Google Patents

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  • Patent number: 11948576
    Abstract: Implementations can reduce the time required to obtain responses from an automated assistant through proactive caching, locally at a client device, of proactive assistant cache entries—and through on-device utilization of the proactive assistant cache entries. Different proactive cache entries can be provided to different client devices, and various implementations relate to technique(s) utilized in determining which proactive cache entries to provide to which client devices. In some of those implementations, in determining which proactive cache entries to provide (proactively or in response to a request) to a given client device, a remote system selects, from a superset of candidate proactive cache entries, a subset of the cache entries for providing to the given client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Cotting, Zaheed Sabur, Lan Huo, Bryan Christopher Horling, Behshad Behzadi, Lucas Mirelmann, Michael Golikov, Denis Burakov, Steve Cheng, Bohdan Vlasyuk, Sergey Nazarov, Mario Bertschler, Luv Kothari
  • Patent number: 11947423
    Abstract: A method of operating a distributed storage system, the method includes identifying missing chunks of a file. The file is divided into stripes that include data chunks and non-data chunks. The method also includes identifying non-missing chunks available for reconstructing the missing chunks and reconstructing missing data chunks before reconstructing missing non-data chunks using the available non-missing chunks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lidor Carmi, Christian Eric Schrock, Steven Robert Schirripa
  • Patent number: 11946757
    Abstract: Described is a computer-implemented method which comprises receiving a plurality of images captured by at least one user device, wherein each image is associated with one of a corresponding plurality of geographic locations; determining a path between the plurality of geographic locations; determining a confidence indicator representative of whether the determined path corresponds to a demarked path, wherein determining the confidence indicator comprises determining a time of capture of each of the plurality of images; identifying the path as corresponding to a demarked route, based on the confidence indicator; and marking the plurality of images for display as a demarked route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Charles Hsu
  • Patent number: 11947479
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for performing dynamic adaption and correction for internal delays in devices connected to a common time-multiplexed bus. The methods allow devices to operate reliably at a higher bus frequency by correcting for inherent and unknown delays within the components and in the system by measuring the actual delays using multiple readings with the bus. Intrinsic noise and jitter are used to increase the precision of the measurements, thereby essentially using these uncertainties as self-dithering for increased measurement resolution. During adaption, delays may be adjusted in multiple step sizes to speed adaption time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jens Kristian Poulsen
  • Patent number: 11947780
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Burns, George Alban Heitz, III, James Edward Stewart, Cameron Hill, Seungho Yang, Joe Delone Venters, William Alex Finlayson, Carsten Hinz, Timothy Samuel Psiaki, Nathan Scott Klee, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Kevin James Avery, Lawrence W. Neal, Martin Davidsson
  • Patent number: 11947859
    Abstract: A system and method is provided that provides for the transfer of the execution of content from a user device to an external device for output of the content by the external device. External devices may be detected in a physical space, and identified based on previous connection with the user device, based on a shared network or shared system of connected devices including the user device, based on image information captured by the user device and previously stored anchoring information that identifies the external devices, and the like. An external device may be selected for potential output of the content based on previously stored configuration information associated with the external device including, for example, output capabilities associated with the external device. The identified external device may output the transferred content in response to a user verification input, verifying that the content is to be output by the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Shengzhi Wu, Alexander James Faaborg
  • Patent number: 11947591
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processing imagery using one or more machine learning (ML) models. In particular, data describing imagery comprising a plurality of different and distinct frames can be received; and based at least in part on one or more ML models and the data describing the imagery, and for each frame of the plurality of different and distinct frames, one or more scores can be determined for the frame. Each score of the score(s) can indicate a determined measure of suitability of the frame with respect to one or more of various different and distinct uses for which the ML model(s) are configured to determine suitability of imagery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Karam, Li Zhang, Ariel Gilder, Yuzo Watanabe, Eric Penner, Farooq Ahmad, Hartwig Adam
  • Patent number: 11946762
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to interactive voice navigation. In particular, a computing system can provide audio information including one or more navigation instructions to a user via a computing system associated with the user. The computing system can activate an audio sensor associated with the computing system. The computing system can collect, using the audio sensor, audio data associated with the user. The computing system can determine, based on the audio data, whether the audio data is associated with one or more navigation instructions. The computing system can, in accordance with a determination that the audio data is associated with one or more navigation instructions, determine a context-appropriate audio response. The computing system can provide the context-appropriate audio response to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Matthew Sharifi, Blaise Aguera-Arcas
  • Patent number: 11947984
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for introducing a user to functions of various applications through interactions with an assistant agent. The assistant agent can correspond to an assistant application that can provide a user interface with multiple selectable elements, each of which can correspond to a separate application. When a user selects one of the selectable elements, a function of an application can be demonstrated to the user, in order that the user might become more familiar with functions of the application. In some implementations, a portion of the selectable element can be selected to cause information about the application to be presented to the user. This allows the user to have the option to try out or learn about an application before investing computational resources through downloading and installing the entire application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mingling Wang, Ye Zhou, Dina Elhaddad
  • Patent number: 11950307
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for efficient handling of a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. Instead of performing multiple radio resource control (RRC) procedures to change a resource control state of a user equipment (UE) and establish, modify, or release a connection with multi-node connectivity, the techniques described herein combine the multiple RRC procedures into a single RRC procedure that supports both a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. In particular, a master node sends a resource control state and multi-node connectivity message that includes both state change information and multi-node connectivity information. With this single message, timing and power resources of the UE can be conserved and failures resulting from asynchronous communication of the state change information and the multi-node connectivity information can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Wu, Teming Chen
  • Patent number: 11948572
    Abstract: Modulating packetized audio signals in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A system can receive audio signals detected by a microphone of a device. The system can parse the audio signal to identify trigger keyword and request, and generate a first action data structure. The system can identify a content item object based on the trigger keyword, and generate an output signal comprising a first portion corresponding to the first action data structure and a second portion corresponding to the content item object. The system can apply a modulation to the first or second portion of the output signal, and transmit the modulated output signal to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Bhaya, Robert Stets
  • Patent number: 11948556
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for detecting and/or enrolling (or commissioning) new “hot commands” that are useable to cause an automated assistant to perform responsive action(s) without having to be first explicitly invoked. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be transitioned from a limited listening state into a full speech recognition state in response to a trigger event. While in the full speech recognition state, the automated assistant may receive and perform speech recognition processing on a spoken command from a user to generate a textual command. The textual command may be determined to satisfy a frequency threshold in a corpus of textual commands Consequently, data indicative of the textual command may be enrolled as a hot command. Subsequent utterance of another textual command that is semantically consistent with the textual command may trigger performance of a responsive action by the automated assistant, without requiring explicit invocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Yuan, Bibo Xu, Tianyu Wang, Anurag Jain
  • Patent number: 11948570
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting utterances of a key phrase in an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving, by a key phrase spotting system, an audio signal encoding one or more utterances; while continuing to receive the audio signal, generating, by the key phrase spotting system, an attention output using an attention mechanism that is configured to compute the attention output based on a series of encodings generated by an encoder comprising one or more neural network layers; generating, by the key phrase spotting system and using attention output, output that indicates whether the audio signal likely encodes the key phrase; and providing, by the key phrase spotting system, the output that indicates whether the audio signal likely encodes the key phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wei Li, Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Kanury Kanishka Rao, Yanzhang He, Ian C. Mcgraw, Anton Bakhtin
  • Patent number: 11948062
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a compressed recurrent neural network (RNN). One of the systems includes a compressed RNN, the compressed RNN comprising a plurality of recurrent layers, wherein each of the recurrent layers has a respective recurrent weight matrix and a respective inter-layer weight matrix, and wherein at least one of recurrent layers is compressed such that a respective recurrent weight matrix of the compressed layer is defined by a first compressed weight matrix and a projection matrix and a respective inter-layer weight matrix of the compressed layer is defined by a second compressed weight matrix and the projection matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ouais Alsharif, Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Ian C. McGraw, Antoine Jean Bruguier
  • Patent number: 11948086
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, are described for performing neural network computations using a system configured to implement a neural network on a hardware circuit. The system includes a host that receives a batch of inputs to a neural network layer. Each of the inputs is stored in a memory location identified by an address. The system identifies one or more duplicate addresses in a listing of addresses for one or more inputs. For each duplicate address: the system generates a unique identifier that identifies the duplicate address in the listing of addresses. The system (i) obtains first inputs from memory locations identified by addresses corresponding to the unique identifiers and (ii) generates an output of the layer from the obtained first inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Nagarajan, Lifeng Nai, George Kurian, Hema Hariharan
  • Patent number: 11949744
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing online user privacy. Methods can include receiving tag information specifying a given publisher identifier for a publisher and a given client identifier assigned to a user of the client device by the publisher. A given service identifier assigned to the user by the service apparatus is obtained. A mapping between the given service identifier to the given client identifier is created. A list of client identifiers assigned to a set of users by the publisher is received. A list of matched service identifiers corresponding to the list of client identifiers are stored. Multiple content requests are received from multiple different client devices accessing services provided by the service apparatus. Responses to the content requests are based on whether the client devices provide service identifiers that are included in the list of matched service identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yuewei Wang, Shashank Chaudhary, Onur Soysal, Michael Ortega-Binderberger
  • Patent number: 11948575
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that uses circumstantial condition data, generated based on circumstantial conditions of an input, to determine whether the input should affect an action been initialized by a particular user. The automated assistant can allow each user to manipulate their respective ongoing action without necessitating interruptions for soliciting explicit user authentication. For example, when an individual in a group of persons interacts with the automated assistant to initialize or affect a particular ongoing action, the automated assistant can generate data that correlates that individual to the particular ongoing action. The data can be generated using a variety of different input modalities, which can be dynamically selected based on changing circumstances of the individual. Therefore, different sets of input modalities can be processed each time a user provides an input for modifying an ongoing action and/or initializing another action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Gallagher, Caroline Pantofaru, Vinay Bettadapura, Utsav Prabhu
  • Patent number: 11949724
    Abstract: A computing system and method that can be used for safe and privacy preserving video representations of participants in a videoconference. In particular, the present disclosure provides a general pipeline for generating reconstructions of videoconference participants based on semantic statuses and/or activity statuses of the participants. The systems and methods of the present disclosure allow for videoconferences that convey necessary or meaningful information of participants through presentation of generalized representations of participants while filtering unnecessary or unwanted information from the representations by leveraging machine-learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Colvin Pitts, Yukun Zhu, Xuhui Jia
  • Patent number: 11948159
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scalable matrix factorization. A method includes obtaining a Structured Query Language (SQL) query to create a matrix factorization model based on a set of training data, generating SQL sub-queries that don't include non-scalable functions, obtaining the set of training data, and generating a matrix factorization model based on the set of training data and the SQL sub-queries that don't include non-scalable functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Amir H. Hormati, Lisa Yin, Umar Ali Syed, Mingge Deng
  • Patent number: 11949990
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques enabling a scale down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface. This scale down preview enables users to more-easily and more-accurately capture images for a panorama.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Chia-Yu Huang, Carsten Hinz, Chorong Hwang Johnston, Mike Ma, Isaac William Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11949692
    Abstract: A comprehensive cybersecurity platform includes a cybersecurity intelligence hub, a cybersecurity sensor and one or more endpoints communicatively coupled to the cybersecurity sensor, where the platform allows for efficient scaling, analysis, and detection of malware and/or malicious activity. An endpoint includes a local data store and an agent that monitors for one or more types of events being performed on the endpoint, and performs deduplication within the local data store to identify “distinct” events. The agent provides the collected metadata of distinct events to the cybersecurity sensor which also performs deduplication within a local data store. The cybersecurity sensor sends all distinct events and/or file objects to a cybersecurity intelligence hub for analysis. The cybersecurity intelligence hub is coupled to a data management and analytics engine (DMAE) that analyzes the event and/or object using multiple services to render a verdict (e.g., benign or malicious) and issues an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Glyer, Seth Jesse Summersett
  • Publication number: 20240104247
    Abstract: A method for a privacy-aware transcription includes receiving audio-visual signal including audio data and image data for a speech environment and a privacy request from a participant in the speech environment where the privacy request indicates a privacy condition of the participant. The method further includes segmenting the audio data into a plurality of segments. For each segment, the method includes determining an identity of a speaker of a corresponding segment of the audio data based on the image data and determining whether the identity of the speaker of the corresponding segment includes the participant associated with the privacy condition. When the identity of the speaker of the corresponding segment includes the participant, the method includes applying the privacy condition to the corresponding segment. The method also includes processing the plurality of segments of the audio data to determine a transcript for the audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Siohan, Takaki Makino, Richard Rose, Otavio Braga, Hank Liao, Basilio Garcia Castillo
  • Publication number: 20240104930
    Abstract: The disclosure describes techniques for interacting with visitors at a visitor interaction system. A method includes obtaining video data captured by the visitor interaction system, identifying an approach of a person, and analyzing the video data to determine an identity of the person. The method includes automatically and without user intervention determining that the person belongs to a visitor groups of a plurality of visitor groups. Each of the visitor groups corresponds to a response model that includes a plurality of response actions. At least one of the response actions includes an autonomous response action. The method includes identifying a response model corresponding to the visitor groups and initiating an autonomous response action associated with the response model. Initiating the autonomous response action including presenting a message to the person, monitoring a response to the message, and sending a report message to the user via a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Alexander Finlayson, Liana Kong, John Jordan Nold, Sahana Mysore, Ruiyi Song
  • Publication number: 20240105178
    Abstract: A method includes a first assistant-enabled device (AED) receiving an assignment instruction assigning a group hotword to a selected group of AEDs that includes the first AED and one or more other AEDs. Each AED is configured to wake-up from a low-power state when the group hotword is detected in streaming audio by at least one of the AEDs. The method also includes receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance spoken by the user and includes a query that specifies an operation to perform. In response to detecting the group hotword in the audio data, the method also includes triggering the first AED to wake-up from the low-power state and executing a collaboration routine to cause the first AED and each other AED in the selected group of AEDs to collaborate with one another to fulfill performance of the operation specified by the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11943181
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is described. The method includes a computing system receiving an item of digital content from a user device. The computing system generates one or more labels that indicate attributes of the item of digital content. The computing system also generates one or more conversational replies to the item of digital content based on the one or more labels that indicate attributes of the item of digital content. The method also includes the computing system selecting a conversational reply from among the one or more conversational replies and providing the conversational reply for output to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ibrahim Badr, Aayush Kumar, Goekhan Hasan Bakir, Nils Grimsmo, Bianca Madalina Buisman
  • Patent number: 11941352
    Abstract: A method of simultaneous multiuser collaborative access to a spreadsheet includes transmitting the spreadsheet to a first device of a first user having a first privilege for a first part that includes a first cell, transmitting the spreadsheet to a second device of a second user having a second privilege for a second part, receiving a first edit of the first cell from the first device, and a second edit of the second cell from the second device, and in response to the first cell and the second cell being different, the first privilege including an edit privilege, and the second privilege including the edit privilege, accepting the first edit, accepting the second edit, forwarding the first edit for display with the first cell at the second device, and providing, to the second device, a real-time visual indication identifying the first user as a last user editing the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Rochelle, Micah Lemonik, Farzad Khosrowshahi, John Stephen Danaher
  • Patent number: 11942087
    Abstract: A device performs a method for using image data to aid voice recognition. The method includes the device capturing image data of a vicinity of the device and adjusting, based on the image data, a set of parameters for voice recognition performed by the device. The set of parameters for the device performing voice recognition include, but are not limited to: a trigger threshold of a trigger for voice recognition; a set of beamforming parameters; a database for voice recognition; and/or an algorithm for voice recognition. The algorithm may include using noise suppression or using acoustic beamforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Zurek, Adrian M. Schuster, Fu-Lin Shau, Jincheng Wu
  • Patent number: 11938638
    Abstract: Active utilization of a robotic simulator in control of one or more real world robots. A simulated environment of the robotic simulator can be configured to reflect a real world environment in which a real robot is currently disposed, or will be disposed. The robotic simulator can then be used to determine a sequence of robotic actions for use by the real world robot(s) in performing at least part of a robotic task. The sequence of robotic actions can be applied, to a simulated robot of the robotic simulator, to generate a sequence of anticipated simulated state data instances. The real robot can be controlled to implement the sequence of robotic actions. The implementation of one or more of the robotic actions can be contingent on a real state data instance having at least a threshold degree of similarity to a corresponding one of the anticipated simulated state data instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yunfei Bai, Tigran Gasparian, Brent Austin, Andreas Christiansen, Matthew Bennice, Paul Bechard
  • Patent number: 11941355
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for using operational transforms to perform operations on parallel copies of a document model. A method includes: determining that a first operation is to be performed on a second parallel copy; and in response: determining that a revision of a first parallel copy matches a revision of the second parallel copy; and in response: performing the first operation on the second parallel copy to obtain a calculation result including a first list of commands; applying the first list of commands to the second parallel copy; performing an operational transform on at least one command in the first list of commands based on queued user edits to the first parallel copy, the queued user edits including a second list of commands, to obtain a transformed list of commands; and applying the transformed list of commands to the first parallel copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Nishir Shelat, Tim Sears, Tanuj Sharma, Srivatsan Narayanan, Shruti Jain, Luiz Franca Pereira Filho, Kashish Bansal, Julian Rajeshwar, Chris Terefinko, Asim Fazal, Archit Gupta
  • Patent number: 11941867
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a classification neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey E. Hinton, Nicholas Myles Wisener Frosst, Nicolas Guy Robert Papernot
  • Patent number: 11941969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling a system to rapidly respond to wireless instructions being transmitted by a personal device over one of several communications networks that share a common RF medium are provided. During operation of the system, certain network communications may take priority over other network communications. Rapid response communications enable a user to communicate with the system, using the personal device, in a manner that does not collide or interfere with higher priority network communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hirofumi Honjo, Prashanth Ramachandran, Mikko Sannala, Naveen Singh, Wes Calidonna, Arjuna Sivasithambaresan, Harry Tannenbaum, Scott Hong
  • Patent number: 11942088
    Abstract: This application is directed to a speaker device having a rounded enclosure. The rounded enclosure includes two housing elements that are coupled to each other and have a substantially continuous transition. The rounded enclosure has a circular cross section defined by a first radius. A first housing element includes and extends past the circular cross section, and a second housing element has a second maximum radius that is smaller than the first radius. A speaker unit and a circuit board are arranged within the rounded enclosure. The circuit board is electrically coupled to the speaker unit. At least a portion of the first housing element includes perforations configured to enable transmission of sound generated by the speaker unit out of the speaker device. The second housing element has a power connector that is electrically coupled to the circuit board and is configured to receive power from an external power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Frédéric Heckmann, Yau-Shing Lee, Robert Rose, Jun Hou, Patanjali Sastry Peri, Phanindraja Ancha
  • Patent number: 11942091
    Abstract: Speech processing techniques are disclosed that enable determining a text representation of alphanumeric sequences in captured audio data. Various implementations include determining a contextual biasing finite state transducer (FST) based on contextual information corresponding to the captured audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include modifying probabilities of one or more candidate recognitions of the alphanumeric sequence using the contextual biasing FST, where the FST further comprises a grammar as well as a speller finite state transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Haynor, Petar Aleksic
  • Patent number: 11941660
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing conversion path performance measures and reports. In one aspect, user interaction data are obtained, were the user interaction data specify user interactions for a plurality of conversions. User interactions that are associated with each conversion are selected from the user interaction data, where the associated user interactions for each conversion are user interactions with a converting user during the conversion cycle for the conversion. Using the user interaction data for the selected user interactions, a quantity of user interactions that are associated with each conversion and occurred during the conversion cycle for the conversion are determined. In turn, conversion path performance measures are computed and reports specifying the conversion path performance measures are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sissie Ling-Ie Hsiao, Chao Cai, Eric W. Ewald, Cameron M. Tangney, Robert A. Walker, II, Japjit Tulsi, Ming Lei, Zhimin He
  • Patent number: 11941736
    Abstract: Systems and methods can enable the control the motion of an animated character based on imagery (e.g., captured by an image capture device such as a web camera or “webcam”) which shows a person in motion. Specifically, the animated character can be automatically rendered to have the same motion as the entity shown in the imagery (e.g., in real time). According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the animated character can be rendered by iteratively transforming (e.g., including deforming the actual geometry of) a vector-based surface illustration. Specifically, the systems and methods present disclosure can leverage the scalable and transformable nature of a vector-based surface illustration to provide more realistic motion-controlled animation, in which the underlying geometry of the animated character is able to be adjusted to imitate human motion more realistically (e.g., as opposed to basic rotations of fixed character geometry).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Shan Huang
  • Patent number: 11941342
    Abstract: Gaze data collected from eye gaze tracking performed while training text was read may be used to train at least one layout interpretation model. In this way, the at least one layout interpretation model may be trained to determine current text that includes words arranged according to a layout, process the current text with the at least one layout interpretation model to determine the layout, and output the current text with the words arranged according to the layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander James Faaborg, Brett Barros
  • Patent number: 11943075
    Abstract: Implementations herein relate to information describing one or more internal states of a technical system. Implementations herein are provided for characterizing reliability of various different third party servers, at least when reporting third party device statuses, as well as adapting protocols for device ecosystems affected by such reliability. Latency can affect accuracy of device states represented by assistant devices. Certain servers can be characterized as especially delayed when reporting an updated device state in response to a user request, and, as a result, the third party server can be correlated to a metric that characterizes the relative latency of the third party server. When the metric fails to satisfy a particular threshold, a server and/or client associated with the “ecosystem” of third party devices can affirmatively operate to retrieve device state updates, rather than passively await updates from a corresponding third party server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Yuzhao Ni
  • Patent number: 11942989
    Abstract: There is provided a method including receiving an incoming ID at a first wearable heads-up display (WHUD), which incoming ID is associated with a communicant device. The method also includes sending match data from the first WHUD to a match engine. The match data includes a first WHUD ID and the incoming ID. Moreover, the method includes receiving a match indicator at the first WHUD from the match engine. The match indicator is to indicate a match event between the first WHUD and the communicant device based on the match data. Furthermore, the method includes effecting communication between the first WHUD and the communicant device comprising at least one of sending a message from the first WHUD to the communicant device and receiving at the first WHUD a corresponding message from the communicant device. The first WHUD, and a method of operating the match engine are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ido Raveh, Stuart James Myron Nicholson
  • Patent number: 11942999
    Abstract: In an optical network having a terrestrial terminal and an open cable interface (OCI) connecting a submarine cable to a terrestrial cable, the OCI may include a filter positioned on an optical path between the terrestrial cable and the submarine cable and configured to pass first communication signals of a first frequency band, and filter out secondary signals of a second frequency band that does not overlap with the first frequency band. The secondary signals may be looped back to the terrestrial terminal. The terrestrial terminal may detect the looped back secondary signals, and in response, determine the presence of the OCI and that the supervisory signals were rerouted by the OCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Massimiliano Salsi, Shuang Yin
  • Patent number: 11943500
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an apparatus may include a media streaming device including electronic circuitry configured to receive media content wirelessly from a media content source, and an output cord segment having a first end portion integrally coupled to a structure of the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a receiving device, where the electronic circuitry is further configured to transmit the received media content through the output cord segment to the receiving device. The apparatus may include a power cord segment having a first end portion configured to be coupled to the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Micah Thomas Collins, Michael Jon Sundermeyer, Kristen Beck, Wenson Chern, Philip Lee Ly, Colleen Mischke, Robert Jason Rose
  • Patent number: 11939056
    Abstract: Device installation systems, methods, and media for providing ubiquitous connectivity in outdoor environments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Kennedy, Craig Nevill-Manning, Amanda Meurer, Veronica Pinchin, Daniel Riegel
  • Patent number: 11940946
    Abstract: A vector reduction circuit configured to reduce an input vector of elements comprises a plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cells other than a designated first cell that receives a designated first element of the input vector is configured to receive a particular element of the input vector, receive, from another of the one or more cells, a temporary reduction element, perform a reduction operation using the particular element and the temporary reduction element, and provide, as a new temporary reduction element, a result of performing the reduction operation using the particular element and the temporary reduction element. The vector reduction circuit also comprises an output circuit configured to provide, for output as a reduction of the input vector, a new temporary reduction element corresponding to a result of performing the reduction operation using a last element of the input vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Michael Thorson, Andrew Everett Phelps, Olivier Temam
  • Patent number: 11941041
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting news items corresponding to media content are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: determining a channel that is providing a television program; determining whether news content corresponding to the channel exists, wherein the determining further comprises: obtaining news documents, determining keywords associated with the news documents based on frequency, receiving captioning content corresponding to the channel, determining whether at least one of the keywords associated with the news documents is included in the captioning content, selecting a news document in response to determining that keywords associated with the news document are included in the captioning content, and obtaining one or more news items that correspond to the news document; and causing the one or more news items relating to the television program to be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich
  • Patent number: 11941084
    Abstract: A method for training a machine learning model includes obtaining a set of training samples. For each training sample in the set of training samples, during each of one or more training iterations, the method includes cropping the training sample to generate a first cropped image, cropping the training sample to generate a second cropped image that is different than the first cropped image, and duplicating a first portion of the second cropped image. The method also includes overlaying the duplicated first portion of the second cropped image on a second portion of the second cropped image to form an augmented second cropped image. The first portion is different than the second portion. The method also includes training the machine learning model with the first cropped image and the augmented second cropped image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kihyuk Sohn, Chun-Liang Li, Jinsung Yoon, Tomas Jon Pfister
  • Patent number: 11941222
    Abstract: A channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform is provided for presentation to a channel owner. A request is received, via the channel GUI, to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation. In response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option, the online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and the channel GUI is modified, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Renato Verdugo, Kiley McEvoy, Shannon Butler, Paul Heider, Molly Nix, Nicholas Jones, Eric Mayers
  • Patent number: 11942076
    Abstract: A method includes receiving audio data encoding an utterance spoken by a native speaker of a first language, and receiving a biasing term list including one or more terms in a second language different than the first language. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognition model, acoustic features derived from the audio data to generate speech recognition scores for both wordpieces and corresponding phoneme sequences in the first language. The method also includes rescoring the speech recognition scores for the phoneme sequences based on the one or more terms in the biasing term list, and executing, using the speech recognition scores for the wordpieces and the rescored speech recognition scores for the phoneme sequences, a decoding graph to generate a transcription for the utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ke Hu, Golan Pundak, Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Antoine Jean Bruguier, Tara N. Sainath
  • Patent number: 11941488
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing phase operations. In one aspect, a method for performing a same phase operation on a first and second qubit using a third qubit prepared in a phased plus state includes: performing a first NOT operation on the third qubit; computing a controlled adder operation on the first, second and third qubit, comprising encoding the result of the controlled adder operation in a fourth qubit; performing a square of the phase operation on the fourth qubit; uncomputing the controlled adder operation on the first, second and third qubit; performing a CNOT operation between the first qubit and the third qubit, wherein the first qubit acts as the control; performing a CNOT operation between the second qubit and the third qubit, wherein the second qubit acts as the control; and performing a second NOT operation on the third qubit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Craig Gidney
  • Patent number: 11941009
    Abstract: Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Lalitesh Katragadda, Keith Ito, James R. Muller, Ramesh Balakrishnan, James C. Norris
  • Patent number: 11943532
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that provide a “best” picture taken within a few seconds of the moment when a capture command is received (e.g., when the “shutter” button is pressed). In some situations, several still images are automatically (that is, without the user's input) captured. These images are compared to find a “best” image that is presented to the photographer for consideration. Video is also captured automatically and analyzed to see if there is an action scene or other motion content around the time of the capture command. If the analysis reveals anything interesting, then the video clip is presented to the photographer. The video clip may be cropped to match the still-capture scene and to remove transitory parts. Higher-precision horizon detection may be provided based on motion analysis and on pixel-data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Doina I. Petrescu, Thomas T. Lay, Steven R. Petrie, Bill Ryan, Snigdha Sinha, Jeffrey S. Vanhoof
  • Patent number: 11943883
    Abstract: A magnetic bistable hinge system includes a hinge bracket, first and second magnets, and a rotatable member. The first magnet may be coupled to the hinge bracket and be configured to rotate about an axis of the hinge bracket from a first bistable position to a second bistable position. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a first angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first magnet and the second magnets are in the first bistable position and the rotatable member is in a closed position relative to the hinge bracket. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a second angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first and second magnets are at the second bistable position, and the rotatable member is rotated to an open position relative to the hinge bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Peter Michael Cazalet, Bryan Macomber