Patents Examined by Ting Z Lee
  • Patent number: 12386479
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a control method therefor and, more specifically, to a mobile terminal and a control method therefor, the mobile terminal comprising: a body; an input unit for receiving a user input; a display coupled to the body so that a display area viewed from the front of the body can vary according to switching between an expanded display mode and a reduced display node; and a control unit, wherein the control unit outputs a plurality of application layout icons onto the display, aligns the plurality of application layout icons on the basis of a preset standard, and outputs an application onto the display on the basis of a first application layout icon from among the plurality of application layout icons in response to receiving a first signal for selecting the first application layout icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wonkwang Choi, Hyungjin Kim, Jinsool Lee, Heejin Jun
  • Patent number: 12366956
    Abstract: A virtual object control method includes: displaying, in response to a virtual object in a virtual scene being in a first movement state, at least two switch controls including a target switch control in an interface of the virtual scene, and a switching control other than the target switch control, the switching control being a control copy of the target switch control, and a display position of the control copy being different from a display position of the target switch control; and controlling, in response to a state switching operation triggered based on the control copy, the virtual object to be switched from the first movement state to a second movement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Zefeng Yang, Jiaqi Pan
  • Patent number: 12300998
    Abstract: A device uses linking rules to process and optionally update a hierarchical substation model of a power system substation. The linking rules determine to which substation object at a first hierarchy level substation objects at a further hierarchy level of the hierarchical substation model are to be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Theo Widmer, Lorenzo Santoro
  • Patent number: 12277311
    Abstract: A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a geographic map in a first mode of an application, the geographic map including a plurality of landmarks, the geographic map being displayed at a first magnification level; detects a first input, the first input including a first finger contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first landmark on the display; in response to detecting the first input: when the first input does not satisfy one or more predefined mode-change conditions, changes the magnification level in accordance with the first input and remains in the first mode; and when the first input satisfies the mode-change conditions, selects the first landmark and enters a second mode of the application; while in the second mode, detects a second input; and, in response to detecting the second input, displays information about the first landmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Patrick Steven Piemonte
  • Patent number: 12271420
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to identifying a video for completing a task and determining a plurality of video segments of the identified video based on one or more attributes of the task. A task and a plurality of how-to videos related to the task may be identified. A how-to video may be selected and a plurality of video segments of the selected how-to video may be determined. One or more video segments may be associated with one or more task attributes that relate to performing the task. The selected video may be provided to a user and segmented, indexed, and/or annotated based on the associated video segments. In some implementations a given object utilized in performing the task may be identified and one or more video segments corresponding to the given object may be identified and/or provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kerwell Liao, Nikhil Sharma, LaDawn Risenmay Jentzsch, Jennifer Ellen Fernquist Seth
  • Patent number: 12245865
    Abstract: In an approach to monitoring and querying autobiographical events, one or more computer processors receive data from one or more sensors associated with a user. Based on the received data from the one or more sensors, one or more computer processors detect an autobiographical event associated with the user. One or more computer processors convert the received data from the one or more sensors into one or more observations associated with the autobiographical event. One or more computer processors convert the one or more observations into one or more questions associated with the one or more observations. One or more computer processors query the user with the one or more questions. One or more computer processors receive at least one response to the one or more questions from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, Jenna Reinen, Ryan Anderson, Joseph Kozhaya
  • Patent number: 12242866
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first graphics processing subsystem, a second graphics processing subsystem, and a screen. The first graphics processing subsystem includes a first application processor, a first graphics processing unit, and a first memory. The second graphics processing subsystem includes a second application processor, a second graphics processing unit, and a second memory. The first graphics processing unit renders a first GUI. The screen displays the first GUI. The second graphics processing unit renders a second GUI, and the second GUI and the first GUI belong to different interface types. The screen displays the second GUI. A display processing method applied to the electronic device is also provided, wherein the first graphics processing subsystem can be switched to the second graphics processing subsystem based on complexity of a to-be-displayed GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengyuan Hu, Bing Li, Wen Liu, Shuqiang Gong, Zichen Xie
  • Patent number: 12236038
    Abstract: A computer system detects an input that is directed, when the input starts, to a location within a view in a user interface, and consequentially: sends to a software element associated with the view a plurality of input events, wherein each input event comprises a data structure including a phase field that describes a state of the input at a respective time, and the phase field of one of the plurality of input events is set to an input phase began value indicating that the input is new; determines whether or not the input should be ignored by the electronic device; and, in accordance with a determination that the input should be ignored by the electronic device, includes in the plurality of input events an input event whose phase field is set to an input phase cancel value indicating that the input has been cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason Clay Beaver, Andrew Platzer
  • Patent number: 12236077
    Abstract: An electronic device manufacturing system configured to receive, by a processor, input data reflecting a feature related to a manufacturing process of a substrate. The manufacturing system is further configured to train a machine-learning model based on the input data reflecting the feature. The manufacturing system is further configured to modify the machine-learning model in view of the virtual knob for the feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jui-Che Lin, Yan-Jhu Chen, Chao-Hsien Lee, Shauh-Teh Juang, Pengyu Han, Wallace Wang
  • Patent number: 12182374
    Abstract: A control method for a display apparatus includes displaying a first image based on an input first image signal on a display surface when a first operation on the display surface is detected, displaying a first drawing image corresponding to the first operation on the display surface, when a second operation to select the first image and the first drawing image on the display surface is received, registering the first image and the first drawing image as a first group, and when a third operation to select the first group on the display surface is received, executing first processing corresponding to the third operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Fujimori
  • Patent number: 12126878
    Abstract: A method is performed at a server system. The server system receives from an electronic device media content information. The server matches the media content information with stored content information, and identifies a media content item based on the matching. It also identifies a genre of the media content item and one or more entities relevant to the identified media content item. The server generates one or more user-selectable elections based on the genre of the media content item. It sends to the electronic device the user-selectable elections and a plurality of affordances. Each of the affordances provides a user of the electronic device with one of the user-selectable elections corresponding to a respective entity that is relevant to the identified media content item. The server receives from the electronic device a selection of the one or more user-selectable elections, and performs an operation associated with the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kirmse, Jan-Willem Maarse, Yaroslav Volovich, Ant Oztaskent, Ingrid McAulay Trollope, Jurek Foryciarz
  • Patent number: 12114095
    Abstract: Providing a video presentation includes preparing a plurality of different background environments that include a structured list of visual components and parameters therefor for different portions of the presentation prior to the video presentation, selecting a subset of the background environments, value ranges, and initial values for a subset of the parameters of the background environments prior to the presentation, selecting multiple alternative background environments for at least one of the portions prior to the video presentation, presenting to an audience at least one presenter superimposed on the different ones of the background environments during different portions of the video presentation, replacing a particular one of the background environments for the at least one of the portions during the presentation with one of the multiple alternative background environments, and modifying values selected for at least some of the subset of the parameters during the video presentation within the value ran
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: mmhmm inc.
    Inventor: Phil Libin
  • Patent number: 12105944
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for providing visual feedback during touch-based operations on user interface (“UI”) elements. Through implementations of the disclosed technologies, visual feedback can be provided to users during certain touch-based operations on UI elements presented by virtual reality (“VR”) devices. The visual feedback can provide confirmation to users that certain operations on UI elements were performed successfully. The visual feedback provided by the disclosed technologies can make it easier for users to select a UI element, to understand that actions taken to select a UI element were successful, and to successfully perform operations on UI elements once they have been selected. These benefits can reduce the number of times users need to attempt certain operations on UI elements. This, in turn, can reduce the utilization of computing resources, such as memory and processor cycles, by devices implementing the disclosed technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Salowitz, Sha Viswanathan, Joseph Spencer King, Albert Peter Yih, Hadley Meryl Griffin
  • Patent number: 12106046
    Abstract: The system receives, from a client, a first request for a document which is parsed based on a syntax. The system parses and returns an initial number of lines of the document, thereby allowing the client to display the parsed initial number of lines in a visible window. Subsequent to successfully parsing a remainder of the lines, the system stores a fully-parsed version. Responsive to a scrolling action in the visible window, the system provides a relevant portion of an unparsed document associated with the first request. Responsive to detecting a termination of the scrolling action, the system receives a second request for parsed lines corresponding to a first set of lines. The system returns the corresponding parsed lines, thereby allowing the client to display the corresponding parsed lines in the visible window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Shaun Wackerly, Gurraj Atwal, Vali W. Lean, Charles F. Clark
  • Patent number: 12093515
    Abstract: Target electronic devices can be remotely controlled using a personal electronic device are disclosed. The personal electronic device can identify target devices that are responsive to remote control. The personal electronic device displays graphical user interface objects that, when selected, cause the personal electronic device to instruct the target electronic device to perform an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Stephen O. Lemay, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Lawrence Y. Yang, David Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive
  • Patent number: 12039974
    Abstract: Functionality is disclosed herein for using an interactive content service to provide content. A user may interact with the interactive content service to access interactive content, such as interactive fiction, interactive text adventure games, and other interactive content. A user may also use the interactive content to receive auditory output from applications configured to provide text-based content. The interactive content service maintains state information that identifies the current state of the interactive content. For example, before starting a particular interactive adventure game, the state identifies a beginning location within the interactive content. As the user interacts with the game, the interactive content service updates the state of the user within the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Allen Markley, Ethan Zane Evans
  • Patent number: 12008064
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for automatically generating websites using artificial intelligence that requires minimal user input, and which does not require the technical skills and expertise that is traditionally needed to develop websites. In addition, the present invention does not require users to start from a blank web page when creating websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Sav.com, LLC
    Inventor: Anthos Chrysanthou
  • Patent number: 11972086
    Abstract: A system for automatically increasing a capacity of a virtual space in a virtual world may include a processor and a module operating on the processor for detecting an attempt by an avatar to enter a virtual space in a virtual world. The system may also include another module for determining if an allowable number of avatars is currently in the virtual space. The allowable number of avatars may be determined by at least a capacity of a server that is hosting the virtual space. Another module may be provided for increasing a capacity of the virtual space when the allowable number of avatars is currently in the virtual space. Increasing the capacity of the virtual space may include spawning a replicate new virtual space on a different server in response to the capacity of the server that is hosting the virtual space reaching the allowable number of avatars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F. Haggar, Brian R. Bokor, Daniel E. House, William B. Nicol, II, Andrew B. Smith, Luis J. Ostdiek
  • Patent number: 11954298
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a main screen image including a main content, displays a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image, receives a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received, and displays the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: 11928326
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Christopher Lee, George Milton Underwood