Patents Assigned to Facebook
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Patent number: 11244605Abstract: A method of fabricating an image generator for use in a display, the method comprising: fabricating a plurality of discrete ILED array chips comprising a plurality of ILED emitters configured to produce light having the same wavelength, and wherein each of the plurality of ILED array chips is configured to produce light having one of a plurality of wavelengths; positioning the plurality of discrete ILED array chips on a carrier substrate such that a plurality of ILED emitters from adjacent chips form a pixel of a display; and bonding a first surface of the plurality of ILED array chips to a driver backplane such that electrical contacts of the plurality of ILED array chips are in electrical communication with the driver backplane, wherein the driver backplane comprises electronics for driving the ILED array chips.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: William Henry, Padraig Hughes, Joseph O'Keeffe
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Patent number: 11244347Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that dynamically modify content distribution campaigns based on triggering conditions and actions. In particular, systems described herein can provide a user interface for display to a publisher device that includes a plurality of selectable options for setting triggering conditions and/or actions. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a machine learning model to generate suggested triggering conditions and/or actions for one or more content distribution campaigns of a provider. Moreover, the disclosed systems can generate custom rules based on selected triggering conditions and actions and apply the custom rules during execution of digital content campaigns. For instance, the disclosed systems can monitor performance of content campaigns, detect triggering conditions, and dynamically modify digital content campaigns based on actions corresponding to the triggering conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoxiao Ma, Ko Ching Chang, Mohamed Yasser Ahmed Hammad Nour
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Patent number: 11243448Abstract: An astigmatism compensation optical assembly includes a first liquid crystal layer disposed between opposing substrates. The astigmatism compensation optical assembly also includes a first electrode pattern disposed on at least one substrate. The first electrode pattern includes a set of parallel conductors each having a length proportional to the longest dimension of the clear aperture of the liquid crystal lens, and the parallel conductors are configured to generate a voltage distribution within the liquid crystal layer that results in the liquid crystal layer exhibiting cylindrical focal power.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Afsoon Jamali, Brian Wheelwright, Douglas Robert Lanman
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Patent number: 11244025Abstract: A computer-implemented method for updating data pipelines may include (i) identifying at least one file that defines a series of transformations for data that passes through a data pipeline, for an application, that reads from at least one input table and writes to at least one output table, (ii) designating as a development version of the data pipeline at least one additional file that comprises a modified version of the file (iii) creating an additional version of the output table, (iv) detecting an execution of the additional file, and (v) directing output data written by the file to the additional version of the output table instead of the output table in response to both detecting the execution of the additional file and determining that the additional file is designated as the development version. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Mordechai Avihail, Amir Gershman, Ahmad Eessa
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Patent number: 11243397Abstract: An optical assembly includes a partial reflector that is optically coupled with a first polarization volume holographic element. The partial reflector is capable of receiving first light having a first circular polarization and transmitting a portion of the first light having a first circular polarization. The first polarization volume holographic element is configured to receive the first portion of the first light and reflect the first portion of the first light as second light having the first circular polarization. The partial reflector is capable of receiving the second light and reflecting a first portion of the second light as third light having a second circular polarization opposite to the first polarization. The first polarization volume holographic element is configured to receive the third light having the second circular polarization and transmit the third light having the second circular polarization.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Jacques Gollier, Brian Wheelwright, Scott Charles McEldowney, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Babak Amirsolaimani, Ying Geng
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Patent number: 11245055Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for reducing the pitch between light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in an array of LEDs. According to an aspect of the invention, a device includes an array having a plurality of LEDs and a reflector that is in Ohmic contact with at least two adjacent LEDs of the plurality of LEDs. Each LED of the plurality of LEDs includes a p contact, and the reflector is physically separated from the p contact of each LED of the plurality of LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Daniel Bryce Thompson, James Small
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Patent number: 11246002Abstract: Determination of a composite acoustic parameter value for a headset is presented herein. A directionally enhanced audio signal is generated based on audio signals from an acoustic sensor array and a spatial signal enhancement filter that is directed for enhancement of a sound source. A SNR improvement value is determined based on a SNR value of the directionally enhanced audio signal and a SNR value of an audio signal from an acoustic sensor of the acoustic sensor array. The SNR improvement value is input into a model that maps SNR improvement values to spatial acoustic parameters to determine a spatial acoustic parameter. A temporal acoustic parameter is determined based on the audio signals. The composite acoustic parameter value is determined based on the spatial acoustic parameter and a temporal acoustic parameter value. Audio content presented to a user is adjusted based in part on the composite acoustic parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Jacob Ryan Donley, Paul Thomas Calamia
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Patent number: 11244483Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an indication of a reference elevation representing a plane of a real-world environment and establishing, with respect to the reference elevation, a virtual boundary for a virtual-world environment. The method may include receiving a request from a user to modify the virtual boundary and in response to the request from the user, monitoring an orientation of a direction indicator to generate orientation data. The method may also include modifying the virtual boundary based on the reference elevation and the orientation data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: John Pollard, Jimmy K. Yun, Jason Dong U K Kim
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Patent number: 11245966Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a networking system that provides a user experience in which users of the networking system can interact with user-generated digital content items to select and receive information about one or more products. In particular, the systems and methods involve identifying products shown within user-generated digital content items and associating the user-generated digital content items with the identified products. In addition, where a user selects a product shown within a digital content item, the systems and methods involve selectively identifying other user-generated digital content items for the user based on a coefficient between the user and the other user-generated digital content items. Moreover, the systems and methods involve tracking user-interactions with respect to digital content items and generating and providing a creation insight including an identification of one or more products predicted to engage users of the networking system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Sergey Markov, Fei Wang, Yi-Wei Wu, Ed Ignatius Tanghal Salvana, William Taube Schurman, Youssef Ahres
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Patent number: 11245646Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, from a client system associated with a first user, a first user input from the first user, identifying one or more entities referenced by the first user input, determining a classification of the first user input based on a machine-learning classifier model, generating several candidate conversational fillers based on the classification of the first user input and the one or more identified entities, wherein each candidate conversational filler references at least one of the one or more identified entities, ranking the candidate conversational fillers based on a relevancy of the candidate conversational filler to the first user input and a decay model hysteresis, and sending instructions for presenting a top-ranked candidate conversational filler as an initial response to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Mohsen M Agsen
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Patent number: 11245984Abstract: A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Philip Robinson, Ravish Mehra
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Patent number: 11245065Abstract: An electroactive device may include (1) an electroactive polymer element having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, (2) a primary electrode abutting the first surface, and (3) a secondary electrode abutting the second surface. The electroactive polymer element may be transformed from an initial state to a deformed state and may achieve substantially uniform strain by the application of an electrostatic field produced by a potential difference between the electrodes. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Katherine Marie Smyth
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Patent number: 11244504Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system accesses a plurality of images captured by one or more cameras from a plurality of camera poses. The computing system generates, using the plurality of images, a plurality of semantic segmentations comprising semantic information of one or more objects captured in the plurality of images. The computing system accesses a three-dimensional (3D) model of the one or more objects. The computing system determines, using the plurality of camera poses, a corresponding plurality of virtual camera poses relative to the 3D model of the one or more objects. The computing system generates a semantic 3D model by projecting the semantic information of the plurality of semantic segmentations towards the 3D model using the plurality of virtual camera poses.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Yu Fan Chen, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Lingni Ma
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Patent number: 11243743Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for an operation to be performed; determining that the operation is associated with a machine-learning algorithm, and in response, route the operation to a computing circuit; performing, at the computing circuit, the operation, including: determining a linear domain product of a first log-domain number and a second log-domain number associated with the operation based on a summation of the first log-domain number and the second log-domain number and output a third log-domain number approximating the linear domain product of the first log-domain number and the second log-domain number; converting the third log-domain number to a first linear-domain number; summing the first linear-domain number and a second linear-domain number associated with the operation, and output a third linear-domain number as the summed result.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Hoyle Johnson
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Patent number: 11244996Abstract: A device such as a micro-OLED includes a display element having a display active area disposed over a silicon backplane and a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) electrically coupled to the display element through at least one contact that extends through the silicon backplane. Through silicon via (TSV) technology may be used to form the contacts. A chip-on-flex architecture may be used to orient and attach the DDIC to the silicon backplane.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Cheonhong Kim, Richard Han Soo Cho
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Patent number: 11244494Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first distortion definition for a first color component and a second distortion definition for a second color component; generating, for a pixel, a first ray for the first color component of the pixel and a second ray for the second component of the pixel; defining trajectories for the first and second rays using the first and second distortion definitions, respectively; casting, from a viewpoint in a 3D space, the first and second rays into the 3D space using the defined trajectories; computing, for the first and second rays, a first intersection location and a second intersection location with one or more objects in the 3D space; and determining a color value for the pixel based on the first and second intersection locations.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Larry Seiler, Warren Andrew Hunt, Alexander Nankervis
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Patent number: 11238568Abstract: A method and a system for reconstructing obstructed face portions are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining off-line 3D data, being 3D data of a head of a person not wearing a face-obstructing object, being an object which obstructs a portion of the face of the person; obtaining in real time, real-time 3D data, being 3D data of said head, wherein said person wears said face-obstructing object; applying a 3D transformation to at least a portion of the off-line 3D data, based on the real-time 3D data, to yield reconstructed real time 3D data, being real-time 3D data related to the obstructed face portions; and merging the reconstructed real time 3D data into the real-time 3D data. The system may implement the aforementioned steps over a computer processor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nadav Grossinger, Emil Alon
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Patent number: 11240488Abstract: A volumetric display may include a two-dimensional display; a varifocal optical system configured to receive image light from the two-dimensional display and focus the image light; and at least one processor configured to: control the two-dimensional display to cause a plurality of sub-frames associated with an image frame to be displayed by the display, wherein each sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames includes a corresponding portion of image data associated with the image frame; and control the varifocal optical system to a corresponding focal state for each respective sub-frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Afsoon Jamali, Yang Zhao, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Lu Lu, Douglas Robert Lanman
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Patent number: D942992Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Debashish Paul
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Patent number: D942993Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Debashish Paul