Patents Examined by Sam Bhattacharya
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Patent number: 11721118Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an optical character recognition pre-processing software system, which is integrated into a language translation system to provide automated cleaning and correction of noisy and degraded document images to enable seamless and efficient optical character recognition processing and machine translation of information within the document images.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jafar Al-Gharaibeh, William Estey, Paul Nicotera
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Patent number: 11711839Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method that determines at least one threshold for detecting signal interference in a first plurality of segments occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system, detecting a pattern of recurrence over time of signal interference in a segment of the first plurality of resource blocks according to the at least one threshold, and performing one or more mitigation steps to mitigate the signal interference without filtering the signal interference where the one or more mitigation steps include at least one of transmitting signals out of phase from the signal interference, adjusting transmit power, increasing power in a resource block of a long term evolution communication session, performing beam steering, or changing time parameters for the resource block without changing to a new resource block. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: ISCO International, LLCInventor: Amr Abdelmonem
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Patent number: 11704914Abstract: A tolling system is operable to reduce the number of manual reviews of a toll point images needed to process toll fee charges by separately reporting from both toll points and mobile device in vehicles running a tolling application program the lane and crossing time when traversing a toll point. A tolling service can match records produced by the toll points with records providing by the mobile device when the toll point cannot immediately determine the identity of the toll customer passing through the toll point.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: GEOTOLL INC.Inventors: Jaime Andres Borras, Wyatt Drake Geist
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Patent number: 11706829Abstract: A method for data forwarding in a small cell system comprises: sending by a master base station (MeNB) to a target secondary base station (SeNB) information of a source SeNB or a source SeNB cell where a user equipment (UE) is located; determining by the target SeNB whether a direct data forwarding is feasible; notifying, by the target SeNB, the MeNB whether the direct data forwarding is feasible; and determining by the MeNB whether it is a direct data forwarding or an indirect data forwarding. The method for data forwarding provided in the present application may support both the direct data forwarding and the indirect data forwarding based on actual situation of the network, reduce data loss and failure of data forwarding, and improve the efficiency of data forwarding.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang
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Patent number: 11700333Abstract: In a call forwarding system, a management apparatus of the call forwarding system determines service terminals capable of near field wireless communication within a reception range of near field wireless communication, generates a terminal list, and receives a call event message reporting the receipt of a call from a reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit a call report message including the terminal list to the reference terminal and the service terminals. The management apparatus may forward the call initially received by the reference terminal to a terminal which transmitted a receipt request message by transmitting a call forwarding request message to the reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit, to the reference terminal and the service terminals, a receipt report message reporting the call was forwarded. According to a change receipt message or upon non-receipt by an intended terminal, the call may be reforwarded to another terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Pantech CorporationInventors: Sung June Park, Goang Yel Lyu
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Patent number: 11699274Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a surfel map to generate long range localization. One of the methods includes obtaining, for a particular location of a vehicle having a camera and a detection sensor, surfel data including a plurality of surfels. Each surfel in the surfel data has a respective location and corresponds to a different respective detected surface in an environment. Image data captured by the camera is obtained. It is determined that a region of interest for detecting objects for a vehicle planning process is outside a detectable region for the detection sensor. In response, it is determined that the image data for the region of interest matches surfel color data for the surfels corresponding to the region of interest. In response, the vehicle planning process is performed with the region of interest designated as having no unexpected objects.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: David Yonchar Margines, Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Michael Montemerlo, Peter Pawlowski, Colin Andrew Braley
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Patent number: 11694345Abstract: A method of using both object features and scene features to track an object in a scene is provided. In one embodiment, the scene motion is compared with the object motion and if the motions differ greater than a threshold, then the pose from object tracker is used; otherwise, the pose from scene tracker is used. In another embodiment, the pose of an object is tracked by both scene tracker and object tracker and these poses are compared. If these comparison results in a difference greater than a threshold, the pose from object tracker is used; otherwise, the pose from scene tracker is used.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Mirza Tahir Ahmed, Andrei Mark Rotenstein, Qadeer Baig
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Patent number: 11689997Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An apparatus of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor performs a frequency scanning through a first beam set, identifies at least one cell based on the frequency scanning, and communicates with the at least one identified cell through a second beam set.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Doyoung Jung, Sangkyou Ryou, Ingil Baek, Junhee Jeong
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Patent number: 11682138Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to localization and mapping. In some examples, an electronic device obtains first image data and motion data using a motion sensor. The electronic device receives information corresponding to a second electronic device. The electronic device generates a representation of a first pose of the first electronic device using the first image data, the motion data, and the information corresponding to the second electronic device. The electronic device displays, on the display, a virtual object, wherein the displaying of the virtual object is based on the representation of the first pose of the first electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Mohamed Selim Ben Himane
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Patent number: 11669589Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a computer implemented method for generating a training set to train a convolutional neural network comprising the steps of providing prediction space data to a General Logic Gate Module (GLGM). Prediction space expert judgement is also provided to the GLGM and to a sensitivity and importance module. The GLGM determines or outputs state possibilities. The state possibilities are provided to the sensitivity and importance module and to the feature extraction module. Feature extraction algorithms are applied to the state possibilities within the feature extraction module to produce a training possibility set that is a virtual training possibility set. The training possibility set is provided to a state inferential module and to a final training set.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Periculum Labs Inc.Inventors: Stephen W. Eisenhawer, Terry F. Bott
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Patent number: 11651549Abstract: A method for generating 3D entity shape data using image recognition which is performed by a computing device, the method includes the steps of: recognizing a grid matching part having four edge vertices of a quadrangle displayed in an image captured by a camera; generating a cube-shaped 3D space grid of a specific distance unit applied to the image by using the grid matching part; and generating shape data for an external object using the 3D space grid.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: VISION GRIDInventor: Hang Sup Kim
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Patent number: 11645859Abstract: An analysis device configured to analyze a correlation between feature values in a cell in response to a stimulus includes: a cell-image acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of cell images in which the cell that is stimulated is captured; a feature value calculating unit configured to calculate a feature value for constituent elements that form the cell, based on the plurality of cell images acquired by the cell-image acquiring unit; a correlation calculating unit configured to use the feature value calculated by the feature value calculating unit and to calculate correlations between the constituent elements; a correlation selecting unit configured to select a first correlation from the correlations calculated by the correlation calculating unit; and an image selecting unit configured to select a first cell image from the plurality of cell images that are captured, based on the first correlation that is selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: NIKON CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Takuro Saigo, Shinichi Furuta, Shunsuke Takei, Masafumi Yamashita, Shoko Yamasaki, Masayuki Murata, Fumi Kano, Yoshiyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 11644526Abstract: A system for localizing a transmitting wireless device within a known volume, the system including antennae deployed in respective locations at least some within the known volume, each of the antennae operative to receive and output a signal from the transmitting device; analog-to-digital converter/s; and a processor receiving digital sampled received signals and computing real time output parameter/s as function of: sampled received signals S, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna i; and of sampled signals, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna j and sampled, simultaneously with reception at antenna I and sampling of sampled received signals S, function being independent of power level at which transmitting device is transmitting, and to estimate transmitting wireless device's location within volume by comparing the parameter/s to reference output parameters respectively having known correspondence to known possible locations/s within volume, for at least two of the anType: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SAVERONE 2014 LTD.Inventors: Yaakov Shoshan, Yossef Cohen, Amiram Gur Gerasi
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Patent number: 11641568Abstract: An example communications system for providing communication services between communications devices may employ multiple usage rates for metered communication services. A method for adjusting usage amounts to account for multiple usage rates may include determining a usage adjustment factor for a communications event; determining a metered usage amount for the communications event; and determining an adjusted usage amount based on the usage adjustment factor and the metered usage amount for the communications amount. Thus, a billing system in the communications system may determine an invoice amount based on the adjusted usage amount and a predetermined bill rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: TEXTNOW, INC.Inventor: Derek Ting
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Patent number: 11640708Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that match a current scene graph associated with a user's current environment to a prior scene graph for a prior environment to determine that the user is in the same environment. The current scene graph is compared with the prior scene graph based on matching the objects within the current scene graph with objects within the prior scene graph.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Angela Blechschmidt, Alexander S. Polichroniadis, Daniel Ulbricht
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Patent number: 11636686Abstract: A method of annotating frames of a time sequence of frames captured by at least one travelling vehicle comprises, in a frame processing system: determining a three-dimensional (3D) road model for an area captured in the time sequence of frames; receiving first annotation data denoting a known 3D location of a moving object for a first frame of the time sequence of frames; and automatically generating second annotation data for marking an expected moving object location in at least a second frame of the time sequence of frames, by assuming the moving object moves along an expected path determined from the known 3D location and the 3D road model.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Five AI LimitedInventors: Thomas Westmacott, Joel Jakubovic, John Redford, Robert Chandler
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Patent number: 11636286Abstract: Described are systems and methods for training machine learning models of an ensemble of models that are de-correlated. For example, two or more machine learning models may be concurrently trained (e.g., co-trained) while adding a decorrelation component to one or both models that decreases the pairwise correlation between the outputs of the models. Unlike traditional approaches, in accordance with the disclosed implementations, only the negative results need to be decorrelated.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Roman Goldenberg, Miriam Farber, George Leifman, Gerard Guy Medioni
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Patent number: 11637936Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for mobile network handling of simultaneous data usage session records. A system can include a network session server that has a processor and a memory storing instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining, from a session probe within a core network device, a raw mobile data set associated with a user equipment. The operations can include determining that the user equipment engages in a simultaneous usage session based on the raw mobile data set. The operations can include identifying targeted domains that are present within the raw mobile data set, and creating a raw session record for each of the targeted domains associated with the simultaneous usage session.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Meredith, William C. Cottrill
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Patent number: 11632469Abstract: In a call forwarding system, a management apparatus of the call forwarding system determines service terminals capable of near field wireless communication within a reception range of near field wireless communication, generates a terminal list, and receives a call event message reporting the receipt of a call from a reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit a call report message including the terminal list to the reference terminal and the service terminals. The management apparatus may forward the call initially received by the reference terminal to a terminal which transmitted a receipt request message by transmitting a call forwarding request message to the reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit, to the reference terminal and the service terminals, a receipt report message reporting the call was forwarded. According to a change receipt message or upon non-receipt by an intended terminal, the call may be reforwarded to another terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Pantech CorporationInventors: Sung June Park, Goang Yel Lyu
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Patent number: 11632677Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing quasi-licensed spectrum access within an area or venue. In one embodiment, the quasi-licensed spectrum utilizes 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) spectrum allocated by a Federal or commercial SAS (Spectrum Access System) to a managed content delivery network that includes one or more wireless access nodes (e.g., CBSDs and APs) in data communication with a controller. In one variant, the controller dynamically allocates (i) spectrum within the area or venue within CBRS bands, and (ii) MSO users or subscribers to CBRS bands or WLAN (e.g., public ISM) bands in to manage interference between the coexisting networks, and maximize user experience. In another variant, the controller cooperates with a provisioning server to implement a client device application program or “app” on MSO user or subscriber client devices which enables inter-RAT access.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: Don Gunasekara, Umamaheswar Kakinada, Ahmed Bencheikh, Shane Newberg