Patents Examined by Huy C Ho
  • Patent number: 11122445
    Abstract: An automated system which tests the functionality of the components of mobile devices. The system is capable to test different mobile devices and is capable of accepting and testing several devices simultaneously. The system is capable of inspecting the display, testing the microphone and speakers, testing connectivity, such as USB and headphone connectivity, testing wireless charging, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventor: Tu Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11113567
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for generating training data that is used to train a machine learning system to detect moving objects represented in sensor data. The system and methods utilize position data received from a target vehicle to determine data points within sensor data that represents that target vehicle. For example, a station at a known location may receive Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (“ADS-B”) data (position data) corresponding to a target vehicle that is within the field of view of a station sensor, such as a camera. The position data may then be correlated with the sensor data and projected into the sensor data to determine data points within the sensor data that represent the target vehicle. Those data points are then labeled to indicate the location, size, and/or shape of the target vehicle as represented in the sensor data, thereby producing training that may be provided to train a machine learning algorithm or system to detect moving objects, such as aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Guillaume Durand, Pradeep Krishna Yarlagadda, Ishay Kamon, Francesco Callari
  • Patent number: 11115863
    Abstract: A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, network addresses of another terminal device from a message broker to which the terminal device and the another terminal device are registered. At least one of the terminal device and the another terminal device is connected to a cellular network. The method may further comprise initiating a connectivity check procedure to determine one or more candidate paths through which the terminal device has connectivity to the another terminal device. The one or more candidate paths are from at least two paths associated with the network addresses of the another terminal device. The method may further comprise selecting a path for the terminal device and the another terminal device among the one or more candidate paths, based at least in part on a predefined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhong Wang, Peng Lv, Hai Wang, Haiming Bai
  • Patent number: 11093745
    Abstract: A plant treatment platform uses a plant detection model to detect plants as the plant treatment platform travels through a field. The plant treatment platform receives image data from a camera that captures images of plants (e.g., crops or weeds) growing in the field. The plant treatment platform applies pre-processing functions to the image data to prepare the image data for processing by the plant detection model. For example, the plant treatment platform may reformat the image data, adjust the resolution or aspect ratio, or crop the image data. The plant treatment platform applies the plant detection model to the pre-processed image data to generate bounding boxes for the plants. The plant treatment platform then can apply treatment to the plants based on the output of the machine-learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Blue River Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Kamp Redden, Christopher Grant Padwick, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, James Patrick Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 11087159
    Abstract: An object detection device includes a memory that stores data, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to set an object point indicating a position of an object in image data, detect a candidate region that is a candidate for an object region where the object in the image data exists, select the candidate region having the object point as an object region, and output the selected candidate region as the object region where the object exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Sosuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11086297
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing, fabricating, selecting, evaluating and/or improving therapeutic compression garments for patients or individuals using compression garments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SIGVARIS AG
    Inventor: Emilie Bertaux Hegemann
  • Patent number: 11087750
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Paul Adrian Van Mulbregt, Vladimir Sejnoha, Glen Edward Wilson
  • Patent number: 11076288
    Abstract: A method performed by an authentication server in a home network of a UE for obtaining a subscription permanent identifier, SUPI. The method comprises: receiving a SUCI which comprises an encrypted part in which at least a part of the SUPI is encrypted, and a clear-text part which comprises a home network identifier and an encryption scheme identifier that identifies an encryption scheme used by the UE to encrypt the SUPI in the SUCI; determining a de-concealing server to use to decrypt the encrypted part of the SUCI; sending the SUCI to the de-concealing server; and receiving the SUPI in response. Methods performed by a UE and a de-concealing server are also disclosed. Furthermore, UEs, de-concealing servers, authentication servers, computer program and a memory circuitry are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Vesa Torvinen, Noamen Ben Henda, David Castellanos Zamora, Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Pasi Saarinen, Monica Wifvesson
  • Patent number: 11064327
    Abstract: Method for a service provider to launch a targeted service implemented by an application belonging to a security domain of an eUICC embedded into a communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: THALES DIS FRANCE SA
    Inventors: Gerald Glinka-Hecquet, Denis Dubois
  • Patent number: 11064325
    Abstract: A method of discovering services provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said network function is registered, in a Network Repository Function, NRF, comprised by said telecommunication network, using a service name, a service address and a selection rule, wherein said selection rule defines a further service address and a precondition for applying said selection rule, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said NRF, a discovery request, from a Network Function, NF, consumer, wherein said discovery request comprises said service name, determining, by said NRF, that said selection rule applies by determining that said precondition is met based on said received discovery request and transmitting, by said NRF, to said NF consumer, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises said further service address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Maria Cruz Bartolomé Rodrigo, Maria Esther Bas Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11042963
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller. In a case where multiple images are formed in air in a depth direction, the controller controls a display of at least one of the images corresponding to one position or multiple positions in accordance with a command from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11038996
    Abstract: An extension bar for a mount for an electronic device includes an elongate first component. An upper end of the extension bar is adapted to be joined to an electronic device mounting bracket. A clamp is attached to a base of the mount. The base has a hollow interior. The clamp may clamp the first component to the base at any of a plurality of positions along an affixation range defined on the first component. In some of these positions, a lower end of the first component is inserted through an opening in top of the base to be disposed in the hollow base interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MACNEIL IP LLC
    Inventor: David S. Iverson
  • Patent number: 11017557
    Abstract: The present invention provides a detection method and a detection device, which are applied in the field of image processing. The detection method includes: receiving a first image, wherein the first image includes at least one face; performing at least one of the following processing on the first image: detecting a left eye and/or a right eye of the face in the first image, estimating a position of the face relative to a camera device, and estimating an attitude of the face; and inputting the results of the processing into a first neural network to determine a line-of-sight of the face. The detection method and the detection device provided by the present invention enable a terminal to detect the line-of-sight of a user and/or other person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ARCSOFT CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Chung-Yang Lin, Pu Zhang, Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11019218
    Abstract: The invention relates to, among others, a communication station (10) for an intercom network (11), comprising a plurality of operating elements (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d) each of which are configured in the manner of a lever (49a, 49b, 49c, 49d, 49e, 49f, 49g, 49h, 49i, 49j), wherein a lever starting from an inactive middle position (39a) is manually shiftable in a first direction (31) into a first switching position (39b) or alternatively shiftable in a second direction (32) contrary to the first into a second switching position (39c), wherein the lever is biased toward its middle position. The special feature of the invention consists, among others, in that the lever comprises a rotatably mounted adjustment element (59, 59a, 59b, 59c, 59d, 59e, 59f, 59g, 59h, 59i, 59j) for changing a parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: RIEDEL COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Schaaf, Bernhard Hanisch, Jake Dodson, Thomas Riedel
  • Patent number: 11017296
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying time series image data. Aspects of the invention include encoding motion information from video frames in an eccentricity map. An eccentricity map is essentially a static image that aggregates apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges, from a plurality of video frames. In general, eccentricity reflects how different a data point is from the past readings of the same set of variables. Neural networks can be trained to detect and classify actions in videos from eccentricity maps. Eccentricity maps can be provided to a neural network as input. Output from the neural network can indicate if detected motion in a video is or is not classified as an action, such as, for example, a hand gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Kumar Singh, Pavithra Madhavan, Bruno Jales Costa, Gintaras Vincent Puskorius, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Patent number: 10999743
    Abstract: The invention refers to a method performed by a radio network node (200), wherein the radio access network comprises a central unit, CU (220), and a distributed unit, DU (210), comprising obtaining (502) one or more criteria for determining a preferable location for a UE context controller in the radio access network node, the UE context controller managing a connection between a UE (100) and the radio access network node (200); and determining (504), based on the one or more criteria, whether the UE context controller shall be located in the CU (220) and/or in the DU (210). The invention further related to a corresponding radio network node (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Elena Myhre, Walter Müller
  • Patent number: 10993178
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique of fusing a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology and a system thereof, and provides an intelligent service based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from an AMF, a first message including first information for identifying the AMF, the first information being assigned upon a successful registration to a first access; determining whether a second access is located in a same PLMN of the first access; and transmitting, to an access network entity of the second access, a second message requesting registration to the second access and including second information for identifying the AMF, in case that the second access is located in the same PLMN of the first access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventors: Youngkyo Baek, Sunghoon Kim, Hoyeon Lee, Jungje Son
  • Patent number: 10984515
    Abstract: The disclosure provide an image inspection device and an illumination device. The image inspection device includes a photographing part; an illumination part including a light guide plate disposed at any position between the object and the photographing part; and a control part. The illumination part includes a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part disposed around the light guide plate; and a first reflective part and a second reflective part. The reflective parts are configured so that a light emitting surface of the light guide plate has an emission intensity distribution of a first pattern when the first light emitting part emits light under control of the control part, and the light emitting surface has an emission intensity distribution of a second pattern different from the first pattern when the second light emitting part emits light under control of the control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Kato
  • Patent number: 10986672
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a user equipment (UE) performing random access to a network is disclosed. For this end, the UE determines a predetermined number of beams, as candidate beams for the random access to the network, among multiple beams, wherein each of the multiple beams is allocated on different time domain units. And, the UE transmits the random access preamble over a transmission beam selected as one from the candidate beams to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungmin Lee, Daesung Hwang, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10977768
    Abstract: A processor-implemented image normalization method includes extracting a first object patch from a first input image and extracting a second object patch from a second input image based on an object area that includes an object detected from any one or any combination of the first input image and the second input image, determining, based on a first landmark detected from the first object patch, a second landmark of the second object patch; and normalizing the first object patch and the second object patch based on the first landmark and the second landmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungju Han, Minsu Ko, Changyong Son, Jaejoon Han