Patents Assigned to Snap-On Inc.
  • Patent number: 12047339
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for monitoring user activity on a messaging platform. The operations include receiving, from a first client device, a request to access a group portal associated with a group of users; in response to receiving the request, generating, for display in a first section of the group portal, a first identifier of a first user of the group of users; accessing activity information associated with the first user being descriptive of one or more messages sent by a second client device of the first user to a set of recipients; and generating, for display in a second section of the group portal, the activity information associated with the first user excluding contents of the one or more messages sent by the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Yiwei Ma, Juliet Shen, Jerome Sinocruz, Mai Chi Tran, Yamill Antonio Vallecillo, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Patent number: 12047337
    Abstract: A method includes determining participation in an interaction function by a first user of an interaction system with a second user of the interaction system. The method also includes accessing profile data of the first user, and determining, based on the profile data, whether the first user has captured or designated a first-user self-image for use in the interaction function. In response to determining that the first user has not captured or designated the first-user self-image, the method includes accessing a media content item that includes a character, identifying a head portion of the character in the media content item, replacing the head portion with a placeholder space, and displaying the media content item with the placeholder space in a user interface corresponding to the interaction function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Smetanin, Roman Golobokov, Emily Ann Claudet, Dor Ayalon, Vladimir Gordienko, Erin Houston, Ivan Babanin, Timur Zakirov, Nikita Demidov, Aleksandr Larionov, Anna Kovalenko, Nikita Belosludtcev
  • Patent number: 12045921
    Abstract: The subject technology selects a plurality of augmented reality (AR) content items based at least in part on a set of attributes. The subject technology analyzes each of the selected plurality of AR content items to determine an inclusion of textual information, identify an area of interest, or detect panning motion. The subject technology modifies each of the selected plurality of AR content items based at least in part on the analyzing. The subject technology generates, using at least the modified plurality of AR content items, a composite AR content item, the composite AR content item comprising a sequence of different AR content items, each of the different AR content items corresponding to a modified AR content item from the modified plurality of AR content items. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, the generated composite AR content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Collins, Benedict Copping, Alexander Vodovoz
  • Patent number: 12047657
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting subtitles in association with a composite video. The systems and methods include a facility for uploading a subtitle file having the full subtitles information for the entire composite video. The uploaded subtitle file is then split to generate video content item subtitles files that correspond to video content items in the composite video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: David Michael Hornsby, David Paliwoda, Georgiy Kassabli, Kevin Joseph Thornberry
  • Patent number: 12047707
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controls within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, an interface for updating a property of an element within a room based on a received MIDI message; receiving, based on the interface, an indication of user input specifying to update the property of the element when the received MIDI message includes a predefined value; providing a virtual conference between plural participants within the room, the room including the element; receiving a MIDI message that includes the predefined value; and updating, in response to receiving the MIDI message, the property of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Patent number: 12046037
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for adding beauty products to tutorials are presented. Methods include accessing video data comprising images of a presenter creating a tutorial, the tutorial depicting the presenter applying a beauty product to a body part of the presenter. Methods further include processing the video data to identify changes to the body part of the presenter from an application of the beauty product, and responding to identifying changes to the body part of the presenter from the application of the beauty product by processing the video data to identify the beauty product. Methods further include retrieving information regarding the beauty product and causing presentation of information regarding the beauty product on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Barron, Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Jonathan Solichin, Olesia Voronova
  • Patent number: 12045304
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for performing operations comprising: retrieving, from a content management system (CMS), website generation data that references a data model type stored on the CMS; importing, by a migration agent from the CMS, definition of the data model type referenced by the website generation data as a local version of the data model type; detecting, by the migration agent, a change to a property of the local version of the data model type; and generating, by the migration agent, a migration script to migrate the change to the property of the local version of data model type to the data model type stored on the CMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Rodrigo de Proenca Gomes Hermann, Shijin Liang
  • Patent number: 12045964
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable mediums including processes to correct for distortion in images introduced by eyewear (i.e., where the facial region surrounding the eye has a boundary that doesn't match the boundary of an uncovered facial region). The correction includes segmenting images to detect eyewear covered facial regions and facial regions not covered by the eyewear and altering the covered facial regions to match the covered facial boundary to the uncovered facial boundary. Alterations include processing using a machine learning model, applying anti-refraction algorithms, scaling the covered facial region to match boundaries of the uncovered facial region, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Eyal Zak, Guy Melamed
  • Patent number: 12038624
    Abstract: In an example, the eyewear includes an optical element, electronic components, and a support structure configured to support the optical element and the electronic components. The support structure defines a region for receiving at least a portion of a head of a user. The eyewear also includes a biometric sensor coupled to the electronic components and supported by the support structure. The biometric sensor is attached to the support structure and positioned to detect, in the region, a biometric signal representative of a biometric of the user for processing by the electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar Castañeda, Rajeev Ramanath
  • Patent number: 12038932
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations for ranking a feed in a social network. In one aspect, a method of generating a feed includes identifying a group of users associated with a first user, identify notifications for the first user based on the group of users, determine one or more actions that may result from each of the identified notifications, rank the notifications based on the one or more determined actions; and display the notifications to the first user according to the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jaewook Chung, Wisam Dakka, Andrei Damian, Jiwoon Jeon, Ranveer Kunal, Andre Madeira, Michael Brian Murray, Emre Yamangil, Diwakar Punjani, Yantao Zheng
  • Patent number: 12039648
    Abstract: A venue system of a client device can submit a location request to a server, which returns multiple venues that are near the client device. The client device can use one or more machine learning schemes (e.g., convolutional neural networks) to determine that the client device is located in one of specific venues of the possible venues. The venue system can further select imagery for presentation based on the venue selection. The presentation may be published as ephemeral message on a network platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Sumant Hanumante, Zhou Ren, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Patent number: 12040640
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are regulated power supplies. The power source delivers power to a system load and includes battery units. The power source also includes power flow devices coupled to the battery units that are configured to provide power from the battery units to the system load. Each power flow device corresponds to a respective one of the battery units and includes a one direction current flow device connected in series with a current regulator between the respective battery unit and the system load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Nilles, Russell Douglas Patton, Raul Alejandro Perez, Patrick Timothy Mcsweeney Simons
  • Patent number: 12039658
    Abstract: A semantic texture map system to generate a semantic texture map based on a 3D model that comprises a plurality of vertices that include coordinate that indicate positions of the plurality of vertices, a UV map, and a semantic segmentation image that comprises a set of semantic labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 12039649
    Abstract: A server machine modifies an augmented reality (AR) object in response to fulfillment of a condition. The machine provides, to a user device, object data that defines the AR object. The object data specifies a physical geolocation of the AR object, a presentation attribute of the AR object, a conditional modification program, and a trigger condition for execution of the conditional modification program. The object data causes the user device to present the AR object with a first appearance, located at the physical geolocation. The machine detects fulfillment of the trigger condition, and in response, the machine executes the conditional modification program. This modifies the object data by modifying the presentation attribute. The machine provides, to the user device, the modified object data, which causes the user device to present the AR object with a second appearance based on the modified presentation attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Rajan Vaish
  • Patent number: 12039688
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for augmented reality beauty product tutorials. Methods disclose determining from live images of an augmented reality (AR) tutorial effects, the effects indicating changes to the live images of a presenter of the AR tutorial from a beauty product being applied to a body part of the presenter. The methods further comprising determining from the live images motion, the motion indicating motion of the beauty product from the beauty product being applied to the body part of the presenter and storing the effects and the motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Barron, Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Jonathan Solichin, Olesia Voronova
  • Patent number: 12039499
    Abstract: The subject technology causes display, at the client device, a set of augmented reality content items generated by the first augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at the client device, a second selection of the particular augmented reality content item corresponding to the destination geolocation. The subject technology causes display, at the client device, a second set of augmented reality content items generated by the first augmented reality content generator. The subject technology receives, at the client device, a second selection of the second set of augmented reality content items. The subject technology causes display, at the client device, a third set of augmented reality content items generated by the first augmented reality content generator, the third set of augmented reality content items comprising at least one activity or location associated with the destination geolocation and a selected period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Charles Melbye, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 12038582
    Abstract: An optical waveguide for a head up display having two optical input regions. Optical gratings direct light injected into the optical input regions towards and output region and to be trapped in the optical waveguide by total internal reflection. Beam splitters are provided to expand the pupil in two dimensions. Light from each input region is directed to different areas of the output region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul Mason
  • Patent number: 12039102
    Abstract: Method for generating haptic feedback responses starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects first touch input on first user interface and second touch input on second user interface. Processor monitors location of the first touch input on the first user interface and location of the second touch input on the second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of first touch input on first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input on second user interface. Processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the distance. The haptic feedback response increases in intensity or speed as the distance decreases and decreases in intensity or speed as the distance increases. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander P Powell, Mark Thomas
  • Patent number: 12032168
    Abstract: An eyewear device with flexible frame for Augmented Reality (AR) is disclosed. At least two sensors and a display are mounted on the flexible frame. When in use, the real time geometry of the eyewear device may change from factory calibrated geometry, resulting in low quality AR rendering. A modeling module is provided to model the real time geometry of the eyewear device on the fly using sensor information of the at least two sensors. The modeled real time geometry is then provided to a rendering module to accurately display the AR to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Clemens Birklbauer, Georg Halmetschlager-Funek, Jeroen Hol, Matthias Kalkgruber, Daniel Wagner
  • Patent number: D1035549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Spiegel, Mathias Hintermann, Kristina Marrero, Klaus Tritschler