Patents by Inventor Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan 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: 20240153320Abstract: Disclosed herein is a test rover apparatus, a test system and a test method using the test rover apparatus. For example, the test rover apparatus is provided with a chassis that is configured to support an object representing a mobile actor, and a motor that is coupled to at least one wheel. At least one spring is coupled between the at least one wheel and the chassis to: bias the at least one wheel to extend out of the cavity to engage an underlying surface, and compress in response to a load being applied to the top of the chassis thereby retracting the at least one wheel into the cavity. A controller is configured to control the motor to drive the at least one wheel to propel the chassis along a predetermined route that is based on simulation data and corresponds to a maneuver of the mobile actor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Thomas Daniel MCMENAMIN, JR., Raymond LEONARD, Michael BRANDL, Timothy RIGGS, Sean William SHAWGO, Dustin Ryan YAUTZ
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Patent number: 11974603Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices and cartridges for aerosol delivery devices. The cartridge comprises a mouthpiece having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the mouthpiece having an exit portal defined therethrough, a tank defining a proximal end and a closed distal end, the tank being configured to contain a liquid composition that includes a distinctive characteristic, and a heater configured to heat the liquid composition. The distal end of the mouthpiece is configured to engage the proximal end of the tank, and when the cartridge is coupled with the aerosol delivery device at least one feature of the cartridge, or at least one feature of the control device, or at least one feature of both the cartridge and the control device, provides a visual indication of a color associated with the distinctive characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Jared Aller, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Sean A. Daugherty, Michael Ryan Galloway, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Thomas Michael McKeon
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Patent number: 11974107Abstract: An electronic device is provided to detect a connection of a first wireless audio device and a second wireless audio device, identify whether a wearer of the first wireless audio device and a wearer of the second wireless audio device are different, based on a first sensor signal received from the first wireless audio device and a second sensor signal received from the second wireless audio device, execute an audio sharing mode, based on the wearer of the first wireless audio device and the wearer of the second wireless audio device being different, control configuration information about the first and the second wireless audio device that are related to a function of the audio sharing mode, and transmit audio data according to the audio sharing mode to the first wireless audio device and the second wireless audio device, based on the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Areum Ko, Nathan Robert Folkman, Sean Ryan Bornheimer, Byeongkuk Keam, Younguk Do, Jooil Sung
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Patent number: 11967793Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device and a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery device comprises a control device that includes an outer housing defining a cartridge receiving chamber, and further includes a power source and a control component, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece, a tank, a heating assembly, and a bottom cap. The mouthpiece defines an exit portal in an end thereof, and the tank is configured to contain a liquid composition therein. The cartridge is configured to be removably coupled with the receiving chamber of the control device, and the heating assembly defines a vaporization chamber and is configured to heat the liquid composition to generate an aerosol. The heating assembly comprises a substantially planar heating member and a liquid transport element, wherein the heating member is installed in a bowed orientation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Charles Jacob Novak, III, Sean A. Daugherty, Jared Aller, Michael Ryan Galloway, Justin Holt, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Steven Michael Schennum
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Patent number: 11954899Abstract: Systems and methods for training models to predict dense correspondences across images such as human images. A model may be trained using synthetic training data created from one or more 3D computer models of a subject. In addition, one or more geodesic distances derived from the surfaces of one or more of the 3D models may be used to generate one or more loss values, which may in turn be used in modifying the model's parameters during training.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Yinda Zhang, Feitong Tan, Danhang Tang, Mingsong Dou, Kaiwen Guo, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Sofien Bouaziz, Cem Keskin, Ruofei Du, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Deqing Sun
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Publication number: 20240102320Abstract: A wing lock and deployment apparatus for an air launched vehicle includes a driver acted on by a single linear actuation event. The disclosed wing lock and deployment apparatus is capable of unlocking deployable wings of an air launched vehicle, deploying deployable wings of the air launched vehicle from a stored position, and locking deployable wings of the air launched vehicle in a deployed position in sequential order with the one single linear actuation event.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Keith Ryan Hollen, Nathan Matthew Knibb, Perry T. Horst, Jonathan David Gettinger, Alexander McGregor, Everett Ryan Eaton, Michael L. Oleshchuk, Sean Craig Sundberg, Angel Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20240046618Abstract: Systems and methods for training models to predict dense correspondences across images such as human images. A model may be trained using synthetic training data created from one or more 3D computer models of a subject. In addition, one or more geodesic distances derived from the surfaces of one or more of the 3D models may be used to generate one or more loss values, which may in turn be used in modifying the model's parameters during training.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Yinda Zhang, Feitong Tan, Danhang Tang, Mingsong Dou, Kaiwen Guo, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Sofien Bouaziz, Cem Keskin, Ruofei Du, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Deqing Sun
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Publication number: 20240020915Abstract: Techniques include introducing a neural generator configured to produce novel faces that can be rendered at free camera viewpoints (e.g., at any angle with respect to the camera) and relit under an arbitrary high dynamic range (HDR) light map. A neural implicit intrinsic field takes a randomly sampled latent vector as input and produces as output per-point albedo, volume density, and reflectance properties for any queried 3D location. These outputs are aggregated via a volumetric rendering to produce low resolution albedo, diffuse shading, specular shading, and neural feature maps. The low resolution maps are then upsampled to produce high resolution maps and input into a neural renderer to produce relit images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Yinda Zhang, Feitong Tan, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Abhimitra Meka, Sergio Orts Escolano, Danhang Tang, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Jonathan James Taylor
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Patent number: 11868523Abstract: Techniques of tracking a user's gaze includes identifying a region of a display at which a gaze of a user is directed, the region including a plurality of pixels. By determining a region rather than a point, when the regions correspond to elements of a user interface, the improved technique enables a system to activate the element to which a determined region is selected. In some implementations, the system makes the determination using a classification engine including a convolutional neural network; such an engine takes as input images of the user's eye and outputs a list of probabilities that the gaze is directed to each of the regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ivana Tosic Rodgers, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Sofien Bouaziz, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Eric Aboussouan, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle
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Publication number: 20230421373Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for prevention of electronic content capture using an embedded key server module are described. A user device sends a request to a computer for media content segments. The user device receives a manifest file and the media content segments from the computer. The media content segments are encrypted using a media encryption key and initialization vector. The user device detects that the media content segments are encrypted, and generates a key request for decryption of the media content segments. A key server module embedded within a computer application creates a key response including the media encryption key and initialization vector. The user device decrypts the media content segments using the media encryption key and initialization vector in the key response. The user device generates a display of the media content segments on a screen of the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Nikolas Sean Ryan, Lucy Mort
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Publication number: 20230419600Abstract: Example embodiments relate to techniques for volumetric performance capture with neural rendering. A technique may involve initially obtaining images that depict a subject from multiple viewpoints and under various lighting conditions using a light stage and depth data corresponding to the subject using infrared cameras. A neural network may extract features of the subject from the images based on the depth data and map the features into a texture space (e.g., the UV texture space). A neural renderer can be used to generate an output image depicting the subject from a target view such that illumination of the subject in the output image aligns with the target view. The neural render may resample the features of the subject from the texture space to an image space to generate the output image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Sean Ryan Francesco FANELLO, Abhi MEKA, Rohit Kumar PANDEY, Christian HAENE, Sergio Orts ESCOLANO, Christoph RHEMANN, Paul DEBEVEC, Sofien BOUAZIZ, Thabo BEELER, Ryan OVERBECK, Peter BARNUM, Daniel ERICKSON, Philip DAVIDSON, Yinda ZHANG, Jonathan TAYLOR, Chloe LeGENDRE, Shahram IZADI
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Publication number: 20230360182Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to applying lighting models to images of objects are provided. An example method includes applying a geometry model to an input image to determine a surface orientation map indicative of a distribution of lighting on an object based on a surface geometry. The method further includes applying an environmental light estimation model to the input image to determine a direction of synthetic lighting to be applied to the input image. The method also includes applying, based on the surface orientation map and the direction of synthetic lighting, a light energy model to determine a quotient image indicative of an amount of light energy to be applied to each pixel of the input image. The method additionally includes enhancing, based on the quotient image, a portion of the input image. One or more neural networks can be trained to perform one or more of the aforementioned aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Yun-Ta Tsai, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Paul Debevec, Michael Milne, Chloe LeGendre, Jonathan Tilton Barron, Christoph Rhemann, Sofien Bouaziz, Navin Padman Sarma
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Patent number: 11810313Abstract: According to an aspect, a real-time active stereo system includes a capture system configured to capture stereo data, where the stereo data includes a first input image and a second input image, and a depth sensing computing system configured to predict a depth map. The depth sensing computing system includes a feature extractor configured to extract features from the first and second images at a plurality of resolutions, an initialization engine configured to generate a plurality of depth estimations, where each of the plurality of depth estimations corresponds to a different resolution, and a propagation engine configured to iteratively refine the plurality of depth estimations based on image warping and spatial propagation.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vladimir Tankovich, Christian Haene, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Yinda Zhang, Shahram Izadi, Sofien Bouaziz, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Sameh Khamis
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Publication number: 20230325787Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rules-based scheduling and calendaring of property maintenance tasks based on manual data inputs by a property owner or manager and external data source inputs from public records databases. A dynamic calendar of maintenance tasks may be generated and updated in real time in response to changes to the rules resulting from changing user preferences or external database updates. In preferred embodiments, the invention described herein is useful for the seamless scheduling of property maintenance tasks according to local requirements and climate and weather data and fulfillment of scheduled tasks in a timely manner. A system of the present invention ideally comprises a graphical user interface useful for data entry and calendar visualization. The methods described herein include initiating a call to action using the system, vendor selection, vendor assignments and invoicing and payment functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Aspen Ventures LimitedInventors: Sean RYAN, Patrick LYNCH
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Publication number: 20230316190Abstract: Through a workflow interface, a document management system enables a user to establish a document workflow. The document workflow establishes a set of document actions for the document management system to perform automatically in response to a request from the user. The user defines the document workflow by selecting from a set of workflow operations and specifying parameters for the selected workflow operation. The user additionally defines an approval workflow operation and a rejection workflow operation that designate document actions in the event that a document is approved or rejected, respectively. The document management system performs at least a portion of the document workflow in an order determined from the workflow interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Carlos Manuel Garrido, Andre Makram, Mohamed Gomaa, John Jason Leahy, Reetika Jain, Hailey Veronica Dhanens, Praveen Alluri, Sean-Ryan William Smith, Jeremy Michael Turinetti, Dunja Hadzimusic, Ikwuagwu Emole, Deepinder Badesha, Dania Michele Marinshaw, Megan Elizabeth Schwarz, Michelle Lam, Chadwick Taylor Roffey, Kyle Anthony Uhelski, Iqra Anjum, Aylin Selcukoglu
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Publication number: 20230315978Abstract: A document management system generates a form interface including fields that correspond to a set of document tags selected by a user. The document tags, each of which corresponds to a document term, is located in a document template. The document management system suggests fields corresponding to document terms not selected by the user, but often included in similar document templates. In response to the user's selection of at least one of the suggested fields, the document management system modifies the form interface to include the selected suggested field. After the fields in the form are completed, thus defining the document terms, the document management system generates a document with each of the terms in place of the document tags.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Carlos Manuel Garrido, Andre Makram, Mohamed Gomaa, John Jason Leahy, Reetika Jain, Hailey Veronica Dhanens, Praveen Alluri, Sean-Ryan William Smith, Jeremy Michael Turinetti, Dunja Hadzimusic, Ikwuagwu Emole, Deepinder Badesha, Dania Michele Marinshaw, Megan Elizabeth Schwarz, Michelle Lam, Chadwick Taylor Roffey, Kyle Anthony Uhelski, Iqra Anjum, Aylin Selcukoglu
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Publication number: 20230315977Abstract: A document management system generates a document template within which a user can embed document tags. Each document tag represents a term of the document. The user selects a document tag and identifies a location for the document tag within the document template. The embedded document tag adheres to formatting rules of the document template. The document management system accesses a data value corresponding to the selected document tag and generates a modified document. The modified document includes the accessed data value at the identified location, and is subject to the formatting rules of the document template.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Carlos Manuel Garrido, Andre Makram, Mohamed Gomaa, John Jason Leahy, Reetika Jain, Hailey Veronica Dhanens, Praveen Alluri, Sean-Ryan William Smith, Jeremy Michael Turinetti, Dunja Hadzimusic, Ikwuagwu Emole, Deepinder Badesha, Dania Michele Marinshaw, Megan Elizabeth Schwarz, Michelle Lam, Chadwick Taylor Roffey, Kyle Anthony Uhelski, Iqra Anjum, Aylin Selcukoglu
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Patent number: 11775620Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for blocking screenshots and screen recordings of content are disclosed. A first media content frame is received from a first computer device. It is determined that one or more user interface elements are present in the first media content frame. The user interface elements are extracted from the first media content frame. The user interface elements are converted to video. The video is encrypted to prevent screenshot capture of the one or more user interface elements present in the first media content frame by a second computer device lacking a decryption key when the video is played on a digital screen of the second computer device. A second media content frame is generated including the first media content frame overlaid by the video. The second media content frame is transmitted to the second computer device for the second media content frame to be played.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SunroomInventors: Nikolas Sean Ryan, Lucy Mort
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Publication number: 20230185884Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for blocking screenshots and screen recordings of content are disclosed. A first media content frame is received from a first computer device. It is determined that one or more user interface elements are present in the first media content frame. The user interface elements are extracted from the first media content frame. The user interface elements are converted to video. The video is encrypted to prevent screenshot capture of the one or more user interface elements present in the first media content frame by a second computer device lacking a decryption key when the video is played on a digital screen of the second computer device. A second media content frame is generated including the first media content frame overlaid by the video. The second media content frame is transmitted to the second computer device for the second media content frame to be played.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Nikolas Sean Ryan, Lucy Mort
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Publication number: 20230154051Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to encoding and/or decoding of the textures/geometry of a three-dimensional volumetric representation. An encoding computing system can obtain voxel blocks from a three-dimensional volumetric representation of an object. The encoding computing system can encode voxel blocks with a machine-learned voxel encoding model to obtain encoded voxel blocks. The encoding computing system can decode the encoded voxel blocks with a machine-learned voxel decoding model to obtain reconstructed voxel blocks. The encoding computing system can generate a reconstructed mesh representation of the object based at least in part on the one or more reconstructed voxel blocks. The encoding computing system can encode textures associated with the voxel blocks according to an encoding scheme and based at least in part on the reconstructed mesh representation of the object to obtain encoded textures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Danhang Tang, Saurabh Singh, Cem Keskin, Phillip Andrew Chou, Christian Haene, Mingsong Dou, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Jonathan Taylor, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Philip Lindsley Davidson, Yinda Zhang, Onur Gonen Guleryuz, Shahram Izadi, Sofien Bouaziz