Patents Examined by Md K Talukder
  • Patent number: 11895261
    Abstract: Examples that relate to calling on a computing device are disclosed. One example provides a computing device, comprising, a first display a second display, a sensor system a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to output, via one or both of the first display and the second display, a notification of an incoming phone call at the computing device, and based on output from the sensor system indicating a relative angle between the first display and the second display being changed to an angle greater than a predetermined angle, answer the incoming phone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Schenone, Otso Joona Casimir Tuomi, Eduardo Sonnino, Spencer Lee Davis, Sergio Eduardo Rodriguez Virgen, T J Rhoades, Panos Costa Panay
  • Patent number: 11887367
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for training a machine learning model to label unlabeled data and/or perform automated actions. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving unlabeled digital video data, generating pseudo-labels for the unlabeled digital video data, the generating comprising receiving labeled digital video data, training an inverse dynamics model (IDM) using the labeled digital video data, and generating at least one pseudo-label for the unlabeled digital video data, wherein the at least one pseudo-label is based on a prediction, generated by the IDM, of one or more actions that mimic at least one timestep of the unlabeled digital video data. In some embodiments, the method further comprises adding the at least one pseudo-label to the unlabeled digital video data and further training the IDM or a machine learning model using the pseudo-labeled digital video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OpenAI Opco, LLC
    Inventors: Bowen Baker, Ilge Akkaya, Peter Zhokhov, Joost Huizanga, Jie Tang, Adrien Ecoffet, Brandon Houghton, Raul Sampedro Gonzalez, Jeffrey Clune
  • Patent number: 11888212
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a first antenna unit including at least one first patch antenna pattern, at least one first feed via, and at least one first dielectric layer, a second antenna unit including at least one second patch antenna pattern, at least one second feed via, and at least one second dielectric layer, a first connection portion, a first rigid substrate electrically connecting the first connection portion to the first antenna unit and having a first surface on which the first antenna unit is disposed, a base connection portion, a flexible substrate having a first surface on which the first connection portion is disposed and a second surface on which the base connection portion is disposed, and an IC electrically connected to the flexible substrate through the second surface of the flexible substrate or the first rigid substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Kyung Kang, Shin Haeng Heo, Hyung Ho Seo
  • Patent number: 11881886
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: continuously acquiring information of an environment in which at least one of a communication device and a communication partner for the communication device is placed; and upon the acquisition of each information, determining from among a plurality of communication standards of frequency bands of radio waves, and based on the acquired information, the communication standard to be used for communication between the communication device and the communication partner, where the communication partner outputs video and audio signals to the communication device, continuously acquiring includes continuously acquiring the information at a predetermined frame rate, and the communication device includes at least one camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Onishi, Yoshio Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11881052
    Abstract: A face search method and apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a to-be-searched face image, and inputting the face image into a first feature extraction model to obtain a first face feature. The method further includes inputting the face image and the first face feature into a first feature mapping model for feature mapping, to output a standard feature corresponding to the first face feature, and performing face search for the face image based on the standard feature. Features extracted by using a plurality of feature extraction models are concatenated, and a concatenated feature is used as a basis for constructing a standard feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Wenhong Gong, Haoquan Shen, Mingxue Wang, Changcai Lai, Xiangyu Hu
  • Patent number: 11869641
    Abstract: In some instances, a user device for determining whether an individual is sick is provided. The user device is configured to obtain a facial image of an individual; obtain an audio file comprising a voice recording of the individual; determine a facial recognition confidence value associated with whether the individual is sick based on inputting the facial image into a facial recognition machine learning dataset that is individualized for the individual; determine a voice recognition confidence value associated with whether the individual is sick based on inputting the audio file into a voice recognition machine learning dataset that is individualized for the individual; determine whether the individual is sick based on the facial recognition confidence value and the voice recognition confidence value; and causing display of a prompt indicating whether the individual is sick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Aetna Inc.
    Inventors: Dwayne Kurfirst, Robert E. Bates, III
  • Patent number: 11861912
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for counting and regulating pedestrian volume in a public place of a smart city. The method includes receiving, based on the user platform, a query request for an intended place initiated by a user; transmitting, based on the service platform, the query request to the management platform, and generating, based on the management platform, a query instruction; issuing, based on the management platform, the query instruction to a corresponding sensor network sub-platform according to the regional location; sending, based on the sensor network sub-platform, the query instruction to the corresponding object platform; obtaining, based on the object platform, a query result according to the query instruction; and feeding back, based on the object platform, the query result to the user platform through the corresponding sensor network sub-platform, the management platform, and the service platform respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Haitang Xiang, Bin Liu, Yaqiang Quan, Yongzeng Liang
  • Patent number: 11855737
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In some aspects, a base station may send a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The base station may send, in association with the beam modification command, a reference signal using at least one transmit beam of the set of transmit beams, where a first portion of the reference signal is sent in a first set of symbols and a second portion of the reference signal is received in a second set of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11847840
    Abstract: A distracted driver can be informed of his or her distraction by a visual notification. It can be detected whether a driver of a vehicle is focused on a non-critical object located within the vehicle. In response to detecting that the driver of the vehicle is focused on a non-critical object located within the vehicle, an amount of time the driver is focused on the non-critical object can be determined. When the amount of time exceeds a threshold amount of time, a visual notification of distracted driving can be caused to be presented on or visually adjacent to the non-critical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Manuel Ludwig Kuehner
  • Patent number: 11847821
    Abstract: A method for training a deep learning network for face recognition includes: utilizing a face landmark detector to perform face alignment processing on at least one captured image, thereby outputting at least one aligned image; inputting the at least one aligned image to a teacher model to obtain a first output vector; inputting the at least one captured image a student model corresponding to the teacher module to obtain a second output vector; and adjusting parameter settings of the student model according to the first output vector and the second output vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Hao Chen, Shih-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 11847838
    Abstract: Provided is a recognition device that can accurately recognize a position where a vehicle is to be stopped. The recognition device according to the present invention includes: a distance calculation unit 210 that calculates a map information distance between a host vehicle and a target feature based on map information; a stop line detection processing unit 130a that, in a case where the map information distance is equal to or less than a determination value, sets a detection area for detection of the target feature based on the map information distance, detects the target feature within the detection area, and calculates an actually-measured distance between the host vehicle and the target feature; and a stop line position unifying unit 310 that unifies data of the map information distance and data of the actually-measured distance to calculate a unification result of a distance between the host vehicle and the target feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11842550
    Abstract: A smart driving posture control system includes: an image sensor installed in a vehicle, a memory for storing instructions, and a processor connected to the image sensor and the memory. The processor recognizes a user boarding the vehicle through the image sensor to extract human body feature information of the user, extracts recommended posture information based on the extracted human body feature information, and controls a convenience device based on the recommended posture information to adjust a driving posture of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seong Gyu Kang, Hyung Kee Kim, Byeong Yeon Hwang
  • Patent number: 11836988
    Abstract: A method for recognizing an object from input data is disclosed. Raw detections are carried out in which at least one attribute in the form of a detection quality is determined for each raw detection. At least one further attribute for each raw detection is determined. A temporally or spatially resolved distance measure is determined for at least one attribute of the raw detections. Raw detections of a defined distance measure are combined to form a group of raw detections. The object is recognized from a group with at least one raw detection with the smallest distance measure of the at least one attribute in comparison with another raw detection, or from a group with at least one raw detection which were combined by combining at least two raw detections with the smallest distance measure of the at least one attribute to form said one raw detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kirschner, Thomas Wenzel
  • Patent number: 11830253
    Abstract: A method for keypoint matching includes receiving an input image obtained by a sensor of an agent. The method also includes identifying a set of keypoints of the received image. The method further includes augmenting the descriptor of each of the keypoints with semantic information of the input image. The method also includes identifying a target image based on one or more semantically augmented descriptors of the target image matching one or more semantically augmented descriptors of the input image. The method further includes controlling an action of the agent in response to identifying the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jiexiong Tang, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Vitor Guizilini, Adrien David Gaidon
  • Patent number: 11823498
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving a present frame of a video stream, the present frame comprising a present depiction of a multi-segment articulated body system, (2) identifying a previous frame of the video stream that comprises a previous depiction of the multi-segment articulated body system, (3) analyzing the present frame and the previous frame to determine whether the multi-segment articulated body system remained substantially rigid between the previous frame and the present frame, and (4) estimating a pose of the multi-segment articulated body system in the present frame using a first pose estimation computation that treats the multi-segment articulated body system as rigid and that is selected in contrast to a second pose estimation computation based on determining that the multi-segment articulated body system remained substantially rigid between the previous frame and the present frame. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chengde Wan, Randi Cabezas, Xinqiao Liu, Ziyun Li
  • Patent number: 11816593
    Abstract: Embodiments may include novel techniques for Task-Adaptive Feature Sub-Space Learning (TAFSSL). For example, in an embodiment, a method may be implemented in a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method comprising: training a machine learning system to classify features in images by: generating a sample set comprising one or a few labeled training samples and one or a few additional samples containing instances of target classes, performing dimensionality reduction computed on the samples in the sample set to form a dimension reduced sub-space, generating class representatives in the dimension reduced sub-space using clustering, and classifying features in images using the trained machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leonid Karlinsky, Joseph Shtok, Eliyahu Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11816902
    Abstract: A vehicle external environment recognition apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories configured to be coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: calculate three-dimensional positions of respective blocks in a captured image; group the blocks to put any two or more of the blocks that have the three-dimensional positions differing from each other within a predetermined range in a group and thereby determine three-dimensional objects; identify each of a preceding vehicle of the vehicle and a sidewall on the basis of the determined three-dimensional objects; and track the preceding vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to determine, upon tracking the preceding vehicle, whether the preceding vehicle to track is to be hidden by the sidewall on the basis of a border line between a blind region and a viewable region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshimi Okubo
  • Patent number: 11816880
    Abstract: A face recognition method includes: obtaining a first feature image that describes a face feature of a target face image and a first feature vector corresponding to the first feature image; obtaining a first feature value that represents a degree of difference between a face feature in the first feature image and that in the target face image; obtaining a similarity between the target face image and a template face image according to the first feature vector, the first feature value, and a second feature vector and a second feature value corresponding to a second feature image of the template face image, the second feature value describing a degree of difference between a face feature in the second feature image and that in the template face image; and determining, when the similarity is greater than a preset threshold, that the target face image matches the template face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianqing Xu, Pengcheng Shen, Shaoxin Li
  • Patent number: 11818925
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a light-emitting device which includes a first flexible substrate having a first electrode, a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode with a projecting portion over the light-emitting layer and a second flexible substrate having a semiconductor circuit and a third electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor circuit, in which the projecting portion of the second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to each other; a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device; and a cellular phone which includes a housing incorporating the light-emitting device and having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, in which the light-emitting device is disposed on a horn side and in an upper portion in the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hatano, Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11816269
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for gesture recognition for a wearable multimedia device using real-time data streams. In an embodiment, a method comprises: detecting a trigger event from one or more real-time data streams running on a wearable multimedia device; taking one or more data snapshots of the one or more real-time data streams; inferring user intent from the one or more data snapshots; and selecting a service or preparing content for the user based on the inferred user intent. In an embodiment, a hand and finger pointing direction is determined from a depth image, a 2D bounding box for the hand/finger is projected into a 2D image space and compared to bounding boxes for identified/labeled objects in the 2D image space to identify an object that the hand is holding or the finger is pointing toward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Humane, Inc.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Bethany Bongiorno, Patrick Gates, Wangju Tsai, Monique Relova, Nathan Lord, Yanir Nulman, Ralph Brunner, Lilynaz Hashemi, Britt Nelson