Patents Examined by Hugo Molina
  • Patent number: 11103161
    Abstract: Electronic devices for displaying user interfaces and, more specifically, for displaying user interfaces associated with physical activities are described. In some embodiments, the user interfaces are associated with configuring a pace alert for a workout application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, Gary Ian Butcher, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe
  • Patent number: 11106331
    Abstract: A user interface for working through workflows can include a dual-region approach. The first display region can display a series of workflows that an assigned worker (“assignee”) may have. Each of the workflows can have one or more tasks associated therewith. Each workflow and/or task can be associated with one or more triggers that initiate the assignment of that workflow and/or task. In response to selection of a workflow or task, the second display region can display information associated with the workflow or task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Porter, Paige Pauli, John Wiseheart, Aditya Shashi, Benjamin Lee, Maciej Foks, Jakob Frick, Joshua Chomicki, Bianca Rahill-Marier
  • Patent number: 11099732
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for form operation on a mobile terminal. An exemplary method may include detecting an input hand gesture on a screen, and acquiring a trajectory of the input hand gesture. The method may also include matching the acquired trajectory of the input hand gesture with the hand gestures in correspondence in accordance with the hand-gesture comparison rules. The correspondence between hand gestures, hand-gesture comparison rules, and form operations is preset. The method may further include triggering a corresponding form operation if the matching is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11048317
    Abstract: A communication device, method, and computer program product provide higher confidence in person detection by augmenting sensing with carbon dioxide sensing and contextual information. The communication device determines a current carbon dioxide level in a space in which the communication device is located. A processor of the communication device compares the current carbon dioxide level to a carbon dioxide baseline threshold that is indicative of presence of a person in the space. In response to determining that the current carbon dioxide level is greater than the carbon dioxide baseline threshold, the processor further determines whether at least one target is sensed within the space. In response to determining that at least one target is sensed in the space, the processor infers the presence of a person in the space and sets a control mode of the communication device that correlates to the presence of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Nikhil Ambha Madhusudhana, Vivek K. Tyagi, Joseph V. Nasti, Scott Debates
  • Patent number: 10996925
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate an automated assistant that provides suggestion elements at an OEM application and/or third-party application that is accessible via an OEM vehicle computing device, which employs restrictions on communications between local applications. The automated assistant can render suggestions via OEM vehicle applications and/or third-party applications, and initialize actions for performance via the OEM vehicle applications and/or the third-party applications—despite the limitations. The suggestions can be rendered at a graphical user interface of a vehicle, and include content that, when spoken by a user, causes the automated assistant to initialize such actions. Actions that are suggested by the automated assistant can be performed by third-party applications that are different from a third-party application that is rendering the suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 10983678
    Abstract: Various methods and systems for documenting interactive graphical design include an exemplary graphical design environment stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium that comprises a documentation element in an interactive graphical design. The design environment also comprises a design element that displays a plurality of states in a rendering of the interactive graphical design in an external player. The documentation element: (i) is enabled to receive a selection from the user of a state in the plurality of states; and (ii) displays a representation of the design element in the state in response to receiving the selection from the user. The documentation element and design element are both instantiated by a processor operating in combination with the non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Axure Software Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Hsu, Martin Smith, Ben Fraser
  • Patent number: 10980941
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprises an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Morris, Scott M. Belliveau, Esteban Cabrera, Jr., Rian Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Timothy Joseph Goldsmith, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Francis William Pascual, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Anna Leigh Davis, Kevin Shoemaker, Brian Christopher Smith, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley
  • Patent number: 10976904
    Abstract: Interaction with a chatbot of a computer system is facilitated by receiving, by the chatbot, a request from a user of the chatbot, where the request establishes a user-chatbot interaction. Based at least in part on the request, a plurality of predicted chatbot paths are generated, forming a hierarchy of predicted chatbot content for the user-chatbot interaction. A graphical chatbot interface including, at least in part, the hierarchy of predicted chatbot content for the user-chatbot interaction is provided for display on an electronic device, and a selection by the user of one predicted chatbot path of the graphical chatbot interface is received, via the electronic device, as part of the user-chatbot interaction, where the providing of the graphical chatbot interface facilitates user interaction with the chatbot along the selected predicted chatbot path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John F. Moran, Michael Bender, Todd P. Seager, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10970093
    Abstract: In an apparatus, in a case where a confirming unit confirms that remote desktop connection is made and a software screen is set to be displayed on a foreground, a setting unit cancels the setting for displaying the software screen on the foreground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fuse
  • Patent number: 10901596
    Abstract: A focus setting display unit for a moving image camera comprises a data input that is configured to receive a focus setting that represents an instantaneous focal distance of an objective of the moving image camera as well as to receive distance values that represent the distances of a plurality of scene points in the field of view of the objective from the moving image camera. The focus setting display unit further comprises a display device and an evaluation and control device that is configured to control the display device to display a graphical representation of the focus setting and a graphical representation of a frequency distribution of the distance values in a spatial relationship to one another that reflects the spatial relationship of the instantaneous focal distance of the objective to the distances of the plurality of scene points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventor: Hendrik Voss
  • Patent number: 10901760
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to multiscreen environments. In one example of the technology, a registry is maintained. The registry includes a plurality of context schemas. Each context schema in the plurality of context schemas includes a context schema input and a context schema output. Context data is received from a first application. The context data includes at least one of a context schema input that is associated with view augmentation in a multiscreen environment or a context schema output that is associated with view augmentation in a multiscreen environment. It is determined whether the context data is valid based, at least in part, on the registry. In response to determining that the context data is valid, the context data is forwarded to at least a second application. The second application is separate from the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Grochocki, Jr., Ana Lilia Otero Diaz, Kshitij Sethi, Jeff West, Felix Andrew
  • Patent number: 10896020
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a hearing device, the hearing device configured to be worn by a user, the hearing device comprising a processing unit configured to receive an input signal and provide an output signal for compensating a hearing loss of the user; a processing unit configured to generate a request upon a detection of the output signal being unsatisfactory, wherein the processing unit is also configured to receive a wireless response that is generated in response to the request, the response being based at least in part on one or more of a plurality of initial fitting parameters of the hearing device, audiogram(s), one or more of a plurality of current settings of the hearing device, or any combination of the foregoing; and a screen configured to display information regarding an adjustment for improving a performance of the hearing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: GN Hearing A/S
    Inventors: Kim Kris Christiansen, Jesper Lund Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10891023
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a user interface (UI) in a first position on a touch-sensitive display. While displaying the UI in the first position, the method includes: detecting a first input and, in response: shifting the UI from the first position to a second position including sliding a portion of the UI off the display while maintaining display of another portion, the shifting including removing the UI from a respective region of the display; and displaying at least some of a plurality of UI elements for opening recently used applications in the respective region. While displaying the UI in the second position, the method includes: detecting a second input; and, in response: shifting the UI back from the second position to the first position so that the UI is displayed in the respective region; and ceasing to display the UI elements for opening recently used applications in the respective region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10885695
    Abstract: Determining the rendering of user interface (UI) elements, referred to as views, based upon styleable transitions between possible states of a view. Transitions may include animation, such as to smoothly enter a view into or exit a view out of a scene over a number of rendering frames. Transitions also may be applied to view state changes related to a UI element, such as to indicate hovered over, focused, listening (for speech), selected and/or pressed. View state changes also may be animated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HOME BOX OFFICE, INC.
    Inventors: Steven N. Furtwangler, Brendan Joseph Clark, Brandon C. Furtwangler, J. Jordan C. Parker, Nathan J. E. Furtwangler
  • Patent number: 10867165
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system includes a transmission unit, a first reception chain, a second reception chain, a customized gesture collection engine and a machine learning accelerator. The transmission unit is used to transmit a transmission signal to detect a gesture. The first reception chain is used to receive a first signal and generate first feature map data corresponding to the first signal. The second reception chain is used to receive a second signal and generate second feature map data corresponding to the second signal. The first signal and the second signal are generated by the gesture reflecting the transmission signal. The customized gesture collection engine is used to generate gesture data according to at least the first feature map data and the second feature map data. The machine learning accelerator is used to perform machine learning with the gesture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KaiKuTek INC.
    Inventor: Mike Chun Hung Wang
  • Patent number: 10852930
    Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10834546
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a context-based user interface include obtaining one or more contextual factors associated with an electronic device; predicting context information in accordance with the one or more contextual factors; and formatting a user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information. In some implementations, formatting the user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a first set of applications; and formatting for display to the user the first set of applications as part of a user interface of the electronic device; and formatting the user interface includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a second set of applications; and forgoing display to the user the second set of applications as part of the user interface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Montoy-Wilson, Mark Daiss, William Choi, Prasanna Vasudevan, Jeffrey Chern, Bernat Fortet Unanue
  • Patent number: 10817131
    Abstract: A method for displaying an N-view autostereoscopic image formed of N elementary images interlaced according to a predetermined mixing scheme on a mobile display screen includes pivoting the screen; detecting a pivot angle ? of the screen; rotating the N elementary images by an inverse angle of the detected pivot angle ?, interlacing the N elementary images rotated according to the mixing scheme of the N elementary images in an initial direction, and displaying the N elementary images rotated on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ALIOSCOPY
    Inventors: Pierre Allio, Flavien Maingreaud
  • Patent number: 10805388
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for enabling a user to edit and access local and remote objects via a virtual drive, including objects synchronized to a plurality of Synchronization clients. A virtual drive is displayed on the user's local client device with all objects, which a user has synchronized to a synchronization server. A user is able to access and edit any object displayed in the virtual drive. In response to detecting a change in an object in the virtual drive, the object is updated on the synchronization server. All remote clients of the user or of any other users who have access to the changed folder are identified and notified of the change. In response to the change being a change to content within the folder, the content of the folder is automatically updated on any identified remote clients that have a corresponding folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Fuad Rashid, Michael Phillip Morford, Eric Wayne Wagner, James David Wong, Sing Yip
  • Patent number: 10805389
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for enabling a user to edit and access local and remote objects via a virtual drive, including objects synchronized to a plurality of synchronization clients. A virtual drive is displayed on the user's local client device with all objects, which a user has synchronized to a synchronization server. A user is able to access and edit any object displayed in the virtual drive. In response to detecting a change in an object in the virtual drive, the object is updated on the synchronization server. All remote clients of the user or of any other users who have access to the changed folder are identified and notified of the change. In response to the change being a change to content within the folder, the content of the folder is automatically updated on any identified remote clients that have a corresponding folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Fuad Rashid, Michael Phillip Morford, Eric Wayne Wagner, James David Wong, Sing Yip