Patents by Inventor Marc Layne Hemeon

Marc Layne Hemeon 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: 11272137
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include modifying text associated with a sequence of images or a video sequence to thereby generate new text and overlaying the new text as captions in the video sequence. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving a sequence of images associated with a scene occurring over a time period; receiving audio data of speech uttered during the time period; transcribing into text the audio data of the speech, wherein the text includes a sequence of original words; associating a timestamp with each of the original words during the time period; generating, responsive to input, a sequence of new words; and generating a new sequence of images by overlaying each of the new words on one or more of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Charles Cheung, Marc Layne Hemeon, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 10917607
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include modifying text associated with a sequence of images or a video sequence to thereby generate new text and overlaying the new text as captions in the video sequence. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving a sequence of images associated with a scene occurring over a time period; receiving audio data of speech uttered during the time period; transcribing into text the audio data of the speech, wherein the text includes a sequence of original words; associating a timestamp with each of the original words during the time period; generating, responsive to input, a sequence of new words; and generating a new sequence of images by overlaying each of the new words on one or more of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Charles Cheung, Marc Layne Hemeon, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 9134881
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating character input using a graphical input display having a carousel of characters are provided. In an aspect, a system includes an interface component configured to generate a carousel graphical input display, the carousel graphical input display comprising a plurality of characters arranged in a fixed line, wherein a cursor is configured to move over the characters about the line and the cursor shifts from a first end of the line to a second end of the line in response to reaching either the first end of the line or the second end of the line. The system further includes an input component configured to receive a command to move the cursor over the characters to focus on respective ones of the characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wheeler, Luke Bayes, Marc Layne Hemeon, Matias Cudich, Allan Stephan Mills, Tyler Wesley Breisch
  • Publication number: 20140250405
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating character input using a graphical input display having a carousel of characters are provided. In an aspect, a system includes an interface component configured to generate a carousel graphical input display, the carousel graphical input display comprising a plurality of characters arranged in a fixed line, wherein a cursor is configured to move over the characters about the line and the cursor shifts from a first end of the line to a second end of the line in response to reaching either the first end of the line or the second end of the line. The system further includes an input component configured to receive a command to move the cursor over the characters to focus on respective ones of the characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wheeler, Luke Bayes, Marc Layne Hemeon, Matias Cudich, Allan Stephan Mills, Tyler Wesley Breisch