Patents Assigned to Facebook
  • Patent number: 11277255
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems on a chip (SOCs) that prevent side channel attacks (SCAs). The SoCs of this disclosure concurrently operate multi-round encryption and decryption datapaths according to a combined sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds. An example SoC of this disclosure includes an engine configured to encrypt transmission (Tx) channel data using a multi-round encryption datapath, and to decrypt encrypted received (Rx) channel data using a multi-round decryption datapath. The SoC further includes a security processor configured to multiplex the multi-round encryption datapath against the multi-round decryption datapath on a round-by-round basis to generate a mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds, and to control the engine to encrypt the Tx channel data and decrypt the encrypted Rx channel data according to the mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sudhir Satpathy, Wojciech Stefan Powiertowski, Neeraj Upasani
  • Patent number: 11277856
    Abstract: Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for dynamic scheduling between a head wearable display and a console is provided. The head wearable display can initiate, at a first time instance, a first downlink transmission to the console. The head wearable display can dynamically indicate, to the console, an end of the first downlink transmission, at a second time instance when transfer of data of the first downlink transmission is complete. The head wearable display can dynamically cause, relative to the second time instance, the console to begin an uplink transmission. The head wearable display can receive an indication to dynamically start a second downlink transmission, at a third time instance when transfer of data of the uplink transmission is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Lu, Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Yuting Fan
  • Patent number: 11275633
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a kernel of an operating system receives a request to store a message in a message buffer, which includes a plurality of chunks. Each chunk of the message buffer is associated with a message-occupancy indicator. The kernel determines a start and end position of the message when stored in the message buffer. The kernel determines, based on the start and end positions, whether the message, when stored, will occupy more than one chunk. Responsive to determining that the message will occupy more than one chunk, the kernel determines each chunk that will contain the message when stored. If a message occupancy-indicator associated with each chunk indicates that at least each chunk after a first chunk associated with the start position is unoccupied, the kernel stores the message in the message buffer and updates the message-occupancy indicator for each chunk containing the stored message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventor: Christoph Klee
  • Patent number: 11276215
    Abstract: An audio system in a local area providing an audio signal to a headset of a remote user is presented herein. The audio system identifies sounds from a human sound source in the local area, based in part on sounds detected within the local area. The audio system generates an audio signal for presentation to a remote user within a virtual representation of the local area based in part on a location of the remote user within the virtual representation of the local area relative to a virtual representation of the human sound source within the virtual representation of the local area. The audio system provides the audio signal to a headset of the remote user, wherein the headset presents the audio signal as part of the virtual representation of the local area to the remote user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nadav Grossinger, Robert Hasbun
  • Patent number: 11270487
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a muscle group engaged by a user to execute a predefined body action by (1) capturing a set of images of the user while the user executes the predefined body action, and (2) associating a feature of a body of the user with the muscle group based on the predefined body action and the set of images. The method may also include determining, based on the set of images, a set of parameters associated with the user, the muscle group, and the predefined body action. The method may also include directing a computer-generated avatar that represents the body of the user to produce the predefined body action in accordance with the set of parameters. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Arthur Hugh Steptoe, Michael Andrew Howard, Melinda Ozel, Giovanni F. Nakpil, Timothy Naylor
  • Patent number: 11272171
    Abstract: A system can include one or more processors configured to execute a first object tracker to detect one or more objects in images received via a sensor of a device, monitor one or more metrics of the first object tracker, determine that the one or more metrics do not meet a criteria corresponding to a profile of the device, and use, responsive to the determination, a second object tracker instead of the first object tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Ojha, Dony George, Daniel Berhane Worku, Merlyn Deng
  • Patent number: 11270468
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method involves accessing a first pixel block of an image, the first pixel block comprising pixels, each associated with three color values, determining whether to separately or jointly encode the three color values of each of the pixels of the first pixel block, determining that the three color values of each of the pixels in the first pixel block are to be jointly encoded based on (1) determining, based on the three color values of each of the pixels, a line defined within a three-dimensional coordinate system in which each of the pixels is represented as a three-dimensional point and (2) determining that the line satisfies a predetermined criteria, and encoding the three color values of each of the pixels in the first pixel block as a single quantized value based on a projection of the three-dimensional point associated with that pixel onto the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Cheng Chang, Richard Webb, Richard Lawrence Greene
  • Patent number: 11272137
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include modifying text associated with a sequence of images or a video sequence to thereby generate new text and overlaying the new text as captions in the video sequence. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving a sequence of images associated with a scene occurring over a time period; receiving audio data of speech uttered during the time period; transcribing into text the audio data of the speech, wherein the text includes a sequence of original words; associating a timestamp with each of the original words during the time period; generating, responsive to input, a sequence of new words; and generating a new sequence of images by overlaying each of the new words on one or more of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Charles Cheung, Marc Layne Hemeon, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 11269131
    Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a first optical element configured to output an elliptically polarized light having one or more predetermined polarization ellipse parameters. The optical device also includes a second optical element including a birefringent material with a chirality, and configured to receive the elliptically polarized light from the first optical element and reflect the elliptically polarized light as a circularly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Fenglin Peng, Junren Wang, Yuge Huang, Lu Lu, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Barry David Silverstein, Yu-Jen Wang, Yun-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11269777
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system may include a memory unit, a first processing unit configured to write data into a memory region of the memory unit, a second processing unit configured to read data from the memory region, a first control unit configured to control the first processing unit's access to the memory unit and, and a second control unit configured to control the second processing unit's access to the memory unit. The second control unit may be configured to obtain, from the first control unit, a first memory address associated with a data writing process of the first processing unit, receive a read request from the second processing unit, the read request having an associated second memory address, and delay execution of the read request based on a comparison of the first memory address and the second memory address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Vlad Fruchter, Richard Lawrence Greene, Hideo Tamama
  • Patent number: 11269406
    Abstract: A method for calibrating eye tracking data for a head wearable optical device includes receiving eye tracking data from an imaging device oriented towards a combiner. The method includes determining a gaze direction of an eye of a user based on the eye tracking data. The method includes receiving calibration data from the imaging device that includes an indication of positions of one or more calibration indicators. The method includes determining the gaze direction based at least in part on the calibration data received from the imaging device (or factors adjusted by the calibration data).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Kirk Erik Burgess, Javier San Agustin Lopez
  • Patent number: 11265721
    Abstract: The disclosure describes artificial reality (AR) systems and techniques that enable secure, privacy-preserving device attestation and mutual authentication of multiple devices used concurrently within a multi-device AR system. For example, an AR system comprises a security server configured to generate a pairing certificate that includes information identifying a plurality of devices to be operationally paired with each other. The AR system comprises a peripheral device configured to receive one or more inputs from a user of the AR system, wherein the peripheral device is configured to store the pairing certificate in a non-volatile memory (NVM) of the peripheral device for authenticating the peripheral device and a head-mounted display (HMD) for pairing. The AR system comprises the HMD configured to output artificial reality content, wherein the HMD is configured to store the pairing certificate in a NVM of the HMD for authenticating the HMD device and the peripheral device for pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Sudhir Satpathy
  • Patent number: 11262487
    Abstract: The disclosed liquid lens array may include a plurality of independently operable array sections, each of which may include (1) a transparent base layer, (2) an aperture plate overlapping the transparent base layer, the aperture plate defining a plurality of apertures extending through the aperture plate between an inner surface of the aperture plate facing the transparent base layer and an outer surface of the aperture plate, and (3) a liquid reservoir disposed between the base layer and the aperture plate. The liquid lens array may also include driving circuit for operating at least one array section of the plurality of array sections to change liquid volumes extending from the liquid reservoir at least partially through the apertures defined in the aperture plate of the at least one array section. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Kirk Erik Burgess
  • Patent number: 11262650
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method of fabricating a nano-sized structure in a resin element by nanoimprint lithography (NIL). The method reduces adhesive failure during NIL demolding by inhibiting polymerization at the interface between the resin element and the template. The method includes depositing a layer of polymerization inhibiting compound onto a surface of the template. The layer of polymerization inhibiting compound has a thickness no more than 10 nanometers. A surface of the template has a nano-sized pattern that mirrors that nano-sized structure. The method further includes pressing the template onto the resin element (or the resin element onto the template) to form the nano-sized structure in the resin element. The process also includes curing the resin element after forming the nano-sized structure and removing the template from the resin element after curing the resin element. The polymerization inhibiting compound prevents adhesive failure during the removing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lane, Tingling Rao
  • Patent number: 11265980
    Abstract: A device includes a plurality of first LEDs, a plurality of second LEDs, at least one controllable current source that is configured to generate at least one bias current for driving the plurality of first LEDs and the plurality of second LEDs, and a plurality of measurement circuits, each of which is configured to measure a current-voltage (I-V) performance characteristic of at least one of the plurality of first LEDs. A property of a first bias current of the at least one bias current is determined as a function of at least two measurements of the I-V performance characteristic of the at least one of the plurality of first LEDs, and the at least two measurements of the I-V performance characteristic are acquired while the first bias current is applied to the at least one of the plurality of first LEDs and the plurality of second LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Yee, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, William Thomas Blank, Ilias Pappas
  • Patent number: D945439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Babayeva, Elizabeth Johnson
  • Patent number: D945440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Choi, Yo-Tzu Yeh
  • Patent number: D945456
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Brennessl, Benjamin John Parfitt, Robert William Hanley
  • Patent number: D945457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Brennessl, Benjamin John Parfitt, Robert William Hanley
  • Patent number: D945458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Brennessl, Benjamin John Parfitt, Robert William Hanley