Patents by Inventor Garth Shoemaker

Garth Shoemaker 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).

  • Patent number: 11789686
    Abstract: Example apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media facilitate concurrent consumption of media content by multiple users using superimposed animation. An example apparatus includes a display to present media and a visual representation of a person; a sensor; machine-readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least identify a direction of a gaze of a user based on signals output by the sensor; responsive to the direction of the gaze of the user being toward the media, cause a first adjustment to the visual representation; and responsive to the direction of the gaze of the user being toward the visual representation, cause a second adjustment to the visual representation, the second adjustment different than the first adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20230185514
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 11526323
    Abstract: Example apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media facilitate concurrent consumption of media content by multiple users using superimposed animation. Example instructions, when executed, cause at least one processor of an electronic user device to at least cause a display to present media and a visual representation of a remote individual, the visual representation including at least a portion of a human profile; identify a direction of a gaze of a user of the electronic user device based on signals output by one or more sensors of the electronic user device; and determine whether the gaze of the user is directed toward the display of the media or the display of the visual representation based on the direction of the gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20210117147
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20210103837
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guided user actions are described, including detecting a first action performed by a user, gathering information associated with the first action; retrieving a predictive model based on the information, determining an applicability level of the predictive model to the first action, the predictive model suggests a second action; providing the second action in a user interface when the applicability level meets a threshold level; and receiving input from the user selecting the second action or a third action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Garth Shoemaker, Michael Eugene Aiello
  • Patent number: 10956113
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 10817791
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guided user actions are described, including gathering information associated with a detected first action; applying a predictive model to suggest a second action based on an application of machine learning to the first action and the information; calculating a first confidence level associated with the application of the machine learning to the first action and the information; for the first confidence level exceeding a threshold, providing the second action, and performing the second action or a third action based on user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Garth Shoemaker, Michael Eugene Aiello
  • Patent number: 10462144
    Abstract: A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Publication number: 20190190916
    Abstract: A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Patent number: 10284558
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content include receiving content associated with an object; receiving privacy settings associated with the object associated with the received content; based on the received privacy settings, obfuscating, at least a portion of the content associated with the object to generated obfuscated content; and transmitting the obfuscated content to a publishing server, wherein the publishing server publishes the obfuscated content to one or more third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Publication number: 20190042178
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 10152135
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to the provision of multiple modes of a user interface that are automatically selected in response to the position and gestures of its operator. An apparatus includes an image sensor to capture at least one image of an operator, and a position component communicatively coupled to the image sensor to determine a proximate distance of the operator to a manually-operable control and to provide the determination of the distance to a user interface component to enable dynamic selection of one of multiple views of a visual portion of a user interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jean Hsiang-Chun Lu, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 10048924
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 9640218
    Abstract: Physiological cues, such as elevated heart or respiratory rates can be masked from video of a person before the video is sent to another party. The masking of human-perceptible and non-human-perceptible physiological cues removes information from the video that another party could use to determine the person's emotional state. For example, variations in a person's skin color that are typically imperceptible to the human eye and from which a person's heart rate can be detected, can be removed or altered so that another party viewing the video cannot determine the person's actual heart rate in an attempt to determine the person's emotional state, even if they are performing computer analysis on the video. The presence of some physiological cues can be determined by detecting that a physiological measure is above a specified physiological measure threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Garth Shoemaker, Jonathan Thompson
  • Publication number: 20170046114
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20170048245
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content include receiving content associated with an object; receiving privacy settings associated with the object associated with the received content; based on the received privacy settings, obfuscating, at least a portion of the content associated with the object to generated obfuscated content; and transmitting the obfuscated content to a publishing server, wherein the publishing server publishes the obfuscated content to one or more third parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Russell Owen, Ivan Medvedev, Garth Shoemaker, Andrew Swerdlow, Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn, Amanda Elwell Walker
  • Patent number: 9519408
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guided user actions are described, including detecting a first action performed by a user; gathering information associated with the first action; retrieving a predictive model based on the information; determining an applicability level of the predictive model to the first action, the predictive model suggests a second action; providing the second action in a user interface when the applicability level meets a threshold level; and receiving input from the user selecting the second action or a third action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Garth Shoemaker, Michael Eugene Aiello
  • Patent number: 9456244
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul I. Felkai, Annie Harper, Ratko Jagodic, Rajiv K. Mongia, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 9323413
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for manipulating a presentation of a region of interest within visual information displayed on a display screen of a computer display system. The GUI includes: a first bounding shape surrounding the focal region; a second bounding shape surrounding the shoulder region; a base outline; a pickup point; a slide bar; a move area within the region of interest; at least one zoom area; and, a zoom button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CALLAHAN CELLULAR L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Baar, Timothy Lochner, Garth Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 9317746
    Abstract: Techniques may be used to accommodate occlusion. An occlusion accommodation application may determine a display position of a display of a computing device, an eye position of an eye of a user and an object position of an object. The object may be positioned between the display and the eye of the user. The occlusion accommodation application may identify, in real-time, an occluded area based on the display position, object position and the eye position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Garth Shoemaker