Patents by Inventor Matthew George

Matthew George 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: 11862031
    Abstract: The method can include performing inference using the system; and can optionally include training the system components. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from a stream of air traffic control (ATC) radio communications. The method can additionally or alternatively function to train and/or update a natural language processing system based on ATC communications. Additionally, the method can include or be used in conjunction with collision avoidance and/or directed perception for traffic detection associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Merlin Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew George, Alexander Naiman, Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk
  • Publication number: 20230421850
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for replacing digital content. An example embodiment operates by detecting a segment of a data stream to be output by a media device and generating a fingerprint of digital content corresponding to the segment using automatic content recognition (ACR). The example embodiment further operates by comparing the fingerprint with a plurality of fingerprints of a plurality of digital content, identifying a matched fingerprint of a matched digital content, and comparing metadata of the matched digital content with metadata of a restricted digital content. The example embodiment further operates by determining that the digital content corresponding to the segment is blocked from being output by the media stream and replacing the digital content with new digital content in the segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew George GROVER
  • Patent number: 11843813
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content modification opportunity on a channel. The method also includes responsive to identifying the upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a group of multiple content-presentation devices tuned to the channel. The method also includes for each content-presentation device in the identified group, determining a respective probability of that content-presentation device successfully performing a respective content-modification operation in connection with the identified upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel. The method also includes using at least the determined probabilities as a basis to select, from among the content-presentation devices in the identified group, a subgroup of content-presentation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew George Grover
  • Publication number: 20230370654
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for managing content replacement in a content modification system, which can be applicable to dynamic advertisement insertion. A media device can provide a first segment of a linear sequence of content segments to a display device. The first segment can include an ending frame adjacent to a start frame of a second segment of the linear sequence of content segments, where the second segment is to be replaced by a replacement segment. Based on a determination that the replacement segment is unavailable, the media device can provide one or more additional copies of the ending frame of the first segment to the display device while the replacement segment to replace the second segment is unavailable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: MATTHEW GEORGE GROVER
  • Patent number: 11722715
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a request for supplemental content for use by a content-presentation device that is scheduled to perform a content-modification operation at a start-time and, in response to the request: receiving, into a first buffer of the content-presentation device, first supplemental content having a first video quality that is higher than or equal to a predefined threshold, and receiving, into a second, different buffer of the content-presentation device, second supplemental content having a second video quality lower than the predefined threshold. The method also includes within a predefined time period before the start-time, determining whether an entirety of the first supplemental content has been received into the first buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew George Grover
  • Publication number: 20230246603
    Abstract: This application relates to transimpedance amplifier (TIA) apparatus, in particular to a TIA apparatus suitable for receiving data using burst mode communication. The apparatus has a transimpedance amplifier configured to generate a first voltage based on a current at an input node for an input signal. A controlled voltage source, such as a dummy TIA, generates a second voltage based on a first control current. A controller is configured to collectively control the first control current and a second control current based on an indication of input signal magnitude. The first control current controls the second voltage which may be used as a slicing level. The second control current is subtracted from the current at the input node and can provide a DC restore current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew George HAGMAN, Behzad FARZANEH
  • Publication number: 20230238930
    Abstract: A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for converting an input current at an input node into an output voltage at an output node, the TIA comprising: a first amplifier stage having a first input coupled to the input node and a first output; a feedback path between the first output and the first input; a second amplifier stage in the feedback path having a second input, the second input coupled to the first output of the first amplifier stage; a feedback resistor in the feedback path coupled between an output of the second amplifier stage and first input of the first amplifier stage; and an output stage, comprising: a load resistor coupled between a reference voltage node and a T-coil, the T-coil comprising first and second inductors coupled in series at an inductor node, the T-coil coupled between the first output and the load resistor, the inductor node coupled to the output node of the TIA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher John BORN, Matthew George HAGMAN, Darrell Iaian SMITH
  • Publication number: 20230192029
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for detecting proper use of a seatbelt in a vehicle. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving, from a sensor, image data of one or more portions of a seatbelt. The process can further include steps for determining a length of the seatbelt that is dispensed based on the image data and determining if the seatbelt is buckled in front of a passenger's body based on the length of the seatbelt that is dispensed. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew George Czapar
  • Publication number: 20230178074
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Merlin Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Publication number: 20230169965
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Merlin Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Publication number: 20230118607
    Abstract: A Y-shaped support has a head section having a first free end and a second end secured to a leg section, with the leg section having a first leg extending from the second end of the head section and a second leg extending from the second end of the head section. A first connector is provided as a first interlocking stitch, with the first interlocking stitch passed through open leg spaces of the first leg and open head spaces in the head section. A second connector is provided as a second interlocking stitch, with the second interlocking stitch passed through the aligned open leg spaces of the first leg and the second leg to connect the first leg to the second leg. The second end of the head section is located outside a space where the first leg is connected to the second leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Sarah J. Schuchardt, Michael M. Witzmann, John J. Allen, David Richmond, Matthew George Litton
  • Publication number: 20230115674
    Abstract: A conferencing system includes a plurality of microphones and an audio processing system that performs blind source separation operations on audio signals to identify different audio sources. The system processes the separated audio sources to identify or classify the sources and generates an output stream including the source separated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Nighman, Gerrit Eimbertus Rosenboom, Alfredo Martin Aguilar, Matthew George Skogmo
  • Patent number: 11627347
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes (i) accessing broadcast-schedule data associated with a channel; (ii) using the accessed broadcast-schedule data to identify an upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel; (iii) responsive to identifying the upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a content-presentation device tuned to the channel; and (iv) causing supplemental content to be transmitted to the identified content-presentation device, to facilitate the identified content-presentation device performing a content-modification operation related to the identified upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew George Grover, Stefanos Christakis Liassides
  • Publication number: 20230077534
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content modification opportunity on a channel. The method also includes responsive to identifying the upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a group of multiple content-presentation devices tuned to the channel. The method also includes for each content-presentation device in the identified group, determining a respective probability of that content-presentation device successfully performing a respective content-modification operation in connection with the identified upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel. The method also includes using at least the determined probabilities as a basis to select, from among the content-presentation devices in the identified group, a subgroup of content-presentation devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew George GROVER
  • Patent number: 11606591
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for coordinating the display of content segments in linear TV devices and over-the-top (OTT) media devices. A controller can select a content segment from a plurality of content segments of linear TV content provided to a plurality of linear TV devices to be displayed at a TV channel at a scheduled time instance. The controller can further select an OTT time instance separated from the scheduled time instance by a predetermined time interval, and provide a copy of the selected content segment to one or more media devices to be displayed at the one or more media devices at the OTT time instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew George Grover
  • Patent number: 11600268
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MERLIN LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Publication number: 20230061547
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using machine learning to dynamically determine shipping information are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may receive location data for a set of vehicles that may be associated with a shipping agreement, wherein the electronic device may input the location data and shipping agreement parameters into a machine learning model which outputs a set of likelihoods of the respective set of vehicles actually transporting products associated with the shipping agreement. The electronic device may enable a customer computing device to access this information along with any determined updates to the shipping agreement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Olin Russell, Ellen Grace Crist, Matthew George Dzugan, Issa Issa, Michael Christopher Edwards
  • Patent number: 11594214
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MERLIN LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Publication number: 20230059866
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Patent number: 11589108
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving first content at a content-presentation device and presenting the first content, the first content comprising a first audio-content component. The content-presentation device may receive second content comprising a second audio-content component. The content-presentation device may determine a switch time at which to switch from presenting the first content to presenting the second content. During a first time interval prior to the switch time and ending at the switch time, the volume of the first audio-content component may be decreased to zero. At the switch time, the content-presentation device may switch from presenting the first content to presenting the second content. During a second time interval beginning at the switch time and ending at a second time after the switch time, the volume of the second audio-content component may be increased from zero to a non-zero volume level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, Steven Michael Cormie, Stefanos Christakis Liassides, Matthew George Grover, Matthew Simon Pearce