Patents Assigned to Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Patent number: 12211121Abstract: Systems, methods, client devices, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing video data and video processing data to enable shared augmented reality scenes having video textures depicting participants of video calls as augmented reality (AR) effects during the video calls. For instance, the disclosed systems can establish a video call between client devices that include streaming channels (e.g., a video and audio data channel). In one or more implementations, the disclosed systems enable the client devices to transmit video processing data and video data of a participant through the streaming channel during a video call. Indeed, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems cause the client devices to utilize video data streams and video processing data to render videos as video textures within AR effects in a shared AR scene (or AR space) of the video call (e.g., to depict participants within the AR scene).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Patrick Blackburne, Michael Slater, Hannes Luc Herman Verlinde, Andrew James Senior
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Patent number: 12197362Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, determining that a bmm operation between a first activation tensor and a second activation tensor needs to be performed, collecting the second activation tensor in two blocks from activation buffers of N tensor processor units, splitting each of the two blocks of the second activation tensor into an MSB tile and an LSB tile, loading the second activation tensor to weight buffers of the N tensor processor units by filling a first entry of each weight buffer of each of the N tensor processor units with contents of the MSB tiles of the two blocks and filling a second entry of the weight buffer with contents of the LSB tiles of the two blocks, and generating a bmm result using the first activation tensor distributed in the activation buffers and the second activation tensor in the weight buffers.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Yu Hsin Chen, Liangzhen Lai, Kyong Ho Lee, Harshit Khaitan
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Patent number: 12198413Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, by an assistant xbot associated with the one or more computing systems, a user request for a content digest, retrieving one or more content objects corresponding to the user request, generating one or more slides for the one or more retrieved content objects, respectively, and providing, by the assistant xbot, instructions for presenting the content digest responsive to the request from the first user, wherein the content digest comprises the one or more slides, and wherein one or more of the slides of the content digest are removed from the content digest after a predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Brian Nelson, Vivek Natarajan, Shawn C. P. Mei, Wenhai Yang
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Patent number: 12200309Abstract: Systems and methods for social media video streaming may include (1) presenting, within a short-form video being streamed as part of a short-form video feed, a selectable theme element, indicating a theme associated with the short-form video, (2) receiving user input selecting the selectable theme element, and (3) in response to receiving the user input, presenting a digest interface of short-form videos, relating to the theme, which includes (i) sets of tiles, in which each tile corresponds to a different short-form video, organized into subthemes, and (ii) a digital social engagement element, which provides an entry point for digital social engagement relating to the theme.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Jason Holland
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Patent number: 12199934Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating an association between a graphic element and text for a messaging thread and providing an overlay including the graphic element based on providing a message to the messaging thread including the text. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive user selection of the text and the graphic element and provide the association between the text and the element to various client devices associated with the messaging thread. Accordingly, the disclosed systems provide instructions for each client device associated with the messaging thread to generate and provide an overlay for the messaging thread.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.Inventors: Manik Singh, Louis Benoit Philippe Boval, Alice Chuang LeBeau, Seyit Yilmaz, Ivan Fernando Soriano Osornio, Sateesh Kumar Srinivasan
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Patent number: 12198430Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system associated with a user, a first user request that includes a reference to a target object and one or more of an attribute or a relationship of the target object. Visual data including one or more images portraying the target object may then be accessed, and the reference may be resolved to the target object portrayed in the one or more images. Object information of the target object that corresponds to the referenced attribute or relationship of the first user request may be determined based on a visual analysis of the one or more images. Finally, responsive to receiving the first user request, the object information of the target object may be stored in a multimodal dialog state.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Satwik Kottur
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Patent number: 12190349Abstract: A user provides video data to an online system for presentation to additional users of the online system. Additionally, the user provides information to the online system identifying positions in the information capable of presenting supplemental content items, which may be sponsored, and may provide information describing a context of the video data at the various positions capable of presenting the supplemental content items. For example, the information identifies one or more times within the video data at which an advertisement is capable of being presented via the video data. Based on the information provided by the user, the online system selects supplemental content items for presentation via the video data at the identified positions and presents the selected supplemental content items to additional users viewing the video data at the identified positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Abhishek Mathur
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Patent number: 12183035Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a without-eyeglasses face scan of a subject, the without-eyeglasses face scan being a three-dimensional (3D) model of a face of the subject without eyeglasses; obtaining a with-eyeglasses face scan of the subject, the with-eyeglasses face scan being a 3D model of the subject with eyeglasses; and using the without-eyeglasses face scan and the with-eyeglasses face scan to place a 3D eyeglasses model on a face model of the subject. In some embodiments of the computer-implemented method, the 3D eyeglasses model is placed on the face model of the subject using frame placement information generated using the without-eyeglasses face scan and the with-eyeglasses face scan.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.Inventor: Shenchang Eric Chen
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Patent number: 12185501Abstract: The disclosed device may include a radio frequency (RF) component and a thermal management component establishing a thermal path with the RF component. The device may also include an RF filter electrically that is coupled to the RF component and arranged away from the thermal path. The device may further include a chassis for housing the RF component. The thermal management component and the RF filter may be positioned near an exterior of the chassis. Various other devices, apparatuses, and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Eric Udell, Kodanda Ram Reddy Engala, Granthana Kattehalli Rangaswamy, Imad Shehab, Srishti Saraswat, Farbod Tabatabai, Joseph David Volz
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Patent number: 12177416Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for using a compensating window to correct tolerance-placement effects on camera focus are provided. The system may receive a first captured image of a first test target from a surface of a target plane. The first captured image may be captured using a first lens of a camera. The system may determine a first modulation transfer function measurement for the first captured image. The system may determine that the first modulation transfer function measurement is within a threshold measurement. The system may send an alert indicative that the first lens is within the threshold measurement.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Chadwick Brian Martin, Robert Reichert
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Patent number: 12159383Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for outputting filtered visual media content items. Various aspects may include receiving an input frame of a visual media content item. Aspects may also include training a machine learning algorithm based on a dataset of bracketed images. Aspects may include configuring a neural network based on image filtering of the input frame and via a shader component of a graphics processing unit. Aspects may include determining portions of the input frame that are associated with an extent of darkness. Aspects may include performing an image enhancement operation to the portions of the input frame. Aspects may include providing instructions to display an output frame changed by the image enhancement operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Houman Meshkin, Jeong-Mo Hong
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Publication number: 20240388488Abstract: Technology for customized crest factor reduction (CFR) noise shaping includes dividing a frequency band into a plurality of regions, assigning a constellation goal for each region, the respective constellation goal for at least two regions being different, determining a CFR noise level for each region based on the constellation goal for the region and a target CFR noise level for the divided frequency band, creating a cancellation pulse based on scaling factors, and based on the cancellation pulse, applying a cancellation pulse signal on a per-region basis to generate transmission signals having the determined CFR noise level for each region. In examples, a first region has a first constellation goal and a second region has a second constellation goal, and a determined CFR noise level for the first region supports the first constellation goal and a determined CFR noise level for the second region supports the second constellation goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Djordje Tujkovic, Mohammad Janani
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Patent number: 12147047Abstract: Methods and systems for propagating light into a waveguide are provided. The system may include a light source configured to generate light. The system may include at least one mirror configured to direct the light into one or more rays of light. The system may include a Surface Relief Grating disposed on a Volume Bragg Grating. The Surface Relief Grating may receive the one or more rays of light and may diffract the one or more rays of light. The Volume Bragg Grating may be disposed on the waveguide in which the waveguide may be configured to receive the one or more rays of light from the Volume Bragg Grating and propagate the one or more rays of light throughout the waveguide such that an off-Bragg condition is exhibited by the one or more rays of light propagating through the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Jian Xu
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Patent number: 12149864Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems for incorporating a user's avatar into a real-time communication session. For example, the described systems establish a real-time communication session between two or more social networking system users. The described systems further generate a landmark map representing positioning of one of the real-time communication session participants, and transmit the landmark map with the participant's avatar to one or more recipients. On the recipient-side, the described systems render the transmitted avatar according to the landmark map. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Zhuoping Zhou, Brijesh Navin Chandra Patel, Wing Mei Cheramie Cheung, Joel Alexander Bullard, Pablo Jose Barvo, Philipp Ojha, Shu Liang, Graham Hill, Mahalia Katherine Miller
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Patent number: 12142298Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user request from a first user for generating a media montage from a client system during a dialog session with the first user, generating an initial media montage during the dialog session based on media collections associated with the first user, sending instructions for presenting the initial media montage to the client system during the dialog session, receiving a second user request from the first user from the client system during the dialog session for editing the initial media montage, generating an edited media montage from the initial media montage during the dialog session based on the second user request and a memory graph associated with the first user, and sending instructions for presenting the edited media montage to the client system during the dialog session.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.Inventors: Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Aram Markosyan, Hardik Shah
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Patent number: 12141592Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems and methods for embedding specific data into a call stack associated with an application session. For example, the systems and methods described herein can initialize a program thread that sequentially executes specialized application functions based on characters of a unique identifier to embed the unique identifier within a call stack of the application session. The systems and methods further provide the unique identifier in connection with other data sources associated with the application session such that further analysis of all data associated with the application session may be cross-referenced according to the unique identifier. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Alexander Cohen
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Patent number: D1051139Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Xue Ding, Nathan Andrew Sharp
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Patent number: D1053208Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Scott Gottesman, Patrick Francis Keenan, Aaron Albonetti, Wade Campbell, William Siemers, Annabel Strauss, Ishwarya Venkatachalam, Kevin Victor Wong
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Patent number: D1055094Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Scott Gottesman, Patrick Francis Keenan, Aaron Albonetti, Wade Campbell, William Siemers, Annabel Strauss, Ishwarya Venkatachalam, Kevin Victor Wong
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Patent number: D1059391Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Jordan Craven, Juliana Varga, Jinah Kim