Patents Examined by James T Tsai
  • Patent number: 11630631
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to manage display of content on a dual screen information handling system by recognizing dual-screen gestures and/or imparting touch awareness to at least a portion of a non-visual central region existing between the active visual areas of the two display screens of the dual screen system, e.g., between each visual area and a gap area and/or hinge area between the two display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Damon Trim, John T. Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11625220
    Abstract: A digital mixer is disclosed having a plurality of displays and which applies a mixing process on an audio signal. The digital mixer includes an input interface, one or more processors, an output interface, at least a first display and a second display, and an operator. The operator includes a mode switching button for switching between a first mode and a second mode. The one or more processors are configured to cause parameter setting screens of audio signals of different channels to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the first mode, and cause different parameter setting screens of an audio signal of a single channel to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dai Sato, Kazuhiko Endo, Daisuke Mitomi, Paul Youngblood
  • Patent number: 11600155
    Abstract: This disclosure illustrates a wearable detection device, configured to detect vibrations due to the impact of fingers against an object and/or to the sliding of fingertips on a rough surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: WEART S.R.L.
    Inventors: Guido Gioioso, Giovanni Spagnoletti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Mirko Aurilio
  • Patent number: 11556172
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein are directed to viewpoint coordination of multiple users on artificial reality collaboration models. Multiple users can collaborate on 3D models in an artificial reality environment. Attention indicators can indicate to the other users where a user is looking or where the user is pointing. In some implementations, there is a central model that each user sees from her own perspective (e.g., in the center of a virtual table all users are seated around) and/or instances of the model that only an individual user sees or can manipulate. The user's attention indicators can be based on where the user is looking or pointing on the model instances. Additionally, attention indicators can be translated from a controlling user's perspective to a coordinate system defined by the model, which allows the indicators to be then presented in that model coordinate system for all users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jasper Stevens, Etienne Pinchon
  • Patent number: 11532015
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for timing message notifications to be provided to mobile device users based on their geographic locations with respect to geographic areas associated with a threshold level of content consumption. The timing of message notifications may be controlled in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a threshold level of content consumption area. As mobile device users may be more likely to launch a client application in a place where other users are currently consuming content, a general message notification sent to the user's device located in a geographic area associated with a threshold level of content consumption, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bryce Barrand, Patrick McDevitt
  • Patent number: 11481730
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11475873
    Abstract: A method can include obtaining one or more gesture definitions. Each of the one or more gesture definitions can identify a correspondence between a set of gestures and a voice communication. The method can further include detecting that a mute function of a communication device is active. The mute function can prevent the communication device from transmitting audio data to one or more receiving devices. The method can further include obtaining gesture data from one or more input devices. The method can further include identifying a first gesture definition of the one or more gesture definitions. The identifying the first gesture definition can be based on the gesture data. The method can further include initiating a transfer of a first voice communication to the one or more receiving devices. The first voice communication can correspond to the first gesture definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Bharti, Sandeep Sukhija
  • Patent number: 11470402
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and machine-readable media for concurrent communication. One method includes displaying an interactive application on a first device of a user during a break in an entertainment segment displayed on a second device, sending a request for interaction from the user through the interactive application, pausing the interactive application when the break in the entertainment segment is over, and notifying the user when an additional break begins so the user can commence interacting with the interactive application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Maland Mortensen, Teddy J. Voutour, Emily Gray, Andrew Anaruk, Christopher T. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 11467722
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar are displayed on top of the displayed portion. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. The horizontal bar has a horizontal position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the horizontal position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar and of the horizontal bar is ceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Henri C. Lamiraux, Andrew Emilio Platzer, Michael Matas, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11455178
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a user interface; at least one processor operably coupled to the user interface; and a memory operably coupled to the at least one processor, wherein memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine, when the electronic device is in a first state, whether or not a first condition is satisfied; perform a first action of changing a state of the electronic device from the first state to a second state if the first condition is satisfied; receive, through the user interface, a user input of changing the state of the electronic device from the second state to a third state; change the state of the electronic device from the second state to the third state at least partially based on the received user input; and maintain the third state even if the first condition is not satisfied in the third state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Songgeun Kim, Sangheon Kim, Kyuchul Kong, Yongkwon Kim, Donggil Son, Yunjeong Choi, Jongwu Baek
  • Patent number: 11442613
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention performs control such that a change in a first designation mode is performed in accordance with reception of a first type of operation without moving an input position in a predetermined region, wherein in the change, a specific change target is changed to a change destination that corresponds to a region to which the input position in the first type of operation belongs, and a change in a second designation mode is performed in accordance with reception a second type of operation of moving the input position in the predetermined region, wherein in the change, the specific change target is changed to a change destination that differs, by a change amount based on a movement amount in the second type of operation, from the change destination that is changed in the first type of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11422685
    Abstract: A first selection of an image may be received in accordance with image selection information inputted from a pointing device. A second selection of an image corresponding to a designated coordinate may be received by detecting the designated coordinate. A first object image for receiving an instruction to display a plurality of first images may be displayed. The plurality of first images may be displayed when an operation to select the displayed first object image is received in the first selection or the second selection. When a selection of a first image is received, the process associated with the selected first image may be executed. The plurality of first images may be displayed in a first mode when the operation is received in the first selection. The plurality of first images may be displayed in a second mode when the operation is received in the second selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusaku Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11416139
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a screen display method of the electronic device. More specifically, provided are an electronic device for providing an extension function to a second area according to a characteristic of a characteristic area in first and second areas of an extended touch screen, and a screen display method of the electronic device. Some of the disclosed embodiments provide an electronic device for providing an extension function to a second area according to a characteristic of a characteristic area of an application screen in first and second areas divided by a trigger in an extended touch screen. In addition thereto, various other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soyoung Kim, Daehyun Kim, Minsik Kim, Jongmoo Lee, Geon-Soo Kim, Jin-Wan An, Ji-Woo Lee, Hyun-Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 11416130
    Abstract: Examples are related to operating a user interface of a dual-screen computing device. One example provides a computing device, comprising a first portion comprising a first display and a first touch sensor, and a second portion comprising a second display and a second touch sensor, the second portion connected to the first via a hinge, the hinge defining a seam between the first display and the second display. The computing device is configured to receive a touch input at the first display moving an application that is currently displayed on the first display and not on the second display toward the second display, detect the touch input releasing the application within a predetermined area, and span the application across the first display and the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Sonnino, Scott D. Schenone, Spencer Lee Davis, Sergio Eduardo Rodriguez Virgen, Otso Joona Casimir Tuomi, TJ Rhoades, Young Soo Kim, Panos Costa Panay, Trevor Cliff Noah
  • Patent number: 11397513
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display; a wireless communication processor configured to transmit a control signal to a content transmission device; and a controller configured to in response to an input for an execution of a content playback application, display a content playback setting screen on the display including a plurality of content reception devices, a plurality of input terminals of the content transmission device through which the content reception devices are connected to the content transmission device, and a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to content data input via the respective input terminals, and in response to a selection of a first content reception device among the plurality of content reception devices and a selection of a first input terminal among the plurality of input terminals, transmit the content data received through the first input terminal of the content transmission device to the first content reception device, and in response to a selection of the first content
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Dongsung Kim
  • Patent number: 11392273
    Abstract: An example embodiment may involve receiving, by a server device disposed within a remote network management platform, a request for a graphical representation of capabilities provided by a set of applications configured to execute on computing devices disposed within a managed network, and obtaining, by the server device, information regarding the capabilities provided by the set of applications. The embodiment may further involve transmitting, by the server device and to the client device, a representation of a graphical user interface that includes a first portion populated by representations of the capabilities with capability scores that are color-coded to represent how well their respective capabilities are serviced by the applications. The graphical user interface may also include a second portion that is configurable to display counts of the capability scores with each color coding, or a specific capability of the capabilities mapped to applications that support the specific capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Shankar Janardhan Kattamanchi, Praveen Minnikaran Damodaran, Nitin Lahanu Hase, Yogesh Deepak Devatraj, Krishna Chaitanya Durgasi, Sharath Chandra Lagisetty, Krishna Chaitanya Kagitala
  • Patent number: 11385759
    Abstract: A virtual object is arranged in a virtual space, and an image in the virtual space is generated to be presented to a user. In addition, information indicating an operation from the user is received, a virtual manipulator for operating the virtual object is displayed in the virtual space in accordance with the received information indicating the operation, the magnitude of a virtual force applied to the virtual object by the virtual manipulator is determined, and information indicating the determined magnitude of the force is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hiroshi Matsuike, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11334166
    Abstract: A method for dynamically presenting a multi-sensory notification of a selected event in an application, a computer program product, and a system for dynamically presenting a multi-sensory notification for weather events in a mobile weather application. One embodiment may comprise presenting a multi-sensory experience to a user reflecting a selected phenomenon responsive to a user selection in an application. The multi-sensory experience may include presenting an animation, a sound, and a haptic pattern reflecting the selected phenomena. At least one of the sound and the haptic pattern may be dynamically adjusted to correspond to real-time data about the selected phenomena.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rachel Chukura, Juan Jose Mondragon Sandoval, Yu Feng, Kaitlyn Pannunzio
  • Patent number: 11316805
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a message in an electronic device are provided. The method for transmitting a hidden message includes displaying one or more hiding frames in an input message display area of a display, and transmitting a message including information on the hiding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Choel-Hwi Kwon
  • Patent number: 11314756
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for managing and comparing data from multiple information sources. In one implementation, a method of operating a comparison service includes obtaining, from a plurality of data sources, data objects in a plurality of formats corresponding to an event, wherein the data objects each comprise data items for the event. The method further includes maintaining a data structure for the event, wherein the data structure relates data items of similar data type from the plurality of data sources. The method also provides identifying a user request for a summary of the event, generating an event summary based on the data structure, and providing the event summary to the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Advertising Production Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Holly Vezina, Kathy Lynn Keith