Patents Assigned to GOOGLE
  • Patent number: 12197721
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to prediction and assistive techniques using a multi-region graphical keyboard interface. In particular, the system can present, on a display of a computing device, a graphical keyboard having a plurality of key regions. The plurality of key regions can include a first key region having a first set of keys and a second key region having a second set of keys. Additionally, the system can receive a first input selecting a first selected region from the plurality of key regions. Moreover, the system can determine, based at least in part on the first input, a first suggestion and a second suggestion. Furthermore, in response to the first input, the system can present, on the display of the computing device, an updated graphical keyboard having the plurality of key regions and a suggestion region. The suggestion region includes the first suggestion and the second suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Zebedee Pedersen
  • Patent number: 12198001
    Abstract: Systems and methods for balanced inductive and capacitive coupling for quantum circuits are provided. A quantum circuit can include a qubit structure comprising an inductor and at least a first portion of a qubit capacitor. The quantum circuit can further include a ground, and a second portion of the qubit capacitor coupled to the ground. The quantum circuit can further include a readout resonator configured to measure a state of the qubit structure. The quantum circuit can further include a capacitive coupling between the readout resonator and the qubit structure and an inductive coupling between the readout resonator and the inductor of the qubit structure. A coupling strength of the inductive coupling and a coupling strength of the capacitive coupling can be approximately equal in magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Sank
  • Patent number: 12201038
    Abstract: Superconducting tunnel junctions for use in, for instance, quantum processors are provided. In one example, a method can include forming a first superconducting layer on a substrate, the first superconducting layer comprising aluminum. The method can include forming a dielectric layer on the first superconducting layer. The method can include forming a trench structure in the dielectric layer. The method can include forming a crystalline dielectric layer having a spinel crystal structure in the trench structure. The method can include forming a second superconducting layer on the crystalline dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: David Kirtland Fork
  • Patent number: 12199956
    Abstract: An encoding method for enabling privacy-preserving aggregation of private data can include obtaining private data including a private value, determining a probabilistic status defining one of a first condition and a second condition, producing a multiset including a plurality of multiset values, and providing the multiset for aggregation with a plurality of additional multisets respectively generated for a plurality of additional private values. In response to the probabilistic status having the first condition, the plurality of multiset values is based at least in part on the private value, and in response to the probabilistic status having the second condition, the plurality of multiset values is a noise message. The noise message is produced based at least in part on a noise distribution that comprises a discretization of a continuous unimodal distribution supported on a range from zero to a number of multiset values included in the plurality of multiset values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Badih Ghazi, Noah Zeger Golowich, Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Pasin Manurangsi, Ameya Avinash Velingker, Rasmus Pagh
  • Patent number: 12197406
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing suggestions within a document. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining textual input provided to a document editing application by a user device, the textual input being provided to the document editing application for inclusion in a document; identifying performance measures associated with the current editing session for the document, each performance measure being based on session data obtained from the user device during a document editing session, the session data being for the textual input and prior text that was included in the document prior to the textual input; providing the performance measures as input to a suggestion model that was trained using historical performance measures identified in performance logs for historical document editing sessions of users; and throttling textual suggestions during the current editing session based on the output of the suggestion model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maxim Gubin, Kenneth W. Dauber, Krishna Bharat, Sang Soo Sung
  • Patent number: 12197818
    Abstract: Implementations relate to an automated assistant that can automate repeatedly performed procedures. The automation can involve communicating with different users, organizations, and/or other automated assistants. The automated assistant, with prior permission from respective user(s), can detect repeated performance of a particular series of manually initiated computational actions. Based on this determination, the automated assistant can determine automated assistant computational action(s) that can be performed by the automated assistant in order to reduce latency in performing a procedure, reduce quantity and/or size of transmissions in performing the procedure, and/or reduce an amount of client device resources required for performing the procedure. Such actions can include communicating with an additional automated assistant that may be associated with another user and/or organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 12199783
    Abstract: Implementations relate to an application that can bias automatic speech recognition for meetings using data that may be associated with the meeting and/or meeting participants. A transcription of inputs provided during a meeting can additionally and/or alternatively be processed to determine whether the inputs should be incorporated into a meeting document, which can provide a summary for the meeting. In some instances, entries into a meeting document can be designated as action items, and those action items can optionally have conditions for reminding meeting participants about the action items and/or for determining whether an action item has been fulfilled. In this way, various tasks that may typically be manually performed by meeting participants, such as creating a meeting summary, can be automated in a more accurate manner. This can preserve resources that may otherwise be wasted during video conferences, in-person meetings, and/or other gatherings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Olivier Siohan, Takaki Makino, Joshua Maynez, Ryan Mcdonald, Benyah Shaparenko, Joseph Nelson, Kishan Sachdeva, Basilio Garcia
  • Patent number: 12198203
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a plurality of videos, each of the videos include audio content and video content served by a content sharing platform via a network; determining whether a video in the plurality of videos is suitable for an audio-only mode based on whether an amount of movement in the video is below a certain threshold; and responsive to the determining that the video is suitable for the audio-only mode, causing the video to play on a client device in the audio-only mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Tawei Liao
  • Patent number: 12197930
    Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure is directed to user interface understanding. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to training and utilization of machine-learned models for user interface prediction and/or generation. A machine-learned interface prediction model can be pre-trained using a variety of pre-training tasks for eventual downstream task training and utilization (e.g., interface prediction, interface generation, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Srinivas Kumar Sunkara, Xiaoxue Zang, Ying Xu, Lijuan Liu, Nevan Holt Wichers, Gabriel Overholt Schubiner, Jindong Chen, Abhinav Kumar Rastogi, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Zecheng He
  • Patent number: 12197868
    Abstract: Implementations are provided for automatically mining corpus(es) of electronic video files for video clips that contain spoken utterances that are suitable usage examples to accompany or compliment dictionary definitions. These video clips may then be associated with target n-grams in a searchable database, such as a database underlying an online dictionary. In various implementations, a set of candidate video clips in which a target n-gram is uttered in a target context may be identified from a corpus of electronic video files. For each candidate video clip of the set, pre-existing manual subtitles associated with the candidate video clip may be compared to text generated based on speech recognition processing of an audio portion of the candidate video clip. Based at least in part on the comparing, a measure of suitability as a dictionary usage example may be calculated for the candidate video clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tal Cohen, Tal Snir, Sivan Eiger, Zahi Akiva, Gadi Ben Amram, Ran Dahan, Sasha Goldshtein, Yossi Matias, Shoji Ogura
  • Patent number: 12197525
    Abstract: Techniques for presenting a search result with an improved user interface. A computer system can receive, from a user device, a request for a content item. Additionally, the system can select, based on the request, a first content item from a plurality of content items. The first content item can be associated with an organization image and an organization name of an organization. Moreover, the system can process, using one or more machine-learned model, the organization image to determine whether the organization image is acceptable to be presented in the search result. Subsequently, the system can transmit, to the user device, the first content item and the organization image to be presented in the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Senthil Kumar Hariramasamy, Omar Frazer Restom, Abhinav Gaiha, Bhavika Goyal, Rushil Grover
  • Patent number: 12197472
    Abstract: This application is directed to performing a plurality of activities each of which is performed in a respective application with content associated with a content type selected from a group consisting of television programming, online content, on-device application, information views, and other content types. Each activity is associated with a timestamp, and described using a predefined format covering an action and content associated with the action. Each of the plurality of activities is then logged into an activities log in accordance with the predefined format. A plurality of user selectable affordances are displayed concurrently in a home screen on a display of the client device. Each of the affordances is associated with one of the plurality of activities performed with associated content, and the plurality of affordances includes at least two affordances associated with two distinct activities of the plurality of activities performed by two distinct applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Laligand, Stephen Shiu Lam Leung, Justin Koh, Richard William Bragg
  • Patent number: 12188782
    Abstract: To provide dynamic generation and suggestion of map tiles, a server device receives from a user device a request for map data for a particular geographic region. The server device obtains a set of user contextual data and a set of candidate map tiles associated with the particular geographic region. The server device then selects one or more of the set of candidate map tiles based on the set of user contextual data, and transmits the one or more selected map tile to the user device for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Kevin Allekotte
  • Patent number: 12189700
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting an interface for additional content suggestion can include obtaining data descriptive of the displayed content and determining additional content associated with the displayed content. An interface can then be provided that displays data associated with the displayed content and the additional content. The interface can include a first viewing window for displaying a portion of the displayed content and a second viewing window for displaying a snippet associated with the additional content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Srikanth Jalasutram, Jia Sin Lua, Damon Chizuru Kawamoto, Jeffrey Allen Shaffer, Jacob Francis Contreras, Maurice Kenji Clarke, Ryan Michael Henbest, Chengcheng Wang
  • Patent number: 12190859
    Abstract: Generating synthesized speech audio data on behalf of a given user in a conversation. The synthesized speech audio data includes synthesized speech that incorporates textual segment(s). The textual segment(s) can include recognized text that results from processing spoken input, of the given user, using a speech recognition model and/or can include a selection of a rendered suggestion that conveys the textual segment(s). Some implementations dynamically determine one or more prosodic properties for use in speech synthesis of the textual segment, and generate the synthesized speech with the one or more determined prosodic properties. The prosodic properties can be determined based on the textual segment(s) used in speech synthesis, textual segment(s) corresponding to recent spoken input of additional participant(s), attribute(s) of relationship(s) between the given user and additional participant(s) in the conversation, and/or feature(s) of a current location for the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mark Bowers, Brian F. Allen, Nida Zada, Julie Anne Seguin
  • Patent number: 12191418
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of monolithic integration of different light emitting structures on a same substrate. In an aspect, a device for light generation is described having a substrate with one or more buffer layers made a material that includes GaN. The device also includes light emitting structures, which are epitaxially grown on a same surface of a top buffer layer of the substrate, where each light emitting structure has an active area parallel to the surface and laterally terminated, and where the active area of different light emitting structures is configured to directly generate a different color of light. The device also includes a p-doped layer disposed over the active area of each light emitting structure and made of a p-doped material that includes GaN. The device may be part of a light field display and may be connected to a backplane of the light field display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gang He, Sheila K. Hurtt
  • Patent number: 12190064
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
  • Patent number: 12192651
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating compressed images are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a multi-plane image, MPI, that represents a three-dimensional image, wherein the MPI comprises a plurality of fronto-parallel planes; splitting the MPI into a plurality of sub-volumes, wherein each sub-volume in the plurality of sub-volumes includes a subset of the plurality of fronto-parallel planes; calculating, for each sub-volume of the MPI, a depthmap; converting each depthmap to a mesh, wherein each mesh corresponds to a layer of a plurality of layers associated with a multi-depth image, MDI, to be rendered; calculating, for each layer of the plurality of layers, an image; and storing the meshes corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI and the images corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI as the MDI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Overbeck
  • Patent number: 12190891
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to management of casting requests and user inputs at a rechargeable device, which provides access to an automated assistant and is capable of rendering data that is cast from a separate device. Casting requests can be handled by the rechargeable device despite a device SoC of the rechargeable device operating in a sleep mode. Furthermore, spoken utterances provided by a user for invoking the automated assistant can also be adaptively managed by the rechargeable device in order mitigate idle power consumption by the device SoC. Such spoken utterances can be initially processed by a digital signal processor (DSP), and, based on one or more features (e.g., voice characteristic, conformity to a particular invocation phrase, etc.) of the spoken utterance, the device SoC can be initialized for an amount of time that is selected based on the features of the spoken utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrei Pascovici, Victor Lin, Jianghai Zhu, Paul Gyugyi, Shlomi Regev
  • Patent number: 12192518
    Abstract: Compressing a frame of video includes receiving a frame of a video, identifying a three dimensional (3D) object in the frame, matching the 3D object to a stored 3D object, compressing the frame of the video using a color prediction scheme based on the 3D object and the stored 3D object, and storing the compressed frame with metadata, the metadata identifying the 3D object, indicating a position of the 3D object in the frame of the video and indicating an orientation of the 3D object in the frame of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hemmer, Ameesh Makadia