Patents Examined by Phenuel S Salomon
  • Patent number: 11132121
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present application discloses a method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device of processing split screen display. In the embodiment of the present application, gesture information on a display screen is acquired; when it is determined that the gesture information matches preset gesture information, position change information corresponding to the gesture information is acquired; when it is determined that the position change information matches preset position change information, a display region of the display screen is divided into at least two sub-regions; and a currently displayed first display interface is displayed in a first sub-region of the at least two sub-regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangjing Fu, Tongxi Li, Dan Cao, Zhiyong Lin
  • Patent number: 11132100
    Abstract: A system includes an analytics collector that receives world state data to provide status relating to a plurality of mission analytics of an unmanned vehicle or an unmanned vehicle mission planner. An asset filter filters the status from the analytics collector with respect to mission analytics of a subset of selected assets. An analytic aggregator collects the filtered status from the asset filter and generates a visual analytics file based on one or more selected analytics for the subset of selected assets. A rendering pipeline processes the visual analytics file from the analytic aggregator and generates a formatted output file describing a visualization of the plurality of mission analytics from the visual analytics file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miteshkumar K. Patel, Louis Oddo, William Parsons, Feng Cao, Henry H. Fung, Devang R. Parekh
  • Patent number: 11126323
    Abstract: Method and user interface for controlling an apparatus are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: displaying a dynamic bar on a display of a mobile electronic device, the dynamic bar having an appearance that updates dynamically to reflect a change to information managed by an executable running on the mobile electronic device, wherein the dynamic bar includes a label portion and an icon menu comprising a plurality of icons, each icon in the plurality of icons being associated with a respective application or function; and displaying a dialog for configuring options associated with a particular application or function, the dialog displayed in response to selection of a respective icon of the plurality of icons in the icon menu associated with the particular application or function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
  • Patent number: 11126270
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques for mitigating error from gesture input are disclosed. A system may receive an indication of a first gesture input, determine that the first gesture input is an indicator gesture input, and, responsive to the determination that the first gesture input is the indicator gesture input, enter a gesture control mode during which the system is configured to control one or more actions related to a medical procedure. Only during the gesture control mode, the system may receive an indication of a second gesture input associated with the medical procedure and, responsive to receiving the indication of the second gesture input, control, based on the second gesture input, at least a portion of the medical procedure. Additionally, or alternatively, the system may employ other error mitigation techniques for gesture input related to medical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Goetz, Pedram Afshar
  • Patent number: 11115917
    Abstract: A device includes: N communication modules, a selector that selects one communication module, an obtainer that obtains a reception strength of a signal, a generator that generates an image that includes 2N display regions associated with the N communication modules in order of communication speed from slower to faster per two display regions counted from a reference position along one direction, and a display. The generator generates, as the image, an image displaying (i) a graphic of a first type in, among the two display regions associated with the one communication module, more display regions counted from proximity to the reference position along the one direction, with an increase in the reception strength of the one communication module, and (ii) the graphic of the first type in each of two display regions associated with a communication module that communicates at a slower speed than the one communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoki Ogawa, Mitsuki Yamada, Masayuki Kozuka, Kunio Gobara, Yoshishige Yoshikawa, Shinya Nakai, Junya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11112937
    Abstract: An incident management system with graphical user interface mechanisms for control of the routing of incoming calls and other information regarding a plurality of ongoing incidents. Thumbnail icons, each corresponding to a different defined geographic area, are displayed and, in response to a user input selecting a thumbnail icon, a map is displayed identifying a defined geographic area corresponding to the selected thumbnail icon with a plurality of call icons and at least one incident icon. The call icons each correspond to a different active incoming call from within the defined geographic area and are each positioned on the map accordingly. At least one of the displayed call icons is assigned to an incident group and an incident icon is displayed for each ongoing incident managed by the system to which at least one displayed call icon has been assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicolas Therrien, Erik Fournier, Chantal Levert, Jean-Yves Poulin
  • Patent number: 11106334
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a user interface may include an examination and/or elimination of positional bias of interactive categories in order to drive user engagement. A method or system configured to execute the method on a user interface may include creating a first arrangement of categories. The arrangement can be shown on a user device to one or more users a selected number of times. The users' interactions with the categories in the interface may be recorded. The method may further include creating a second arrangement, which is different from the first arrangement, and this second arrangement may be shown to the users the selected number of times and the users' interactions with the second arrangement may be recorded. Based on the frequency of user interactions with the first and second arrangement, a ranked set of the categories may be created and displayed to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventor: Toshivv C. Kumar
  • Patent number: 11106934
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic visual display overlays of contextually related data from multiple applications are provided. The method includes: capturing an image of at least a portion of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application visually displayed on a computerized display device; identifying at least one primary contextual data point within the captured image; searching for at least one secondary data point in at least a second application, wherein the at least one secondary data point is contextually relevant to the primary contextual data point; fetching the at least one secondary data point from the second application; and visually displaying a panel on the computerized display device concurrently with at least a portion of the GUI of the first application, wherein the panel includes the at least one secondary data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INNOVACCER INC.
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar, Rijul Zalpuri, Mudit Saxena, Ankit Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 11086509
    Abstract: A finger-mapped gesture system is a user interface method and apparatus for rapid data input on a touch-sensitive surface. The user gestures by holding the hand stationary relative to the surface and moving the fingers primarily by extension and flexion on the surface. Each finger gestures on a gesturing area instead of selecting among keys. Individual gestures are constructed from finger actions that each independently parameterize the gesture. In combination, the particular fingers gesturing and the parameters that the fingers gesture indicate the input that the user intends. On devices that do not directly identify fingers, fingers are identified via a finger map that, after calibration to a person's hand, associates each finger with a gesturing area. Gestures are otherwise independent of where they are performed, freeing users from having to look at their fingers to target visual elements. The system is optimized for rapid character data entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Joseph T. Lapp
  • Patent number: 11036292
    Abstract: A wearable computing device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) that generates a virtual reality environment. Through the generation and tracking of positional data, a focal point may be tracked with respect to one or menu navigation elements. Following the fixated positioning of the focal point over the menu navigation element for a predetermined amount of time, a process corresponding to the menu navigation element is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Justin Moravetz
  • Patent number: 11038939
    Abstract: A method of using messages for selecting and automatically executing computer instructions is disclosed. A method of identifying and performing a computer operation from a message from one user to another user includes: recording a message to be sent from one user to another user; converting audio from the recorded message to text and identifying a computer operation from the text; and performing the computer operation identified from the text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventor: Guy Ravine
  • Patent number: 11023858
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a client application at a computing device can receive a request to generate a digital focus area based on input criteria. In response to the request, the client application can search a local storage and/or a remote storage for content related to the input criteria to yield a content collection, the remote storage being associated with a user account registered at a content management system. The client application can generate a workspace for the digital focus area, the workspace containing selected content from the content collection. The client application can pin, to a desktop displayed on the computing device, an interface object associated with the digital focus area, the interface object providing access to the workspace. The client application can then monitor events associated with the input criteria, and update the digital focus area based on one or more of the events associated with the input criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Shtuchkin, Olga Stepanova, Pranav Piyush
  • Patent number: 11016654
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and providing intelligent time to leave reminders on an electronic device are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes: automatically, without human intervention, identifying a calendar entry including a first identifier (e.g., text in the title of a calendar entry that relates to a location, such as “go to dental checkup”), the first identifier corresponding to a geographic location that is unknown. The method further includes: automatically, without human intervention, retrieving a previously-visited address (e.g., a street address or GPS coordinates for the street address) associated with the first identifier. The method also includes: automatically, without human intervention, determining a departure time for the calendar entry based on the previously-visited address (e.g., based on a route from the current location of the device to the previously-visited address).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Daniel C. Gross
  • Patent number: 11010048
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device in communication with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a user interface, and while displaying the user interface, the electronic device receives touch input comprising a contact detected on the touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the touch input, and in accordance with a determination that the touch input satisfies first criteria, wherein the first criteria include a requirement that the contact continues to be detected in a predefined region of the touch-sensitive surface for longer than a time threshold, the electronic device displays a first indication that further input of a first type detected at the touch sensitive surface will cause the device to display a first system user interface. In some embodiments, in accordance with a determination that the touch input does not satisfy the first criteria, the electronic device forgoes displaying the first indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Ive, Ari Y. Benbasat, Daniel Max Strongwater, Marco Triverio, Matthew Sundstrom, Todd J. Littlejohn, Taylor G. Carrigan, Kevin Tyler Mcatee
  • Patent number: 11003308
    Abstract: A computer system displays an annotation placement user interface that includes a representation of a field of view of one or more cameras that is updated over time based on changes in the field of view, and a placement user interface element indicating a virtual annotation placement location. If the placement user interface element is over a representation of a first type of physical feature, the annotation placement user interface operates in a first annotation mode for adding annotations of a first type. In response to detecting movement of the one or more cameras relative to the physical environment, the system updates the representation of the field of view. If the placement user interface element is over a representation of a second, different type of physical feature, the annotation placement user interface operates in a second, different annotation mode for adding annotations of a second, different type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Allison W. Dryer, Giancarlo Yerkes, Grant R. Paul, Lisa K. Forssell
  • Patent number: 11003347
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for automatically forming groups of application windows. The techniques may be performed with a computing device executing a windowing system, the windowing system having a user interface element that can be interacted with by a user to manage applications executing on the computing device. Each application may correspond to a separate process and application window. It may be determined that an operation has occurred that will evict the application windows of target applications from the display, and in response an application group may be automatically formed. The application group may have indicia of the evicted target applications. The application group may be provided to the user interface element, and when the user interface element is interacted with by the user the user interface element displays user-selectable graphic application indicators for both the application group and applications other than the target applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Miron Vranjes, Matthew Worley, Richard Fang, Nils Sundelin, Robert Jarrett, Jesse Satterfield, Alice Steinglass, Chaitanya Sareen, Bret Anderson
  • Patent number: 11003316
    Abstract: Method and user interface for controlling an apparatus are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: displaying a dynamic bar on a display of a mobile electronic device, the dynamic bar having an appearance that updates dynamically to reflect a change to information managed by an executable running on the mobile electronic device, wherein the dynamic bar includes a label portion and an icon menu comprising a plurality of icons, each icon in the plurality of icons being associated with a respective application or function; and displaying a dialog for configuring options associated with a particular application or function, the dialog displayed in response to selection of a respective icon of the plurality of icons in the icon menu associated with the particular application or function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
  • Patent number: 10997642
    Abstract: Computer based systems and methods allow collaborative shopping for and/or designing of (e.g., customization) consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by plural users using different computing devices. The users' computing devices may be in communication with one another in various manners, such as over networked connections (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), an internet connection, etc.); via peer-to-peer communications; through a common server or combination of servers that establish a communications link; etc.). The various parties may participate in an on-line or other computer communicative session to create and buy customized products. Additionally, user interfaces for providing these collaborative sessions are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Chen, Timmy L. Pacholke, Stacey J. Pool, Michael J. Wood
  • Patent number: 10990243
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a storage unit stores format information and an option value to be used in a recording process. A communication unit is configured to perform wireless communication with a service providing device and an image recording device configured to perform the recording process. A control unit executes: receiving layout definition data including layout information representing a layout of a content image icon; displaying a layout image in which the content image icon is disposed according to the layout information; receiving content data from the service providing device; displaying a preview image representing a result of the recording process when the user's touch operation is received on a location of the content image icon; and transmitting recording instruction when the user's operation for instructing the image recording device to perform the recording process is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 10990251
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining an object of interest in an augmented reality environment, displaying an augmented reality selector containing pertinent actions in a reachable area, and causing a selected action to be executed. The augmented reality application may determine an augmented reality object of interest in an augmented reality experience and determine a reachable area of screen from the determined object to a reachable area. The augmented reality application may then display an augmented reality selector in the reachable area that includes interaction options determined based on the augmented reality object being focused on. In a mobile embodiment, this enhancement allows users to interact with the object without repositioning their hands or losing site of the object in the augmented reality experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Christian Grail, Gisbert Loff, Guido Wagner, Ingo Rues, Hanswerner Dreissigacker, Malin Wittkopf, Johanna Wittig, Denise Nepraunig, Joachim Fiess, Manfred Johann Pauli