Instrumentation And Component Modeling (e.g., Interactive Control Panel, Virtual Device) Patents (Class 715/771)
  • Patent number: 12233335
    Abstract: A virtual object selection method is described. The method includes displaying, on a user interface, a display picture corresponding to a virtual environment and a first virtual object located in the virtual environment. Further, the method includes obtaining a set execution range of a first operation of the first virtual object in the virtual environment, and determining a priority execution range of the first operation in the virtual environment, the priority execution range being within the set execution range and smaller than the set execution range. In addition, the method includes selecting a second virtual object from the priority execution range as a target virtual object corresponding to the first operation. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium counterpart embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yulin Wan, Xun Hu, Shandong Su
  • Patent number: 12220583
    Abstract: A method of stimulating the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) includes implanting an electrical stimulation lead in a lateral-to-medial trajectory into a brain of a patient, wherein the electrical stimulation lead includes electrodes and at least one of the electrodes is disposed adjacent to or within the NBM of the patient; and delivering electrical stimulation to the NBM through at least one of the electrodes. Other methods include implanting multiple electrical stimulation leads in or near the NBM. Instead of, or in addition to, electrical stimulation leads, optical stimulation leads can be used to stimulate the NBM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventor: Michael A. Moffitt
  • Patent number: 12225165
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an identification unit configured to identify a location designated by a user on a screen being displayed on a display unit; and a control unit, in which types of a pop-up displayed on the screen include at least a first type which is a type of a pop-up displayed once a job starts and closed once the job ends and a second type which is a type of a pop-up closed once the user designates a location outside a region of the pop-up, and in a case where the pop-up being displayed on the screen is the pop-up of the first type and then the user designates a location outside the region of the pop-up of the first type, the control unit displays, on the screen, an option for ending the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daiki Tachi
  • Patent number: 12217298
    Abstract: Integration of an external calendar application with a task facilitation service includes mechanisms for creating tasks within the task facilitation service based on calendar data of the calendar application received by the task facilitation service and processed using various dynamic models and algorithms. Further examples of integration include the task facilitation service generating recommendations for new calendar items and modifications to existing calendar items by leveraging the data and models available to the task facilitation service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Yohana LLC
    Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka, Nitin Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 12216898
    Abstract: An equipment-management device associated with at least one of multiple pieces of equipment in a building under management, the equipment-management device including a display-information generator, a touchscreen, and an action-control-information generator. The display-information generator generates display information on a management screen wherein icons are arranged, each of the icons including an outer frame and a first area set at one end along the major axis within the outer frame. The touchscreen displays the display information and receives an input of information relating to an operation performed on the management screen. Upon detecting that a slide operation performed on one of the icons of the management screen from the first area through a first slide-operation detecting line set inside the outer frame excluding the first area, the action-control-information generator generates action-control information that switches the power supply of the corresponding equipment on or off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CARRIER JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Sugiyama, Koichiro Sakurai, Hidemitsu Kawai
  • Patent number: 12211622
    Abstract: A system provides artificial intelligence health support for people. The system renders specific, targeted treatments for people by using a flow engine and a conversational service to call one or more conversational modules. The treatments for the people may be tracked. The flow engine and/or one or more of the modules may include different instructions to perform for different programs and/or goals that have been configured. The flow engine and/or one or more of the conversational modules may also include instructions to perform when certain features are active (which may be activated when certain programs and/or goals are configured), when data regarding activity for people are received, and so on. Other modules may be dedicated to particular programs and/or goals. Some modules may determine whether or not to perform various instructions repetitiously, and/or may determine to do so when a priority of a previous instruction is below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Lark Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Zira, Jared Cordova, Stephanie Hilliard
  • Patent number: 12206731
    Abstract: A control device configuration system may receive, store, process, and/or display control device configuration information. The control device configuration system may filter the control device configuration information based on user selections of configuration options for configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may identify compatible and incompatible configuration options for various configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may allow selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may adjust how it filters the control device configuration information based on the selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may implement a configuration model that includes configuration parameter groups for efficient evaluation of user selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ram Kripal Prasad, Saurabh Garg
  • Patent number: 12193759
    Abstract: A method for visualization guidance of device-to-image registration includes acquiring image data of a patient, generating a 3D model of the anatomy of the patient based on the image data, performing initial registration between image space and device space, advancing a device into a structure, tracking trajectory of the device in relation to the model, determining divergence between the device trajectory and the model, and effecting correction to the model or the device trajectory to minimize the divergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Hualei Shelley Zhang, Brian Ninni
  • Patent number: 12197874
    Abstract: The teachings of the present disclosure include information processing methods. Some embodiments include: constructing a knowledge graph of a target physical world; constructing a control chart of the target physical world; and adding annotation information to each function block in the control chart, and establishing one-to-one mapping between function blocks and entities in the knowledge graph, to establish mapping between the control chart and the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dong Li, Xiao Bo Yang, Lei Xiong, Tong Zhou Wang, Chuan Yu Zhang, Yao Lei Kang
  • Patent number: 12182218
    Abstract: A smart phone and method are disclosed for controlling metadata associated with content on an electronic device that includes displaying interface screens for user entry of metadata control instructions, accepting user instructions, modifying metadata of applicable content, and associating the modified metadata with the applicable content. The system can export and/or store the applicable content along with modified metadata. The system can automatically modify metadata according to one or more profiles. Relevant profiles can be determined based on the export mechanism, destination or type of content. The system can display metadata for user modification. The content can include photos, videos or other content. The system can display metadata and geolocation indicators for each content item that indicate whether that item has associated metadata and geolocation information. The user can selectively modify metadata of selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Deacon Johnson
  • Patent number: 12182540
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device, a recording medium, and a support system. With respect to a second program having a call instruction that designates an actual argument and calls a first program defined by using a dummy argument, the content of the first program defined by using the dummy argument according to a user operation is associated with the call instruction in the second program, and the associated result is displayed. In this case, the actual argument designated in the call instruction to the dummy argument is reflected in the first program, and the reflected result is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yusaku Kobayashi, Daisuke Yagi
  • Patent number: 12179924
    Abstract: A method for processing previously detected identifications of apparatuses of an aircraft, wherein each apparatus has at least one communicative component. A reference dataset is used to compare the actual identifications with specified identifications, as a result of which a report signal based on the comparison result indicates whether the detected identifications correspond to the identifications represented by the reference dataset. If there is a positive match, this allows the conclusion that the apparatuses are correctly installed in the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Waller, Jan Mueller, Uwe Schwark, Bing Chen, Wolfgang Fischer, Christoph Tillack-Nieveler
  • Patent number: 12177766
    Abstract: An emergency vehicle detector with false detection processing. Wifi MAC address patterns and SSID pattern identification is used to identify and estimate range of emergency vehicles that contains a Wifi Access Point and exclude other Wifi Beacons by comparing to a location specific database. False alarms are detected and silenced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Shaun Woodburn
  • Patent number: 12160552
    Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method of an information processing apparatus includes acquiring first sheet information registered in a first sheet storage unit of a first image forming apparatus and second sheet information registered in a second sheet storage unit of a second image forming apparatus, and displaying, on a display unit in an identifiable manner, that the first sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the first sheet storage unit and that the second sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the second sheet storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaaki Yano
  • Patent number: 12145512
    Abstract: A module for a vehicle having an interior element and a display element having a screen area and connected to the interior element via an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the display element between an erect position, in which the screen area is arranged on a display side with respect to a horizontal displacement axis, and a lowered position, displaced, relative to the erect position, downwards with respect to the vertical axis of the vehicle and towards the display side with respect to the displacement axis and the screen area is pivoted downwards away from the vertical axis. The adjusting mechanism has a lower arm and an upper arm, each connected to the display element via a display pivot axis and to the interior element at least indirectly via at least one interior pivot axis, wherein in the erect position, the lower arm is lower than the upper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Torsten Voigt, Martin Dawid, Stefan Martin Buerger
  • Patent number: 12140923
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for facilitating object-based cross-domain industrial automation control. An object library comprising a plurality of objects may be maintained. One or more of the objects may represent physical counterparts for use in an industrial automation process. Each object of the plurality of objects in the object library may have at least one property that an automated control device operation can be programmed to act on. Each object of the plurality of objects may also have at least one property that a human machine interface component can utilize in generating display elements corresponding to the objects for display on the human machine interface. When modifications to objects in the object library are received, those modifications may be automatically deployed and incorporated in controller logic and HMI graphics and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Srdjan Josipovic, Matthew R. Ericsson, Michael D. Kalan, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon M. Billi-Duran
  • Patent number: 12134041
    Abstract: An image processing method comprises receiving content; displaying the content on a display; detecting a capture trigger for capturing a screenshot of the content displayed on the display; acquiring additional information relating to the content displayed on the display at a capture timing corresponding to a timing at which the capture trigger is detected; and capturing the screenshot of the content displayed on the display at the capture timing and adding the additional information to the screenshot to generate an additional-information-added image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Shirai
  • Patent number: 12137070
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication circuit, a display, and a processor. The processor transmits the media contents to the external electronic device using the communication circuit. The processor displays a plurality of visual objects in the display that respectively represents the media contents. Before transmitting the first media content to the external electronic device, the processor displays a first visual object representing the first media content within a first state in which a visual aspect is adjusted. After the first media content is transmitted to the external electronic device, the processor changes the state of the first visual object to a second state different from the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jibin An, Dongki Kwon, Hongseok Kwon, Hyunil Kim
  • Patent number: 12121793
    Abstract: Sharing relationships may be established with multiple user devices to enable sharing of user interface element data. A view of a user interface may be presented that includes an activity user list. The activity user list may include user identifiers of activity user and updatable graphical fitness user interface elements. A detailed view of for a particular activity user may be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Kriz Blahnik
  • Patent number: 12117754
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a pressure-bonding processing unit, a display portion, and a control unit capable of controlling the image forming unit by acquiring image data for forming a toner image on a recording medium in an operation in an image forming mode. The control portion controls the display portion to issue a warning in a case that the toner image to be formed on an inner surface of the recording medium to be folded protrudes outside a film region, the film region being a region of the inner surface to which a thermosensitive adhesive film is to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 12118370
    Abstract: A contextual navigation and action user experience framework that facilitates workflows across multiple contexts and levels of object hierarchy is disclosed. Exemplary features include a swapper interface, an action toolbar with contextual buttons and contextual tabs, and a toolkit that provides an overview portal to view alerts, cross reference information, and perform actions on objects and insights that are important to the user across an entire product suite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Trade Desk, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Anderson, Mark A. Patterson, Jr., Lina M. Davis, Stas A. Goldobin
  • Patent number: 12120585
    Abstract: A messaging system includes a first messaging app on a first device and a second messaging app, on a second device, that can exchange messages (e.g. text messages, etc.), and the second messaging on can transmit content from a second extension app that operates with the second messaging app to the first messaging app that operates with a first extension app. The content can be opaque to the messaging app, but can be processed by the extension apps to display live, dynamic content in message bubbles in a message transcript of a conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Lottermoser, Pierre J. De Filippis, David Alex Carter, Eugene Bistolas
  • Patent number: 12112772
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for video production, a device and a storage medium are provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, where information of a song list and a target song in the song list are acquired in response to a first instruction of a user, video materials are generated according to the information of the song list and a video is generated according to the video materials and a preset animation effect, and the target song and the video are merged to obtain a video file. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, by making the song list into a video containing more elements, better displaying of the information of the song list is realized, thus rendering it attractive for a user to click and play in a more effective manner, thereby effectively improving the click rate and playback amount of the song list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Hai Ning, Song Feng, Yaxuan Du, Weijie Liu, Yichi Wang, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 12091148
    Abstract: In a system for controlling a watercraft, when a first mode is selected, a controller determines a route on which a single or a plurality of specified spots including a destination are located, and controls a marine propulsion device such that the watercraft moves along the route with a bow thereof being kept oriented in a predetermined cardinal direction. When a second mode is selected, the controller controls the marine propulsion device such that the bow of the watercraft is kept oriented in the predetermined cardinal direction without determining the route. The controller obtains a position of the watercraft. In the first mode, the controller determines whether or not the watercraft has passed through the destination. When the watercraft has passed through the destination in the first mode, the controller performs a mode switching from the first mode to the second mode and controls the marine propulsion device in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Ikegaya
  • Patent number: 12094353
    Abstract: A computer processing system for optimising a sequence of aircraft at an airport is disclosed. The system comprises a module (201) configured to receive flight plan data associated with a plurality of journeys between an origin and destination wherein each journey is associated with a different aircraft and wherein the flight plan data comprises flight schedule data associated with the plurality of different journeys; a second module (205) coupled to the first module wherein the second module is configured to determine an aircraft taxi time, EXOT, based on the flight plan data; a third module (203) coupled to the first module (201) and the second module (205) wherein the third module (203) is configured to determine a target take-off time, TTOT, associated with each of the plurality of different journeys wherein the target take-off time is determined based on the taxi time, EXOT, and the flight plan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Dominik Johannes Stoppok, Dietmar Wilhelm Dippe
  • Patent number: 12091035
    Abstract: A control device includes: a display control unit configured to display a candidate position image, indicating a candidate position that is a candidate of a target position, on a display device when the candidate position is detected based on a detection result of an external sensor provided in a moving object; and a reception unit configured to receive an operation of selecting a candidate position image indicating a candidate position to be set as the target position from among a plurality of candidate position images when the plurality of candidate position images are displayed on the display device. When any one of the candidate position images is selected, the display control unit displays a movement pattern image, representing a movement pattern executable by the moving object when the candidate position indicated by the candidate position image is set as the target position, on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Fujiwara, Akiko Sato, Yasushi Shoda, Hiroki Takaku
  • Patent number: 12087139
    Abstract: A contactless payment transceiver with a display; a non-contact user input device configured for detecting a gesture of a user corresponding to a select input, a gesture of a user corresponding to an increase input and a gesture of a user corresponding to decrease input. The apparatus is configured to display an initial numerical value on the display; respond to detecting the gesture corresponding to the increase input by incrementing the numerical value displayed; respond to detecting the gesture corresponding to the decrease input by decrementing the numerical value displayed; respond to detecting the gesture corresponding to the select input by setting a transaction amount that corresponds to the numerical value displayed at the time of detection of the gesture corresponding to the select input; and use the contactless payment transceiver to initiate execution of a transaction for the transaction amount with a contactless payment token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Richard Spice
  • Patent number: 12083890
    Abstract: An operation device for an autonomous vehicle includes a touch panel configured to display at least one of a start button and a deceleration button, and a notification button on the same screen. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously drivable. The start button is a button for starting driving of the autonomous vehicle in an autonomous drive mode. The deceleration button is a button for decelerating the autonomous vehicle during the autonomous drive mode. The notification button is a button for performing notification to an outside of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuchi Yamanouchi, Masaharu Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12073074
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a CPU that executes control such that an operation unit receiving a movement operation through dragging or sliding of a user and giving an instruction for a predetermined processing is displayed on a display, the operation unit is moved to follow the movement operation when the movement operation is executed on the operation unit by the user, and when the movement operation ends after the movement of the operation unit from one end portion to a side in front of the other end portion of a movement region of the operation unit by the movement operation, the operation unit is moved to the other end portion and a notification unit notifies with a sound indicating that the predetermined processing is executed after the movement of the operation unit to a position corresponding to the other end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Haruta, Yuji Onozawa, Tatsuo Fukushima, Yohei Makino
  • Patent number: 12067534
    Abstract: A geospatial maintenance server collects information from lab instruments such as usage information, instrument uptime, operational performance, and other characteristics. Such information may be used to identify upcoming maintenance needs for lab instruments, including usage based preventative maintenance, and unanticipated degradation based maintenance. A geospatial maintenance interface is provided that allows a user to select a certain country, region, state, or other geographic area to view information on lab instruments and maintenance needs within that area. The interface may display graphs showing uptime for various time periods, comparisons to uptime in other areas, maps with symbols indicating areas and types of maintenance needs, and per-device descriptions of maintenance needs. The interface may also be used to automate efficient and economical assignment of technicians to address maintenance tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Littman
  • Patent number: 12064280
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating identification and marking of a target in a displayed Fluoroscopic Three-Dimensional Reconstruction (F3DR) of a body region of a patient. The system includes a display and a storage device storing instructions for receiving an initial selection of the target in the F3DR, fining the F3DR based on the initial selection of the target, displaying the fined F3DR on the display, and receiving a final selection of the target in the fined F3DR via a user selection. The system further includes at least one hardware processor configured to execute said instructions. The method and instructions may also include receiving a selection of a medical device in two two-dimensional fluoroscopic images, where the medical device is located in an area of the target, and initially fining the F3DR based on the selection of the medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Efrat Kedmi-Shahar, Dafna Mardix, Evgeni Kopel, Oren P. Weingarten, Benjamin Greenburg, Eyal Klein, Ron Barak
  • Patent number: 12063317
    Abstract: Implementing methods to provide a shortened textual summary that includes status information that is most pertinent to the user for a plurality of connected smart devices. The method includes determining a list of current statuses for a plurality of enabled smart devices and filtering the list to remove statuses that may not be of interest to the user. The filtering of the list is based on a current context of the requesting user and one or more previous contexts of the user. The resulting filtered statuses are then converted to textual snippets, summarized, and provided to the user via one or more output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yuzhao Ni, Ashwin Limaye, Cindy Tran, Thomas Clifton, David Roy Schairer
  • Patent number: 12063412
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to a loss of control of a playback queue. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving, from a native controller, an instruction to add audio tracks to a queue, where, in a first mode associated with the native controller, the playback device is configured to play back from the queue. While the audio tracks are in the queue, the playback device receives, from a media player application associated with a particular wireless protocol, an instruction to play back a media item. In response, the playback device is configured to play back in a second mode associated with the particular wireless protocol, where, in the second mode, the queue is not in use. While playing back the media item, the playback device detects a loss of control by the media player application and configures the playback device to play back in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Sherwin Liu
  • Patent number: 12050158
    Abstract: A method for remote pneumatic testing of a piping system is described. A system administering the method may perform a safety check of the piping system. Following the safety check, the system may verify a digital connection between a remote control system and the piping system, and verify a mechanical connection between a pressure source and the piping system. The system may remotely control the disbursement of fluid from the pressure source into the piping system to apply pressure to the piping system. The system may remotely monitor the pressure applied to the piping system, and may determine that a target pressure to a piping system is reached. Responsive to determining that the target pressure is reached, the system may cause a leak check to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dysruptek LLC
    Inventor: Gary R. Weiler
  • Patent number: 12051334
    Abstract: A flight deck system and method in an aircraft for enhancing controller pilot datalink communication (CPDLC) operation is disclosed. The flight deck system includes a controller configured to: receive a CPDLC message having a CPDLC message type from a flight operation center (FOC) having an FOC name; retrieve an expected response time for the CPDLC message from an expected response time database containing expected response times for a plurality of CPDLC message types for FOCs; generate a timer function that causes the display of a timer (e.g., countdown timer) on an aircraft display device that has a set duration based on the expected response time; signal the aircraft display device to display the timer; monitor communications from flight crew for a response to the CPDLC message; and signal the aircraft display device to end the display of the timer when a communication has been detected within the set duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Songa, Sadguni Venkataswamy, Siddaray Medegar, Suresh Bazawada, Candace Gunning
  • Patent number: 12043532
    Abstract: Systems for controlling a container handling plant, for example a beverage filling plant, including at least one container handling station for handling containers, and an assigned control means for controlling a container handling process of the container handling station. The systems also include a means for automatic process adjustment and a development means that is in communication with the means for automatic process adjustment. The development means is configured to acquire real-time process data and to use the real-time process data to develop calculation rules for calculating process parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Stefan Poeschl
  • Patent number: 12041272
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The video decoding method according to the present invention includes: obtaining information on whether filtering is performed on a virtual boundary for a current picture from a bitstream; decoding information on the number of virtual boundaries based on the information on whether filtering is performed on a virtual boundary; decoding information on a position of a virtual boundary based on the information on the number of virtual boundaries; and reconstructing the current picture based on the information on the position of the virtual boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gun Bang, Woong Lim, Hui Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 12031740
    Abstract: A facility device management system includes a plurality of facility devices including a first facility device having identification information, a management apparatus configured to communicate with the facility devices via a network, and a sensor device including a wireless communication unit. The management apparatus includes a storage unit. The first facility device includes a receiving unit configured to receive data from the sensor device via wireless communication, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the data, together with the identification information, to the management apparatus. The management apparatus associates the first facility device and the sensor device with each other based on information received from the first facility device, and stores an association between the first facility device and the data of the sensor device in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 12029512
    Abstract: A telesurgical system may comprise a teleoperated manipulator and a control system to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations may comprise determining a remaining usable life value of a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument may comprise a distal end component and an actuation component coupled to move the distal end component when driven by the teleoperated manipulator. The operations may also comprise monitoring an amount of use of the actuation component during a use of the surgical instrument. Monitoring the amount of use of the actuation component comprises determining the amount of use of the actuation component based on a force or torque on the actuation component. The operations may also comprise updating the remaining usable life value to an updated usable life value of the surgical instrument based at least on the amount of use of the actuation component during the use of the surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: David J. Rosa
  • Patent number: 12027271
    Abstract: The mobile device receives a prediction result via a digital cellular mobile telecommunication network. The prediction result has been generated by a program logic using a biomedical model. The prediction result includes a prediction score, a first confidence interval of prediction scores known to have a percentage of false negative predictions below a predefined FN-percentage threshold and a second confidence interval of score values known to have a percentage of false positive predictions below a predefined FP-percentage threshold. The mobile device displays an analog scale icon including a background area having the prediction score, an analog scale representing the score range; a pointer; a first sub-range indicator indicating the size and position of the first confidence interval; and a second sub-range indicator indicating the size and position of the second confidence interval within the score range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Schoedl, Stefanie Kaufmann, Markus Bundschus, Antonia Stank, Marius Rene Garmhausen
  • Patent number: 12011326
    Abstract: A laser and a minimally invasive dental surgical procedure using the laser to stimulate periodontal tissue formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventors: Robert H. Gregg, II, Dawn M. Gregg
  • Patent number: 12004891
    Abstract: Systems for preparing a medical report, and related methods, generate and output feedback indicative or potential errors in the medical report. A system for preparing a medical report is configured to receive image data for a medical image of a patient, display the medical image, monitor content of the medical report during preparation of the medical report, process the image data to detect one or more organs of the patient imaged in the medical image, compare the content of the medical report with the one or more organs imaged in the medical image to detect one or more potential errors in the medical report, and output feedback indicative of the one or more potential errors in the medical report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Alpert, Antonio Criminisi
  • Patent number: 12008031
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling quick access to media options are provided. A display of a plurality of icons is generated, wherein each of the plurality of icons represents a different one of a plurality of applications. A user input is detected that identifies a first of the plurality of icons associated with a first of the plurality of applications. In response to determining that the user input corresponds to a quick access operation, first and second media asset identifiers and corresponding media options are retrieved from each of second and third applications. A menu that includes the retrieved first and second media asset identifiers is generated for display with the plurality of icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventor: William L. Thomas
  • Patent number: 12008607
    Abstract: Facilitating connections between a customer and an employee of a business is described. Once the customer is within a proximity of a business, the customer can choose to interact with an employee of the business. The customer can select a product or section of the business and post a request or question. In response, an employee with expertise in the subject matter of the request or the question, can chose to respond to the customer. Thus, the customer can get help prior to entering the store. In addition, the customer can request the employee to facilitate the purchase of a product via the system described herein and leave the product in a pick-up area. After the interaction is complete, the customer can reopen the conversation at a later time with the same employee. As such, the system enables better customer engagement, a better buying experience, and a better post-purchase experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Bonder, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Swanson
  • Patent number: 11995756
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a first icon comprising a shape. While displaying the first icon, the device receives a voice command corresponding to a request for media content from the application. In response to, and while receiving, the voice command, the device dynamically animates the first icon, including distorting a radius of a portion of the shape in accordance with a direction of the voice command. The dynamic animation indicates that the electronic device is in a first state. After the voice command is completed, the device displays an indication that the device is in a second state that is distinct from the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Harry Morgan Bentell, Aaron Paul Harmon, Andreas Gustav Christian PĂ„lsson, Karl Humphreys, Nicola Felaco, Daniel Bromand
  • Patent number: 11993382
    Abstract: A display in a commercial passenger vehicle can an option to be locked or unlock to enhance security. An example system for securing an in-vehicle entertainment (IVE) display in a commercial passenger vehicle comprises a mobile device and a computer. The mobile device comprises a first processor configured to secure a display located in the commercial passenger vehicle, where the first processor is configured to: obtain a payload; generate a first digitally signed payload as a first output of a first mathematical computation performed on the payload with a secret key; and send a first message comprising the first digitally signed payload and a lock command to instruct the display to lock the display. The computer is communicably coupled with the display and comprises a second processor configured to send a first instruction to cause the display to lock in response to a reception of the lock command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gurmukh Khabrani
  • Patent number: 11989088
    Abstract: Described apparatuses and methods relate to a read data path for a memory system. The memory system may include logic that receives data and associated metadata from a memory. The logic may perform a reliability check on the data using the associated metadata to determine if the data has an error. If the data is determined not to include an error, the data may be transmitted to a requestor. If the data is determined to include an error, however, a data recovery process may be initiated to recover the data. This may reduce a likelihood the memory system returns corrupted data to a requestor. The memory system may process a different read request at least partially in parallel with the data recovery process to increase throughput or reduce latency. In some cases, the data recovery process may involve one or more techniques related to redundant array of disks (RAID) technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicola Del Gatto, Emanuele Confalonieri
  • Patent number: 11989403
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including at least one processor, the at least one processor executing a first obtaining process for obtaining accessory equipment data transmitted from each of pieces of accessory equipment included in an accessory equipment group, a first converting process for converting the accessory equipment data, which has been obtained in the first obtaining process, into a particular format, and a first providing process for providing, to main equipment, the accessory equipment data whose format has been converted in the first converting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nakazawa, Takahiro Naito, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Tomoyoshi Kawaguchi, Naoya Sogo
  • Patent number: 11983235
    Abstract: A processor retrieves a webpage for rendering in a web browser. A processor identifies at least one zone of the webpage. A processor determines a resource consumption rate for the at least one zone. A processor determines a display area for the at least one zone. A processor determines a consumption ratio based on the resource consumption rate and the display area of the at least one zone. In response to the consumption ratio exceeding a threshold value, a processor disables a rendering of the at least one zone when rendering the webpage in the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gael Ayouba, Ivan Deleuze, Victor Tardieu, Anthony Morales
  • Patent number: 11973664
    Abstract: The disclosure reveals a system and approach for remote health monitoring and diagnostics of room controllers, networks and devices. A master room controller may be used to open a system health page or a diagnostic page for other controllers. A system health page may provide an overview of virtually all of the other room controllers. A tool of the present system may be used to trouble shoot issues remotely at another room controller in lieu of doing a visit to the respective room controller. A user may navigate from the system health page to virtually any place on the room controller to diagnose issues. The navigation may be done by hyper linking from the system health page. The healthy controllers may be hidden from the page so that the unhealthy systems can be viewed in one shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Upender Paravastu, Jijji Ramanathan, Mallikarjuna Nonayinakere Sugandharajappa, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Christopher Martin, Wei Hua, Robert Klamka