comprises a spoken word of the text source; determining, by a processing device, a triggering condition based on the effects data and the text source; responsive to satisfying the triggering condition, loading content for the physical effect, wherein the triggering condition is satisfied prior to the occurrence of the audible action; and providing the physical effect to modify an environment of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chaitanya Gharpure, Evan Fisher, Eric Liu, Peng Yang, Emily Hou, Victoria Fang
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Patent number: 11395687Abstract: A tool useful for deploying a flip anchor connected to a cable includes a housing with a first end and a second end; and a guiding tube having a bore therethrough. The guiding tube has a proximal end releasably connected to the first end of said housing, and a distal end configured to hold said flip anchor. The housing includes a mechanism having a low resistance surface and a slider having a high friction surface facing the low resistance surface, where the slider is movable between a) a clamping position configured to clamp the cable between the low resistance surface and the high friction surface; and b) a release position configured to allow the cable to move freely on the low resistance surface. A safety button on said housing is movable between an elevated position where the safety button holds the slider in said first position, and a depressed position where the safety button releases the slider, allowing it to enter the second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: This Aebi, Daniel Andermatt, Mirko Rocci, Eric Liu
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Publication number: 20220157342Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to three-dimensional (3D) video calls where at least some participants are assigned a position in a virtual 3D space. Additional aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an automated effects engine that can A) convert a source still image into a flythrough video; B) produce a transform video that replaces portions of a source video with an alternate visual effect; and/or C) produce a switch video that automatically matches frames between multiple source videos and stiches together the videos at the match points. Further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a platform for the creation and deployment of automatic video effects that respond to lyric content and lyric timing values for audio associated with a video and/or that respond to beat types and beat timing values for audio associated with a video.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Kiryl KLIUSHKIN, Eric Liu GAN, Tali ZVI, Hannes Luc Herman VERLINDE, Michael SLATER, Franklin HO, Andrew Pitcher THOMPSON, Michelle Jia-Ying CHEUNG, Gil CARMEL, Stefan Alexandru JELER, Somayan CHAKRABARTI, Sung Kyu Robin KIM, Duylinh NGUYEN, Katherine Anne ZHU, Anaelisa ABURTO, Anthony GRISEY
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Publication number: 20220088810Abstract: A razor handle with a counterbalance of a weight and/or magnet disposed therein are disclosed. The handle may include upper and lower enclosures extending between two opposing ends and may be divided into two parts: a base and an arm. The weight and/or magnet may be disposed within the base and between the upper and lower enclosures, and a horizontal length of the base may be less than the horizontal length of the arm. The counterbalance creates a center of mass of the base which is horizontally closer to a pivot surface than a center of mass of the arm. As a result, whenever a lower surface of the arm or a surface of an upper enclosure is placed in a resting position on a horizontal surface when the razor is not employed by a user, a cartridge coupled to the razor handle will not contact the horizontal surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Daniel Jerome Sims, Yiqian Eric Liu, Hailey Hwang
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Publication number: 20220088811Abstract: A razor handle with a counterbalance of a weight and/or magnet disposed therein are disclosed. The handle may include upper and lower enclosures extending between two opposing ends and may be divided into two parts: a base and an arm. The weight and/or magnet may be disposed within the base and between the upper and lower enclosures, and a horizontal length of the base may be less than the horizontal length of the arm. The counterbalance creates a center of mass of the base which is horizontally closer to a pivot surface than a center of mass of the arm. As a result, whenever a lower surface of the arm or a surface of an upper enclosure is placed in a resting position on a horizontal surface when the razor is not employed by a user, a cartridge coupled to the razor handle will not contact the horizontal surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Daniel Jerome Sims, Yiqian Eric Liu, Hailey Hwang
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Patent number: 11249736Abstract: A method and system of evaluating a user experience (UX) design are provided. A UX design is received. All objects that are identified to be part of a background of the input UI screen are removed to create a filtered input UI screen. The input UI screen is assigned to a cluster. A target UI screen of the input screen is determined and its background removed, to create a filtered target UI cluster. The target UI screen is assigned to a cluster. The filtered input UI screen is used as an input to a deep learning model to predict a target UI cluster. The predicted target UI cluster is compared to the filtered target UI cluster based on the clustering. Upon determining that the filtered target UI cluster is similar to the target UI screen, the UX design is classified as being successful.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Huang, Shun Jiang, Peifeng Yin, Aly Megahed, Eric Liu, Guangjie Ren
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Patent number: 11138978Abstract: A method and system of automatically identifying topics of a conversation are provided. An electronic data package comprising a sequence of utterances between conversation entities is received by a computing device. Each utterance is classified to a corresponding social action. One or more utterances in the sequence are grouped into a segment based on a deep learning model. A similarity of topics between adjacent segments is determined. Upon determining that the similarity is above a predetermined threshold, the adjacent segments are grouped together. A transcript of the conversation including the grouping of the adjacent segments is stored in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Margaret Helen Szymanski, Lei Huang, Robert John Moore, Raphael Arar, Shun Jiang, Guangjie Ren, Eric Liu, Pawan Chowdhary, Chung-hao Tan, Sunhwan Lee
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Publication number: 20210304770Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for processing audio information are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving an audio stream. The audio stream may be monitored by a low power integrated circuit. The audio stream may be digitized by the low power integrated circuit. The digitized audio stream may be stored in a memory, wherein storing the digitized audio stream comprises replacing a prior digitized audio stream stored in the memory with the digitized audio stream. The low power integrated circuit may analyze the stored digitized audio stream for recognition of a keyword. The low power integrated circuit may induce a processor to enter an increased power usage state upon recognition of the keyword within the stored digitized audio stream. The stored digitized audio stream may be transmitted to a server for processing. A response received from the server based on the processed audio stream may be rendered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Eric LIU, Stefan Johannes Walter MARTI, Seung Wook KIM
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Publication number: 20210225392Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to detect when a user has discontinued reading a text source. An example method includes receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with a text source, wherein the audio data comprises a first duration and a second duration; comparing the audio data with data of the text source, wherein the first duration of the audio data corresponds with the data of the text source; calculating, by a processing device, a correspondence measure between the second duration of the audio data and the data of the text source; and responsive to determining the correspondence measure satisfies a threshold, transmitting a signal to cease comparing audio data with the data of the text source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Chaitanya GHARPURE, Evan FISHER, Eric LIU, Peng YANG, Emily HOU, Victoria FANG
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Patent number: 11069360Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for processing audio information are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving an audio stream. The audio stream may be monitored by a low power integrated circuit. The audio stream may be digitized by the low power integrated circuit. The digitized audio stream may be stored in a memory, wherein storing the digitized audio stream comprises replacing a prior digitized audio stream stored in the memory with the digitized audio stream. The low power integrated circuit may analyze the stored digitized audio stream for recognition of a keyword. The low power integrated circuit may induce a processor to enter an increased power usage state upon recognition of the keyword within the stored digitized audio stream. The stored digitized audio stream may be transmitted to a server for processing. A response received from the server based on the processed audio stream may be rendered.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Eric Liu, Stefan Johannes Walter Marti, Seung Wook Kim
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Publication number: 20210182488Abstract: The disclosure provides technology to enhance the ability of a computing device to detect a current reading location in a text source as the text source is being read aloud. An example method includes determining phoneme data of a text source, the text source comprising a sequence of words; receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with the text source; comparing, by a processing device, the phoneme data of the text source and phoneme data of the audio data; and identifying a location in the sequence of words based on the comparing phoneme data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Chaitanya GHARPURE, Evan FISHER, Eric LIU, Peng YANG, Emily HOU, Victoria FANG
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Publication number: 20210183379Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to conserve computing resources while providing special effects that are aligned with a text source being read aloud. An example method includes identifying effects data for a text source, wherein the effects data correlates a physical effect with an audible action of a user; receiving audio data comprising a plurality of audible actions, wherein at least one of the plurality of audible actions comprises a spoken word of the text source; determining, by a processing device, a triggering condition based on the effects data and the text source; responsive to satisfying the triggering condition, loading content for the physical effect, wherein the triggering condition is satisfied prior to the occurrence of the audible action; and providing the physical effect to modify an environment of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Chaitanya GHARPURE, Evan FISHER, Eric LIU, Peng YANG, Emily HOU, Victoria FANG
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Publication number: 20210183378Abstract: The disclosure provides technology for enabling a computing device to provide context sensitive special effects that supplement a text source as it is read aloud. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device, audio data comprising a spoken word of a user, analyzing contextual data associated with the user, determining a match between the audio data and data of a text source; and initiating a physical effect in response to the determining the match, wherein the physical effect corresponds to the text source and is based on the contextual data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Chaitanya GHARPURE, Evan FISHER, Eric LIU, Peng YANG, Emily HOU, Victoria FANG
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Publication number: 20210117167Abstract: A method and system of evaluating a user experience (UX) design are provided. A UX design is received. All objects that are identified to be part of a background of the input UI screen are removed to create a filtered input UI screen. The input UI screen is assigned to a cluster. A target UI screen of the input screen is determined and its background removed, to create a filtered target UI cluster. The target UI screen is assigned to a cluster. The filtered input UI screen is used as an input to a deep learning model to predict a target UI cluster. The predicted target UI cluster is compared to the filtered target UI cluster based on the clustering. Upon determining that the filtered target UI cluster is similar to the target UI screen, the UX design is classified as being successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Lei Huang, Shun Jiang, Peifeng Yin, Aly Megahed, Eric Liu, Guangjie Ren
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Patent number: 10929110Abstract: A method and system of evaluating a user experience (UX) design are provided. A UX design is received. All objects that are identified to be part of a background of the input UI screen are removed to create a filtered input UI screen. The input UI screen is assigned to a cluster. A target UI screen of the input screen is determined and its background removed, to create a filtered target UI cluster. The target UI screen is assigned to a cluster. The filtered input UI screen is used as an input to a deep learning model to predict a target UI cluster. The predicted target UI cluster is compared to the filtered target UI cluster based on the clustering. Upon determining that the filtered target UI cluster is similar to the target UI screen, the UX design is classified as being successful.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Huang, Shun Jiang, Peifeng Yin, Aly Megahed, Eric Liu, Guangjie Ren