Patents Issued in September 12, 2024
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Publication number: 20240299808Abstract: An exercise recommendation system determines workout plans for users. The exercise recommendation system trains a machine-learned model configured to rank a set of exercises, and the ranking of exercises can be modified based on feedback from a user, for instance requesting that an exercise be recommended more frequently, less frequently, or never. The exercise recommendation system can also implement a machine-learned model configured to predict a measure of strength for the user, and can, in response to determining that the measure of strength of the user has decreased or plateaued over time, modify a workout for a user based on a muscle or muscle group associated with the measure of strength. Likewise, the exercise recommendation system can modify a workout in response to a predicted measure of strength being less than an actual measure of strength, for instance to include exercises targeting muscles associated with the measure of strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Liam John Gundlach, Thiago Veiga Marzagao, Yihui Liu, Allen Chen, Jesse Dominic Venticinque
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Publication number: 20240299809Abstract: An exercise recommendation system determines workout plans for users. The exercise recommendation system trains a machine-learned model configured to rank a set of exercises, and the ranking of exercises can be modified based on feedback from a user, for instance requesting that an exercise be recommended more frequently, less frequently, or never. The exercise recommendation system can also implement a machine-learned model configured to predict a measure of strength for the user, and can, in response to determining that the measure of strength of the user has decreased or plateaued over time, modify a workout for a user based on a muscle or muscle group associated with the measure of strength. Likewise, the exercise recommendation system can modify a workout in response to a predicted measure of strength being less than an actual measure of strength, for instance to include exercises targeting muscles associated with the measure of strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Yihui Liu, Thiago Veiga Marzagao, Liam John Gundlach, Jesse Dominic Venticinque, Magdalena Mellema-Morgan
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Publication number: 20240299810Abstract: An exercise machine is configured for an exercise motion, and the exercise machine includes an input module configured to receive an input from a user. The input module includes a sensor configured to sense strain forces caused when the user engages the input module and to generate a signal corresponding to the sensed strain forces. A control system is configured to control the exercise machine based on the sensed strain forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Life Fitness, LLCInventors: Gregory A. Joseph, Warren A. Rickert, Ellen Zhao, Ian W. Stokes
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Publication number: 20240299811Abstract: Provided is a golf ball including a core, an intermediate layer, and a cover. A relationship between surface hardnesses of an intermediate layer-encased sphere and the ball satisfies a predetermined relational expression. With a ball initial velocity and a deflection under a predetermined load applied to the ball optimized, and letting a value of (initial velocity of core×weight of core) be Ciw, a value of [(initial velocity of intermediate layer-encased sphere-initial velocity of core)×(weight of intermediate layer-encased sphere-weight of core)] be Miw, and a value of [(initial velocity of ball-initial velocity of intermediate layer-encased sphere)×(weight of ball-weight of intermediate layer-encased sphere)] be CViw, the following condition is satisfied: 2500 ? Ciw + Miw + CViw ? 2650. Lift coefficients and drag coefficients at predetermined Reynolds numbers and spin rates are set to predetermined ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: BRIDGSESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo WATANABE, Masanobu Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20240299812Abstract: A golf ball can include a core, amid layer, and a cover. In the golf ball, a hardness Ho at a central point of the core, a core surface hardness Hs, a hardness H1 at a point to which a distance from the central point of the core can be equal to 25% of a radius of the core, a hardness H2 at a point to which a distance from the central point of the core can be equal to 75% of the radius of the core, a hardness Hm of the mid layer, and a hardness Hc of the cover can satisfy all of the following relational expressions. Ho?H1?H2?Hs??(1) Ho?Hs??(2) (Hs?Ho)*(3/2)?(Hm?Hc)??(3) (Hs?Hc)*(3/2)?(Hm?Hs)??(4).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro SAJIMA, Daijiro KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20240299813Abstract: A racket frame includes a face portion. The face portion includes an inner circumferential surface, an outer circumferential surface, a first end portion (tip end portion), a second end portion (rear end portion), and a side end portion. The face portion is provided with a plurality of through holes in a circumferential direction of the face portion. Each of the plurality of through holes penetrates the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface of the face portion. The plurality of through holes include a first hole and a second hole adjacent to each other. The first hole and the second hole are arranged in at least one of the first end portion (tip end portion), the second end portion (rear end portion), and the side end portion, and are inclined such that a distance therebetween becomes shorter from the outer circumferential surface toward the inner circumferential surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Daisuke YASUTOMI, Yohei YAMASHITA, Naoki HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240299814Abstract: A golf club head includes a body including a striking face having a lower leading edge, and a sole extending from the lower leading edge; and a recessed channel in the sole, wherein a first material in which the recessed channel is defined in has a first density at a first depth from a first outer surface of the first material, and a second density at a second depth from the first outer surface, wherein the second depth is greater than the first depth, and wherein the second density is less than the first density; and a weight assembly including a weight adapted to engage the recessed channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Peter Larsen, Richard Sanchez, Richard L. Cleghorn, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Thomas Orrin Bennett
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Publication number: 20240299815Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of material processing, and particularly provides a preparation process for a golf head with dual metal components. The molded tungsten alloy injection blank is embedded into a stainless steel injection molded mould, the stainless steel feed and the tungsten alloy injection blank are subjected to injection molding to obtain an integrated injection blank subjected to in-mould injection molding, and the golf head with dual metal components is prepared by degreasing and sintering. The preparation process of the present disclosure is applied to golf heads required for counterweight assembling, is completed by using one-time degreasing and sintering process after injection molding of dual metals so as to break through the limitation of a metal injection molding (MIM) technology that can only produce one metal part once, and can be used for one-time molding of stainless steel and tungsten alloy metal parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Liqun YI, Fei XIAO, Guangxing DENG, Xiaohua TIAN
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Publication number: 20240299816Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a hollow body portion having a first material with a first density, a face portion, a first port on the hollow body portion connected an interior portion of the hollow body portion, a second port on the hollow body portion connected to the interior portion of the hollow body portion, a mass portion in the hollow body portion comprising a second material having a second density greater than the first density, and a filler material in the hollow body portion between the face portion and the mass portion. The mass portion has a different shape than the first port and the second port. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLCInventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
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Publication number: 20240299817Abstract: An amusement system features an interactive floor with an array of panels laid out in one or more grids to collectively define an interactive floor surface, an illumination system operable to individually illuminate each panel, and a sensing system operable to detect presence of any participant atop any panel. A base frame of the interactive floor is composed of a plurality of base modules seated on a subfloor, and supporting a respective panel for one or more cells of the interactive floor. The base modules are not directly fastened together, and instead are only intercoupled by perimeter seals applied over peripheral regions of the panels of neighbouring modules. Separation of the modules is constrained by surrounding walls of a room fully occupied by the interactive floor. In gameplay, some panels are distinctively illuminated as hazards to be avoided by participants, subject to penalty.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Adam Schmidt
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Publication number: 20240299818Abstract: An improved shuttlecock for playing a game involving hitting the shuttlecock back-and-forth between players includes a base having a number of stems, each stem extending outwardly from a central axis of the improved shuttlecock by a non-zero angle (e.g., from 2 to 30 degrees). Each stem has a receptor. The base has a cylindrical surface at an end distal from the plurality of stems and an indentation between the cylindrical surface and the plurality of stems. A nose has a striking end and a lip that is distal from the striking end. The nose is connected to the base over the cylindrical surface such that the lip rests in the indentation of the base. Several feathers are included (equal number as the number of stems), each has a quill end. The quill end of each feather is inserted into and affixed within a corresponding one of the receptors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Steven Mueller, Raphael Oliver Schwyter
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Publication number: 20240299819Abstract: A system for determining and generating a graphic visualization of a ball flight parameter includes: a ball flight tracking system configured to detect a ball in flight, the ball flight tracking system detecting seam orientation; a processor coupled to the ball flight tracking system and configured to determine a hemisphere plane angle and seam angle of the ball in flight and to determine a coefficient of a seam shifted wake force based on the determined hemisphere plane angle and seam angle, the processor further configured to calculate the seam shifted wake force based on the determined coefficient of the seam shifted wake force for multiple locations on the ball, and generate a visualization of the seam shifted wake force on the multiple locations on the ball; and an output device coupled to the processor to output the visualization of the seam shifted wake force on the ball to enhance pitch analysis and accurate pitch design.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: Datraks LLCInventors: Matthew Kenneth SCHAFER, Glenn Edward HEALEY, Kyle WISOTZKEY, Ryan James REINSEL
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Publication number: 20240299820Abstract: Disclosed is a hockey training device used to train, condition, and otherwise improve player fundamentals and skill, including stickhandling, shooting, and passing, by conditioning the central nervous system to build new connections through use, resulting in improved speed, strength, and stamina.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Kevin Nash, Brett Strot
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Publication number: 20240299821Abstract: An arm position monitor is provided having a magnetically attractive object, a magnet-coupler connector and a magnet. The magnetically attractive object is adapted to connect to an arm of a user and the magnet is adapted to connect to the same arm or to the other arm via the magnet-coupler connector. When positioned adjacent to one another during a golf swing, the magnet and magnetically attractive object attach to one another. However, if the user's arm substantially deviates from an optimal arm position during the swing, the user applies a detachment force greater than the magnetic attraction force that detaches the magnet from the magnetically attractive object. The arm position monitor alerts the user when this occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Bradley R. Mason, Jeffrey T. Mason
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Publication number: 20240299822Abstract: The present invention is a golf swing trainer that includes a handle and a weighted portion that are attached to each, whether permanently as a unitary device or temporarily, so that handle length may be adjusted. The handle comprises a neck, a first grip, and a second grip. The neck attaches to the weighted portion, while the two grips are attached to the neck. A first grip is located nearer the top end of the neck; that is, near the end of the neck away from the weighted portion. The second grip is located on the neck between the first grip and the weighted portion. Each grip protrudes from the neck at a defined angle. The weighted portion is a mass of material that is sized and shaped to provide a convenient mass that can be swung by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Steven J. Erickson
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Publication number: 20240299823Abstract: A counterweighted golf club training apparatus providing a counterweight element affixed to a shaft protrusion, or portion of the hollow shaft's proximal end protruding through the second end of the grip handle, wherein the center of balance of the apparatus is positioned at a space between the user's hand, thereby redistributing the weight and allowing equal forces to be exerted on each hand without the need for the user to account for swingweight or gravitational effects. Thus, the user is able to swing and practice their movements freely without any individual motion dictating the composition of the overall swing. This apparatus will increase the capability of any user to improve their swing mechanics, train their muscle memory, and confidently advance their ability to correctly swing a club without needing to worry about making mistakes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Justin JASIEWICZ
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Publication number: 20240299824Abstract: Golf stroke training apparatus, as well as methods and systems to train a golfer to improve golf strokes, including putting strokes, wherein the golf stroke training apparatus provides a planar surface that can be levelled statically to the surface below it and can be adjusted by adding slope and/or pitch in quantifiable measurements and with a high degree of accuracy, wherein the repeatable golf stroke environments so provided permit repeatable and quantifiable golfer stroke actions and analysis and leading to golf stroke consistency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Perfection Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Robb Gibb
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Publication number: 20240299825Abstract: A multifunctional and compact exercise apparatus includes an exercise bench with an integrated weight storage unit. The weight storage unit can be configured to store one or more weights in a vertical orientation. The weight storage unit can include a bracket member. The bracket member can include a mounting sidewall and a storage sidewall. The storage sidewall can extend outward substantially or generally perpendicularly from the mounting sidewall. The storage sidewall can include a planar plate-like member having a plurality of cut-outs or slots formed therein. Each slot can be dimensioned to receive a weight in a vertical orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: CURT REYNOLDS
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Publication number: 20240299826Abstract: A dumbbell supporting system includes a platform having an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface receives a dumbbell. A mount is removably attached to a post has a vertical orientation. An arm is attached to and extends between the mount and the platform. The platform is pivotally coupled to the arm and the mount is pivotally coupled to the arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Gregory Scott Olson, Carl K. Towley
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Publication number: 20240299827Abstract: A field may include a plurality of walls segments, stanchions, one or more goals, and one or more doors. A net may encompass at least a portion of a perimeter of a playing field of the field. The net may include a roof portion. An end of the roof portion includes a first end adjacent a base line and a second end a distance into the playing field. The second end of the roof portion is attached to two stanchions. A cable is attached between a winch it attached to the end of a main support pole of the two stanchions connected to the second end of the roof portion. The winch applies a force to the end of the main poles to prevent the main poles from bending inwards towards the playing field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Soccer Park, LLC dba Urban Soccer ParkInventors: Joshua Leland Frazier, Justin Shook
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Publication number: 20240299828Abstract: A modular exercise structure comprising a frame and a first panel. The frame has a base and a plurality of first column and a second column detachably coupled with the base and oriented vertically. The first panel is located between the first column and the second column. The first panel has a first column coupler and a second column coupler disposed on two opposite ends of the first panel. The first and second column couplers are configured to respectively coupled with the first and second columns. The modular exercise structure is configured to be adjustable and modifiable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Duane Scott Brown
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Publication number: 20240299829Abstract: An exercise device system having a voice command and methods for using a voice command system of an exercise system by a user are provided. The exercise system can include a knob, a motor, firmware, and the voice command system. The voice command system can include a voice capture module and an instruction module. The voice capture module can be configured to capture a voice command or user instruction for the new workout setting. The instruction module can be configured to provide the voice command to the firmware to adjust the knob from the current workout setting to the new workout setting when the current workout setting and the new workout setting are different. The method can include at least one of increasing resistance, decreasing resistance, and selecting a preprogrammed cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Dong Un Kim
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Publication number: 20240299830Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for generating an exercise program comprising a plurality of exercise intervals, the method comprising the steps of: —providing a playlist comprising at least one music track, —identifying a plurality of music sections in the at least one music track, wherein each music section is identified based on identification of musical characteristics such as musical elements and time flow, —generating an exercise program, the exercise program comprising a plurality of exercise intervals, wherein at least the timing and intensity of each exercise interval correspond to one or more consecutive identified music sections of the at least one music track in the playlist. Thereby, the user. e.g. the athlete or an instructor, can end up with an exercise program, where there is a fit between the exercise intervals in the exercise program and the music accompanying the training program.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Peter MØLLER HANSEN, Brian OVERKÆR, Anders WILLEMOES HANSEN
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Publication number: 20240299831Abstract: A paddle for use in a racket sports game includes a head, a handle extending from the head between a distal handle end proximate the head and an opposite proximal handle end, and a scorekeeping device installed in the paddle adjacent to the proximal handle end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Tracy Salvino, Kari Gough
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Publication number: 20240299832Abstract: A mouthguard with a hydration system that combines protection to the users mouth and teeth, with a simple way to drink liquids while engaged in physical sports. The system comprises a mouthguard with a valve, a pressurized canister of fluid, and a tube that connects them together. The normally closed valve holds back the pressurized fluid, and is opened by the user with a push of their tongue. This enables the user to drink while engaged in heavy sports activity, such as ice hockey.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Alexander Kang Vesely, Ivan Vesely
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Publication number: 20240299833Abstract: A tool for assisting a billiards player to easily and accurately aim and direct the cue ball to strike a target ball an propel the target ball towards a target such as a pool table pocket. An aiming ring is placed on the billiards table adjacent to the target ball that allows the billiards player to automatically aim the cue ball and propel the target ball into a pocket or other desired location. A billiards goniometer tool is described to assist with bumper shots.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: William Joseph Drasler
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Publication number: 20240299834Abstract: A golf tournament bracket card game that may be played in conjunction with an actual golf tournament. The golf bracket card game may include playing cards with values calculated based upon historical tournament data. The golf tournament bracket card game may also include an additional an optional bonus card deck to provide additional playing excitement as well as a forecasting element using a sheet of integrity on which players may predict the outcome of elements of the games of the tournament. The golf tournament bracket card game may be realized in a physical or digital environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: LUIS DUMA
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Publication number: 20240299835Abstract: A card-dealing machine includes a housing, a card-delivering mechanism and a card-dealing mechanism. The housing has a card compartment, a card access port, a card-delivering port, and a card-dealing port. The card-delivering mechanism is configured to deliver the playing cards in the card compartment to the card-delivering port. The card-dealing mechanism is configured to deal the playing cards located at the card-delivering port from the card-dealing port. The card-delivering mechanism includes a first card-delivering roller assembly, a second card-delivering roller assembly, a first motor and a first transmission assembly. The first motor drives the first card-delivering roller assembly and the second card-delivering roller assembly to rotate through the first transmission assembly so as to deliver the playing cards located in the card compartment to the card-delivering port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: YAOWEN LIANG
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Publication number: 20240299836Abstract: An instant lottery ticket game system includes a set of scratch-off lottery ticket blanks, each lottery ticket blank having a front face and a back face and a game play area on the front face with play indicia that presents a pre-determined game outcome, the play indicia covered by a scratch-off coating (SOC). A coating layer is applied over at least the game play area such that an entirety of the front face presents an empty composition area void of lottery ticket indicia. The set of lottery ticket blanks are housed within an automated dispenser. An interface is configured with the dispenser and is in communication with a printer associated with the dispenser and accepts input of composition indicia from a patron for printing on portions of or the entirety of the front face to generate a finished scratch-off lottery ticket prior to dispensing the finished lottery ticket.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey D. Martineck, SR., Scott B. Garrison
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Publication number: 20240299837Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to gaming equipment and/or accessories, such as dice and dice spinners. In various aspects, disclosed dice spinners include a housing having a top and a bottom, the top defining one or more windows, and a spinner housed within the housing, the spinner having a locking mechanism and at least one dice disk. Disclosed dice spinners may further include a crown in mechanical communication with the spinner such that applying pressure to the crown causes the spinner to spin and display one or more numbers through the one or more windows of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Tanner Yarro
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Publication number: 20240299838Abstract: An object manipulation system comprising a storage device and a plurality of objects, which are configured to be placed within the storage device and separately taken from the storage device. The object manipulation system helps stimulate cognitive abilities of a user and provide quality of life moments without the need for supervision by allowing the user to arrange the items according to one or more arranging cues. The object manipulation system also helps stimulate blood flow of the hands and arms of the user and provides the added stimulating benefits of exercise and flexibility by enabling the user to bend and manipulate one or more manipulative devices of the system. Particularly, in some embodiments, the plurality of objects are bendable and are able to be bent and manipulated as the objects are taken from the storage device and arranged according to the one or more arranging cues.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Angela L. Fairhurst
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Publication number: 20240299839Abstract: Disclosed is a multipart dynamic digital jigsaw-puzzle. Two or more physical parts or tabs are each adapted to present, over a digital display functionally associated therewith, a sub section of a provided digital image. The physical parts/tabs, when arranged in a specific orientation or arrangement, collectively recreate the original digital image from its sub sections. Connection elements retain adjacent puzzle parts/tabs to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Zion Lugasy
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Publication number: 20240299840Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable medium for play systems with controller devices configured to be arbitrarily relocatable and attached to or at least partially contained in arbitrary physical objects in a 3D ambient space—detecting orientations, locations, distances, movements, gesture movements, imaginary objects, and collisions of arbitrary physical objects, and responding accordingly—such as at least in part controlling one or more virtual objects, sound effects, and mechanical effects on a display appliance—based at least in part on the detected orientations, locations, distances, movements, gesture movements, imaginary objects, and collisions of arbitrary physical objects. Further, remote play systems in a computer network may use arbitrary physical objects with controller devices of display appliances.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Kenneth J. Huebner
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Publication number: 20240299841Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-axis rotational input device (or simply “a rotational input device”) including piezoelectric elements. The piezoelectric elements may be configured or otherwise implemented within a housing of the rotational input device to generate a plurality of voltages in response to forces applied to the rotational input device. The piezoelectric elements may be coupled to a plurality of sensors for detecting specific voltage values which, in turn, may be used by a controller circuit to determine a rotational position of the rotational input device at a given moment in time. The rotational position may be used in determining an input signal to be communicated with a computing device, such as a gaming console, having an application running thereon and configured to process the input signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Kenneth Daniel RATEKIN, Colin Michael RAVENSCROFT
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Publication number: 20240299842Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a processor to detect a gaming accessory stimulation associated with a programmable layer of a number of programmable layers. The processor identifies a substitute gaming accessory stimulation of the programmable layer of the number of programmable layers of the gaming accessory. The substitute gaming accessory stimulation of the programmable layer is associated with the gaming accessory stimulation of the programmable layer of the number of programmable layers, according to a user profile of a number of user profiles associated with a user account. Other predetermined associations of stimulations of the gaming accessory with other substitute accessory stimulations are recorded in other user profiles of the number of user profiles, and the substitute gaming accessory stimulation is provided to a computing device to manage a gaming software application. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Tino Soelberg
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Publication number: 20240299843Abstract: In an audio device that includes a plurality of input controls, mixing circuitry, a left speaker, and a right speaker, a desired balance, between a first audio signal and a second audio signal, may be determined according to the plurality of input controls. A desired volume, of the first audio signal and the second audio signal, may be determined according to the plurality of input controls. A virtualization, of one or both of the first audio signal and the second audio signal, may be determined according to a head related transfer function. A stereo signal may be generated by combining the first audio signal and the second audio signal according to the desired balance, the desired volume, and the virtualization. A left channel of the stereo signal may be outputted to the left speaker and a right channel of the stereo signal may be outputted to the right speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari, Kevin Robertson, Scott Warren, Carmine Bonanno, Richard Kulavik
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Publication number: 20240299844Abstract: In an aspect, a first controller module of a mobile device controller can be engaged with a first side of a mobile device of a user. A second controller module of the mobile device controller can be engaged with a second side of the mobile device. One or more mobile device controller characteristics associated with characteristics of the mobile device controller can be transmitted from the mobile device controller to the mobile device. A client application on the mobile device can be modified by a first data processor based on the one or more mobile device controller characteristics. The modified client application can be provided by the first data processor to the user in the mobile device, and the user can interact with the modified client application using the mobile device controller. Related systems, apparatus, techniques, and articles are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Matthew Leigh Vroom, Brandon Douglas Henry Parod, Kyle Robert Thompson, Jason Clyde
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Publication number: 20240299845Abstract: An account connecting method includes: acquiring, by a first connecting device, a first data request transmitted by a first account, transmitting the first data request to a first server of first type, acquiring, on the target connecting device, an address of a second server transmitted by the first server after an interaction scene for realizing a scene interaction is created on the second server, transmitting the address of the second server to the first account, forwarding, to the second server, interaction data in the scene interaction transmitted by the first account, and forwarding, between a target application and an associated server by using a connecting device having a lowest network delay with an account with which the connecting device is required to interact, the interaction data required to be exchanged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Yachang WANG
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Publication number: 20240299846Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including at least one memory for storing a program code, and at least one processor for executing an operation by processing the program code, in which the operation includes obtaining information indicating a detection result according to an operation device that includes a detection section that detects an operation by a user, and calculating, on a basis of at least one of a type of the operation, the number of times for the operation, and an amount of execution time for the operation, points to be redeemed by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Kohki TACHIHARA, Emiko HORIKAWA, Yoshihiko HIRAKAWA, Naoki HATANO, Ling XIE, Takuya KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20240299847Abstract: This application discloses an information transfer method performed at an electronic device. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene of a virtual game in which a first virtual character is currently located; in accordance with a first operation performed by the first virtual character, determining that the first virtual character triggers a first type of information transfer condition; and in accordance with the first type of information transfer condition, displaying a first virtual information carrier in the virtual scene, the first virtual information carrier being configured for transferring information specified by the first virtual character and associated with the virtual scene to a second virtual character. This application resolves the technical problem of low information transfer efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Chenghao YE, Ziyi Wang
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Publication number: 20240299848Abstract: In a method for guiding movement of a virtual object in a virtual environment, a guidance indicator for guiding the movement of the virtual object in the virtual environment is displayed. When a distance between a first game asset and the virtual object in the virtual environment is less than or equal to a first distance threshold associated with the first game asset, guidance information corresponding to the first game asset is displayed on the guidance indicator based on a relative position of the first game asset to the virtual object. A display attribute of the guidance information is adjusted based on a change in the relative position of the first game asset to the virtual object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventor: Yajing XU
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Publication number: 20240299849Abstract: A method for controlling game behavior of defensive objective characters in a virtual environment comprises providing a decision tree including a prioritized set of tasks for a defensive objective character to perform in the virtual environment, each task of the prioritized set of tasks having at least one condition for performing the task, and iteratively modifying the game behavior of the defensive objective character in the virtual environment by processing at least a subset of tasks of the prioritized set of tasks in order of highest priority to lowest priority, wherein processing includes determining whether the at least one condition for a given task of the prioritized set of tasks is satisfied and modifying the game behavior of the defensive objective character in the virtual environment to perform the given task when the at least one condition for the given task is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Luke Timmins, Gregory Peng, Elizabeth M.E. Chung, James Lavasseur
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Publication number: 20240299850Abstract: A region adjustment method, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The region adjustment method includes: determining a region allowing a target object to move in a map, the region comprising a first region that allows the target object to move without being harmed and participate in a target task in the map; determining scene objects set in the map; obtaining object types of the scene objects in a plurality of sub-regions of the first region; based on a sub-region among the plurality of sub-regions in which an object type of a scene object meeting a target condition in the first region, determining the sub-region in which the object type meets the target condition as a second region; and switching the region allowing the target object to move from the first region to the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Xin SUN
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Publication number: 20240299851Abstract: An initial seed input for generation of a storyboard is received. A current image generation input is set the same as the initial seed input. A first artificial intelligence model is executed to automatically generate a current frame image based on the current image generation input. The current frame image and its corresponding description are stored as a next frame in the storyboard. A second artificial intelligence model is executed to automatically generate a description of the current frame image. A third artificial intelligence model is executed to automatically generate a next frame input description for the storyboard based on the description of the current frame image. The current image generation input is set the same as the next frame input description. Then, execution of the first, second, and third artificial intelligence models is repeated until a final frame image and its corresponding description are generated and stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Warren M. Benedetto, Jonathan Webb
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Publication number: 20240299852Abstract: The system creates a posting on a social media platform by a social media identity associated with a videogame, where the posting includes a link to the videogame. The system receives a single-click selection of the link, where the single-click selection is received through the social media platform. Upon receiving the single-click selection of the link, the system launches the videogame in an embedded browser running within the social media platform, where a user remains within the social media platform while interacting with the embedded browser. The system enables the user to play the videogame through the embedded browser without downloading an executable to a user device associated with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Armando McIntyre-Kirwin
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Publication number: 20240299853Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to methods for making user activity recommendations. In some aspects, a process of the technology can include operations for receiving a free-to-play indication, the free-to-play indication specifying availability of a user associated with a media system, retrieving, via the network interface, peer information indicating an availability of one or more online peers of the user, and retrieving, via the network interface, activity information indicating one or more activities available to the user, and at least one of the online peers. In some aspects method can further include operations for providing an activity recommendation to the user based on the peer information and the activity information, wherein the activity recommendation includes a suggestion of at least one activity that can be conducted by the user with the media system. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Shunsuke Kunieda, Yumiko Tanaka, Daisuke Kawamura
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Publication number: 20240299854Abstract: The present embodiment provides a program that makes it easy for a player to manage game media. The arrangement is such that batch experience-value conversion is performed on the basis of an input by a player, in which the whole duplicate number for each subject character is converted into a pool experience value, where the subject characters are, among characters possessed by the player, all the characters whose duplicate numbers are greater than or equal to one and whose maximum levels have reached an upper-limit value of one hundred.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.Inventors: Koji Yamakoshi, Koji Otani, Yasuhiro Yamada, Makoto Noguchi, Yujiro Onishi
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Publication number: 20240299855Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating private communication between users are described. One of the methods includes determining that a gesture directed towards one or more users from a plurality of users is made by a user, generating one or more private communication channels between the user and the one or more users in response to determining that the gesture is directed towards the one or more users, and determining that one or more additional gestures indicated in the one or more private communication channels are made. The one or more additional gestures are associated with one or more meanings, and the one or more meanings are received via the one or more private communication channels. The method includes hiding the one or more additional gestures from remaining ones of the plurality of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Celeste Bean
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Publication number: 20240299856Abstract: A balloon weight assembly includes a body portion including a depression, the body portion adapted to carry a ribbon, where the ribbon has a first end and a second end, where the first end of the ribbon is attached to the body portion; and an adhesive member attached to the second end of the ribbon, where the adhesive member is removably adhered to the body portion such that an edge of the adhesive member partially overhangs the depression, such that the depression provides finger access to the edge of the adhesive member overhanging the depression.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Wesley A. Schroeder
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Publication number: 20240299857Abstract: A toy brick component has a top end, a bottom end, multiple side faces, an assembling portion having multiple top connecting units and disposed at the top end, a cooperating portion disposed at the bottom end, and multiple attaching portions having multiple side connecting units and disposed at the multiple side faces. The top connecting units and the side connecting units are detachably connected to the multiple cooperating recesses of the cooperating portion of another toy brick component. The toy brick component not only can be connected by the assembling portion and the cooperating portion, but also can be connected by the multiple attaching portions disposed at the side faces of the toy brick component. By providing variety of connecting ways, increasing the connecting diversity of the toy brick component, a user can build diverse finished works, thereby stimulating creativity and imagination of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventor: Chun-Hsien YEH