Selectable Iconic Array Patents (Class 715/835)
  • Patent number: 11520574
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for tracking source code deployments, the method comprises receiving an event descriptor, the event descriptor indicating that a source code repository is updated with a source code integration; retrieving a deployment description associated with the source code repository; comparing the event descriptor with the deployment description to determine whether the source code integration needs to be deployed; in response to determining that the source code integration needs to be deployed, deploying the source code integration; upon completion of the source code deployment, communicating deployment information corresponding to the completed source code deployment to a tracking system, the deployment information comprising at least a deployment identifier, and a source code integration identifier, the tracking system configured to utilize the source code integration identifier to query one or more external systems and automatically retrieve further information associ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew John Ryall, Matthew Joseph Watson, Jonathan Lowe, Geoff Crain, Samuel Tannous, Thomas Bradshaw, Piotr Plewa, Davina Adisusila, Jeroen De Raedt
  • Patent number: 11521340
    Abstract: Provided are an emoticon package generation method and apparatus, a device and a medium which relate to the field of graphic processing and in particular to Internet technologies. The specific implementation solution is: determining at least one of associated text of an emoticon picture or a similar emoticon package of an emoticon picture, where the associated text of the emoticon picture includes at least one of main part information, scenario information, emotion information, action information or connotation information; determining target matching text from the at least one of the associated text of the emoticon picture or associated text of the similar emoticon package; and superimposing the target matching text on the emoticon picture to generate a new emoticon package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianglong Xu, Jianfeng Zhu, Jiahua Cui, Jing Xiang, Hongtao Li, Chen Han, Shufei Lin, Ying Su, Shicao Li, Huiqin Li, Xiaochu Gan, Fei Gao, Jiale Yang, Xueyun Ma, Guohong Li
  • Patent number: 11487409
    Abstract: [Problem] To propose an application corresponding to a situation of each user and improve user convenience in starting use of the application. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display, on a display screen, execution information related to execution of at least one application specified on the basis of a predetermined determination result; and a processing control unit configured to execute first processing in a case where the at least one application is specified, and execute second processing on the basis of a response of a user to the displayed execution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Mine
  • Patent number: 11474674
    Abstract: While displaying a first user interface, in response to detecting a first user input that is directed to a respective location in the first user interface, if the respective location corresponds to a location of a first user interface object that includes application content corresponding to a first application and is preconfigured with one or more predetermined configuration options and the first user input is a first type of input, a computer system displays first controls for changing the one or more configuration options for the first user interface object. If the respective location corresponds to the location of the first user interface object and the first user input is a second type of input, the computer system displays, in a respective user interface different from the first user interface, the first user interface object with the one or more predetermined configuration options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christian X. Dalonzo
  • Patent number: 11455085
    Abstract: A computer system displays a first home screen user interface that includes a first subset of application icons. While displaying the first home screen user interface, in response to detecting a first input that meets second criteria and corresponds to a request to navigate to a second home screen user interface, replacing the first home screen user interface with the second home screen user interface. While displaying the second home screen user interface, in response to detecting second input that meets third criteria: replacing the second home screen user interface with a respective user interface that includes representations of a plurality of automatically-generated groupings of a plurality of applications. Activation of a respective representation of a respective automatically-generated grouping of the plurality of automatically-generated groupings in accordance with the first criteria causes display of a third subset of application icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Christian X. Dalonzo, Craig M. Federighi, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 11449193
    Abstract: A method for displaying a prompting message includes that: upon there is a prompting message to be displayed, a first mark is dynamically displayed on a desktop; after an input operation for the first mark is detected, the desktop is switched to a prompting page; and the prompting message is displayed on the prompting page. Therefore, displaying of the prompting message is optimized, a user can view the prompting message in a more timely manner, and user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhang Xia, Yihong Zhang, Shaohua Hao
  • Patent number: 11451721
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a method including determining one or more object clusters from a plurality of frames of the video content. At least one of the one or more object clusters is an object cluster with movement through the plurality of frames. The method includes extracting the determined one or more object clusters from the plurality of frames to generate a set of frames having extracted one or more object clusters and outputting the set of frames having extracted one or more object clusters. This disclosure describes a method including receiving the set of frames having the extracted one or more object clusters, rendering one or more of the set of frames in a live camera feed of a device, and generating video content based on the rendered one or more set of frames and a user interacting with the extracted one or more object clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Soul Vision Creations Private Limited
    Inventors: Sravanth Aluru, Gaurav Baid, Sarbartha Sengupta
  • Patent number: 11449221
    Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for a user interface for media content playback, such as during travel, are provided. An method of media playback by a media playback device, the method comprising: playing a media content item of a selected playlist of a selected group of playlists; generating a user interface displaying a graphic associated with the media content item that is playing; when an input associated with a first dimension is received into the user interface, playing another media content item of the selected playlist; when an input associated with a second dimension is received into the user interface, playing another media content item of another selected playlist of the selected group of playlists; and when an input associated with a third dimension is received into the user interface, playing another media content item of another selected playlist of another group of playlists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Sten Garmark, Adam Price, Daniel Choe
  • Patent number: 11436249
    Abstract: A computer transforms content of a composite table into structured data objects. The computer receives a composite table and identifying a data zone characterized by data columns, and a header zone. The computer identifies first header cells arranged coextensive with a single data column and second header cells arranged coextensive with a set of data columns. The computer generates a hierarchical representation of said header cells, based at least in part, on the header cell arrangements. The computer generates a revised table based on the hierarchical representation, with the first header cells identifying a data column and the second header cells identify a first header cell. The computer generates structured data objects representing the zones and being arranged based, at least in part, on the revised table and where the structured data objects are keyed to the first header cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xue Lan Zhang, Hai Cheng Wang, Jing Zhang, Jun Hong Zhao, Ang Yi, Dong Rui Li
  • Patent number: 11438511
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling an electronic device. The method includes the steps of displaying a viewfinder interface, the viewfinder interface including a first image, the first image including a target image; acquiring first operation information for a target operation of the target image in the first image; determining whether the first operation information satisfies a rule; and determining whether to trigger the electronic device to enter a first image collection mode based on a determination result, wherein in the first image collection mode, the target image in the first image is combined with multimedia information to display a combined multimedia information with the target image in the viewfinder interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Yongbao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11416244
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for automatically detecting positions of various webpage elements within a webpage when the webpage is rendered, based on analyzing the programming code of the webpage using graph-based and NLP-based techniques. A position detection system obtains the programming code of the webpage and generates a DOM tree based on the programming code. A group of leaf tags may be identified based on traversing the DOM tree. The position detection system may use two different, but coordinated, prediction models to make the classification prediction for the leaf tags, where the first prediction model focuses on recall by identifying as many positive leaf tags as possible at the cost of low precision and the second prediction model refines the results from the first prediction model by improving the precision of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Yarden Raiskin
  • Patent number: 11409520
    Abstract: A system includes reception of a definition of a first attribute to associate with a logical object of the first application, reception of a definition of a second attribute to associate with a second logical object of the first application, determination, based on the definition of the first attribute and the definition of the second attribute, that the first attribute and the second attribute are associated with a same semantic, based on the determination, generation of e a first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute and storing the first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute in a first data schema associated with the first application, and storage of the first identifier associated with the first attribute and the second attribute in an analytics schema associated with an analytics application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Thirumaleshwar Kunamalla, Krishna Hindhupur Vijay Sudheendra, Panish Ramakrishna, Debashis Banerjee, Hemanth Rajeswari Anantha, Hari Babu Krishnan, Balaji Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 11385765
    Abstract: Users can switch between applications using contextual interface elements. These elements can include icons for applications determined to likely be accessed by the user for a current context. Information is gathered to determine the current context, then information such as patterns of historical usage are utilized to determine and rank the applications by likelihood of use. Different contexts can include different icons, and a given context can include different icons for different points in time or locations. A user can access a contextual interface element by performing a swipe motion, for example. The user can continue the motion to an area associated with an icon of interest, and perform an action such as a tap or release to cause the associated application to be launched. Such an approach enables a user to quickly and easily launch another application independent of the application currently active on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Levon Dolbakian, Arnaud Marie Froment, Gy Stuart Fullmer, Sean Thomas Congden, Brett Nathan Lynnes, Nadim Awad, Kenneth Paul Kiraly
  • Patent number: 11375262
    Abstract: Disclosed are a main image processing apparatus, a sub image processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The control method of the sub image processing apparatus includes receiving a user's touch input through the sub image processing apparatus; determining which contents correspond to a touched area where the touch input occurs; sensing change in location of the touch input; and transmitting a control command for the contents to the main image processing apparatus in response to the sensed change in the location of the touch input. With this, it is more convenient for a user to control the main image processing apparatus through the sub image processing apparatus supporting the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-soo Lee, Yong-hwan Kwon, Joon-hwan Kim, Heui-jin Kwon, Jeong-yeon Lee, Victor Szilagyi
  • Patent number: 11366654
    Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ori Amiga, John MacIntyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11340921
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate and cause display of a contextual navigation menu within a GUI, wherein the contextual navigation menu presents contextually relevant interface elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Newar Husam Al Majid
  • Patent number: 11335095
    Abstract: Visual content may be captured by an image capture device. The characteristics of the visual content may be determined based on assessment of separate visual content and without assessment of the visual content. The assessment of the separate visual content may include identification of thing(s) depicted within the separate visual content. The separate visual content may be temporally and/or spatially separate from the visual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Garcia, Balthazar Neveu
  • Patent number: 11331007
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for monitoring a workout and for generating improved interfaces for the same. One example user interface detects when a workout of a particular type is started and begins generating activity data related to workout metrics associated with the type of workout selected. Using determined current values for the workout metrics, the example user interface displays a pro-view display that includes indicators for the workout metrics associated with the selected workout type. The pro-view display also includes a focus indicator that highlights a selected indicator representative of a focused workout metric. The focus indicator is movable among the indicators representative of the workout metrics based on user input. Upon detection of a gesture, the example user interface transitions to a simple-view display that includes an indicator representative of the focused workout metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Jules K. Fennis, David Chance Graham, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11308730
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel defining a folding area and a non-folding area and including a base layer, a circuit layer on the base layer, and a display element layer on the circuit layer, an input sensor below the display panel and defining a sensing area overlapping the non-folding area, and a light shielding layer between the display element layer and the input sensor, where the light shielding layer defines a plurality of holes in a first portion of the light shielding layer at the non-folding area, and a cut portion in a second portion of the light shielding layer at the folding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Ryu, Ilnam Kim, Jae-Kyoung Kim, Jongin Baek, Eunjin Sung, Seongryong Lee, Jonghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11301087
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a display control unit that causes an object as a target of the touch operation to be displayed in the image display unit, an image input unit that acquires a video of an operation instruction object that performs the touch operation on the touch screen, and a shaking detection unit that analyzes the video of the operation instruction object, which is acquired by the image input unit, and calculates a relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object to a position of the personal digital assistant as a reference. The display control unit causes the object to be displayed in the image display unit to be displayed, based on the relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object, which is calculated by the shaking detection unit, such that the object is shifted in accordance with the relative shaking amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Sadao Tsuruga, Susumu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11290768
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and server apparatus are disclosed. In one example, the information processing apparatus is configured to display content on a first display and transmit an instruction to display the content, which is being displayed on the first display, on a second display of a first external device. This instruction causes a displaying of the content at a specified playback start point on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Junichi Nakamura, Naoki Yuasa, Shuichi Otsu, Hiroki Hashi, Mie Namai
  • Patent number: 11287952
    Abstract: Content items and a dynamic menu element are displayed. Responsive to selection and dragging of the dynamic menu element over a particular content item, a menu of actions contextual to the particular content item is displayed, and the particular content item is highlighted to indicate that the displayed menu is related to the particular content item. Responsive to release of the dynamic menu element over the particular content item, the displayed menu is rendered actionable so that the actions thereof selectable; prior to release of the dynamic menu element over the particular content item, the displayed menu is non-actionable and no action is selectable. Responsive to selection of a specific action of the menu being displayed, the selected specific action is performed in relation to the particular content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Bing Zhang, Da-Long Sun, Li Zhang, Rong-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11281368
    Abstract: A device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects that includes one or more folder icons on a display. The device detects a first input requesting to select a folder icon for a folder that includes selectable icons divided between a plurality of distinct separately displayed pages of a folder view. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a first page of the folder view. While displaying the first page of the folder view, the device detects a second input that corresponds to a request to display a second page of the folder view. In response to detecting the second input, the device ceases to display the first page and displays the second page of the folder view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11269418
    Abstract: A proximity selection feature of a content creation and consumption application for selecting proximate content displayed by a computing device is described. The content application can initiate a selection mode in response to receiving, for example, a command to enter the selection mode or a defined gesture. The content application can identify an origination point and surface a two-dimensional selection shape anchored to the origination point. The selection shape may form an original capture area. The origination point is a location on a user interface where the selection shape is to be surfaced, anchored to, and have a capture area expanded from. After surfacing the selection shape, the content application can receive indicia of expansion, and based on the indicia of expansion, expand the selection shape from its original capture area to an expanded capture area to capture content proximate the original capture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lisa C. Cherian, Nassr Albahadly, ArunKumar Narayanan Kotiedath
  • Patent number: 11249627
    Abstract: Dynamic templates include regions that provide behavior based upon a purpose or desired outcome. Templates and regions can modify the logical representations associated with objects to create semantic context for the objects. Templates and regions can also generate visual representations of objects based upon their logical representations. The visual representation utilized by a template or region can be selected manually or based upon the capabilities of a computing device. Objects contained within regions can be sorted, filtered, arranged, and projected based on their associated logical representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ron Mondri, Itai Almog, Francois M. Rouaix, Christian James Colando, March Rogers, Eduardo Sonnino, Clea Allington, Palmer H. Batt
  • Patent number: 11243662
    Abstract: A method for arranging components in a two-dimensional area includes a component preparation module for providing a set of components for arrangement, determining rectangular covers for each component, and ordering components according to a predefined order preference, and a core layout module for mapping components in order to positions in the arrangement with a first width and in a first direction, including: a row module for positioning components in order in a first full row across the first direction of the first width aligning one of the top or bottom sides of the covers of adjacent components until the next component does not fit in the first width, and a sub-row module for positioning components in any available space within the height of the first full row to form one or more sub-rows in the first direction and extending a distance less than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Robertson
  • Patent number: 11243660
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for displaying an application, and a storage medium. The method includes detecting a start of a target sliding operation by a user on a terminal; in response to detecting the start of the target sliding operation, displaying an application list on a current display interface of the terminal, the application list including an application identification of at least one application installed on the terminal; acquiring an end position of the target sliding operation on the application list; determining an application indicted by a first application identification displayed at the end position as a target application selected by the user; and displaying an application interface of the target application on the current display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenzhou Lu, Shao Chen, Jiayan Li
  • Patent number: 11237920
    Abstract: A computer system includes memory configured to store software application files, and a processor configured to execute computer executable instructions. The instructions include identifying a target software application, archiving files of the target software application, and creating, in the directory, one or more replacement executable files that correspond to one or more executable files of the target software application. The instructions include detecting, by a first replacement executable file of the one or more replacement executable files, an execution call to the first replacement executable file corresponding to a first executable file of the target software application. The instructions include, in response to detection of the detected execution call, restoring files of the target software application and forwarding the detected execution call to the first executable file of the target software application in the directory to allow the first executable file to process the detected execution call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cigna Intellectual Property, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank R. Fazio
  • Patent number: 11238007
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selector and a display controller. The selector selects a first display form or a second display form as a display form of a display image including a reduced image of a document. When the first display form is selected, the display controller controls display to make a distance between the reduced image of the document and document information of the document larger than the distance in a case where the second display form is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Toshiyuki Komoda, Shinsuke Nakazawa, Yoshihito Suezawa
  • Patent number: 11233895
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an automatic wallpaper setting method, a terminal device, and a graphical user interface. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device when a multimedia file of at least one preset widget changes, one or more first posters corresponding to a current multimedia file, where the at least one widget is displayed on a screen of the terminal device; setting at least one of the obtained one or more first posters as wallpaper of a current screen; and displaying the specified wallpaper. Content of a desktop widget can be extended, and more information can be provided for a user without increasing a user operation, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Alejandro Urrutia Daglio, Yi Ding
  • Patent number: 11226734
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system enables the execution of multiple commands from a single gesture by detecting an object is touching a touchscreen device, timing the duration that the object remains on the surface of the touchscreen device, indicating the length of the duration, and executing one of two or more commands based on the length of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES SOLIDWORKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Priya Dalmia, Chinloo Lama
  • Patent number: 11197114
    Abstract: An extended cognitive loudspeaker system (CLS) including a system manager coupled to a basic service set (BSS) of a wireless network, wherein the system manager establishes a CLS network using an independent BSS (IBSS) of the wireless network. A first CLS playgroup is formed by the system manager through the CLS network IBSS, wherein the first CLS playgroup includes a first control station (CS) and a first group of sound production stations (SPSs). A second CLS playgroup is formed by the system manager through the CLS network IBBS, wherein the second CLS playgroup includes a second CS station and a second group of SPSs. The second CLS playgroup can be dissolved, and the first CLS playgroup can be modified to include the second group of SPSs. The second group of SPSs can include mobility functions to enable any required movement of the second group of SPSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Kit S. Tam
  • Patent number: 11188425
    Abstract: Snapshots may be managed on a data storage system including logical storage unit including data portions. For a first logical storage unit, a first snapshot pointer structure may be provided including entries, each entry corresponding to a physical storage location at which data is stored for a data portion of the first logical storage unit at a particular point in time. A first virtual snapshot lookup table may be provided for a first portion of the first logical storage unit, the first virtual snapshot lookup table including a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to a respective data portion of the first logical storage unit and including a reference to a respective entry of the first snapshot pointer structure. The virtual lookup table may correspond to multiple snapshots of the first logical storage unit that have a same value for each data portion of the at least first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Tobin, Andrew L. Chanler, Michael Ferrari, Jeffrey Wilson
  • Patent number: 11173895
    Abstract: A parking support apparatus configured to perform a parking control for automatically parking a vehicle in a target parking position. The parking support control is provided with: a detector configured to obtain a signal of a vehicle external sensor that can detect at least one of a movement and a voice/sound of a user who is outside the vehicle and to determine whether or not the at least one of the movement and the voice/sound of the user matches a parking instruction action set in advance, thereby detecting a particular parking instruction action of the user; and a starter configured to start the parking control if the parking instruction action is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Sugano
  • Patent number: 11172299
    Abstract: Content rules engines for playback devices are disclosed herein. A media playback system receives a first command to form a synchrony group comprising a plurality of playback devices. The system receives a second command for the synchrony group to play back first audio content. In response to the second command, the first audio content is played back via the synchrony group. The system receives (i) second audio content to be played back by one or more of the playback devices of the synchrony group and (ii) content source properties associated with an audio source of the second audio content. The system accesses a rules engine to determine playback restrictions based at least in part on the content source properties. Based at least in part on the playback restrictions, operation of one or more of the playback devices is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Torgerson, Sanford William Spivey, Ryan Taylor
  • Patent number: 11171894
    Abstract: An interface method for a mobile terminal includes: receiving in the order of time and saving two or more types of messages corresponding to two or more types of first applications; integrating and configuring the two or more types of messages using a second application, which integrates and manages the two or more types of first applications; and displaying the two or more types of messages with the identification information on the type of each of the messages using the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 11169662
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a display method. The display apparatus includes: a display configured to provide a plurality of item areas each of which displays at least a part of an item list including a plurality of items, wherein the display provides at least one item area, among the plurality of item areas, as a closed item area and provides at least one item area, among the plurality of item areas, as an open item area; and a controller configured to control the display to, in response to an input of a control apparatus that selects the closed item area, display at least some items of an item list corresponding to the closed item area on the open item area and to display at least some items of an item list corresponding to the open item area on the closed item area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-ha Lee, Heui-jin Kwon, Young-sun Kim, Da-hye Shim, Tae-kwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11163425
    Abstract: An example user terminal apparatus includes communication circuitry configured to be connected to a home network comprising a plurality of devices; a display configured to display a UI screen for managing the home network; a sensor configured to sense a user manipulation of the UI screen; and processing circuitry configured to change the UI screen displayed on the display according to the user manipulation. The UI screen is one of a plurality of service pages that are changeable according to a user manipulation in a first direction, the plurality of service pages being pages for respectively providing different home network management services. At least one of the plurality of service pages comprises an area that is displayable on the display according to a user manipulation in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hyun Shim, Chang-won Kim, Ga-hyun Joo, Jin-sung Kim, Jong-youb Ryu, Chang-hyun Lee, Yong-hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11150865
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to receive metadata for audio content associated with an audio content item for presentation in a news feed to be displayed on a screen of a computing device associated with a user. The metadata is transformed for display in the audio content item. The transformed metadata is displayed in the audio content item. In addition, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to present an audio content item in a news feed to be displayed on a screen of a computing device associated with a user. An input by the user for scrolling the news feed and the audio content item on the screen is received. A pop out player is presented in response to disappearance of the audio content item from the screen based on the scrolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Matthew Quirino, Michael Luis Cerda, Holly Marie Ormseth
  • Patent number: 11144800
    Abstract: An image disambiguation method includes: performing image feature extraction and semantic recognition on at least two images in an image set including similar targets to obtain N K-dimensional semantic feature probability vectors, where the image set includes N images, N and K are both positive integers, and N is greater than or equal to 2; determining a differential feature combination according to the N K-dimensional semantic feature probability vectors, the differential feature combination indicating a difference between the similar targets in the at least two images in the image set; and generating a natural language for representing or prompting the difference between the similar targets in the at least two images in the image set according to the differential feature combination and image features of the at least two images in the image set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoou Tang, Yining Li, Chen Huang, Chen Change Loy
  • Patent number: 11132020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a flexible display, a sensor panel, a sensor circuitry, a first housing, a second housing, and a folding structure configured to rotate the first housing or the second housing. The sensor panel includes a plurality of loop coils. The sensor circuitry transmits or receives a first resonance signal to recognize an operation of an electronic pen through the plurality of loop coils, outputs a second resonance signal through a first loop coil included in one panel part of the first panel part or the second panel part, receives the second resonance signal through a second loop coil included in a remaining one panel part of the first panel part or the second panel part, and determines an angle between the first housing and the second housing, based on the received second resonance signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventors: Minsoo Kim, Bongsub Kim, Taewon Kim, Sangmin Lee, Jongheon Lee, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11126348
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and a plurality of other users, a message-input area, and a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of other users. The plurality of avatars are displayed as a stack of avatars, with a first avatar of avatars displayed on the top of the stack of avatars. In response to detecting an input by a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is at a first location in the messaging user interface that corresponds to the first avatar, if the input meets menu-activation-criteria, a menu that contains activatable menu items associated with the first avatar overlaid on the messaging user interface is displayed, and if the input meets avatar-spreading-criteria the plurality of avatars are displayed in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes, Darin B. Adler, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky
  • Patent number: 11120840
    Abstract: An information processing method comprising: obtaining environment information of a video file in a preview state, where the preview state is a display state before the video file is played; in response to the environment information satisfying a first pre-set condition, indicating the video file by a first cover; and in response to the environment information satisfying a second pre-set condition, indicating the video file by a second cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Xu, Dakun Yang, Jingxian Liu
  • Patent number: 11112938
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for filtering an object. The method includes: displaying an object management interface; detecting a location that is on the object management interface and that is touched by a user; determining, according to the touched location and a pressure value applied to the touched location, when the pressure value is greater than a preset threshold, a first type required by the user; and obtaining, through filtering in the object management interface, and presenting all objects of the first type. By using this method, the user can effectively obtain, through filtering in the object management interface, the presented objects of the first type, purposely locate, among disorderly messages or files, a type in which the user is interested, and filter out information of other types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tizheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11112936
    Abstract: The communication device comprising a weather implementer, a weather dependent shortcut icon modification implementer, and an audiovisual playback implementer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11095767
    Abstract: A screen display method includes: acquiring screen status when a specified operation is received, the screen status being status of the first display screen and/or status of the second display screen; selecting a display screen from a first display screen and a second display screen according to the screen status and the specified operation; and displaying a first current interface on the selected display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayan Li, Fan Jin, Jiayi Li
  • Patent number: 11093104
    Abstract: An icon display control apparatus that prevents messy display of icons. A predetermined extension application equipped with a function for receiving an instruction for executing processing via an operation on an icon associated with the processing is installed in the icon display control apparatus. A display control unit performs control of display of the icon on a console section. The display control unit controls whether or not to display the icon associated with the processing on the console section, based on whether or not a predetermined condition set for processing of the predetermined extension application is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Kamasuka
  • Patent number: 11083968
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating a virtual object; the method comprising: receiving a digital representation of a visual appearance of a real-world object; creating a virtual object with a visual appearance based on the received digital representation; selecting a part of the virtual object; and assigning one or more attributes to the selected part of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Morgan James Walker, Jonathan B. Bennink, Henrik Munk Storm
  • Patent number: 11054978
    Abstract: A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pankaj Agarwal, Ji-su Jung, Won-hee Choe
  • Patent number: 11037197
    Abstract: A user interface is provided to present offers via icons displayed near the location of the user on a map. Offers presented on the map may include active offers previously selected by the user and currently associated with the consumer account of the user for active participation, matching offers that have a set of targeting criteria which the user meets, and location-based offers that target locations in the vicinity of the location of the user. Icons for the location-based offers are presented at their respective targeting locations; and the active offers and matching offers are presented around the location of the user on the map for convenient access. A user interface allows the user to explore available offers, view information associated with the respective offers, and select offers in which to participate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Mark Carlson, Patrick Stan