Patents by Inventor Manoj Sharma

Manoj Sharma 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: 20240126721
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for sorting one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, one or more activity signals associated with one or more files hosted by the collaborative application may be received from a substrate. An activity-based sort order may be determined using at least a combination of the one or more activity signals. The activity-based sort order may be applied to sort the one or more files hosted by the collaborative application for display in a user interface to an activity object of the collaborative application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: David Adam STEPHENS, Shane Michael CHISM, Nathan Darrel KILE, JR., Angela Kaye ALLISON, Dan ZARZAR, Douglas Lane MILVANEY, Manoj SHARMA
  • Patent number: 11951905
    Abstract: A display system for a vehicle includes a light source configured to emit a light and a fiber-optic cable coupled to the light source. The fiber-optic cable has a first fiber end and a second fiber end opposite the first fiber end. The first fiber end is coupled to the light source. The second fiber end is attached to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The display system includes a piezoelectric actuator coupled to the fiber-optic cable end adjacent to the second fiber end. The piezoelectric actuator is actuated to vibrate the second fiber end of the fiber-optic cable to project an image on the vehicle body adjacent the second fiber end while the light source is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John P. Weiss, Manoj Sharma, Joseph F. Szczerba, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11938821
    Abstract: A method and a system for user interaction with a hologram includes displaying the hologram inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle, after displaying the hologram inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle, monitoring a vehicle user inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle user provided a user command, determining that the vehicle user provided the user command, and in response to determining that the vehicle user provided the user command, manipulating the hologram in accordance with the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, Kai-Han Chang, Manoj Sharma, Thomas A. Seder
  • Publication number: 20240094530
    Abstract: A system for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle includes at least one vehicle sensor for determining information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display for providing information to the occupant, and a controller in electrical communication with the at least one vehicle sensor and the display. The controller is programmed to identify at least one driving rule associated with at least one portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle using the at least one vehicle sensor, determine an applicability state of the at least one driving rule, where the applicability state includes an applicable state and a non-applicable state, and display a graphic using the display in response to determining that the applicability state of the at least one driving rule is the applicable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Manoj Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240095961
    Abstract: A system for interpreting color includes a camera for capturing images of an environment and a controller in electrical communication with the camera. The controller is programmed to capture an image of the environment using the camera, where the image includes an object, retrieve a color calibration matrix from a non-transitory storage media of the controller, and determine a color of the object in the environment based at least in part on the color calibration matrix and the image of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Manoj Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240086227
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further includes a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resource
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Beyer, Manoj Sharma, Gururaj Pangal, Maurilio Cometto
  • Patent number: 11928992
    Abstract: A system for calibrating a display for a vehicle includes a reference calibration system including a reference windscreen and a reference transparent windscreen display (TWD) projector including a reference TWD camera. The reference calibration system also includes a reference camera and a reference controller in electrical communication with the reference TWD projector and the reference camera. The reference controller is programmed to project a reference graphic on the reference windscreen using the reference TWD projector. The reference controller is further programmed to capture a first reference image of the reference graphic using the reference camera. The reference controller is further programmed to calculate at least one reference calibration matrix based at least in part on the first reference image of the reference graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seder, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 11915395
    Abstract: A holographic display system provides a maximum intensity value of an intermediate image to decrease a graphics speckle noise. The system includes an SLM having a display with a hologram generating unit and a plurality of pixels for modulating a beam of coherent light. The system further includes a beam splitter for splitting the beam into an object beam and an intermediate image beam that is associated with an intermediate image having the noise. The system further includes a camera for capturing the intermediate image, in response to the camera receiving the intermediate image beam. The system further includes a computer having a processor and a CRM. The processor is programmed to generate an actuation signal associated with a corrective holographic phase shift to decrease the noise. The SLM modifies in real-time a holographic phase of the beam per pixel, in response to the SLM receiving the actuation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Publication number: 20240064281
    Abstract: A system for generating a centrally located floating three-dimensional image display for a plurality of passengers positioned within a vehicle includes a plurality of autostereoscopic three-dimensional displays, one autostereoscopic three-dimensional display individually associated with each one of the plurality of passengers, and a controller in communication with each of the plurality of autostereoscopic three-dimensional displays and adapted to cause each one of the plurality of autostereoscopic three-dimensional displays to display a three-dimensional image to the associated one of the plurality of passengers, wherein, each of the plurality of passengers perceives the three-dimensional image floating at a central location within the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Publication number: 20240046619
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to receive, at a deep neural network, an image captured by an image capture device. The processor is also programmed to generate a predicted distortion map based on the image and update at least one weight of the deep neural network based on a loss function of the deep neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
  • Publication number: 20240029599
    Abstract: A system for calibrating a waveguide-based holographic head-up display that projects images upon a windscreen of a vehicle including a light-diffusing panel positioned at a center of an eyellipse to reflect the images projected by the waveguide-based holographic head-up display. An eyebox of the waveguide-based holographic head-up display is positioned at the center of an eyellipse, and the eyebox is divided into a plurality of unit exit pupils. The system also includes a camera positioned to capture the images reflected by the light-diffusing panel and one or more controllers in electronic communication with the waveguide-based holographic head-up display and the camera. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine a warp map based on a plurality of corrected individual calibration patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder, Manoj Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240029559
    Abstract: A system for displaying information for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle sensors, a display, and a controller in electrical communication with the plurality of vehicle sensors and the display. The controller is programmed to detect a relevant traffic signal in an environment surrounding the vehicle using the plurality of vehicle sensors, receive information about the relevant traffic signal using the plurality of vehicle sensors, determine a status of the relevant traffic signal based on the received information, and display a graphic based on the status of the relevant traffic signal using the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Manoj Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240027756
    Abstract: A head-up display system includes a projector adapted to project an image, a primary reflector, and an exit pupil replicator, the primary reflector adapted to reflect an image projected by the projector to the exit pupil replicator, and the exit pupil replicator adapted to split the projected image into a two-dimensional array of identical projected images having equal intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kai-Han Chang, Manoj Sharma, Thomas A. Seder
  • Publication number: 20240025249
    Abstract: A method for holographic display calibration using phase modulation includes projecting an initial graphic on a windshield of a vehicle, capturing an image of the initial graphic with a camera inside a vehicle, determining a loss function value between the image of the initial graphic captured by the camera and a target graphic, modulating a phase of a light beam generating the initial graphic using the loss function value to generate an updated graphic, and displaying the updated graphic on the windshield of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Publication number: 20240029208
    Abstract: A holographic display system provides a maximum intensity value of an intermediate image to decrease a graphics speckle noise. The system includes an SLM having a display with a hologram generating unit and a plurality of pixels for modulating a beam of coherent light. The system further includes a beam splitter for splitting the beam into an object beam and an intermediate image beam that is associated with an intermediate image having the noise. The system further includes a camera for capturing the intermediate image, in response to the camera receiving the intermediate image beam. The system further includes a computer having a processor and a CRM. The processor is programmed to generate an actuation signal associated with a corrective holographic phase shift to decrease the noise. The SLM modifies in real-time a holographic phase of the beam per pixel, in response to the SLM receiving the actuation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11880339
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for sorting one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, one or more activity signals associated with one or more files hosted by the collaborative application may be received from a substrate. An activity-based sort order may be determined using at least a combination of the one or more activity signals. The activity-based sort order may be applied to sort the one or more files hosted by the collaborative application for display in a user interface to an activity object of the collaborative application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Adam Stephens, Shane Michael Chism, Nathan Darrel Kile, Jr., Angela Kaye Allison, Dan Zarzar, Douglas Lane Milvaney, Manoj Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240017612
    Abstract: A method and a system for user interaction with a hologram includes displaying the hologram inside a passenger compartment of the vehicle, after displaying the hologram inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle, monitoring a vehicle user inside the passenger compartment of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle user provided a user command, determining that the vehicle user provided the user command, and in response to determining that the vehicle user provided the user command, manipulating the hologram in accordance with the user command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, Kai-Han Chang, Manoj Sharma, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11874802
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining one or more relevant activities to surface for a user of one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, a set of collaborative activities that are applied by one or more users to one or more files hosted by the collaborative application may be captured. The set of collaborative activities may be analyzed in relation to the user of the one or more files hosted by the collaborative application. At least some activities in the set of collaborative activities may be identified as belonging to one or more relevance categories. A prioritization may be assigned to the at least some activities that belong to the one or more relevance categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Manoj Sharma, Manish Kumar Shukla, Simoune Rebekah Morena Valerio Lucas
  • Patent number: 11853789
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further includes a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resource
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Beyer, Manoj Sharma, Gururaj Pangal, Maurilio Cometto
  • Publication number: 20230408841
    Abstract: A system for generating a centrally located floating three-dimensional image display for a plurality of passengers positioned within a vehicle includes at least one display adapted to project a multiplexed image, a plurality of beam splitters, one beam splitter individually associated with each one of the plurality of passengers, and at least one passenger interface, each beam splitter adapted to receive a image from the at least one display and to reflect the image to the associated one of the plurality of passengers, wherein, each of the plurality of passengers perceives the image floating at a central location within the vehicle, the at least one passenger interface adapted to allow the plurality of passengers to receive annotated information and to provide input to the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang, Joseph F. Szczerba, Manoj Sharma