Patents Examined by D. Le
  • Patent number: 11858292
    Abstract: A hub assembly is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The hub assembly is basically provided with a hub axle, a hub body, an electric component and a user input device. The hub body is rotatably mounted on the hub axle to rotate around a rotational center axis of the hub assembly. The user input device is electrically coupled to the electric component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Azusa Yamazaki, Kazutaka Niki, Takeshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 11860873
    Abstract: Dashboard loading using a filtering query from a cloud-based data warehouse cache, including determining that a filtered result for a first filtering query is stored in a cache of a cloud-based data warehouse; sending, in response to the filtered result being stored in the cache, to the cloud-based data warehouse, a request for the filtered result from the cache; and providing, based on the filtered result for the first filtering query, one or more dashboard visualizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMA COMPUTING, INC.
    Inventors: James L. Gale, Kenneth Truong, Max H. Seiden, Stipo Josipovic
  • Patent number: 11860882
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for processing search queries using relevance-based search refinement are provided. In response to a search query, search result items are displayed on a search interface along with selectable guidance attributes. The guidance attributes are an identified ranked set of characteristics of items based on historical user interactions of users interacting with the search result items provided in response to the search query. Upon selection of a guidance attribute, a guidance-attribute control having embedded selectable values is displayed. A selection of an embedded value is received to cause execution of an embedded-value search operation. A first embedded-value search operation is executed to identify a subset of the items using the selected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Bartels, Jonathan Daniel Victorino
  • Patent number: 11863743
    Abstract: A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 11855515
    Abstract: A multiplayer neutral bus that includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of bushings is provided. At least a portion of the conductive layers are spaced apart from each other and form separate electrical flow paths. The conductive layers and bushings are arranged so that each bushing is electrically coupled to each of the other bushings. A method of installing the neutral bus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas I. Nelson, Raul Ricardo Rico
  • Patent number: 11855521
    Abstract: A power tool is provided including a housing including a grip portion; and a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor at least partially disposed within the grip portion of the housing. The motor includes a stator having a rotor core, a rotor, and front and rear bearing support structures. The stator core includes a non-segmented construction with a maximum diameter of approximately smaller than or equal to 34 mm, and a ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to a length of the motor is in the range of approximately 0.39 to 0.59 (Nmm/?W)/mm. When powered by a 20 V battery pack, a ratio of a maximum power output of the motor to a volume of the motor is at least approximately 0.0106 W/mm{circumflex over (?)}3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, David J. Smith, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Justin H. Ayers, Sumiteru Mori, John B. Fogle, John D. Cox, Kristopher Cochran, Barak N. Gohn
  • Patent number: 11856219
    Abstract: A proposed intermediate way of handling the renderable portion of the first view results in more efficient coding. Instead of omitting the coding of the renderable portion completely, even more efficient coding of multi-view signals entails merely suppressing the coding of the residual signal within the renderable portion, whereas the prediction parameter coding still takes place from the non-renderable portion of the multi-view signal across the renderable portion so that prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be exploited for predicting parameters for the non-renderable portion. The additional coding rate for transmitting the prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be kept low as this merely aims at forming a continuation of the parameter history across the renderable portion to serve as a basis for prediction parameters of other portions of the multi-view signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Bosse, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand, Tobias Hinz
  • Patent number: 11853334
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for using searchable aggregate indices associated with non-aggregated value storage. In one method, a search system stores metadata values for each of a plurality of objects in a storage unit. The metadata values are stored in corresponding value storage locations that are associated with an identifiable metadata fields. An aggregate index is provided which includes a dictionary of terms that are contained in metadata values associated with a designated set of the metadata fields. The aggregate index is searched for one or more specific search terms, and one or more of the metadata values are retrieved from the value storage locations in response to the search, where the individual metadata fields associated with the retrieved metadata values are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 11856192
    Abstract: A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 11855488
    Abstract: A motor rotor structure including a rotor core. Multiple first permanent magnet slots are disposed in the rotor core in a circumferential direction. At least one second permanent magnet slot is disposed between every two adjacent first permanent magnet slots; each of the first permanent magnet slots and an adjacent second permanent magnet slot thereof are spaced a preset distance apart. Between two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities, a first kind of permanent magnet is mounted in each of the first permanent magnet slots and a second kind of permanent magnet is mounted in the second permanent magnet slot. When identical polarities of adjacent two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities face each other, the rotor core is in a more-magnetic-pole state. When contrary polarities of adjacent two kinds of permanent magnets having different coercivities face each other, the rotor core is in a fewer-magnetic-pole state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Min Wang, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao
  • Patent number: 11849816
    Abstract: An electronic wearable device is disclosed. The electronic wearable device includes a pendant attached to a necklace; the pendant comprising a base and a plurality of interchangeable faceplates; wherein each of the plurality of interchangeable faceplates has a different design and is configured to attach to the base to hide the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Zinfanite Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jana Mahen Fernando
  • Patent number: 11856193
    Abstract: A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 11849277
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system, having a good low-frequency response without a large box and effectively improving the efficiency of the loudspeaker system, so as to increase the output sound pressure level of the system, comprises a box and a plurality of loudspeakers arranged in the box and connected in parallel with each other, wherein each of the loudspeakers comprises a frame, a diaphragm arranged on the frame, and a voice coil for driving a vibration of the diaphragm; front surfaces of the diaphragms of the loudspeakers are arranged to face each other; a sound cavity is formed among the front surfaces of the diaphragms, and the sound cavity is in communication with the outside of the box; and each of the frames is located between a rear surface of its corresponding diaphragm and an inner wall of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUZHOU SONAVOX ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuewu Shen, Shenggang Tao, Jianfeng Tang, Xiaoqing Wang, Guoqiang Chai
  • Patent number: 11847114
    Abstract: A system and method of automated data collection which adjusts and reacts to expected availability of update data as well as adjusts and reacts to security restrictions in order to obtain update data as soon as reasonably possible without triggering security lockouts or other restrictions which require excessive amounts of manual intervention. The system and methods provide for efficient and timely collection of invoice data for timely processing, auditing and action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Tangoe US, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale L. Clark, Zachary Goldberg, Silviu Lupsa
  • Patent number: 11847096
    Abstract: Database systems and related customization methods are provided. One exemplary method of modifying a database to support a new functionality involves receiving user input indicative of the new functionality from a client device coupled to a network, identifying existing customizations associated with a user of the client device in the database, determining a plurality of different solutions for implementing the new functionality based at least in part on the existing customizations associated with the user, providing a graphical user interface display at the client device including graphical indicia of the plurality of different solutions for implementing the new functionality, and in response to receiving indication of a selected solution of the plurality of different solutions from the client device, automatically instantiating a new customization corresponding to the selected solution in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Preston Tuggle
  • Patent number: 11839336
    Abstract: The portable toilet and pop-up enclosure includes a portable toilet and a pop-up enclosure. The portable toilet and pop-up enclosure may be adapted to provide privacy to a child while the child uses the portable toilet by enclosing the portable toilet and the child within the pop-up enclosure. The portable toilet may collect feces and urine for disposal at a later time. The pop-up enclosure may be adapted to block the view of the portable toilet and the child while providing ventilation and access by a parent. Both the portable toilet and the pop-up enclosure may collapse for transportation and/or storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Justin Allen, Sharneise Allen
  • Patent number: 11841871
    Abstract: An approach to implement an extract, transform and load system, a queue is provided for holding units of data between extraction and transformation. When units of data suffer a rate limit error in the load phase, they are requeued so they can be resubmitted for transformation. The contents of the queue are monitored and, if too many requeued units of data are detected in the queue, then this is taken as an indicator of an unacceptable number of rate limit errors and active pacing management is triggered. A retry schedule is defined for the requeued units of data. Extraction is temporarily halted to allow the requeued units of data to be retransformed without more units of data queuing up. Then, after the suspension is lifted, a pacing delay is inserted between subsequent extract events to avoid the same load phase bottleneck recurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger, Alexander Robert Wood, Tom Soal
  • Patent number: 11843768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventors: Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11843797
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing content-adaptive deblocking to improve the visual quality of video images compressed using block-based motion-predictive video coding. For instance, in certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, edge information is obtained using global orientation energy edge detection (“OEED”) techniques on an initially deblocked image. OEED detection can provide a robust partition of local directional features (“LDFs”). For a local directional feature detected in the partition, a directional deblocking filter having an orientation corresponding to the orientation of the LDF can be used. The selected filter can have a filter orientation and activation thresholds that better preserve image details while reducing blocking artifacts. In certain embodiments, for a consecutive non-LDF region, extra smoothing can be imposed to suppress the visually severe blocking artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Sun, Zhiwei Xiong, Feng Wu
  • Patent number: 11843299
    Abstract: A conveyance system comprising a movable element including a first coil group and a second coil group, and a stator including a plurality of magnetic bodies disposed along the first direction so that the plurality of magnetic bodies are capable of facing the first coil group and the second coil group. The first coil group includes a plurality of first coils disposed along a first direction, and the second coil group includes a plurality of second coils disposed along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. In a case where electric current is applied to the first coil group or the second coil group, a force is generated between the movable element and the plurality of magnetic bodies. The movable element is capable of moving in the first direction along the plurality of magnetic bodies while an orientation of the movable element is controlled by the generated force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Yamamoto