Patents by Inventor Sven Eberhardt
Sven Eberhardt 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).
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Patent number: 11870862Abstract: Systems and methods for state prediction of devices are disclosed. A group of reference devices may be identified and a subset of the reference devices may be identified and/or determined based at least in part on a degree of similarity between reference usage-patterns associated with the reference devices and a usage pattern of a target device. The current state of the subset of the reference devices may be determined and may be utilized to determine a probability that the target device should be in a given state. The state prediction information may be utilized for one or more actions, such as sending recommendations, target inference operations, and/or device configuration, for example.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Sven Eberhardt, William Evan Welbourne, Aniruddha Basak, Lizhen Peng
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Patent number: 11551684Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for utilizing global models to generate local models for electronic devices in an environment, and techniques for utilizing the global models and/or the local models to provide notifications that are based on anomalies detected within the environment. For instance, a remote system may receive an identifier associated with an electronic device and identify a global model using the identifier. The remote system may then receive data indicating state changes of the electronic device and use the data and the global model to generate a local model associated with the electronic device. Using the global model and/or local model, the remote system can identify anomalies associated with the electronic device and, in response to identifying an anomaly, notify the user. The remote system can further cause the electronic device to change states after receiving a request from the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vinay Kotikalapudi Sriram, William Evan Welbourne, Jay Patel, Sven Eberhardt
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Patent number: 11531789Abstract: Systems and methods allow for floor plan generation for device visualization and use. For example, image data may be utilized to segment a building from non-building elements in an image, and the outline of the building may be utilized to generate a floor plan of the building. A user interface may be generated to present the floor plan and allow for placement of representations of walls, doors, windows, and electronic devices within the floor plan. Placement of these elements may be performed in response to input from a user and/or may be performed automatically utilizing naming indicators, device-affinity data, historical usage data, signal-strength data, etc. Once placed, the device representations may be utilized to operate the devices and display related information, such as alerts.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sven Eberhardt, Clare Elizabeth Veladanda, Akshay Kumar, Aniruddha Basak, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, William Evan Welbourne, Jatin Bajaj
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Patent number: 11483174Abstract: Systems and methods for device functionality control utilizing activity prediction are disclosed. For example, an activity model is utilized to identify activities associated with sensor data collected from connected devices within an environment. Target device usage data is then associated with the activities to determine probability values that the target device will be operated when the identified activities are detected. Commands may be generated and sent to the target device to perform a function when the identified activities are detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sven Eberhardt, Suhel Banerjee, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Akanksha Gupta, Jin Long Lee, Hongyang Wang, Maisie Wang
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Patent number: 11373640Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent device grouping are disclosed. An environment, such as a home, may have a number of voice-enabled devices and accessory devices that may be controlled by the voice-enabled devices. One or more models, such as linguistics model(s) and/or device affinity models may be utilized to determine which accessory devices are candidates for inclusion in a device group, and a recommendation for grouping the devices may be provided. Device-group naming recommendations may also be generated and may be sent to users.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Zeya Chen, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Jay Patel, Lizhen Peng, Aniruddha Basak, Hongyang Wang, Sara Hillenmeyer, Yunfeng Jiang, Sven Eberhardt, Akshay Kumar, William Evan Welbourne
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Patent number: 11240641Abstract: Techniques for automatically combining devices into a single group of devices, and splitting devices into multiple groups of devices are described. A machine learning model may process device profile data, associated with devices registered to two different users, and determine the devices should be combined into a single group of devices. Such enables a user to control each of the devices, of the two different users, but providing user inputs to a single device of the group. The machine learning model may also process device profile data, associated with devices registered to a single user, and determine the devices should be split into two or more groups of devices. Such may decrease the likelihood that a system may inadvertently control a device not intended by a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sven Eberhardt, Shekhar Pareek, Aniruddha Basak, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Amir Salimi
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Patent number: 11067718Abstract: Described are systems, methods, and apparatus that gathers environment condition data from different sensors at various locations within an area, aggregates the environment condition data to produce aggregated environment condition scores for the area and provides the aggregated environment condition scores to different locations within the area. While sensor data from a single sensor/device, such as a camera may provide low quality environment information, by collecting and aggregating information from multiple sensors and/or locations in the area, highly accurate aggregated environment condition scores for environment conditions may be realized. The aggregated environment condition scores may be provided to various locations within the area as representative of the environment condition at that point in time within the area, regardless of whether those locations have sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Aniruddha Basak, Zeya Chen, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Lizhen Peng, Yunfeng Jiang, William Evan Welbourne, Jay Patel, Sven Eberhardt
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Patent number: 10909983Abstract: Systems and methods for target-device resolution are disclosed. A user may speak a user utterance requesting an action to be performed with respect to an accessory device, such as a smart-home device. The user utterance may include an identifier for the accessory device, but that identifier may not correspond to a naming indicator of an accessory device and/or may correspond to multiple naming indicators. In these examples, one or more models are utilized to identify which accessory device is most likely to correspond to the accessory device targeted by the user utterance for operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lizhen Peng, Sven Eberhardt, Akshay Kumar, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, William Evan Welbourne
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Publication number: 20200090068Abstract: Systems and methods for state prediction of devices are disclosed. A group of reference devices may be identified and a subset of the reference devices may be identified and/or determined based at least in part on a degree of similarity between reference usage-patterns associated with the reference devices and a usage pattern of a target device. The current state of the subset of the reference devices may be determined and may be utilized to determine a probability that the target device should be in a given state. The state prediction information may be utilized for one or more actions, such as sending recommendations, target inference operations, and/or device configuration, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Sven Eberhardt, William Evan Welbourne, Aniruddha Basak, Lizhen Peng
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Patent number: 10580407Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for utilizing global models to generate local models for electronic devices in an environment, and techniques for utilizing the global models and/or the local models to provide notifications that are based on anomalies detected within the environment. For instance, a remote system may receive an identifier associated with an electronic device and identify a global model using the identifier. The remote system may then receive data indicating state changes of the electronic device and use the data and the global model to generate a local model associated with the electronic device. Using the global model and/or local model, the remote system can identify anomalies associated with the electronic device and, in response to identifying an anomaly, notify the user. The remote system can further cause the electronic device to change states after receiving a request from the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vinay Kotikalapudi Sriram, William Evan Welbourne, Jay Patel, Sven Eberhardt
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Patent number: 10181082Abstract: The method and system includes a plurality of test subject containers, each having a test subject therein. A plurality of video cameras is focused on the test subject containers to capture video of the behavior of each of the test subjects. The system and method also includes a storage system for storing the plurality of video from the cameras. The storage system may be local or cloud-based as is known in the art. The system further has one or more computers with a neural network configured to (a) retrieve the video from the storage system of the test subjects, (b) analyze the video to identify a plurality of observable behaviors in the test subjects, (c) annotate the video with the observed behavior classifications, and (d) store the annotated video in the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Thomas Serre, Youssef Barhomi, Zachary Nado, Kevin Bath, Sven Eberhardt
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Publication number: 20180225516Abstract: The method and system includes a plurality of test subject containers, each having a test subject therein. A plurality of video cameras is focused on the test subject containers to capture video of the behavior of each of the test subjects. The system and method also includes a storage system for storing the plurality of video from the cameras. The storage system may be local or cloud-based as is known in the art. The system further has one or more computers with a neural network configured to (a) retrieve the video from the storage system of the test subjects, (b) analyze the video to identify a plurality of observable behaviors in the test subjects, (c) annotate the video with the observed behavior classifications, and (d) store the annotated video in the storage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Thomas Serre, Youssef Barhomi, Zachary Nado, Kevin Bath, Sven Eberhardt