Patents Examined by Hung Q Dang
  • Patent number: 11889987
    Abstract: A wireless imaging system comprising a head unit and a light cable is provided. The head unit comprises a head unit case, a head unit electrical connector, an image sensor, a wireless transceiver, a central processing unit, and a user-input component. The light cable comprises a light cable electrical connector, a power cable, and an integrated light source. The integrated light source comprises an emissive radiation source having a first spectrum, an optical element located to direct emissions from the emissive radiation source, a volumetric spectrum converter, and an optical reflector located about the converter. The converter converts emissions directed from the emissive radiation source to emissions having a second spectrum different from the first spectrum. The reflector reflects the converter emissions towards the output filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LAZURITE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Malinskiy, Ilya Malinskiy, Howard Fein, Brad Roskoph, Daniel Dudley
  • Patent number: 11890993
    Abstract: An entertainment system including a removable seat-back display unit and a docking station. The seat-back display unit can include a rotating latch butterfly release mechanism that prevents unauthorized release of the display unit from the docking station. The system can include a three-point attachment system that provides additional protection against accidental detachment of the display unit, and provide safety in the event of partial dislodging. The system can include a current control pin system that ensures that current is not provided from the docking station to the display unit until the respective connectors have been properly engaged. The system can also include a heat dissipation system that employs the docking station to share the heat dissipation load with the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Passenger Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Samuel A. Carswell, Austin Cotler, John Park, Ernesto Ramirez, Steve Sargeant
  • Patent number: 11889669
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a heat sink plane disposed on a bottom surface of a display panel and configured in such a way that a coupling groove with a circuit board accommodated therein is formed in the guide panel, which is coupled to the bottom surface of the heat sink plane, to attach and detach the circuit board into and from the coupling groove through a guide holder disposed on a guide panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyo-Jin Bang
  • Patent number: 11882677
    Abstract: Waterborne data center facility systems and methods comprising a purpose-built marine vessel, a pre-fabricated data center facility structure, a plurality of computer systems, a plurality of energy-efficient water-based heat exchange systems, a plurality of energy efficient closed-loop cooling systems, a plurality of data center modules and a plurality of electrical power generators. Described systems and methods may be employed to quickly deploy an energy-efficient waterborne data center facility. Described waterborne data center facility is transportable and may be moved to areas where data center facility and data center type services are needed. Water-based heat exchange and closed-loop cooling system enable energy-efficient cooling to data center facility and the plurality of computing systems therein. Power generators may be used to provide power to data center facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nautilus TRUE, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Castillo Magcale, Daniel Kekai, Byron Putnam Taylor
  • Patent number: 11877099
    Abstract: A recording system includes a shooting data acquisition unit, a passenger detection unit, a driver detection unit, a determination unit, and a recording control unit. The shooting data acquisition unit acquires shooting data from a camera for taking an image of inside/outside of a vehicle in which a driver and a passenger ride. The passenger detection unit detects at least the passenger. The driver detection unit detects the driver in a predetermined range. The determination unit determines whether the passenger inside the vehicle has gotten out thereof. The recording control unit instructs, after the driver detection unit no longer detects the driver detected until then, when the determination unit determines that the passenger has gotten out of the vehicle, a recording device to record the shooting data of the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Nagase
  • Patent number: 11875823
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to hypermedia enabled procedures for industrial workflows on a voice driven platform. In this regard, a system compares media data related to a step of a video procedure for an industrial task with a category dictionary to determine a category for the step of the video procedure. The system also links, based on the category for the step of the video procedure, the step of the video procedure with at least a portion of a second video procedure to generate a hypervideo that comprises an industrial sub-task for the industrial task. Furthermore, the system displays the hypervideo via a head-mounted visual display of a wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwath Kakde, Unnikrishnan Poduval, Venkata Srinivasulu Reddy Talamanchi, Ramesh Gadamsetty Venkata Naga, Prasad Panambur Kamath
  • Patent number: 11877090
    Abstract: A control device is connected to a control-target machine and an imaging device (22). The control device includes a first receiver (41) to repetitively receive image data indicating an image captured by the imaging device (22) and containing a first timestamp indicating an elapsed time since a specific time in association with the image, a second receiver (42) to receive communication data related to a history of communication at the imaging device (22) and containing a second timestamp indicating an elapsed time since the specific time and transmission time data indicating a transmission time of transmitting the communication data, and a recorder (43) to cause storages (433, 44) to store association data on the basis of comparison between the first timestamp and the second timestamp that corresponds to the transmission time. The association data indicates a corresponding time corresponding to the first timestamp in association with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsudo Fukuda, Yusuke Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11871109
    Abstract: A processing device causes a selection of a multimedia module to be detected. The processing device renders, during a first mode of operation, a dynamic navigation flow control in association with first multimedia content of the multimedia module, wherein the rendered dynamic navigation flow control indicates a first navigation position. The processing device stores a first result to memory obtained by execution of an interactive event during the first mode of operation. Based at least on the first result, a second mode of operation is entered. During the second mode of operation, the dynamic navigation flow control is re-rendered in association with second multimedia content of the multimedia module, wherein the re-rendered dynamic navigation flow control indicates a second navigation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Breakthrough PerformanceTech, LLC
    Inventors: John DiGiantomasso, Martin L. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11869539
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a plurality of buffers and a file recording processing unit. Different pieces of buffer data (BD) are accumulated in the plurality of buffers. The file recording processing unit secures two or more consecutive allocation units (AU) included in a recording medium as a ring buffer. The file recording processing unit extracts a plurality of pieces of buffer data (BD) each accumulated in one of the plurality of buffers at regular time intervals and records the plurality of pieces of buffer data (BD) in the ring buffer as a salvage file (SF) for data recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yonenaga, Shimpei Tanemori, Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 11862200
    Abstract: Methods for creating interactive audio-video contents, through visualization on an interactive display include providing a interconnected video segments, adapted to evolve in time, each having an initial video segment and one or more final video segments. Each video segment includes a non-interactive video clip having a given, or even null, duration, and an interactive node. The interactive node acts as an interconnection with one or more other video segments. Each interactive node includes a loop interval subject to continuous cyclical forward and backward time evolution. At least one set of commands determines connection choices among the video segments. The commands can be activated during at least one of the loop intervals. Upon activation of a command during the loop interval, the interval is exited and processing continues in the video segment of the one or more other video segments in which said interactive audio-video content continues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HYPEX S.R.L.
    Inventors: Riccardo Boccuzzi, Cosimo Michele De Russis
  • Patent number: 11863865
    Abstract: A system and method that guides a user to record initial and final walkthrough videos, along with audio, of their rental property is disclosed. The embodiments also provide a system that can scan a lease for the rental property, as well as audio from a user's narration of the video, and extract and tag particular features of the video for efficient querying at a later time. The system can interpret portions of the lease that are relevant to particular items or components in the apartment (for example, major appliances) and guide the user to perform a comprehensive inspection of the items mentioned in the lease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Geoffrey Lee Gerber, Scott Evan Daly, Danielle Elise Marie Vanica, Martie Ann Gutshall Kelley, Scott Michael Camarena, Harold Joy Ridley, Matthew Ray Bartee, Logan Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 11864354
    Abstract: An optical communication module includes: a circuit board; optical communication devices that are provided on an upper surface side of the circuit board; a case that accommodates the circuit board and the optical communication devices; and a heatsink that is attached to the case. The optical communication devices include a first device and a second device. The first device is located closer to an inlet opening for cooling air for cooling the heatsink than the second device is. A height from the circuit board to a top of the first device is greater than a height from the circuit board to a top of the second device. The heatsink is not equipped with a cooling fin in a first region where the first device is provided, and the heatsink is equipped with a cooling fin in a second region where the second device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuya Sasaki, Takatoshi Yagisawa, Tsutomu Ohtsu, Masami Kamioka
  • Patent number: 11856335
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including: an external communication unit configured to perform communication with an external communication device via a first communication network; a communication relay unit configured to perform communication with a mobile communication terminal via a second communication network to relay communication between the mobile communication terminal and the external communication device via the first communication network and the second communication network; and a communication control unit configured to execute captured image transmission processing for transmitting a captured image acquired by a camera to the external communication device by the external communication unit, and to execute mobile body relay processing for performing communication between the mobile communication terminal and the external communication device by the communication relay unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tamanaha, Tatsuya Kyomitsu
  • Patent number: 11853691
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing machine vision and audio is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information and audio encounter information. The machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information are temporally-aligned to produce a temporarily-aligned encounter recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Owen, Uwe Helmut Jost, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11856318
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for detecting a triggering event in a gaming environment and recording a segment of video. In some aspects, the method may include obtaining a camera projection matrix associated with the gaming environment that correlates points in the gaming environment between a two-dimensional pixel space and a three-dimensional physical representation. An input video may be obtained from the gaming environment. Pose coordinates, including two-dimensional pixel space location, of a body part of a person in the input video may be estimated, and converted to three-dimensional pose coordinates using the camera projection matrix. A person of interest having a body part located within a region of interest in the gaming environment may be identified to determine if a triggering event has occurred. Storage of an input video segment that includes the trigger movement may be initiated on a storage device in communication with the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MAIDEN AI, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Jayaram, Arjun Verma, Brogan McPartland, Vaikkunth Mugunthan
  • Patent number: 11849559
    Abstract: An interconnection structure used in an electronic device includes a chassis, a first line board, a second line board, and a heat dissipation component. The heat dissipation component is disposed on a first side surface of the chassis, the first side surface includes a first opening, the second line board is horizontally disposed inside the chassis, the first line board is vertically inserted onto a side surface of the second line board, and a second side surface that is of the chassis and that is opposite to the first side surface includes a second opening. The second line board is horizontally disposed inside the chassis, and the first line board is vertically inserted onto the side surface of the second line board, to reduce a quantity of parts on a system air duct, reduce a flow resistance of a system, and improve a heat dissipation capability of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuguang Yang, Zhiwen Yang, Shaohua Zhang, Zelong Jiao
  • Patent number: 11844184
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a housing, a circuit board in the housing, a functional module in the housing, and a module fixing device in the housing. The functional module is inserted into the circuit board. The module fixing device is connected to the functional module and is connected to the circuit board. The module fixing device comprises a clamping member and an elastic member. The clamping member is movably connected to the circuit board in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, the clamping member comprises a first clamping portion to clamp the functional module. The elastic member is connected to the clamping member, the elastic member is deformable in the first direction to drive the clamping member to move in the first direction to clamp the functional module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Ho Shih, Hung-Wei Chen, Kuan-Chin Yu, Ming-Heng Lu
  • Patent number: 11837328
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for identifying rare variants near a structural variation in a genetic sequence, for example, in a nucleic acid sample taken from a subject. The invention additionally includes methods for aligning reads (e.g., nucleic acid reads) to a reference sequence construct accounting for the structural variation, methods for building a reference sequence construct accounting for the structural variation or the structural variation and the rare variant, and systems that use the alignment methods to identify rare variants. The method is scalable, and can be used to align millions of reads to a construct thousands of bases long, or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Seven Bridges Genomics Inc.
    Inventor: Deniz Kural
  • Patent number: 11838567
    Abstract: A dynamic data extraction, distillation, and enhancement system is disclosed that includes a dynamic extraction, distillation, and enhancement framework. The framework includes an allocator, extractor, and deconstructor stored in a non-transitory memory that, when executed by a processor, receive files in different formats from data sources, determine a native format of each file, identify and extract an embedded object from a file, deconstruct the file into components, assign each file to one of a plurality of streams based on the native format of the file, assign the embedded object to a stream based on a format of the embedded object, and assign a deconstructed component to a stream based on a format of the deconstructed component. The native format includes one of text, video, image, or audio. Each stream corresponds to one native format. The streams include a text stream, an audio stream, a video stream, and an image stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TORCH RESEARCH, LLC
    Inventor: Jon Kramer
  • Patent number: 11837262
    Abstract: An electronic device for tagging an event in a sports play video, and an operating method thereof. Various embodiments may include mapping text broadcasting data and a sports play video based on an event occurring during sports play, detecting a tagging location of the event in the sports play video, and displaying an indicator for the tagging location of the event in the progress bar of the sports play video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Bong Baek, Hoonmok Moon, Ha Kyoung Sung, DongHo Lee, YoungNam Kang, HyunJoong Park, Seoyeon Hur