Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Company
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Patent number: 10423214Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a wearable computing device including one or more processors and a memory. The memory is coupled to the processors and includes instructions executable by the processors. When executing the instructions, the processors analyze a task of an application; analyze one or more characteristics of the wearable computing device; determine to delegate the task based on the analysis of the task and the analysis of the characteristics; delegate the task to be processed by one or more computing devices separate from the wearable computing device; and receive from the computing devices results from processing the delegated task.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, LtdInventors: Pranav Mistry, Sajid Sadi
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Patent number: 10390764Abstract: A method for monitoring a stress level of a user may include determining, based on biological measurements on one or more physiological markers received in a first sampling mode, the stress level of the user, and then dynamically switching to a second sampling mode when it is determined that one or more of the physiological markers are above a threshold level, the second sampling mode being different from the first sampling mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jawahar Jain, James Young, Cody Wortham, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10380933Abstract: In one embodiment, a display screen includes one or more pixels that are configured to operate in multiple modes. The multiple modes include a first mode in which the one or more pixels modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light and a second mode in which the one or more pixels are substantially transparent to visible light. When the one or more pixels are in the second mode a component behind the display screen is viewable through the one or more pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10362944Abstract: In one embodiment, an electronic device may include a light source configured to emit light that penetrates into a portion of a user's body, a plurality of light sensors configured to detect a pattern of diffusion of the emitted light, and a controller configured to detect a gesture made by the user based on the detected pattern of diffusion of the emitted light. The controller may be configured to control the light source and the plurality of light sensors to detect the gesture made by the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Santiago Ortega Avila, Sajid Sadi, Bogdana Rakova
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Patent number: 10318090Abstract: In particular embodiments, an apparatus includes a single electrode configured to passively receive a charge displacement and a change in characteristics of electromagnetic signals in an environment. The apparatus further includes a touch sensor, coupled to the single electrode, configured to detect a first input based on the charge displacement, and a second input based on the change in characteristics of electromagnetic signals in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ernest Rehmi Post, Olivier Bau, Iliya Tsekov, Sajid Sadi, Mike Digman, Vatche Attarian, Sergi Consul, Cody Wortham
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Patent number: 10313656Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving multiple images from multiple cameras, where the multiple cameras include a first camera having a first orientation and a second camera having a second orientation, and the multiple images include a first image from the first camera and a second image from the second camera. The method also includes detecting multiple feature points within the first and second images. The method further includes determining one or more pairs of corresponding feature points located within a region of overlap between the first and second images, where the pairs of corresponding feature points include a respective one of the feature points from each of the first and second images. The method also includes spatially adjusting the first or second image based on a calculated offset between each pair of corresponding feature points.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.Inventors: Sajid Sadi, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Rahul Budhiraja, Brian Dongwoo Lee, Ayesha Mudassir Khwaja, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10298412Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more systems may receive input from a user identifying an interactive region of a physical environment. The one or more systems may determine a location of the interactive region relative to a depth sensor and monitor, at least in part by the depth sensor, the interactive region for a predetermined event. The one or more systems may detect, at least in part by the depth sensor, the predetermined event. In response to detecting the predetermined event, the one or more systems may initiate a predetermined action associated with the predetermined event.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Brian Harms, Pol Pla, Yedan Qian, Olivier Bau
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Patent number: 10285634Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to determine, based on cardiac-activity data, a shift in sympathovagal balance (SVB) during the period of time; obtain an emotional-state characteristic the emotional-state characteristic being based on brain-wave activity data; and determine, based on the SVB shift and the emotional-state characteristic, an estimate of an emotional state of the user during the period of time.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jawahar Jain, Siddharth, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10275028Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a body. At least a portion of the body includes one or more instances of magnetic material. The apparatus includes a moveable element coupled to the body and separated by a distance in a first dimension from the portion of the body. The moveable element includes one or more instances of magnetic material, and is configured to move in at least a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension while the distance between the moveable element and the portion of the body remains fixed by the apparatus. At least one instance of the magnetic material in the moveable element repels or attracts at least one instance of the magnetic material in the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Pranav Mistry, Sajid Sadi, Curtis Aumiller, Chengyuan Wei, Iliya Tsvetomirov Tsekov, Steven Manuel
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Patent number: 10231673Abstract: A method for determining a stress level of a user based on a sympathovagal balance (SVB) value calculated based on a set of measurement data may include determining a heart-rate variability (HRV) characteristic as a ratio involving a number of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity markers within a first portion of the set of measurement data and the number of ANS activity markers within a second portion of the set of measurement data, and then determining the stress level of the user based on the HRV characteristic. The first and second portions of the set of measurement data may be selected based on a user-specific baseline SVB value that divides a histogram representation of the set of measurement data into the first and second portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jawahar Jain, James Young, Cody Wortham, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10194060Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a device body that includes a touch-sensitive display and a processor. The device also includes a band coupled to the device body and an optical sensor in or on the band. The optical sensor faces outward from the band and captures images. The processor communicates with the optical sensor to process captured images.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Pranav Mistry, Sajid Sadi, Curtis Douglas Aumiller, Chengyuan Wei
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Patent number: 10178171Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a client device, the request including one or more device dimensions associated with the client device. The method further includes identifying a set of one or more content profiles, where each identified content profile is associated with one or more content-profile dimensions that are compatible with the received device dimensions. The method also includes determining whether a previously created content manifest corresponds to the identified set of content profiles. The method also includes, in response to a determination that a previously created content manifest corresponds to the identified set of content profiles, sending to the client device a uniform resource identifier (URI) identifying a resource that includes the previously created content manifest.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Dennis Knothe, Nathan Vick
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Patent number: 10170030Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a first display which includes one or more first-display pixels that are configured to operate in multiple modes. The multiple modes include a first mode in which the one or more first-display pixels modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light and a second mode in which the one or more first-display pixels are substantially transparent to visible light. The device also includes a second display disposed behind or in front of the first display, the second display configured to emit, modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
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Patent number: 10141929Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an electrode of a device, a signal from a user's body. The received signal is based on an electromagnetic interference signal generated by an object that is external to the device. The method further includes determining, using machine learning applied to the received signal, one or more of the following: an identity of the object, an interaction between the user and the object, or a context surrounding the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Bogdana Rakova, Mike Digman, Philipp Schoessler, Martin Salvador, Sergi Consul Pacareu, Olivier Bau
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Patent number: 10108305Abstract: In particular embodiments, an apparatus includes an insulator coupled to one or more electrodes that are configured to passively sense charge displacement or a change in characteristics of electromagnetic signals in an environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ernest Rehmi Post, Olivier Bau, Iliya Tsekov, Sajid Sadi, Mike Digman, Vatche Attarian, Sergi Consul, Cody Wortham
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Patent number: 10101869Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first context data associated with a first touch event on a first device and accessing a second context data associated with a touch event on the first device. The touch event has been detected by a second device. The method further includes comparing the first context data with the second context data and determining, based on the comparison, whether the first touch event is the touch event detected by the second device.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Olivier Bau, Bogdana Rakova, Mike Digman, Philipp Schoessler, Martin Salvador, Sergi Consul Pacareu
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Patent number: 10073578Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an electrode that is coupled to a body of a user and is configured to receive a signal from the body. The received signal is based on an electromagnetic interference signal generated by an object that is external to the apparatus. The apparatus further includes one or more processors coupled to the electrode. The processors are configured to detect, based on the signal received by the electrode, one or more of: an interaction between the user and the object, an identity of the object, or a context surrounding the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, LtdInventors: Olivier Bau, Bogdana Rakova, Mike Digman, Philipp Schoessler, Martin Salvador, Sergi Consul Pacareu
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Patent number: 10061591Abstract: A method for reducing execution of redundant threads in a processing environment. The method includes detecting threads that include redundant work among many different threads. Multiple threads from the detected threads are grouped into one or more thread clusters based on determining same thread computation results. Execution of all but a particular one thread in each of the one or more thread clusters is suppressed. The particular one thread in each of the one or more thread clusters is executed. Results determined from execution of the particular one thread in each of the one or more thread clusters are broadcasted to other threads in each of the one or more thread clusters.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Boris Beylin, John Brothers, Santosh Abraham, Lingjie Xu, Maxim Lukyanov, Alex Grosul
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Patent number: 10057078Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more systems may receive input from a user identifying an interactive region of a physical environment. The one or more systems may determine a location of the interactive region relative to a depth sensor and monitor, at least in part by the depth sensor, the interactive region for a predetermined event. The one or more systems may detect, at least in part by the depth sensor, the predetermined event. In response to detecting the predetermined event, the one or more systems may initiate a predetermined action associated with the predetermined event.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Brian Harms, Pol Pla, Yedan Qian, Olivier Bau
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Patent number: 10042446Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, based on output from a sensor, a proximity of an object to a device and comparing the determined proximity to a threshold proximity. The method further includes selecting, based on the comparison, an interaction mode for processing interactions between the object and the device. The method further includes processing interactions between the object and the device according to the selected interaction mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kangjin Yoon, Sungchan Kim, Yangwook Kim, Ernest Rehmi Post, Olivier Bau, Sajid Sadi