Patents Examined by Fernando Alcon
  • Patent number: 11294544
    Abstract: A method for controlling media presentation is disclosed. In some implementations, the method is performed at a first electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The first electronic device displays a webpage including a control element, such as a “play” button. The webpage originates from a webpage server. The first electronic device receives a user input, such as a mouse click, selecting the control element. In response to the user input, the first electronic device sends a media control request to a media server. The media control request is configured to cause the media server to control presentation of first media content at a second electronic device associated with the user, wherein the second electronic device is different from the first electronic device, and wherein the media server is different from the webpage server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Sten Garmark, Karl Magnus Röös, Andreas Öman, Per Gunnar Joachim Bengtsson, Marcus Per Vesterlund
  • Patent number: 11295843
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ARxIUM, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron C. Swarvar, Jacob A. Dent, Gabriel V. Taut, Thomas E. Doherty
  • Patent number: 11290766
    Abstract: In one example, a method performed by a processing system in a telecommunications network includes acquiring live footage of an event, acquiring sensor data related to the event, wherein the sensor data is collected by a sensor positioned in a location at which the event occurs, extracting an analytical statistic related to a target participating in the event, wherein the extracting is based on content analysis of the live footage and the sensor data, filtering data relating to the target based on the analytical statistic to identify content of interest in the data, wherein the data comprises the live footage, the sensor data, and data relating to historical events that are similar to the event, and generating computer-generated content to present the content of interest, wherein when the computer-generated content is synchronized with the live footage on an immersive display, an augmented reality media is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Lee Begeja, Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11290693
    Abstract: System, method, and media for providing automatic recording of an event. The event may be detected from a set of data collected at a sensor. A recording device manager may send signals to other sensors and electromechanical devices to activate these sensors and electromechanical devices based on detection of the triggering event. The sensor may collect data associated with the triggering event and the electromechanical devices may perform actions based on the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Digital Ally, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanton E. Ross
  • Patent number: 11283969
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for managing a virtual studio. A plurality of single data streams from a plurality content contributors are received. When a request is received, via public network connections, for creating a composite data stream associated with a virtual room in the virtual studio, signaling information is generated for constructing the composite data stream by stitching together some of the plurality of single data streams selected to be incorporated in the composite data stream in accordance with a layout. When an access request is received from an end user to access the composite data stream, the composite data stream is delivered to the end user in response to the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Tony Lu, Gongxun Liu, Ming Hay Luk, Gabriel Audick, Suraj Sirpilli, Tiju Jose, Arunkumar Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11284142
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a reception method in broadcast and broadband cooperation service, the reception method includes: receiving broadcast content transmitted through broadcast; receiving acquisition information through the broadcast, the acquisition information being information used to play back broadband content transmitted through broadband while the broadband content is synchronized with the received broadcast content, the acquisition information being information relating to acquisition of the broadband content; and acquiring the broadband content based on the received acquisition information. Therefore, the broadband content can properly be acquired in response to the reception of the broadcast content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Hisaya Katou
  • Patent number: 11277658
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium that include accessing a frame buffer of a graphics processing unit (GPU), analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a frame representing a section of a stream of displayed data that is being displayed by an apparatus, identifying a reference patch that includes a unique identifier associated with an available area in which secondary digital content is insertable in the displayed data that is being displayed by the apparatus, decoding the encoded data of the unique identifier, retrieving the secondary digital content from the remote device based on the unique identifier, and overlaying the secondary digital content into the displayed data in accordance with the available area, the screen position, and the size identified by the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BEAM, INC.
    Inventors: Dharmendra Etwaru, Mike Sutcliff
  • Patent number: 11277665
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses are described for monitoring events in a plurality of different services. A system may monitor manifest files for one or more content items. Manifest files may contain manifest file tags indicating events and insertion opportunities. Events and/or insertion opportunities may be detected, and a switch from one content item to another content item, based on customized user priority preferences, may be caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Mike Burke, Bryan Pauk
  • Patent number: 11265588
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for Content On Demand (COD) asset insertion. A COD asset insertion decision system (CODAID) is communicatively coupled to a content distributer to process information about COD content selections by Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs). An auction system is communicatively coupled to the CODAID and to a plurality of asset providers to process information about assets of the providers, to provide an auction for asset opportunities in the COD content selections, to receive bids for the asset opportunities, and to rank the auctioned assets according to bid. The CODAID further ranks the auctioned assets based in part on the COD content selection information and the asset information, identifies one or more of the further ranked assets for insertion into the COD content selection, and directs the content distributer to insert the identified one or more further ranked assets into the COD content selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canoe Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Canney, Joel Hassell, Sid Gregory, Tom Huber, Chris Pizzurro, Steve Markel, Jonathan E Farb, Thomas M Moretto, Bruce C Dilger, Timothy R Whitton, Christopher M Rippe
  • Patent number: 11259080
    Abstract: Processing circuitry of a connectivity device can receive an audio video signal from a first source. The processing circuitry can also receive an audio signal from a second source. The processing circuitry can transmit the audio video signal to a sink device. When an audio level from the second source exceeds a threshold, the processing circuitry can send the audio signal from the second source along with the video signal from the first source to the sink device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Vaneo International, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brandon White, Joseph Allen Whitaker, Mark Corbin
  • Patent number: 11259096
    Abstract: An Html5-based audio/video playing method includes: based on a playing scenario, downloading audio/video data under the playing scenario; performing format conversion on the audio/video data; and loading the audio/video data after format conversion into an Html5 player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: WANGSU SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jiang, Longshi Cai, Zhuqing Liu, Shaobin Wu
  • Patent number: 11259074
    Abstract: A configuration capable of recording MMT format data in a medium as BDAV or SPAV format data and enabling the MMT format data to be reproduced is realized. MMT format data input via a broadcast wave or the like is input, and record data according to a BDAV format or an SPAV format is generated. A data processing unit generates an MMT format stream file storing the MMT format data as reproduction data and further generates a playlist file storing reproduction control information of the MMT format stream file and a clip information file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 11259064
    Abstract: A method for wirelessly connecting a first device with an external second device includes wirelessly communicating between the first device and the external second device. Based on the wireless communication, the first device causes displaying of a dynamic graphic pattern on a display of the external second device. The dynamic graphic pattern having a shape that changes over time. A camera of the first device receives the dynamic graphic pattern. The first device recognizes the dynamic graphic pattern associated with the external second device. Data is wirelessly transferred between the first device and the external second device based on the recognized dynamic graphic pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Praveen Kashyap, Can Gurbag, Esther Zheng, Jason Meachum, Michael Bringle
  • Patent number: 11252460
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein to implement signature matching with meter data aggregation for use in media identification applications include a match job aggregator to aggregate batches of meter data from a meter to form aggregated meter data associated with the meter, and a hash matcher to identify a valid hash key match between meter hash keys generated from meter signatures in the aggregated meter data and reference hash keys corresponding to a collection of media assets. Disclosed example apparatus also include a signature matcher to align, based on the valid hash key match, a sequence of reference signatures corresponding to a first media asset associated with the valid hash key match and a corresponding sequence of the meter signatures, and compare the sequence of reference signatures and the corresponding sequence of meter signatures to identify media represented by at least a portion of the sequence of the meter signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Nelson, Raghuram Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 11247134
    Abstract: A message push method includes playing a first video in a play interface of a terminal according to first video data transmitted by a server. The method further includes displaying, by processing circuitry of the terminal, a scenario interaction interface at a preset playback time of the first video, the scenario interaction interface being set according to display content of an electronic device shown in the first video. Next, the method includes obtaining interaction information input based on the displayed scenario interaction interface, and obtaining a target message related to the obtained interaction information. Finally, the method includes outputting the obtained target message by the processing circuitry of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming Yin
  • Patent number: 11245956
    Abstract: A method and device for providing content are provided. The method includes receiving a connection request from a mobile device; connecting to the mobile device based on the connection request; obtaining, from the mobile device, identification information of the mobile device, application information of an application running on the mobile device, and content information about the content to be processed by the application; transmitting the identification information, the application information, and the content information to a casting device capable of performing cellular data communication; obtaining the content from the casting device; and outputting the content, wherein the content obtained from the casting device is received by the casting device through a cellular data communication network based on the content information and processed based on the application executed on the casting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suhwan Jin, Eungsik Yoon, Kunsok Kang, Seungil Yoon, Taedon Hwang
  • Patent number: 11231899
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a screen-projection emitter, a screen-projection emission system and a screen-projection system. The screen-projection emitter includes a memory which is configured to store screen-projection data processing software instruction set. The computer device is configured to receive the screen-projection data processing software instruction set from the memory, run the screen-projection data processing software instruction set locally to process data of content to be projected, and provide the processed data of content to be projected to the screen-projection emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kelong Luan, Xinyi Cheng
  • Patent number: 11234047
    Abstract: A server is provided. The server includes a communicator and a processor configured to, from a plurality of electronic apparatuses that reproduce content received from an external server, receive information regarding reproduction of the content and information on home network environments of the plurality of electronic apparatuses through the communicator, based on the information regarding reproduction of the content, identify a plurality of qualities of a channel providing the content for each of the plurality of home network environments, and transmit information on the plurality of qualities of the channel identified for each of the plurality of home network environments to the external server through the communicator to add the information on the plurality of qualities of the channel to a channel list provided by the external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyunghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11228789
    Abstract: This patent document describes techniques are related to providing an entertainment to passengers on a commercial passenger vehicle. In one aspect, a method for providing an entertainment to passengers on a commercial passenger vehicle comprises: receiving a request, from a first passenger on the commercial passenger vehicle, to allow the first passenger to provide a live video, the live video obtained by capturing, in real time, an activity associated with the first passenger on the commercial passenger vehicle; receiving one or more requests, from one or more additional passengers on the commercial passenger vehicle, to view the live video; receiving the live video from the first passenger; and distributing the live video to the additional passengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Watson, Steven Bates, Sarvamangala Hendi
  • Patent number: 11218670
    Abstract: In a system for video data capture and sharing client devices may include one or more video cameras and sensors to capture video data and to generate associated metadata. A cloud-based component may receive metadata from the client devices and requests for sharing video data captured by other client devices. Client devices with requested video data are identified by matching their provided metadata to the sharing request and by their response to an image search query for an object of interest specified in the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: XIRGO TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jay Hamlin, Jeffrey Margolis