Patents Examined by Umair Ahsan
  • Patent number: 12041680
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for operating a terminal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Donggun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 12041574
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to improving the positioning of a target user equipment (UE) using an enhanced repeater disposed in a wireless network. In some embodiments, the enhanced repeater may include logically distinct user equipment (UE) functionality and distributed unit (DU) functionality. The UE functionality may enable setup with other entities of the network, e.g., an upstream location management function (LMF), such that the enhanced repeater is recognized as capable of positioning. The DU functionality may enable generation of downlink positioning signals (e.g., DL-PRS) at the enhanced repeater so as to obviate relaying of DL-PRS generated elsewhere in the network. The enhanced repeater may perform uplink measurements based on uplink positioning signals receive from the target UE, and report the uplink measurements to the LMF, enabling the LMF to calculate the position of the UE with fewer errors than if the uplink positioning signals were simply relayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Sven Fischer, Punyaslok Purkayastha
  • Patent number: 12041504
    Abstract: A mobility management method, a User Equipment (UE) and a network side device are provided. The mobility management method includes: receiving core network information about each cell from a network side device, the core network information being used to indicate a type of a core network; and when a UE is in an idle state, performing cell reselection in accordance with the type of the core network for each cell and a capability of the UE for supporting the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Ma, Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 12033336
    Abstract: Systems and computer-implemented methods of performing image registration. One method includes receiving a first image and a second image acquired from a patient at different times and, in each of the first image and the second image, detecting an upper boundary of an imaged object in an image coordinate system and detecting a lower boundary of the imaged object in the image coordinate system. The method further includes, based on the upper boundary and the lower boundary of each of the first image and the second image, cropping and padding at least one of the first image and the second image to create an aligned first image and an aligned second image and executing a registration model on the aligned first image and the aligned second image to compute a deformation field between the aligned first image and the aligned second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MERATIVE US L.P.
    Inventors: Giovanni John Jacques Palma, Greg Padiasek
  • Patent number: 12023221
    Abstract: An automated method for aligning 3D (three-dimensional) dental data includes extracting landmark points of a CT (computerized tomography) data, extracting landmark points of scan data of a digital impression model, determining an up vector representing a direction of a patient's eyes and nose and identifying left and right of the landmark points of the scan data, extracting a teeth portion of the scan data, searching a source point of the scan data on a spline curve of the CT data to generate a candidate target point group and determining the candidate target point group having a smallest error with the landmark points of the CT data as a final candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: IMAGOWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Jinhyeok Choi, Hannah Kim, Tae-geun Son, Youngjun Kim
  • Patent number: 12020264
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for tracking user activity with products in an environment. In an embodiment, a processor detects that a user has entered an environment, and responsively uniquely identifies the user. The processor determines that the user interacts with a product of a plurality of products within the environment, and responsively updates a profile of the user with indicia of the product. The processor determines whether the user is attempting to exit the environment, and, in response to determining that the user is attempting to exit the environment, prompts the user to confirm that the user intends to remove the product from the environment based on the updated profile. The processor receives input from the user confirming that the user intends to remove the product from the environment, and responsively further updates the profile based on the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Punchh Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Jayan, Andrew McElroy, Kumar Ujjwal
  • Patent number: 12000948
    Abstract: An ultrawide band two-way ranging based positioning system includes a number of active tags each having a position, and a number of beacons configured for location of a position of a tag of the plurality of active tags. The active tags and the beacons are synchronized continuously to a common time base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.
    Inventors: Avishai Bartov, Yossi Zlotnick
  • Patent number: 12001857
    Abstract: A device locator mode or find my device (FMD) mode can allow a lost, stolen, or misplaced mobile device to be located. The FMD mode can be enabled or disabled on a mobile device. Sometimes thieves or unauthorized parties attempt to disable the FMD mode. To prevent this, the mobile device can transmit a unique device identifier to a remote server. The remote server can link the device identifier to a cloud-based user account associated with the user of the mobile device. Before an FMD mode is disabled on the mobile device, before the content or settings can be erased, and/or before a mobile device is permitted to be activated/reactivated, a user of the mobile device can be challenged for the credentials of the cloud-based user account. If valid credentials are provided, FMD can be disabled, the content or settings can be reset, and/or the device can be activated/reactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raghunandan K. Pai, Karthik Narayanan, Paul Chinn
  • Patent number: 11997578
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a network from a plurality of mobile devices via a plurality of installed SDKs, sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the plurality of mobile devices, where the sensor data includes geomagnetic data captured within a particular building; providing, over the network, the sensor data to a geomagnetic mapping server to enable generation of a geomagnetic footprint for the particular building that is aggregated with indoor mapping data for the particular building and stored as a map in a mapping repository; and providing, over the network, the map of the particular building to a communication device for presentation at the communication device along with real-time locations of first responders in the particular building, where the real-time locations are determined according to real-time sensor data including real-time geomagnetic data captured by sensors of the first responders. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: David Hildebrant, Mingwun Li, Shih-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11995747
    Abstract: A method for generating an identification pattern, a terminal device, and the like are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first image (110), where the first image is used to represent any one of a Chinese character, an English character, and an Arabic numeral character; performing transformation on the first image based on a contour line of the first image to obtain a second image (120), where the second image includes the first image and a plurality of contour lines; and generating an identification pattern of a software program based on the second image (130). This application can improve a display effect of the identifier pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Simon Ekstrand, Zongbo Wang, Johan Larsby, Liyuan Qiao, Jingzhou Du, Xueyan Huang, Guolang Li
  • Patent number: 11995606
    Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, relating to the field of computer technology. The method comprises: determining a coordinate order of each user according to video data (S110); obtaining a track of the user within a preset time interval according to the coordinate order (S120); determining, by means of the track, a relationship point of two shelves where the user stays (S130); and calculating, by means of the relationship point, a directional relationship diagram between shelves, so as to determine distribution positions of commodities in the shelves by means of the directional relationship diagram (S140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING JINGDONG SHANGKE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luguang Wang, Fan Li, Yuefeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11985569
    Abstract: A method to identify a problematic 2D position of a mobile device can include: determining a reported 2D position of the mobile device; determining a piece of information about the mobile device; and comparing the reported 2D position and the piece of information about the mobile device. Upon determining that the reported 2D position and the piece of information about the mobile device are consistent with each other, the reported 2D position of the mobile device is used as an estimate of the actual 2D position of the mobile device, or upon determining that the reported 2D position and the piece of information about the mobile device are not consistent with each other, the reported 2D position is determined to be problematic, and the reported 2D position of the mobile device is removed from a list of reported 2D positions of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NextNav, LLC
    Inventors: Guiyuan Han, Michael Dormody, Badrinath Nagarajan, Arun Raghupathy
  • Patent number: 11985581
    Abstract: This application provides a call method and a terminal device. The method includes: when roaming from a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) to a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN), a terminal device obtains a first emergency number list of the VPLMN, and the emergency number corresponds to at least one emergency service type; the terminal device obtains a first number, and when the first number is an emergency number in a second emergency number list of the HPLMN and the first number is not an emergency number in the first emergency number list, determines a second number based on the first number, where the second number is the emergency number in the first emergency number list, and the second number and the first number correspond to a same emergency service type; and the terminal device initiates an emergency call based on the second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Yanbin Ma, Minghui Chen, Fei Luo, Dong Xie
  • Patent number: 11972197
    Abstract: An OCR system which acquires character data from a form (50) through OCR processing is characterized by: managing an OCR information table (34e) in which an issuer name of an issuer on the form (50) is associated with a font name of a font used in the OCR processing; and, when the OCR processing is performed on an issuer-recorded content reading target area in the form (50), performing the OCR processing (S156) in the font indicated by the font name associated in the OCR information table with the issuer name of the issuer of the form (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11974121
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving a handover request message indicating a request for handover of a wireless communications device from a source infrastructure equipment to a target infrastructure equipment, receiving an indication from the source infrastructure equipment as to whether or not user plane data is being transmitted to or received from the wireless access network via the source infrastructure equipment using an integrity protection scheme, determining whether or not the integrity protection scheme for the user plane data is supported by the target infrastructure equipment, transmitting a handover command to the source infrastructure equipment to indicate to the source infrastructure equipment that the source infrastructure equipment should handover the wireless communications device to indicate to the source infrastructure equipment, and providing an indication as to whether or not the integrity protection scheme can be used for transmitting or receiving user plane data via the target infrastructure
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11953614
    Abstract: A method for measuring coordinate position include detecting the distance of a target relative to a portable electronic device to generate a measurement signal corresponding to the distance, sensing a relative position of the target to generate a azimuth angle corresponding to the relative position, detecting the movement of the portable electronic device to generate an inertial signal corresponding to the movement, obtaining positioning information of the portable electronic device, converting the measurement signal into distance data, converting the inertial signal into a tilt angle, calculating coordinate difference information with the tilt angle, the distance data and the azimuth angle, and calculating coordinate position of the target with the positioning information and the coordinate difference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Chang Chiu, Wei-Rong Chen
  • Patent number: 11948353
    Abstract: A method performed by a road identifying system of a vehicle for localization of the vehicle in a multi-level road system. The road identifying system determines with support from a positioning system, a position of the vehicle, identifies, based on the vehicle position with support from at least a first digital map, a multi-level road system in which the vehicle is positioned and obtains image data with support from one or more image capturing devices adapted to capture surroundings of the vehicle. Moreover, the road identifying system determines a road level at which the vehicle is positioned based on feeding the image data through a neural network trained to classify road level based on context of image content and identifies based on the determined road level, with support from the at least first digital map, a road and/or lane of the multi-level road system at which the vehicle is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zenuity AB
    Inventor: Lucia Diego Solana
  • Patent number: 11941785
    Abstract: An electronic device may include scaling circuitry to scale input pixel data to a greater resolution. The directional scaling circuitry may include first interpolation circuitry to receive best mode data, including one or more angles corresponding to content of the image and interpolate first pixel values at first pixel positions diagonally offset from input pixel positions of the input pixel data based on the best mode data and input pixel values corresponding to the input pixel positions. The directional scaling circuitry may also include second interpolation circuitry to receive the best mode data and the input pixel values and interpolate second pixel values at second pixel positions horizontally or vertically offset from the input pixel positions based at least in part on the best mode data and the input pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C Chou, Yun Gong
  • Patent number: 11922330
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a physical state of a movable object includes a processor receiving or determining a probability mass function including probabilities for each of a first group of at least two movement classes, wherein the movement models of the first group being determined using sensor data from the inertial measurement unit. The processor receives at least one additional probability mass function associated with a second group of at least two movement classes, wherein the additional probability mass function has been obtained using additional information different from the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Norbert Franke, Sebastian Kram, Christian Nickel, Jochen Seitz, Mohammad Alawieh
  • Patent number: 11924710
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti