Patents Examined by Nicholas Augustine
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Patent number: 12650753Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to: receive an input operation performed by a user on an image representing a collection of plural electronic documents, the image being displayed on a display; and perform control to enlarge and display, on the display, an image of a predetermined page determined in advance for each of the electronic documents, among one or more pages constituting each of the electronic documents, so that a display size thereof will be larger than the image representing the collection.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Makoto Kurebayashi
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Patent number: 12644712Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to perception data collection and curation. In one aspect, a network entity receives, from a first set of user equipments (UEs), a first set of perception data collected by the first set of UEs. The network entity configures, for a second set of UEs based on the first set of perception data, at least one of: a set of planned routes and time plans for collecting a second set of perception data or a set of embeddings centroids. The network entity receives, from the second set of UEs, the second set of perception data based on at least one of the configured set of planned routes and time plans or the configured set of embeddings centroids.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Julia Kabalar, Dorel Mircea Coman, Nirnai Ach, Mireille Lucette Laure Gregoire, Camille Maurice, Kiran Bangalore Ravi, Senthil Kumar Yogamani
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Patent number: 12646105Abstract: Methods for displaying a virtual shopping experiences provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, a computer-generated environment can include a virtual product display that includes one or more representations of products. In some embodiments, the computer-generated environment can include stations that provide additional information associated with a respective product. In some embodiments, a user is able to customize a respective product, for example, by selecting an accessory and dragging the accessory to a representation of the respective product. In some embodiments, a user is able to preview a product by placing a representation of the product on a representation of a portion of the user's body.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brendan J. Scully, Yang Liu, Alexander B. Oser, Wilson W. Yin, Brandel C. Zachernuk, Maxime Montegnies, Yiyao Nie, Paul C. Hikiji, Mark D. Laughlin, Weixuan Zhao, Jaewoong Hwang, Wai Ki Chan
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Patent number: 12625521Abstract: Provided is a virtual input device that includes an input/output unit that acquires image data captured by a camera of a virtual reality display device and output display information to be displayed on a display of the virtual reality display device to the virtual reality display device, a video analysis unit that analyzes the image data to specify a position at which a virtual terminal is to be displayed, and a display information generation unit that generates the display information including the virtual terminal based on user information of a user wearing the virtual reality display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Nozawa, Daisuke Shimada, Takuya Yagyu, Shinichi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 12614922Abstract: A cloud computing system is provided for testing a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management System (DERMS) that manages operation of DERs connected to a power system. The cloud system implements a DERMS testing platform on virtualized cloud computing resources of the system. The platform tests the DERMS and is modularized. In some embodiments, the DERMS is modularized into at least a simulation module and a communication module, where the simulation module is configured to simulate DER(s) of power system and the communication module communicatively interfaces DERMS with DER(s) via communication network(s). The simulation module also simulates the power system under test conditions as the DERMS manages operation of DER(s) via the communication module. The cloud computing system exposes the platform as a service for testing the DERMS under test conditions. The cloud system scales the resources allocated to the platform with the number of DER(s) simulated under different test conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: Quanta Technology, LLCInventors: Syed Qaseem Ali, Bora Togay, Johannes Kruger, Farid Katiraei, Shadi Chuangpishit
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Patent number: 12598212Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing risk assessment activities and preparing attained risk data for display on one or more user interfaces. In one implementation, a method may include the step of detecting one or more cybersecurity risk factors associated with an organization to determine a risk posture of the organization. The method may further include the step of attaining one or more remediation recommendations for enabling a person associated with the organization to select one or more actions for mitigating the one or more cybersecurity risk factors and improving the risk posture of the organization. Then, the method is configured to communicate display information to a user device associated with the organization, the display information including at least the one or more cybersecurity risk factors and the one or more remediation recommendations to be exhibited on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.Inventors: Shriyash Shete, Chakkaravarthy Periyasamy Balaiah, Karthikeyan Thamilarasu, Deepen Desai, Rubin Azad, Jithin Prajeev Nair, Raj Krishna
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Patent number: 12586264Abstract: A word evaluation value acquisition method, including a document display step in which a display unit 300 displays a document composed of a plurality of sentences, a word selection reception step in which an input unit 200 receives selection of a word included in the document, a word evaluation reception step in which the input unit 200 receives an evaluation result indicating any of the plurality of index values with respect to a selected word that is the word whose selection has been received in the word selection reception step, and a decoration step in which the display unit 300 applies a decoration allocated to an index value corresponding to the evaluation result received in the word evaluation reception step to the selected word and a word having the same spelling as the selected word included in the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: NTT, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Sanae Fujita, Tessei Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12584752Abstract: A visual vehicle-positioning fusion system and a method thereof is provided. In the method, an image point cloud map stored in a storage device is converted into a longitude and latitude database corresponding to the image point cloud map. Longitude and latitude measurement coordinates received by a positioning device are used as first location information. The longitude and latitude database is compared with the longitude and latitude measurement coordinates to generate the initial location of a vehicle. Feature matching is performed on the initial location and the image point cloud map to generate second location information of the vehicle on the image point cloud map. The first location information or the second location information is selected as a final positioning output information and outputted based on a positioning fusion rule.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTERInventors: Chih-Yuan Hsu, Nong-Hong Lin, Ting-Fu Jhu, You-Sian Lin, Shih-Hsuan Lin
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Patent number: 12580920Abstract: A method of facilitating interaction, via a device, with a simulated object that is associated with a physical object other than a user at a physical location in a real environment is provided. The method includes rendering a user interface including a map of a physical location, receiving a selection of a region on the map made by the user via the user interface, obtaining location data of the device while displaying at least one image obtained by a camera of the device, in response to determining that the location data obtained by the device satisfies a criterion specifying where the simulated object associated with the physical object can be generated, providing a simulated object with the at least one image obtained by the camera, and automatically adjusting the simulated object based on change of a motion of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nova T. Spivack
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Patent number: 12578836Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for indicating a distance to a selectable portion of a virtual surface. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a graphical environment that includes a virtual surface, wherein at least a portion of the virtual surface is selectable. In some implementations, the method includes determining a distance between a collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface. In some implementations, the method includes displaying a depth indicator in association with the collider object. In some implementations, a visual property of the depth indicator is selected based on the distance between the collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Adam Michael O'Hern, Mark Alan Ebbole, Justin Timothy Voss, Charles Magahern, Peter Louis Hajas, Michael E. Buerli
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Patent number: 12554377Abstract: A computer-implemented method for dynamic, data-driven consolidation of user interface interactions requesting roadside assistance. The method includes identifying a data objective requiring user data, accessing user data, and determining whether the user data satisfies a confidence threshold. Based at least in part on the confidence threshold determination, one of a first data objective representation and a second data objective representation is displayed. A request for roadside assistance—following satisfaction of the confidence threshold—is also issued.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Ivan D. Hall, William Simonovich, Michelle Delynn Adler, Jose Gonzalez, Eric Skaggs, Nicole Leclair, Andrea Foster, Jason Beckman, Josh Schumann, Kevin Scott Lenz, Ritesh Saraf, Eric Brown
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Patent number: 12554923Abstract: Provided are a document processing method and apparatus, a device and a medium. The method includes that: an editing event of a user for a selection area content block within a selection area range of a current edited document is acquired, where the selection area content block includes at least two content sub-blocks, the selection area content block is content quoted from a source document to a target document, and the current edited document is the source document or the target document; and a synchronous content change is performed on a content block within the selection area range in the source document and a content block within the selection area range in the target document according to the editing event.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zongyan Wei, Hengyu Zhang
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Patent number: 12547299Abstract: A system, method, and computer-program product includes displaying, via a graphical user interface, a plurality of selectable objects generated for an initial set of predictor variables in a dataset; displaying, concurrently with the set of selectable objects, the initial set of predictor variables in distinct graphical representation; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a plurality of inputs while the initial set of predictor variables are being displayed in the distinct graphical representation; and, in response to receiving the plurality of inputs, updating the distinct graphical representation and one or more other distinct graphical representations associated with the plurality of selectable objects based on a predictor strength assessment for the subset of the initial set of predictor variables.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2025Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: JMP Statistical Discovery LLCInventors: Scott D. Allen, Benjamin D. Barroso-Ingham
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Patent number: 12547661Abstract: A content analysis system includes processor and memory hardware storing data analyzed content items and instructions for execution by the processor hardware. The instructions include, in response to a first intermediate content item being analyzed to generate a first text description, receiving the first intermediate content item and analyzing the first text description to generate a first reduced text description. The instructions include identifying a first set of tags by applying a tag model to the first text description and generating a first analyzed content item. The instructions include adding the first analyzed content item to the analyzed content database and, in response to a displayed content item being associated with at least one tag of the first set of tags, displaying a first user-selectable link corresponding to the first analyzed content item on a portion of a user interface of a user device displaying the displayed content item.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.Inventors: Logan Sommers Ahlstrom, Dayanand Narregudem, Ravindra Reddy Tappeta Venkata, Jeffrey Michael Freisthler, Kinga Sliwa, Tomas Jesus Ruiz
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Patent number: 12542862Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing media representations. In some embodiments, systems, methods, and user interfaces are provided for managing the background of a media representation, copying subjects of a media representation, converting one or more portions of a media representation, providing descriptions for one or more symbols in a media representation, and providing one or more animations for one or more detected objects and/or subjects.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Grant R. Paul, James N. Jones, Johnnie B. Manzari, Adrian Zumbrunnen
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Patent number: 12533029Abstract: An optical coherence tomography image generation device comprising: a tooth three-dimensional information measurer that irradiates a tooth with measuring laser light to measure tooth three-dimensional information, and visualizes the tooth three-dimensional information to display a tooth image on a display device; a laser cutter that irradiates the tooth with cutting laser light to cut the tooth; a two-dimensional scanning mechanism that scans laser light, which is either the measuring laser light and/or the cutting laser light, in two dimensions; a probe that includes the two-dimensional scanning mechanism, and outputs the laser light, which has passed through the two-dimensional scanning mechanism, from a tip thereof; and an optical path coaxializer that coaxializes an optical path of the measuring laser light entering the two-dimensional scanning mechanism with an optical path of the cutting laser light entering the two-dimensional scanning mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: THE YOSHIDA DENTAL MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Tomoe
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Patent number: 12530324Abstract: An online document system can allow users to participate in collaborative negotiation of documents stored with in the online document system. To facilitate negotiations between multiple entities (each potentially including multiple users with different roles in the negotiation), the online document system includes a permissions system that allows per-clause control over user's access to propose and approve changes to a negotiated document. Similarly, the user interfaces for viewing a negotiated document provided by the online document system to users can depend on the role of that user in editing the document and the current stage of the negotiation of the document. Finally, the online document system can track agreement between sides in a negotiation on a per-clause basis and can otherwise help facilitate the negotiation of the document.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: Docusign, Inc.Inventors: Iqra Anjum, Marshall Nam, Caitlan Corbin, Chad Roffey
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Patent number: 12518553Abstract: A method involves detecting primary entities in a document, involving determining that a subset of the primary entities are associated with a first primary entity type, and determining a second primary entity type of one of the primary entities. The method further involves processing the primary entity of the second primary entity type to determine a secondary entity type of the primary entity. The secondary entity type is a subcategory of the second primary entity type. The method also involves hierarchically organizing the primary entities into a document layout structure that includes a top level and a child level. The top level is established by the first subset of primary entities based on the first primary entity type identifying the first subset as headings, and the child level is established by the primary entity based on the second primary entity type, the child level identifying the secondary entity type.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Prashanth Pillai, Purnaprajna Raghavendra Mangsuli, Karan Pathak
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Patent number: 12489815Abstract: Facilitating collaboration in a multi-user communication session may include, at a first device, providing a toolkit of system-level tools for interacting within the session with a second device. A first user interaction with a first tool is detected which results in a virtual modification to an environment of the first device. In response to the first user interaction, the virtual modification is provided for presentation in a second environment representation of the session corresponding to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Miao Ren, Connor A. Smith, Bruno M. Sommer, Tucker B. Morgan
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Patent number: 12488045Abstract: A ticket system receives a request for an interaction with an agent of a contact center. The request includes an indication of an issue. An interaction tool establishes a private web session based on the agent being unavailable for the interaction. The interaction tool outputs content based on the issue to the private web session. The interaction tool determines whether the issue is resolved. The interaction tool initiates the interaction with an available agent when it determines that the issue is unresolved. The interaction tool terminates the private web session when it determines that the issue is resolved.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.Inventors: Vi Dinh Chau, Jin Li, Xu Hua Li