Patents Assigned to Snaps Inc.
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Patent number: 11877211Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for predicting a destination of a user and sharing the presumed destination with the other users via a geographically-based graphical user interface. Consistent with some embodiments, an electronic communication containing location information is received from a location sensor coupled to a first client device. A current trajectory of the first user is determined based on the location information. A presumed destination of the first user is determined, by correlating the current trajectory of the first user with historical location information of the first user. A map depicting an icon associated with the presumed destination of the first user is displayed, on a display screen of a second client device of a second user.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Benoit Baylin, Nicolas Dancie, Antoine Martin, Julien Martin, Antoine Sinton, Steven Uzan
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Patent number: 11876391Abstract: Methods and devices for wired charging and communication with a wearable device are described. In one embodiment, a symmetrical contact interface comprises a first contact pad and a second contact pad, and particular wired circuitry is coupled to the first and second contact pads to enable charging as well as receive and transmit communications via the contact pads as part of various device states.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SNAP INCInventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Nicholas Larson, Peter Brook, Russell Douglas Patton, Miran Alhaideri, Zhihao Hong
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Patent number: 11876763Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining that a message received from a second computing device associated with a second user is an interactive message and causing the interactive message to be displayed. In response to a selection to skip engagement with the interactive message, the systems and methods display a message feed with a list of a plurality of users and cause a selectable engagement indicium to be displayed next to a list entry of the second user in the list. The system and methods further determine that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed since the start time of the display of the interactive message without engagement with the interactive message and cause the interactive message to be deleted from the message feed and the selectable engagement indicium removed from next to the list entry of the second user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Grygoriy Kozhemiak, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
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Patent number: 11868916Abstract: A social networking application provides for automated link and/or content recommendation to users of a social media platform by automated social graph refinement that augments a baseline social graph with predicted links and inferred labels by iteratively (a) propagating attribute labels through optimizing attribute label similarity between user nodes constrained by closeness of links between the users, and (b) predicting links between users through optimizing link closeness constrained by label similarity. Each label inference iteration is based on predicted labels generated in and immediately prior link prediction iteration, and each link prediction iteration is based on inferred labels generated in and immediately prior label inference iteration.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jia Li, Jie Luo, Ji Yang, Lin Zhong
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Patent number: 11870743Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating customized images with avatars of different users within electronic messages. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with images generated to include avatars representing themselves as well as their friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham
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Patent number: 11865444Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting an interactive game in augmented reality on the display of a smart eyewear device. A hand tracking utility detects and tracks the location of hand gestures in real time, based on high-definition video data. The detected hand gestures are compared to library of hand gestures and landmarks. Examples include synchronized, multi-player games in which each device detects and shares hand gestures with other devices for evaluation and scoring. A single-player example includes gesture-shaped icons presented on a virtual scroll that appears to move toward an apparent collision with corresponding key images, awarding points if the player's hand is located near the apparent collision and the detected hand shape matches the moving icon.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Dmytro Kucher, Dmytro Hovorov, Artur Sydoran
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Patent number: 11870745Abstract: Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: David James Kennedy, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Arianne Spool, Yinghua David Xia
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Patent number: 11868676Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a client device, input that selects a sound option to add sound to one or more images; in response to receiving the input, presenting a sound editing user interface element that visually indicates a played portion of the sound and separately visually indicates an un-played portion of the sound; receiving an interaction with the sound editing user interface element to modify a start point of the sound; embedding a graphical element representing the sound in the one or more images; playing, by the messaging application, the sound associated with the graphical element starting from the start point together with displaying the one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Brandon Francis, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Ranidu Lankage
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Patent number: 11868590Abstract: A system to generate a graphical user interface to display a presentation of a set of shared user groups between users of a social networking service is described. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for: receiving an identification of a second user from a user account of a first user; identifying a user group that includes the first user and the second user in response to the identification of the second user from the user account of the first user; retrieving user identifiers of the first user and the second user, wherein the user identifiers may include graphical avatars; generating a group identifier based on the user identifiers; and causing display of a presentation of the user group at a client device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Matthew Colin Grantham, Jeremy Voss, David Whyte
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Patent number: 11869156Abstract: Eyewear presenting text corresponding to spoken words (e.g., in speech bubbles) and optionally translating from one language to another. In one example, an interactive augmented reality experience is provided between two users of eyewear devices to allow one user of an eyewear device to share a personal attribute of the user with a second user. The personal attribute can be speech spoken by a remote second user of eyewear converted to text. The converted text can be displayed on a display of eyewear of the first user proximate the viewed second user. The personal attribute may be displayed in a speech bubble proximate the second user, such as proximate the head or mouth of the second user. The language of the spoken speech can be recognized by the second user eyewear, and translated to a language that is understood by the first user.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher
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Patent number: 11868414Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for generating contact suggestions for a user of a social network. A first score is computed for each one of the plurality of users, the first score being computed using an edge-weighted ranking algorithm based on the user graph. A second score is computed, using a machine learning model, for each user of the plurality of users, the second score of each user being, at least partially, based on the first score of said user, with the second score of each user being representative of a probability of a first user sending a connection request to said user. A ranked contact suggestion list of one or more users of the plurality of users is generated, the one or more users being ranked based on their respective second score.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Pierre Leveau, Antoine Sinton
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Patent number: 11869164Abstract: The technical problem of creating an augmented reality (AR) experience that, on one hand, is accessible from a camera view user interface provided with a messaging client and that, also, can perform a modification based on a previously captured image of a user, is addressed by providing an AR component. When a user, while accessing the messaging client, engages a user selectable element representing the AR component in the camera view user interface, the messaging system loads the AR component in the messaging client. The AR component comprises a target media content object, which can be animation or live action video. The loaded AR component accesses a portrait image associated with a user and modifies the target media content using the portrait image. The resulting target media content object is displayed in the camera view user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Roman Golobokov, Aleksandr Mashrabov, Dmitry Matov, Jeremy Baker Voss
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Patent number: 11863963Abstract: 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, and image sensor, and a speaker system. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device and identifies an object location within the same environment. The eyewear device then associates a virtual object with the identified object location. The eyewear device monitors the position of the device with respect to the virtual object and presents audio signals to alert the user that the identified object is in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang
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Patent number: 11860935Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: retrieving, by one or more processors, a plurality of content items; identifying a first content item from the plurality of content items to which a user has previously reacted; determining a category of the first content item; selecting a second content item in the plurality of content items that is associated with the determined category of the first content item to which the user has previously reacted; and presenting the second content item to the user in a presentation arrangement of a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Voss
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Patent number: 11861801Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for enhanced augmented reality (AR) reading are provided, where the methods include entering a reading mode, capturing an image of a section of reading materials such as a page of a book, identifying a code within the image, and identifying a code module corresponding to the code. The methods further include executing the code module, the code module providing an augmented reality object or virtual reality object related to an object depicted on the section or page, entering a sleep mode for a sleep duration based on an estimated reading time duration of a section or page, awaking after the sleep duration, and capturing a next image. The sleep duration is adjusted based on times when identifiers of the sections of the reading materials such as numbers are captured. The user may manually wake the AR reading device using an external user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Piotr Gurgul, Tomasz Zakrzewski
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Patent number: 11863860Abstract: Systems, methods, and instructions on non-transitory computer readable media for automatically sending images to designated recipients based on context selection criteria (e.g., one or more of location, content, or quality). The system includes a camera and a user interface to trigger the camera to capture an image. The method includes identifying context selection criteria, identifying designated recipients, receiving the image captured by the camera, determining image data for the captured image, comparing the determined image data to the identified context selection criteria to identify a match, and sending the captured image to the set of designated recipients responsive to the identified match.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Sherif Mohamed
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Patent number: 11861854Abstract: Dense feature scale detection can be implemented using multiple convolutional neural networks trained on scale data to more accurately and efficiently match pixels between images. An input image can be used to generate multiple scaled images. The multiple scaled images are input into a feature net, which outputs feature data for the multiple scaled images. An attention net is used to generate an attention map from the input image. The attention map assigns emphasis as a soft distribution to different scales based on texture analysis. The feature data and the attention data can be combined through a multiplication process and then summed to generate dense features for comparison.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Shenlong Wang, Linjie Luo, Ning Zhang, Jia Li
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Patent number: 11861070Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling one or more virtual elements on a display in response to hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a hand and presents a menu icon on the display in accordance with a detected current hand location. The image processing system detects a series of hand shapes in the captured frames of video data and determines whether the detected hand shapes match any of a plurality of predefined hand gestures stored in a hand gesture library. In response to a match, the method includes executing an action in accordance with the matching hand gesture. In response to an opening gesture, an element animation system presents one or more graphical elements incrementally moving along a path extending away from the menu icon. A closing hand gesture causes the elements to retreat along the path toward the menu icon.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Viktoria Hwang, Karen Stolzenberg
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Patent number: 11861800Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting available augmented reality (AR) content items. The program and method provide for displaying a capture interface in accordance with a camera mode configured to capture multiple video clips; displaying a carousel interface for presenting a first set of AR content items, each being selectable to apply respective AR content to captured video; receiving first user input selecting an explore tab included which is selectable to switch to an explorer interface for presenting a second set of AR content items; switching from the capture interface to the explorer interface; receiving, via the explorer interface, second user input selecting an AR content item from among the second set; and updating, in response to receiving the second user input, the first set of AR content items to include the selected AR content item.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Christine Barron, Amar Boghani, Ranidu Lankage, Gabriel Lupin
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Patent number: 11863575Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for determining a level of abusive network behavior suspicion for groups of entities and for identifying suspicious entity groups. A suspiciousness metric is developed and used to evaluate a multi-view graph across multiple views where entities are associated with nodes of the graph and attributes of the entities are associated with levels of the graph.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Neil Shah, Hamed Nilforoshan-Dardashti