Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 12067138
    Abstract: Systems and methods for linking a screen capture to a user support session are disclosed. The system may receive a screen capture initiation request from a user device. The system may capture a first data object indicative of a first graphical user interface associated with the user device. The system may provide, to the user device, the first graphical user interface for a predetermined period of time. The system may track, by the one or more processors, one or more inputs from the user device that indicate the presence of one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface. The system may mask the one or more articles of sensitive information within the graphical user interface, generate a second data object indicative of the graphical user interface having the masked articles of sensitive information, and store the second data object in a data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas H. Scott, Jude Pierre Anasta, Fayaz Khan, Patrick Blinkhorn, Mary Sweeney, Tejen Shrestha, Joseph Amburgey
  • Patent number: 12067139
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for integrated data privacy services. An example method includes determining to initiate an integrated end of purpose protocol for an object. An end-of-purpose query is provided to multiple applications that requests each application to determine whether the application is able to block the object. End-of-purpose statuses are received, in response to the end-of-purpose query, that each indicate whether a respective application is able to block the object. The end-of-purpose statuses are evaluated to determine whether an aligned end of purpose has been reached for the object. In response to determining that the aligned end of purpose has been reached for the object, a block command is provided to each application that instructs the application to locally block the object in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Benny Rolle, Ufuoma Ighoroje, Matthias Vogel
  • Patent number: 12067140
    Abstract: A method and system for storing electronic documents based on a distributed environment includes the following steps of: a storage management server receives a document data stream sent by a client; the storage management server parses the document type of the electronic document; the storage management server Match the corresponding first storage server based on the document type of the electronic document and the user information; the storage management server sends the corresponding electronic document to the corresponding first storage server; the first storage server is based on the first storage server The digital watermark loading rule of the server loads the digital watermark on the electronic document; the first storage server stores the electronic document loaded with the digital watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Jiaying Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Yang, Haibo Zeng, Ping Yuan, Bicheng Tang, Ying Huang
  • Patent number: 12067141
    Abstract: A data marketplace for enriching data records by matching, identifying composite data records, and utilizing Reference Source datasets. Customer data can be tokenized and then subsequently transmitted to a third-party Data Marketplace Platform. Similarly, a Reference Source dataset may be tokenized and transmitted to a Data Marketplace Platform. On the Data Marketplace Platform, the customer data and the reference source data may be compared, wherein certain data attributes (i.e., tokens on the Data Marketplace Platform) may be identified as missing in the customer dataset and present in the reference source dataset. The customer may then have the ability to acquire the missing and value-added data attributes by transacting with the reference source via a data broker, such as the Data Marketplace Platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Collibra Belgium BV
    Inventors: Satyender Goel, James B. Cushman, II
  • Patent number: 12067143
    Abstract: Protecting a mobile device from visual hacking comprises analyzing a displayed window/page containing data fields and parsing the fields to identify when sensitive information is displayed. Data from a gyroscope of the mobile device is used to detect roll and pitch viewing angles of the mobile device, data from a proximity sensor is used to detect a distance between the mobile device and the user, and a camera is used to take an image of the user and detect a number of faces visible in the image. The sensitive information is obscured when any predefined conditions are not met, including: determining that the roll and pitch viewing angles are not within pitch and roll threshold values, or that the detected distance is not within distance threshold values, or that more than a single face is detected in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Ved Prakash Sajjan Kumar Agarwal
  • Patent number: 12067144
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by an application executing on a processor of an electronic device, user data of a user, generating a representation of the user data, applying local differential privacy to the representation of the user data, to generate a transform of the representation of the user data, sending the transform of the representation of the user data, to a service provider via a network and receiving, from the service provider, via the network, service data based on the transform of the user data. The service data includes a user-specific output based on the transform of the user data. The application executes outside of a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the electronic device. The transform of the representation of the user data is generated in the TEE of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianwei Qian, Xun Chen
  • Patent number: 12067145
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes processing consent data and using the processed consent data in workflows. Customer consent data is accessed, wherein the customer consent data includes subject consent instances including associated consent purpose-value pairs. The customer consent data is mapped to a raw consent data schema based on mapping selections made on a mapping UI, wherein the mapping includes mapping consent purpose-value pairs of the consent instances to data columns of the raw consent data schema. Metadata representing one or more consent rules related to the raw consent data schema is generated based on rule selections made on a rule configuration UI and the consent rules are applied to one or more workflows. The disclosure enables consent data in different formats and/or from different sources to be ingested and standardized in a single platform such that consent checking functionality can be provided for applications in a consistent and comprehensive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Smith Codio, Anubhav Tandon, Patrick Meade Stirrat, Mukesh Pohuja, Gyan Prakash Trivedi, John Michael Bolinder, Rohit Sanka, Rong Zhou, Balasubramanian Shyamsundar, Harsha Bacharaju
  • Patent number: 12067146
    Abstract: A system and method for securing a portion of a communication includes receiving a request to mark a portion of a communication as sensitive, where the communication includes a sensitive portion and an unsensitive portion. Upon receiving the request, a data property of the sensitive portion is set to a sensitive content property. After setting the data property, the method includes, securing the sensitive portion by initiating security calls for handling the sensitive portion, and transmitting the communication to a recipient. After the communication is transmitted to the recipient, access to the unsensitive portion is provided to the recipient, while the sensitive portion is redacted until the recipient is authenticated for receiving access to the sensitive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Raghu Jothilingam
  • Patent number: 12067147
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a user a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use user data maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. Restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems can be imposed via a central portal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lila Fakhraie, Brian M. Pearce, Steven Pulido, Benjamin Soccorsy, Mojdeh Tomsich, James Stahley
  • Patent number: 12067148
    Abstract: A security processor includes a key generator circuit configured to randomly generate a key, an encryption circuit configured to encrypt user data based on the key, and a security manager circuit configured to receive a first user identification (ID), which uniquely corresponds to a user of a device, and determine whether to allow access to the user data by authenticating the first user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keunyoung Park, Dongjin Park
  • Patent number: 12067149
    Abstract: Use of embedded metadata for data privacy compliance is provided. In a data store, self-managed data is maintained including metadata specifying retention policy data. Responsive to a self-update to scrub PII from the self-managed data being indicated by the retention policy data, the PII is removed from the self-managed data maintained by the data store. Responsive to a self-update to delete the self-managed data from the self-managed data being indicated by the retention policy data, the self-managed data is removed from the data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Herman, Jon Speigle, Brian Tamm
  • Patent number: 12067150
    Abstract: An information processing device, anonymizing data composed of records including one or more items through statistical processing, includes a memory, and a processor configured to acquire a data set from a server, classify respective records constituting the data into one or more first sets, based on masking target items, a dictionary, and a selected hierarchy level, classify the respective records into one or more second sets with respect to a number of records belonging to each of the one or more first sets, and calculate a ratio of records belonging to each of the one or more second sets to the records constituting the data, calculate an index value regarding merged data, change the hierarchy level based on the ratio of records, priority set in advance, and the index value, and create a statistically processed record by statistically processing records belonging to a same first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Mihara
  • Patent number: 12067151
    Abstract: A computer with data (the “source”) establishes communication channels to other computers with available computing resources (the “workers”). The computers exchange information to negotiate alternative sets of encryption techniques and security settings. The source calculates a response by negotiating a data reduction scheme that is applied to form heterogeneous data payloads. Some of the data are encrypted using a fully homomorphic encryption algorithm to form a multi-segment response, whereas other data are encrypted using an encryption algorithm other than fully homomorphic encryption. Security-relevant parameters of the invoked encryption schemes are varied to achieve a negotiated optimal data reduction scheme. Candidate reduction schemes to apply to the user data are negotiated based on then-current communication bandwidth availability and/or computer processing resources at the source and/or at the workers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Enya Inc.
    Inventors: Jan T. Liphardt, Alan N. Chiu
  • Patent number: 12067152
    Abstract: A storage unit stores a size of a free area of storage of target equipment, and software saved in the storage. The generation unit generates a graph including a number of nodes according to the size of the free area of the storage, and transmits the graph to the target equipment. The calculation unit calculates a hash value corresponding to each software block saved in the storage. The verification unit verifies the presence or absence of tampering of the storage of the target equipment using the hash value corresponding to the block calculated, a response calculated using the graph returned to a challenge that specifies a node of the graph, and a hash value corresponding to the block returned as the response to the challenge that specifies the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manami Ito, Kimihiro Yamakoshi, Hiroyoshi Takiguchi, Takeshi Nakatsuru
  • Patent number: 12067154
    Abstract: A sensor data assembly providing a secured data storage for monitored data containing sensor data acquired by at least one sensor, a processing unit adapted to provide a cryptographic checksum of the monitored data and/or the sensor data acquired by the sensor, a distributed database and a first connection adapted to, at least temporarily, connect the sensor and the processing unit. A method provides manipulation proof monitored data containing sensor data of a sensor of the sensor data assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jerry Fornander, Andreas Graichen, Thomas Jetzfellner, Johan Lindstam, Markus Sauer, Monika Sturm
  • Patent number: 12067155
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a SoC, a disk, and an e-fuse. The SoC is an integrated circuit configured on one chip on which a CPU is mounted. The disk is controlled through the SoC. The e-fuse is provided on a clock signal line mounted in the SoC and is disconnected by an external input to the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuto Aramaki
  • Patent number: 12067156
    Abstract: An anti-tamper assembly is disclosed for a circuit board which comprises one or more electronic components. The assembly comprises a container having side walls, a first closed end and a second, opposing open end, the container being configured to be mounted on said circuit board at said open end, over at least one of the electronic components to form, in use, a sealed cavity around said at least one of said electronic components. The assembly further comprises a source of radioactive particles mounted within the container, an image sensor for capturing image frames within said sealed cavity, in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Blueskytec Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher Mobley
  • Patent number: 12067157
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using motion sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor motions within a real environment. A virtual object can be projected to a user of a portable device integrated into an augmented rendering of a real environment about the user. Motion information of a user body portion is determined based at least in part upon sensory information received from imaging or acoustic sensory devices. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the motion of the portable device and the detected motion of the user. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 12067158
    Abstract: Disclosed is an object interaction method, comprising: determining a pose of a terminal device under a real environment coordinate system; according to pixel information and depth information of a first object, determining a pose of the first object relative to the terminal device; according to the pose of the terminal device under the real environment coordinate system and the pose of the first object relative to the terminal device, determining a pose of the first object under the real environment coordinate system; determining a pose of a second object under the real environment coordinate system; and according to the pose of the first object under the real environment coordinate system and the pose of the second object under the real environment coordinate system, controlling the first physical object and the second virtual object to interact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yulu Wang
  • Patent number: 12067159
    Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
  • Patent number: 12067160
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for systems and methods for controlling secondary devices at fine scales using mixed, virtual and/or augmented reality. Examples of secondary devices may include those involved in lighting (i.e., light emitting diodes), sound, and the production of videos, film, and movies. In some embodiments, a system may include a server, mixed reality user device and secondary device communicatively coupled via a network. The server may be configured to generate a virtual object based on gestural data that is configured for display within a mixed reality environment. The server may also be configured to generate secondary device settings based on gestural data, where the secondary device settings may be used to control the operation of a secondary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LIGHT WAND LLC
    Inventors: Chase Bowman, Seth Johnson
  • Patent number: 12067161
    Abstract: Ultrasonic transducers may be used to track the position of an object. For example, eyewear such as a pair of glasses or other head-mounted device may use ultrasonic transducers to track a user's eye position and gaze direction. To increase positioning accuracy over short-range distances, an array of ultrasonic transducers with different center frequencies may be formed on a common substrate. The closely spaced ultrasonic transducers with relatively small individual bandwidths may be used to simulate a single transducer with a larger bandwidth. Control circuitry may adjust the phases of the transducers in the array to steer the ultrasonic signal beam towards the user's eye and/or to receive an ultrasonic signal beam from the direction of the user's eye. The control circuitry may use time delay and/or phase delay measurement techniques to determine a distance and/or direction to the user's eye using the ultrasonic transducer arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ehsan Arbabi, Patrick R. Gill, Avery L. Wang
  • Patent number: 12067162
    Abstract: A gaze point detection device 30 includes face detection means 31 for detecting a face portion of an object person from a first image and first depth information, line of sight direction estimation means 32 for estimating a line of sight direction of the object person using the face portion detected by the face detecting means 31, position information estimation means 33 for estimating a three-dimensional spatial position of a pupil of the object person and three-dimensional spatial positions of a first photographing unit and a second photographing unit, based on the first image, the first depth information, a second image and second depth information, and gaze point identification means 34 for identifying a gaze point of the object person, based on the three-dimensional spatial position of the pupil of the object person and the line of sight direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Takamoto
  • Patent number: 12067163
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an image acquisition device are provided. The method includes that: multiple images photographed by multiple image acquisition devices are acquired; an active image acquisition device and an inactive image acquisition device in the multiple image acquisition devices are determined according to the multiple images; the active image acquisition device is controlled to photograph a first image by using a first configuration, and the inactive image acquisition device is controlled to photograph a second image by using a second configuration; the first image transmitted by the active image acquisition device is acquired, and the second image transmitted by the inactive image acquisition device is acquired, and a bandwidth required by the active image acquisition device to transmit the first image is greater than a bandwidth required by the inactive image acquisition device to transmit the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING 7INVENSUN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Fu, Yunfei Wang, Tongbing Huang
  • Patent number: 12067164
    Abstract: Techniques for proving haptic feedback in computing systems are described. In operation, an input representing utilisation parameters of an electronic pen is received. In an example, the electronic pen may be electronically coupled to the computing system. Based on the received utilisation parameters, the computing system provides a pattern of haptic feedback to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles J. Stancil, Tai Hsiang Chen, Hung-Ming Chen, Simon Wong, Hsiang-Ta Ke, Yi-Hsien Lin, Jung-Hsing Wang
  • Patent number: 12067165
    Abstract: A haptic reproduction system comprises: a touch display device, an upper computer and a waveform generator. The touch display device comprises a piezoelectric unit, a touch display panel and a touch driving unit. The piezoelectric unit is disposed on the touch display panel. The touch driving unit is electrically connected to the touch display panel and the upper computer, and is configured to acquire touch information and transmit the touch information to the upper computer. The upper computer is electrically connected to the waveform generator, and is configured to send a first waveform generation instruction to the waveform generator according to the touch information. The waveform generator is configured to generate a first waveform signal according to the first waveform generation instruction. The piezoelectric unit is electrically connected to the waveform generator, and is configured to resonate with the touch display panel under the drive of the first waveform signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongchun Tao, Yuju Chen, Hui Hua, Xiaotong Liu, Xiaofeng Yin
  • Patent number: 12067166
    Abstract: A touch panel system is provided, which comprises a display unit, a touch sensor structure and a coverglass. A user touches the coverglass during touch input to the touch sensor structure, and the coverglass is configured to be moved relative to the display unit for providing haptical feedback to the user. Therein, the coverglass is mounted in a predetermined distance d from the display unit such that the coverglass and the display unit are decoupled from each other by an empty space to define opposite internal surfaces, which are coated with an anti-reflecting coating such as a moth eye film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Brandt, Wieland Oberst
  • Patent number: 12067167
    Abstract: A computing device can include a cover, a texture haptics layer adjacent to the cover, a display layer adjacent to the texture haptics layer, an impact haptics layer adjacent to the display layer, a controller, and a housing enclosing the controller and supporting the cover, the texture haptics layer, the display layer, and the impact haptics layer. The controller can be configured to activate the texture haptics layer in response to an object moving along the cover, control an image presented by the display layer, and activate the impact haptics layer in response to the object contacting the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jianxun Wang, Debanjan Mukherjee, Haechang Lee
  • Patent number: 12067168
    Abstract: A method of providing a texture motion effect in a multisensory media system includes generating a texture signal by using linear predictive coding (LPC) filters obtained by applying LPC to each of a column and a row forming a texture image selected from an input image and generating a texture motion by using a visual roughness of the texture signal and a depth speed of a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation
    Inventors: Seung Moon Choi, Beom Su Lim, Sang Yoon Han
  • Patent number: 12067169
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for implementing dynamic tactile feedback of a flexible object are disclosed. The apparatus enables recognition of a continuous change in stiffness of an object due to a dynamic response of the flexible object. The method enables recognition of such changes through control of the device. The method enables a user to continuously control the stiffness of a device used as a tool for haptic feedback. This further enables various virtual world sensations associated with virtual reality or augmented reality content to be expressed in direct relation to the length, shape, material, etc. of virtual objects, and also enables various virtual world sensations to be realized through such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: KAIST (KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
    Inventors: Bianchi Andrea, Neung Ryu, Woo Jin Lee, Myung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 12067170
    Abstract: A device for motion sickness reduction, directional indication, and neural rehabilitation that provides three modes of operation. The device operates by providing haptic feedback using transducers that convert electrical signals to a tactile sensation such as pressure, vibration, electrical stimulation, temperature, or airflow. The transducers are located at different locations on the body of a user, and actively change their operation to indicate a direction of motion or rotation to the user through haptic (tactile) feedback. This tactile feedback can be used to reduce motion sickness, provide directional indication, and enhance neural rehabilitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEUROHAPTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Evgene Fainstain
  • Patent number: 12067171
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating an artificial reality device using gestures. In various exemplary embodiments, an artificial reality device may receive information initiating a gesture recognition mode via the artificial reality device, and cause a camera associated with the artificial reality device to operate in the gesture recognition mode. The artificial reality device may further receive at least one image of a gesture captured by the camera and identify and evaluate the gesture. The gesture may be indicative of a user command. The artificial reality device may also execute the user command, and may generate feedback confirming execution of the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Priyanka Sharma
  • Patent number: 12067172
    Abstract: Method and apparatus is disclosed for a user to communicate with an electronic device. A processor receives user intention actions comprising facial expression (FE) information indicative of facial expressions and body information indicative of motion or position of one or more body parts of the user. When the FE or body information crosses a first level, the processor starts generating first signals based on the FE or body information to communicate with the electronic device. When the FE or body information crosses a second level, the processor can end generation of the first signals or modify the first signals. An image processing or eye gaze tracking system can provide some FE information or body information. The signals can modify attributes of an object of interest. Use of thresholds that are independent of sensor position or orientation with respect to the user's body are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventor: Uday Parshionikar
  • Patent number: 12067173
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 12067174
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a first computing device, text composed using a composition window of a second computing device; entering, by the first computing device, the composed text into a text input of an application executing on the first computing device; determining, by the first computing device, one or more attributes of a cursor of the text input, the one or more attributes of the cursor including at least a position of the cursor; and sending, by the first computing device, the one or more attributes of the cursor to the second computing device, the second computing device configured to display the application and to position the composition window relative to the displayed application based on the position of the cursor determined by the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wang Yiming, Tao Yin, Cungang Lin, Hao Wu, Sujie Li
  • Patent number: 12067175
    Abstract: This disclosure generally describes a system for warming an area surrounding a control element for controlling operation of an associated machine or device. The system can include a heating element that can warm air in and around the heating element when actuated, a blower unit that can be in fluid communication with the heating element and that can generate a flow of the warm air when the heating element and the blower unit are actuated, and a forearm extension unit that can channel the flow of the warm air from the blower unit to warm a user's forearm when the user uses an associated machine or device to which the forearm extension unit is attached. The associated machine or device can be a wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventor: Nathan Jerome Mayer
  • Patent number: 12067176
    Abstract: An attachment for a writing instrument, comprising a support member comprising a distal end (D) and a proximal end (P), wherein an attachment axis (A) is defined between the distal end and the proximal end, wherein the support member is configured to be attached to a writing instrument, an inertial measurement unit, wherein the inertial measurement unit is configured to measure a movement of the attachment axis (A) between a first and a second position of the attachment axis, a momentum wheel assembly, wherein the momentum wheel assembly comprises a first rotatable member coupled to a first motor, wherein the first motor is configured to apply a variable torque to the first rotatable member, and a control unit configured to actuate the first motor based on the movement of the attachment axis measured by the inertial measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventors: Michail Kokozidis, Christos Galanis, Panagiotis Polygerinos
  • Patent number: 12067177
    Abstract: A laptop computer includes a display portion comprising a primary display and a base portion coupled to the display portion. The base portion includes a keyboard and a light-transmissive cover defining a first touch-sensitive input region along a first side of the keyboard and a second touch-sensitive input region along a second side of the keyboard. The base portion also includes a first display under the first touch-sensitive input region and a second display under the second touch-sensitive input region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Chang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12067178
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a second direction. The device may also include a sensing circuit that is operatively coupled to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may be configured to apply a drive signal to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may also be configured to detect a touch or near touch based on a variation in an electrical measurement using the first or second set of conductive threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Daniel D. Sunshine
  • Patent number: 12067179
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes common electrodes overlapping pixels; common driver configured to supply voltage during a display period and an AC drive signal for touch detection during touch detection period; source lines connected to columns of pixels; source driver configured to supply an image signal; gate lines connected to rows of the pixels; select transistors connected between source driver and source lines; and controller configured to supply DC control signal to gate terminals of select transistors during display period, supply an AC control signal to gate terminals of select transistors during touch detection period, wherein AC control signal is synchronous with AC drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Nitobe, Yoshihiro Kotani
  • Patent number: 12067180
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seal for a touch screen module, comprising: a first side configured to be disposed at least at an edge of the touch screen module; and a second side opposite to the first side; wherein the second side is configured such that an outer section of the second side is to be fitted with a housing in an interference fit manner and at least a portion of an inner section of the second side is to be fitted with the housing in a non-interference fit manner. Also disclosed are a touch screen module, a monitor and an assembling method. The seal not only can achieve a good sealing effect to prevent any undesired substances from being collected at the seal and entering the interior of the monitor, but also can prevent the transparent cover from falling off from the housing due to stress generated by the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Brehm, Gesa Gercke, Zhongxiang Liang, Maosong Wu, Chaowei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12067181
    Abstract: A touch panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device, which belong to the field of display technology, are disclosed. The touch panel includes a substrate (1), and a first light-transmitting insulation layer (2), a touch structure (3), and a second light-transmitting insulation layer (4), which are sequentially disposed on the substrate (1); the touch structure (3) includes a first touch layer (31), a third light-transmitting insulation layer (32), and a second touch layer (33), which are sequentially stacked; a refractive index of the first light-transmitting insulation layer (2) is greater than that of the third light-transmitting insulation layer (32); and a refractive index of the third light-transmitting insulation layer (32) is greater than that of the second light-transmitting insulation layer (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangjie Li, Zhongzheng Yang, Yu Jiang, Zhanqi Xu, Ting Zeng, Liuyue Yin, Haifeng Hu
  • Patent number: 12067182
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a base layer, a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode disposed on the base layer, a first signal line and a second signal line. The first signal line is electrically connected to the first sensing electrode through at least one first via, and the second signal line is electrically connected to the second sensing electrode. The first signal line is apart from the second signal line at most 2 micrometers in a top view of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 12067183
    Abstract: Touch responsive displays that may be integrated into a wide variety of non-transparent, non-glass surfaces to provide on-demand human computer interfaces that blend with the environment, i.e., remain invisible unless activated, effectively adding digital user interfaces (UI) to non-technology products and surfaces. The interactive display devices are frameless assemblies of a sensor layer, a light layer, and a support layer housing a microcontroller, wherein the device is configured to be positioned beneath a non-transparent surface layer with the sensor layer arranged below the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Touchwood Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dworman, Gaurav Asthana
  • Patent number: 12067184
    Abstract: A sensor-equipped display device is provided and includes a display panel and a detection electrode. The panel includes a display area in which pixels are arranged with a first pixel pitch in a first direction and a second pixel pitch in a second direction. The electrode includes an pattern having line fragments. The pattern has connection points at which ends of the fragments are connected to each other, and at least part of the connection points is arranged linearly such that an arrangement gaps thereof in the first and second direction is set to a first and second connection point pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 12067185
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate having a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge. There is a first distance between the first edge and the second edge. The display device also includes a plurality of light-emitting units disposed on the substrate, and a conductive line disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of light-emitting units. The conductive line includes an undulating edge and has an extending length which is greater than or equal to half of the first distance and is less than or equal to the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Feng Lee, Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Hsien Wu
  • Patent number: 12067186
    Abstract: A control device having an exterior panel and a control module, where the control module includes a sensor layer, and the exterior panel overlays the sensor layer. The control module is configured to determine one or more characteristics of a touch input, and to select a scene based at least in part on the one or more determined characteristics of the touch input. The control module further controls an operational aspect of each device of the set in accordance with the selected scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Bozhi See
  • Patent number: 12067187
    Abstract: A position detection method performed using a capacitive touch sensor with line electrodes two-dimensionally arranged. The method includes: acquiring first two-dimensional data indicating a first distribution of detection values of capacitance on the touch sensor; recognizing that a foreign object is present in an area on the touch sensor based on the first two-dimensional data; in response to the recognizing that the foreign object is present in the area on the touch sensor based on the first two-dimensional data, using a first threshold that is lower than a second threshold for detecting a first touch position or touch area inside of the area on the touch sensor in which the foreign object is present; and detecting the first touch position or touch area inside of the area on the touch sensor in which the foreign object is present based on the first two-dimensional data and the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JuiMin Liu, Shigeyuki Sano
  • Patent number: 12067188
    Abstract: Sensing circuitry of a first electronic device can be configured to sense a signal transmitted by the second, external electronic device contacting and coupling through the body of the user. The first electronic device can be configured to detect the contact while receiving data from the second device, and determine whether the signal transmitted by the external device corresponds an “intentional touch,” or corresponds to a signal coupling between a different body part and the external device or through a different signal pathway (e.g., electromagnetically, through the air, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Brian H. Tsang, Timothy M. Johnson, Bryan D. Raines, Zaid M. Nadeem, Andy J. Zhou, Xinhao Wang
  • Patent number: 12067189
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a smart pen and a display device using the same, in which a reflective light reception rate may be enhanced through a light output structure to increase a code pattern and code information recognition rate of a display panel. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, smart pen comprising a body portion, a pen tip portion formed on one end of the body portion to form a path of light emitted from a light emitting portion in an end direction at one side, a code detector detecting shape data for code patterns by applying light to the pen tip portion and receiving light reflected from a display panel and the pen tip portion, and a code processor generating coordinate data by using the shape data and transmitting the coordinate data to a main processor for driving the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Min Park, Jin Yong Sim, Ivan Maidanchuk, Won Sang Park, Kyu Shik Shin, Seong Jun Lee