Patents Examined by Quoc A. Tran
  • Patent number: 11210062
    Abstract: A method for modifying user-interface using voice commands. Method includes receiving first and second voice commands of first type respectively at first and second moments of time for creating first and second user-interface elements including first and second information having at least one information attribute associated therewith; receiving third voice command of second type at third moment of time for initiating modification process for modifying first or second user-interface elements; and rendering modified user-interface element on user-interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Chief Chief Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Hannes Heikinheimo, Janne Pylkkönen, Antti Ukkonen, Markus Lång, Ari Nykänen, Otto Söderlund
  • Patent number: 11206336
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to display a portion of a first document on a display based on history stored in the memory and a first attribute specified by a user. The history associates a previous document type of a previously displayed document with a previous attribute that was previously attached to the previously displayed document and a previous portion of the previously displayed document that was being displayed when the previous attribute was attached to the previously displayed document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Shingo Kato
  • Patent number: 11182554
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Lee, Kyoung Gu Woo, Seok Jin Hong, Yo Han Roh, Sang Hyun Yoo, Ho Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 11176490
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems, and instructions stored on computer-readable medium are presented for performing classification. A hardware engine may be configurable to implement multiple stages of a cascade classifier including a first stage and a second stage. The hardware engine may be configurable to (a) access a value indicative of whether to accumulate, and (b) responsive to the value indicative of whether to accumulate meeting a continue evaluation condition, (i) access a first numeric value obtained from evaluation of the first stage of the cascade classifier, (ii) accumulate the first numeric value with a second numeric value obtained from evaluation of the second stage of the cascade classifier to generate an accumulated value, and (iii) utilize the accumulated value to determine an outcome for the second stage of the cascade classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11170155
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes an operation reception unit and a processing execution unit. The operation reception unit receives an operation for inputting an instruction to a document processing application from a user. The processing execution unit executes, when the operation reception unit receives a single operation, display switching processing for switching, every time the single operation is received, between display and non-display of a button that is assigned an instruction to the document processing application, the button being displayed on a display screen of the document processing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Koji Bito
  • Patent number: 11157687
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from an electronic document, character information located in an area defined in advance based on a format of the electronic document, and a registration unit that registers the character information acquired by the acquisition unit as attribute information of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Junya Yamasaki, Miho Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11157142
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a display controller and a button update unit. The display controller performs, in a document processing application that is capable of adding multiple types of objects to an electronic document to be processed, control such that a display screen is displayed, the display screen including multiple recent instruction input buttons that are allocated multiple object adding instructions for adding an object to the electronic document, the multiple object adding instructions having been recently received from a user; and a button update unit that performs button update processing for updating an object adding instruction allocated to one of the multiple recent instruction input buttons to a newly received object adding instruction. In a case where it is determined that object adding instructions for adding a same type of objects to the electronic document to be processed are received consecutively, the button update unit does not perform the button update processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFLIM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koji Bito, Taro Yoshihama, Yohei Uchiumi, Naoto Kashiwagi, Kosuke Kikushima
  • Patent number: 11157693
    Abstract: Rewriting text in the writing style of a target author is described. A stylistic rewriting system receives input text and an indication of the target author. The system trains a language model to understand the target author's writing style using a corpus of text associated with the target author. The language model may be transformer-based, and is first trained on a different corpus of text associated with a range of different authors to understand linguistic nuances of a particular language. Copies of the language model are then cascaded into an encoder-decoder framework, which is further trained using a masked language modeling objective and a noisy version of the target author corpus. After training, the encoder-decoder framework of the trained language model automatically rewrites input text in the writing style of the target author and outputs the rewritten text as stylized text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Gaurav Verma, Bakhtiyar Hussain Syed, Anandhavelu Natarajan
  • Patent number: 11138369
    Abstract: An experiment information management system includes a first experiment apparatus configured to generate first experiment result information and first log data; a recording apparatus configured to record the first experiment result information and the first log data generated in the first experiment apparatus; and an experiment note generation apparatus configured to generate an experiment note being a record of an experiment, according to at least the first experiment result information and the first log data recorded in the recording apparats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuto Yamane, Toshiyuki Hattori, Yoshihiro Ue, Ryoji Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11139067
    Abstract: An analysis unit analyzes a medical image and acquires an analysis result. An interpretation report creation unit creates an interpretation report on a disease based on the analysis result. A display control unit displays the medical image and the interpretation report on a display. In response to an instruction to modify one of a disease region in the medical image and a description of the disease region in the interpretation report, a modification unit modifies the other one of the disease region in the medical image and the description of the disease region in the interpretation report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Fuchigami, Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11132500
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a client, (i) a task of annotating information, (ii) a set of instructions for performing the task, and (iii) client annotations for a subset of the information within the task; assigning the subset to a plurality of annotators; obtaining (i) annotator annotations for the subset and (ii) a response time for providing the annotator annotation for each piece of information within the subset; identifying improvements to the set of instructions by (i) comparing the annotator annotations to the client annotations and (ii) identifying discrepancies made by the annotators in view of the response time; and generating a new set of instructions, wherein the generating comprises (i) identifying at least one feature of the information that distinguishes correctly annotated information from incorrectly annotated information and (ii) generating an instruction from the at least one feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shashank Mujumdar, Nitin Gupta, Arvind Agarwal, Sameep Mehta
  • Patent number: 11119601
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display for receiving a touch input, a communication circuit, at least one processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to detect whether the electronic device is in communication with an external display device via the communication circuit, transmit data for rendering an extended user interface on the external display device to the external display device via the communication circuit, detect whether the electronic device is connected with an external pointing device via the communication circuit, and, when the external pointing device is not connected to the electronic device, provide at least a portion of the display for use as a pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Pyo Lee, Young Kyu Seon, Ga Jin Song, Dong Ho Jang, Hyung Sup Byeon, Yong Joon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11120208
    Abstract: A method for electronic signature is provided. The method comprises capturing a user name through an interface and calculating a font size for an electronic signature of the user name based on the number of characters in the user name. The electronic signature of the user name is drawn using the font and calculated font size, and a determination is made if the electronic signature fits within a specified field of an electronic form. If the electronic signature fits within the specified field the electronic signature is submitted in the electronic form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Basumatary, Prasad Rasapally, Kajal Singhal, Scott Francis, Narendra Verma
  • Patent number: 11113452
    Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a display, a specifying operation receiving part, and a notification controller. The display displays a document structure in which an edition element of a document to be edited is identifiable. The edition element is a portion of the document that serves as an element of editing work. The specifying operation receiving part receives an operation of specifying the edition element based on the document structure displayed on the display. The notification controller provides a notification to a notification destination associated with the edition element specified through the operation received by the specifying operation receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Toshifumi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11113595
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an on-demand intelligent assistant that obtains physical identifiers of a target individual using information received from sensors. The assistant determines an identity of the target individual using the physical identifiers. The assistant also caches the physical identifiers and the identity as baseline information of the target individual. The assistant further detects keywords used in communications of a user with the target individual. Moreover, the assistant determines that the user desires additional information of the target individual based on the keywords. Additionally, the assistant determines a query for the additional information using the baseline information and the keywords. Further, the assistant retrieves the additional information from a remote database using the query and provides the additional information to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: THE TRAVELERS INDEMNIFY COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric Palumberi, David M. Fields, Erik A. Harrold
  • Patent number: 11099730
    Abstract: Techniques for map interface interaction are described. One example method includes receiving user input specifying a map search operation, the map search operation including a first location and a distance determining point each specifying a location in a set of map data representing a physical area; determining a selected distance between the first location and the distance determining point, wherein the selected distance represents a physical distance between the physical locations represented by the first location and the distance determining point; determining a demarcated range based on the first location and the selected distance, the demarcated range representing a subset of the physical area; and displaying one or more target objects in the demarcated range as a search result set, each target object associated with a physical location in the subset of the physical area represented by the demarcated range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11100187
    Abstract: A method and device for jumping between pages are provided. The method for jumping between pages is applied to an application (APP) client, and the APP client is associated with tree path information. The method includes: determining a target jump path for jumping from a current page to a target page; obtaining, based on the tree path information, valid jump paths for jumping from the current page; determining whether the target jump path exists in the valid jump paths, and if the target jump path exists in the valid jump paths, buffering page content of the current page to a stack, and jumping from the current page to the target page through the target jump path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuangen Ge
  • Patent number: 11100078
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that controls display of a display image, which is formed of a reduced image of a document by adding an accompanying image. The display controller controls display of the display image in a manner that when a display magnification of the display image is changed, the accompanying image is resized in a first direction in accordance with a magnification identical to the display magnification and resized in a second direction that differs from the first direction in accordance with a magnification that differs from the display magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Toshiyuki Komoda, Shinsuke Nakazawa, Yoshihito Suezawa
  • Patent number: 11093697
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for suggesting revisions to a document-under-analysis (“DUA”) from a seed database, the seed database including a plurality of original texts each respectively associated with one of a plurality of final texts. The method includes tokenizing the DUA into a plurality of statements-under-analysis (“SU As”), selecting a first SUA of the plurality of SU As, generating a first similarity score for each of the plurality of the original texts, the similarity score representing a degree of similarity between the first SUA and each of the original texts, selecting a first candidate original text of the plurality of the original texts, and creating an edited SUA (“ESUA”) by modifying a copy of the first SUA consistent with a first candidate final text associated with the first candidate original text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BLACKBOILER, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Herr, Daniel P. Broderick, Daniel Edward Simonson
  • Patent number: 11093685
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the technical field force fields and particularly provides an atom type definition system and an atom type matching method. The atom type definition system includes an atom type visual UI interface, an atom type matching module, an atom type data management module and an atom type format transformation module. The atom type data management module includes an atom type definition data package. The system and method can describe various complicated atomic chemical environments, the description capability is improved, and the computation of a force field can be more accurate. According to the invention, convenient operation on an atom type can be realized, and addition, deletion, modification, inquiry as well as statistics of multiple dimensions are very visual and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN JINGTAI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuekun Shi, Fenglei Cao, Mingjun Yang, Guangxu Sun, Peiyu Zhang, Jian Ma, Lipeng Lai, Shuhao Wen