Patents Assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
  • Patent number: 12085744
    Abstract: Various systems and methods relating to a feature fill sol-gel material are provided herein. The feature fill sol-gel material may form a superconformal sol-gel coating. The feature fill sol-gel material may include a first titanium precursor composed of Titanium(IV) and an inorganic ligand. The feature fill sol-gel material may be formed by dissolving or suspending the first titanium precursor in a solvent. The feature fill sol-gel material may be annealed to form the superconformal sol-gel coating. The superconformal sol-gel coating may be an optically transparent coating having an absorbance at a wavelength of 450 nm of less than 0.2% per 150 nm and a refractive index ranging from 1.65 to 2.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alejo Lifschitz Arribio, Keren Zhang, Jonathan Onorato, Anthony Phan, Vincent Overney
  • Patent number: 12086932
    Abstract: A virtual object system can orchestrate virtual objects defined as a collection of components and with inheritance in an object hierarchy. Virtual object components can include a container, data, a template, and a controller. A container can define the volume the virtual object is authorized to write into. A virtual object's data can specify features such as visual elements, parameters, links to external data, meta-data, etc. The template can define view states of the virtual object and contextual breakpoints for transitioning between them. Each view state can control when and how the virtual object presents data elements. The controller can define logic for the virtual object to respond to input, context, etc. The definition of each object can specify which other object in an object hierarchy that object extends, where extending an object includes inheriting that object's components, which can be modified or overwritten as part of the extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yeliz Karadayi, Wai Leong Chak, Michal Hlavac, Pol Pla I Conesa
  • Patent number: 12085719
    Abstract: Terahertz sensing in this disclosure involves the use of at least one terahertz signal that is transmitted towards an object. At least one return terahertz signal is reflected from the object. The return terahertz signal(s) may be analyzed to determine one or more parameters, such as phase, frequency, amplitude, spectral profile, time of flight (TOF) etc. associated with the return terahertz signal(s). Based on the parameter(s), a portion of the object impinged upon by the transmit terahertz signal(s) and which reflected the return terahertz signal(s), and the state of the object/portion, can be identified. The identification of the portion and its state can be used in eye tracking implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Gaetano Aiello
  • Patent number: 12087329
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is a system and computer-implemented method for assembling and editing a video program from spoken words or soundbites. The disclosed technology imports source audio/video clips and any of multiple formats. Spoken audio is transcribed into searchable text. The text transcript is synchronized to the video track by timecode markers. Each spoken word corresponds to a timecode marker, which in turn corresponds to a video frame or frames. Using word processing operations and text editing functions, a user selects video segments by selecting corresponding transcribed text segments. By selecting text and arranging that text, a corresponding video program is assembled. The selected video segments are assembled on a timeline display in any chosen order by the user. The sequence of video segments may be reordered and edited, as desired, to produce a finished video program for export.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shamir Allibhai, Roderick Neil Hodgson
  • Patent number: 12085717
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eyebox. The waveguide may include a combination of a volume Bragg grating (VBG) component and a partial reflective component that are oriented in a pre-determined configuration to reflect or propagate the display light to maximize a coverage in field of view (FOV) at the eyebox, while minimizing at least one of a ghost image or an intercepting optical lines pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Publication number: 20240295751
    Abstract: According to examples, a wearable device may include a frame and a prescription lens mounted to the frame, in which the corrective lens may include a diffractive surface having features structured to have a certain correction level. The wearable device may also include at least one optical component mounted to the frame, the at least one optical component being positioned immediately adjacent to the corrective lens, in which the diffractive surface of the corrective lens causes the corrective lens to have a sufficiently thin edge to prevent the edge of the corrective lens from occluding the at least one optical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hao ZHANG, Sho NAKAHARA, Carl CHANCY, Garret ODOM
  • Publication number: 20240298366
    Abstract: A device within an access point multi-link device (AP MLD) having a plurality of wireless links may include one or more processors configured to generate a first frame including a first subfield. The first subfield may include a plurality of bits corresponding to the plurality of wireless links. Each bit may indicate whether a plurality of traffic identifiers (TIDs) are mapped to a corresponding wireless link. The device may wirelessly transmit, through a transmitter in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Kumail Haider, Binita Gupta, Chunyu Hu
  • Publication number: 20240295690
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus for implementing a hermetically-covered photonic integrated circuit on a substrate having an integrated laser diode is described. The apparatus may include a cover wafer, a housing layer including a waveguide, the waveguide including a photonic integrated circuit, a laser die including a laser cavity, and a base substrate. The base substrate may include an emission window to provide a reflective design and to eliminate a need for a polarized beam splitter, a through-wafer via element to electrical coupling to the laser die and one or more pillars to set a height of the laser die relative to the photonic integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dusan COSO, Steven Alexander-Boyd Hickman, Giuseppe Calafiore, Petr Markov, Shermin Arab, John Michael Goward, Rahul Agarwal, Zhujun Shi
  • Patent number: 12078810
    Abstract: A display assembly monitors movements in a waveguide assembly and corrects for aberrations in image light caused by the monitored movements. For example, an artificial reality headset may include a display assembly that monitors for changes in shape or displacement of waveguide assemblies that generate three dimensional images for display with a real world environment. The display assembly includes movement sensors (e.g., piezoelectric movement sensors) coupled to the waveguide assembly. The movement sensors monitor the movement of the waveguide assembly and provide the monitored movement to a display controller that generates instructions for correcting aberrations in the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yuri Toride
  • Patent number: 12080320
    Abstract: An electronic system is described that is responsive to non-verbal commands. The system may include a display component for presenting visual content to a user and an audio system, such as an in-ear or over-the-ear speaker system. The speaker system may be equipped with a bone conduction sensor or in-ear microphone that generates data associated with vibrations of a facial region of the user. The system may use the data to detect non-verbal command in the form of grunts, hums, coughs, tongue clicks, and the like. The system may perform various predetermined operations based on the detected vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Andrew Lovitt
  • Patent number: 12079884
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to automated memory creation and retrieval from moment content items. In some implementations, the automated memory creation and retrieval system can obtain moment content items from user-designated sources with a single user perspective or multiple user perspectives. The moment content items can be assigned tags and arranged in chronological order. The arranged moment content items can be clustered into memory content items based on clustering conditions. Once memory content items are created, they can be arranged into a memory hierarchy made up of connected nodes. In some implementations, the memory content items are also linked together based on similarity in various dimensions in a memory graph. The automated memory creation and retrieval system can receive search criteria for memories from a user interface and provide the user with memories from matched nodes in the memory hierarchy or linked memories in the memory graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hyunbin Park, Chengxuan Bai, Jiemin Zhang, Vincent Charles Cheung, Andrew Pitcher Thompson, Maheen Sohail, Tali Zvi
  • Patent number: 12081281
    Abstract: Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for managing energy detection thresholds. A device can perform an energy detection (ED) measurement of a channel, comparing against a defined ED threshold function, so as to determine if the channel is occupied. The device can perform a measurement of a channel indicative of a power level of signals detected in the channel. The device can compare the measurement to a threshold having a value that is a continuous monotonic function having a sloped region between a first region having a first constant value and a second region having a second constant value. The sloped region can include a function of a maximum transmit power of the device and at least one of the first constant value or the second constant value. The device can determine, responsive to the comparison, whether the channel is occupied or unoccupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Carlos Horacio Aldana
  • Patent number: 12081059
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include multiple electronic components and multiple charger battery modules. Each charger battery module may include: at least one battery configured to drive at least one of the electronic components, at least one battery charger configured to charge the battery, and a microcontroller configured to control the charging and discharging of the battery. The system may also include a central controller that may be configured to control the various charger battery modules through each charger battery module's associated microcontroller. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sachin Ramesh Chandra, Karthik Kadirvel, Ankur Gupta
  • Publication number: 20240292325
    Abstract: A first device may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to generate, during a service period of a target wake time (TWT) schedule, a first frame requesting a second device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to extend the service period, and wirelessly transmit, via a transceiver, the generated first frame to the second device. One of the first device or the second device is an access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Kumail Haider, Binita Gupta, Chunyu Hu
  • Patent number: 12072504
    Abstract: Head-mounted display assemblies may include a first eyecup and a second eyecup that are configured for respectively positioning a first lens and a second lens in front of intended locations of a user's eyes when the head-mounted display assembly is donned. The first eyecup and the second eyecup may be movable relative to each other to adjust for an interpupillary distance of the user's eyes. A single near-eye display screen may be configured for displaying an image to the user through the first and second eyecups. An enclosure over the single near-eye display screen may include a first transparent component positioned between the first lens and the single near-eye display screen and a second transparent component positioned between the second lens and the single near-eye display screen. Various other methods, devices, systems, and assemblies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Taylor Stellman, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Samuel Redmond D'Amico, Wei Rong, Evan Lawrence Coons, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12072752
    Abstract: The disclosure describes artificial reality (AR) systems and techniques that enable hierarchical power management of multiple devices within a multi-device AR system. For example, a multi-device AR system includes a device comprising one of a peripheral device configured to generate artificial reality content for display or a head-mounted display unit (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content. The device comprises a System on a Chip (SoC) that includes a host subsystem and plurality of subsystems. Each subsystem includes a child energy processing unit configured to manage power states for the subsystem. The host subsystem includes a parent energy processing unit configured to direct power management of each of the child energy processing units of the plurality of subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shrirang Madhav Yardi, Alok Kumar Mathur
  • Patent number: 12075175
    Abstract: In some examples, a sensor apparatus comprises: an array of pixel cells configured to generate a charge in response to light and convert the charge to output a voltage of an array of voltages, one or more an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured the convert the array of voltages to first pixel data comprising one or more pixel values, and an on-sensor controller configured to receive the first digital pixel data from the ADC, determine first pixel values and second pixel values, generate second digital pixel data comprising the first pixel values and not the second pixel values, and send the second digital pixel data off-sensor. The on-sensor controller may generate a control signal to alter the rate of charge generation by the array of pixel cells. The digital image data may be generated using a compressed map of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Shlomo Alkalay
  • Patent number: 12073015
    Abstract: A method for calibrating eye tracking data for a head wearable optical device includes receiving eye tracking data from an imaging device oriented towards a combiner. The method includes determining a gaze direction of an eye of a user based on the eye tracking data. The method includes receiving calibration data from the imaging device that includes an indication of positions of one or more calibration indicators. The method includes determining the gaze direction based at least in part on the calibration data received from the imaging device (or factors adjusted by the calibration data).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Kirk Erik Burgess, Javier San Agustin Lopez
  • Publication number: 20240284259
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects related to a device that can include a wireless communication interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors can assign a first protocol data unit (PDU) set and a second PDU set to at least one of a quality of service (QoS) flow or a data radio bearer (DRB). The one or more processors can identify a first metric of the first PDU set and a second metric of the second PDU set. The one or more processors can determine, based at least on the first metric and the second metric, one or more entities for communication of the first PDU set and the second PDU set to a remote device. The one or more processors can cause the wireless communications interface to communicate the first PDU set and the second PDU set from the at least one of the QoS flow or the DRB according to the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhu Ji, Yee Sin Chan, Curt Wong, Xiaodi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240284523
    Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying wireless devices may include a wireless communication device which transmits a signal to a wireless communication node. The signal may indicate a device type of the wireless communication device as a two receiver extended reality (XR) device. The wireless communication device and wireless communication node may establish a connection with the wireless communication node, the connection established on a channel within a frequency band between 2.5 gigahertz (GHz) and 5 GHz, according to information of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Suhwan Lim, Zhu Ji, Qi Qu, Yee Sin Chan