Patents by Inventor Dongeek Shin

Dongeek Shin 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).

  • Publication number: 20240350077
    Abstract: Various devices, systems and methods for performing contactless monitoring of the sleep of multiple users over a same time period are presented herein. A determination may be made that two users are present within the region. In response to determining that two users are present, a first portion of the data may be mapped to a first user and a second portion of the data may be mapped to a second user. Separate sleep analyses are performed for the first user and the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Michael Dixon, Andrew William Goldenson
  • Publication number: 20240346832
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a space analytics system configured to determine the location of a vehicle using on-car camera snapshots to feature match against a pre-calibrated map. The system may estimate the location of a vehicle using the pre-calibrated map based on embeddings from reference images taken of the parking spot. The system may determine the location of the vehicle based on comparing reference image embeddings to real-time image embeddings and determining which comparison yields the embedding distance scores below the required threshold for a match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240338084
    Abstract: Techniques of operating an AR system include determining hand gestures formed by a user based on a sequence of two-dimensional images through skin of the user's wrist acquired from a near-infrared camera. Specifically, an image capture device disposed on a band worn around a user's wrist includes a source of electromagnetic radiation, e.g., light-emitting diodes in the infrared (IR) wavelength band that emit the radiation into the user's wrist and an IR detector which produces the sequence of two-dimensional images of a region within a dermal layer in the user's wrist. From this sequence, gesture detection circuitry determines values of a biological flow metric, e.g., a change in perfusion index (PI) between frames of the sequence, based on a trained model that generates the metric from the sequence. Finally, the gesture detection circuitry maps the values of the biological flow metric to specific hand/finger movements that determine a gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Andrea Colaco, Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan, Adam James Banfield, Shahram Izadi
  • Publication number: 20240339116
    Abstract: Sensor data is obtained from one or more sensors of a participant computing device. The participant computing device and one or more other participant computing devices are connected to a teleconference orchestrated by a teleconference computing system. Based at least in part on the sensor data, a participant associated with the participant computing device is determined to intend to speak to other participants of the teleconference. Information indicating that the participant intends to speak is provided to one or more of the teleconference computing system or at least one of the one or more other participant computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Patent number: 12105885
    Abstract: A sensor on a wearable device may be further configured as a sensor for detecting and recognizing a gesture to control the wearable device. For example, light detected by a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor of a smart watch may include (i) light back reflected from underneath the smart watch and (ii) light back reflected from a touch to a wrist adjacent to the smart watch. The detected light may be filtered to isolate the light back reflected from the touch. A waterfall image that includes information about how the isolated light changes with time and amplitude may be generated and used to detect and recognize gestures performed on the wrist, such as a touch. This additional touch area may help to supplement a touch area provided by a display to control the smart watch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240314397
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a time point of user disengagement with a media item using audiovisual interaction events are provided herein. A media item is provided to a user for an initial viewing. One or more user interaction events associated with the media item at one or more time points of a plurality of time points within the media item is identified. An indication of a level of user engagement with the media item is determined for each of the one or more user interaction events. A time point of the one or more time points associated with a level of user engagement that satisfies a level of user engagement criterion is identified based on the indication of the level of user engagement for each of the one or more user interaction events. A playback of the media item is caused to be initiated at the identified time point when the media item is provided to the user for a secondary viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240311797
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for enabling frictionless transactions at a merchant location using audio communication. A central hub device receives transaction notification data describing a transaction with a user computing device. The central hub device accesses one or more location determination signals to estimate a location of the user computing device with the merchant location. The central hub device transmits transaction data to the estimated location of the user computing device using audio-based communications, the transaction data including an audio key that, when detected by the user computing device, causes the user computing device to automatically activate an application for providing payment data. The central hub device receiving transaction payment data from the user computing device. The central hub device executes the transaction by transmitting transaction data to a payment system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240304186
    Abstract: Merging first and second audio data to generate merged audio data, where the first audio data captures a spoken utterance of a user and is collected by a first computing device within an environment, and the second audio data captures the spoken utterance and is collected by a distinct second computing device that is within the environment. In some implementations, the merging includes merging the first audio data using a first weight value and merging the second audio data using a second weight value. The first and second weight values can be based on predicted signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for respective of the first audio data and the second audio data, such as a first SNR predicted by processing the first audio data using a neural network model and a second SNR predicted by processing the second audio data using the neural network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240303692
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for determining personalized banner placement in relation to content based on probabilistic spatial user engagement. The probabilistic spatial user engagement can be determined based on user input signals, types of content, or a combination of user input signals and types of content. Such determination may be used to identify regions of a page displaying the content where banners may be rendered for maximum user engagement and minimal disruption of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240292217
    Abstract: A computer-implemented authentication method comprises broadcasting, by a first device, an ultrawideband (UWB) message. The first device receives one or more UWB responses to the UWB message from one or more UWB equipped devices and determines respective distances to the one or more UWB equipped devices based on timing information associated with the UWB message and the one or more UWB responses. The method further comprises determining one or more of the UWB equipped devices having a respective distance to the first device that is within a threshold radius of the first device to be authenticatable devices, and communicating, by the first device, authentication information to one or more of the authenticatable devices to authenticate a user of the first device on the one or more authenticatable devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Anupam Pathak
  • Patent number: 12070324
    Abstract: Various devices, systems and methods for performing contactless monitoring of the sleep of multiple users over a same time period are presented herein. Clustering may be performed based on data received from a radar sensor. Based on the clustering performed on the data received from the radar sensor, a determination may be made that two users are present within the region. In response to determining that two users are present, a midpoint location may be calculated between the clusters. A first portion of the data may be mapped to a first user and a second portion of the data may be mapped to a second user based on the calculated midpoint. Separate sleep analyses may be performed for the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Michael Dixon, Andrew William Goldenson
  • Patent number: 12072501
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may present a first user interface element and a second user interface element within a user interface that is included in a display of the head-mounted device. The head-mounted device may, in response to movement of the head-mounted device, move the first user interface element and the second user interface element within the display, the movement of the first user interface element decreasing a boundary distance below a threshold distance, the boundary distance being based on a distance between the first user interface element and a boundary associated with the user interface. The head-mounted device may decrease a size of the first user interface element while the boundary distance is decreasing and is below the threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan, Dongeek Shin, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, Li-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 12073028
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20240280687
    Abstract: Ultra-wideband (UWB) tags can be used as part of a high-resolution motion capture system that may not require a cost or a complexity that is typically associated with visually based motion capture systems. The UWB based motion capture uses a bundle of UWB tags, which in a possible implementation, can be affixed to body parts of a user to sense motion of the body parts. The absolute positions of each UWB tag can then be determined by reconstructing a skeletal topology from a Euclidean distance matrix based on inter-tag ranging measurements using handshake signals of a UWB protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240281918
    Abstract: A method including an image is received, a modified image is generated based on the image using a trained machine learning model, a rendered image is generated based on the modified image using an image injection pipeline, and the rendered image is displayed on a display of a wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Patent number: 12067359
    Abstract: A first version of an electronic document is provided via a first region of a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation to a first user of a collaborative document platform. A second region of the GUI includes an edit history GUI element that enables one or more users to access each edit made to the electronic document. A user selection of a portion of the edit history GUI element is detected. The user-selected portion of the edit history GUI element corresponds to edits made to the electronic document by a second user. A determination is made of a state of the electronic document following the edits made by the second user. The first region of the GUI is updated to include a rendering of a second version of the electronic document. The second version is rendered in view of the determined document state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240272762
    Abstract: A method includes presenting, on a screen of a client device of a user, a primary media item being viewed by the user and a representation of a secondary media item. The method further includes, while the primary media item is being viewed by the user and prior to a user selection of the secondary media item, predicting a user interest in viewing the secondary media item based on a trajectory of a cursor on the screen of the client device and causing a portion of the secondary media item to be pre-loaded to the client device. The method further includes, in response to the user selection of the secondary media item, initiating playback of the secondary media item using the pre-loaded portion of the secondary media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Publication number: 20240272433
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may present a first user interface element and a second user interface element within a user interface that is included in a display of the head-mounted device. The head-mounted device may, in response to movement of the head-mounted device, move the first user interface element and the second user interface element within the display, the movement of the first user interface element decreasing a boundary distance below a threshold distance, the boundary distance being based on a distance between the first user interface element and a boundary associated with the user interface. The head-mounted device may decrease a size of the first user interface element while the boundary distance is decreasing and is below the threshold distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan, Dongeek Shin, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, Li-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 12063496
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mechanism to synchronously drive distributed speakers around a user based on localization outputs of ultra wideband (UWB) communication chips already existing in devices. Distances may be determined between a user device, such as a phone or wearable, and a plurality of distributed speakers or other devices. Based on an intersection point of such distances, the user's location can be identified. Such location can be used to modify how audio is played on each of the plurality of distributed speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Jian Guo
  • Patent number: 12061681
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable a device to be unlocked and continuous user authentication without a touch input dedicated to fingerprint requisition. A touch input is received that comprises one or more touches to a touchscreen, and raw image data corresponding to the touches is retrieved from a fingerprint imaging sensor. A pixel-clustering technique is performed on the raw image data to determine a portion of the raw image data that corresponds to each of the touches. Touch embeddings are formed for each of the portions of the raw image data and compared to one or more stored fingerprint embeddings that correspond to respective fingerprints of one or more authorized users. An authentication result is then determined for the touch input based on the comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin