Patents Examined by Matthew Ell
  • Patent number: 11687223
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for defining, designing, laying out, and/or configuring for a load control environment a load control system that may include window treatments including, for example, roller shades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: John N. Callen, Aditya Charan Dara, Duheng Liang, Justin J. Mierta, Christopher Spencer
  • Patent number: 11656738
    Abstract: A secure operation method for an icon based on a voice-screen-mouse ternary verification includes verifying and comparing an icon associated with an operator's voice, an icon displayed on the screen to specify an operation, and an icon to which the mouse points when the mouse stops moving, and providing permission for operation and warning by a system. An association between a specific voice and the icon is established first. An associated icon is activated by a voice input of a voice recognition system, and then verification and comparing is performed with the icon to which the mouse points when the mouse stops moving. For the touch screen computer and mobile terminal, the binary verification is performed through the icon associated with the operator's voice and the icon displayed on the screen to specify the operation. The system provides authorization for the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Lisong Wang
  • Patent number: 11657725
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for providing an improved interactive and educational eBook platform through an improved eReader. The system provides a platform through which a book is transformed into an interactive, multi-language, assisted reading, read-aloud eBook and is displayed in an eReader with an improved graphical user interface that provides features which enhance the effectiveness of eBook learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FATHOM TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Lee B. German
  • Patent number: 11631224
    Abstract: A method, according to one example, includes receiving, by a system including a processor, a three-dimensional (3D) data array defined in a 3D rectangular coordinate space. The method includes transforming, by the system, the 3D data array into a radial array defined in a spherical coordinate space. The method includes generating, by the system, a 3D immersive visualization of the radial array in which a user appears to be immersed within the radial array. The method includes continually modifying the 3D immersive visualization based on movement of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ian N. Robinson, Mithra Vankipuram, Siddharth Raja
  • Patent number: 11630567
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed preventing accidents by altering user interfaces of self-driving vehicles based on movements of passengers in the self-driving vehicles. The system and methods generate for display media content on a user interface for a self-driving vehicle and determine whether a value of movement from a wearable user device of a user within the self-driving vehicle exceeds a threshold value (indicating the maximum value at which the self-driving vehicle removes the media content on the user interface). Responsive to a determination that the value of the movement from the wearable user device exceeds the threshold value, the system and methods remove the media content on the user interface for the self-driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinayaka Prakasha Bandishti
  • Patent number: 11599238
    Abstract: The disclosed system generates a three dimensional virtual space that includes an object representation of at least a portion of a human body and a first three-dimensional cylindrical surface floating within the three-dimensional space, wherein the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface includes a two-dimensional data area for a presentation of data to a user viewing the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface in the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of first physiological data is displayed on the two-dimensional data area. In response to receiving a user selection of a portion of the three-dimensional cylindrical surface, the system generates one or more additional surfaces floating within the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of second physiological data associated with the first physiological data is displayed on a data area of the one or more additional surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: VYAIRE MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Varga, Terry Blansfield
  • Patent number: 11586343
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit and a display controller. The display unit displays a screen including a displayed item. When the displayed item is moved toward a designated position on the screen, when designation of the moving is terminated in a state where the displayed item and the designated position are separated by a distance longer than a predetermined distance, the display controller continuously displays the screen until the displayed item and the designated position at a time of terminating the designation come within the predetermined distance, or displays a setting screen about setting based on an operation by an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Toda
  • Patent number: 11580876
    Abstract: In one aspect, A computerized method for implementing a virtualized training session user interface (UI) with respect to a production software UI includes the step of providing a production software application. The method includes displaying a guide on a production software UI. A workflow and a tutorial content of the guide is determined dynamically using one or more specified machine-learning algorithms. The method includes displaying the guide as a set of images with a virtual lab placed on top of each image of the guide. The method includes receiving a user input comprising a learning-related data inside a virtual environment of the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kalpit Jain, Kaushal Mehta
  • Patent number: 11567642
    Abstract: Contextual paste target prediction is used to predict one or more target applications for a paste action, and do so based upon a context associated with the content that has previously been selected and copied. The results of the prediction may be used to present to a user one or more user controls to enable the user to activate one or more predicted application, and in some instances, additionally configure a state of a predicted application to use the selected and copied content once activated. As such, upon completing a copy action, a user may, in some instances, be provided with an ability to quickly switch to an application into which the user was intending to paste the content. This can provide a simpler user interface in a device such as phones and tablet computers with limited display size and limited input device facilities. It can result in a paste operation into a different application with fewer steps than is possible conventionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Aayush Kumar, Gokhan Bakir
  • Patent number: 11537213
    Abstract: A character recommendation method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: converting code inputted in a code input interface into a syntax tree, the syntax tree including a plurality of nodes, a hierarchical relationship between the plurality of nodes, and location intervals of the plurality of nodes; determining, according to a cursor location in the code input interface and the syntax tree, at least one reference node corresponding to the cursor location in the syntax tree; parsing the at least one reference node, and determining a to-be-recommended target character according to a parsing result; and recommending the target character in the code input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Shida Zhu, Haicheng Su, Yuli Cai, Peiran Guo, Li Liu
  • Patent number: 11537266
    Abstract: The application provides a method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying application interfaces. The method may be implementable on a server. By the method, a current phase associated with a trip of a user may be determined, and interface configuration information corresponding to the current phase is determined for configuring a scenario-based interface of an application. Subsequently, the server sends the determined interface configuration information to the a client of the user, for the client to display the scenario-based interface of the application to the user according to the determined interface configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Dong Wang
  • Patent number: 11531449
    Abstract: An information processing device generates web page data of a first window including a program causing a terminal device to execute an elapsed time determination process for obtaining first time information at a timing of a transition from the first window to a second window, obtaining second time information at a timing during which a process in the first window is executable in a state after the transition to the second window, calculating an elapsed time from a difference between the first time information and the second time information, and executing a predetermined process according to a comparison between the elapsed time and a threshold time. The information processing device executes a process for transmitting the web page data to the terminal device and causing the terminal device to present the web page data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Agro Rachmatullah, Kazutoshi Kinoshita, Eiji Fukuda, Hirohisa Tanigawa, David Castellanos
  • Patent number: 11488602
    Abstract: A collaborative content management system allows multiple users to access and modify collaborative documents. When audio data is recorded by or uploaded to the system, the audio data may be transcribed or summarized to improve accessibility and user efficiency. Text transcriptions are associated with portions of the audio data representative of the text, and users can search the text transcription and access the portions of the audio data corresponding to search queries for playback. An outline can be automatically generated based on a text transcription of audio data and embedded as a modifiable object within a collaborative document. The system associates hot words with actions to modify the collaborative document upon identifying the hot words in the audio data. Collaborative content management systems can also generate custom lexicons for users based on documents associated with the user for use in transcribing audio data, ensuring that text transcription is more accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Mertens, Bradley Neuberg
  • Patent number: 11477094
    Abstract: A comment processing method may include specifying a desired section in content that includes at least one of a text and an image in response to a selection of a user, and registering a comment input from the user to the specified section; and highlighting the section to which the comment is registered in the content, and displaying at least one comment among comments registered to the highlighted section at a point in time at which the highlighted section is displayed on a screen area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun-Soo Kim, Bo-keum Choi, Yearim Cho, Sun Ju
  • Patent number: 11449297
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including a display; a first interface configured to exchange data with at least first and second external devices; and a controller configured to when a first mirroring image is received from the first external device, display the first mirroring image on the display, and when a second mirroring image is received from the second external device, display the second mirroring image on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiran M Patil, Vijayasarathy Muniyasamy, Jayanth Reddy, Chamok Nath Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11442749
    Abstract: A first interface having a first control object and a second control object is executed, where the first control object is associated with a value, a label, and a digital image. The first control object in engaged. The second control object is engaged to execute a second interface. That the second interface includes an occurrence of the label is identified. Locations of the label and the digital image in the first interface and the occurrence of the value in the second interface are determined. Integration code is generated based on the locations. The integration code is provided to the device to cause, as a result of execution of the integration code by a device, the device to display data obtained based on the locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Klarna Bank AB
    Inventors: Stefan Magureanu, Marcus Näslund, Andrey Melentyev, Henrik Ståhl, Stanislav Dzhumaev
  • Patent number: 11422669
    Abstract: An artificial reality system is described that renders, presents, and controls user interface elements within an artificial reality environment, and performs actions in response to one or more detected gestures of the user. In one example, an artificial reality system comprises a head-mounted display configured to output artificial reality content; a stylus; a stylus action detector configured to detect movement of the stylus, detect a stylus selection action, and after detecting the stylus selection action, detect further movement of the stylus; a UI engine configured to generate stylus movement content in response to detecting movement of the stylus, and generate a UI input element in response to detecting the stylus selection action; and a rendering engine configured to render the stylus movement content and the UI input element as overlays to the artificial reality content, and update the stylus movement content based on the further movement of the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Jasper Stevens, Adam Tibor Varga, Etienne Pinchon, Simon Charles Tickner, Jennifer Lynn Spurlock, Kyle Eric Sorge-Toomey, Robert Ellis, Barrett Fox
  • Patent number: 11422672
    Abstract: Managing updates can include receiving data items corresponding to available content for different applications, determining, using a processor, priorities associated with the data items, and creating updates for the data items using the priorities. The updates can be displayed in different ones of a plurality of views. Each view of the plurality of views is configured to display updates of a same priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
  • Patent number: 11411902
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a conversation presentation unit that present conversation contents in a conversation, which is performed by plural persons, in time series, a reception unit that receives a request, an urging presentation unit that presents urging of a response to the request, and a shifting unit that shifts a screen so as to be capable of presenting a conversation content before or after the request is made, in a case where the response is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Buniness Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jun Shingu
  • Patent number: 11405497
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for providing human network information. Information associated with user contacts is received from at least one external server. A first schema of the information associated with user contacts is converted into a specific schema. Relationship information related to a first user is generated based on the information associated with the user contacts converted into the specific schema. The relationship information related to the first user includes data related to the first user and data related to a relationship between the first user and other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Hye-Soo Lee, Ji-Young Kim, Seong-Hoon Kang, Sun-Haeng Jo