Patents by Inventor Michael Schmit

Michael Schmit 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: 20240091640
    Abstract: An approach is provided for a gaming overlay application to provide automatic in-game subtitles and/or closed captions for video game applications. The overlay application accesses an audio stream and a video stream generated by an executing game application. The overlay application processes the audio stream through a text conversion engine to generate at least one subtitle. The overlay application determines a display position to associate with the at least one subtitle. The overlay application generates a subtitle overlay comprising the at least one subtitle located at the associated display position. The overlay application causes a portion of the video stream to be displayed with the subtitle overlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Ilia Blank, Patrick Fok, Le Zhang, Michael Schmit
  • Patent number: 11857877
    Abstract: An approach is provided for a gaming overlay application to provide automatic in-game subtitles and/or closed captions for video game applications. The overlay application accesses an audio stream and a video stream generated by an executing game application. The overlay application processes the audio stream through a text conversion engine to generate at least one subtitle. The overlay application determines a display position to associate with the at least one subtitle. The overlay application generates a subtitle overlay comprising the at least one subtitle located at the associated display position. The overlay application causes a portion of the video stream to be displayed with the subtitle overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: ATI Technologies ULC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Ilia Blank, Patrick Fok, Le Zhang, Michael Schmit
  • Publication number: 20230201717
    Abstract: An approach is provided for a gaming overlay application to provide automatic in-game subtitles and/or closed captions for video game applications. The overlay application accesses an audio stream and a video stream generated by an executing game application. The overlay application processes the audio stream through a text conversion engine to generate at least one subtitle. The overlay application determines a display position to associate with the at least one subtitle. The overlay application generates a subtitle overlay comprising the at least one subtitle located at the associated display position. The overlay application causes a portion of the video stream to be displayed with the subtitle overlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Ilia Blank, Patrick Fok, Le Zhang, Michael Schmit
  • Patent number: 11252430
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a system and method for exploiting camera and depth information associated with rendered video frames, such as those rendered by a server operating as part of a cloud gaming service, to more efficiently encode the rendered video frames for transmission over a network. The method and system of the present disclosure can be used in a server operating in a cloud gaming service to improve, for example, the amount of latency, downstream bandwidth, and/or computational processing power associated with playing a video game over its service. The method and system of the present disclosure can be further used in other applications where camera and depth information of a rendered or captured video frame is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Ihab Amer, Gabor Sines, Lei Zhang, Michael Schmit, Daniel Wong
  • Publication number: 20200068213
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a system and method for exploiting camera and depth information associated with rendered video frames, such as those rendered by a server operating as part of a cloud gaming service, to more efficiently encode the rendered video frames for transmission over a network. The method and system of the present disclosure can be used in a server operating in a cloud gaming service to improve, for example, the amount of latency, downstream bandwidth, and/or computational processing power associated with playing a video game over its service. The method and system of the present disclosure can be further used in other applications where camera and depth information of a rendered or captured video frame is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Khaled MAMMOU, Ihab AMER, Gabor SINES, Lei ZHANG, Michael SCHMIT, Daniel WONG
  • Patent number: 10491916
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a system and method for exploiting camera and depth information associated with rendered video frames, such as those rendered by a server operating as part of a cloud gaming service, to more efficiently encode the rendered video frames for transmission over a network. The method and system of the present disclosure can be used in a server operating in a cloud gaming service to improve, for example, the amount of latency, downstream bandwidth, and/or computational processing power associated with playing a video game over its service. The method and system of the present disclosure can be further used in other applications where camera and depth information of a rendered or captured video frame is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Ihab Amer, Gabor Sines, Lei Zhang, Michael Schmit, Daniel Wong
  • Publication number: 20150092856
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a system and method for exploiting camera and depth information associated with rendered video frames, such as those rendered by a server operating as part of a cloud gaming service, to more efficiently encode the rendered video frames for transmission over a network. The method and system of the present disclosure can be used in a server operating in a cloud gaming service to improve, for example, the amount of latency, downstream bandwidth, and/or computational processing power associated with playing a video game over its service. The method and system of the present disclosure can be further used in other applications where camera and depth information of a rendered or captured video frame is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicants: ATI Technologies ULC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled MAMMOU, Ihab Amer, Sines Gabor, Lei Zhang, Michael Schmit, Daniel Wong
  • Publication number: 20070124184
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method of organizing a business to align goals of the business with goals of customers of the business and accelerate value creation for both the business and the customers of the business, the method comprising: identifying one or more experiences of customers of a business, wherein the one or more experiences are selected from the group consisting of the customers' value discovery experience, the customers' buying decision experience, the customers' ordering experience, the customers' receiving experience, the customers' using experience, the customers' payment experience, and the customers' feedback and problem resolution experience; organizing the business under a process management system for one or more of the customer experiences wherein each process management system comprises a process owner, a documenting process, formal process review, identification of customer driven measures and methods for process evaluation and improvement; gathering customer feedba
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Schmit, Jane Lang, Robert Russell