Patents by Inventor Patrick Alan Brouillette

Patrick Alan Brouillette 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: 20260238831
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product aspects, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for enhancing images and/or videos captured by a camera. An example aspect operates by receiving, by at least one computer processor on the camera, a video frame including a first set of pixels. The method further includes performing the video processing on the first set of pixels to generate a second set of pixels before compressing or encoding the received video frame. The method further includes compressing the second set of pixels and causing the compressed second set of pixels to be displayed on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Alan Brouillette, Soren Riise, Sunil Ramesh, Gregory Mack Garner, David Lee Stern
  • Patent number: 12693914
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20250392168
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for energy harvesting, automatic recharging, and power consumption reduction for smart home sensors, devices, and networks. An example embodiment operates by determining an estimated or predicted future time that a device will have insufficient electrical energy in an energy storage of the device for the device to operate. The device can be, for example, an internet-of-things device, such as a sensor, actuator, and/or RF communications repeater, that includes a radio frequency communication transmitter and an energy harvester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE, Robert Caston CURTIS, David Lee STERN, Sunil RAMESH, Gregory Mack GARNER
  • Publication number: 20250118179
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for reducing and/or eliminating false positive alarm triggers. Detector devices positioned throughout an environment scan for known events that are likely indicative of an alarm condition. A source device that may generate such a sound or image may imprint a fingerprint on to the event that can be detectable by the detector devices but is imperceptible to humans. Additionally, the detector devices may use directionality and known locations of source devices to determine if a triggering event occurred at a known location of a source device. An alarm suppression decision may occur at the detector device and/or relevant information may be sent from the various detectors to a central console for a final alarm decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Sunil RAMESH, Michael Cutter, Gregory Mack Garner, Robert Caston Curtis, David Lee Stern, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20250028018
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack GARNER, Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 12153155
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20240231965
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Publication number: 20240168125
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory Mack GARNER, Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 11922234
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Patent number: 11808875
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20220260669
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory Mack GARNER, Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 11327150
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20220012109
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 11132240
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20210049056
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to processing data samples. More particularly, embodiments relate to processing a plurality of data samples using a multi-agent ring-buffer and a plurality of agents configured to communicate with the ring-buffer to process each of the plurality of data samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Patent number: 10827264
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and tangible computer readable medium for creating a desired audio effect for a user. The method includes operations including: causing a plurality of speakers to play test signals, each test signal being specific to one of the speakers; receiving from a remote device recorded frequency responses of the speakers resulting from the playing of the test signals; creating one or more filters to match an audio profile selected by a user; applying the filters to the recorded frequency responses to obtain filtered transformations of the speakers; and transmitting the filtered transformations to the speakers; wherein the filtered transformations are applied at the speakers to thereby achieve the user audio profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20190369206
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Mack GARNER, Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 10401473
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette
  • Publication number: 20190037311
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and tangible computer readable medium for creating a desired audio effect for a user. The method includes operations including: causing a plurality of speakers to play test signals, each test signal being specific to one of the speakers; receiving from a remote device recorded frequency responses of the speakers resulting from the playing of the test signals; creating one or more filters to match an audio profile selected by a user; applying the filters to the recorded frequency responses to obtain filtered transformations of the speakers; and transmitting the filtered transformations to the speakers; wherein the filtered transformations are applied at the speakers to thereby achieve the user audio profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack GARNER, Patrick Alan BROUILLETTE
  • Patent number: 10091581
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and tangible computer readable medium for creating a desired audio effect for a user. The method includes operations including: causing a plurality of speakers to play test signals, each test signal being specific to one of the speakers; receiving from a remote device recorded frequency responses of the speakers resulting from the playing of the test signals; creating one or more filters to match an audio profile selected by a user; applying the filters to the recorded frequency responses to obtain filtered transformations of the speakers; and transmitting the filtered transformations to the speakers; wherein the filtered transformations are applied at the speakers to thereby achieve the user audio profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Mack Garner, Patrick Alan Brouillette