Tactile Based Interaction Patents (Class 715/702)
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Patent number: 11966576Abstract: A screen icon operating method includes collecting user sliding operation information. The sliding operation information includes a first location, a sliding speed, pressing duration before sliding, or a sliding direction The first location is an initial location of a user sliding operation. When the first location is not located on an icon, when the sliding speed is less than a sliding speed threshold, moving icons on a display page by columns or by rows in the sliding direction, or when the first location is located on the icon, the method determines that the pressing duration is greater than or equal to a first duration threshold and less than or equal to a second duration threshold, and moves column icons or row icons in the sliding direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuchi Ma, Bifeng Tong, Xiaohu Zhao, Rigele Te
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Patent number: 11961410Abstract: Systems and methods to measure and affect focus, engagement, and presence of users may include measuring a variety of aspects of users engaged in particular activities. Individual user characteristics or preferences and attributes of activities may be taken into account to determine levels of focus for particular users and activities. A variety of sensors may detect aspects of users engaged in activities to measure levels of focus. In addition, a variety of output devices may initiate actions to affect levels of focus of users engaged in activities. Further, a variety of processing algorithms, including machine learning models, may be trained to identify desired levels of focus, to calculate current levels of focus, and to select actions to change or boost levels of focus. In this manner, activities undertaken by users, as well as interactions between multiple users, may be made more engaging, efficient, and productive.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Shude Lin, Johan Christer Liedgren, Ana Sande do Vale Pinto da Silva, Wasiq Bokhari, Hilliard Bruce Siegel
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Patent number: 11954289Abstract: Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device projects a virtual interface (VI) on a surface using a laser projector. The VI includes a first user interface element and a second user interface element partially overlapping the first user interface element. The device detects, based on sensor data from at least one of a camera or a depth sensor of the wearable multimedia device, that a user has positioned a finger in proximity with the first user interface element. In response, the device modifies a visual characteristic of at least one of the first user interface element or the second user interface element.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Humane, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Luke Kocienda, Imran A. Chaudhri
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Patent number: 11941178Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch module, a motion sensor, a memory, and a control unit. The touch module is configured to generate a touch signal. The motion sensor is configured to detect motion of the electronic device to generate motion data. The memory stores a preset motion condition. The control unit is electrically connected to the touch module, the motion sensor, and the memory, and configured to: receive the motion data; and determine whether the motion data meets the preset motion condition or not, and generate a virtual touch signal when the motion data meets the preset motion condition. A control method applied to the electronic device is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Wen Fang Hsiao, I-Hsi Wu, Shin-Yi Huang
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Patent number: 11921926Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to content-based tactile outputs. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with content-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with end-of-content tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with moving a user interface in response to different types of input are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with adjustable item-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with input velocity-based tactile outputs are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Camille Moussette, David H. Bloom, Gary Ian Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Dylan Ross Edwards, Jules K. Fennis, Brian T. Gleeson, Miao He, Matthew J. Sundstrom
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Patent number: 11910003Abstract: Processing methods for motion compensation, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The method includes the following. Determine a search position constellation with a point pointed by an initial motion vector as a center point, where the search position constellation includes N directions, search for at least one search point by using at least one type of step lengths in the directions, where the at least one search point at least includes at least one search point in diagonal directions. Search for at least one search position from the search position constellation based on a preset range coverage rule, where the preset range coverage rule is to arrange search points in the directions for search. Obtain a new motion vector according to the at least one search position, and perform motion compensation based on the new motion vector to obtain a prediction value of a coding unit (CU).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Junyan Huo, Yanzhuo Ma, Shuai Wan, Fuzheng Yang, Ze Guo
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Patent number: 11907856Abstract: In some examples, a computer system may receive sensor data and failure data for equipment. The system may determine, for the equipment, a plurality of time between failure (TBF) durations that are longer than other TBF durations for the equipment. The system may determine, from the sensor data corresponding to operation of the equipment during the plurality of TBF durations, a plurality of measured sensor values for the equipment. Additionally, the system may determine a subset of the measured sensor values corresponding to a largest number of the TBF durations of the plurality of TBF durations. The system may further determine at least one operating parameter value for the equipment based on the subset of the measured sensor values. The system may send a control signal for operating the equipment based on the operating parameter value and/or a communication based on the operating parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Hiruta, Chetan Gupta, Ahmed Khairy Farahat, Kosta Ristovski
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Patent number: 11893701Abstract: A preferred method for dynamically displaying virtual and augmented reality scenes can include determining input parameters, calculating virtual photometric parameters, and rendering a VAR scene with a set of simulated photometric parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Terrence Edward McArdle, Benjamin Zeis Newhouse
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Patent number: 11893879Abstract: A stimulus presentation device 13 that stimulates a user with air from a plurality of air guns 14 arranged so as to surround the user includes a control unit 132 that determines respective ejection times at which a plurality of air streams are to be ejected at given time intervals which allow the user to perceive an apparent motion as well as respective ejection azimuth directions in which the plurality of air streams are to be ejected and causes the air streams to be sequentially ejected from the respective air guns 14 disposed in the individual ejection azimuth directions at the individual ejection times and an adjustment unit that determines a plurality of different body sites on a body of the user to which the plurality of air streams are to be applied and adjusts respective ejection angles of the individual air guns 14 such that respective muzzles of the air guns 14 are pointed at the plurality of body sites.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toki Takeda, Arinobu Niijima, Takafumi Mukouchi, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 11875014Abstract: Disclosed in this application are an icon arrangement method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user in a case that a first icon is displayed; and displaying first index information of the first icon in response to the first input and updating a display position of the first icon to a position corresponding to the first index information.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Quancai Liu
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Patent number: 11853474Abstract: A method including determining historical user data associated with an event occurring on a wearable device, determining a probability of interacting with an object on a display of the wearable device based on the historical user data, scaling a hitbox associated with the object to form a scaled hitbox, detecting a user input based on an eye tracking being within the scaled hitbox, and in response to detecting the user input, initiating an action corresponding to the object.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Dongeek Shin, Ricardo John Campbell, Jingying Hu
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Patent number: 11847906Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic load capable of generating a haptic event and a haptic processor configured to receive at least one first parameter indicative of a desired perception of the haptic event to a user of a device comprising the electromagnetic load, receive at least one second parameter indicative of one or more characteristics of the device, and process the at least one first parameter and the at least one second parameter to generate a driving signal to the electromagnetic load in order to produce the desired perception to the user despite variances in the device that cause an actual perception of the haptic event to vary from the desired perception.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Alderson, John L. Melanson, Anthony S. Doy, Eric Lindemann
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Patent number: 11846993Abstract: A mobile device including various components in communication with one another, the mobile device comprising a flexible housing, flexible display device mounted in the housing, a deformation sensor mounted in the housing and a device controller configured to operate the mobile device responsive to receipt of data input from the flexible display device, wherein the device controller automatically deactivates the processing of at least a portion of data input received of the plurality of data input received from the display device responsive to receiving communication from the deformation sensor detecting a threshold level of deformation of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventor: Thomas H. Hillery
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Patent number: 11822726Abstract: An electronic device for touch translation includes a body, a plurality of pins extending from the body, the pins including couplings to facilitate movement of a first portion relative to a second portion of the pins, the pins being controllable to control movement of the first portion relative to the second portion and to control force applied by the pins on an external object. Sensors cooperating with the pins detect forces externally applied to the pins and a communication subsystem is utilized to communicate over a network, with a remote electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Brian Shuster, Gary Stephen Shuster
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Patent number: 11822941Abstract: A current state of a mobile computing device may be monitored. The mobile computing device has a set of one or more installed applications. The current state is related to the set of installed applications. A first computing action of a user of the mobile computing device is identified responsive to the current state. The first computing action is related to the set of installed applications. Responsive to the first computing action, a set of one or more candidate computing actions is determined. The mobile computing device generates, based on the first computing action, a projected visualization that relates to a first candidate computing action of the set of candidate computing actions.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Sri Harsha Varada, Poorna Vadada
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Patent number: 11797583Abstract: An intelligent document system provides one or more users, who are recipients of documents, with a way to “interact” with the documents for example for the purpose of understanding the content of the documents, and taking appropriate action in response to receiving the documents. Interacting with one or more documents can include navigating the documents guided by semantic content of the documents, asking questions that are answered based on the content of the documents. In some examples, the documents are “dynamic” in that users can manipulate data in the document for example for multiple different views or analyses. In some examples, the documents are augmented semantics and ontology that will allow the user to accurately navigate the document and achieve the natural interfacing they desire.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Pryon IncorporatedInventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Jablokov, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 11762471Abstract: The present invention relates to a haptic feedback system and, particularly, to a device and a method for controlling an actuator for haptic feedback, the method comprising: a first step of controlling the output of an oscillator such that a clock necessary in the generation of a driving signal for driving an actuator is oscillated at a reference clock frequency; a second step of calculating the resonance frequency of the actuator from a cycle of a BEMF signal according to the driving of the actuator; and a third step of calculating a clock frequency for following the calculated resonance frequency of the actuator so as to newly change and set same to the reference clock frequency, thereby controlling the output of the oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DONGWOON ANATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Su Yeol Lee, Cheol Hoei Kim, Kyoung Rok Lee
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Patent number: 11740784Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for caching digital content are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: access a social media platform through a client executing on a user device; generate a feed comprising digital content; cause display of the feed through a user interface on the client executing on the user device; receive a gesture from a user; in response to the received gesture from the user, cache at least a portion of the digital content of the feed; and cause display of the cached digital content on the feed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Sirisak Mark Kupasrimonkol
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Patent number: 11727896Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a control program stored in a non-transitory recording medium, for controlling display, each of which: displays one or more contents in a displayable area of a display, in response to an operation received from a first user; determines a part of the displayable area hidden by the first user, as a blind spot area for a second user, the second user locating farther from the display than the first user; detects a written content written in the blind spot area; determines at least one related content related to the written content that is detected, from the one or more contents displayed on the display; and controls the display to display the written content written in the blind spot area, and the related content related to the written content, in a part of the displayable area other than the blind spot area.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroki Ozaki
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Patent number: 11726567Abstract: A device is provided for delivering somatosensation. A garment is wearable on a body part, and includes an array of electrodes in electrical contact with skin of the body part when the garment is worn on the body part. An electronics module is configured to use the array of electrodes of the garment to apply a somatosensation pattern providing guidance in performing a motor action, or providing a pain sensation to the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Samuel Colachis, Eric Meyers, Justin Sanchez, David Friedenberg
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Patent number: 11701191Abstract: An interventional robot system and a readable storage medium. In the interventional robot system, a touch switch is arranged on an operation lever and connected to a processor, and is configured to send a current switch state to the processor; a master-end encoder is arranged on the operation lever and connected to the processor, and is configured to send to the processor an operation lever displacement generated in response to the operation lever being controlled to perform a current operation; a null sensor is arranged on a base and connected to the processor, and is configured to send a current sensor state to the processor; and the processor is configured to control an interventional robot slave end to perform a movement corresponding to the operation lever displacement, such that an elongated medical instrument is accurately controlled to move, and invalid operations are eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL ROBOT CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenglong Li, Jun Huang, Gang Yao
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Patent number: 11695301Abstract: A wireless charging method includes: acquiring a charging type supported by a wireless charging device after handshake communication with the wireless charging device; and selecting a first receiving assembly and/or a second receiving assembly to charge batteries of a foldable-screen electronic device based on the charging type. By arranging the first receiving assembly and the second receiving assembly on the foldable-screen electronic device, at least one of the receiving assemblies can be selected for wireless charging the batteries of the electronic device when one side surface of the foldable-screen electronic device is proximal to the wireless charging device, thereby improving charging efficiency and shortening charging time. User experience can be improved as the users do not need to select a specified side surface for charging.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Changyu Sun, Wei Sun
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Patent number: 11681286Abstract: A remote movement system of the invention comprises an operation terminal and a vehicle electronic control unit. The operation terminal includes a touch sensing portion which senses a finger of a user touching the touch sensing portion and a terminal electronic control unit configured to transmit a control execution command for requesting an execution of a remote movement control to cause a vehicle to move to a target position when movement of the user's finger touching the touch sensing portion satisfies a predetermined touch interaction condition. The vehicle electronic control unit is provided in the vehicle and configured to execute the remote movement control in response to receiving the control execution command from the terminal electronic control unit. The predetermined touch interaction condition does not include a condition that the user's finger moves, touching the touch sensing portion along a predetermined specific path.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Naoya Matsunaga, Keisuke Oyama
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Patent number: 11669168Abstract: A system for detection of a touch gesture of a user on a detection surface includes a processing unit, an electrostatic-charge-variation sensor, which generates a charge-variation signal; and an accelerometer, which generates an acceleration signal. The processing unit is configured to: detect, in the charge-variation signal, a first feature identifying the touch; detect, in the acceleration signal, a second feature identifying the touch; detect a temporal correspondence between the first and second features identifying the touch gesture; and validate the touch gesture only in the case where both the first and second features have been detected and the temporal correspondence satisfies a pre-set relation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventors: Fabio Passaniti, Enrico Rosario Alessi
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Patent number: 11660528Abstract: A technique for implementing computerized games includes providing multiple gameplay spaces of a computerized game and receiving a model of a physical environment in which the game is to be played. The technique proceeds by fitting the gameplay spaces of the game to the model, such as by placing the gameplay spaces and their respective virtual objects into respective portions of the model, thus actualizing the game to the particular environment in which the game is to be played.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Reavire, Inc.Inventors: Jeff Gullicksen, Wil Fabrick, Ameya Lonkar
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Patent number: 11653988Abstract: Surgical systems including a user console for controlling a surgical robotic tool are described. A witness sensor and a reference sensor can be mounted on the user console to measure an electromagnetic field distortion near a location, and to measure deformation of the location, respectively. Distortion in the electromagnetic field can be detected based on the measurements from the witness sensor and the reference sensor. An alert can be generated, or teleoperation of the surgical tool can be adjusted or paused, when a user interface device used to control the surgical tool is within a range of the distortion. The distortion can be from a known source, such as from actuation of a haptic motor of the user interface device, and the user console can adjust the actuation to reduce the likelihood that the distortion will disrupt surgical tool control. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.Inventors: Joan Savall, Denise Ann Miller, Hamid Reza Sani
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Patent number: 11644971Abstract: A method and a device for displaying a keyboard, and a storage medium thereof are provided. The method is applied to a terminal and includes that the terminal generates, in response to receiving a trigger for displaying separate keyboards, at least two separate keyboards with display areas separated from each other on a screen of the terminal, where the at least two separate keyboards are generated respectively based on corresponding keyboard panels. Furthermore, the method includes that the terminal displays keyboard keys on each of the at least two separate keyboards, where the keyboard keys displayed on all the at least two separate keyboards constitute keyboard keys displayed on an unseparated keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Runhua Guo, Lin Fan, Zhanwei Luo
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Patent number: 11640633Abstract: Example embodiments described herein disclose a specially configured device to receive and recognize enhanced user interactions through a graphical user interface. A user device may accordingly receive and display a set of search results, detect a user input entered via a touch-input device related to a single item from among the set of search results, determine a pressure exerted upon the touch-input device corresponding to the user input, and based on at least the pressure of the user input, select and execute an appropriate commerce action.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Romi Akpala, Shikha Khare, Bryce Watson
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Patent number: 11640349Abstract: A method may be performed by a network server and includes: applying historical raw user data as an input to a first application running in a simulation environment; receiving activity log entries from the first application in the simulation environment; identifying a first group of the activity log entries corresponding to an error of the first application; saving an error entry in non-volatile storage media in response to identifying the first group of the activity log entries, the error entry including the first group of the activity log entries and an identification of action to be taken in response to the error of the first application; and causing a monitoring system to generate a first alert corresponding to the error entry.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Chun Kiat Ho, Harsha Singalreddy, Xin Wu
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Patent number: 11630453Abstract: Systems and methods of generating performance index for connected equipment in a building management system are provided. The connected equipment measures monitored variables and generates status codes. The system obtains data points of the monitored variables and the status codes from past N time units, and connected equipment specific parameters. The system performs first performance checks for the connected equipment using the status codes from the past N time units. The system performs second performance checks using the data points of the monitored variables from the past N time units, the connected equipment specific parameters, and a set of predetermined rules. The system determines individual performance check indicators based on the first performance checks and the second performance checks using first weights each determined based on a different timing. The system generates an overall performance index for the connected equipment using the individual performance check indicators and second weights.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Steven R. Vitullo, Kelsey C. Schuster, Michael R. Rhodes, Riley P. Shelton, John F. Kuchler
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Patent number: 11604535Abstract: A method for generating display data comprises detecting user input via an input interface. A processor is in communication with the input interface to generate display data comprising a display object for display by a display device. The display object is representative of an action that will subsequently be performed by the processor on continuation of the user input. The display data on the display device is output whilst the user input is being detected. Alternatively, the display object is caused to appear on the display device over time as the user input is being performed, wherein the rate at which the display object appears is different to the rate of performance of the user input. A device and executable computer program for performing the steps of the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Martin Chakirov
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Patent number: 11604578Abstract: A touch control method includes steps of detecting a plurality of contact points being touched on a touch panel at a certain time; obtaining a plurality of distances between each two of the plurality of contact points; selecting a largest distance smaller than a predetermined distance among the distances; selecting the contact points falling into a first circular area formed by the two end points of the largest distance in the touch panel as a first contact point cluster and recognizing them as a first touch point; determine the first coordinate of the first touch point; selecting a second contact point cluster among the remaining contact points, by the same way, and recognizing them as a second touch point; obtaining the second coordinate of the second touch point; and performing data processing on a corresponding position of an image display area according to the first and/or second coordinate.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: BenQ CorporationInventors: Chin-Jui Chi, Pei-Wen Huang
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Patent number: 11604515Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to visualization for network virtualization platforms (“NVPs”) enhanced with non-visual sensory interactivity. A computer system can obtain data associated with an NVP. The computer system can generate a non-visual feedback environment representative of at least a portion of the network virtualization platform. The non-visual feedback environment can include non-visual sensory feedback to be presented to a user. The computer system also can receive one or more rules associated with the data. The rule(s) can be associated with one or more service elements of the NVP. The rule(s) alternatively or additionally can be associated with one or more events. The computer system can provide the non-visual sensory feedback via a non-visual sensory feedback device that outputs the non-visual sensory feedback to be sensed by the user. The non-visual sensory feedback can include audio feedback, haptic feedback, olfactory feedback, or some combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Roger Drew Wickes, John Oetting
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Patent number: 11599238Abstract: The disclosed system generates a three dimensional virtual space that includes an object representation of at least a portion of a human body and a first three-dimensional cylindrical surface floating within the three-dimensional space, wherein the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface includes a two-dimensional data area for a presentation of data to a user viewing the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface in the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of first physiological data is displayed on the two-dimensional data area. In response to receiving a user selection of a portion of the three-dimensional cylindrical surface, the system generates one or more additional surfaces floating within the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of second physiological data associated with the first physiological data is displayed on a data area of the one or more additional surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: VYAIRE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Christopher M. Varga, Terry Blansfield
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Patent number: 11592959Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more thumbnails. The device detects a first multi-contact gesture that includes movement of a first contact and a second contact; and, in response to detecting the first multi-contact gesture, the device displays content associated with a respective thumbnail and enlarges the content associated with the respective thumbnail to a respective enlarged size in accordance with the first multi-contact gesture. The device detects termination of the first multi-contact gesture; and, in response to detecting termination of the first multi-contact gesture: when a resizing metric based on the first multi-contact gesture is below a predefined threshold, the device ceases to display the content at the respective enlarged size; and, when the resizing metric based on the first multi contact gesture is above the predefined threshold, the device displays the content on the display in a predefined arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oliver P. Wagner, Michael Matas
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Patent number: 11568001Abstract: A visualization system generates for display one or more radial maps that represent data values for a plurality of parameters measured for groups of entities. Each group of rows of the radial map represents a group of entities for whom the parameters are measured and compared against a baseline or control group, while each column represents a measured parameter. If the visualization system determines that an entity has a data value for a measured parameter that deviates from the control group value by more than a threshold amount, the system visually distinguishes the outlier value from the other geometric shapes in the radial map. Additionally, two or more radial maps may be simultaneously displayed on a visual interface based on correlations between data points for groups of entities.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventor: Oriana Jeannette Love
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Patent number: 11556241Abstract: A method of copying content in a computing device includes detecting a gesture of an input tool which selects content to be copied that is displayed on a display of the computing device while the input tool operates within a sensing range of a proximity sensor of the computing device, and automatically copying the selected content to a clipboard in response to detecting removal of the input tool from within the sensing range of the proximity sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuriy Polyulya, Aleksandra Peteichuk, Olesya Koshkina, Stanislav Kupchanko
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Patent number: 11550471Abstract: An electronic device with a touch screen display displays content of an electronic document, including text, and a cursor is displayed at a line of text within the electronic document. A multi-finger swipe gesture is detected, and in accordance with a determination that the multi-finger swipe gesture is in a direction at least partially parallel to the line of text and towards an edge of the touch screen display, the cursor is moved to a distal point of the text.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Imran A. Chaudhri, Nicholas K. Jong, Craig M. Federighi
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Patent number: 11515049Abstract: The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: TELADOC HEALTH, INC., IROBOT CORPORATIONInventors: Charles S. Jordan, Andy Young, Mei Sheng Ng, Yair Lurie, Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Bill Rizzi, James Ballantyne, Yulun Wang, Cheuk Wah Wong, Justin H. Kearns, Orjeta Taka, Ramchandra Karandikar
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Patent number: 11481686Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can adapt to circumstances in which a user may invoke an automated assistant with an intention of interacting with the automated assistant via a non-default interface. For example, in some instances, a user may invoke an automated assistant by selecting a selectable GUI element. In response, the automated assistant can determine that, in the current context, spoken utterances may not be suitable for providing to the automated assistant. Based on this determination, the automated assistant can cause a keyboard interface to be rendered and/or initialized for receiving typed inputs from the user. Should the user subsequently change contexts, the automated assistant can determine that voice input is now suitable for user input and initialize an audio interface in response to the user providing an invocation input in the subsequent context.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Keun Soo Yim, Zhitu Chen, Brendan G. Lim
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Patent number: 11451882Abstract: An entertainment system provides data to a common screen (e.g., cinema screen) and personal immersive reality devices. For example, a cinematic data distribution server communicates with multiple immersive output devices each configured for providing immersive output (e.g., a virtual reality output) based on a data signal. Each of the multiple immersive output devices is present within eyesight of a common display screen. The server configures the data signal based on digital cinematic master data that includes immersive reality data. The server transmits the data signal to the multiple immersive output devices contemporaneously with each other, and optionally contemporaneously with providing a coordinated audio-video signal for output via the common display screen and shared audio system.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Christopher DeFaria, Gregory I. Gewickey, Michael Smith, Lewis S. Ostrover
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Patent number: 11449222Abstract: System and method of moving selected content is disclosed. In response to detecting a first portion of an input that activates a move operation for selected first content, a copy of at least a portion of the first content is displayed in a container object, and the container object is moved from a first placement location to a second placement location relative to a characteristic location of the contact(s) on the touch-screen display. After the movement from the first placement location to the second placement location relative to the characteristic location of the one or more contacts, the container object moves in accordance with movement of the one or more contacts while the container object is maintained at the second placement location relative to the characteristic location of the one or more contacts as the one or more contacts move across the touch-screen display.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mark K. Hauenstein, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Julian K. Missig, Jeffrey T. Bernstein, Patrick L. Coffman, Stephen O. Lemay
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Patent number: 11442547Abstract: A system and method for a haptic display is disclosed. The haptic display includes a display head and an actuator layer. The actuator layer includes a pin board configured with a plurality of opening, and a plurality of pins configured to translate within the plurality of openings. One or more of the plurality of pins includes a display interaction end configured to physically interact with the display head and an actuation end. The actuation layer further includes a plurality of linear actuator elements physically coupled to the actuation end of the plurality of pins configured to bias a set of the pins against the display head. A bias of the set of pins against the display head generates a protrusion on the flexible surface that may be reduced by a biasing force of a user, wherein the user detects a reduction of the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventor: Lyle Richard
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Patent number: 11435892Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling advertisement interaction with an electronic device, for use in a digital media content environment. A media device includes a touch-sensitive display screen, and user interface that enables access to a stored media application. During the streaming of media content from a media server, an audio advertisement or other type of advertisement can be inserted into a stream, for playback at the media device. Using playback controls provided either by the user interface, or by a headphones, headset, or other type of device, a user can interact with the advertisement (even if the user interface is locked), by performing a defined gesture, which, if received at the media application during a defined time period associated with the advertisement, is interpreted as a signal to select or otherwise interact with the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Edward Chen, Simon Cohen, Carl Horned
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Patent number: 11429149Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes: a display panel including a pixel array, a first region, a second region, and a folding region interposed between the first region and the second region, a plurality of gate lines connected with respective gates of a plurality of transistors included in the pixel array and extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines connected with respective sources of the plurality of transistors and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a gate driving circuit connected with the plurality of gate lines, a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) connected with the plurality of data lines, a first detection line connecting a first gate line of the plurality of gate lines corresponding to the folding region with the DDI, a processor, and a memory operatively connected with the processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoungryoul Song, Jungbae Bae, Jungchul An
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Patent number: 11422653Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch and display control device with a touch screen controller and a display driver. The touch screen controller receives a touch sensing signal, generates touch raw data based on the touch sensing signal, and extracts touch information based on the touch raw data. The display driver receives an original image from a host processor, directly receives the touch information from the touch screen controller, generates touch trajectory information by accumulating the touch information, internally generates a touch image to be displayed with the original image based on the touch trajectory information, generates a composite image by synthesizing the original image and the touch image, and controls a display panel to display the composite image. The display driver includes a memory storing the touch trajectory information.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Changju Lee
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Patent number: 11418471Abstract: A system and method for identifying an entity from a message exchange thread and generating a suggestion that is directed to the entity, such as a suggestion for a user to take an action on the entity. A suggestion application receives at least one electronic message from a message exchange thread, identifies an entity that can be actionable from the electronic message, determines contextual indicators of the entity, determines whether the entity is actionable based on the contextual indicators, and responsive to the entity being actionable, provides a suggestion that is directed to the entity to a participant(s) of the message exchange thread.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Timothy Seeds Milligan, Hila Shemer, Dennis Kiilerich, Gang Ji, Ori Gershony, Sergey Nazarov, Pranav Khaitan, Sushant Prakash, Anton Volkov, Ricardo Escutia, David Citron
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Patent number: 11416110Abstract: An interactive system is provided. The interactive system includes an electronic device, a first image display device and a second image display device. The electronic device transmits a first image information to the first image display device for display. The electronic device transmits a second image information to the second image display device for display. Through the second image display device, a three-dimensional second image information is displayed in a space on one side of the second image display device. The three-dimensional second image information at least interacts with an object.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: LIXEL INC.Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Chih-Hung Ting, Kai-Chieh Chang, Der-Jang Yu, Wen-Chi Lin
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Patent number: 11409366Abstract: A gesture-based device activation system is provided. The system may include a user computing device and a gesture application operable on the user computing device. The system may operate to allow the user computing device to capture gestures performed by a user, wherein the gestures are associated with user selected device functionality. The gestures performed by the user result in operation of the user computing device in accordance with the gestures and functions previously entered and stored by the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Inventor: Charles Isgar
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Patent number: 11409274Abstract: A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment that performs operations including obtaining an objective function defining a cost of operating and performing maintenance on the equipment as a function of operating and maintenance decisions for time steps within a time period of a life cycle horizon and including performing a first computation of the objective function under a first scenario where maintenance is performed on the equipment during the period, a result of the first computation indicating a first cost. The operations include performing a second computation under a second scenario in which maintenance is not performed during the period, a result indicating a second cost. The operations include initiating an automated action to perform maintenance on the equipment in accordance with decisions defined by the first scenario if the first cost is less than or equal to the second cost.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Jingduo Fan, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Robert D. Turney