Patents by Inventor Katherine Blair Huffman
Katherine Blair Huffman 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: 20250068253Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Patent number: 12111976Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Publication number: 20240152213Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Patent number: 11979038Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining wireless charging alignment. In this regard, one or more processors may receive motion data from one or more sensors of a computing device indicating a motion of the computing device. The one or more processors may also receive charging data related to a state of an energy storage of the computing device or a state of energy transfer between a wireless charger and the computing device. Based on the motion data and the charging data, a reference vector associated with at least two charging rates may be determined. An alignment vector between the computing device and the wireless charger may then be determined based on the reference vector and the associated charging rates. Based on the alignment vector, an output may be generated guiding movement of the computing device to align with the wireless charger.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Gregory Granito, Katherine Blair Huffman
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Publication number: 20240047155Abstract: The technology provides a system for controlling illumination of a luminous keyboard. A non-transitory storage medium stores a trained machine learning model for identifying a user sentiment. A processor receives at least one keyboard input entered by the user. The processor processes the keyboard input using the trained machine learning model to identify a sentiment or behavior of the user. The processor determines an illumination profile for the keyboard based on the identified user sentiment or behavior. The keyboard illuminates according to the illumination profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Forrest Robert Smith
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Patent number: 11822731Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Patent number: 11589217Abstract: A method and a system are provided for updating settings of a wireless device. An inductive coupling link is established between a first wireless device and a second wireless device upon detection that the first wireless device is within a threshold proximity to the second wireless device. The second wireless device receives a token from the first wireless device via the inductive coupling link. The second wireless device forwards the token to a remote device that stores a user profile associated with the user of the first wireless device. The second wireless device receives at least a portion of the user profile from the remote device in response to the token being forwarded. The second wireless device performs an update procedure to update one or more settings of the second wireless device in accordance with the received at least the portion of the user profile.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Kiavash Faraji
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Publication number: 20230037981Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Patent number: 11507198Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Publication number: 20220221941Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventor: Katherine Blair Huffman
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Patent number: 11301052Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Publication number: 20220070662Abstract: A method and a system are provided for updating settings of a wireless device. An inductive coupling link is established between a first wireless device and a second wireless device upon detection that the first wireless device is within a threshold proximity to the second wireless device. The second wireless device receives a token from the first wireless device via the inductive coupling link. The second wireless device forwards the token to a remote device that stores a user profile associated with the user of the first wireless device. The second wireless device receives at least a portion of the user profile from the remote device in response to the token being forwarded. The second wireless device performs an update procedure to update one or more settings of the second wireless device in accordance with the received at least the portion of the user profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Kiavash Faraji
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Patent number: 11172354Abstract: A method and a system are provided for updating settings of a wireless device. An inductive coupling link is established between a first wireless device and a second wireless device upon detection that the first wireless device is within a threshold proximity to the second wireless device. The second wireless device receives a token from the first wireless device via the inductive coupling link. The second wireless device forwards the token to a remote device that stores a user profile associated with the user of the first wireless device. The second wireless device receives at least a portion of the user profile from the remote device in response to the token being forwarded. The second wireless device performs an update procedure to update one or more settings of the second wireless device in accordance with the received at least the portion of the user profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Kiavash Faraji
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Publication number: 20210185514Abstract: A method and a system are provided for updating settings of a wireless device. An inductive coupling link is established between a first wireless device and a second wireless device upon detection that the first wireless device is within a threshold proximity to the second wireless device. The second wireless device receives a token from the first wireless device via the inductive coupling link. The second wireless device forwards the token to a remote device that stores a user profile associated with the user of the first wireless device. The second wireless device receives at least a portion of the user profile from the remote device in response to the token being forwarded. The second wireless device performs an update procedure to update one or more settings of the second wireless device in accordance with the received at least the portion of the user profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Kiavash Faraji
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Publication number: 20210173489Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Patent number: 10992754Abstract: A report interval mode is selected from one of multiple selectable report interval modes in cases where the preferred sensor sample intervals of multiple applications are different. By using multiple selectable report interval modes some of the problems that occur when a single fixed report interval mode is used can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jocelyn Berrendonner, Katherine Blair Huffman
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Patent number: 10908695Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Publication number: 20200319713Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data, a portion of the user's body that corresponds to a gesture to perform a command. The one or more processors may also determine one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data. Based on the recognized portion of the user's body and the one or more correlations between the image data and the received motion data, the one or more processors may detect the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Katherine Blair Huffman, Gregory Granito
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Publication number: 20200287426Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining wireless charging alignment. In this regard, one or more processors may receive motion data from one or more sensors of a computing device indicating a motion of the computing device. The one or more processors may also receive charging data related to a state of an energy storage of the computing device or a state of energy transfer between a wireless charger and the computing device. Based on the motion data and the charging data, a reference vector associated with at least two charging rates may be determined. An alignment vector between the computing device and the wireless charger may then be determined based on the reference vector and the associated charging rates. Based on the alignment vector, an output may be generated guiding movement of the computing device to align with the wireless charger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Gregory Granito, Katherine Blair Huffman
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Patent number: 10761799Abstract: Techniques for inference of an intended primary display of a hinged mobile device are described. Generally, the techniques described herein improve a user experience when the user interacts with the device, such as to change the posture of the device. For example, the techniques described herein detect physical movement of a first and/or second display portion of the device. In implementations, the physical movement is recognized as a device gesture to indicate which of the display portions is intended to be used as the primary display. Then, a determination is made that the first display portion is intended to be used as the primary display based on the device gesture. Based on the determination, the primary display is initiated via the first display portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Joseph Disano, Christian Klein, Katherine Blair Huffman