Patents by Inventor Shwetak N. Patel

Shwetak N. Patel 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: 12193749
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Publication number: 20240353587
    Abstract: A motion sensor assembly may include a cover plate configured to be mounted to an electrical box. The cover plate may include a front surface configured to face away from the electrical box and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The cover plate may further include an aperture configured to receive a toggle or rocker type switch. A motion sensor may be coupled to the cover plate. A power source and processor may be operably coupled to the motion sensor. Furthermore, the processor may be operably coupled to a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Matthew Stephen Reynolds
  • Patent number: 12073028
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 12072464
    Abstract: A motion sensor assembly may include a cover plate configured to be mounted to an electrical box. The cover plate may include a front surface configured to face away from the electrical box and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The cover plate may further include an aperture configured to receive a toggle or rocker type switch. A motion sensor may be coupled to the cover plate. A power source and processor may be operably coupled to the motion sensor. Furthermore, the processor may be operably coupled to a communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Matthew Stephen Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240018565
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure describe a test strip that may include a sample input, assay circuitry, signaling circuitry, impedance circuitry, and/or energy harvesting circuitry. The sample input may be configured to receive a sample, such as a fluid sample. The assay circuitry of the test strip may be configured to perform an assay on at least a portion of the fluid sample. The signaling circuitry of the test strip may be configured to provide a modulated signal based on an output of the assay. The impedance circuitry of the test strip may be configured to present impedance changes to a touchscreen of an electronic device in accordance with the modulated signal. The test strip can then communicate data of the output of the assay (e.g., test results) to the electronic device using the touchscreen of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Anandghan Waghmare, Shwetak N. Patel, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Jason Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20230393665
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20230371832
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to a head-mounted device that includes a frame, a motion sensor coupled to the frame, and a processor in communication with the motion sensor. The processor is configured by instructions to receive motion signals captured by the motion sensor, determine when to extract features from the motion signals, extract the features from the motion signals, generate a signal image from the features extracted from the motion signals, and process the signal image to output one or more health metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20230350049
    Abstract: A method including transmitting, by a peripheral device communicatively coupled to a wearable device, a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW), receiving, by the peripheral device, a reflected signal based on the FMCW, tracking, by the peripheral device, a movement associated with the peripheral device based on the reflected signal, and communicating, from the peripheral device to the wearable device, an information corresponding to the movement associated with the peripheral device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Anandghan Waghmare, Dongeek Shin, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel, Shahram Izadi, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle
  • Patent number: 11709108
    Abstract: A system including a sensing device configured to (i) measure pressure of water in cold and hot water lines proximate to a fixture of a water system of a structure, and (ii) generate pressure measurement data representing the pressure of the water. The system also includes one or more processors. The system additionally includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing machine-executable instructions configured, when executed on the one or more processors, to perform detecting a non-cyclical pressure event corresponding to a water leak in the water system of the structure during a first time period based on an analysis of information comprising the pressure measurement data. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PHYN, LLC
    Inventors: Miroslav Enev, Salil Banerjee, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20230225612
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Patent number: 11647903
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Patent number: 11627875
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for using machine learning to enable visible light pupilometry are provided. In some embodiments, a smartphone may be used to create a visible light video recording of a pupillary light reflex (PLR). A machine learning model may be used to detect a size of a pupil in the video recording over time, and the size over time may be presented to a clinician. In some embodiments, a system that includes a smartphone and a box that holds the smartphone in a predetermined relationship to a subject's face is provided. In some embodiments, a sequential convolutional neural network architecture is used. In some embodiments, a fully convolutional neural network architecture is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Lynn B. McGrath, Anthony Law, Randall Bly, Shwetak N. Patel, Alex T. Mariakakis, Jacob Baudin
  • Publication number: 20230086748
    Abstract: A method for determining one or more vital signs of a person includes recording video images of a scene with an egocentric camera coupled to the person's body, detecting and magnifying image frame-to-image frame movements in the video images of the scene, representing the magnified image frame-to-image frame movements in the video images of the scene by a one-dimensional (1D) amplitude-versus-time series, and transforming the 1D amplitude-versus-time series representation into a frequency spectrum. The method further includes identifying one or more local frequency maxima in the frequency spectrum as corresponding to one or more vital signs of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11596315
    Abstract: A method for determining one or more vital signs of a person includes recording video images of a scene with an egocentric camera coupled to the person's body, detecting and magnifying image frame-to-image frame movements in the video images of the scene, representing the magnified image frame-to-image frame movements in the video images of the scene by a one-dimensional (1D) amplitude-versus-time series, and transforming the 1D amplitude-versus-time series representation into a frequency spectrum. The method further includes identifying one or more local frequency maxima in the frequency spectrum as corresponding to one or more vital signs of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11592908
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11561150
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting small leaks in a plumbing system is disclosed. A temperature sensor coupled to the water in the plumbing system is used to determine if there is a leak. During times of inactivity for fixtures in the plumbing systems, a flow sensor might measure usage of water that would indicate a leak. For very small leaks, the flow is below a minimum measurable flow of the flow sensor. Embodiments of the invention measure temperature of water within a pipe coupled to the plumbing system. Temperature will generally decay in a particular predicable way when there is flow as the temperature of water upon entry to the building is lower than the air temperature within the building. Signal processing, machine learning and/or statistical approaches are used to analyze the temperature and optionally flow and/or pressure over time to determine when a leak is likely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Phyn LLC
    Inventors: Salil P. Banerjee, Raul I. Ramos-Garcia, Aanand Esterberg, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11543892
    Abstract: A computing device, such as a wearable device, may include at least two electrodes mounted on a body. The computing device may determine an electrical signal associated with a circuit that includes the at least two electrodes and the user. A pressure applied to at least one electrode of the at least two electrodes may be determined from the electrical signal, and at least one function of the computing device may be implemented, based on the pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11493371
    Abstract: By monitoring pressure transients in a liquid within a liquid distribution system using only a single sensor, events such as the opening and closing of valves at specific fixtures are readily detected. The sensor, which can readily be coupled to a faucet bib, transmits an output signal to a computing device. Each such event can be identified by the device based by comparing characteristic features of the pressure transient waveform with previously observed characteristic features for events in the system. These characteristic features, which can include the varying pressure, derivative, and real Cepstrum of the pressure transient waveform, can be used to select a specific fixture where a valve open or close event has occurred. Flow to each fixture and leaks in the system can also be determined from the pressure transient signal. A second sensor disposed at a point disparate from the first sensor provides further event information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, James A. Fogarty, Jon E. Froehlich, Eric C. Larson
  • Publication number: 20220350419
    Abstract: A computing device, such as a wearable device, may include at least two electrodes mounted on a body. The computing device may determine an electrical signal associated with a circuit that includes the at least two electrodes and the user. A pressure applied to at least one electrode of the at least two electrodes may be determined from the electrical signal, and at least one function of the computing device may be implemented, based on the pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20220300082
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel