Patents by Inventor H. C. Liu
H. C. Liu 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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Patent number: 11910169Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Eric H C Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz
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Patent number: 11843815Abstract: A system and method for interfacing a television with a second device is provided. The system includes an interfacing unit to enter an interfacing mode between the television mode and the second device; a card storage unit to store a first card and a second card, the first card being presently displayed on the television and the second card being previously displayed on the television; a current card display register to store the first card; an interactive retrieval unit to retrieve a plurality of interactive functions associated with the first card; and a display unit to display the first card and the plurality of interactive functions in response to being in the interfacing mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Eric H C Liu, Haywai Hayward Chan
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Patent number: 11841887Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextually relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method includes: receiving information associated with a user of a user device from multiple data sources, where the user device comprises a display; identifying, without user intervention, a relevant document based on the received information associated with the user of the user device; determining that a new browser window or a new browser tab has been opened by a browser application being executed by the user device; and causing, without user intervention, the relevant document to be presented using the new browser window or new browser tab.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 11622150Abstract: This application is directed to changing a TV operating mode based on a potential relationship among viewers of a connected TV. In some implementations, a method includes: determining viewer identities and identifying the potential relationship among the viewers or a subset of the viewers; in accordance with a determination that the potential relationship allows the viewers to share private information, placing or maintaining the connected TV in or into a first operating mode that is unrelated to media content being displayed and allows personal information to be displayed on the connected TV; and in accordance with a determination that the potential relationship does not allow the viewers to share private information, placing or maintaining the connected TV in or into a second operating mode that is unrelated to the media content and does not allow personal information to be displayed on the connected TV.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alok Chandel, Eric H C Liu, Pierre-Yves Laligand, Justin Koh
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Patent number: 11516580Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Eric H. C. Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz
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Patent number: 11494426Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextually relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method includes: receiving information associated with a user of a user device from multiple data sources, where the user device comprises a display; identifying, without user intervention, a relevant document based on the received information associated with the user of the user device; determining that a new browser window or a new browser tab has been opened by a browser application being executed by the user device; and causing, without user intervention, the relevant document to be presented using the new browser window or new browser tab.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 11392580Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for recommending computerized services based on an animate object in the user's environment are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving a request from a user device to associate a recording device that captures motion data indicative of motion of an animate object in proximity to the user device; associating the user device with the recording device in response to receiving the request; receiving the motion data from the recording device that is indicative of motion of the animate object; determining characteristics of the animate object based on the received motion data; correlating an emotional state of a user of the user device based on the determined characteristics associated with the animate object; and causing a recommended computerized service to be presented by the user device based on the emotional state of the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Jonathan James Effrat, Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 11245746Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for controlling information utilized to present content using a public display device are provided. In some implementations a method for presenting content on a public display device is provided, the method comprising: (a) initiating communication with one or more display devices; (b) selecting a display device; (c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device; (d) receiving information related to an area of a screen allocated for use by the user device; (e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device; (f) generating formatted content based on the area of the screen allocated for use by the user device; (g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel; and repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kevin Brune, Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 11144959Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting advertisements relevant to nearby users on a public display device are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting content on a public display device, the method comprising: receiving location information associated with mobile devices that is indicative of a position of the mobile device relative to a display device associated with a retail outlet; receiving interests associated with the mobile devices; identifying a plurality of advertising sources associated with the display device, including a retailer associated with the retail outlet; determining a topic based on the received interests and the location information associated with the mobile devices; determining that the topic is related an advertisement associated with the retailer; causing the advertisement associated with the retailer to be selected based on the topic; and causing the selected advertisement to be presented by the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Eric H C Liu, Kenneth Wayne Dauber, Michel Weksler
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Patent number: 11048855Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextually relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method includes: receiving information associated with a user of a user device from multiple data sources, where the user device comprises a display; identifying, without user intervention, a relevant document based on the received information associated with the user of the user device; determining that a new browser window or a new browser tab has been opened by a browser application being executed by the user device; and causing, without user intervention, the relevant document to be presented using the new browser window or new browser tab.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 11023542Abstract: In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for presenting recommended media content items are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason Bayer, Eric H C Liu, Calvin Lee, Stephen Chau, Grzegorz Glowaty, Randy Simon
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Patent number: 10880613Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting suggestions of media content are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: determining an item of media content; determining a probability of the item of media content being watched at one or more times based on at least one of: a characteristic of a person; a characteristic of a group; and a characteristic of the item of media content; creating a user interface which suggests that the item of media content be watched at one or more times based on the determined probability; and presenting the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason Bayer, Eric H C Liu, Calvin Lee, Stephen Chau
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Patent number: 10880641Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Eric H C Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz
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Patent number: 10785203Abstract: Methods, systems and media for presenting information related to an event based on metadata are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Eric H C Liu, Charles Goran, Jonathan James Effrat
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Patent number: 10609321Abstract: A system and method for interfacing a television with a second device is provided. The system includes an interfacing unit to enter an interfacing mode between the television mode and the second device; a card storage unit to store a first card and a second card, the first card being presently displayed on the television and the second card being previously displayed on the television; a current card display register to store the first card; an interactive retrieval unit to retrieve a plurality of interactive functions associated with the first card; and a display unit to display the first card and the plurality of interactive functions in response to being in the interfacing mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Eric H C Liu, Haywai Hayward Chan
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Patent number: 10594777Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for controlling information utilized to present content using a public display device are provided. In some implementations a method for presenting content on a public display device is provided, the method comprising: (a) initiating communication with one or more display devices; (b) selecting a display device; (c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device; (d) receiving information related to an area of a screen allocated for use by the user device; (e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device; (f) generating formatted content based on the area of the screen allocated for use by the user device; (g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel; and repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kevin Brune, Eric H C Liu
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Patent number: 10591656Abstract: A passive illuminator includes a luminescent region with a semiconductor material that absorbs first photons having energy greater than or equal to a threshold energy. In response to absorbing the first photons, the semiconductor material emits second photons, through a spontaneous emission process, having less energy than the first photons. A waveguide is optically coupled to the luminescent region to transport the second photons a distance from the luminescent region. An extraction region optically coupled to the waveguide to emit the second photons, and the waveguide is disposed between the extraction region and the luminescent region.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Martin F. Schubert, Eric H. C. Liu
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Patent number: 10528316Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting requested content on public display devices are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Eric H C Liu, Kenneth Wayne Dauber, Michel Weksler, Jeremy Lyon
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Patent number: 10477273Abstract: This application is directed to changing a TV operating mode based on a potential relationship among viewers of a connected TV. In some implementations, a method includes: determining viewer identities and identifying the potential relationship among the viewers or a subset of the viewers; in accordance with a determination that the potential relationship allows the viewers to share private information, placing or maintaining the connected TV in or into a first operating mode that is unrelated to media content being displayed and allows personal information to be displayed on the connected TV; and in accordance with a determination that the potential relationship does not allow the viewers to share private information, placing or maintaining the connected TV in or into a second operating mode that is unrelated to the media content and does not allow personal information to be displayed on the connected TV.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Alok Chandel, Eric H C Liu, Pierre-Yves Laligand, Justin Koh
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Patent number: 10425725Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Eric H C Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz