Patents Examined by David A. Bilodeau
  • Patent number: 11600110
    Abstract: A verification application executing at a user's mobile phone directs the user to take a photo of an identification document (e.g., driver's license or other form of government issued identification) or of their face. After the verification application sends the image to a backend service, the service may then dispatch a drone to the user's location and take a photograph of the user. The service may then validate the previously-imaged document or photo of the user's face against the photograph of the user and the geolocation sent with the first image. The service may then verify the new account and provision a token to the verification application to complete a secured account generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: William Leddy
  • Patent number: 11600068
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for processing digital video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive digital video data at one or more digital video inputs; identify each of the plurality of video frames as one of a keyframe and an intermediate frame; use one or more first sets of software instructions to send at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames to one or more processing scripts; use the one or more processing scripts to implement an asynchronous batch processing system on at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames by applying one or more second sets of software instructions; and receive an output from the one or more second sets of software instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dilili Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Thiel, Tyler Compton, Xintian Li
  • Patent number: 11595149
    Abstract: A computer-implementable method employs radio signal metadata to train a cognitive learning and inference system to produce an inferred function, wherein the metadata comprises a syntactic structure of at least one radio communication protocol. The inferred function is used to map metadata of a detected radio signal to a cognitive profile of a transmitter of the detected radio signal. The mapping effects intelligent discrimination of the transmitter from at least one other transmitter through corroborative or negating evidentiary observation of properties associated with the metadata of the detected radio signal. A response to the transmitter is based upon the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tybalt, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Shattil, Robi Sen, Thomas J Hoeft
  • Patent number: 11592864
    Abstract: In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display having a front surface and a back surface. The display includes a plurality of pixel regions that emit light from the front surface to display a displayed image and a plurality of apertures that transmit light from the front surface to the back surface. The apparatus includes a camera disposed on a side of the back surface of the display. The camera is configured to capture a captured image. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the display and the camera. The processor is configured to receive the captured image and apply a first digital filter to a first portion of the captured image and a second digital filter, different than the first digital filter, to a second portion of the captured image to reduce image distortion caused by the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Manohar B. Srikanth, Marduke Yousefpor, Ting Sun, Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Ricardo J. Motta
  • Patent number: 11589202
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: James Zarakas, Kevin P. Kelly, Saleem Sangi, Adam Koeppel
  • Patent number: 11578238
    Abstract: Materials and methods for mitigating passive intermodulation. A membrane for reducing passive intermodulation includes a first polymeric layer, a second polymeric layer, and a continuous metal layer encapsulated between the first and second polymeric layers. A self-adhesive radio frequency barrier tape includes a waterproof polymeric top layer, a metal-containing layer adhered by an adhesive layer to the polymeric top layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer adhered to the metal-containing layer, and a release liner on a bottom surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer. A method of mitigating passive intermodulation includes passing a probe over an area of interest, the probe being sensitive to an intermodulation frequency of interest, and identifying a suspected source of passive intermodulation when the amplitude of the probe output exceeds a threshold at the frequency of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Thomas Bell, Christopher Griffin, Jacob Heaps, Joel Hazy
  • Patent number: 11582573
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for disabling/re-enabling head tracking for spatial audio applications. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, using one or more processors of an auxiliary device worn by a user, motion data; tracking, using the one or more processors, the user's head based at least in part on the motion data; determining, using the one or more processors, whether or not the user is walking based at least in part on the motion data; in accordance with determining that the user is walking, determining if a source device configured to deliver spatial audio to the auxiliary device is static for a specified period of time; and in accordance with determining that the user is walking and the source device is static for the specified period of time, disabling the head tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyuan Tu, Umamahesh Srinivas, Seyyedeh Mahsa Mirzargar, Keyu Chen, Alexander Singh Alvarado, Ronald K. Huang, Aditya Sarathy
  • Patent number: 11568623
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains a read image of a document including a handwritten character, generates a first image formed by pixels of the handwritten character by extracting the pixels of the handwritten character from pixels of the read image using a first learning model for extracting the pixels of the handwritten character, estimates a handwriting area including the handwritten character using a second learning model for estimating the handwriting area, and performs handwriting OCR processing based on the generated first image and the estimated handwriting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Ikeda, Yusuke Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 11562487
    Abstract: A controller for preparing an image for segmenting includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the controller to perform a process that includes displaying a first modeled tissue structure of a first type, and displaying an image of a first tissue structure of the first type separate from the first modeled tissue structure. The process also includes identifying, on the first modeled tissue structure, landmarks on the first modeled tissue structure for identification on the image of the first tissue structure, and sequentially accentuating each landmark on the first modeled tissue structure. The processor identifies locations on the image of the first tissue structure for each landmark on the first modeled tissue structure. The landmarks on the first modeled tissue structure are mapped to the locations identified on the image of the first tissue structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Jochen Kruecker, Heinrich Schulz, Thomas Heiko Stehle
  • Patent number: 11562233
    Abstract: A learning device generates a first feature value and a second feature value by inputting original training data to a first neural network included in a learning model. The learning device learns at least one parameter of the learning model and a parameter of a decoder, reconstructing data inputted to the first neural network, such that reconstruction data outputted from the decoder by inputting the first feature value and the second feature value to the decoder becomes close to the original training data, and that outputted data that is outputted from a second neural network, included in the learning model by inputting the second feature value to the second neural network becomes close to correct data of the original training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Katoh, Kento Uemura, Suguru Yasutomi
  • Patent number: 11562590
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that predicts data items from a real-world object in real-time. The method captures a video comprising a plurality of frames. The method further performs object detection on a frame in the plurality of frames to determine that the frame includes an object. The method also processes the frame using a plurality of models, wherein each model in the plurality of models is configured to predict a set of candidate data items associated with the object. The method selects one or more candidate data items from the sets of candidate data items associated with the object as a set of data items. The method populates a record with the set of data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Vladimir Valouch
  • Patent number: 11553341
    Abstract: A gateway for assigning an access authorization for a mobile operating device to a field device, including a first interface that wirelessly communicates with the mobile operating device, a second interface that communicates with an authorization assignment device, a memory device that stores an access authorization of the mobile operating device transmitted by the authorization assignment device, authorization assignment circuitry that reads the access authorization of the mobile operating device from the memory device and transmits the access authorization to the mobile operating device via the first interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KG
    Inventors: Juan Garcia, Ralf Hoell
  • Patent number: 11553441
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A power control method for uplink transmission in a wireless cellular communication system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Youngbum Kim, Younsun Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11533817
    Abstract: The disclosure provides textured glass components as well as electronic device cover assemblies and enclosures which include the textured glass components. In some cases, a protruding portion of the glass component includes a textured region provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. One or more openings may be provided in the textured region. The textured region may be configured to provide a translucent or hazy appearance to the electronic device while providing a desirable “feel” to the electronic device and level of cleanability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason P. Shannon, Andi M. Limarga
  • Patent number: 11533082
    Abstract: An electronic device may contain an input-output device such as a speaker, vibrator, or near field communications antenna. The input-output device may include an inductor. The inductor in the input-output device may be shared by wireless charging circuitry in the electronic device so that wireless charging signals can be converted into power to charge a battery in the electronic device. A separate inductor may also be provided within an input-output device to support wireless charging. A drive circuit may supply drive signals to the input-output device such as audio signals, vibrator control signals, or near field communications output signals for external near field communications equipment. An input amplifier that is coupled across the inductor in the input-output device may be used in receiving near field communications signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi
  • Patent number: 11532155
    Abstract: A hyperspectral stereoscopic CubeSat with computer vision and artificial intelligence capabilities consists of a device and a data processing methodology. The device comprises a number of VIS-NIR-TIR hyperspectral sensors, a central processor with memory, a supervisor system running independently of the imager system, radios, a solar panel and battery system, and an active attitude control system. The device is launched into low earth orbit to capture, process, and transmit stereoscopic hyperspectral imagery in the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The processing methodology therein comprises computer vision and convolutional neural network algorithms to perform spectral feature identification and data transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ACME Atronomatic, LLC
    Inventors: Sarvesh Garimella, Paul Heinrich Kocyla
  • Patent number: 11531875
    Abstract: A computer system is provided and programmed to assemble a plurality of synthetic datasets and blend those synthetic datasets into a synthesized dataset. An evaluation is then performed to determine whether an existing model should be associated with the synthesized dataset or a new model should be trained from an existing model using the synthesized dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NASDAQ, INC.
    Inventors: Anand Dwivedi, Hyunsoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11528160
    Abstract: An appliance, communication system, and method thereof for a communicating on a network including an appliance interactive display coupled to an appliance communication module. The appliance communication module is configured to receive a message having an embedded interactive element configured to operate a functionality of the appliance embedded into the message. A return message is sent that relates to a post-cycle of operation of the embedded interactive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Satanek, Wen Shi
  • Patent number: 11522580
    Abstract: A near field communication device and a method of determining the position of a tag are provided. The near field communication device includes a first coil, a second coil, and a control circuit. One end of the first coil is coupled to a first grounding end. One end of the second coil is coupled to a second grounding end. The control circuit includes a first current pin and a second current pin. The first current pin is coupled to the other end of the first coil. The second current pin is coupled to the other end of the second coil. The control circuit transmits a first current signal to the first coil by the first current pin, and transmits a second current signal to the second coil by the second current pin, the control circuit analyzes the change of the first current signal and the change of the second current signal to determine whether the position of a tag is close to the first coil or close to the second coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: An-Yao Lee, Szu-Lung Yen, Cheng-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11523263
    Abstract: A method for sending the medical instrument data is based on a Bluetooth protocol and includes: starting a Bluetooth module; acquiring therapy data; according to a data packet encapsulation way of a standard Bluetooth protocol, filling a data length of the therapy data into a data length Len segment of a Bluetooth data packet, setting a designated data type and filling the designated data type into a data type AD Type segment, coding the therapy data according to a preset coding rule, and then filling the coded therapy data into a data AD data segment, so that a broadcast data packet is formed; and broadcasting the broadcast data packet according to a preset period in a Bluetooth broadcast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Zhi Zhuang