Patents Assigned to Meta Platforms, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11995800
    Abstract: An image captured by an imaging device in low light conditions may cause the captured image to have poor contrast, blurring, and otherwise not display one or more objects in the image clearly. According to various aspects, systems and methods are provided for enhancing images that are captured in low light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Zhu, Liying Shen, William Scott Lamond
  • Publication number: 20240169164
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods provide technology that identifies historical data for a first user, where the historical data identifies previous posts by the first user. The technology identifying an event. The technology determines an affinity score for the first user based on the historical data and the event, determines whether the affinity score meets a threshold, and if the affinity score meets the threshold, determines one or more of a phrase or an effect to present to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Giridhar RAJARAM
  • Publication number: 20240160543
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods provide technology that generates first data, stores the first data in a data storage of a first computing device to generate first stored data, transmits the first data as first test data along a first integrity path comprising at least one first hardware device. The technology further receives, with the first computing device, the first test data from the first integrity path and compares the first stored data to the received first test data to determine if a first data path error exists in the first integrity path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Francesco Caggioni
  • Publication number: 20240163153
    Abstract: A system and method for Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) pulse cancellation (PC) in a single carrier environment or multicarrier telecommunication environment may enable obtaining better signal quality while maintaining Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and/or power efficiency. A PC signal is generated by multiplying a truncated sinc signal with another window signal. The bandwidth of the PC signal may be greater than the bandwidth of the corresponding carrier signal center. The center frequency of the PC signal may be offset with respect to the center frequency for each given carrier in the multi-carrier scenario to fix the edge effect signal quality/interference problems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad JANANI, Djordje TUJKOVIC
  • Publication number: 20240161038
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods provide technology that identifies first characteristics of a first risk associated with a system and applies a locality sensitive hashing process to the first characteristics to map the first characteristics to first buckets of a plurality of buckets. The technology further generates a first vector based on the first characteristics being mapped to the first buckets, and identifies a mitigation plan to at least partially mitigate the first risk based on the first vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Brandon Sloane
  • Patent number: 11983329
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a suggestion to a user of a head-mounted device by the head-mounted device via an assistant xbot during a dialog session between the user and the assistant xbot, wherein the suggestion is associated with a plurality of actions to be performed by an assistant system associated with the assistant xbot, accessing signals from inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors of the head-mounted device by the head-mounted device during the dialog session, determining a head gesture performed by the user during the dialog session by an on-device head-gesture detection model and based only on the signals from the IMU sensors, and executing a first action from multiple actions by the assistant system executing on the head-mounted device, wherein the first action is selected based on the determined head gesture during the dialog session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Shervin Ghasemlou, Devashish Prasad Joshi, Rongzhou Shen, Riza Kazemi
  • Patent number: 11985446
    Abstract: An online system customizes video conversations between users of the online system. During a video conversation, the online system presents a composite view to the participating users. The composite view may include visual representations of the users, a background graphic, or other types of graphics such as masks and props that the users can wear or interact with in the environment of the video conversation. The visual representations may be generated based on a live video feed of the users or include avatars of the users. The online system can determine the graphics based on information about the users. For instance, the online system determines a background graphic showing a location that the users have each visited. Upon viewing the background graphic, the users may be encouraged to interact with the background graphic or other graphics included in the composite view, which can promote an engaging video conversation experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Duane Clark, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Stephane Taine
  • Patent number: 11985246
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for protecting identity metrics may include (i) receiving, by a computing device and from an originating device, an identity metric encrypted by an identity metric protection module on the originating device, where the identity metric includes biometric data about an operator of the originating device, (ii) requesting, by an identity metric protection module on the computing device, a decryption key from an identity metric protection server, (iii) receiving, by the identity metric protection module, the decryption key from the identity metric protection server, (iv) decrypting, by the identity metric protection module, the identity metric with the decryption key received from the identity metric protection server, and (v) providing the decrypted identity metric to an application on the computing device that uses the identity metric to convey a communication from the operator of the originating device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Colleen Kelly Henry
  • Publication number: 20240153239
    Abstract: Technology for identifying an object of interest includes obtaining object embeddings for a plurality of objects in an image, obtaining text embeddings for text associated with the image, determining, for each of the plurality of objects, a similarity score via a similarity model based on the text embeddings and the object embeddings, while bypassing use of bounding box coordinates, and selecting the object having the highest similarity score as the object of interest. In another example, technology for identifying an object of interest includes obtaining object embeddings for a plurality of objects in an image, obtaining text embeddings and text identifiers for text associated with the image, generating, via a single transformer encoder, a set of CLS embeddings based on the text embeddings and the object embeddings, and determining, via a neural network, the object of interest based on the CLS embeddings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Wenwen Jiang, Licheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11979365
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to determine a life story associated with a first user of a content sharing system. The life story can comprise a plurality of content items associated with the first user. The plurality of content items can be organized in chronological order. A determination is made that a second user has accessed the life story associated with the first user. The plurality of content items included in the life story are provided for presentation in a graphical user interface, wherein each content item is presented individually based on the chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Jaleh Afshar
  • Publication number: 20240144391
    Abstract: Techniques enabling accounts of a social networking system to monitor online interactions by supervised accounts across multiple platforms are described. For example, a social networking system (SNS) may receive, from a first account, a request to invite a second account to join a Family Center (FC) so the FC includes data associated with first and second platforms of the SNS. The SNS may receive, from the second account, an indication to accept the request to join the FC associating the first and second accounts via the FC. In some examples, the SNS may receive, from the second account, a request to access the FC. Based on receiving the request to access the FC, the SNS may cause presentation to the second account of interaction data associated with interactions between the first account and the first platform of the SNS and the first account and the second platform of the SNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Gelber, John Hjelmstad, Krishna Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240144409
    Abstract: Techniques for notifying parent accounts of problematic interactions by teens is described. For example, a social networking system may receive, from a first account of the social networking system, an indication of an interaction between the first account and a content item. Based on determining that the interaction is a problematic interaction, the social networking system may send, to a second account associated with the first account, a notification of the problematic interaction. The social networking system may cause presentation, to the second account, of a selectable control associated with one or more resources regarding addressing the problematic interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Gelber, John Hjelmstad, Krishna Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240144390
    Abstract: Techniques for notifying parent accounts of problematic interactions by teens is described. For example, a social networking system may receive, from a first account, an indication of a problematic interaction. Based at least in part on receiving the indication, the social networking system may cause presentation, to the first account, of a prompt to notify a second account associated with the first account of the interaction. Based at least in part on receiving a confirmation from the first account, the social networking system may then send, to the second account, a notification of the problematic interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Gelber, John Hjelmstad, Krishna Kumar
  • Patent number: 11972227
    Abstract: A speech translation system and methods for cross-lingual communication that enable users to improve and customize content and usage of the system and easily. The methods include, in response to receiving an utterance including a first term associated with a field, translating the utterance into a second language. In response to receiving an indication to add the first term associated with the field to a first recognition lexicon, adding the first term associated with the field and the determined translation to a first machine translation module and to a shared database for a community associated with the field of the first term associated with the field, wherein the first term associated with the field added to the shared database is accessible by the community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Waibel, Ian R. Lane
  • Patent number: 11972349
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for machine learning acceleration includes receiving instructions to perform convolution on an input tensor using a filter tensor, determining that the size of a first dimension of the input tensor is less than a processing capacity of each of multiple subarrays of computation units in a tensor processor, selecting a second dimension of the input tensor along which to perform the convolution, selecting, based on the second dimension, one or more dimensions of the filter tensor, generating (1) first instructions for reading, using vector read operations, activation elements in the input tensor organized such that elements with different values in the second dimension are stored contiguously in memory, and (2) second instructions for reading weights of the filter tensor along the selected one or more dimensions, and using the first and second instructions to provide the activation elements and the weights to the subarrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Liangzhen Lai, Yu Hsin Chen, Vikas Chandra
  • Patent number: 11973753
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for client-side identity verification may include (1) receiving, via an endpoint computing device, input from a user that includes biometric data of the user captured by a sensor of the endpoint computing device and visual data of a physical identification document that includes a record of the biometric data, (2) verifying, by the endpoint computing device, that the biometric data captured by the sensor of the endpoint computing device matches the record of the biometric data in the physical identification document, and (3) transmitting, to a server, a verification that the user has been identified while preventing the biometric data from being included in the verification sent to the server. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Colleen Kelly Henry
  • Patent number: 11966701
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes rendering a first output image comprising one or more augmented-reality (AR) objects for displays of an AR rendering device of an AR system associated with a first user. The method further includes accessing sensor signals associated with the first user. The one or more sensor signals may be captured by sensors of the AR system. The method further includes detecting a change in a context of the first user with respect to a real-world environment based on the sensor signals. The method further includes rendering a second output image comprising the AR objects for the displays of the AR rendering device. One or more of the AR objects may be adapted based on the detected change in the context of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiming Pu, Christopher E Balmes, Gabrielle Catherine Moskey, John Jacob Blakeley, Amy Lawson Bearman, Alireza Dirafzoon, Matthew Dan Feiszli, Ganesh Venkatesh, Babak Damavandi, Jiwen Ren, Chengyuan Yan, Guangqiang Dong
  • Patent number: 11966986
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a client system, an audio input, where the audio input comprises a coreference to a target object, accessing visual data from one or more camera associated with the client system, where the visual data comprises images portraying one or more objects, resolving the coreference to the target object from among the one or more objects, resoling the target object to a specific entity, and providing, at the client system, a response to the audio input, where the response comprises information about the specific entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivani Poddar, Seungwhan Moon, Paul Anthony Crook, Rajen Subba
  • Patent number: 11960562
    Abstract: Ephemeral stories allow users of an online system, such as a social networking system, to share content for a pre-determined temporary length of time. Channels group and organize stories based on content. Topic-based channels allow contain stories that have related content. Hashtag- and sticker-associated channels contain stories that include particular hashtags or stickers, respectively. User-specific channels contain content tailored by the online system for display to a particular user based on preferences and history. Collaborative channels are channels that are private to a specific group of users. The use of channels improves the online experience by grouping stories by content, thereby facilitating users' interaction with similar content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: D1021931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Francesco Fogu