Patents Examined by Matthew Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11803253
    Abstract: A method for providing keyword recommendations for a virtual keyboard includes, in responsive to determining a user is interacting with a virtual keyboard, identifying one or more devices associated with text inputted as written content into a text field in a user interface. The method includes identifying one or more portions of the written content relating to data generated by the one or more devices. The method includes identifying one or more portions of the data generated. In response to converting the one or more portions of the data generated to text, the method includes displaying the text for the one or more portions of the data generated by the one or more devices. In response to receiving a text selection with the text, the method includes displaying the text selection with the written content in the text field in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Partho Ghosh, Sandeep Kaur
  • Patent number: 11797174
    Abstract: The numerical value selecting method includes that: an operational gesture input by a user is acquired; it is identified whether the operational gesture is a first operational gesture or a second operational gesture preset; when the operational gesture is the first operational gesture, a scale unit of the numerical scale is increased; and when the operational gesture is the second operational gesture, the scale unit of the numerical scale is decreased. The first operational gesture is one of a movement of two fingers moving toward each other and a movement of the two fingers moving away from each other. The second operational gesture is the other of the movement of the two fingers moving toward each other and the movement of the two fingers moving away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peiyun Yu
  • Patent number: 11740776
    Abstract: Context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzman, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Kenneth Kocienda, Kevin Lynch, Pedro Mari, Alessandro Sabatelli, Brian Schmitt, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11733836
    Abstract: A display method according to the present disclosure includes a display step of displaying an image group including a plurality of images and having a dense region where the plurality of images are so densely arranged that the images partially overlap with each other and a sparse region where the arrangement of the images is sparser than in the dense region, a selection step of selecting any of the images located in the sparse region as a selected image, a movement step of moving the selected image to a predetermined destination in the dense region, a wide gap step of converting a dense state at the destination into a sparse state at the destination by widening a gap between the images adjacent to each other at the destination, and a placement step of placing the selected image at the destination having the sparse state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keigo Ishikura
  • Patent number: 11722550
    Abstract: An input device is shared between a first remote desktop having a first display image, which is displayed on a first display of a first client device, and a second remote desktop having a second display image, which is displayed on a second display of a second client device. Upon detecting that an input pointer of the input device currently displayed within the first display image on the first display, is moved across an edge of the first remote desktop that corresponds to a virtual boundary between the first remote desktop and the second remote desktop, instructions are issued to a first remote computing device that is hosting the first remote desktop to discontinue receiving inputs made with the input device and a second remote computing device that is hosting the second remote desktop to begin receiving inputs made with the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Lv, Yunfei San, Yunxia Cheng, Jack Liu, Ning Ke, Yang Liu, Jian Ken Song
  • Patent number: 11709203
    Abstract: A circuit includes a test circuit in an integrated circuit to test signal timing of a logic circuit under test in the integrated circuit. The signal timing includes timing measurements to determine if an output of the logic circuit under test changes state in response to a clock signal. The test circuit includes a bit register that specifies which bits of the logic circuit under test are to be tested in response to the clock signal. A configuration register specifies a selected clock source setting from multiple clock source settings corresponding to a signal speed. The selected clock source is employed to perform the timing measurements of the specified bits of the bit register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Prakash Narayanan, Sundarrajan Rangachari, Prashanth Saraf
  • Patent number: 11709974
    Abstract: Document spaces are used for intermediate technical documents created for a model with a displayed 3D model view. A document space is a finite volume having a location in the global three-dimensional coordinate system of the model and a reference to a technical document. A displayed document space in the displayed model view illustrates where one or more model parts, or corresponding pieces of model parts, which are included in the technical document, locate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Trimble Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Mikko Huovila, Risto Kunnas, Charles Pool, David Lash, Petri Heinonen, Henri Pitkänen, Tommi Martela
  • Patent number: 11694794
    Abstract: Inadvertent activation of a portable medical device such as an ambulatory infusion pump can be reduced by locking a touchscreen of the device when it is indicated that an uninterrupted operation is to be performed. When a processor receives a device operation input from the touchscreen that indicates an uninterrupted operation is to be performed on the portable device, the touchscreen is automatically locked such that touch input at the touchscreen is not processed by the processor to navigate between or among menu screens or set pump parameters. Following completion of the uninterrupted operation, the touchscreen can be unlocked. In one embodiment, the touchscreen can be unlocked by selection of an unlock icon on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Farnan, Brian Bureson
  • Patent number: 11693546
    Abstract: A control apparatus with a setting data change function for controlling operation of a control-target object comprises: a main control section that makes an operation command to the control-target object; an input section that receives an input of trial setting data for checking the operation of the control-target object; a setting data storage section including a first storage section that stores the trial setting data and a second storage section that stores the setting data; and a setting data management section that manages an input and a record into the setting data storage section, wherein the setting data management section includes: a mode switch section that switches operation modes; a memory synchronization section that establishes synchronization between the first storage section and the second storage section; and a memory discard section that discards the trial setting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hang Cui, Yousuke Koyanaka
  • 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: 10277146
    Abstract: Disclosed are half bridge inverter unit and inverter thereof. The half bridge inverter unit includes an inverter controlling module and inductors. The inverter controlling module provides different connection modes based on different operation modes so that the inverter meets the requirement of wide input voltage range as it can work in either voltage step-up mode or voltage step-down mode. The mid-point voltage between the DC series capacitors connected in parallel with DC power supply can be balanced automatically by taking advantage of the grid voltage symmetry with regard to positive and negative half cycles. The inverter is of single stage structure. It has advantages of low power loss, low cost, high efficiency and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventors: Hongliang Wang, Yan-Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 10243473
    Abstract: An LED driver is provided having a gate drive integrated circuit with an adaptive operating mode which operates between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The gate drive integrated circuit is designed to primarily operate in the first operating mode which includes a predetermined minimum on-time and a predetermined maximum off-time for enabling and disabling gate drive signals to a switch, respectively. The second operating mode begins at the minimum on-time and the maximum off-time. The LED driver further includes a controller configured to monitor an on-time and an off-time of the gate drive signals. The controller is further configured responsive to the second operating mode to fix the on-time equal to the predetermined minimum on-time and to continually adjust the off-time greater than or equal to the maximum off-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Xiong, Travis L. Berry, Keith Davis
  • Patent number: 10236786
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include inverter devices and systems. In one aspect, an inverter includes: a case; a capacitor within the case having a first terminal and a second terminal; a first bus bar including a first portion within the case and a second portion extending from the case to contact a first transistor; a second bus bar including a first portion situated in the case and a second portion extending from the case to contact a second transistor; and a phase-out bus bar including a first portion situated in the case, a second portion extending from the case to contact the first transistor, and a third portion extending from the case to contact the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GALATECH, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjun Liu, Robert James Ramm
  • Patent number: 10236687
    Abstract: In a full-scale converter system both the grid-side inverter unit and the generator-side inverter unit have a series convection of parallel inverters and form a generator-side and grid-side voltage-center-point at a voltage level between those of the inverters connected in series. The voltage-center-points are electrically connected by a center-line conductor that has a cross-section between 30% and 70% of that of a positive or negative potential conductor. The converter system continues conversion operation in the event of a fault in an inverter of a first converter-string, with non-faulty inverters of the converter system, as the center-line conductor is dimensioned by said cross-section to carry a compensation current resulting from an unbalanced active power-output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: John Godsk Nielsen, Søren Andersen, Lars Helle, Duy Duc Doan
  • Patent number: 10236878
    Abstract: An isolator device (200) includes a differential transmitter, a differential receiver, and a pair of differential signal lines between the differential transmitter and the differential receiver. The isolator device also comprises isolation circuitry along the pair of differential signal lines, wherein the isolation circuitry includes a transmitter-side capacitor for each differential signal line, a receiver-side capacitor for each differential signal line, and at least one common-mode voltage regulation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jikai Chen, Yanli Fan
  • Patent number: 10224805
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relate to a minimizing ripple in a polyphase power supply by modulating a voltage pre-regulator output setpoint to minimize ripple performance. In an illustrative example, the modulation may include incrementally adjusting the pre-regulator output setpoint supplied, for example, to a multiphase controller. Some examples may reverse the increment direction in response to determining that the prior incremental adjustment yielded increased ripple. Each phase of the polyphase power supply may include a buck-derived switch-mode power supply connected, for example, to a common output node. Various embodiments may advantageously maximize reduce bulk capacitance requirements for active loads by dynamically seeking a duty cycle of the polyphase power supply with substantially minimal ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (Cayman) Limited
    Inventor: Chris M. Young
  • Patent number: 10214165
    Abstract: The electrical supply system according to the invention is of the type comprising, on the one hand, an electrical power network having a first voltage electrically connecting first items of equipment comprising an electrical motor/generator, an inverter/rectifier and a first electrical energy store, and, on the other hand, an electrical service network having a second voltage that is less than the first voltage electrically connecting second items of equipment comprising a second electrical energy store, an electronic control unit controlling the energy transfers between the power network and the service network by means of at least one reversible DC/DC converter The electronic unit comprises a first electronic module supplied by the power network exchanging information with the first items of equipment, and a second electronic module supplied by the service network exchanging information with the second items of equipment and electrically insulated from the first module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventor: Pierre Chassard
  • Patent number: 10218272
    Abstract: For controlling a switch power supply, an adjustment module produces a first control voltage by comparing a period of a switch signal with a reference period. A current source module generates a first charging current according to the first control voltage. A pulse signal generating module converts the first charging current into an on time signal or off time signal of a switch transistor. A driving module produces the switch signal according to the on time or off time signal of the switching transistor, so as to control the turn on and turn off signal of a switching transistor. A time measurement module obtains a time parameter according to the switch signal, and generates a periodic adjustment signal according to the time parameter. The adjustment module adjusts the reference period according to the periodic adjustment signal to adjust the period of the switch signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co. LTD.
    Inventors: Siopang Chan, Pitleong Wong, Yuancheng Ren, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 10211755
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include inverter devices and systems. In one aspect, an inverter includes: a case; a capacitor within the case having a first terminal and a second terminal; a first bus bar including a first portion within the case and a second portion extending from the case to contact a first transistor; a second bus bar including a first portion situated in the case and a second portion extending from the case to contact a second transistor; and a phase-out bus bar including a first portion situated in the case, a second portion extending from the case to contact the first transistor, and a third portion extending from the case to contact the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: GALATECH, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjun Liu, Robert James Ramm
  • Patent number: 10199940
    Abstract: Several example multi-DC voltage (MDC) boxes and associated power delivery systems are described herein. The MDC box can take a 24-60 VDC input (or other values) and can provide multiple DC output voltages for electronic devices and medical devices to plug-in directly without having a need for a bulky AC-DC power adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ENRG-dc, Inc.
    Inventor: Duc P. Bui