Patents by Inventor Patrick Blanks

Patrick Blanks 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
  • Publication number: 20170293706
    Abstract: This application discloses a computing system to implement a place and route tool to synthesize a clock tree in a layout design of an integrated circuit based on timing constraints for the integrated circuit. The computing system can select a portion of the clock tree to present in a schematic connectivity presentation based on a conformance of the portion of the clock tree to timing constraints for the clock tree. The computing system can compress the other portions of the clock tree into the compacted representation based on the selection of the portion of the clock tree. The compacted representation can retain a hierarchical connectivity of the other portions of the clock tree. The computing system can generate the schematic connectivity presentation of the clock tree that includes the selected portion of the clock tree coupled to at least one compacted representation of other portions of the clock tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hamid Bouzouzou, Pierre-Olivier Ribet, Daniel Blanks, Patrick Blanks, Laurent Masse-Navette