Patents by Inventor Alejandro Kauffmann
Alejandro Kauffmann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240126384Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to selective gesture recognition for handheld device gestures. An example method includes receiving, by a handheld interactive object, movement information descriptive of a gesture performed with the handheld interactive object. The method includes selecting a local and/or remote machine-learned model for processing the movement information. The movement information can be processed to identify a gesture action corresponding to the movement information. The local and/or remote machine-learned model can be selected based on user input data and/or a complexity of the movement information. In response to selecting the local machine-learned model, the method includes processing the movement information according to the local machine-learned model and communicating a message to a remote device based on the result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Dev Bhargava, Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20230364525Abstract: Systems and devices for levitating interactive objects are provided. A toy formed proximate the opening, electrical circuitry configured to cause an electrical current to flow in the solenoid coil, wireless communication circuitry; and a controller coupled to the wireless communication circuitry and the electrical circuitry and configured to control the timing and amount of electrical current flowing through the solenoid coil to cause levitation or levitation-like movement of the toy wand within said opening by virtue of electromagnetic interaction with the magnetically-reactive element of the shaft portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Adam James Banfield
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Publication number: 20230283706Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at device communications using a human transmission channel. In aspects, a computing device having an ultrasonic sensor is configured to receive ultrasonic signals transmitted through a physical medium associated with a user and convert the ultrasonic signal into a first electrical signal. Upon generating the first electrical signal, the computing device can execute commands included in the first electrical signal and/or transmit the commands to a network and devices wirelessly connected thereto. In so doing, the number of smart features can be reduced, and communications between computing devices can be employed using a human transmission channel without a pairing event.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20230269801Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to pairing of electronic devices. An example computer-implemented method includes detecting, by an interactive object, user input with the interactive object. The method further includes generating, by the interactive object in response to detecting the user input, a pairing communication for a user device. The pairing communication can include an interactive object identifier and data indicative of a pairing output signal that is emittable by the interactive object. The method further includes providing, by the interactive object, the pairing communication to the user device. The method further includes generating, by the interactive object, the pairing output signal via one or more output devices. The pairing output signal includes at least one of a visual signal or an audio signal of the interactive object. The user device and the interactive object can be paired based at least in part on the pairing output signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Dev Bhargava, Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20230232237Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to facilitating the pairing of a visitor interactive object. An example method includes receiving, by a first interactive object from one or more sensors, data indicative of a visitor interactive object identifier associated with the visitor interactive object. The method includes generating, by the first interactive object, a pairing communication for the visitor interactive object that includes the visitor interactive object identifier and instructions to pair with the visitor interactive object. The method includes communicating, by the first interactive object, the pairing communication to a central computing device. The central computing device can be temporarily paired with the visitor interactive object based on the pairing communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Dev Bhargava
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Patent number: 11644930Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
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Patent number: 11625101Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to identifying three-dimensional-human-gesture input. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive from one or more sensors, data describing one or more three-dimensional motions comprising a three-dimensional-human-gesture input; generate, based at least in part on the data describing the one or more three-dimensional motions, two-dimensional data at least partially describing at least one motion of the one or more three-dimensional motions; and identify, based at least in part on the two-dimensional data, the three-dimensional-human-gesture input.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20220350431Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
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Patent number: 11481034Abstract: A low-power object tracking system is disclosed that includes an object tracking device that senses one or more magnetic field(s) to determine a position of the object tracking device. The object tracking device includes a magnetic field sensor including one or more receiving coils and position tracking circuitry in communication with the magnetic field sensor. The position tracking circuitry is configured to determine at least one field strength associated with at least one stationary magnetic field sensed at the one or more receiving coils, and to determine position information associated with the housing based at least in part on the at least one field strength. The object tracking device includes a communication interface configured to transmit the position information to at least one remote computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
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Patent number: 11392252Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20210240273Abstract: A low-power object tracking system is disclosed that includes an object tracking device that senses one or more magnetic field(s) to determine a position of the object tracking device. The object tracking device includes a magnetic field sensor including one or more receiving coils and position tracking circuitry in communication with the magnetic field sensor. The position tracking circuitry is configured to determine at least one field strength associated with at least one stationary magnetic field sensed at the one or more receiving coils, and to determine position information associated with the housing based at least in part on the at least one field strength. The object tracking device includes a communication interface configured to transmit the position information to at least one remote computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20210216153Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann
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Publication number: 20210096650Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to identifying three-dimensional-human-gesture input. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive from one or more sensors, data describing one or more three-dimensional motions comprising a three-dimensional-human-gesture input; generate, based at least in part on the data describing the one or more three-dimensional motions, two-dimensional data at least partially describing at least one motion of the one or more three-dimensional motions; and identify, based at least in part on the two-dimensional data, the three-dimensional-human-gesture input.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
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Patent number: 10963106Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
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Publication number: 20210064161Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
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Patent number: 10908732Abstract: A removable electronics device for pre-fabricated sensor assemblies of interactive objects is provided. The removable electronics device includes one or more processors, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple with one or more remote computing devices, and a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having touch sensors with different sensor layouts. The removable electronics module can analyze, in response to being physically coupled to a first pre-fabricated sensor assembly, first touch data to detect one or more pre-defined motions based on one or more first pre-defined parameters associated with the first touch sensor. The removable electronics module can analyze, in response to being physically coupled to a second pre-fabricated sensor assembly, second touch data to detect the one or more pre-defined motions based on one or more second pre-defined parameters associated with the second touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
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Patent number: 10482359Abstract: The present disclosure provides image capture devices and associated methods of operation that enable the interactive editing of imagery, including, for example, removal and/or addition of non-stationary objects from and/or to captured imagery. According to one example aspect of the present disclosure, an image capture device can capture a plurality of frames of imagery that depict a scene and, while capturing the plurality of frames of imagery, provide a composite image within a viewfinder of the image capture device, where non-stationary objects included in the scene are removed from the composite image. According to another example aspect of the present disclosure, the image capture device can allow a user to edit a final composite image directly within the viewfinder. Thus, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that enable enhanced capture and interactive editing of imagery.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Ashley Ma, William Lindmeier, Andrew Dahley, Mark Ferdinand Bowers
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Patent number: 10452920Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that generate a summary storyboard from a plurality of image frames. An example computer-implemented method can include inputting a plurality of image frames into a machine-learned model and receiving as an output of the machine-learned model, object data that describes the respective locations of a plurality of objects recognized in the plurality of image frames. The method can include generating a plurality of image crops that respectively include the plurality of objects and arranging two or more of the plurality of image crops to generate a storyboard.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Andrew Dahley, Phuong Le, Mark Ferdinand Bowers, Ignacio Garcia-Dorado, Robin Debreuil, William Lindmeier, Brian Foster Allen, Ashley Ma, Pascal Tom Getreuer
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Patent number: 10438632Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that generate a scrubbing video that depicts a scrubbing operation performed on a first video. In particular, a user can directly manipulate video playback of the first video (e.g., by interacting with a touch-sensitive display screen) and the scrubbing video can depict such manipulation. As one example, the user can “scratch” his or her videos like a disc jockey (DJ) scratches records to produce scrubbing videos that are remixes (e.g., looping remixes) of his or her original videos. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure enable a user to capture and edit a new type of video that allows the user to directly manipulate its timeline, producing fun and creative results.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Andrew Dahley, Mark Ferdinand Bowers, William Lindmeier, Ashley Ma
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Publication number: 20190220713Abstract: The present disclosure provides image capture devices and associated methods of operation that enable the interactive editing of imagery, including, for example, removal and/or addition of non-stationary objects from and/or to captured imagery. According to one example aspect of the present disclosure, an image capture device can capture a plurality of frames of imagery that depict a scene and, while capturing the plurality of frames of imagery, provide a composite image within a viewfinder of the image capture device, where non-stationary objects included in the scene are removed from the composite image. According to another example aspect of the present disclosure, the image capture device can allow a user to edit a final composite image directly within the viewfinder. Thus, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that enable enhanced capture and interactive editing of imagery.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Alejandro Kauffmann, Ashley Ma, William Lindmeier, Andrew Dahley, Mark Ferdinand Bowers