Patents Examined by Jennifer N Welch
  • Patent number: 12386489
    Abstract: An object is to provide an information terminal device that improves convenience of use in operation mode control of an application that performs cooperative operation with a plurality of information terminal devices, and an application operation mode control method of same. Accordingly, an information terminal device that executes applications is configured to activate an application by selecting between a solo operation mode and a cooperative operation mode, depending on a form of activation instruction for the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
  • Patent number: 12379823
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, a first content item generated by a first client device using a third-party resource; generating the first content item for display on a second client device together with an indication of the third-party resource used to generate the first content item; receiving, from the second client device, selection of the indication of the third-party resource; generating, for display on the second client device, a first user interface that includes a plurality of content items associated with the third-party resource and a first option to access the third-party resource, the plurality of content items including the first content item; and enabling the second client device to use the third-party resource in response to receiving selection of the first option to access the third-party resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Catalano, Patrick Mandia, Sriram Raman
  • Patent number: 12366913
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a system and method for selecting an application dialog layout design based on a response pattern for a task-based application. A plurality of user interface layouts may be generated based on a first user interface layout, where the first user interface layout is associated with a task included in a process of a computer-implemented software application. One or more performance metrics associated with each user interface layout of the plurality of user interface layouts may be monitored, where the one or more performance metrics characterize a performance of the task by one or more task users. A second user interface layout may be selected based on an analysis of the one or more performance metrics. The second user interface layout may be provided to a plurality of users of a computer-implemented software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Raman Meenakshisundaram, Jeroen van Rotterdam
  • Patent number: 12353983
    Abstract: Included in an inference device of a neural network are: a memory for storing a layer on an input side and weight data for generating a matrix multiplication using the layer on the input side; and a processor for generating a layer on an output side, by using the layer on the input side and the weight data for generating the matrix multiplication using the layer on the input side, in which, out of a plurality of rows and columns including zero elements and non-zero elements in the weight data, the memory stores only non-zero weights and position information of the non-zero weights and the number of non-zero elements in each of the rows is approximately the same. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of memory in a memory for storing learned weight data of a weight matrix. It is also possible to reduce the amount of memory of a memory for storing positions of non-zero weight elements of the weight matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenya Sugihara
  • Patent number: 12287612
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of configuring a watch screen and a wearable electronic device implementing the same, which displays various pieces of information provided by an application, in an icon form, to enable a user to easily identify the information. A method of configuring a watch screen, the method comprising selecting one of a plurality of predetermined watch screens, thereby resulting in a selected watch screen; determining at least one icon of a plurality of predetermined icons as components of the selected watch screen; and displaying the selected watch screen, wherein the selected watch screen includes the at least one icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hankyung Jo, Yusic Kim, Eunjoo Kim, Jungah Seung
  • Patent number: 12265698
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a display and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the display to display a first screen for configuring first data, control the display to display a second screen associated with the first data while displaying the first screen, receive, through the second screen, a first user input for changing a value of the first data displayed on the first screen from a first value to a second value, and after receiving the first user input, control the display to display, through the first screen, an animation which continuously displays values between the first value and the second value. Other embodiments may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woonggi Shin, Sangwon Shim, Eunah Jang, Minkoo Kang, Yong Kwon, Changkeun Kim, Donggun Park, Eunji Ahn, Younghak Oh, Hyunwoo Yoo, Yonggu Lee, Jaemyoung Lee, Heekyung Jeon, Jungwoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12260464
    Abstract: A system and method for automated forest inventory mapping. The method may include receiving an image depicting an overhead view of a wooded area, the image comprising a plurality of pixels; receiving a set of climate data for a geographic region in which the wooded area is located; receiving a point cloud of a digital surface model of the wooded area; concatenating data corresponding to the plurality of pixels of the image, the set of climate data, and the point cloud into a feature vector; executing a machine learning model using the feature vector to generate timber data for each of the plurality of pixels of the image; and generating an interactive overlay from the timber data, the interactive overlay comprising the generated timber data for each of the plurality of pixels of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Hexcuity Limited
    Inventor: Fabio Veronesi
  • Patent number: 12260170
    Abstract: Example embodiments facilitate augmenting a client-side worksheet of a spreadsheet with context information retrieved from non-direct ancestor worksheets of the client-side worksheet. A spreadsheet plug-in enables retrieval of the context information from a server system, e.g., cloud-based database, via one or more web services. In a specific embodiment, the context information represents one or more data dimensions, e.g., worksheet columns, retrieved via the server system form one or more remote databases and populated into one or more non-direct ancestor worksheets (e.g., grandparent worksheets, great grandparent worksheets, etc.). Then those data dimensions are displayed in the client-side descendant worksheet. The user can now efficiently edit the worksheet while viewing relevant context information in the worksheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Xiameng Chen, Shaun Logan
  • Patent number: 12260067
    Abstract: A video playlist associated with a set of videos is distinguished in a graphical user interface using a dynamic thumbnail to represent the playlist. The dynamic thumbnail comprises a static portion comprising a first image associated with the set of videos and a dynamic portion comprising one or more second images associated with the set of videos. An image provided in the dynamic portion is configured to change while the first image remains the same in response to a shift in the graphical user interface that results in a change in position of the thumbnail about the user graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wheeler, Chris Lauritzen
  • Patent number: 12239884
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to sharing workout content on electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony D'Auria, Julie A. Arney, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan De Vries, Michael D. Ford, Irene Suah Lee
  • Patent number: 12236078
    Abstract: A video processing method includes obtaining, in response to an interaction operation received on a portion of a first image, an adjustment parameter corresponding to the interaction operation. The adjustment parameter indicates an adjustment range of a display position of one or more pixels corresponding to the portion of the first image based on the interaction operation. The method further includes obtaining a displacement parameter of the one or more pixels in the portion of the first image, the displacement parameter representing a displacement of the one or more pixels between the first image and a second image displayed after the first image. The method also includes adjusting a display position of one or more pixels in the second image based on the adjustment parameter and the displacement parameter, and displaying the second image based on the adjusted display position of the one or more pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Shuang Xia
  • Patent number: 12229391
    Abstract: A message selection method, a message selection apparatus, an electronic device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer product is provided. The method includes: displaying a first control in a message window in response to an operation of entering a message multi-selection mode triggered by a user, wherein the first control is used to select multiple messages; determining a target position of the first control in a message in the message window in response to a position changing operation by the user on the first control; and selecting messages below the target position in response to a triggering operation by the user on the first control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Yu, Jiachen Zhao, Qiyang Liu, Huabin Tian
  • Patent number: 12217150
    Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus based on a recurrent neural network and a device are provided. The recurrent neural network includes multiple recurrent units, each recurrent unit includes multiple data processing nodes and a start node, at least one recurrent unit includes an end node, and at least one data processing node is included between the start node and the end node. During the processing of the first target processing object in a first recurrent unit, in a case that the first target processing object does not satisfy the first preset condition, the start node in the first recurrent unit is run to add a tag to the data processing nodes subsequent to the start node and stop addition of the tag in response to reaching the end node, and no processing is performed by the data processing nodes with the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Huihuang Zheng, Xiang Lan, Yamei Li, Liujie Zhang, Fei Guo, Yanjun Ma, Dianhai Yu
  • Patent number: 12218898
    Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and non-transitory computer-readable record media for displaying a message thread on a chatroom cover screen may be provided. A chatroom cover display method may include receiving a message thread including messages exchanged through a chatroom in response to an access request for the chatroom, and displaying a cover screen of the chatroom in response to the access request and displaying the message thread on the cover screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Sungwhan Kim, Hajung Aum, Seo Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 12216516
    Abstract: A DJ media player is provided. The DJ media player has a control wheel used to control audio playback and a customizable first electronic display located about the center of the platter for displaying a graphic. The DJ media player has a second electronic display to show audio playback information. The graphic is dynamically updated. The graphic corresponds to at least one of a logo, an artist, an album, a song playback information, or a selection made by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: InMusic Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: John O'Donnell, Ross Hartley Goodwin, Lindsey Ryan Cole, John Alex Souppa, Christopher Allan Nicolls, Vincent Ming Chen, Marcus Tillmans
  • Patent number: 12210951
    Abstract: A method of producing dynamic controllable data composites from two or more data segments includes: building or training one or more function mappers to map between one or more extracted feature envelopes sets from the original data and one or more general parametric representations of the data; combining the extracted feature envelopes or the function mappers using two or more audio segments; and feeding the extracted feature envelopes or combined feature envelopes to the function mappers to obtain synthesis parameters to drive a synthesis process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Konlanbi
    Inventor: Cyril Drame
  • Patent number: 12204849
    Abstract: An enhanced user experience is disclosed herein that provides for gesture-based configuring of pivot tables. In various implementations, a pivot table includes query areas associated with fields of a data table being summarized by the pivot table. Gestures made with respect to an area of the pivot table drive changes in the association of the fields of the data table with the query areas of the pivot table. As user input is received with respect to an area of the pivot table, relevant fields are identified, and new associations are made between the query areas and the fields. The pivot table may then be updated accordingly based on the new associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Simonyi, Juan Camilo Osorio Cardona
  • Patent number: 12197695
    Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more thumbnails. The device detects a first multi-contact gesture that includes movement of a first contact and a second contact; and, in response to detecting the first multi-contact gesture, the device displays content associated with a respective thumbnail and enlarges the content associated with the respective thumbnail to a respective enlarged size in accordance with the first multi-contact gesture. The device detects termination of the first multi-contact gesture; and, in response to detecting termination of the first multi-contact gesture: when a resizing metric based on the first multi-contact gesture is below a predefined threshold, the device ceases to display the content at the respective enlarged size; and, when the resizing metric based on the first multi-contact gesture is above the predefined threshold, the device displays the content on the display in a predefined arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver P. Wagner, Michael Matas
  • Patent number: 12200306
    Abstract: A computer program product is provided for allowing a user to create an interactive object in a digital media file using an application that executes on an electronic device to create the interactive object. After creation, the interactive object becomes interactive for subsequent viewers who display the digital media file using the application. The interactivity allows the viewer to navigate to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the object after pointing to the location of the object within the digital media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: VEEPIO HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ohliger, Alexander Shapiro, Richard A. Garcia, Jonathan W. Moberly
  • Patent number: 12159711
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a selection of an examination template including a hierarchical examination workflow and baseline configuration parameters corresponding to the examination template, wherein the examination template is associated with an anatomical area; automatically configuring an imaging system with the baseline configuration parameters from the examination template; capturing image data of a patient using the imaging system according to the hierarchical examination workflow; storing the image data on a storage system, such that the image data is associated with the anatomical area; displaying an anatomical model of a plurality of anatomical areas of the patient; and displaying thumbnails of the image data on respective areas of the anatomical model corresponding to anatomical areas of the patient where the image data was captured by the imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Glen W. McLaughlin, Ludwig Steffgen, Anne Shelchuk