Patents Examined by Robert Chevalier
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Patent number: 11134228Abstract: A monitoring system includes a doorbell unit that includes a camera and a display and that is configured to receive a request to access the property. The monitoring system includes a monitor control unit that is configured to determine an authentication protocol for determining whether to grant the visitor access to the property. The monitor control unit generates a first image and transmits authentication data to a computing device. The monitor control unit provides the first image and instructions to output the first image on the display of the doorbell unit. The monitor control unit receives a second image captured by the camera of the doorbell unit. The monitor control unit determines whether the second image includes a representation of data that is based on processing the first image in combination with the authentication data. The monitor control unit grants or denies the visitor access to the property.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventor: Lang Lin
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Patent number: 11134224Abstract: Techniques are described for using an integrated lightbulb camera system for monitoring a property. The integrated lightbulb camera system can have a housing that includes one or more cameras, a power-line communication (PLC) chip, and one or more processors. The PLC chip can be configured to enable communications between the lightbulb camera system and one or more external devices. The one or more processors can be configured to control the one or more cameras to capture one or more images and control the PLC chip to transmit at least one of the one or more captured images over a power-line to at least one of the one or more external devices. The integrated lightbulb camera can also have a lightbulb compatible screw base that is configured to mount the housing to a lightbulb socket and accept electrical current that is provided to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Benjamin Asher Berg, Charles Richard Alpert
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Patent number: 11134313Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a signal; a display; a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a processor configured to: receive a signal of content corresponding to one format among a plurality of formats, request and receive playback information about the content corresponding to the format of the content from a server, perform a playback process with regard to the received signal of the content based on the playback information received from the server, and control the display to display an image of the content.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonghyuk Lee, Beungchan Kim, Sehyun Kim
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Patent number: 11127432Abstract: A system for allowing a user to create a custom track on a user apparatus, the user apparatus having a display is described. A memory stores a plurality of video clips and an audio track having a timeline. An application is stored in the memory. The application is configured to provide, on the display of the user apparatus, a plurality of video source windows, each of the plurality of video source windows corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of video clips. The application is further configured to allow the user to create the custom track while the audio track is playing by correlating portions of the plurality of video clips with the audio track by selecting respective ones of the plurality of video source windows at desired times in the timeline of the audio track.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: ROSE TRADING LLCInventor: Michael Wayne Shore
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Patent number: 11126858Abstract: According to various embodiments, a system for accessing video content is disclosed. The system includes one or processors on a video hosting platform for hosting the video content, where the processors are configured to generate an automated transcription of the video content and apply text clustering modules based on a trained neural network to segment the video content.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYInventor: Ananda Gunawardena
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Patent number: 11122327Abstract: This application discloses a video recording apparatus and a video recording method. The video recording apparatus includes a first demultiplexer, configured to: separate program information, audio data, and video data from a transport stream; a marker, configured to: mark the separated audio data and the separated video data, and transmit a mixed stream to an encryption processor, where the mixed stream includes the program information, the marked audio data, and the marked video data; and the encryption processor, configured to: identify the marked audio data and the marked video data in the mixed stream, encrypt the identified audio data and the identified video data to obtain encrypted audio data and encrypted video data, and transmit the encrypted audio data, the encrypted video data, and the program information to a memory in a rich execution environment REE for storage, so as to implement video recording.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chiranjib Chakraborty, Huamin Luo, Zhitao Wang, Ning Li
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Patent number: 11122343Abstract: Personalized video interjections based on a learner model and a learning objective. A method for adding interjections to a video includes analyzing the content of a plurality of videos based on a set of learning objectives, selecting a video based on a learning objective, determining types of video interjections using an analytics engine that compares a learner model and the learning objective, determining a location for the video interjections using the analytics engine, generating a video interjection for each video interjection type and inserting the video interjections into the video at the determined locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Sesame WorkshopInventors: Ravindranath Kokku, Tamer E. Abuelsaad, Prasenjit Dey, Jodi M. Cutler, Allison C. Allain, Aditya Sinha, Satyanarayana V. Nitta, Miles Ludwig, Emily Reardon, Nick Bartzokas, James Gray, Michelle Newman-Kaplan
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Patent number: 11122218Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining that the user interaction with a display of a computing device during display of a video comprising a sequence of frames indicates a region of interest in a current frame of the sequence of frames of the displayed video. For each frame of the sequence of frames after the current frame, the frame is cropped to generate a cropped frame comprising a portion of the frame including the region of interest in the frame, the cropped frame is enlarged based on a display size corresponding to an angle or orientation of the computing device during display of the video, and the enlarged cropped frame replaces the frame such that the enlarged cropped frame is displayed in the sequence of frames of the video on the display of the computing device instead of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jia Li, Nathan Litke, Jose Jesus (Joseph) Paredes, Rahul Bhupendra Sheth, Daniel Szeto, Ning Xu, Jianchao Yang
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Patent number: 11120490Abstract: A video segmenting system identifies a product for sale in a video and determines one or more attributes of audio and video content within the video. The video segmenting system determines a video segment within the video that is associated with the product for sale, based on the attributes. The video segmenting system generates a tag that associates the product for sale with the video segment and sends an indication of the tag to a user device. Once the video is played on a user device, the user device detects a search query about the product for sale. Using the tag, the user device can display a marker on the user device corresponding to the location of the video segment within the video.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dominick Khanh Pham, Sven Daehne, Mike Dodge, Janet Galore
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Patent number: 11108953Abstract: A panoramic photo shooting method and apparatus related to the field of communications technologies include detecting, by a terminal, an input operation used to turn on a camera, turning on, by the terminal, the camera in response to the input operation, displaying, by the terminal, a preview picture obtained by the camera, and displaying, by the terminal in the preview picture, a prompt for entering a panoramic photo shooting mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Chen Dong, Xin Ding, Wenmei Gao
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Patent number: 11104437Abstract: A system may include a receiver configured to receive sensor data from one or more aerial vehicles, the sensor data including map data including sensed data related to an aerial view from one or more aerial vehicles of terrain and objects on the terrain. The system may also include a map updating processor in communication with the receiver. The map updating processor may receive the map data and identify a geographic location and/or an orientation associated with the map data. The map updating processor may also align, based at least in part on the geographic location and/or the orientation, the map data with a virtual aerial map providing an aerial view of terrain and objects on the terrain. The map updating processor may also incorporate at least a portion of the map data into the virtual aerial map and generate an updated virtual aerial map.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jean-Guillaume Dominique Durand
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Patent number: 11100954Abstract: In the field of media editing, in one embodiment, a computer-implemented method may include steps for presenting a representation of a video at a user device; receiving a user selection of a selected portion of the video at a first time; generating a reversed video portion based on the selected portion; and combining at least a first portion of the video and a second portion of the reversed video portion to produce the media file. In some embodiments, the method further comprises receiving a user input at the user device, the user input indicative of playback of the selected portion of the video in a forward direction and in a reverse direction; updating the reversed video portion based on the user input to yield an updated reversed video portion; and generating instructions to combine the selected portion and the updated reversed video portion to produce the media file.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Lomotif Private LimitedInventors: Paul Yang Zhiwen, Donald Lee
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Patent number: 11096587Abstract: An intra-oral scanning device includes a main part having a first mount structure, a scanning arm having at least one signal collector, a drive mechanism connected to the scanning arm to move a head portion of the scanning arm, and a mouthpiece positionable in an oral cavity. The mouthpiece has a hollow interior, an opening to access the hollow interior and a second mount structure. The scanning arm extends into the hollow interior when the first mount structure is connected to the second mount structure. The scanning arm is mounted to a pivot manipulator of the drive mechanism such that an axis of rotation of the pivot manipulator is essentially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the scanning arm. The scanning arm is mounted to a linear manipulator of the drive mechanism such that a distance between the pivot manipulator and the head portion of the scanning arm is modifiable.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: DEVENTIV SP. Z O.O.Inventor: Marcin Binkowski
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Patent number: 11089260Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
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Patent number: 11086197Abstract: The present invention relates to a photographing system. The photographing system may include a photographing device having a lens for capturing image data of a human; a display panel having a screen configured to display the image data of the human; and a semi-transparent mirror disposed between the human and the photographing device and at an angle to the screen of the display panel. The photographing device may capture the image data of the human through the semi-transparent mirror. The semi-transparent mirror may be disposed to reflect the image data of the human on the screen of the display panel so that a reflection of the image data of the human appears on the semi-transparent mirror.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Inventors: Yongtong Hu, David Hu
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Patent number: 11070780Abstract: Among other things, videos and commercials are downloaded to a mobile device for storage on the mobile device and later playout on the mobile device. The downloading includes downloading of metadata associated with the commercials and based on which the mobile device can select commercials for insertion into videos being played back to the user of the mobile device. The commercials to be downloaded are selected based on one or a combination of any two or more of the location of the user, the type of mobile device, and personally-identifiable information about a user of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Penthera Partners, Inc.Inventors: Adam L. Berger, Joshua Pressnell, Richard David Jackson
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Patent number: 11069381Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. The techniques described herein may determine when sensor data is to be stored for a default amount of time, and when sensor data is to be stored for a greater amount of time. By retaining data in an intelligent manner, the system is able to function accurately without unduly taxing storage constraints.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Clark Prater, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Natalie Thuy-Tien Nguyen, Joseph Papa, Gregory Martin, Ming-Hsiu Wang
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Patent number: 11070762Abstract: A stereoscopic imaging apparatus for use in a robotic surgery system is disclosed and includes an elongate sheath having a bore. First and second image sensors are adjacently mounted at the distal end to capture high definition images from different perspective viewpoints for generating three-dimensional image information. The image sensors produce an unprocessed digital data signal representing the captured images. A wired signal line transmits the unprocessed digital data signals along the sheath to a proximal end to processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform processing operations on the unprocessed digital data signals to produce respective video signals suitable for transmission to a host system or for driving a 3D display. A secondary camera is also disclosed and includes an elongate strip of circuit substrate sized for insertion through a narrow conduit, the strip of circuit substrate connecting between an image sensor and a processing circuit substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TITAN MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Evan Rittenhouse Jones, Spencer James Costello
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Patent number: 11064194Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory configured to store data and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller is configured to receive, from a computing device coupled to the apparatus, one or more frames of a digital video. The controller is also configured to analyze one or more components of the memory. The controller is further configured to determine a set of states for the one or more components of the memory based on the analysis of the one or more components of the memory. The controller is further configured to determine a first encoding rate for the digital video from a plurality of encoding rates based on the set of states for the one or more components of the memory. The controller is further configured to encode the digital video based on the first encoding rate and to store the encoded digital video in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ramanathan Muthiah
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Patent number: 11064182Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a large imaging section, a plurality of small imaging sections, and an image processing section. The plurality of small imaging sections are smaller in optical size than the large imaging section. The large imaging section captures an image of a subject outside the imaging apparatus. The plurality of small imaging sections are provided at positions around the large imaging section to capture images of the subject. The image processing section generates data to be output on the basis of the image captured by the large imaging section and the images captured by the plurality of small imaging sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Masashi Nakata