Patents Examined by Mong-Shune Chung
  • Patent number: 11079916
    Abstract: A computing device identifies a plurality of media applications configured to operate at the computing device. The computing device accesses metadata and playback information for each media application of the plurality of media applications. The computing device generates a unified graphical user interface for the plurality of media applications. The unified graphical user interface provides media information and control access for each corresponding media application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Roberto Stewart Francioso
  • Patent number: 11054984
    Abstract: In a method for providing an input command to a computing device, the computing device includes a multi-touch sensitive interface, one or more processors adapted to control the multi-touch sensitive interface and to receive input data therefrom, and memory adapted for storage of computer instructions. The method may include monitoring the multi-touch sensitive interface for multi-touch input data corresponding to a user desire to input textural data to the computing device, controlling the multi-touch interface to define a first plurality of input locations corresponding to the location of the multi-touch input data, receiving touch signal data in respect of one or more of the input locations, correlating the touch signal data to an input command, and processing the input command using the one or more processors to perform an action associated with the input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Mehdi Blanchard
  • Patent number: 11036303
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to radar based human activity detection, and, more particularly to, systems and methods from radar based human activity detection and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of human gestures using configurable panel radar system. Traditional systems and methods may not provide for a separate capturing of top and bottom parts of the human body. Embodiment of the present disclosure overcome the limitations faced by the traditional systems and methods by identifying a user that performed a gesture; detecting each gesture performed by the identified user; generating, by simulating a set of gesture labels, a sensor data and the generated metadata, a two-dimensional (2D) reference database of different speeds of the detected gestures; computing a displacement and a time of the detected gestures via a pattern matching technique; and reconstructing a video of the identified user performing the detected gestures in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Smriti Rani, Andrew Gigie, Arijit Chowdhury, Tapas Chakravarty
  • Patent number: 11010128
    Abstract: A method for adjusting touch sensitivity is disclosed. The method comprises steps of enabling an audio-collecting device to receive one or more original audio data; determining whether an audio parameter of at least one of the one or more original audio data matches at least one pre-stored audio parameter; and adjusting a touch sensitivity of a touch input interface to one of a plurality of pre-stored touch sensitivity in response to the audio parameter of the at least one original audio data matching the at least one pre-stored audio parameter, wherein the pre-stored touch sensitivity corresponds to the at least one pre-stored audio parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Jhih-Hao Kang, Sheng-Hung Hsieh, Tai Yi Wu, Yuwei Yu
  • Patent number: 10996843
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method on a computing device comprising: displaying in a display area graphical objects, this display area comprising a structured text section with text objects and block sections with text or non-text objects; locating an initiation point from which starts a user selection gesture; determining a selection path forming a selection area; and selecting each graphical object contained within the selection area. If the initiation point is located in the structured text section, a first mode may be selected thereby allowing the selection path to be drawn in the display area to select any graphical object. If the initiation point is located within a target block section among the block sections, a second mode may be selected, thereby confining the selection path within the target block section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MYSCRIPT
    Inventors: Mathieu Durandet, Baptiste Demarest
  • Patent number: 10983559
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, the unified desktop includes a process for docking and undocking the device with the computer system. The unified desktop presents desktops or windows based on the displays that were pre-existing before docking or undocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Brian Reeves, Chris Tyghe, Sanjiv Sirpal, Richard Teltz
  • Patent number: 10983590
    Abstract: An application processing system provides an interaction with a virtual character to a user, the application processing system having one or more computer processors and being configured to output an image of a virtual space including the virtual character to a head mounted display mounted on a head of the user. In one aspect, the one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: specify a first action associated with a motion of the head of the user in the virtual space and performed toward the virtual character, based on one or more detection information items obtained by the head mounted display; and specify, in response to selection of a specific object included in the virtual space, a second action not associated with a motion of the head of the user in the virtual space and performed toward the virtual character, based on the one or more detection information items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
  • Patent number: 10936148
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing accessible menus in 3D visualization contexts, such as augmented reality and virtual reality environments. In one aspect, a menu in the shape of a circle segment may be presented within a corner of a 3D visualization, allowing a user to easily access icons present within that menu using a touch interface. The user may rotate the menu in order to access additional icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Rita Merkl, Manfred Johann Pauli
  • Patent number: 10929012
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are described for generating a virtual keyboard user interface that includes a popup area for selecting alternative characters. The user interface may include a plurality of keys generated on a display, with at least one key among the plurality of keys having a first character or action associated with the at least one key. The user interface may also include a popup area displayed so as to at least partially cover the at least one key, the popup area displaying one or more alternative characters or actions to the first character or action, and a visual indicator that instructs a user that the user may move the user's finger to the left or right of the at least one key, and without any vertical movement of the user's finger, to cause an alternative character or action within the popup area to be highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anna Maria Alfut, Adam Clements, Chetan Padia, Simon Francis Ransome, Scott D. Weiss
  • Patent number: 10915237
    Abstract: A computer programme product (10) for the configuration of a user-specific product (12) is stored on a mobile computer (2) and has a virtual library (14) with a plurality of selectable virtual components (16) for the compilation of a virtual model (12M) of the product (12) which can be shown on a display (4) of the mobile computer (2), wherein product information (I) for the creation of the actual user-specific product (12) is derivable on the basis of the components (16) selected for the displayed virtual model (12M). According to the invention, at least one functional device (36) is provided on the mobile computer (2), the device being controllable by means of touch operation of the virtual model (12M) on the display (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Haug
  • Patent number: 10908760
    Abstract: An interactive demonstration application can be used to test and experience the use of overlay elements (e.g., application add-ons, such as an interactive chat overlay) on a graphical interface (e.g., of a website or a computer application) before fully integrating the overlay elements into the graphical interface. The interactive demonstration application can also be used to demonstrate and update the live settings of a live overlay element used on a live webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LIVEPERSON, INC.
    Inventors: Grant Lawrence Miller, Marc Campbell
  • Patent number: 10908777
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display unit that displays a first screen handled as a target of recalling and a second screen not handled as a target of the recalling, as screens for making a setting in a process of executing a prescribed function; a storage unit that stores setting information including a first set value set on the first screen, a second set value set on the second screen and first screen information regarding the first screen, while associating the setting information with a first name; and a selection unit that selects the first name stored in the storage unit, wherein when the first name stored in the storage unit is selected by the selection unit, a control unit displays a redisplay screen including the first screen associated with the first name on the display unit and prompts resetting of the first set value on the redisplay screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Owari
  • Patent number: 10884718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for use in improving a user interaction with a user interface application. It is described to provide (210) data for a user, the data comprising interaction data of the user with a plurality of interaction fields of a first version of a user interface application. The interaction data is clustered (220) into a plurality of groups. The interaction data is analysed (230) to determine the contribution a specific user interaction field of the plurality of interaction fields makes to a specific group of the plurality of groups. The specific user interaction field is modified (240) on the basis of the determined contribution the specific user interaction field makes. A second version of the user interface application is displayed (250) comprising the modified specific user interaction field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Anand Srinivasan Natesan, Rithesh Sreenivasan, Rajendra Singh Sisodia, Karthik Srinivasan, Debasish Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 10877618
    Abstract: A method of generating a user-interface to be displayed at a remote location may include receiving a search request for an item listing receiving a search request for an event at a venue with multiple rows. The method may also include retrieving a first listing and a second listing in a same row of the multiple rows based on the search request, and determining which of the first listing and the second listing is a listing selected for display and which is a listing selected to not be displayed. The method may additionally include generating instructions to be transmitted to a remote location to generate a user interface to be displayed at the remote location, the user interface including the listing selected for display and excluding the listing selected to not be displayed, and transmitting the instructions to the remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: STUBHUB, INC.
    Inventor: Girish Vasvani
  • Patent number: 10866706
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory for storing at least one application, a wireless and/or wired communication interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a display event for the at least one application, in response to the detection of display event, determine whether the electronic device is in a state of being connected to an external output device through the communication interface, when it is determined that the electronic device is in the state of being connected to the external output device, determine whether execution of the at least one application is possible, based on a state of connection with the external output device, and control to display, on the external output device, information indicating whether execution of the at least one application is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeongkuk Keam, Seungkyu Lee, Hoyoung Lee, Won Jin Choi, Yujin Choi
  • Patent number: 10850028
    Abstract: A skin attachable drug injection device (1), comprising an accelerometer (26) able to detect the user tapping against the housing (2) of the device and to generate an electrical signal to the device controller (16), which recognizes the signal as a user request for information regarding the ongoing delivery of the medicament, and a transmitter (30) which in response wirelessly transmits said information (e.g. the expected remaining during of the injection) to a separate portable user device having a display (e.g. mobile phone). A user carrying the injection device under clothing can thus receive feedback about the status of the injection in a discreet way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventor: Michael Caspers
  • Patent number: 10845976
    Abstract: Approaches provide for navigating or otherwise interacting with content in response to input from a user, including voice inputs, device inputs, gesture inputs, among other such inputs such that a user can quickly and easily navigate to different levels of detail of content. This can include, for example, presenting content (e.g., images, multimedia, text, etc.) in a particular layout, and/or highlighting, emphasizing, animating, or otherwise altering in appearance, and/or arrangement of the interface elements used to present the content based on a current level of detail, where the current level of detail can be determined by data selection criteria associated with a magnification level and other such data. As a user interacts with the computing device, for example, by providing a zoom input, values of the selection criteria can be updated, which can be used to filter and/or select content for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: IMMERSIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Jason Simmons, Maksim Galkin
  • Patent number: 10846752
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing interactive features associated with multimedia content are disclosed. One method includes applying a container to multimedia content using one or more computing systems, the container defining an interface through which metadata external to the multimedia content is linked with one or more portions of the multimedia content. The method further includes receiving a request for the multimedia content from a content consumer. The method also includes associating a set of metadata describing one or more interactive features with the multimedia content, the set of metadata linked to at least a portion of the multimedia content via the container and selected from a database including metadata defining interactive features capable of being associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon receiving a request for playback of the multimedia content, providing the multimedia content and the one or more interactive features to the content consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Johney Tsai, Matthew Miller, David Strong
  • Patent number: 10817147
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a changing unit that changes, according to an instruction from a user, display of information on a specific conversation participant in a conversational interface. In a further modification of the invention, the changing unit may change a display position or a display form of information on a conversation participant designated as the specific conversation participant by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 10803209
    Abstract: A design application includes a design engine and a tracking engine. The design engine allows end-users to create and modify a design space. The design space includes a spectrum of possible design options, as well as other information related to the process of creating designs. When changes are applied to the design space, the design engine transmits event data to the tracking engine that reflects those changes. The tracking engine, based on the event data, updates a design space timeline. The design space timeline illustrates the evolution of the design space over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Bergin, Mark Thomas Davis