Patents Assigned to Google LLC
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Patent number: 11615779Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of training data sets each associated with a respective native language and includes a plurality of respective training data samples. For each respective training data sample of each training data set in the respective native language, the method includes transliterating the corresponding transcription in the respective native script into corresponding transliterated text representing the respective native language of the corresponding audio in a target script and associating the corresponding transliterated text in the target script with the corresponding audio in the respective native language to generate a respective normalized training data sample.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Arindrima Datta, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Jesse Emond, Brian Roark
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Patent number: 11615781Abstract: A singe audio-visual automated speech recognition model for transcribing speech from audio-visual data includes an encoder frontend and a decoder. The encoder includes an attention mechanism configured to receive an audio track of the audio-visual data and a video portion of the audio-visual data. The video portion of the audio-visual data includes a plurality of video face tracks each associated with a face of a respective person. For each video face track of the plurality of video face tracks, the attention mechanism is configured to determine a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the face of the respective person associated with the video face tack includes a speaking face of the audio track. The decoder is configured to process the audio track and the video face track of the plurality of video face tracks associated with the highest confidence score to determine a speech recognition result of the audio track.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Otavio Braga
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Patent number: 11615128Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
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Patent number: 11615815Abstract: Systems and techniques for modifying a subsection of uploaded media are presented. An instruction component receives a media file and a media enhancement instruction that includes enhancement data and media interval data for a first segment of the media file. A processing component modifies the first segment of the media file associated with the media interval data based on the enhancement data to generate an edited first segment of the media file. A finalization component generates an edited version of the media file that includes the edited first segment of the media file and at least a second segment of the media file that is not modified based on the enhancement data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: David Matthew Patierno, Reed Morse, Jason Toff
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Patent number: 11616628Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for beam search pilots for paging channel communications. In some aspects, a user device receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a beam search pilot on a beam. The user device determines that a signal quality of the beam search pilot meets a signal quality threshold. Based on this determination, the user device transmits, to the base station, an indication that the beam search pilot meets the signal quality threshold. The user device then receives a paging channel communication on the beam provided by the base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Erik Richard Stauffer, Jibing Wang
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Patent number: 11617273Abstract: A voice-activated electronic device including a first portion with a first internal surface having a first attachment structure, and a second portion with a second internal surface having a second attachment structure. The first and second internal surfaces have compatible shapes that permit the first and second portions to be moved from a separated position to a joined position, where when the first portion and the second portion are in the joined position the first and second internal surfaces form a nested arrangement. The first and second attachment structures form a secure but separable connection to one another when the first and second portions are in the joined position. The first and second portions are configured to be joined securely and separated through manual human manipulation of one or both of the first portion and the second portion to move the first and second portions between separated and joined positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jung Geun Tak, Amy Martin, Willard McClellan
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Publication number: 20230086753Abstract: A data storage apparatus includes an interface and one or more processors. The interface is configured for communicating with a cloud-based object storage system 5 having a built-in versioning mechanism that assigns version numbers to objects stored therein. The one or more processors are configured to receive data for storage from one or more workloads, to store the data as objects in the cloud-based object storage system, and to 10 update and record reference counts for at least some of the objects, by forcing the built-in versioning mechanism of the cloud-based object storage system to update the version numbers so as to match the reference counts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Shahar Frank, Amir Mosek
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Publication number: 20230089035Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting notifications indicating recommended content are provided. A notification of recommended content can be provided. An indication that a user device has initiated a casting session with a display device can be received. A request for recommended content to be presented on the display device can be received. A media content item can be identified based on at least one media content item that has been previously selected by a user account associated with the user device. A notification can be generated that includes an indication of the identified media content item and a selectable input that, when selected, causes the identified media content item to begin being presented on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Justin Lewis, Richard Rapp
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Publication number: 20230090171Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further includes a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resourceType: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ilya Beyer, Manoj Sharma, Gururaj Pangal, Maurilio Cometto
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Publication number: 20230089308Abstract: A method includes receiving an input audio signal that corresponds to utterances spoken by multiple speakers. The method also includes processing the input audio to generate a transcription of the utterances and a sequence of speaker turn tokens each indicating a location of a respective speaker turn. The method also includes segmenting the input audio signal into a plurality of speaker segments based on the sequence of speaker tokens. The method also includes extracting a speaker-discriminative embedding from each speaker segment and performing spectral clustering on the speaker-discriminative embeddings to cluster the plurality of speaker segments into k classes. The method also includes assigning a respective speaker label to each speaker segment clustered into the respective class that is different than the respective speaker label assigned to the speaker segments clustered into each other class of the k classes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Quan Wang, Han Lu, Evan Clark, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Hasim Sak, Wei Xia, Taral Joglekar, Anshuman Tripathi
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Publication number: 20230088308Abstract: A method includes receiving a first facial framework and a first captured image of a face. The first facial framework corresponds to the face at a first frame and includes a first facial mesh of facial information. The method also includes projecting the first captured image onto the first facial framework and determining a facial texture corresponding to the face based on the projected first captured image. The method also includes receiving a second facial framework at a second frame that includes a second facial mesh of facial information and updating the facial texture based on the received second facial framework. The method also includes displaying the updated facial texture as a three-dimensional avatar. The three-dimensional avatar corresponds to a virtual representation of the face.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Tarek Hefny, Nicholas Reiter, Brandon Young, Arun Kandoor, Dillon Cower
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Publication number: 20230092318Abstract: A method for a proxyless protocol includes intercepting, from a client, a first Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection request requesting to establish a TCP connection between the client and a proxy for routing data to a destination server. The request includes client information and a first sequence number. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a second TCP connection request to establish a TCP connection between the client and the destination server. The second request includes a second sequence number less than the first sequence number. The method also includes intercepting, from the destination server, an acknowledgment message indicating acknowledgment of the second TCP connection request. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a proxy protocol header message with the client information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Sonny Ben-Shimon, Uri Goren, Daniel Berkovitch, Ittai Balaban, Alok Kumar, Parveen Patel, Pierre-emmanuel Ettori, Anshuman Gupta, Idan Brown, Noam Lampert
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Publication number: 20230091538Abstract: A method includes obtaining, from a server, a filter including a set of encrypted identifiers each encrypted with a server key controlled by the server. The method includes obtaining a request that requests determination of whether a query identifier is a member of a set of identifiers corresponding to the set of encrypted identifiers. The method also includes transmitting an encryption request to the server that requests the server to encrypt the query identifier. The method includes receiving, from the server, an encrypted query identifier including the query identifier encrypted by the server key and determining, using the filter, whether the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers. When the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers, the method includes reporting that the query identifier is not a member of the set of identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Kevin Yeo, Joon Young Seo, Sarvar Patel
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Publication number: 20230088718Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, devices, systems, and procedures in a computing system for capturing a configuration state of an operating system executing on a central processing unit (CPU), and offloading resource-related tasks, based on the configuration state, to a resource management unit such as a system-on-chip (SoC). The resource management unit identifies a status of each resource based on the captured configuration state of the operating system. The resource management unit then processes tasks associated with the status of the resources, such as modifying a clock rate of a clocked component in the computing system. This can alleviate the CPU from processing those tasks thereby improving overall computing system performance and dynamics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Alex Levin, Todd Alan Broch, Derek Basehore
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Patent number: 11609611Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processor; a memory; first and second body portions coupled to each other by a hinge having a single rotation axis; a flexible display attached to at least one of the first or second body portions, the flexible display having parallel edges, the first body portion covering first opposing portions of the parallel edges, the second body portion covering second opposing portions of the parallel edges; and a flexible cover attached to the first body portion, the flexible cover extending to the second body portion and covering third opposing portions of the parallel edges.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Tsung Peng Lin
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Patent number: 11611806Abstract: Systems and methods of image searching include receiving content, receiving a request to select an image from content, selecting a plurality of items in the image, retrieving information about the selected item, and providing display data based on the retrieved information.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Jason Witenstein-Weaver
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Patent number: 11609943Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content based on context are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, in a single resource, multiple different content item slots that are available for presentation of multiple different content items. A determination is made that a first content item slot is located in a first portion of the single resource, and that a second content item slot is located in a second different portion of the resource. A first content item is selected for presentation in the first content item slot based on terms that correspond to a first topic of the first portion of the resource. A second content item is selected for presentation in the second content item slot based on terms that correspond to a second topic of the second portion of the resource.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Martin B. Freund
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Patent number: 11610586Abstract: A method includes receiving a speech recognition result, and using a confidence estimation module (CEM), for each sub-word unit in a sequence of hypothesized sub-word units for the speech recognition result: obtaining a respective confidence embedding that represents a set of confidence features; generating, using a first attention mechanism, a confidence feature vector; generating, using a second attention mechanism, an acoustic context vector; and generating, as output from an output layer of the CEM, a respective confidence output score for each corresponding sub-word unit based on the confidence feature vector and the acoustic feature vector received as input by the output layer of the CEM. For each of the one or more words formed by the sequence of hypothesized sub-word units, the method also includes determining a respective word-level confidence score for the word. The method also includes determining an utterance-level confidence score by aggregating the word-level confidence scores.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: David Qiu, Qiujia Li, Yanzhang He, Yu Zhang, Bo Li, Liangliang Cao, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Deepti Bhatia, Wei Li, Ke Hu, Tara Sainath, Ian Mcgraw
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Patent number: 11611734Abstract: An electronic device can include a first image sensor configured to capture a first image of a field of view and a second image sensor configured to capture a second image of the field of view. The electronic device can include a color filter adjacent to the second image sensor such that the field of view is viewable by the second image sensor through the color filter. The first image can have a first pixel resolution. The second image can have a second pixel resolution. The electronic device can include a controller configured to determine a third image based on luminance content of the first image and color content of the second image. The third image can have a third pixel resolution indicative of a spatial resolution of the first image and a spectral resolution of the second image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sam D'Amico, Xiaoyu Miao, Babak Parviz
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Patent number: 11609684Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Christopher Charles Burns, George Alban Heitz, III, James Edward Stewart, Cameron Hill, Seungho Yang, Joe Delone Venters, William Alex Finlayson, Carsten Hinz, Timothy Samuel Psiaki, Nathan Scott Klee, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Kevin James Avery, Lawrence W. Neal, Martin Davidsson