Patents by Inventor Sean J. Lawrence

Sean J. Lawrence 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: 11847816
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for processing video frames in a process flow that includes first and second computation engines. In an example, the first engine is an artificial intelligence based computation engine, and the second engine is a heuristics-based computation engine. A sequence of frames of a video includes a first and second frames that are two consecutive frames in the sequence. An analyzer determines whether the second frame has non-redundant information relative to the first frame. In response to the determination, the analyzer selects one of the first or second engine for processing at least a section of the second frame. For example, if the second frame has non-redundant information relative to the first frame, at least the section of the second frame is processed by the first engine. If the second frame does not include non-redundant information, the second frame is processed by the second engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pravin Chander Chandran, Raghavendra Bhat, Sean J. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11815629
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to reduce a scan for identifying physical objects are disclosed. An example system includes a light source to broadcast a light signal, a window adjuster to set a scan parameter for the light signal, and a transceiver to receive communication indicative of a physical position of a mobile unit. In the example system, the window adjuster is to adjust the scan parameter based on the physical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Arvind S
  • Publication number: 20220171034
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to reduce a scan for identifying physical objects are disclosed. An example system includes a light source to broadcast a light signal, a window adjuster to set a scan parameter for the light signal, and a transceiver to receive communication indicative of a physical position of a mobile unit. In the example system, the window adjuster is to adjust the scan parameter based on the physical position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Arvind S
  • Publication number: 20220147302
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for configuring display screen coordinates. An example apparatus includes at least one storage device or storage disk, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions. When executed, the example instructions cause the at least one processor to determine whether a first position of a first display screen is within a threshold of a second position of a second display screen, and in response to determining that the first position is within the threshold of the second position, adjust a first coordinate of the first display screen relative to a second coordinate of the second display screen, the first coordinate and the second coordinate to be adjusted within a graphics properties page related to configuration of content rendering between the first display screen and the second display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Sean J. LAWRENCE
  • Publication number: 20220111865
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to determine driver scoring that consider deviations in map and sensor data in driver score computations. The deviations can be based on deviations from an optimum driving path, and include the determination of vectors between a reference point and one or more landmarks, and one or more reference vectors between the reference point the landmark(s) when traveling on an optimum driving path. A difference between the vectors may then be used determine the deviations from the optimum driving path. In contrast to the conventional approaches, the use of positional deviations (e.g. determined from road markings) in the computation of driver scores allows for improved driver scoring techniques and driver characterizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Raghavendra Bhat, Pravin Chander Chandran
  • Patent number: 11280886
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to reduce a scan for identifying physical objects are disclosed. An example system includes a light source to broadcast a light signal, a window adjuster to set a scan parameter for the light signal, and a transceiver to receive communication indicative of a physical position of a mobile unit. In the example system, the window adjuster is to adjust the scan parameter based on the physical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Arvind S
  • Patent number: 11231896
    Abstract: In one example, a system for screen configuration includes storage to store instructions and a processor. The processor is to execute the instructions to identify a relative position between a first display screen and a second display screen and to automatically adjust one or more coordinates of the second display screen in response to the relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20220012491
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for contextual usage control of cameras. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: access one or more images from a camera; detect an object in the one or more images; detect a human activity in the one or more images; build a context based on the object and the human activity; create a visual marker on the one or more images; determine a user voice command; determine a control based on the context, the visual marker, and the voice command; and cause a change in one or more of the one or more images based on the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Deepti Patil, Anil Kumar, Tamoghna Ghosh, Barnan Das, Sean J. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20220013006
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to determine driver scoring that consider road accident proneness scores in driver score computations. The road accident proneness scores may be based on one or more alerts. Further, road types of roads may be determined based on alerts. The determination of the road type may use a machine learning model. In contrast to the conventional approaches, the use of road accident proneness scores in the computation of driver scores allows for the consideration of accident proneness of the road to improve upon conventional scoring techniques. Further, map data and generated maps may be improved based on determined road types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Mashrin Srivastava, Muvazima Mansoor, Sean J. Lawrence, Subramanian C, Balachandar Santhanam
  • Publication number: 20220003556
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to determine driver scoring that consider road quality and/or conditions in driver score computations. In contrast to the conventional approaches, the use of road conditions and/or road quality in the computation of driver scores allows for the consideration of road conditions and/or quality to improve upon conventional scoring techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Subramanian C, Rajeev Rajasekharan, Balachandar Santhanam
  • Patent number: 11134114
    Abstract: An apparatus for user input based adaptive streaming is described herein. The apparatus includes a controller to configure a plurality of audio/video streaming parameters based on user input. The apparatus also includes an adaptive module to apply the plurality of audio/video streaming parameters to a stream of audio/video data in response to the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Raghavendra Angadimani, Nishant Kamat, Rohit K. Choraria
  • Patent number: 11120773
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and storage media associated with placing graphical elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) in view of a region of interests (ROI) are disclosed herein. An apparatus may comprise a GUI manager to receive a designation of a region of interest, ROI, of a first graphical element of a GUI to be rendered on a display device; and to place a second graphical element into the GUI in view of the ROI of the first graphical element. The GUI manager may be loaded into the memory and executed by the processor circuitry of a computing device. The first graphical element may have one or more ROIs, and there may be one or more instances of the first graphical element, placed over one or more display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raghavendra Angadimani, Sean J. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11042130
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to automatic adjustment of head mounted display straps. An embodiment of a head mounted display apparatus includes a display unit; a strap harness including one or more straps; one or more pressure sensors; a microcontroller; and one or more automatic adjustment mechanisms for the one or more straps, wherein the microcontroller is to adjust the one or more straps by controlling operation of the one or more automatic adjustment mechanisms based at least in part on sensor data from the one or more pressure sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjay R. Aghara, Ramesh Pendakur, Aditya K. Raut, Nishant Kamat, Sean J. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10951914
    Abstract: One or more system, apparatus, method, and computer readable media is described for reducing the GOP length during a direct pass-through of an encoded video stream format that is supported by the decoder at the sink. In some embodiments, the encoded video stream is decoded on the source device and employed to generate and insert supplemental intra-predicted frames (I-frames) at shorter intervals allowing for faster recovery in the event of lost packets/frames when transmitted to a sink display. In some embodiments, Residual Artifact Suppressed (RAS) inter-predicted frames are further created and inserted in place of any frames that reference a frame converted to a supplemental I-frame. The encoded video stream passed through will consist of all the original frames except for the supplemental I-frames reducing the GOP, and RAS inter-predicted frames modified to prevent propagation of residual induced artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10914773
    Abstract: Technology for adjusting touch resolution for a capacitive touch sensor. A touch resolution of a capacitive touch sensor is set to a first resolution. A footprint of an object in contact with a surface of the capacitive touch sensor is determined. The capacitive touch sensor is adjusted to a second resolution to detect objects based on the footprint of the object, wherein the second resolution is different than the first resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20200380261
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for processing video frames in a process flow that includes first and second computation engines. In an example, the first engine is an artificial intelligence based computation engine, and the second engine is a heuristics-based computation engine. A sequence of frames of a video includes a first and second frames that are two consecutive frames in the sequence. An analyzer determines whether the second frame has non-redundant information relative to the first frame. In response to the determination, the analyzer selects one of the first or second engine for processing at least a section of the second frame. For example, if the second frame has non-redundant information relative to the first frame, at least the section of the second frame is processed by the first engine. If the second frame does not include non-redundant information, the second frame is processed by the second engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corportation
    Inventors: Pravin Chander Chandran, Raghavendra Bhat, Sean J. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20200351551
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating interest-based enhancement in media quality according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving eye tracking information from a wearable computing device, where the eye tracking information contains data relating to pupils of eyes of a user having access to the wearable computing device. The method may further include enhancing quality of at least contents of media, if a size of a pupil is determined to have been altered due to the user's interest in the contents, where the media having the enhanced contents is encoded and communicated back to the wearable computing device to be rendered at the wearable computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20200293257
    Abstract: In one example, a system for screen configuration includes storage to store instructions and a processor. The processor is to execute the instructions to identify a relative position between a first display screen and a second display screen and to automatically adjust one or more coordinates of the second display screen in response to the relative position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. LAWRENCE
  • Patent number: 10771786
    Abstract: A system, article, and method of video coding using an image data correction mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10761613
    Abstract: Examples apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture and methods to adjust a keyboard position are disclosed. An example keyboard position adjustment system includes a keyboard orientation detector to determine a first keyboard position of a keyboard and/or a hand position detector to determine a hand position near the keyboard. The example system also includes an adjuster to move the keyboard to a second keyboard position based on the first keyboard position and/or the hand position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sean J. Lawrence, Krishnakumar Varadarajan, Ayeshwarya Mahajan, Raghavendra Angadimani, Samarth Alva