Patents Assigned to SNAP INC.
  • Patent number: 12262326
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media that determine a location of a device using multi-source geolocation data, where the methods include accessing new location data from a location source of a plurality of location sources, where the new location data includes a new position and an accuracy of the new position, and determining a current position and an accuracy of the current position based on the new position, the accuracy of the new position, an previous current position, and an accuracy of the previous current position. The method further includes determining a change in location based on a difference between the current position and the previous current position. Some systems, methods, and computer readable media are directed to scheduling location requests to generate location data where the scheduling and the actual requests are made based on a number of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piotr Gurgul, Lucas Rangit Magasweran
  • Patent number: 12260015
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device. A portable eyewear device includes a processor, a memory, and a display projected onto at least one lens assembly. The memory has programming stored therein that, when executed by the processor, captures information depicting an environment surrounding the device and identifies a match between objects in that information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. When the position of the eyewear device reaches a preselected location with respect to the matched objects, a physical output is provided to produce the immersive experience. The physical output changes as the position of the eyewear device moves to maintain the immersive experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Doug Mead
  • Patent number: 12259586
    Abstract: Optical devices and methods include a first waveguide having a first surface and a second waveguide including a second surface. The first waveguide is at a fixed position relative to the second waveguide with the first surface at least partly facing the second surface, and the first surface includes a first positioning element. The first positioning element is a NanoImprint Lithography (NIL) structure. The optical device further includes an adhesive arranged for attaching the first surface to the second surface, where the first positioning element is arranged to control a position of the adhesive. The first positioning element includes a philic region adapted to attract the adhesive, or a phobic region adapted to repel the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventor: James Leighton
  • Patent number: 12260061
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device through interaction with an augmented reality (AR) camera includes pairing an interactable augmented reality (AR) overlay with the IoT device. The interactable overlay includes control information for generating a control signal for controlling the IoT device when the interactable overlay is interacted with by the AR camera. The interactable overlay is presented on a display of the AR camera when the IoT device is in a field of view of the AR camera. An indication that the user has pointed the AR camera at the interactable overlay associated with the IoT device on the display of the AR camera is provided, and a control signal associated with the interactable overlay pointed at by the AR camera is provided to the at least one IoT device associated with the interactable overlay pointed at by the AR camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Shin Hwun Kang
  • Patent number: 12260567
    Abstract: A method for carving a 3D space using hands tracking is described. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first frame from a camera of a display device, tracking, using a hand tracking algorithm operating at the display device, hand pixels corresponding to one or more user hands depicted in the first frame, detecting, using a sensor of the display device, depths of the hand pixels, identifying a 3D region based on the depths of the hand pixels, and applying a 3D reconstruction engine to the 3D region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Branislav Micusik, Georgios Evangelidis, Daniel Wolf
  • Patent number: 12260065
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to mobile computing technology and, more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to systems for generating and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a presentation of an animated icon (e.g., a digital pet) on a display of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Jesse Chand, Dylan Shane Eirinberg, William Wu, Chiayi Lin, Anna Liberman
  • Patent number: 12260450
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: accessing content received from a first client device associated with a first user; processing the content to identify a first image that depicts the first user wearing a first fashion item; determining a first pose of the first user depicted in the first image; searching a plurality of products to identify a first product that corresponds to the first pose of the first user depicted in the first image and that includes one or more attributes associated with the first fashion item; modifying the first image to generate an advertisement that depicts the first user wearing the first product; and during a content browsing session being accessed by the first client device, causing the advertisement that depicts the first user wearing the first product to be displayed automatically on the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Itamar Berger, Gal Dudovitch, Ma'ayan Mishin Shuvi
  • Patent number: 12259595
    Abstract: Eyewear having a frame, a hinge, and a hyperextendable temple having a flexible printed circuit (FPC) including service loops. An extender is coupled to the hinge and the temple, and the extender extends with respect to the hinge allowing hyperextension of the temple with respect to the frame. A first service loop allows extension of the FPC when the temple rotates about the hinge, and a second service loop allows the temple to be radially extended away from the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ryner, Stephen Steger
  • Patent number: 12259594
    Abstract: Eyewear that includes a frame supporting an optical element. The frame has a first side and a second side. The eyewear also includes a temple adjacent the first side of the frame. The temple includes a first portion adjacent the frame and a second portion releasably connected to the first portion. The eyewear also includes an electrical connector embedded within the first portion of the temple. The second portion conceals the electrical connector from an exterior of the eyewear when the second portion connects to the first portion in a concealed state, and exposes the electrical connector from the exterior of the eyewear when disconnected from the first portion in an exposed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Yoav Ben-Haim, Teodor Dabov, Varun Sehrawat
  • Patent number: 12254132
    Abstract: Method for generating haptic feedback responses based on gestures starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects a predetermined gesture by a first user of the first client device on the first user interface. In response to detecting the predetermined gesture by the first user, processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the predetermined gesture. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander P. Powell, Mark Thomas
  • Patent number: 12256035
    Abstract: Shortcut keypad system for electronic communications comprises first apparatus and second apparatus. First apparatus and second apparatus each comprise an input device, a processor and a memory. The input device comprises selectable items including first selectable item. The processor of the first apparatus receives a selection of the first selectable item, and transmits a signal corresponding to the first selectable item to the second apparatus. The processor of the second apparatus receives the signal corresponding to the first selectable item, and causes the input device of the second apparatus to indicate that the signal corresponding to the first selectable item is received. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Shree K. Nayar, Brian Anthony Smith, Karl Bayer, Marian Pho, Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda
  • Patent number: 12254412
    Abstract: A neural network pruning system can sparsely prune neural network models using an optimizer based approach that is agnostic to the model architecture being pruned. The neural network pruning system can prune by operating on the parameter vector of the full model and the gradient vector of the loss function with respect to the model parameters. The neural network pruning system can iteratively update parameters based on the gradients, while zeroing out as many parameters as possible based a preconfigured penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Enxu Yan, Sergey Tulyakov, Aleksei Podkin, Aleksei Stoliar
  • Patent number: 12256211
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device with spatial audio. The eyewear device has a processor, a memory, an image sensor, and speakers. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device, identifies a match between objects in the image information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. The eyewear device then identifies a target location within the environment, which may be associated with a physical or a virtual object. The eyewear device monitors its orientation with respect to the target location and presents audio signals to guide the user toward the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, James Powderly
  • Patent number: 12254049
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving an image from a client device; applying a machine learning model to the image to generate an embedding query vector, the machine learning model being trained to encode a plurality of images and text into a common embedding space; searching, based on the embedding query vector, a database of augmented reality (AR) experiences to identify a subset of AR experiences associated with one or more embeddings that correspond to the embedding query vector; and transmitting to the client device the subset of AR experiences associated with the one or more embeddings that correspond to the embedding query vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Sarabia Dela Rosa, Adel Elmalaha, Kwot Sin Lee, Patrick Poirson
  • Patent number: 12253675
    Abstract: Eyewear with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for blindness, the camera-based compensation uses eyewear cameras to communicate a video feed, and a microphone to provide an optional audio feed, to a remote operator of a remote device to responsively assist the user to complete a task. For example, the user may want audio advice on how to navigate a crowded scene or unknown obstacle. The camera-based compensation is configured to receive instructions from the remote operator to navigate, such as by receiving audio instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Venu Iyengar, Russell Douglas Patton
  • Patent number: 12256283
    Abstract: A method of obtaining media content of an event, comprising: identifying a real-life event and, a time of said real-life event a geographic location of the real-life event; identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of users located in proximity to the geographic location of the real-life event at said time of said real-life event; sending a message to the subset of client terminals containing a request to acquire media content documenting the real-life event; and receiving at least one media content item documenting the real-life event from at least one client terminal of the subset of client terminals, the at least one media content item acquired by at least one user of the users using the at least one client terminal in response to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Gadi Zimerman, Ido Sadeh
  • Patent number: 12251003
    Abstract: A carry case for an electronics-enabled eyewear device, such as smart glasses, has charging contacts that are movable relative to a storage chamber in which the eyewear device is receivable. The charging contacts are connected to a battery carried by the case for charging the eyewear device via contact coupling of the charging contacts to corresponding contact formations on an exterior of the eyewear device. The charging contacts are in some instances mounted on respective flexible walls defining opposite extremities of the storage chamber. The contact formations on the eyewear device are in some instances provided by hinge assemblies that couple respective temples to a frame of the eyewear device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Kim, Jun Lin
  • Patent number: 12255858
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying content feeds within a messaging system. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application associated with a user, user input corresponding to a request for a first content feed, the first content feed comprising a first plurality of media content items provided by one or more friends of the user; providing for display of the first content feed; determining, by the messaging application, that display of the first content feed is complete; and providing, in response to determining that display of the first content feed is complete, for display of a second content feed, the second content feed comprising a second plurality of media content items provided by one or more content providers to which the user subscribes with respect to the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Alex Beltyukov, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jacob Catalano, Wenbin Chen, Matthew Lee Cook, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Zuoyou Gu, Yue Hu, Timothy Kautz, Edward Koai, Jong-Hwi Lee, Chinmay Lonkar, Lu Lu, Zachary Lupei, Charles Melbye, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Chiung-Fu Shih, Brian Yee, Jiawen Zeng, Dongguang Zhao
  • Patent number: 12255379
    Abstract: An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eyewear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mathias Andreas Hintermann, Pat Kusbel, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Ugur Olgun, Russell Douglas Patton, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Patent number: 12254577
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for applying augmented reality elements to a person depicted in an image. The operations include receiving an image that includes data representing a depiction of a person; extracting a portion of the image; applying a first machine learning model stage to the portion to predict a depth of a point of interest for the data representing the depiction of the person; applying a second machine learning model stage to the portion of the image to predict a relative depth of each pixel in the portion of the image to the predicted depth of the point of interest; generating dense depth reconstruction of the data representing the depiction of the person based on outputs of the first and second stages of the machine learning model; and applying one or more AR elements to the image based on the dense depth reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Madiyar Aitbayev, Brian Fulkerson, Riza Alp Guler, Georgios Papandreou, Himmy Tam