Patents Examined by Andrey Belousov
  • Patent number: 11586176
    Abstract: An industrial data pipeline architecture described supports annotation of raw data streams into scalable and durable cloud-level storage. A dynamic data mapping process collects industrial data from data tags that have been annotated with metadata indicating that the tags are to be made available for visualization, and connects data from these tags to a data aggregator object of a node-level or edge-level visualization tool. The data aggregator object dynamically adjusts its data collection footprint to include the annotated data tags, which are dynamically associated with the physical layout of the industrial equipment in the visualization. Visualization objects for a specified plant configuration act as data context containers that can be added to a plant visualization panel, and allows the annotated tags to be selected to build visualizations of selected data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Krutika Sanjay Kansara, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Jay W Schiele
  • Patent number: 11568896
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a video editing system enable one or more users to conveniently edit a digital video. In particular, an online content management system can provide a low resolution version of a digital video to a client device. A user can interact with the low resolution digital video and generate user edits to apply to the digital video. The online content management system can further apply any number of users edits to low and high resolution versions of the digital video at a server device. The video editing system enables users to more conveniently apply iterative edits to digital videos. Additionally, the video editing system enables multiple users to cooperatively edit a digital video from multiple client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Manville, Digant Kasundra
  • Patent number: 11567637
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a screen display method and a device after face unlock, and relate to the field of electronic device technologies, so that a lock screen and a desktop can be intuitively displayed after face unlock, to improve interaction efficiency and user experience. Specific solutions are as follows: After head information is successfully verified, an electronic device displays a lock screen and a desktop in a superimposition manner, and when a preset condition is met, displays the desktop or a screen corresponding to a control on the desktop or the lock screen. The embodiments of this application are used to display an unlocked screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 11567579
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selecting an edge among edges of a 3D object in a 3D immersive environment of a CAD system. Each edge is oriented in the 3D immersive environment. The method comprises displaying the 3D object in the 3D immersive environment, detecting a hand gesture including all fingers folded except thumb, determining an oriented line formed with the folded fingers of the hand in the 3D immersive environment, and identifying the edge of the 3D object having the closest orientation with the oriented line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventor: Fivos Doganis
  • Patent number: 11561686
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are devices, methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for enhanced meeting room solutions to provide increased inclusiveness for both remote and in-room participants for network-based communication sessions, such as hybrid network-based communication sessions. Content of a first type is placed in a location exclusive of a discontinuity in a display device and content of a second type is placed in a location inclusive of the discontinuity of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Paul Baribault, Samuel James Ludwig Albert, Shiraz Jitendra Cupala
  • Patent number: 11556235
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for efficiently and reliably interacting with a nonconforming application component in a windowing environment. The nonconforming application component corresponds to a type of application (such as, but not limited to, an immersive-type full-screen application) that was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment, or was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment of a certain type. In some implementations, the computer-implemented technique generates a composite window by: creating a system-owned frame; receiving an application-owned window; and creating the composite window by combining the frame and the application-owned window. The technique can thereafter control the composite window by performing operations on the composite window via its system-owned frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yaou Wei, Christopher E. Swan, Alex Snitkovskiy, Tsz Yan Wong, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Steven J. Tricanowicz, Brian D. Beck, Miron Vranjes
  • Patent number: 11543962
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to generating animated images for presentation by a dynamic keyboard interface. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive data describing advertisement content, and data describing a first context in which to present the advertisement content; generate data describing a first animated image including at least a portion of the advertisement content; determine a second context in which to present the advertisement content; generate data describing a second animated image including at least a portion of the advertisement content; and communicate, to one or more user devices on which one or more applications are executed, data indicating a plurality of different animated images for presentation by a dynamic keyboard interface in association with the one or more applications, the plurality of different animated images comprising the first animated image and the second animated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David McIntosh, Peter Chi Hao Huang, Erick Hachenburg, David Lindsay Bowen, Joseph Lieu, Kira Lee Psomas, Jason R. Krebs, Kumar Garapaty, Samantha Janelle Jiwei Lau
  • Patent number: 11531401
    Abstract: A data replacement apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a replacement unit. The acquisition unit acquires first control data having a value based on the position of a first device which can be mounted on a user's head and the position of a second device which can be gripped by a user. The determination unit determines whether or not a prescribed condition is satisfied. The replacement unit replaces the first control data with second control data when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. The second control data has a value not based on the position of the first device and/or the position of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Kentarou Matsui, Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11500472
    Abstract: A system and method of assisting operator engagement with input devices includes a repositionable structure configured to support a physical input device, a hand detection system, and a control unit. The repositionable structure includes one or more actuators. The physical input device is configured to be operated by a hand of an operator. The control unit is configured to detect the hand of the operator using the hand detection system and in response to a trigger condition, command the one or more actuators to move the input device from a first orientation to a second orientation, wherein the second orientation is closer to a grasping orientation of the hand than the first orientation is to the grasping orientation of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Xingchi He, Brandon D. Itkowitz
  • Patent number: 11501780
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for automatic real-time moderation of meetings, by a computerized or automated moderation unit able to manage, steer and guide the meeting in real-time and able to selectively generate and convey real-time differential notifications and advice to particular participants. A Meeting Moderator Bot monitors audio conversations in a meeting, and analyzes their textual equivalent; detects topics that were skipped or that should be discussed, and notifies participants; detects double-talk or interferences and generates warnings accordingly; detects absence of participants that are relevant to particular topics; detects that the conversation should shift to another topic on the agenda; generates other meeting steering notifications; and monitors compliance of the meeting participants with such steering notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AUDIOCODES LTD.
    Inventors: Shabtai Adlersberg, Menachem Honig, Tatiana Adar
  • Patent number: 11487408
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing associations between production elements and production approaches includes displaying, within a breakdown panel, a representation of at least one scene obtained from a script, the representation including a plurality of production elements; displaying, within an approaches panel, a representation of at least some of the plurality of production elements displayed within the breakdown panel, and associated respective user selection indicators; and displaying, within the approaches panel, a representation of at least one production approach. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one production element displayed within the approaches panel; receiving a user selection of the at least one production approach. The selected at least one production element is associated with the selected at least one production approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Unity Technologies SF
    Inventors: Joseph Bruce Letteri, Geo H. Snelling, Matt J. Penman, Rebs Senga Guarina
  • Patent number: 11474499
    Abstract: A communication robot includes: an operation part; and a communication arbitration unit configured to exhibit one of a robot mode for autonomously operating the operation part by applying a first operational criterion and an avatar mode for operating the operation part based on an operation instruction sent from a remote operator by applying a second operational criterion to arbitrate communication with a service user, in which the communication arbitration unit operates, when it is intended to exhibit the avatar mode in accordance with an operation request from the remote operator, the operation part in the robot mode and asks the service user whether to allow the mode to be switched to the avatar mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11442693
    Abstract: A method including, detecting interaction between the user and an audio-object via local tracking, determining an audio-object state modification based on the local tracking, and performing an audio-object interaction based on the audio-object state modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 11442608
    Abstract: A method for dynamically changing a graphical user interface element occurs in response to detecting that a temporal user interface element displayed on a user interface of user device. The method includes receiving, at the user device, a contextual signal characterizing a state of a user. The method further includes determining, by the user device, that the contextual signal characterizing the state of the user is indicative of the user intending to interact with a temporal user interface element. The methods also include, in response to determining that the contextual signal characterizing the state of the user is indicative of the user intending to interact with a temporal user interface element, modifying a respective state of the temporal user interface element displayed on the user interface of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brett Aladdin Barros, Theophile Vincent Goguely
  • Patent number: 11433552
    Abstract: The present invention is in the sector of wearable robotic devices, and in particular it concerns a method for the adaptive control of a wearable robot. In particular, the invention discloses a method for the adaptive control of the discrete or open-ended movements of a wearable robot such as a prosthesis or an orthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA
    Inventors: Nicola Vitiello, Francesco Lanotte, Simona Crea
  • Patent number: 11435995
    Abstract: A configuration management system provides a web user interface that allows a user to instruct the configuration management system to load content into an environment, take a snapshot of the environment, and store the snapshot in a snapshot library. The configuration management provides access to the snapshot library via the web user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Amos Benari, Ohad Levy
  • Patent number: 11422836
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables user guidance from gaze information obtained during a communication session while viewing a webpage. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, during a communication session between a first endpoint operated by a first user and a second endpoint operated by a second user, receiving gaze information indicating a location where the second user is looking relative to a webpage being presented to the second user at the second endpoint. The method further includes determining that the second user has been looking at the location for longer than a threshold amount of time. In response to determining that the second user has been looking at the location for longer than the threshold amount of time, the method includes notifying the first user about the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Kiran Barhate, Harsimran Jeet Singh, Jibin George, Sandeep Goynar
  • Patent number: 11406224
    Abstract: A kitchen appliance has a control arrangement arranged to receive sound commands and to operate the appliance in response to the sound commands; a microphone arranged to receive sound comprising a sound command and to provide the sound to the control arrangement; and at least one acoustic filter configured to suppress from the sound provided to the control arrangement background noise created by operation of the kitchen appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KENWOOD LIMITED
    Inventor: Bradley Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11409548
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a key smoothener and predictor module of a software application executing on a computing device receives a sequence of key events from an input device of the computing device and through a user interface of the software application. The key smoothener and predictor module stores the sequence of key events in a key event queue and predicts the total number of key events for processing in a current processing cycle of the application based on the sequence of key events. A processing component of the software application processes an aggregated key event that indicates multiple keypresses. The number of the multiple keypresses is the same as the predicted total number of key events for the current processing cycle. The software application further causes the user interface of the software application to be updated based on processing the aggregated key event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Reetesh Mukul, Mayuri Jain
  • Patent number: 11402967
    Abstract: By allowing a person to customize an otherwise common media prior to delivery of the media to a recipient on a regular basis it is possible to deliver professionally created media in a personalized manner. In one embodiment, a magazine subscription is delivered monthly to a recipient and the cover (centerfold, back page) contains content provided by the initiator. In another embodiment, video media delivered to the recipient is created by a professional as a universal offering but content, such as photos, videos, text, is added by the initiator prior to delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Union Beach L.P.
    Inventor: Mary C Tannenbaum