Patents by Inventor Jason A. Grieves

Jason A. Grieves 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: 11915671
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Publication number: 20220366874
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Patent number: 11430414
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Publication number: 20210118410
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Publication number: 20210117048
    Abstract: Adaptive assistance technologies can assist a user with operating a computing device. A method according to these techniques includes analyzing user interactions with the computing device, determining that the user interactions with the computing device are indicative of a user experiencing one or more issues for which adaptive assistive technologies provided by the computing device may assist the user, identifying one or more assistive technologies provided by the computing device that may address the one or more issues, modifying one or more operating parameters of the computing device using the one or more assistive technologies, and operating the computing device according to the one or more modified operating parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Patent number: 10496276
    Abstract: Quick tasks for on-screen keyboards are described in which an on-screen keyboard supports a plurality of quick tasks configured to edit selected text in defined ways. Quick task functions may be assigned to keys of the on-screen keyboard in addition to the default actions or “normal” character entry functions of the keys. During text input, the keys operate normally to perform a function related to character entry, such as to cause input of corresponding text character. When text is selected or in other designated interaction scenarios, operation of a key associated with a quick task may automatically trigger the quick task to modify selected text in a corresponding way. Thus, the same key of an on-screen keyboard may be employed to initiate a function related to character entry or apply of a quick task to text depending upon the interaction scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric Norman Badger, Drew E. Linerud, Hector Barbera
  • Publication number: 20190286302
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses in a computing device enable magnification of selectable display objects. A first interaction event associated with a first selectable display object displayed in a display screen, the display screen having a boundary and a current magnification level is detected. A first display location and a first unmagnified size of the first selectable display object in the display screen is determined and a magnified display size for the first selectable display object based at least on the first unmagnified size is determined. A second display location for the first selectable display object based at least on the first display location is determined and the first selectable display object is displayed at the magnified display size and at the second display location on the display screen. The display screen is otherwise displayed entirely at the current magnification level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Paul J. Reid, Jason A. Grieves
  • Publication number: 20150100537
    Abstract: Techniques to employ emoji for text predictions are described herein. In one or more implementations, entry of characters is detected during interaction with a device. Prediction candidates corresponding to the detected characters are generated according to a language model that is configured to consider emoji along with words and phrases. The language model may make use of a mapping table that maps a plurality of emoji to corresponding words. The mapping table enables a text prediction engine to offer the emoji as alternatives for matching words. In addition or alternatively, the text prediction engine may be configured to analyze emoji as words within the model and generate probabilities and candidate rankings for predictions that include both emoji and words. User-specific emoji use may also be learned by monitoring a user's typing activity to adapt predictions to the user's particular usage of emoji.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Itai Almog, Eric Norman Badger, James H. Cook, Manuel Garcia Fierro
  • Publication number: 20150089428
    Abstract: Quick tasks for on-screen keyboards are described in which an on-screen keyboard supports a plurality of quick tasks configured to edit selected text in defined ways. Quick task functions may be assigned to keys of the on-screen keyboard in addition to the default actions or “normal” character entry functions of the keys. During text input, the keys operate normally to perform a function related to character entry, such as to cause input of corresponding text character. When text is selected or in other designated interaction scenarios, operation of a key associated with a quick task may automatically trigger the quick task to modify selected text in a corresponding way. Thus, the same key of an on-screen keyboard may be employed to initiate a function related to character entry or apply of a quick task to text depending upon the interaction scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric Norman Badger, Drew E. Linerud, Hector Barbera
  • Publication number: 20140278349
    Abstract: Techniques are described to generate text prediction candidates corresponding to detected text characters according to an adaptive language model that includes multiple individual language model dictionaries. Respective scoring data from the dictionaries is combined to select prediction candidates in different interaction scenarios. In an implementation, dictionaries corresponding to multiple different languages are combined to produce multi-lingual predictions. Predictions for different languages may be weighted proportionally according to relative usage by a user. Weights used to combine contributions from multiple dictionaries may also depend upon factors such as how recently a word is used, number of times used, and so forth. Further, the dictionaries may include interaction-specific dictionaries that are learned by monitoring a user's typing activity to adapt predictions to corresponding usage scenarios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Dmytro Rudchenko, Parthasarathy Sundararajan, Timothy S. Paek, Itai Almog, Gleb G. Krivosheev
  • Patent number: 8769169
    Abstract: Assistive buffer usage techniques are described. In one or more implementations, audio generated through text-to-speech conversion is output, the audio corresponding to text portioned in one of a plurality of buffers from an item of content. An input is received to rewind or fast forward the output of the audio. Responsive to the input, additional audio is output that was generated through text-to-speech conversion from text portioned in another one of the plurality of buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Nicholas H. Wrem, Paul J. Reid, Brett D. Humphrey, Douglas R. Kirschner, Niranjan Shivanand Baligar, Andres E. Espinoza-Masias
  • Publication number: 20130060975
    Abstract: Assistive buffer usage techniques are described. In one or more implementations, audio generated through text-to-speech conversion is output, the audio corresponding to text portioned in one of a plurality of buffers from an item of content. An input is received to rewind or fast forward the output of the audio. Responsive to the input, additional audio is output that was generated through text-to-speech conversion from text portioned in another one of the plurality of buffers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Nicholas H. Wrem, Paul J. Reid, Brett D. Humphrey, Douglas R. Kirschner, Niranjan Shivanand Baligar, Andres E. Espinoza-Masias