Patents Examined by Melur Ramakrishnaiah
  • Patent number: 11924580
    Abstract: An example apparatus for generating real-time director's cuts includes a number of cameras to capture videos of a plurality of participants in a scene. The apparatus also includes a number of microphones to capture audio corresponding to each of the number of participants. The apparatus further includes a role-centric evaluator to receive views-of-participants and a role for each of the participants and rank the views-of-participants based on the roles. Each of the views-of-participants are tagged with one of the participants. The apparatus further includes a view broadcaster to display a highest ranking view-of-participant stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Rogers, Nelson Kidd, Priya Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11924445
    Abstract: Techniques are described for compressing data using machine learning systems and tuning machine learning systems for compressing the data. An example process can include receiving, by a neural network compression system (e.g., trained on a training dataset), input data for compression by the neural network compression system. The process can include determining a set of updates for the neural network compression system, the set of updates including updated model parameters tuned using the input data. The process can include generating, by the neural network compression system using a latent prior, a first bitstream including a compressed version of the input data. The process can further include generating, by the neural network compression system using the latent prior and a model prior, a second bitstream including a compressed version of the updated model parameters. The process can include outputting the first bitstream and the second bitstream for transmission to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ties Jehan Van Rozendaal, Iris Anne Marie Huijben, Taco Sebastiaan Cohen
  • Patent number: 11909783
    Abstract: Techniques for providing trust and safety functionality during virtual meetings are provided. In an example, a method includes establishing a video conference between client devices. The method includes receiving, from a first client device of the client devices, a stream corresponding to the video conference and including one or more items of content. The method further involves applying, to the stream, a machine learning model that is trained to identify inappropriate or harmful content in the stream. The method further includes determining, via the machine learning model, that an item of content in the stream is inappropriate or harmful. The method further includes editing the stream to remove the item of content. The method further includes transmitting the edited stream to the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Vanessa Badillo DiPaulo, Josh Patrick Parecki, Dun-Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11909787
    Abstract: A videoconference among a plurality of participants may be hosted, wherein the plurality of participants comprise Internet Protocol (IP)-connected participants and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-connected participant. The IP-connected participants may send and receive audio content and video content of the videoconference via IP-based connections. The PSTN-connected participant may send and receive the audio content of the videoconference via a PSTN connection. Additional content from the videoconference may also be transmitted to the PSTN-connected participant, for example as text messages via the PSTN connection. The additional content may include, for example, images of a videoconference screen share, chat posts, polls, and the like. Images may be transmitted in the additional content based on video status change events, such as switching slides or pages in a screen share.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Joseph Dunne, Siddhartha Shankara Rao, Michael Mark Goodwin
  • Patent number: 11909785
    Abstract: A method for a video communication system for a rideshare system includes conducting at least a portion of a video communication session involving a passenger using at least one exterior audio/video component on an exterior surface of an AV dispatched to a designated location; and transferring the video communication session to at least one interior audio/video component on an interior of the AV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Ajay Alfred, Alexander Willem Gerrese, Aakanksha Mirdha, Jeremy Stephen Juel, Grace Noh, Swarnakshi Kapil
  • Patent number: 11909778
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving configuration information for a virtual expo, the configuration information includes information associated with one or more virtual expo booths; generating a virtual expo floor based on the one or more virtual expo booths; establishing a virtual meeting comprising the virtual expo; receiving requests to join the virtual expo from a plurality of client devices; joining each client device of the plurality of client devices to the virtual meeting; providing, to each joined client device, information describing the virtual expo floor and locations of each of the one or more virtual expo booths; providing a location of a respective participant avatar on the virtual expo floor; receiving, from a first client devices, a selection of a first virtual expo booth; and join the first client device to a second virtual meeting associated with the first expo booth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Chan, Jeffrey Houng, Yuk Fai Lam, Pankaj Prasad
  • Patent number: 11908246
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing an active pane within a communication platform. The system displays video of a video conference with one or more participants. A view menu is configured to receive selection of a view layout. Selection of an active pane view may be received via the view menu. The system may display a draggable active pane. A drag input from the user is received to move the active pane to a new location on screen near a camera capturing video of the user in the video conference. The system displays the active pane on the screen at the new location near the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Wright
  • Patent number: 11902343
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a conference call using a selective transmission unit (STU) to manage multiple client devices participating in the conference call. In one example, the STU uses video transmission parameters and video reception parameters from each of the client devices to control which video streams are sent by the client devices to the STU. The STU then sends particular received video streams to each of the client devices based on the video reception parameters of the respective client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Damaka, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajaraman Krishnan, Rashmi Lohita, Channamallesh G. Hiremath, Sivakumar Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 11902038
    Abstract: A method includes: determining, by a videoconference server, a level of tolerated risk for a videoconference between a presenter and an attendee; obtaining, by the videoconference server, sensor data from at least one sensor at a location where a user device of the attendee displays the videoconference; generating, by the videoconference server, a current risk score based on the sensor data; determining, by the videoconference server, the current risk score exceeds the level of tolerated risk; and presenting, by the videoconference server and in response to the determining the current risk score exceeds the level of tolerated risk, an alert to the presenter of the videoconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Garfield W. Vaughn, Martin G. Keen, Gandhi Sivakumar, Abhishek Jain
  • Patent number: 11902707
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to facilitating voice and video communication between users independent of a location or a device. A communication request can specify users, who may be identified and located in their respective environments. For example, users can be identified and located using facial recognition imaging techniques and/or by monitoring a radio frequency (RF) signal associated with a device that is carried or worn by a user. After determining a location of a user, individual devices can be configured as a functionally grouped device to allow the users to communicate. For example, capabilities of a television, microphone, speaker, and imaging device can be combined to allow a video communication between users. Further, as a user moves around his or her environment, the location of the user can be tracked and additional functionally grouped devices can be provided for seamless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Barry Fineberg, Miroslav Ristic, Robert Franklin Ebert, Eric Peter Raeber, Tarun Yohann Morton
  • Patent number: 11893305
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method and system for audio generation from contextual text input is provided. The disclosure gives due importance to the granularity of the content. The system allows the user to specify the properties of the audio to be generated. Here, context is used to identify the importance of a particular sound over the others and thus automatic adjustments of the audio output to give a more realistic feel. The system generates dataset for training audio models. The user can give input query in natural language and the audio requested will be generated for training and developing the necessary classification or other necessary audio models. The system provides a feature of automated fine-tuning of the model parameters to suit the new automatically collected training data. Furthermore, the system provides a pre-trained inbuilt model repository with audio models belonging to the main categories of noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Robin Tommy Kulangara Muriyil, Reshmi Ravindranathan, Aswathy Sreelekha Krishna, Rinu Michael
  • Patent number: 11895438
    Abstract: A system can automatically adjust a virtual background used by a participant in a video conference to match lighting level conditions present in a foreground of a participant video stream captured at a participant device. The matching can be done by adjusting one or more virtual background parameters, including but not limited to, exposure, brightness, contrast, and ISO. In some implementations, the system can dynamically or automatically adjust the lighting levels of the virtual background based on changes that may occur to the lighting level of the foreground during the video conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Thanh Le Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11888915
    Abstract: A document management system integrates with a video conference system to ensure that proper electronic witness procedure is performed for document validation. The document management system accesses a video conference between a user and an electronic witness, and then instructs the user to electronically sign the document while the electronic witness observes. The document management system receives confirmation that the electronic witness observed the video of the user electronically signing the document. The document management system combines and stores portions of the video conference that correspond to the electronic witness's validation of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Joseph Ramoutar, David Soh, Dorra Belhadj Ali, Billy Travis Williams, Ellis David Berner, Angel Azmavet Garcia Reyes
  • Patent number: 11889221
    Abstract: Techniques for selective video conference segmentation are described and are implementable in a video conference setting. The described implementations enable control over segments of video content that are viewable by a given participant in a video conference. For instance, segments of video content are generated that represent spatial portions of video content captured by a host device. The segments can be configured in a variety of ways for inclusion in one or more video streams. The video streams can be communicated to different participants within the video conference, for instance based on a status of a given participant, thus providing different fields of view to different participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jeffrey S. Vanhoof, Bill Ryan, Daniel M. Vacura
  • Patent number: 11882386
    Abstract: One example system for sharing content across videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a system comprising a processor; and at least one memory device including instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to establish a videoconferencing session including a main meeting and a first sub-meeting, receive a content transmitted over a data stream to be displayed in the main meeting; cause the content to be displayed in the main meeting, receive a request to subscribe to the data stream over which the content is transmitted, and responsive to receiving the request to subscribe to the data stream, cause the content to be displayed in the first sub-meeting simultaneously with the content displayed in the main meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 11882382
    Abstract: One example method for displaying ephemeral content in video conferences includes receiving a video conference stream at a client device, displaying the video conference stream on a display in communication with the client device, displaying a content layer over the video conference stream on the display, receiving a content item from a user input device in communication with the client device, displaying the content item in the content layer at a first time, and when a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the first time, automatically removing the content item from the content layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitasha Walia, Zheng Yuan
  • Patent number: 11882384
    Abstract: An audio-only caller is determined to be accessing a conference using a landline phone. The audio-only caller is prompted to provide name information via a text-based message. A response that includes the name information is received. The name information is displayed via a user interface of the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Kameswar Rao Ati
  • Patent number: 11882383
    Abstract: A best available video stream is determined for each of multiple conference participants within a conference room including multiple cameras based on scores determined for video streams obtained from the cameras. The scores are determined based on representations of the conference participants within the video streams, for example, based on percentages of conference participant faces visible within the video streams, directions of conference participant faces relative to the cameras, directions of eye gaze of the conference participants relative to the cameras, and/or degrees to which conference participant faces are obscured within the video streams. The best available video streams are output for rendering within separate user interface tiles of conferencing software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Deng, Yanjia Duan, Juntao Feng, Tianming Gu, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Bo Ling, Chong Lv, Jeffrey William Smith, Menglin Wang, Huixi Zhao, Xingguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 11882323
    Abstract: Audio splicing is rendered more effective by the use of one or more truncation unit packets inserted into the audio data stream so as to indicate to an audio decoder, for a predetermined access unit, an end portion of an audio frame with which the predetermined access unit is associated, as to be discarded in playout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Thoma, Robert Bleidt, Stefan Kraegeloh, Max Neuendorf, Achim Kuntz, Andreas Niedermeier, Michael Kratschmer
  • Patent number: 11875814
    Abstract: Provided are an audio data processing method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring audio data to be processed and a variable-speed rate of at least one audio frame in the audio data; sequentially using the at least one audio frame as a current audio frame to be processed, and converting the current audio frame to a frequency domain; determining a target phase signal of the current audio frame according to a variable-speed rate of the current audio frame and a variable-speed rate of a previous audio frame; and performing, according to the target phase signal, time domain conversion on the current audio frame converted to the frequency domain to obtain a processed current audio frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Fan Lou