Patents Examined by Adam M Queler
  • Patent number: 12252124
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system comprises an engine configured to power a vehicle, a distance sensor configured to measure one or more distances surrounding the vehicle, a tire pressure sensor, and a controller configured to detect whether the engine is shut off, determine whether the tire pressure satisfies a tire pressure threshold based on the tire pressure sensor, the tire pressure threshold being indicative of a decrease in the tire pressure, determine whether a distance satisfies a distance threshold based on the distance sensor, the distance threshold being indicative of the vehicle having space to advance the distance in one or more of: a forward direction; and a backward direction, and when the tire pressure satisfies the tire pressure threshold, the distance satisfies the distance threshold, and the engine is shut off, operate the engine to turn on and operate the vehicle to move the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Shaw, Javier Romero
  • Patent number: 12248656
    Abstract: A method of interactively navigating a user through a path of menu choices on a user interface may include displaying a current menu of choices on a first portion of a user interface display. The user interface allows for selecting of a menu item from the current menu of choices and to drill down through levels of menu choices based on selecting a menu item from a prior level of menu choices. A second portion of the user interface display presents past selected and past unselected menu items of the drilled-down levels. The past unselected menu items are displayed as selectable options. The user interface allows for jumping to a different path of menu choices by selecting a past unselected menu item from a previously navigated menu level displayed on the second portion of the user interface display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: METHODICAL MIND, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, George Sigal, Edward J. S. Roques, Louis W. Pang, Pankaj Oberoi, Kin Ng, Michael Vock
  • Patent number: 12249251
    Abstract: A virtual environment may be provided, the virtual environment including a procedurally generated virtual landscape. The virtual landscape may include various components, such as natural terrain elements, infrastructural elements, and residential/commercial properties, that are automatically generated based upon procedural rules so as to provide uniqueness of any one virtual landscape. A user may enter the virtual environment and, via various virtual tools, identify aspects of the generated virtual landscape that affect risk to one or more of the properties therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Bryan R. Nussbaum, Deanna L. Stockweather, Nathan C. Summers, Vicki King, Teresa Ho
  • Patent number: 12244548
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a content through an instant messaging application is provided. The method includes: sharing a screen of a user terminal associated with a first user account, through a chat room of the instant messaging application in which a plurality of user accounts including the first user account participate; selecting at least one content that is included in the shared screen; outputting the selected at least one content through the chat room; and receiving, through the chat room, an evaluation of the at least one content from at least one user account among the plurality of user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Gye Yeong Kim
  • Patent number: 12229460
    Abstract: One disclosed method involves a computing system determining a keyword of interest for an online meeting being presented via a user interface, determining that content of the online meeting corresponds to the keyword of interest, and causing, in response to the content of the online meeting corresponding to the keyword of interest, the user interface to output an indication that the content of the online meeting being presented is potentially of interest. Another disclosed method involves a computing system determining data indicative of a number of client devices, from a plurality of client devices participating in an online meeting, for which a user interface for the online meeting is presented in an active window, and causing, based at least in part on the data, a first client device, from the plurality of client devices, to output an indication that content of the online meeting being presented is potentially of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenshuang Zhang, Ke Xu, Xuan Liu, Chunhui Wu
  • Patent number: 12210728
    Abstract: An information communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor and is configured to designate a communication destination by selecting a desired recipient from plural recipients displayed in a list form in an operation screen, in which the processor displays, for the recipients, recipient names, which are names of the recipients, displays, in front of each of the recipient names, a letter icon including a combination of an initial letter of each recipient name in a case in which the recipient names are written with phonetic characters, and a figure, sorts the recipients in a predetermined display order based on the initial letter included in the letter icon, and displays the sorted recipients in the operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Mishima, Yoshihiro Sekine, Yuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12202483
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit configured to, in a case where a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle in a stopped state starts, determine whether an object is located inside a specified area that is a predetermined area in front of the vehicle, and a driving assistance unit configured to maintain the stopped state of the vehicle in a case where an object is located inside the specified area in a case where the preceding vehicle starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: ASSIGNEEDENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norio Tsuchida, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 12154136
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for utilizing a secondary application to render invitational content. Primary content rendered by a web browser can be embedded with a command requesting that a secondary application be executed. The secondary application can be executed in a secured sand box environment and configured to render invitational content in a second window above the primary content. The secondary application can be known and trusted by the operating system to gather sensitive data used to select appropriate invitational content. Further, data can be included in the command requesting that the secondary application be executed. The invitational content can be associated with secondary views that can be rendered without affecting the primary content. The secondary application can collect data to render the secondary view, such as the exact point selected, which is used to render graphical transition effects leading to the secondary view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Bedford Turner, Thomas Alsina, Sean B. Kelly
  • Patent number: 12106161
    Abstract: The present specification describes a computer-implemented method. According to the method, an object within a range of vision of a user is identified via a capture device on a wearable augmented reality (AR) system worn by the user. A user interaction with an identified object within the range of vision of the user is monitored. A notification related to the identified object is generated and presented on a display device of the wearable AR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pavan Kumar Penugonda, Sri Harsha Varada, Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Venkata Ratnam Alubelli, Rachana Vishwanathula
  • Patent number: 12090936
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device for controlling an internal system of a vehicle by using a wireless data communication identifier (ID) of a mobile device, and an operating method of the electronic device. Also disclosed are an electronic device which obtains environment configuration information of the vehicle configured by a user input by using a wireless data communication identifier (ID) (e.g., a Bluetooth ID or a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) device name) of the mobile device, and controls a configuration of the internal system of the vehicle by using the obtained environment configuration information, and an operating method of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaewoong Lee
  • Patent number: 12093514
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for determining a contrast of colors displayed by a digital user interface are disclosed, In one embodiment, in an electronic device including a processor, a compliance module is configured to receive a user selection of a graphical element displayed on a user interface of the electronic device; determine first color data associated with a background of the selected graphical element; determine second color data associated with a text string within the selected graphical element; determine a luminosity associated with the first color data and a luminosity associated with the second color data; calculate a color contrast ratio based on the luminosity associated with the first color data and the luminosity associated with the second color data; and display, at the user interface of the electronic device, the calculated color contrast ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Sri Baskaran, Venkata Sudheer Babu Chundi, Chakrapani Chittabathina, Rasanjaya Herath Mudiyanselage, Mizan Miah, Muralidhar Somipalli, Manikanth Sakuru
  • Patent number: 11879748
    Abstract: A map information system includes: at least one vehicle; and a map server configured to communicate with the vehicle and store a high-precision map, wherein the vehicle includes: a turn signal lever sensor configured to detect a turn signal operation by a driver; an external environment sensor configured to acquire information on surroundings of the vehicle; an own vehicle position identifying device configured to identify a position of the vehicle; and a controller configured to transmit, to the map server, the turn signal operation, the position of the vehicle, and the information on the surroundings, and the map server updates the high-precision map based on the information acquired by the external environment sensor when comparing the high-precision map stored in the map server with the turn signal operation and determining that a branching route is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11797162
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: displaying a plurality of augmented reality painting options; detecting, by a touch input interface of the eyewear device, a first touch input comprising a single finger touching the touch input interface; selecting a first augmented reality painting option of the plurality of augmented reality painting options in response to the first touch input; while continuing to detect continuous touch between the single finger and the touch input interface following selection of the first augmented reality painting option, displaying a second augmented reality painting option related to the first augmented reality painting option; and performing a selection associated with the second augmented reality painting option in response to detecting, by the touch input interface, movement of the single finger along the touch input interface while continuing to detect the continuous touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Goodrich, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno
  • Patent number: 11775130
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for enabling a retail experience in a computer-generated reality environment. In some embodiments, the techniques include: generating a computer-generated reality environment, including presenting a virtual object representing a product in the computer-generated reality environment; providing a communication session with a remote user of the product while presenting the virtual object representing the product in the computer-generated reality environment; and while providing the communication session, adjusting the presentation of the virtual object representing the product in the computer-generated reality environment using information received from the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander B. Oser
  • Patent number: 11614861
    Abstract: An electronic picture frame and an image display method thereof are provided. In the electronic picture frame, a plurality of images are arranged and displayed on one side of a screen, and among the plurality of images, an image at a particular position is enlarged and displayed. Alternatively, a screen is divided into a plurality of sub-screens, so images stored in each of a plurality of storage areas can be displayed on a respective sub-screen. Accordingly, the images stored in the plurality of storage areas can be displayed on the electronic picture frame in diverse forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soo-hyun Jho
  • Patent number: 11592969
    Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of generating a floor plan for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface). In some cases, the MIGM system interacts with an MIGM system operator user, such as by displaying a GUI showing information related to the images and/or a floor plan being generated, and by receiving and using input submitted by the user via the GUI to assist with the generating of the floor plan, such as to specify interconnections between particular rooms via particular inter-room wall openings of the rooms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MFTB Holdco, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuguang Li, Pierre Moulon, Lambert E. Wixson, Christopher Buehler, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
  • Patent number: 11550466
    Abstract: A method controls a list scroll bar, including displaying a partial area of a list having at least one first item, and a list scroll bar to scroll the list; expanding and displaying a first index area having at least one first index corresponding to the at least one first item in the list scroll bar; downscaling a second index area having at least one second index corresponding to at least one second item different from the at least one first item and displaying a representative second index representing the second index area in the list scroll bar; and upon detecting a gesture to select the representative second index, expanding and displaying the second index area in the list scroll bar while downscaling the first index area and displaying a representative first index representing the first index area in the list scroll bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Joon Won
  • Patent number: 11544452
    Abstract: Generating a user interface template is provided. A user context corresponding to an action request by a user to perform a task on a computer is determined. A set of user interface templates corresponding to the action request by the user and the user context is retrieved. Components of different user interface templates within the set of user interface templates are compared. Relevant components of the different user interface templates are combined based on the action request by the user and the user context. The user interface template corresponding to the action request by the user and the user context is generated based on the combined relevant components of the different user interface templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivali Agarwal, Maja Vukovic, Frederick Y. Wu
  • Patent number: 11501854
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for electronically drawing and editing representations of chemical structures using an intuitive user interface. This user interface, the context-aware virtual keyboard, makes it faster and easier to draw and edit chemical structure representations by guiding the user through the sequence of steps required to produce the representation in a context-based, non-linear fashion. The context-based virtual keyboard allows a user to quickly create graphical representations of complex chemical structures by using the structure itself as a basis for presenting efficient options for subsequent drawing/editing steps. Different possible and/or likely actions (e.g., edits to a chemical structure being drawn) are presented to the user based on a selected navigation position on the drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Informatics, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Morieux, Michael Wilson, Jeffrey F. Lowrie
  • Patent number: 11475071
    Abstract: A cloud platform supports an object preview service. A user may configure a data object preview, and the object preview service stores a set of instructions for the data object in a preview library. The object preview is associated with a unique identifier, which is associated with an identifier of the preview library. The object preview service may receive requests from client systems, and the request may indicate a data object. The object preview service identifies the set of instructions based on user interface (UI) configurations of the client system and the request. The object preview service transmits the instructions to the client system, which outputs the data object preview at a UI according to the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce, inc.
    Inventors: Sam Kligman, Jinal Kathiara