Patents Examined by Olisa Anwah
  • Patent number: 12273647
    Abstract: A method provides non-mirrored preview of text-based demonstration objects in a locally captured video stream. The method includes identifying a demonstration object within the video stream. The demonstration object contains content that is best when pre-viewed in a non-mirrored orientation. The method includes spatially segmenting the video image into two or more segments, including a demonstration object preview (DOP) segment that encompasses the defined area with the demonstration object and at least one second segment encompassing a remaining portion of the video image. The method includes presenting a preview of the video image on the display device with the remaining portion of the video image mirrored within the preview and at least the DOP segment presented without mirroring in a correct spatial location relative to the remaining portion of the video image. A person presenting the demonstration object receives a non-mirrored presentation preview of the demonstration object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jeffrey S Vanhoof, Bill Ryan, Daniel M Vacura
  • Patent number: 12262146
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems in which the censorship and supervision tasks normally performed by secured facility personnel are augmented or automated entirely by a Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System. In embodiments, the Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System performs voice biometrics, speech recognition, non-verbal audio classification, fingerprint and other biometric authentication, image object classification, facial recognition, body joint location determination analysis, and/or optical character recognition on the video visitation data. The Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation utilizes these various analysis techniques in concert to determine if all rules and regulations enforced by the jurisdiction operation the secured facility are being followed by the parties to the video visitation session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Patent number: 12248724
    Abstract: An enhanced video call method is provided, including: A first electronic device establishes a video call with a second electronic device; if the first electronic device detects a first operation of a user on the screen sharing control, the first electronic device sends, to the second electronic device, a first request for sharing a screen of the first electronic device; and if the first request is agreed to by the second electronic device, the first electronic device displays a shared interface in a second display area of the first electronic device, and the first electronic device sends display data of the shared interface of the first electronic device to the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingling Mao, Huiping Sun, Xiangning Liu, Long Wang
  • Patent number: 12250448
    Abstract: A video conferencing system for a vehicle includes a display device disposed in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, the display device comprising a screen, a first imager configured to capture a first image data corresponding to a field of view of a passenger compartment of the vehicle, at least one microphone configured to collect audio data from within the passenger compartment, and a controller. The controller is configured detect a display prompt within the image data corresponding to a portion of the image data received from the first imager, detect an audio prompt within a predetermined zone of the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and selectively crop the first image data according to the portion of the image data corresponding with the display prompt in response to determining a correlation between the portion of the image data and the zone of the passenger department associated with the audio prompt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian Schubert, Matthew W. Remijn
  • Patent number: 12245018
    Abstract: A method processes binaural sound to externally localize to a first user at a first location. This location is shared such that an electronic device processes the binaural sound to externally localize to a second user at a second location. The first and second locations occur at a same or similar location such that the first and second users hear the binaural sound as originating from the same or similar location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventor: Philip Scott Lyren
  • Patent number: 12244995
    Abstract: A headset comprises an ear cup, at least one speaker, an adjustable ear cup shaper, and circuitry. The ear cup shaper is adjustable into at least two configurations, wherein a first of the configurations creates no depression or a first amount of depression in the ear cup and a second of the configurations creates a second amount of depression in the ear cup, where the second amount is greater than the first amount. The circuitry is operable to determine which one of the configurations the ear cup shaper is configured into, and set an audio setting applied to an audio signal output to the speaker based on the determined one of the configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Andy Logan
  • Patent number: 12238493
    Abstract: A computing device is configured to (i) receive an indication of an operational limit of a given playback device, where the given playback device is included in a group of at least two playback devices that are configured for synchronous playback of audio content, (ii) receive a first audio signal for playback by the group of at least two playback devices, (iii) based on the operational limit of the given playback device, apply a filter to the first audio signal to generate a second audio signal, and (iv) transmit the second audio signal to at least the given playback device for synchronous playback by the group of at least two playback devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelio Ramos, Paul MacLean
  • Patent number: 12236757
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for allowing one or more users to interact with models from a distance, for example, by enabling the users to input the models during online video chat sessions, wherein the models can define input parameters and provide at least one interactive interface, receive an interactive result according to the interactive interface to perform predefined acts, via an adult toy, based on the interactive result received. The adult toy can be Wi-Fi or Bluetoothâ„¢ enabled to receive commands directly from the server via a web browser extension, the website hosting an online video chat session, or connect to an application installed on a device operated by the model, wherein the application communicates with the web browser extension to relay commands to the adult toy therefrom. In some embodiments, the interactive interface provides a finger guessing game, a dice game or a lottery game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SVAKOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Minchao He, Yong Yu
  • Patent number: 12231803
    Abstract: A computer stores a reference image representing a physical background within a field of view of a camera of a client device. The computer receives, via the camera and during a video conference to which the client device is connected, camera-generated visual data for output to at least one remote device connected to the video conference. The computer identifies, based on facial recognition applied to the camera-generated visual data, foreground imagery representing at least one person and background imagery representing content of the camera-generated visual data other than the foreground imagery. The computer identifies a difference between the background imagery and the reference image. The computer generates a composite image by replacing, within the background imagery of the camera-generated visual data, an item represented within the background imagery and within the identified difference with a co-located part of the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Shihwei Chang, Robert Aaron Klegon, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Nicholas Mueller, Shane Paul Springer
  • Patent number: 12230877
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device may include a housing including a plate including a first surface, and a support bracket including a (1-1)th side wall extending from an edge of the first surface and a (1-2)th side wall separated from the (1-1)th side wall by a first segmented portion, a camera bracket electrically connected to the (1-2)th side wall of the housing, and a printed circuit board disposed within the housing. An antenna pattern provided on the support bracket may include a conductive portion forming at least a portion of the (1-1)th side wall, and a ground portion connected to the conductive portion may be located between the camera bracket and the first segmented portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woongeun Kwak, Jungsik Park, Sunghyup Lee, Heeseok Jung
  • Patent number: 12231814
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a group photograph system coordinates and creates a group photograph of participants of a video conferencing session. Using inputs from the participants, the group photograph system captures images of individual participants and selectively assembles a group photograph based on the rating of each individual participant. In one embodiment, the group photograph system sends a countdown signal to a first participant and a second participant wherein the first participant and the second participant are part of a group photograph within a video conferencing session wherein the countdown signal represents an amount of time before a first participant image is captured of the first participant. In another embodiment, the group photography system captures the first participant image and a second participant image of the first participant and the second participant, respectively and creates a first group photograph which includes the first participant image and the second participant image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dingping Jiang, Juan Jiang Wald, Liang Wang, Huipin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12225317
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for front-end clipping reduction is provided. The embodiment may include capturing input, including at least one visual input and at least one audio input. The embodiment may also include modeling data regarding visual cues based on a visual input from the at least one visual input. The embodiment may further include marking one or more timestamps which, in light of the modeled data, correspond to speech in the at least one audio input. The embodiment may also include transmitting an audio input from within the at least one audio input corresponding to the one or more marked timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Sayer, Andrew David Lyell, Benjamin David Cox
  • Patent number: 12225173
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a telemedicine system, a telemedicine method, an information processing device, and a program that allow a medical practitioner to more accurately obtain visual information on a patient in telemedicine. The telemedicine system includes a first imaging unit that images a patient in a first space, an image processing unit that corrects an image of the patient based on imaging conditions in a first space and display conditions in a second space for displaying the image of the patient imaged in the first space, and a display unit that displays the corrected image of the patient in the second space. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a telemedicine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirai, Yohei Ebihara, Naoto Nakamura, Hironori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12217598
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for displaying a visual indication of audibility of an audible signal. In various implementations, a device includes a display, an audio sensor, a processor and a non-transitory memory. In various implementations, a method includes receiving, via the audio sensor, an audible signal and converting the audible signal to electronic signal data. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining environmental data that indicates audio response characteristics of a physical environment in which the device is located. In various implementations, the method includes displaying, on the display, an indicator that indicates a distance from a source of the audible signal at which the audible signal is audible. In some implementations, the distance is based on an amplitude associated with the electronic signal data and the audio response characteristics of the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Devin William Chalmers, Dhruv Aditya Govil, Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 12217768
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to separation of audio sources are provided. The method includes receiving an audio waveform associated with a plurality of video frames. The method includes estimating, by a neural network, one or more audio sources associated with the plurality of video frames. The method includes generating, by the neural network, one or more audio embeddings corresponding to the one or more estimated audio sources. The method includes determining, based on the audio embeddings and a video embedding, whether one or more audio sources of the one or more estimated audio sources correspond to objects in the plurality of video frames. The method includes predicting, by the neural network and based on the one or more audio embeddings and the video embedding, a version of the audio waveform comprising audio sources that correspond to objects in the plurality of video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Efthymios Tzinis, Scott Wisdom, Aren Jansen, John R. Hershey
  • Patent number: 12211350
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for allowing one or more users to interact with models from a distance, for example, by enabling the users to input the models during online video chat sessions, wherein the models can define input parameters and provide at least one interactive interface, receive an interactive result according to the interactive interface to perform predefined acts, via an adult toy, based on the interactive result received. The adult toy can be Wi-Fi or Bluetoothâ„¢ enabled to receive commands directly from the server via web browser extension, the website hosting an online video chat session, or connect to an application installed on a device operated by the model, wherein the application communicates with the web browser extension to relay commands to the adult toy therefrom. In some embodiments, the interactive interface provides a finger guessing game, a dice game or a lottery game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SVAKOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Minchao He, Yong Yu
  • Patent number: 12210788
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, the an electronic device includes: a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a camera, a display, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: make a video call connection with at least one counterpart device through the communication module, analyze user emotion\ based on a user face recognized in an image acquired from the camera in response to an utterance of a speaker of the at least one counterpart device, and display a reaction induction object inducing a suitable reaction according to user emotion varying in response to the utterance of the speaker on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woonghee Park, Heekyung Moon, Yunsung Jung
  • Patent number: 12200442
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display member configured to display an image, a front member at a front surface of the display member, a vibration apparatus at a rear surface of the display member, and an adhesive member between the display member and the front member, the adhesive member including a piezoelectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Giyoun Kim, Eun Roh
  • Patent number: 12190904
    Abstract: An anomaly detection technique which realizes high accuracy while reducing cost required for normal model learning is provided. An anomaly detection apparatus includes an anomaly degree estimating unit configured to estimate an anomaly degree indicating a degree of anomaly of anomaly detection target equipment from sound emitted from the anomaly detection target equipment (hereinafter, referred to as anomaly detection target sound) based on association between a first probability distribution indicating distribution of normal sound emitted from one or more pieces of equipment different from the anomaly detection target equipment and normal sound emitted from the anomaly detection target equipment (hereinafter, referred to as normal sound for adaptive learning).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Yamaguchi, Yuma Koizumi, Noboru Harada
  • Patent number: 12184709
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for an active server proxy presentation for sign language interpreters within a video communication session. In one embodiment, a method presents a user interface for each of a number of client devices connected to a communication session, with each UI including one or more video feeds associated with participants of the communication session. The method receives an indication that a first participant is designating a second participant as a sign language interpreter who will perform voicing for the first participant. The method then determines that the second participant is performing voicing for the first participant, then presents, within the UIs of at least a subset of the client devices, a video feed associated with the first participant in a highlighted fashion concurrently to the second participant performing the voicing for the first participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Dean Legatski, Thomas William Noble