Patents Examined by David Bilodeau
  • Patent number: 10999727
    Abstract: A main Bluetooth circuit and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit of a multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a remote Bluetooth device are disclosed. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at a relay mode, the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device, and the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit does not sniff packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device. But the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit switches from the relay mode to a sniffing mode if the data type of packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device changes. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at the sniffing mode, the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs packets issued from the remote Bluetooth device while the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Chia Chun Hung, Hou Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10979979
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to SSB measurements are provided. A wireless communication device determines a first measurement for a first synchronization signal block (SSB) and further determines a measurement cycle frequency for performing a SSB measurement based on the first measurement. The wireless communication device performs the SSB measurement based on the measurement cycle frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting Kong, Yongle Wu, Jafar Mohseni, Paolo Minero, Raghu Narayan Challa, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 10970573
    Abstract: A method for user authentication based on keystroke dynamics is provided. The user authentication method includes receiving a keystroke input implemented by a user; separating a sequence of pressed keys into a sequence of bigrams having bigram names simultaneously with the user typing free text; collecting a timing information for each bigram of the sequence of bigrams; extracting a feature vector for each bigram based on the timing information; separating feature vectors into subsets according to the bigram names; estimating a GMM user model using subsets of feature vectors for each bigram; providing real time user authentication using the estimated GMM user model for each bigram and bigram features from current real time user keystroke input. The corresponding system is also provided. The GMM based analysis of the keystroke data separated by bigrams provides strong authentication using free text input, while user additional actions (to be verified) are kept at a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ID R&D, INC.
    Inventors: Alexey Khitrov, Konstantin Simonchik
  • Patent number: 10963752
    Abstract: An artefact is received. Features are extracted from this artefact which are, in turn, used to populate a vector. The vector is then input into a classification model to generate a score. The score is then modified using a step function so that the true score is not obfuscated. Thereafter, the modified score can be provided to a consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: Hailey Buckingham, David N. Beveridge
  • Patent number: 10963004
    Abstract: A display screen, a terminal display screen assembly, and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The display screen may include a display module; a frame, including a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, and the display module being arranged on the first face; and a positioning structure, arranged on the second face and located around the first through hole. The first through hole has a first sidewall, the first sidewall has a first projection projected on the frame, an outer wall of the positioning structure has a second projection projected on the frame, and the second projection surrounds the first projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiao Cheng
  • Patent number: 10945110
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: AQ Corporation
    Inventor: Sang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10945114
    Abstract: Embodiments of this specification provide a method and apparatus for quick enabling a service in an application program and an electronic device. When a user terminal receives tag content transmitted by a near field communication (NFC) tag, an operating system of the user terminal may enable an application program that has registered NFC. Then, the enabled application program uploads the tag content to a server. According to a service routed by the server after the server decodes the tag content, the application program executes the routed service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Landong Zhao
  • Patent number: 10944154
    Abstract: Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, wireless transceiver includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a radio frequency (RF) module. The first antenna is configured to establish a first wireless communication link with an audio source. The second antenna is configured to establish a second wireless communication link with another wireless transceiver. The RF module is configured to receive audio information from the audio source using the first wireless communication link and transmit audio play information to the another wireless transceiver using the second wireless communication link. A first RF radiation field of the first antenna has a higher intensity in a first direction than a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a second RF radiation field of the second antenna has a higher intensity in the second direction than the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BESTECHNIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Tong, Liang Zhang, Bin Luo, Fei Luo
  • Patent number: 10936903
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for collecting annotation data via a gamified user interface in a vehicle control system. According to an embodiment disclosed herein, the vehicle control system detects a trigger to initiate an annotation prompt associated with an object classified from an image. The vehicle control system presents, via a user interface, the annotation prompt. The vehicle control system receives, via the user interface, user input indicative of a response to the annotation prompt by a user and updates a confidence score associated with the classified object as a function of one or more metrics associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Domingo Gonzalez, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Mehrnaz Khodam Hazrati, Christopher Lopez-Araiza
  • Patent number: 10939390
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for Radio Frequency (RF) gain calibration and/or characterization of one or more RF transmitter and/or receivers, to calibrate RF gain variations caused by various factors, such as temperature changes, operating frequency changes, processing and manufacturing variations, and/or offset of voltage supplies and controls. RF gain calibration and/or characterization are performed with respect to active RF components. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sarit Zur
  • Patent number: 10932196
    Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method and a device for reducing the power consumption of a mobile terminal, a storage medium and a mobile terminal. The method may include: acquiring, in a screen-off state, a fingerprint detected by a fingerprint recognition module; controlling, if the fingerprint is a non-unlocking fingerprint, a touch chip to output a touch sensing control signal to a touch display screen; finding, according to the fingerprint, a matching application program on which the user has rights to operate, and acquiring a set of blank screen gestures corresponding to the application program; and reporting, upon detection of a blank screen gesture belonging to the set of blank screen gestures, a blank screen gesture event to an application layer to execute an operation corresponding to the blank screen gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Mingqiang Guo, Rendong Shi, Tong Han, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 10929664
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for providing an Object Recognition Based Horticultural Feedback Analysis (ORB-HFA) feedback loop using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The techniques include determining a position of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the UAS within a grow operation and providing a mission including one or more operations to the UAV based at least on the position of the UAV and feedback from one or more sensors residing at least partially on a visual observer device of the UAS to direct the UAV to perform the one or more operations in the grow operation, wherein the UAV is configured to capture one or more images of one or more plants included in the grow operation as the UAV performs the one or more operations of the first mission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: iUNU, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Charles King
  • Patent number: 10931805
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to telecommunications technologies, so that in a state in which the electronic device is connected to an external audio device, a manner used by the electronic device to process an audio and video application program can be intelligentized. A sensor is disposed on at least one of the electronic device or the external audio device. The method includes: receiving, by the electronic device, a detection result signal sent by the sensor, where the detection result signal is a signal that carries a detection value obtained by means of detection by the sensor; determining, by the electronic device according to a preset correspondence and the detection value, an action performed by a user on the electronic device or the external audio device; and controlling, by the electronic device, an execution status of an audio and video application program according to the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanli Gan, Xiaochen Chen, Rui Sun
  • Patent number: 10924194
    Abstract: A radio-frequency transceiver device includes a transmission circuit generating a transmission signal at a transmission pad connected to a transmission antenna by modulating a radio frequency signal as a function of a control signal. First and second reception circuits receive first and second signals at first and second reception pads connected to first and second reception antennas. The received first and second signals are demodulated via the radio frequency signal to generate first and second demodulated reception signals. A control circuit operates during a reception test phase to generate only the control signal in order to test, as a function of the first and second demodulated reception signals, whether the received first signal corresponds to the received second signal. A reception error signal indicating a reception error is generated when the test indicates that the received first and second reception signals do not correspond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Francesco Belfiore
  • Patent number: 10924151
    Abstract: A transmitter device which transmits a first transmit signal and a second transmit signal having different wireless communication standards. The transmitter device includes a power amplifier that amplifies the first transmit signal in a first transmission mode. A first impedance circuit provides the amplified first transmit signal to a radio frequency output port. A second impedance circuit is connected to the first impedance circuit and provides an additional impedance to the first impedance circuit in the first transmission mode. A first switch provides the second transmit signal to the first impedance circuit in a second transmission mode. A second switch connects the second impedance circuit and a ground in the first transmission mode, and floats the second impedance circuit in the second transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taewan Kim, Chia-Hsin Wu, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 10921236
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to an integrated lens-free imaging device. One embodiment includes a lens-free imaging device for imaging a sample. The lens-free imaging device includes a radiation guiding structure that includes a first surface parallel with a second surface. The lens-free imaging device also includes an imaging region. The radiation guiding structure is adapted for receiving an incoming radiation wave, thereby obtaining a confined radiation wave. At least one perturbation is present in the radiation guiding structure for generating, from the confined radiation wave, a first radiation wave and a second radiation wave. The radiation guiding structure is configured to direct the first radiation wave out of the radiation guiding structure toward the first surface to a sample measurement region. The radiation guiding structure is further configured to direct the second radiation wave toward the second surface to the imaging region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: IMEC VZW
    Inventor: Xavier Rottenberg
  • Patent number: 10917131
    Abstract: A case for an electronic device including a soft protective cover having a back panel to cover a back portion of the electronic device, side walls extending from the back panel to cover side portions of the electronic device, and an upper ledge; and a hard protective frame having a disconnected side and two facing sides. The disconnected side includes a first end portion and a second end portion. Each of the first and second end portions includes a first side and a second side; the second side tapers towards the upper ledge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SPIGEN KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bum Joon Lee, Seung Joo Kim, Nam Heui Jung, Kyung Joon Lee, Gang Il Park, Sun Woo Yun, Soo Ha Jung
  • Patent number: 10911100
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first sensor configured to obtain an electromagnetic (EM) signal from an external device, a first communication module configured to provide a magnetic stripe transmission (MST) signal, a processor, and a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions which, upon execution, instruct the processor to control the first communication module to transmit, to the external device, the MST signal which is predetermined corresponding to the external device based on the obtained EM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Woosup Lee
  • Patent number: 10909418
    Abstract: A processor-implemented neural network method includes: obtaining, from a memory, data of an input feature map and kernels having a binary-weight, wherein the kernels are to be processed in a layer of a neural network; decomposing each of the kernels into a first type sub-kernel reconstructed with weights of a same sign, and a second type sub-kernel for correcting a difference between a respective kernel, among the kernels, and the first type sub-kernel; performing a convolution operation by using the input feature map and the first type sub-kernels and the second type sub-kernels decomposed from each of the kernels; and obtaining an output feature map by combining results of the convolution operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sehwan Lee, Leesup Kim, Hyeonuk Kim, Jaehyeong Sim, Yeongjae Choi
  • Patent number: 10896523
    Abstract: A method for compressing a depth image including a matrix of pixels, each pixel including a pixel depth value, includes dividing the depth image into a plurality of non-overlapping tiles. Each of the plurality of non-overlapping tiles includes a contiguous subset of pixels. For each of the plurality of non-overlapping tiles, the pixel depth values are quantized into quantized pixel depth values. For each of the plurality of non-overlapping tiles, the quantized pixel depth values are encoded into a compressed depth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pavlos Mavridis, Dag Birger Frommhold, Benjamin Markus Thaut