Patents Examined by Todd Buttram
  • Patent number: 12033555
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system includes a display, a processor and a wireless sensor. The processor receives remote wireless signals from the wireless sensor corresponding to another display. The processor determines a physical locational relationship and orientation in three-dimensional space based on the received signal. The processor logical represents the relationship and orientation in a configuration screen and sets attributes of the display based on the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Syed S. Azam, Anthony Kaplanis, Alexander Williams, Gregory Staten
  • Patent number: 12035011
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying onboard service information for vessels are described. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a user request to add a particular vessel to a user watch list associated with a user; adding a particular vessel identifier of the particular vessel to a set of vessel identifiers of a set of vessels included in the user watch list; and obtaining status of a service type of an onboard service provided on each vessel of the set of vessels. In response to receiving a request to display the user watch list, first graphical interface data is generated. The first graphical interface data represents: the set of vessel identifiers that corresponds to the set of vessels; a service icon for each corresponding vessel of the set of vessels; and a watch list header comprising labels for the set of vessel identifiers and the service type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventor: Sanjay V. Lala
  • Patent number: 12020383
    Abstract: The subject technology receives a selection of a selectable graphical item to initiate generating augment reality content including facial synthesis, the selection being received by a third party application, the third party application being executed by a computing device separate from a first party application and a messaging server system. The subject technology captures image data by the client device. The subject technology generates, by the one or more hardware processors and based at least in part on frames of a source media content, sets of source pose parameters. The subject technology generates, based at least in part on sets of the source pose parameters, an output media content using an interface communicating with the messaging server system. The subject technology provides augmented reality content based at least in part on the output media content for display on the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Grigoriy Tkachenko, Inna Zaitseva
  • Patent number: 12008722
    Abstract: A set of training images are input into a neural network that outputs a pixel-wise phase matrix identifying pixels in the training images. Based on the pixel-wise phase matrix, a spatial light modulator (SLM) is actuated to output, onto a vehicle windshield, an augmented reality (AR) image including a plurality of sub-images each output in one of a plurality of focal planes. Each training image corresponds to one respective sub-image. A feedback image of the AR image is obtained via an image sensor. An offset is determined based on comparing the training images to the feedback image. Parameters of a loss function are updated based on the offset, and the updated parameters are provided to the neural network to obtain an updated offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wan, Anthony Gerald King
  • Patent number: 12002138
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a speech-driven animation method and apparatus based on artificial intelligence (AI). The method includes obtaining a first speech, the first speech comprising a plurality of speech frames; determining linguistics information corresponding to a speech frame in the first speech, the linguistics information being used for identifying a distribution possibility that the speech frame in the first speech pertains to phonemes; determining an expression parameter corresponding to the speech frame in the first speech according to the linguistics information; and enabling, according to the expression parameter, an animation character to make an expression corresponding to the first speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shiyin Kang, Deyi Tuo, Kuongchi Lei, Tianxiao Fu, Huirong Huang, Dan Su
  • Patent number: 12001507
    Abstract: Methods and systems of displaying substring pairs where visual demarcations delineate adjacent substring pairs from each other. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of the primary substrings, a plurality of the secondary substrings, and a plurality of visual demarcations, displaying, on an electronic display, the primary substrings and the secondary substrings arranged into substring pairs, and one of the visual demarcations in each of the correspondence areas. Additional desired visual effects may be achieved through the use of specific demarcations, demarcation placements, and substring modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventors: David Allen Fesbinder, Nikita Sergeevich Lyubarshchuk, Aryeh Rosenzweig, Alexander Postnikov
  • Patent number: 11995661
    Abstract: The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method of water management for an industrial site, the method comprising collecting, via user-interaction, data related to one or more exploitation scenarios of the industrial site, for each respective exploitation scenario, computing, automatically by a computer system and based on the collected data, for each indicator of a plurality of indicators, a respective indicator value, the plurality of indicators comprising a first group of one or more water risk assessment indicators and a second group of one or more environmental footprint indicators, and displaying, simultaneously on a display of the computer system, a plurality of graphical representations including for the indicator value of each indicator of the first group and the second group, a respective graphical representation. The invention improves water management for an industrial site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Total SE
    Inventors: Bruno Delahaye, Frédéric Perie, Matthieu Jacob, Elsa Maurice, Jean-Baptiste Bayart
  • Patent number: 11990108
    Abstract: An approach is provided for rendering items in a user interface. The approach may, for instance, include processing a current orientation mode of a device, a detected attitude change of the device, and an attitude change threshold to determine a new orientation mode for the device. In an instance when the attitude change threshold is satisfied, then switching to the new orientation mode and in an instance when the new orientation mode is a landscape orientation mode, then causing to present navigation information in an augmented reality display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Sreejumon Purayil, Mark Fulks, Venkata Ayyagari, Pankaj Jain, Jerry Drake, Gabriel Nava-Vazquez, Adetokunbo Bamidele, Srikanth Challa, Kenneth Walker
  • Patent number: 11978156
    Abstract: In a tile-based graphics processor when rendering a tile of a render output, which sub-regions, of a plurality of sub-regions that the tile has been divided into for fragment tracking purposes, fragments generated by the rasterisation stage fall within is determined. Then, for at least one sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions that the tile has been divided into, the processing of fragments for the sub-region of the tile is tracked to determine when the processing of all fragments for the sub-region of the tile has been finished. The writing of rendered fragment data for the sub-region of the tile from the tile buffer to memory is controlled on the basis of the tracking of the processing of fragments for the sub-region of the tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventor: Ole Magnus Ruud
  • Patent number: 11972533
    Abstract: Introduced here computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for establishing the dimensions of interior spaces. These computer programs are able to accomplish this by combining knowledge of these interior spaces with spatial information that is output by an augmented reality (AR) framework. Such an approach allows two-dimensional (2D) layouts to be seamlessly created through guided corner-to-corner measurement of interior spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Flyreel, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Palmer, Cole Winans
  • Patent number: 11954146
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a data analysis in the form of a customized geographic visualization on a graphical user interface (GUI) on a remote client computing device using only a web browser on the remote client device. The system receives a user's selected data analysis to be performed by the system for display on the remote client device. The system verifies the data access permissions of the user to render a data analysis solution customized to that particular user, and automatically prevents that user from gaining access to data analysis solutions to which that user is prohibited. The system is configured to respond to the user's data analysis request, perform the necessary computations on the server side on the fly, and send a dataset interpretable by the client device's web browser for display on the client device or on a device associated with the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
    Inventors: Teresa Nguyen Clark, Michael Steven Weinberg, Carlos Ricardo Villarreal, Nathania Hau, Jelani Akil McLean, Abigail Berube, Trent Tyrone Haywood
  • Patent number: 11942059
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an openable display mechanism that displays a first screen in a first display region in a closed state and displays a second screen in a second display region having a larger area than the first display region in an open state, and a processor configured to execute a display process of lowering a visibility of the second screen when the display mechanism in the closed state changes to the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Saita
  • Patent number: 11930856
    Abstract: A method, system, device, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium for performing age verification, the device including a memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions, and processing circuitry configured to execute the computer readable instructions to cause the device to, receive identity verification information from an adult vaper, determine a personal profile corresponding to the adult vaper based on the identity verification information, and enable operation of an electronic vaping device based on the received identity verification information and the personal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Srinivasan Janardhan, Gerd Kobal, Yezdi B. Pithawalla, Timo Engelke, Ulrich Bockholt
  • Patent number: 11935445
    Abstract: An electronic device including a flexible display that is rollable or slidable and a method for operating the electronic device are provided. A first screen of a first function is displayed in a first area of a flexible display exposed to the outside. When a rolling movement or a sliding movement of the flexible display is identified, device state information including information indicating a power level of a battery of the electronic device is acquired. A first screen redrawing method is determined from among multiple screen redrawing methods by using the device state information. During the rolling movement or the sliding movement, a second screen corresponding to the first screen is displayed in a second area exposed to the outside by the rolling movement or the sliding movement of the flexible display, according to the first screen redrawing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Byungwoo Min, Bokyou Ko, Jihea Park
  • Patent number: 11922582
    Abstract: Generating a location-specific three-dimensional model in response to a location query can provide users with a better understanding of a location through providing better interactivity, better perspective, and better understanding of dimensionality. Generation of the models can be enabled by leveraging a three-dimensional asset database and segmentation methods. The location-specific models can provide further utility by further including situation specific simulated effects, such as simulated weather or traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ignacio Garcia Dorado, Charles Goran, Jordi Serrano Berbel, Luke Barrington, Bilawal Singh Sidhu, Thomas Windheuser, Thomas Robert Escobar, Jan Stria
  • Patent number: 11915378
    Abstract: A method, system and computer readable storage media for proposing and visualizing orthodontic treatments. A patient may use a mobile device such as a smart phone to quickly and inexpensively visualize an orthodontic treatment for misaligned teeth and overlay it on a 3D model of the face and jaw, with a depth sensor being used to detect depth information. The orthodontic treatment may also be visualized in an augmented manner for a clinician. 3D data of the orthodontic treatment may be used for further analysis or fabrication of a treatment appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
    Inventors: André Koza, Ronny Kucharczyk
  • Patent number: 11908042
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus according to the disclosure may include a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control a display to display an image captured via a camera, and a first guideline, recognize an object in the image based on the first guideline, render a virtual object to replace the object, generate an augmented reality image including the virtual object that is located in an area where the object is located in the image; and control the display to display the augmented reality image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunbi Cho, Jiin Kim, Jaeyun Jeong, Seunga Lee, Gipyo Kim, Seokyeol Kim, Songhyeon Kim, Seokwoo Song
  • Patent number: 11900649
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to generate digital scenes are disclosed. An example apparatus to generate labelled models includes a map builder to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of an input image, a grouping classifier to identify a first zone of the 3D model corresponding to a first type of grouping classification, a human model builder to generate a quantity of placeholder human models corresponding to the first zone, a coordinate engine to assign the quantity of placeholder human models to respective coordinate locations of the first zone, the respective coordinate locations assigned based on the first type of grouping classification, a model characteristics modifier to assign characteristics associated with an aspect type to respective ones of the quantity of placeholder human models, and an annotation manager to associate the assigned characteristics as label data for respective ones of the quantity of placeholder human models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Movidius Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Lee, Anton Shmatov, Jonathan Byrne, David Moloney
  • Patent number: 11887387
    Abstract: A mesh structure facility detection device detects data corresponding to a mesh structure facility from three-dimensional structure data representing a space including an outer shape of an object, and projects the three-dimensional structure data in a predetermined direction to obtain two-dimensional structure data; and detects a point included in a region in which the two-dimensional structure data has a density of more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value as a point corresponding to the mesh structure facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yao, Hitoshi Niigaki, Kana Kurata, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 11875426
    Abstract: A graph sampling and random walk acceleration method and system based on GPU. The graph data is read from the storage medium through the CPU and converted into CSR format and then output to the GPU. The GPU works based on the defined working mode: Real-time generation of alias table and sampling; or offline judgment whether there is a pre-generated alias table and sampling, which executes the alias method efficiently and in parallel, and can significantly improve the performance of graph data processing on the same hardware platform, including improving the sampling throughput and reducing the overall running time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chao Li, Pengyu Wang, Jing Wang, Haojin Zhu, Minyi Guo