Patents Examined by Stephen R Smith
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Patent number: 12262099Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) streaming system provides client-controlled adaptive streaming of 3D content in which the client may receive the 3D primitives of 3D content at different fidelities that the client selects. The system includes generating a 3D model at different fidelities, partitioning the 3D model into different volumetric spatial units, generating a manifest with an index for each volumetric spatial unit and an identifier for each fidelity, and presenting the 3D primitives in a first set of volumetric spatial units at a first fidelity and the 3D primitives in a second set of volumetric spatial units at a second fidelity in response to a request that includes indices of the first set of volumetric spatial units with a first identifier for the first fidelity and indices of the second set of volumetric spatial units with a second identifier for the second fidelity.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.Inventor: Sean Looper
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Patent number: 12256053Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12256052Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12254905Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display; and a processor configured to: play a video on the display by using a first application, obtain playback information associated with playing the video by using the first application, activate a second application while the video is played by using the first application, determine a frame of the video corresponding to a time point at which the second application is activated, and seek the frame to play the video by using the second application, based on the second application being able to seek the frame within a reference time.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wonki Kim, Keunha Choi, Jin Heo
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Patent number: 12256054Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12249042Abstract: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that receive video feeds from corresponding cameras distributed at different positions and orientations throughout a physical environment, and obtain location data associated with the cameras. The location data is indicative of at least one of the position or orientation for the corresponding camera. The method, system and computer program product identify, from the multiple cameras, a camera combination that includes first and second cameras that have overlapping fields of view (FOV) based on the location data and form a panoramic video of at least a portion of the environment by combining the content from the first and second cameras identified based on the location data.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTDInventors: Mengnan Wang, John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker
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Patent number: 12243562Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for a scenario of editing multimedia resources, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to an editing instruction triggered for a target editing template, displaying an import page of a material segment to be edited corresponding to the target editing template, wherein a setting entry for the material segment to be edited and a prompt entry for the material segment to be edited are presented on the import page; in response to a trigger for the prompt entry, displaying an original material segment corresponding to the material segment to be edited; in response to a trigger operation for the setting entry, determining the material segment to be edited; and editing the material segment to be edited into a target multimedia resource in a target editing mode indicated by the target editing template.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ying Yan, Yingzhi Zhou, Ran Cui, Ping Li
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Patent number: 12238411Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of processing steps concerning a work in installation or operation of a system including a plurality of apparatuses, and progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps, and causes a display unit to display a screen including information representing the plurality of processing steps and the progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Iwakiri, Hajime Sato
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Patent number: 12231801Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a remote video feed fusion system, an indication of a meeting facilitated through a meeting application allowing access to participants in a location other than a location of a host of the meeting and supporting video transmissions between connected participants; identifying, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of devices each having at least one image capture device and within the location of the host; capturing, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of video feeds of the location of the host using the plurality of devices; creating, using the remote video feed fusion system, a fused video feed of the location of the host from the plurality of video feeds; and transmitting, using the remote video feed fusion system, the fused video feed to at least one participant accessing the meeting from a location other than the location of the host.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Mengnan Wang, John W Nicholson, Daryl C Cromer, Howard Locker
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Patent number: 12192434Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing methods for cloud-based rendering of interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences. A client device may initiate execution of a content application on a server and provide information associated with the content application to the server. The client device may initialize, while awaiting a notification from the server, local systems associated with the content application and, upon receipt of the notification, provide, to the server, information associated with the local systems. Further, the client device may receive, from the server, data associated with the content application and render an AR/VR scene based on the received data. The data may be based, at least in part, on the information associated with the local system. The providing and receiving may be performed periodically, e.g., at a rate to sustain a comfortable viewing environment of the AR/VR scene by a user of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: zSpace, Inc.Inventors: Clifford S. Champion, Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Baifang Lu, Alex Shorey, Robert D. Kalnins
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Patent number: 12190691Abstract: A method for determining a noteworthy sub-sequence of a monitoring image sequence of a monitoring area. The method includes: providing an audio signal from the monitoring area, at least partially including a time period of the monitoring image sequence; providing the monitoring image sequence of the environment to be monitored, which has been generated by an imaging system; determining at least one segment of the audio signal from the provided audio signal, which has unusual noises; determining at least one segment of the monitoring image sequence having unusual movements within the environment to be monitored; determining a correlation between the at least one segment of the audio signal having unusual noises and the at least one segment of the monitoring image sequence with unusual movements in order to determine a noteworthy sub-sequence of the monitoring image sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Christian Neumann, Christian Stresing, Gregor Blott, Masato Takami
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Patent number: 12190911Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform speed-enhanced playback of recorded media are disclosed. Example apparatus to playback media disclosed herein comprise at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to parse an audio frame included in the media to determine a number of skip bytes included in the audio frame, compare the number of skip bytes to a threshold, associate the audio frame with a plurality of candidate frames identified in the media when the number of skip bytes satisfies the threshold, and calculate a speed-enhanced playback rate for the media based on the plurality of candidate frames identified in the media.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventor: Venugopal Srinivasan
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Patent number: 12183370Abstract: A video generation method includes: when a video theme configured by a user and a video production instruction are obtained, obtaining, according to the video production instruction, a user image and multiple video templates matching the video theme; embedding the user image into reserved positions of at least some of the video templates so that the user image is combined with situational materials of the video templates to generate at least one video; obtaining a video to be published from the at least one video, and publishing the video to be published to a preset video playback platform. Thus, during the process of video production, at least one video can be generated at a time as long as the user image is embedded into multiple video templates, without repeatedly photographing by a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junqiang Wang, Ziyang Zheng, Weihong Guan, Haitao Lv, Wanling Lin, Jiali Ye, Weiwen Lin, Yang Li, Zhanchen Zhang, Yingwen Zeng, Xin Che
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Patent number: 12161928Abstract: An interactive exercise method includes streaming exercise content to an interactive video system for display via a mirror, the exercise content including a depiction of an instructor performing a repetitive movement. A video stream of a user performing the repetitive movement is received, via a camera of the interactive video system, and the user is detected in the video stream. The user or a body portion thereof is tracked in the video stream as the user performs the repetitive movement. The method also includes generating a measure of a difference between a form of the user performing the repetitive movement and a predetermined form for the repetitive movement. A corrective movement is displayed to the user, via the display and during the display of the instructor performing the repetitive movement, based on the measure, to conform the form of the user to the predetermined form for the repetitive movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Curiouser Products Inc.Inventors: Brynn Putnam, Kristie D'Ambrosio-Correll
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Patent number: 12159460Abstract: A method and system for generating a customized summary of virtual actions and events. Gameplay data sent over a communication network from a client device of the player engaged in a current activity of the respective interactive content title within a current gameplay session may be monitored. A trigger in the monitored gameplay data is detected and associated with a request for a summary that encapsulates actions and events of past gameplay associated with the trigger. A subset of the actions and events of the past gameplay for the summary is selected based on one or more selected customized tags associated with the trigger. The summary is generated based on the selected subset of the actions and events and provided to the client device for presentation.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Angela Bartolome, Supriti Dan, Genie-Rose Luluquisin, Benaisha Patel, Celeste Bean
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Patent number: 12154477Abstract: A content processing apparatus 200 compresses image data of content in a lossy manner and transmits the image data to a head-mounted display 100 through an interface 300. An image processing integrated circuit 120 of the head-mounted display 100 transmits the image data to a display panel 122 through an interface 304 whose protocol is different from a protocol of the interface 300, without decoding and decompressing the image data. The display panel 122 displays the image that has been decoded and decompressed after being transmitted through the interface 304.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
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Patent number: 12133025Abstract: A computing system is described. The computing system is configured to receive, from a portal device of a premises monitoring system, a first request for a list of compatible pipelines for a premises analytics device of the premises monitoring system, identify a plurality of pipelines that are compatible with the premises analytics device based on a parameter, and transmit the list of compatible pipelines to the portal device. The computing system is further configured to receive, from the portal device, a second request to deploy a user selected pipeline of the plurality of pipelines referenced in the list of compatible pipelines, transmit a command, to a third-party system, to obtain a pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline, and receive, from the third-party system, the pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline. The pipeline deployment is transmitted to the premises analytics device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2024Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: The ADT Security CorporationInventors: Edward M. Bacco, Philippe Sawaya, Sara Magee Smith, Andrew O'Connor, Tarmily Wen
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Patent number: 12131754Abstract: A method comprising: authoring a plurality of sets of media tracks comprising at least a first set of media tracks and a second set of media tracks into a media file format, wherein a subset of tracks of the first set comprises alternate data for each other and a subset of tracks of the second set comprises alternate data for each other; and including, in or along a bitstream comprising a media file including or inferring said media tracks, an indication that said subset of tracks of the first set are alternatives to each other and said subset of tracks of the second set are alternatives to each other upon playback of the media tracks.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lukasz Kondrad, Lauri Aleksi Ilola, Emre Baris Aksu, Miska Matias Hannuksela
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Patent number: 12119030Abstract: Systems and methods for providing adaptive and responsive media are disclosed. In various implementations, a video for playback is received at a user device having a plurality of associated properties. Based on at least one of the properties, a first state of the video is configured, and the video is presented according to the first state. During playback of the video, a change in one of the device properties is detected, and the video is seamlessly transitioned to a second state based on the change.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 LTDInventors: Jonathan Bloch, Tal Zubalsky, Yuval Hofshy, Barak Feldman
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Patent number: 12112775Abstract: A video may include visual content having a progress length. A user may interact with a mobile device to set framings of the visual content at moments within the progress length. The framings of the visual content may be provided to a video editing application. The video editing application may utilize the framings set via the mobile device to provide preliminary framings of the visual content at the moments within the progress length.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Scott Corbin, Joshua Hamill, Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz