Patents Examined by G West
  • Patent number: 11805196
    Abstract: A system for using a mobile phone in a vehicle includes an auxiliary jack having multiple conductors and configured to receive a connector having a first end to be coupled to the auxiliary jack and a second end to be coupled to a mobile device. The system further includes a ground coupled to a first conductor of the multiple conductors, and a microphone coupled to a second conductor of the multiple conductors that receives microphone data from a cabin of the vehicle to be transmitted to the remote device via the connector. The system further includes a first speaker coupled to a third conductor of the multiple conductors that outputs audio data received from the third conductor, and an IVI interface configured to receive user instructions for controlling the mobile device and to transmit the user instructions to the mobile device via at least one of the multiple conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Katsumi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11798554
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamic contact ingestion are described. A system may interpret a voice command received from a first device based on contact data or other information associated with a second device connected to the first device. For example, when a data connection is made between the first device and the second device, the first device may receive the contact data and send the contact data to a remote system. The remote system may temporarily associate the contact data with the first device, enabling the remote system to interpret a voice command received from the first device using the contact data. The remote system may use the contact data to perform disambiguation, enabling the remote system to initiate outbound calls, announce inbound calls, and/or the like. When the second device is disconnected from the first device, the remote system may remove the association between the contact data and the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amandeep Singh, Amit Chakraborty, Peng Bai, Kamal Bhambhani, Premal Dinesh Desai, Shane Michael Wilson, Sanjay Rajput, Abhay Gupta
  • Patent number: 11800004
    Abstract: A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a device using a short-range communication protocol. The application is obtained and executed in conjunction with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Ryong Heo, Hyun-Seok Shin, Ji-Hyun Park, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Myung-Gon Hong
  • Patent number: 11799994
    Abstract: Disclosed are an antenna tuning method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The antenna tuning method is applied in a mobile terminal and comprises: detecting the current sliding state of a cover body in a mobile terminal, the sliding state comprising s a sliding open state and a sliding closed state; and tuning an antenna in the cover body according to the current sliding state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Liyun Liu
  • Patent number: 11800464
    Abstract: System and method for temperature-calibration of a crystal oscillator (XO) in a mobile device. A temperature-calibration status of the XO is determined and a trigger condition related to temperature-calibration of the XO is detected. If the temperature-calibration status of the XO is not fully temperature-calibrated or if the XO has not been previously temperature-calibrated, a temperature-calibration session is initiated by an XO manager based on the condition, wherein a receiver is configured to receive signals and temperature-calibration of the XO is performed in a background mode based on the received signals. The condition based triggering ensures that the XO is temperature-calibrated prior to launch of any position based or global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) based applications on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jie Wu, Daniel Fred Filipovic, Emilija Milorad Simic, Vishal Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11791859
    Abstract: A waterproof handheld device includes a handle including a control module and a telescopic rod including tubes. The tubes include a first tube connected with a waterproof case configured to receive a terminal device. The first tube is an outermost tube or an innermost tube. When the first tube is the innermost tube, the outermost tube is connected with the handle. When the first tube is the outermost tube, the innermost tube is connected with the handle. The first tube is connected with a first wireless communication module. The first wireless communication module is connected with the control module through a communication wire arranged in the telescopic rod. The first wireless communication module is communicated with a second wireless communication module connected with the terminal device or the first wireless communication module is communicated with a third wireless communication module of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YISE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Li Xin Deng
  • Patent number: 11790509
    Abstract: A method of building a model of defect inspection for a light-emitting diode (LED) display is adapted to be implemented by a model-building system. The model-building system stores captured images respectively of LED displays that were displaying images. Each of the captured images corresponds to a status tag that indicates a status of the image being displayed by the respective one of the LED displays. The method includes: performing data preprocessing on the captured images to result in pieces of pre-processed data that respectively correspond to the captured images; and building a model of defect inspection by using an algorithm of machine learning based on the pieces of pre-processed data and the status tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MACROBLOCK, INC.
    Inventor: Yi-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11784724
    Abstract: An access point allocates resource units within a first channel to mitigate interference from an adjacent second channel. The access point obtains a measure of signal strength corresponding to each wireless device attached to an access point, and assigns, for each wireless device, resource units with a first frequency band of the first channel to mitigate interference with a second frequency band of a second channel adjacent to the first channel. An assignment between a set of resource units and a particular wireless device is based on the measure of signal strength corresponding to the particular wireless device. The access point communicates with the wireless devices on the resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Aaron Silverman, Pooya Monajemi, Vishal Satyendra Desai, John Martin Blosco
  • Patent number: 11783511
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for channel-wise autoregressive entropy models. In one aspect, a method includes processing data using a first encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data. The latent representation of data is processed by a quantizer and a second encoder neural network to generate a quantized latent representation of data and a latent representation of an entropy model. The latent representation of data is further processed into a plurality of slices of quantized latent representations of data wherein the slices are arranged in an ordinal sequence. A hyperprior processing network generates a hyperprior parameters and a compressed representation of the hyperprior parameters. For each slice, a corresponding compressed representation is generated using a corresponding slice processing network wherein a combination of the compressed representations form a compressed representation of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh
  • Patent number: 11783187
    Abstract: An approach is provided for progressive training of long-lived, evolving machine learning architectures. The approach involves, for example, determining alternative paths for the evolution of the machine learning model from a first architecture to a second architecture. The approach also involves determining one or more migration step alternatives in the alternative paths. The migration steps, for instance, include architecture options for the evolution of the machine learning model. The approach further involves processing data using the options to determine respective model performance data. The approach further involves selecting a migration step from the one or more migration step alternatives based on the respective model performance data to control a rate of migration steps over a rate of training in the evolution of the machine learning model. The approach further involves initiating a deployment the selected migration step to the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Tero Juhani Keski-Valkama
  • Patent number: 11762951
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for generative image congealing which provides an unsupervised learning technique that learns transformations of real data to improve the image quality of GANs trained using that image data. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise generating, by a spatial transformer network, an aligned real image for a real image from an unaligned real dataset, providing, by the spatial transformer network, the aligned real image to an adversarial discrimination network to determine if the aligned real image resembles aligned synthetic images generated by a generator network, and training, by a training manager, the spatial transformer network to learn updated transformations based on the determination of the adversarial discrimination network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Elya Shechtman, William Peebles, Richard Zhang, Jun-Yan Zhu, Alyosha Efros
  • Patent number: 11758033
    Abstract: Techniques for communication protocol based on physical configuration of a wireless device are described and may be implemented to adapt to a variety of different wireless scenarios. For instance, configuration of an antenna system of a wireless device is adapted to optimize wireless performance in different physical configurations, such as open configurations and folded configurations. Further, network communications are adapted to optimize wireless communication with a wireless device in different physical configurations of the wireless device. The described techniques, for instance, optimize performance in different frequency bands based on changes in device configuration between open positions and folded positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Armin W. Klomsdorf, Mohammed Rajeek Abdul-Gaffoor, John Peter Vitale
  • Patent number: 11755920
    Abstract: A method that may include training a student ODNN to mimic a teacher ODNN. The training may include calculating a teacher student detection loss that is based on a pre-bounding-box output of the teacher ODNN. The pre-bounding-box output of the teacher ODNN is a function of pre-bounding-box outputs of different ODNNs that belong to the teacher ODNN. The method may also include detecting one or more objects in an image, by feeding the image to the trained student ODNN; outputting by the trained student ODNN a student pre-bounding-box output; and calculating one or more bounding boxes based on the student pre-bounding-box output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CORTICA LTD.
    Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Eli Passov
  • Patent number: 11748465
    Abstract: A system and method for linking observed human activity on video to a user account of a preferred embodiment that includes: through a computer vision monitoring system, detecting and tracking a human as a computer vision modeled person within an environment, the computer vision monitoring system being part of a computing platform managing a user interaction experience; through at least one associative mechanism, establishing an association between the computer vision modeled person and at least one associative element and thereby associating the computer vision modeled person and a user-record linked through the associative element; and directing the user interaction experience at least in part based on the combination of the modeled person and at least the user-record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11743368
    Abstract: Provided are a screen component, a mobile phone, and a mobile device. The screen component includes: a screen body, wherein a presentation area is provided on an end of the screen body; and a driving mechanism, wherein the driving mechanism is configured to drive the screen body to switch between a first position and a second position. While the screen body is arranged in the first position, the presentation area is located within a range of a window, and a front-mounted mechanism is able to expose from the presentation area; and while the screen body is arranged in the second position, the screen body takes up the window, and the front-mounted mechanism is shielded by the screen body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventor: Zhe Yu
  • Patent number: 11736139
    Abstract: An electronic device and an antenna switching method of an electronic device are provided. A wireless signal is transmitted or received through a first antenna module among a plurality of antenna modules. A temperature of the first antenna module is measured through a first temperature sensor contained in the first antenna module among a plurality of temperature sensors. A second antenna module among the plurality of antenna modules is switched to based on the measured temperature of the first antenna module exceeding a predetermined value. Each temperature sensor is contained in each of the plurality of antenna modules. The wireless signal is transmitted or received through the second antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ohhyuck Kwon, Jaeyoung Huh, Daesuk Kang, Boram Kim, Jonghoon Lim, Sungchul Park
  • Patent number: 11729593
    Abstract: A system includes a first transceiver and a controller circuit. The first transceiver is configured to transmit first radio frequency (RF) signals. The first transceiver is further configured to output the first RF signals at a first transmission level corresponding to a first transmission range. The controller circuit is communicatively coupled with the first transceiver. The controller circuit is configured to attenuate the first RF signals to transfer the first RF signals at a second transmission level lower than the first transmission level. The second transmission level corresponds to a shorter transmission range than the first transmission range. The controller circuit detects a presence of at least one second transceiver within the shorter transmission range using the first RF signals transmitted at the second transmission level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Christopher D. Ruppel, Sunil Lingamurthy Javali
  • Patent number: 11719544
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a sensor, a camera, a memory, a camera and a processor. The memory stores a plurality of artificial intelligence models trained to identify objects and stores information on a map. The first processor provides, to the second processor, area information on an area in which the electronic apparatus is determined, based on sensing data obtained from the sensor, to be located, from among a plurality of areas included in the map. The second processor loads at least one artificial intelligence model of the plurality of artificial intelligence models to the volatile memory based on the area information and identifies an object by inputting the image obtained through the camera to the loaded artificial intelligence model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunseo Kim, Yehoon Kim, Chanwon Seo, Inhak Na, Myungjin Eom
  • Patent number: 11711456
    Abstract: A flexible display device and a flexible display apparatus are provided. The flexible display device includes a flexible display module; an attaching frame fixed and connected with the flexible display module; a bending component disposed below the flexible display module, and fixed and connected with the attaching frame; and an elastic layer disposed between the flexible display module and the bending component, and attached on a bottom of the flexible display module. The elastic layer is bendable around a bending axis. Thus, the characteristics of easy assembling and flatness can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen Han
  • Patent number: 11706326
    Abstract: A technique for selectively configuring a case of a handheld device to shield an antenna from receiving or transmitting wireless signals is disclosed. The technique includes moving a blocking element on the case between a first position and a second position. The blocking element is a physical structure that is rotatable, slidable, or removable to switch between the first position and the second position. In response to moving the blocking element to the first position, the blocking element blocks wireless signals received or transmitted by the antenna of the handheld device. In response to moving the blocking element to the second position, wireless signals can be received or transmitted through the case by the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OSOM PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Anderson, Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, David John Evans, V