Patents Examined by Alazar Tilahun
  • Patent number: 11974050
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose data simulation method and device for event camera. A specific embodiment of the method includes: decoding the video to be processed to obtain a video frame sequence; inputting a target video frame to a fully convolutional network UNet to obtain event camera contrast threshold distribution information; sampling each pixel in the target video frame to obtain an event camera contrast threshold set; performing processing on the event camera contrast threshold set and the video frame sequence, to obtain the simulated event camera data; performing generative adversarial learning on the simulated event camera data and event camera shooting data, to obtain updated event camera contrast threshold distribution information; generating simulated event camera data. The present disclosure is a computer vision system that can be widely applied to such fields as national defense and military, film and television production, public security, and etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Jia Li, Daxin Gu, Yunshan Qi, Qinping Zhao
  • Patent number: 11962890
    Abstract: An automatic sharing method for 360-degree photo booth and an automatic sharing system for 360-degree photo booth are provided. The method includes following steps. A mobile terminal accesses a page of collecting user configuration information, and the user configuration information includes a work receiver specified by user. A server obtains data of the user configuration information submitted by the mobile terminal by a first communication module. A second QR code containing the user configuration information is pushed to the mobile terminal by the first communication module. A verification device scans the second QR code, after the user configuration information is determined to include an information of a specified receiver, the control system pushes control instructions to a 360-degree photo booth by a second communication module to activate a using permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MARVEL TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Sheng Guang Luo
  • Patent number: 11956479
    Abstract: Embodiments are related to processing of a source video stream for generation of a target video stream that includes an object of interest to a viewer. In some embodiments, the target video stream may exclusively or primarily include the performance of the object of interest to the viewer, without including other persons in that video. This allows a viewer to focus on an object of his or her interest and not necessarily have to view the performances of other objects in the source video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Swapnil Anil Tilaye, Rima Shah
  • Patent number: 11943516
    Abstract: A method for participating in a live broadcast via a viewer device includes running an application on the viewer device; using the running application to access a live broadcast that is being streamed by a streaming platform within an associated broadcast room; monitoring, by the running application, an operating instruction issued by a user of the viewer device; and controlling, by the running application, an operation of an interactive element associated with the broadcast room that is not managed by a platform of the streaming platform, based on the monitored operating instruction, the operation of the interactive element being observable only to at least one participant of the broadcast room. The at least one participant of the broadcast room includes the user, a content creator of the live broadcast, or another viewer using a device that is running the application to access the broadcast room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HYTTO PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Liu, Jilin Qiu
  • Patent number: 11936958
    Abstract: A processor may automatically generate one or more transcripts based on a media context. The processor may append at least one of the one or more transcripts to the media. The processor may modify the at least one of the one or more transcripts based on an adjustment to a weight factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Dong Yin, Wen Wang, Zhuo Cai, Rong Fu, Hao Sheng, Kang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11935305
    Abstract: An applique is mounted over one or both B-pillars of an autonomous vehicle and includes a display, speaker, touch input, and microphone. The applique may include a curved cover mounted over a printed circuit board (PCB) having LED arrays mounted thereto. A diffuser defines windows for the LED arrays and has a planar surface interfacing with the PCB and a curved surface interfacing with the curved cover. A controller of the vehicle detects proximity to a passenger to be picked up and displays the passenger's name at a first proximity, outputs a spoken message at a second, closer, proximity, and outputs a visible and audible prompt to enter an access code at a third proximity closer than the second proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Dubey, Segundo Baldovino, LaRon Brown, Venkatesh Krishnan, Mohan Kamath
  • Patent number: 11930228
    Abstract: A computer program according allows a processor to function such that a first stream of a first data type including a motion, a sound, a comment, or information according to gifting is retrieved, a second stream of a second data type including a video is retrieved, data according to the first stream and data according to the second stream are synthesized, and the synthesized data is provided. In addition, the first data type includes intermediate information according to the video. In addition, the intermediate information includes depth information according to the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Shirai, Yousuke Yamanouchi
  • Patent number: 11930156
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for improved depth perception in stereoscopic night vision devices. Among these are embodiments for aligning information overlays in the stereo view with associated objects, and for generating stereo information from single lenses or intensifiers. In some illustrative embodiments, a camera and position sensor are provided for at least two viewers, e.g., a pilot and a copilot, such that when a scene overlaps between viewers, the system produces a stereoptic scene, in which the users can more accurately determine a difference in depth between two or more distant objects. An illustrative binocular night vision system uses a high-resolution depth map to present binocular images to a user. In some embodiments, supplementary content can be overlaid, with an appropriate binocular disparity that is based on the depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Minds, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Keesling, Clinton Blake Hope, Kevin Robert Keegan, Kjerstin Irja Williams, Bran Ferren, David Foor
  • Patent number: 11924517
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a channel sequence for display via an abbreviated on-screen guide are disclosed herein. Channel tuning commands are entered via a user interface of a computing device. Channel tuning data, which describes channel transitions caused by the channel tuning commands, is stored in a buffer. Based on the channel tuning data, a channel family comprising a plurality of channels is generated. A determination is made as to whether a currently tuned channel is included in the channel family. In response to determining that the currently tuned channel is included in the channel family, an on-screen guide, which comprises an abbreviated channel listing of the plurality of channels of the channel family, is generated for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Brehm, Benjamin Harden
  • Patent number: 11924391
    Abstract: A system obtains a data set representing immersive video content for display at a display time, including first data representing the content according to a first level of detail, and second data representing the content according to a second higher level of detail. During one or more first times prior to the display time, the system causes at least a portion of the first data to be stored in a buffer. During one or more second times prior to the display time, the system generates a prediction of a viewport for displaying the content to a user at the display time, identifies a portion of the second data corresponding to the prediction of the viewport, and causes the identified portion of the second data to be stored in the video buffer. At the display time, the system causes the content to be displayed to the user using the video buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fanyi Duanmu, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu, Xiaosong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11924507
    Abstract: A process adapts user-initiated search queries. The process executes at a client device with a microphone. The process downloads audio fingerprints from a remote server for a plurality of video programs, and downloads information that correlates the audio fingerprint to the video programs. The audio fingerprints are preselected according to relevancy criteria, including stored user preferences and prior search queries by the user. The audio fingerprints and correlating information are stored locally. The process detects ambient sound using the microphone and computes one or more sample audio fingerprints from the detected ambient sound. The process matches a sample audio fingerprint to a locally stored audio fingerprint and uses the correlating information to identify a first video program corresponding to the matched sample audio fingerprint. The process then receives user input to initiate a search query. The process provides auto-complete suggestions for the search query based on the first video program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich, Ingrid McAulay Trollope
  • Patent number: 11924479
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to dynamically generate metadata for a live media stream. The system determines that a first user on a social media network has started a live media stream. In response, the system identifies a topic of the live media stream based on a frame of the live media stream and identifies another person featured in the frame of the live media stream based on social connections of the first user in the social media network. The system then generates a title for the live media stream based on the identified topic and the identified person, and transmits a notification to a second user that the first user is streaming live, where the notification includes the generated title.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Padmassri Chandrashekar, Daina Emmanuel, Harshavardhan Reddy Kalathuru
  • Patent number: 11908196
    Abstract: In accordance with one disclosed method, a computing system may cause a first computing device to display a first notification of a first event detected at a monitored location, and may cause a second computing device to display a second notification of a second event detected at the monitored location. The computing system may additionally cause the second computing device to cease display of the second notification in response to a change of status of the first event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Reid Sundell, Jordan Theodore Thayer, Jason Andrew Carter
  • Patent number: 11910035
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for interrupting streaming content provided via a manifest inviolate protocol. An intelligent streaming server or edge cache may substitute different content than that which is requested, without the client's knowledge. In some implementations, the client may request a first segment of a file or stream, and the streaming server may instead deliver a segment of an entirely different file or stream. The replacement segment may have the same length as the requested segment, and may be renamed such that the client believes that the requested segment has been properly served. Accordingly, without changing the manifest or departing from the requirements of the manifest-inviolate protocol and without changing any functionality of the client, a system may provide content switching on a per-segment basis, rather than a per-manifest basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Schwimmer, Kevin Flanagan
  • Patent number: 11910055
    Abstract: A computing platform may be configured to (i) cause a first client station to present a first interface of a SaaS application, (ii) receive, from the first client station, a given video that was recorded at the first client station utilizing the first interface, (iii) transmit a request for the given video to be stored at a third-party cloud storage platform, (iv) receive from a second client station, a communication indicating a request to watch the given video, and (v) after receiving the communication: (a) cause the second client station to present a second interface of the SaaS application, (b) transmit a request to obtain the given video from the third-party cloud storage platform, (c) receive the given video from the third-party cloud storage platform, (d) divide the given video into a sequence of video segments, and (e) stream the sequence of video segments to the second client station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Screencastify, LLC
    Inventors: Manuel Braun, Henry Mann
  • Patent number: 11881019
    Abstract: Method for tracking and exploiting at least one environmental parameter such as cleanness in an urban setting; method comprising the following successive steps: —Planning measurements of at least one environmental parameter; —Tracking in real-time said parameter by means of a camera located on-board a vehicle or fastened to a static holder; —Geo-positioning the parameter; —Classifying the parameter depending on the characteristics thereof, such as category, danger or typology; —Improving the environmental parameter based on the data obtained in the 2 preceding steps. The invention also relates to a device using said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CORTEXIA SA
    Inventors: André Droux, Andreas Von Kaenel
  • Patent number: 11880442
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed a data processing system for authenticating packetized audio signals in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of auditory data packet transmission over one or more computer networks by, for example, disabling malicious transmissions prior to their transmission across the network. The present solution can also improve computational efficiency by disabling remote computer processes possibly affected by or caused by the malicious audio signal transmissions. By disabling the transmission of malicious audio signals, the system can reduce bandwidth utilization by not transmitting the data packets carrying the malicious audio signal across the networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ken Krieger, Andrew Joseph Alexander Gildfind, Nicholas Salvatore Arini, Simon Michael Rowe, Raimundo Mirisola, Gaurav Bhaya, Robert Stets
  • Patent number: 11871064
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying objects displayed in a media asset are provided. First and second parental control restrictions associated with first and second users within a perceivable range of a user equipment device are retrieved. The first parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a first authorization level and the second parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a second authorization level. A common authorization level that does not violate the first and second parental control restrictions is identified. A media asset that satisfies the common authorization level is presented to the first and second users in a first form. Supplemental content associated with the media asset that violates the second parental control restriction but does not violate the first parental control restriction is selected. The supplemental content is presented in a second form while the media asset is being presented in the first form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Priyanka Sharma
  • Patent number: 11871074
    Abstract: In accordance with increasing communication demand, means for efficiently providing mass downstream communication at a low cost are desired. Accordingly, a communication system providing supplemental downlink as well as multicast communication comprising a display control device for causing a display unit to display a video, and a communication terminal having an image capturing unit for directly capturing the video displayed by the display unit or capturing a video projected or reflected on a wall surface or the like is provided, wherein the display control device includes a video acquiring unit, a region identification unit, a video generating unit, and a display control unit, and the communication terminal includes a region identification unit, a decoding unit, and a mechanism for communicating a control signal for supplemental downlink by the above-described optical communication using means other than optical communication (means such as WiFi, mobile data communication or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Tsutsui, Ayumu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 11871046
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing real-time interactive video communications of a show from a live performance space in relation to a virtual venue to an audience of attendee devices may include executing a live performance platform application to perform: providing an event session; managing a stream of images from a live video camera trained on the performance space; providing an event management dashboard; providing a performer dashboard to enable show performance functions; providing an attendee dashboard to enable audience attendee functions; providing a production suite dashboard to enable show production functions in relation to show production input including the stream of images and; providing show production output including show production features in relation to the show production input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Sandrell Nichole Ross