Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Method and apparatus for video coding by determining intra prediction direction based on coded information of neighboring blocks
    Patent number: 11405638
    Abstract: A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder is provided. In the method, coded information of neighboring blocks of a current block is received from a coded video bitstream. The coded information includes intra prediction information of the neighboring blocks. Intra prediction information of the current block is determined based on the coded information of the neighboring blocks. An intra prediction direction mode is determined based on the intra prediction information of the current block. At least one sample of the current block is reconstructed according to the intra prediction direction mode of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Method and apparatus for power control of wireless communications
    Patent number: 11405932
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, using a first RAT, first SCI including a first priority value, and receiving, using a second RAT, second SCI including a second priority value. The method also includes determining whether to drop one of a transmission of a first physical channel derived from the first SCI and a transmission of a second physical channel derived from the second SCI based on the first priority value and the second priority value when the first physical channel overlaps the second physical channel in the time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventor: Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Device communication over television white space
    Patent number: 11405792
    Abstract: The disclosure described herein configures a multi-narrowband transceiver for communication within the television white space (TVWS) frequency spectrum using a log periodic filter, wherein the log periodic filter comprises a plurality of filter elements each having a filter frequency increasing periodically in a same frequency increasing factor (K). Each filter of the plurality of filter elements is configured to filter out second harmonics in a defined frequency range. The disclosure determines a TVWS channel for the communication and switches to a filter element of the plurality of filter elements corresponding to the determined TVWS channel. Data is transmitted and/or received over the TVWS channel using the filter element, thereby allowing narrowband communication over the TVWS channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Heping Shi, Ranveer Chandra, Tusher Chakraborty, Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Zerina Kapetanovic, Binh Ngoc Vu
  • Interlocking latch striker design
    Patent number: 11401741
    Abstract: A glove box assembly includes a surround structure having a central opening and a striker opening in the surround structure. The surround structure includes an interlock structure that is spaced inwardly from the striker opening and aligned with the striker opening. A striker is mounted in the striker opening of the surround structure adjacent the central opening. The striker includes an interlocking extension engaging the interlock structure. A glove compartment door is received in the central opening of the surround structure. The glove compartment door includes at least one latch pawl that is configured to releasably engage the striker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Qiukui Liu, Vijaykumar Hegde, Thomas Junior Luckett
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for presenting reproduced video including service object and adding additional image indicating the service object
    Patent number: 11405698
    Abstract: This information processing apparatus includes: a media reproduction unit that acquires and reproduces video data including a service object, for which a service that processes a request from a user through voice is available; and a controller that adds an additional image for informing the user about the service object to the reproduced video and saves identification information of the video data and information of a start time and an end time of the additional image, as a bookmark that is optionally selected by the user and is provided to a scene with the additional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Yuka Kiyama
  • Robotic platform with area cleaning mode
    Patent number: 11400595
    Abstract: A method and system for a robotic device comprising a propulsion mechanism to move the robotic device, a sensor, a user interface for entering service area dimension information to establish a service area proximate the robotic device, and a processing facility comprising a processor and a memory, the processing facility configured to store a set of instructions that, when executed, cause the robotic device to receive service area dimension information for the service area through the user interface, wherein the service area is determined by the service area dimension information entered into the user interface, and utilize the propulsion mechanism to move the robotic device through the service area and to perform a service task in the service area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nexus Robotics LLC
    Inventors: Larry J. Williams, Vivek Rajendran, Dharmateja Kadem, Jeffrey Blum, Manomit Bal, Britta Kathleen Ulm, Hardik Shah, Ishit Shah, David Callen, Sujith Vijaya Kumar
  • Device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles
    Patent number: 11401721
    Abstract: A device for leveling and aligning tiles and a method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment of the tile leveling device, a body defines a viewing opening. A base is orthogonally coupled to the body with a base to body coupling including a frangible breakaway section. The base and the body are integral prior to frangible separation and the frangible breakaway section, upon breaking, frangibly separates the body from the base. Respective arms are moveably connected to the body opposite the base. Each of the arms may operate from an open position to a closed position where the arm releasably mates one or more tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Acufloor, LLC
    Inventors: Clinton D. Bunch, Joshua A. Bunch
  • Below grade fluid containment
    Patent number: 11401724
    Abstract: Below grade fluid containment structures, which may include a foam floor and a foam wall extending upward from the floor, the foam wall being formed from foam panels. A granular material is provided for reducing hydraulic soil pressure against an exterior face of the foam wall that would otherwise be exerted by the soil, if the soil were allowed to be positioned up against the foam, particularly the foam wall. The well-draining granular material may be gravel, crushed stone, or the like, which provides better drainage as compared to the surrounding soil material. The interior face of the foam is coated with an elastomeric abrasion resistant impact resistant polymeric coating that seals the below grade interior space defined between the floor and the wall in a seamless water-tight configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BLUE TOMATO LLC
    Inventor: Brian D. Morrow
  • Systems and methods for image super-resolution using iterative collaborative filtering
    Patent number: 11403733
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide image resolution enhancement. For example, a method includes: receiving an original image (e.g., a visible light image) of a scene comprising image pixels identified by pixel coordinates; resizing the original image to a larger size, where the resized image is divided into a first plurality of reference blocks; enhancing a resolution of the resized image by iteratively: injecting high frequency data into the resized image, extracting from the resized image a first plurality of matching blocks that meet a mutual similarity condition with respect to the reference block, and adjusting the high frequency data of the reference block based on a correlation between the reference block and the first plurality of matching blocks. A system configured to perform such a method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Teledyne FLIR, LLC
    Inventors: Rakesh Mehta, Karen Egiazarian
  • Female hardened optical connectors for use with male plug connectors
    Patent number: 11402588
    Abstract: A female hardened fiber optic connector for terminating an end of a fiber optic cable that is suitable for making an optical connection with another hardened cable assembly and cable assemblies using the same are disclosed. The female hardened fiber optic connector includes a connector assembly, a crimp body, a connector sleeve, and female coupling housing. The connector sleeve has one or more orientation features that cooperate with one or more orientation features inside the female coupling housing. The crimp body has a first shell and a second shell for securing the connector assembly at a front end of the shells and a cable attachment region rearward of the front end for securing a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Robert Elvin Barnette, Jr., Hieu Vinh Tran
  • Interactive home system including wireless devices
    Patent number: 11402814
    Abstract: A home system can include a central control unit, which can be paired with a plurality of accessory devices including a client device. The client device can receive an instruction signal from a contactless card. An application of the client device can process the instruction signal and generate an event signal. The client device can transmit the event signal to the central control unit and the central control unit can transmit a device signal to one or more of the accessory devices. The device signal can instruct the one or more accessory devices to perform one or more tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Salik Shah, Sophie Bermudez
  • Energy management system, method of controlling one or more energy storage devices and control unit for one or more power storage units
    Patent number: 11404875
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for reducing peak energy demand and to smooth intermittent energy profiles from onsite variable energy sources and loads. Some embodiments use system level and device level analysis and optimization to adaptively adjust the operation of a behind the meter energy storage (BMES) to smooth out energy generation variabilities and follow a reference load signal, including at short time resolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Bishnu P. Bhattarai, Kurt S. Myers
  • High performance press-hardened steel assembly
    Patent number: 11400690
    Abstract: A press-hardened steel assembly after hot stamping/hot forming including a core layer having a tensile strength of ?about 1,800 megapascals to ?about 2,200 megapascals and ?about 90 volume % martensite, the core layer having a first thickness ?about 40% to ?about 96% of the thickness of the press-hardened steel assembly; and a first surface layer along a first surface of the core, the first surface layer having a tensile strength of ?about 800 megapascals to ?about 1,200 megapascals and ?about 90 volume % martensite and bainite. The press-hardened steel assembly has a tensile strength of ?about 1,600 megapascals to ?about 2,000 megapascals and a VDA 238-100 bending angle of ?about 50° to ?about 80°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Qi Lu, Jianfeng Wang
  • Quick release draper belt tensioning system
    Patent number: 11401112
    Abstract: A draper belt tensioning system having a frame, roller, control link, and tension link. The roller is movable relative to the frame. The control link has a proximal end pivotally attached to the frame, and a distal end that is remote from the proximal end. The tension link has a proximal end connected to the roller and a distal end connected to the control link at a connection location offset from a control link pivot axis. The control link is movable between a locked position in which the connection location is on a first side of the roller rotation axis and the control link pivot axis, a centered position, and an unlocked position in which the connection location is on another side of the roller rotation axis and the control link pivot axis. The control link has a greater angle in the locked position than in the unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Joel T. Cook
  • Publisher paywall and supplemental content server integration
    Patent number: 11403667
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generally to systems and methods for allowing a website publisher to integrate a website's paywall system with the website's supplemental content server system. The system and methods of the disclosure allow a publisher to offer subscriptions to customers that result in the display of fewer or no supplemental content items to paying customers while the supplemental content retrieving code remains in place for all website visitors. Additionally, the system allows website analytics to be calculated for all visitors to the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Michael Schwimmer
  • Multi-layer circuit board with traces thicker than a circuit board
    Patent number: 11406024
    Abstract: A multi-layer circuit board is formed multiple layers of a catalytic layer, each catalytic layer having an exclusion depth below a surface, where the cataltic particles are of sufficient density to provide electroless deposition in channels formed in the surface. A first catalytic layer has channels formed which are plated with electroless copper. Each subsequent catalytic layer is bonded or laminated to an underlying catalytic layer, a channel is formed which extends through the catalytic layer to an underlying electroless copper trace, and electroless copper is deposited into the channel to electrically connect with the underlying electroless copper trace. In this manner, traces may be formed which have a thickness greater than the thickness of a single catalytic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CATLAM, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Bahl
  • System and method of content selection using selection activity in digital messaging
    Patent number: 11405475
    Abstract: Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Suhas Sadanandan, Doug Sharp
  • Confectionery
    Patent number: D959089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: William M. Polak, Marissa Letinski, Kevin Wallenstein
  • Apple donut with a coating
    Patent number: D959092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: EDIBLE IP, LLC
    Inventor: Cynthia Mockler
  • Portable vehicle charger
    Patent number: D959364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Elizabeth K. Steenwyk