Patents by Inventor Kim Pascal Pimmel

Kim Pascal Pimmel 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).

  • Publication number: 20240134597
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for a question search for meaningful questions that appear in a video. In an example embodiment, an audio track from a video is transcribed, and the transcript is parsed to identify sentences that end with a question mark. Depending on the embodiment, one or more types of questions are filtered out, such as short questions less than a designated length or duration, logistical questions, and/or rhetorical questions. As such, in response to a command to perform a question search, the questions are identified, and search result tiles representing video segments of the questions are presented. Selecting (e.g., clicking or tapping on) a search result tile navigates a transcript interface to a corresponding portion of the transcript.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Lubomira Assenova DONTCHEVA, Anh Lan TRUONG, Hanieh DEILAMSALEHY, Kim Pascal PIMMEL, Aseem Omprakash AGARWALA, Dingzeyu Li, Joel Richard BRANDT, Joy Oakyung KIM
  • Publication number: 20240134909
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for a visual and text search interface used to navigate a video transcript. In an example embodiment, a freeform text query triggers a visual search for frames of a loaded video that match the freeform text query (e.g., frame embeddings that match a corresponding embedding of the freeform query), and triggers a text search for matching words from a corresponding transcript or from tags of detected features from the loaded video. Visual search results are displayed (e.g., in a row of tiles that can be scrolled to the left and right), and textual search results are displayed (e.g., in a row of tiles that can be scrolled up and down). Selecting (e.g., clicking or tapping on) a search result tile navigates a transcript interface to a corresponding portion of the transcript.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Lubomira Assenova DONTCHEVA, Dingzeyu LI, Kim Pascal PIMMEL, Hijung SHIN, Hanieh DEILAMSALEHY, Aseem Omprakash AGARWALA, Joy Oakyung KIM, Joel Richard BRANDT, Cristin Ailidh Fraser
  • Patent number: 10248192
    Abstract: A gaze target is recognized via an eye tracking camera. An application launcher is displayed, via a display, at the gaze target based on a user trigger. The application launcher presents a plurality of applications selectable for launching. A user selection of one of the plurality of applications is recognized. The application launcher is replaced with the selected one of the plurality of applications at the gaze target via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Taylor Lehman, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Xerxes Beharry, Ranjib Badh, Jiashi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10222981
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received from a capture device. The user's hand is spaced by an initial actual distance from the capture device, and a holographic keyboard image is displayed spatially separated by a virtual distance from a holographic hand image. The user's hand is determined to move to an updated actual distance from the capture device. In response, the holographic keyboard image is maintained spatially separated by substantially the virtual distance from the holographic hand image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
  • Publication number: 20170364261
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received from a capture device. The user's hand is spaced by an initial actual distance from the capture device, and a holographic keyboard image is displayed spatially separated by a virtual distance from a holographic hand image. The user's hand is determined to move to an updated actual distance from the capture device. In response, the holographic keyboard image is maintained spatially separated by substantially the virtual distance from the holographic hand image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
  • Patent number: 9766806
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received. Using the depth information, a holographic hand image representing the user's hand is displayed in a virtual hand plane in the holographic environment. In response to receiving a keyboard activation input from the user and using the depth information, the holographic keyboard image is adaptively displayed in a virtual keyboard plane in the holographic environment at a virtual distance under the holographic hand image representing the user's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
  • Publication number: 20160162020
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method of controlling a displayed position of an application launcher. An example method includes recognizing, via an eye-tracking camera, a gaze target, and responsive to a user trigger, displaying, via a display, an application launcher at the gaze target, the application launcher presenting a plurality of applications selectable for launching. The example method further includes recognizing a user selection of one of the plurality of applications, and replacing, via the display, the application launcher with the selected one of the plurality of applications at the gaze target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Taylor Lehman, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Xerxes Beharry, Ranjib Badh, Jiashi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160018985
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received. Using the depth information, a holographic hand image representing the user's hand is displayed in a virtual hand plane in the holographic environment. In response to receiving a keyboard activation input from the user and using the depth information, the holographic keyboard image is adaptively displayed in a virtual keyboard plane in the holographic environment at a virtual distance under the holographic hand image representing the user's hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
  • Publication number: 20130165180
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, include structures and techniques for integrating operations of consumer electronic devices. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a program operating on a second device; selecting a code set, from among multiple code sets, based on the identified program operating on the second device; modifying, at a first device, operation of an application installed on the first device by running the selected code set at the first device; and controlling a function of the program operating on the second device using the modified application on the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yohko Aurora Fukuda Kelley, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Matthew Soper Snow