Patents Examined by Parmanand D Patel
  • Patent number: 11620044
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display; a Time of Flight (TOF) camera configured to obtain a depth image of an object; and a controller configured to display a guide interface on the display to guide the object to move into an interaction region of an imaging region of the TOF camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yehan Ahn, Minho Kim, Hoyoung Kim, Dongju Lee, Jihye Yu, Jieun Lee, Dongchul Jin, Minwoo Song, Sangkuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11615675
    Abstract: A system and method for importing and visualizing numerical data relating to sporting events, wherein numerical data related to sporting events may be imported from any number of internet-based statistics compilers and rendered as a graphical representations allowing for convenient analysis of the data by the user. The graphical representations are primarily pie charts, wherein each slice of the pie chart corresponds to, for example, a position group, a specific player, or a type of points-scoring play. Users may make selections from one or more dropdown menus to generate pie charts and these selections may produce any number of comparisons, visualizations, or analyses. For example, a user may compare various numerical and statistical data for a single professional sports team, and further, to sort and compare those data by position group, by player, by season, or by game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: IRIE FILMS, INC.
    Inventor: Garrett Lerner
  • Patent number: 11604661
    Abstract: A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive application data from one or more applications, the application data including features related to user activity from the one or more applications, the one or more application including applications local to the device that are stored in the memory and applications external to the device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning (ML) model, a relevance score for each of one or more user interface (UI) elements based on each of the features. The processor may be further configured to sort one or more UI elements based on a ranking of the relevance scores. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the one or more UI elements based at least in part on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni M. Agnoli, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Conrad B. Kramer, Kyle T. Howarth, William C. MacCartney, Joshua R. Ford, Paul W. Salzman, Ari R. Weinstein, Roozbeh Mahdavian, Joshua C. Weinberg, Jared K. McGann
  • Patent number: 11586576
    Abstract: A method for controlling screen rotation of an electronic reading device that includes processing circuitry, an accelerometer, and a display screen. The method including: receiving, by the processing circuitry, a request to access a menu for initiation of a screen-rotation lock function for the electronic reading device; displaying, on the display screen, the menu for the initiation of the screen-rotation lock function; receiving, by the processing circuitry, a selection of one particular screen orientation for the display screen from among a plurality of screen orientations; rotating, the electronic reading device, 90 degrees; detecting, by the accelerometer, the 90 degree rotation; and maintaining a screen that is displayed on the display screen in the selected one particular screen orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: RAKUTEN KOBO, INC.
    Inventors: Harry Hutton, William Chaban, Ramesh Mantha
  • Patent number: 11550467
    Abstract: A method includes, while an application is installed on a device and a representation of the application has a designated location in a respective portion of an application launching user interface, detecting an application-demotion request to delete the application from the device without deleting associated data for the application. In response to detecting the application-demotion request, deleting the application from the device without deleting the associated data for the application. After deleting the application from the device, detecting a request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface and, in response to detecting the request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface, displaying the respective portion of the application launching user interface, including displaying the representation of the application in the designated location in the respective portion of the application launching user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Yanagihara, Frank de Jong, Patrick Lee Coffman, Robert Ulrich
  • Patent number: 11537263
    Abstract: An electronic device displays, on a display, a user interface that includes first and second interactive regions of an application. While displaying the user interface, the device detects an input by a contact on the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to a user interface element in the first interactive region on the display. In response to detecting the input by the contact, when the input meets intensity-based activation criteria (e.g., the contact has a characteristic intensity above an intensity threshold), the device obscures the first interactive region of the application with the exception of the user interface element without obscuring the second interactive region of the application. When the input meets selection criteria (e.g., the contact has a characteristic intensity below the intensity threshold), the device performs a selection operation that corresponds to the user interface element without obscuring the first interactive region of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nathan de Vries, David C. Graham, Freddy A. Anzures
  • Patent number: 11520461
    Abstract: A contribution management system and process for facilitating the identification of individual users who have made contributions to an electronic content item, and the extent of that contribution. As an example, a reader may review the list of contributors with a representation of their relative degree or amount of contribution to the document, and also allow for access to other documents that have been developed by the identified contributor. These tools can provide collaborative document users the ability to more clearly distinguish casual contributors or non-contributing owners of the document from higher-level contributors whose authorship has significantly shaped the content. In addition, the listing or identification of top contributors can be configured to facilitate communication between an interested reader and the identified contributor, which increases the ease with which members of larger organizations can collaborate, seek mentorship, or develop useful relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew James Wald, Jill Kathleen Larson, Rui Hu, Venkat Pradeep Chilakamarri
  • Patent number: 11508256
    Abstract: Debriefing a session from a user in a system. During the session, while the user performs actions on one or more tangible instruments of the system, dynamic data is logged in relation to the system along a session timeline. The dynamic data covers the actions of the user on tangible instrument(s). A graphical user interface depicting a debriefing scene, related to the session, is displayed from a first point of view starting at a first time within the session timeline. The debriefing scene is generated starting at the first time from at least a first image feed. Upon detection of a predetermined event in the dynamic data at a second time along the session timeline, a second point of view different from the first point of view is defined and the debriefing scene is generated therefrom after the second time using at least a second image feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CAE Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-François Delisle
  • Patent number: 11481107
    Abstract: In accordance with various implementations, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a drawing user interface including a plurality of drawing objects. While a drawing tool that is associated with a predefined operation is selected, the method includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input moving to define a path within the drawing user interface. In response to detecting the user input moving to define the path within the drawing user interface, the method includes performing the predefined operation with respect to two or more of the plurality of drawing objects that intersect the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Jennifer P. Chen, Christopher Matthews
  • Patent number: 11475781
    Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for modifying a simulation based on learning characteristics. A processor may receive a user profile associated with a user. The user profile includes a set of learning characteristics related to the user. The processor may display a simulation on an extended reality display. The displayed simulation is based in part on the set of learning characteristics. The processor may monitor focus data related to the user. The focus data is generated while the user is viewing the simulation. The processor may compare the focus data with one or more focus thresholds. The processor may modify the simulation in response to the one or more focus thresholds being met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Robert Huntington Grant, Haley Ashlin
  • Patent number: 11467794
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes detecting a tag that is associated with a real-world object, determining an object identifier (ID) associated with the tag, transmitting a request for data associated with the real-world object, wherein the request includes the object ID, receiving a set of values associated with the object ID from a data source, where the set of values is provided by the data source based on the object ID and on a query executed on raw machine data associated with the real-world object, and displaying, by a client device within the XR environment, a visualization associated with the set of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Devin Bhushan, Jesse Chor, Glen Wong
  • Patent number: 11422628
    Abstract: A method creates haptic stimulations on a user of an artificial reality system. The system includes a head-mounted display (HMD) and a wearable device. The HMD includes a display and speakers. The wearable device includes a plurality of transducers that can each generate waves to provide haptic feedback to a user. The system displays media content on the display and, in accordance with the displayed media content, determines a virtual object location in the displayed media content corresponding to a physical object location. The system provides, to the user, audio directed to the virtual object location. The system activates one or more transducers to provide haptic feedback at a target location on the user, distinct from the physical object location, to produce haptic feedback whose perceptual interpretation is at the physical object location based on a combination of the displayed media, the provided audio, and the haptic feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Hrvoje Benko, Raymond King, Andrew Arthur Stanley, Massimiliano Di Luca, Yon Visell, Yitian Shao, Bharat Dandu
  • Patent number: 11417228
    Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for modifying a simulation based on learning characteristics. A processor may receive a user profile associated with a user. The user profile includes a set of learning characteristics related to the user. The processor may display a simulation on an extended reality display. The displayed simulation is based in part on the set of learning characteristics. The processor may monitor focus data related to the user. The focus data is generated while the user is viewing the simulation. The processor may compare the focus data with one or more focus thresholds. The processor may modify the simulation in response to the one or more focus thresholds being met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Robert Huntington Grant, Haley Ashlin
  • Patent number: 11409627
    Abstract: System, method, and apparatus for analyzing data inside a computer program. As the program executes, a display of internal file contents is provided in real-time. Additionally, graphics and document text are provided to provide a better understanding of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DT Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Peckover
  • Patent number: 11402968
    Abstract: An electronic is disclosed. The electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and a rotatable input mechanism. The touch-sensitive display includes one or more sensors to detect the intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive display. The electronic device also includes one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, the one or more programs including instructions for: receiving data representing a plurality of photos; displaying at least a first photo in the plurality of photos; detecting a contact that includes a characteristic intensity on the touch-sensitive display; and in accordance with a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, displaying a user interface menu including at least one user interface object that represents an option to display the first photo as a background of a user interface that represents a clock face on the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher Patrick Foss, Lawrence Y Yang, Alan C. Dye, David Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 11397521
    Abstract: A system and related method exchanges communications between two or more users. The system comprises a user interface that has a plurality of elements associated with a cyclic order. Each element corresponds to a communication thread. The elements have an input for receiving one or more user communications. The user interface is configured such that only one element is active at each time. Each element is continuously active for a predetermined activation time interval. The activation time interval of each element is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Braided Communications Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Smithsimmons, Robert Brougham
  • Patent number: 11361676
    Abstract: A system and method for using augmented reality for assisting speech development of multiple languages includes analyzing speech recorded in an environment to detect a word used in a conversation between a first speaker and a second speaker that is in a language different from other words in the conversation, wherein a target user is in the environment with the first speaker and the second speaker, isolating an object associated with the word within an augmented reality environment of the target user located in the environment, determining a confusion level of the target user based on a use of the word in the conversation, and implementing, by the processor, an augmented reality technique based on the confusion level of the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY
    Inventors: Shubhadip Ray, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Avik Sanyal, Craig M. Trim
  • Patent number: 11354023
    Abstract: A method to share map information between an electronic device and other nearby devices using peer-to-peer communication is provided. The method receives identification of different map items such as a route, points of interest, search results, a current map view and sends to a selected nearby device. The method provides different options to select the map items to share. The particular map information to share in some embodiments depends on what is currently displayed and/or selected on the map. When there are several items that can be shared and there is not a clear indication for what the user intends to share, an action list is shown to allow the user to select the information to share. Once a map item to share is selected, the method displays a share list to display a list of nearby devices. The method sends the shared information to selected devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Sean B. Kelly, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Woo-Ram Lee
  • Patent number: 11340752
    Abstract: A window management method in an electronic device and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes displaying, on a display, a first window; displaying, on the display with the first window, a second window as a pop-up window or a split window; displaying a handler for adjusting a size of at least one of the first window and the second window at a boundary area of the first window or the second window; and changing the displayed split window into the pop-up window or the displayed pop-up window into the split window in response to a user input to the handler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Hye Soon Jeong, Jun Ho Lee, Ji Hoon Jeon, Kyung Hwan Kim, Dong Jeon Kim, Jin Wan An, Dae Sik Hwang
  • Patent number: 11321102
    Abstract: To provide a programmable display that enables content for coping with an event that has occurred to be promptly used. A programmable display that can communicate with a control device that controls production equipment includes a display; a storage device that stores a plurality of pieces of content that can be used by the programmable display; a detection part that detects a predetermined event that occurs in the production equipment; a learning part that learns a probability that each of 5 the plurality of pieces of content will be used under a condition that the predetermined event occurs by monitoring content used by the programmable display when the predetermined event is detected; and a specification part that specifies content having a high possibility of being used by the programmable display among the plurality of pieces of content based on the learned probability when the predetermined event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Nagata