Patents Examined by Andrew H Lam
  • Patent number: 12374145
    Abstract: In screening of documents based on a similarity between keywords, it is difficult to exclude documents having similar background but different conclusions. In a document review assistance method executed by a computer system, a storage unit stores data on a plurality of documents, and the document review assistance method includes: a step of creating, by a control unit, a sentence vector based on a sentence included in the plurality of documents; a step of classifying, by the control unit, the plurality of documents into a plurality of clusters based on the created sentence vector; a step of specifying, by the control unit, a subgraph on a network of a word in a first document set included in at least one of the clusters; and a step of controlling, by the control unit, the creation of the sentence vector based on the specified subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Otaki, Kunihiko Kido
  • Patent number: 12361558
    Abstract: A method of registering sets of anatomical data for use during a surgical procedure is provided herein. The method may include segmenting a set of first modality image data representing a model of one or more passageways within a patient and generating a first set of points based on the segmented set of first modality image data representing the model of the one or more passageways. The method may further include determining a set of matches between a second set of points and the first set of points, wherein the second set of points is obtained by a second modality and discarding a subset of the set of matches based on a first heuristic to generate a modified set of matches. The second set of points may then be moved relative to the first set of points based on the modified set of matches and displayed on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Vincent Duindam, Timothy D. Soper, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 12361696
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using mixer neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more mixer neural network layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Tolstikhin, Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Mario Lucic, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Unterthiner, Daniel M. Keysers, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Yin Ching Jessica Yung, Andreas Peter Steiner
  • Patent number: 12340611
    Abstract: A method for intelligently sharing a content by an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, a context of sharing the content. The method includes analyzing, by the electronic device, the content with reference to the context. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, portions of the content as non-shareable based on the analysis. The method includes providing, by the electronic device, a modification action suggestion on the portions identified as non-shareable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vanraj Vala, Sukumar Moharana, Siva Prasad Thota, Debi Prasanna Mohanty, Arun Mudigere Giddegowda, Sriram Shashank, Tarun Gopalakrishnan, Dwaraka Bhamidipati Sreevatsa, Sri Lakshmi Punuru
  • Patent number: 12333627
    Abstract: An embodiment of this application discloses an artificial intelligence-based image generation method performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a source image including a target object whose pose is to be transformed, and a target image including a reference object presenting a target pose; determining a pose transition matrix according to a model pose corresponding to the pose of the target object and a model pose corresponding to the target pose of the reference object; extracting a basic appearance feature of the target object from the source image; processing the basic appearance feature based on the pose transition matrix, to obtain a target appearance feature of the target object in the target pose; and generating a target synthetic image of the target object in the target pose based on the target appearance feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaohang Ren, Yang Ding, Xiao Zhou, Youcheng Ben, Yuxuan Yan, Pei Cheng, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 12299079
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a graph dataset that includes a plurality of nodes. The method may include specifying two or more clusters into which each node of the plurality of nodes is to be sorted. The method may include assigning each respective node of the plurality of nodes of the graph dataset into a respective cluster of the two or more clusters according to respective costs that are each associated with each of the respective clusters such that all of the costs are within a threshold value of each other. The respective cost associated with its respective cluster may be determined based on a number of external edges connecting the respective nodes in the respective cluster to the nodes in each other cluster. The method may include analyzing the plurality of nodes with respect to the respective cluster to which each of the respective nodes is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Himanshi Mehta, Sarvagya Upadhyay
  • Patent number: 12290375
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method of determining a personalized skincare recommendation is provided. A computing system receives data depicting a face of a subject. The computing system determines features based on the data depicting the face of the subject. The computing system provides the features to an ageotype classifier to generate a predicted skin ageotype for the subject. The computing system generates the personalized skincare recommendation based on at least the predicted skin ageotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Sandrine Gadol, Michelle Rathman-Josserand, Benjamin Askenazi, Panagiotis-Alexandros Bokaris, Nukhet Cavusoglu, Stephanie Nouveau
  • Patent number: 12283118
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for detecting a three-dimensional object includes a camera configured for obtaining a 2D image, and a controller electrically connected to the camera, and the controller extracts 2D information and 3D information for at least one object from the 2D image, and detects 3D object information by utilizing the 2D information and the 3D information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Lim, Young Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12275239
    Abstract: A print consumable may include a rotatable core, a roll of dispensable print substrate, and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The roll of the dispensable print substrate may be dispensably secured to the core. The RFID tag may be secured to the core and configured to rotate about a core axis. The RFID tag includes an RFID antenna coupled to an RFID chip. The RFID chip may include a print counter, a stock-keeping unit (SKU) code, and a consumable authentication code. A print system may include a housing, a holder to hold the print consumable, a print head, a transceiver, a trace antenna for reading an RFID tag of the print consumable, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a signal from the transceiver indicative of one or more of the print counter, the SKU code, and the consumable authentication code received from the RFID antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sanford, L.P.
    Inventors: Annemie Lauwers, Hendrik Cannoodt, Geert Van Aerde, Dirk Van Britsom, Peter D'Hoye
  • Patent number: 12278935
    Abstract: There is provided an image reading apparatus in which a low output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a low power-feeding USB device is coupled, a high output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a high power-feeding USB device capable of feeding power higher than the low power-feeding USB device is coupled, and a control section does not perform image reading at a second reading speed faster than a first reading speed and performs image reading at the first reading speed in the low output mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Fukumitsu, Masahiko Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 12277459
    Abstract: Image data may indicate an average number of drops of printer fluid per pixel. Print data may be generated such that a total number of drops of printing fluid are deposited to a print medium during a pass in a forward direction and a pass in the reverse direction according to a distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Alex Campa Coloma, Utpal Kumar Sarkar
  • Patent number: 12260135
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: recognize, based on a predetermined condition, a degree of confidentiality of acquired print data; request a first apparatus that is installed in an internal environment in which the first apparatus is installed or that is installed in an environment that requires authentication processing for access to perform rasterization processing on print data that is recognized as having a high degree of confidentiality; and request a second apparatus, which is different from the first apparatus, to perform rasterization processing on print data that is recognized as not having a high degree of confidentiality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hisao Komazawa
  • Patent number: 12261985
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: as a first job, perform connection to an external server that is enable to be connected from the information processing apparatus, instruct the external server to execute processing by designating shared information held in a storage device that is enable to be shared by plural jobs, hold the designated shared information in a primary storage section, and release a resource used in the first job, as a second job different from the first job, acquire a result of the processing by the external server, and execute processing using the shared information designated in the first job and held in the primary storage section, and change the shared information held in the storage device and not changing the shared information held in the primary storage section in a case where an operation of changing the shared information is performed between execution of the first job and start of the second job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nonaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Masato Sugii
  • Patent number: 12250351
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: acquire (i) setting information related to a setting of predetermined processing and (ii) information on an installation place; and refer to the information on the installation place where the setting information is used, to change a setting of the setting information to a setting that is based on a changing rule set for each installation place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 12243336
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for improving fraud detection in the context of a user submitting, via a client device, a photo of a photo ID and a selfie taken during a step of the verification process. A machine learning model may be trained to generate biometric data signals from the selfie. As examples, the biometric data signals generated from the selfie can include an estimated age, gender, hair color, and eye color. The biometric data generated from the selfie may be compared with biometric data listed on the photo ID as an aid to identifying potential identity fraud. In some implementations, a facial filter corresponding to a map of a set of facial measurements of the photo in the photo ID may be compared with the facial measurements of the selfie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Jumio Corporation
    Inventors: Lukas Bayer, Can Wang, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Jason Richard Taylor
  • Patent number: 12238253
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a controller, a device information generator that generates device information including identification information of the image processing device, and a job executor that executes a job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from a terminal device, wherein the controller displays the generated device information on the terminal device and, based on the setting information for job execution sent from the terminal device that read the displayed device information, controls the job executor to output the job at the predetermined setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Nagao
  • Patent number: 12225168
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system for measuring document legibility. The system may automatically receive document image data from a user device. The system may then process the image data using optical character recognition to create language data containing a plurality of words. The system may then obtain an overall number by counting the plurality of words in the language data. The system may then identify and count the common words within the plurality of words by comparing the plurality of words to words in a database. A score may be obtained by dividing the common word number by the overall number. The score may then be compared to a legibility threshold. If the score is below the threshold, the system may determine the document is illegible. If the score is above the threshold, the system may determine the document is legible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Attar
  • Patent number: 12217015
    Abstract: A translator pen and a translation method using same are provided. The translator pen includes a housing and a pen head. The housing forms a first accommodation cavity adapted to accommodate an image collector. An outer contour of the pen head is formed into a tapered shape, an outer diameter of the pen head gradually decreases along a direction of the pen head away from the housing and forms a second accommodation cavity adapted to accommodate a pen core. At least a portion of the end of the housing, which does not form the pen head, forms an inclined surface. The inclined surface is inclined relative to the outer contour of the pen head toward an outside of the housing along a direction of the housing away from the pen head. The image collector is configured to face the inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Liu, Xinyan Shi, Guanchu Guo, Sijia Guo
  • Patent number: 12211305
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an engineering schematic containing multiple symbols and connections involving the symbols, where different ones of the symbols in the engineering schematic represent different types of equipment. The method also includes identifying visual features of the engineering schematic. The method further includes processing the visual features using at least one trained machine learning model to (i) identify boundaries around the symbols in the engineering schematic and (ii) classify the symbols in the engineering schematic into multiple classifications, where different ones of the classifications are associated with different types of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: C3.ai, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhaoxi Zhang, Amir H. Delgoshaie, Chih-Hsu Lin, Shouvik Mani
  • Patent number: 12211212
    Abstract: An image segmentation method includes the following steps: obtaining a target image; inputting the target image into a machine learning model to obtain an image segmentation parameter value corresponding to the target image; executing an image segmentation algorithm on the target image according to the image segmentation parameter value to obtain an image segmentation result, wherein the image segmentation result is segmenting the target image into object regions; and displaying the image segmentation result. In addition, an electronic device and storage medium using the method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yi-Shan Tsai, Cheng-Shih Lai, Chao-Yun Chen, Meng-Jhen Wu, Yun-Chiao Wu, Hsin-Yi Feng, Po-Tsun Kuo, Kai-Yi Wang, Wei-Cheng Su