Patents Examined by Syed Haider
  • Patent number: 11070250
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates determining from a training session with a waveguide system that one or more polarized modes of electromagnetic waves propagating along a transmission medium are experiencing differing propagation delays and adjusting a coupler to mitigate the differing propagation delays. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Giovanni Vannucci, Irwin Gerszberg, Robert Bennett, Ed Guntin, Peter Wolniansky, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 11055516
    Abstract: There are provided in the present disclosure a behavior prediction method, an apparatus, a system and a non-transitory recording medium. The behavior prediction method includes: obtaining a part of behavior action video frame sequence, which only reflects a part of behavior actions but does not reflect all of the behavior actions; selecting a key information frame from the part of behavior action video frame sequence, wherein the key information frame has a significant differentiation in the part of behavior action video frame sequence; and predicting a type of the behavior action based on the key information frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING KUANGSHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjun Zhu, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 11055536
    Abstract: A video feature extraction method and device are provided. The method includes extracting one or more frames from a video object to obtain one or more frames of images, obtaining one or more shift vectors for each of the one or more frames of images, using each of the one or more shift vectors, taking any pixel in each of the one or more frames of images as a starting point, determining a terminal point directed by the one or more shift vectors from the starting point, and determining an image feature of the one or more frames of images according to a difference between the starting point and the terminal point, and determining a video feature of the video object according to the image feature of the one or more frames of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi He, Lei Li, Cheng Yang, Gen Li, Yitan Li
  • Patent number: 11050479
    Abstract: A first communication device for communicating with a second communication device over a link that is utilized at the substantially same time and with the substantially same frequency resource by a pair of further communication devices. The first communication device comprises one or more antenna arrays with which beamforming can be performed, a controller configured to apply beamformers to control beamforming by the one or more antenna arrays, and circuitry configured to determine whether at least one of the beamformers satisfies an interference condition such that a level of interference leaked to the further communication devices by the first communication device is below a defined threshold, and if available, select the at least one beamformer for communicating with the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana Ciochina, Thomas Handte, Nabil Sven Loghin, Felix Fellhauer
  • Patent number: 11050594
    Abstract: A communications system may include a transmitter having spreading stages configured to spread a common modulated baseband input data stream based upon respective coefficient sequences; a plurality of upconverters, each having a different frequency; and an RF output stage that generates an RF output signal. A receiver may include an RF input stage that receives an RF input signal, a plurality of downconverters, a plurality of despreading stages, and a demodulator coupled to the despreading stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HARRIS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: James A. Norris, Christopher D. Mackey, Richard J. Buckley, Myung K. Lee, Shane B. Eisenman
  • Patent number: 11036786
    Abstract: In implementations of determining user segmentation based on a photo library, a device maintains digital images in the photo library, as well as metadata associated with the digital images. The device includes a segmentation module implemented to determine characteristics about a user of the device by analysis of the metadata of the digital images. The segmentation module can determine a segmentation based on the characteristics determined about the user. The segmentation includes one or more segments that each represent a generalized aspect of the user, where a generalized aspect is attributable to multiple people and anonymity of the user is maintained. The segmentation module can associate an anonymous identifier with the segmentation effective to maintain the anonymity of the user and privacy of the metadata. The segmentation and the anonymous identifier can then be communicated to a marketing system that generates personalized marketing messages based on the segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Raymond Fransen, Tara V. Anand, Sarah Marie Garcia
  • Patent number: 11039443
    Abstract: A transmission device that generates control information including 3-bit information and transmits a physical downlink shared channel, a reference signal for demodulation of the physical downlink shared channel, and the control information, wherein, in a case that all codewords which are mapped to the physical downlink shared channel are enabled, among a first value to an eighth value indicated by the 3-bit information, the third value to the eighth value indicate that the number of layers is from 3 to 8 respectively, and the first value and the second value indicate that the number of layers is equal to 2, and the first value indicates that the scrambling identity for the reference signal is equal to 0 and the second value indicates that the scrambling identity is equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11023707
    Abstract: A cropped bounding box selection operation is performed on a video captured by a video capture and playback system, to select one or more cropped bounding boxes from the video for processing by a face detection operation. The cropped bounding box selection operation identifies objects from the video images and assigns a ranking to each identified object based on certain priority criteria; one or more cropped bounding boxes corresponding to the objects with the highest ranking(s) are then processed by the face detection operation to detect a face in each object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AVIGILON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keshav Thirumalai Seshadri, Peter L. Venetianer
  • Patent number: 11017551
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for identifying object of interest. Image data acquired by a camera with respect to a scene are received. One or more users are detected, during a period of time, from the image data who are present at the scene. Three dimensional (3D) gazing rays of the one or more users during the period of time are estimated. One or more intersections of such 3D gazing rays are identified and are used to determine at least one object of interest of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DMAI, INC.
    Inventor: Nishant Shukla
  • Patent number: 11018752
    Abstract: An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON VALLEY BANK
    Inventors: Sam Gharavi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Michael Boers, Seunghwan Yoon, Kartik Sridharan, Donghyup Shin, Farid Shirinfar, Stephen Wu, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 11018815
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Liqing Liu, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11010888
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for image-based defect detection. The method includes performing, by a processor device, template matching and subtraction on a set of training images and at least one template image to obtain a set of difference images. The difference images have defects, if any, highlighted therein. The method further includes generating, by the hardware processor applying a binary classification model to each of the training images in the set, activation heatmaps. The method also includes identifying, by the hardware processor, rough defect areas of interest in the activation heatmaps. The method additionally includes super-imposing, by the hardware processor, the activation heatmaps onto the difference images to obtain a set of super-imposed images, and highlight, as true defect areas, any areas in the super-imposed images having the defects from the difference images that overlap with the rough defect areas of interest from the activation heatmaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo Qiang Hu, Jun Zhu, Peng Ji, Jing Chang Huang
  • Patent number: 11005692
    Abstract: A port of a computing device is to connect to another device over a link and use equalization logic to perform equalization of the link at a plurality of different data rates. The equalization logic may identify that the other device supports bypassing a sequential equalization mode, determine a maximum data rate supported by the devices on the link, and participate in equalization of the link at the maximum supported data rate before equalizing the link at one or more other data rates lower than the maximum supported data rate in the plurality of data rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Debendra Das Sharma
  • Patent number: 10997458
    Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting the characters/numbers of a negotiable instrument, the apparatus being provided with: cameras (124) for imaging the character/number sequence (1b) printed on each design on large-size printed matter (1) on which a plurality of designs of the negotiable instrument are printed; and a character/number inspection device (10) for determining the suitability of the characters/numbers printed on each negotiable instrument on the basis of the image data imaged by the cameras (124), wherein the character/number inspection device (10) determines the suitability of the character/number sequence (1b) in a cut segment (1a) on the basis of a plurality of determination standards set in accordance with the position of the cut segment (1a) on the large-size printed matter (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: GLORY LTD., KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Adachi, Hiroyuki Onishi, Hiromitsu Numauchi
  • Patent number: 10991112
    Abstract: Aspects relate to processing captured images from structured light systems. An example device may include one or more processors and a memory. The memory may include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to receive a captured image of a scene from a structured light receiver, analyze one or more first portions of the captured image at a first scale, and analyze one or more second portions of the captured image at a second scale finer than the first scale. The analysis of the one or more second portions may be based on the analysis of the one or more first portions. The instructions further may cause the device to determine for each of the one or more second portions a codeword from a codeword distribution and determine one or more depths in the scene based on the one or more determined codewords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hasib Siddiqui, James Nash, Kalin Atanassov
  • Patent number: 10992270
    Abstract: A power amplifier apparatus supporting reverse intermodulation product (rIMD) cancellation is provided. The power amplifier apparatus includes an amplifier circuit configured to amplify and output a radio frequency (RF) signal for transmission via an antenna port. The antenna port may receive a reverse interference signal, which may interfere with the RF signal to create a rIMD(s) that can fall within an RF receive band(s). A reverse coupling circuit is provided in the power amplifier apparatus to generate an interference cancellation signal based on the reverse interference signal. The amplifier circuit is configured to amplify the interference cancellation signal and the RF signal to create an intermodulation product(s) to suppress the rIMD(s) to a determined threshold. By suppressing the rIMD(s) in the power amplifier apparatus, it is possible to support concurrent transmissions and receptions in a number of RF spectrums while in compliance with stringent regulatory spurious emissions (SEM) requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus Granger-Jones, Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, Nadim Khlat
  • Patent number: 10985805
    Abstract: A first-transceiver for use in an antenna diversity scheme. The first-transceiver comprises a first-time/clock-generation-unit; a first-receiver; and a first-transmitter. The first-receiver is configured to receive a wireless second-alignment-signal from a second-transceiver with a second-time/clock-generation-unit. The wireless second-alignment-signal is representative of a state of the second-time/clock-generation-unit. The first-transceiver is configured to set the first-time/clock-generation-unit, based on the wireless second-alignment-signal, to reduce an alignment-error between the first-time/clock-generation-unit and the second-time/clock-generation-unit. The first-transmitter is configured to transmit a wireless first-transmission-signal, in accordance with the first-time/clock-generation-unit, as part of the antenna diversity scheme. The first-transmission-signal corresponds to a second-transmission-signal that is transmitted by the second-transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Lars Van Meurs, Alessio Filippi, Arie Koppelaar, Marinus Van Splunter
  • Patent number: 10980110
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shadow elimination detection method for a touch substrate, a touch substrate manufacturing method, a touch substrate, and a touch device. The shadow elimination detection method for a touch substrate includes detecting a difference in light reflectance between test blocks with different structures located in an area outside a touch area of the touch substrate using a detection device, and determining a shadow elimination effect of the touch substrate according to the difference, wherein each of the test blocks with different structures includes a structure corresponding to a respective structure in different structures in the touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjin Fan, Lei Zhang, Tsung Chieh Kuo, Yang Liu, Kui Lv
  • Patent number: 10979129
    Abstract: An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON VALLEY BANK
    Inventors: Sam Gharavi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Michael Boers, Seunghwan Yoon, Kartik Sridharan, Donghyup Shin, Farid Shirinfar, Stephen Wu, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 10972320
    Abstract: This application provides a reference signal communication method and communication apparatus. The method includes determining a resource block offset of a frequency domain position of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) based on a frequency domain density of the PTRS, an identifier of a terminal device, and a first bandwidth, in accordance with a ratio of the first bandwidth to the frequency domain density of the PTRS being a non-integer. The first bandwidth is a bandwidth scheduled by a network device for the terminal device. The method further includes sending or receiving the PTRS based on the resource block offset of the frequency domain position of the PTRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Minghui Xu