Patents Examined by William D Titcomb
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Patent number: 12784180Abstract: One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for assessing a component quality of an electron emitter as a function of an ascertained degree of similarity with at least one further electron emitter.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: November 3, 2026Assignee: SIEMENS Healthineers AGInventors: Malte Tschentscher, Andreas Selmaier, Brian Da Silva Teixeira, Ankur Kapoor, Vivek Singh, Florian Holch, Patrick Luehring, Michael Wiessner
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Patent number: 12784456Abstract: A system includes one or more imaging devices configured to collect image data of a cockpit area of an aircraft. The system includes a pilot detection module configured to determine a presence of one or more pilots in the cockpit area based on the image data The system includes a pilot posture module configured to determine three-dimensional posture of the one or more pilots based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2024Date of Patent: November 3, 2026Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Naresh Yarlapati Ganesh, Stefano Riverso
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Patent number: 12780046Abstract: A camera is installed in a vehicle in which a plurality of seat rows are arranged, and captures an image of an inside of the vehicle. A face detection unit detects a face region of a passenger from the image captured by the camera. A seating row specification unit specifies a seat row in which the passenger with the face region being detected is seated. A seating position specification unit specifies a seat position of the passenger in the vehicle, based on a range of a seat position in the image and the seat row being specified, the range of the seat position being prepared for each seat row.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 3, 2026Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Koyo Shibata, Kazuki Inagaki
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Patent number: 12776147Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling an autonomous machine. The autonomous machine has sensors generating input data, while the controller includes two or more neural networks that inference using the input data and generate output data. The neural networks can be trained using an identical set of training data set. The output data from each of the neural networks are monitored to ensure that the integrity of the operation is maintained by, for example, the output data from one neural network is compared with the output data from another neural network to verify the consistency. If the comparison yields that the integrity of the system is not maintained at an acceptable level, the controller can stop using the output in controlling the autonomous machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2024Date of Patent: October 27, 2026Assignee: APEX AI INDUSTRIES, LLCInventor: Kenneth Austin Abeloe
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Patent number: 12770432Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for secure and usable authentication techniques for drone delivery that leverages biometric information of faces, unlike traditional biometrics-based approaches, it does not need users to enroll their biometric information and is impervious to common drone attacks.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2024Date of Patent: October 20, 2026Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAInventor: Qiang Zeng
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Patent number: 12754749Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow for providing interactive functionality to streamed data. The systems include a remote system configured to execute a program, generate a data stream that includes primary information indicative of a visual representation of a graphical user interface (GUI) of the program, and transmit the data stream. The system includes an aircraft that includes a controller configured to receive the data stream from the remote system, display the visual representation of the GUI on a display system based on the primary information, detect an interaction by a user with an interactive element of the GUI represented on the display system, and modify the visual representation of the GUI on the display system in response to detecting the interaction such that a modified visual representation of the GUI is displayed on the display system using supplemental information embedded in the data stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2024Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: Honeywell Aerospace US LLCInventors: Saravanakumar Gurusamy, Bincicil Mathew, Pavan Kumar Desai
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Patent number: 12755398Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a trajectory, according to which a mobile device is intended to move in the surroundings along one or multiple possible specified movement paths. The method includes providing a set of different monitoring zones, wherein each of the different monitoring zones respectively defines an area around the mobile device in which area the mobile device monitors or is intended to monitor the surroundings. A monitoring zone configuration, each comprising a predetermined monitoring zone of the set of different monitoring zones, is assigned to the mobile device according to a specified assignment criterion depending on a velocity of the mobile device. The method also includes providing a permissibility criterion indicating a permissible monitoring zone from the set of different monitoring zones. The method further includes determining a sequence of critical velocities for the mobile device based on the set of different monitoring zones.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2024Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Niels Van Duijkeren, Fabian Gies
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Patent number: 12743191Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a uni-card interface can provide for an interactive dynamic interface for providing information to a user. The uni-card interface may include a multi-state interface that can provide increasingly more detailed information upon each interaction. For example, the uni-card interface can provide a first state with condensed information, a second state with expanded information, and a third state with immersive information.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2024Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Wanfang Diao, Christopher Daniel Ramirez
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Patent number: 12734406Abstract: An automatic analysis system for fitness training comprises a database, a thermal image capturing unit and an analysis device. The database stores a training course and a target muscle group data. The thermal image capturing unit captures a first thermal image of the user after performing the training course. The analysis device is connected to the database and the thermal image capturing unit, and further comprises a muscle identifying module, a muscle temperature calculating module, and a comparing module. The muscle identifying module identifies the muscle groups of the user. The muscle temperature calculating module calculates muscle temperatures of the muscle groups respectively, and obtain a main training muscle group while the user is performing the training course. The comparing module compares the main training muscle group with the target muscle group data, and then generates a warning signal when the main training muscle group does not match the target muscle group data.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.Inventors: Che-Hung Yeh, Sheng-Hsiung Hu
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Patent number: 12737097Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display, a camera, a communication interface, a memory configured to store information, and a one or more processor configured to, based on the specific object being identified from an image obtained through the camera, identify a preset zone with respect to the identified specific object, based on a user being identified from the image obtained through the camera, identify whether the identified user is located within the preset zone, and based on a signal corresponding to a user interaction being received by the communication interface while the user is located in the preset zone, control the display to display a user interface screen corresponding to a type of the user interaction.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sungjun Hwang, Jiyeon Ma, Jingun Jung, Euijun Kim, Youngah Lee, Chad Philip Hall, Marine Au Yeung, Felix Yushin Chang, Carolyn Yuen Ming Yip
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Patent number: 12730841Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image search unit that searches for an image corresponding to designated time and date information among a plurality of images stored and associated with imaging times; and a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, an image based on a result of the search performed by the image search unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Kunou, Akira Fukuda
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Patent number: 12730943Abstract: A simulation apparatus for confirming an optimized installation position of a detector of a chemical substance plant, which is capable of confirming the optimal installation position of a detector while directly displaying chemical substances stored in the chemical substance plant, a leakage source, and positions of detectors. The simulation apparatus for confirming an optimized installation position of a detector of a chemical substance plant according to the present invention includes a screen manager, a process manager, a detailed setting manager, an image display screen manager, a link manager, a 3D plant image manager, a chemical substance selection manager, a leakage source designation manager, a candidate detector installation manager, and a detector optimization manager.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2025Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: HERSS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyoung Seok Kim, Hyun Joo Lee
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Patent number: 12718377Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide techniques for improved re-use of digital images, including creation of a new “sticker” image by extracting one or more objects from a prior image. In an implementation, images in a library may be preprocessed to identify image attributes of corresponding images in the library, including suitability scores, classifications of objects in the images, and masks for the classified objects.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vignesh Jagadeesh, Lee A. Morgan, Rohan Chandra, Shujie Liu, Yann Lifchitz
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Patent number: 12712064Abstract: The current disclosure provides systems and methods for an automated image comparison system that generates natural language descriptions of images. In an example, the image comparison system is configured to carry out a method that includes acquiring a current image of a patient during a current exam, generating, with a computer vision-enabled large language model (CV/LLM), a first compressed representation (CR) of the current image, obtaining a second CR of a similar image, the similar image similar to the current image and acquired in a prior exam, generating a text-based comparison of the current image and the similar image using the CV/LLM by entering the first CR and the second CR as input to the CV/LLM, and outputting the text-based comparison.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Erik Normann Steen, Svein Arne Aase, Jurica Sprem, Sten Roar Snare, Andreas Heimdal
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Patent number: 12705074Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for displaying an element, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a weather display element in a target display area according to a first motion trajectory; displaying, in response to detecting that the weather display element collides with a scene target element in the target display area, the weather display element in the target display area according to a second motion trajectory; and continuously displaying a weather display element that does not collide with the scene target element in the target display area according to the first motion trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Qi Li, Xiaoqi Li
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Patent number: 12704938Abstract: A system for providing alimentary elements includes a computing device configured to receive a primary input relating to a first user for a compatible alimentary element based on biological extraction, receive secondary input from the second user for an alimentary element not associated with biological extraction, generate an extensible alimentary element display for the second user, wherein generating the extensible alimentary element display includes locating at least an alimentary element originator as a function of the secondary input and the compatible alimentary elements, generating a queue of alimentary elements from the located alimentary element originator, wherein the queue includes alimentary elements for the second user as a function of the secondary input and compatible alimentary elements for the first user, and provide a representation, via a graphical user interface, of a compatible alimentary element for the first user and an alimentary element for the second user.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: KPN Innovations LLCInventor: Kenneth Neumann
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Patent number: 12699057Abstract: A visual inspection system includes: a visual calibration apparatus, including a calibration member and a calibration member moving apparatus, where the calibration member moving apparatus includes a movable mounting plate, the mounting plate is able to be located at a calibration position within a movement range of the mounting plate, the calibration position is located within an inspection range of a visual inspection apparatus, and the calibration member is disposed on the mounting plate; the visual inspection apparatus, configured to obtain an image of the calibration member and send the image of the calibration member to an upper computer, and the upper computer, configured to determine, based on the image of the calibration member, a systematic calibration result of the visual inspection apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2024Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignees: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED, CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX RUNZHI SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Wushu Li, Guijia Qiu
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Patent number: 12697183Abstract: A system includes an operator control system and a manipulator configured for operation by an operator control device of the operator control system and further configured to support an instrument. The system is configured to display an image of a field of view of an imaging device, the image of the field of view including an image of the instrument, receive a menu activation input, and display, in response to receiving the menu activation input and in the image of the field of view, a menu.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2023Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Tabish Mustufa, Heath Feather, Daniel H. Gomez, Brian D. Hoffman, Paul W. Mohr, Huan L. Phan
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Patent number: 12693185Abstract: A gas leak detection device and a detecting method are provided. The gas leak detection device includes a remote temperature sensor and a processor. The remote temperature sensors detect an area-to-be-monitored to obtain a plurality of thermal images. Each pixel position in the thermal images includes a corresponding temperature value. The processor obtains the thermal images from the remote temperature sensor, calculates a detected temperature value of each environmental block according to each of a plurality of environmental blocks in the thermal images, calculates a temperature judgment threshold based on the detected temperature value of each environmental block in a detection time period, determines whether a temperature of at least one region-of-interest is abnormal based on the temperature judgment threshold, and performs a warning operation when the temperature of the at least one region-of-interest is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yeh Cho, Ting-Yuan Chang, Fan-Hao-Chi Fang
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Patent number: 12663912Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method. The method includes: receiving an install command for installing a target third party application in the display apparatus from a user; in response to the install command for installing the target third party application, storing application data of the target third application in a first storage space in a memory in the display apparatus; receiving a display command for displaying an icon of the target third party application on a second application display page; in response to the display command, moving the application data of the target party application from the first storage space to a second storage space in the memory and display the icon of the target third party application on the second application display page.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2024Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: VIDAA (NETHERLANDS) INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS B.V.Inventors: Wenzhu Chen, Chen Sun, Futeng Niu, Qiuhao Hou