7031 patents
Utility
Semantic Embeddings for Content Retrieval
18 Jan 24
A system uses semantic analysis of text associated with content items to recommend content for display to a user.
Aleksandr Ulanov, Dinkar Jain, Nikita Igorevych Lytkin, Apurva Jadhav, Yanxi Pan, Shike Mei
Filed: 25 Jun 18
Utility
Dynamic Selection and Enhancement of Images
18 Jan 24
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a plurality of images associated with a first listing and selects a first image from a plurality of images based on one or more of at least one engagement analysis signal or at least one image analysis signal.
Leif Erik Foged, Pavan Kumar Paalya Chandrashekar, Nahid Farahmand
Filed: 19 Feb 21
Utility
Strain-tunable Light-emitting Diodes Formed Using Mesa Sidewall Epitaxy
18 Jan 24
A light-emitting diode (LED) device can include a mesa with a sidewall encompassing a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active region between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer.
Alexander TONKIKH, Berthold HAHN, Michael GRUNDMANN, John Joseph CURLEY, Rajesh BALACHANDRAN
Filed: 13 Jul 22
Utility
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (Vcsel) Integration on a Photonic Integrated Circuit (Pic)
18 Jan 24
An off-normal bottom-emitting vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is integrated with a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for incident light from the VCSEL to efficiently couple to a waveguide via a grating coupler in the PIC.
Zhaoming ZHU
Filed: 8 Dec 22
Utility
Multi-color Pixels
18 Jan 24
A light source includes a substrate, an array of semiconductor structures grown on the substrate, and multi-color micro-LEDs grown on surfaces of the array of semiconductor structures.
Samir MEZOUARI, Andrea PINOS, Wei Sin TAN, John Lyle WHITEMAN
Filed: 14 Jul 22
Utility
Shock Absorbers In an Optical Assembly for a Wearable Display Device
18 Jan 24
An optical assembly to be used in a head-mounted display (HMD) device or similar may include a first optical component and a second optical component, where the first optical component and the second optical component are layered in the optical assembly.
Richard FARRELL, Michiel Koen CALLENS, Yu SHI
Filed: 17 Aug 22
Utility
Processing Private Information In a Distributed Enclave Framework
18 Jan 24
A request for information to verify integrity of program code of a first processor enclave is received from a remote requestor via a network.
Shankaran Gnanashanmugam, Qi Guo, Xiaopeng Wu, Yantao Li, Anant Deepak
Filed: 12 Mar 21
Utility
Haptic Device with Multiple Fluidically-Controlled Voids
18 Jan 24
A method for large scale integration of haptic devices is described.
Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna
Filed: 30 Mar 23
Utility
Systems for Detecting Gestures Performed Within Activation-threshold Distances of Artificial-reality Objects to Cause Operations at Physical Electronic Devices, and Methods of Use Thereof
18 Jan 24
A method includes, while presenting an artificial-reality environment that includes a virtual object and a representation of a physical object, detecting, based on data from a first group of sensors of a wrist-wearable device, that the wrist-wearable device is within a first distance of an electronic device responsive to user gestures and within another threshold distance of the virtual object.
Eric Whitmire, Rajinder Sodhi, Andre Levi, Austin Lee, Szeyin Lee
Filed: 1 May 23
Utility
Optical system for multi-view eye-tracking
16 Jan 24
A system includes a diffractive optical element including at least one substrate and a grating structure.
Yun-Han Lee, Mengfei Wang, Junren Wang, Lu Lu, Robin Sharma, Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Garam Young, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Babak Amirsolaimani, Fenglin Peng, Barry David Silverstein
Filed: 11 Sep 20
Utility
Systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments
16 Jan 24
A method includes a computing system receiving an image of a real-world environment, the image including at least a portion of a hand of a user of an artificial reality device, the hand comprising a palm and a plurality of fingers.
John-Fred Gilbert Abad, Sohail Sayed Shafii, Andrew Mitchell Welch, Ryan Daniel Rutherford, Travis Creighton Hoffstetter, Paul Nelson, Oneil Howell
Filed: 22 Feb 21
Utility
Systems and methods for creating interactive metadata elements in social media compositions
16 Jan 24
Systems and methods for creating digital interactive metadata elements in a social media composition may include (1) providing, to a user of a social media application, a composition interface for creating digital social media compositions, (2) collecting, via the composition interface, user-generated content and metadata information, (3) creating, based on the user-generated content and the metadata information, a social media composition that includes the user-generated content and an interactive metadata item, and (4) posting the social media composition to a consumption channel (e.g., a newsfeed channel and/or a stories channel) of a social-networking platform associated with the social media application.
Debashish Paul
Filed: 25 Jan 21
Utility
Variable-resistance actuator
16 Jan 24
The disclosed system may include a substructure configured to support various components, an actuator configured to provide substantially linear motion along a specified axis in response to an electrical input, an input component hingedly coupled to the substructure, where the input component is configured to receive input from a user, and a mechanical linkage coupled to the input component and to at least a portion of the actuator.
Elizabeth Tu, Lorenz Henric Jentz, Khaled Boulos, Derrick Readinger, Robert Carey Leonard
Filed: 2 Feb 22
Design
Charging case for smartglasses
16 Jan 24
Ines Le Bihan, Peter Wesley Bristol
Filed: 31 Dec 20
Utility
Pixel sensor having shared readout structure
16 Jan 24
An apparatus comprises a first photodiode, a second photodiode, a quantizer, a memory, and a controller configured to: set a first exposure period in which the first photodiode generates a first charge; set a second exposure period in which the second photodiode generates a second charge, the second exposure period being set based on the first exposure period and at least one of: a first time associated with a read out operation of the memory to a second apparatus, or a second time associated with a quantization operation by the quantizer; perform, using the quantizer, the first quantization operation of the first charge to generate a first digital output; and perform, using the quantizer, a second quantization operation of the second charge to generate a second digital output.
Xinqiao Liu, Song Chen, Tsung-Hsun Tsai
Filed: 30 Nov 21
Utility
Systems and methods for hearing assessment and audio adjustment
16 Jan 24
An audio system for user hearing assessment includes one or more audio capture devices, and processing circuitry.
Haytham Mohamed Fayek Abdallah Abdelrehim Abokela, Antonio John Miller
Filed: 29 Dec 22
Utility
Virtual Reality Hardware
11 Jan 24
In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can include one or more tinting elements (e.g., flip-down blacked-out lenses, a blacked-out slider, or a blacked-out removeable cover) configured to cover the lenses of the MR glasses.
Charlene Mary ATLAS, Nadine Sharon ANGLIN, Dong YANG, Jianjun JU, Chih-Chen SUN, Jian ZHANG, Wanli WU
Filed: 24 Aug 23
Utility
OPTICAL ASSEMBLY WITH MICRO LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) AS EYE-TRACKING NEAR INFRARED (nIR) ILLUMINATION SOURCE
11 Jan 24
An eye-tracking system may include an optical assembly with integrated micro light emitting diodes.
Mehmet MUTLU, Wei Wu, Alfredo Bismuto, Qi Zhang, Kuan Pei Yap
Filed: 11 Jul 22
Utility
Optical Assemblies, Head-mounted Displays, and Related Methods
11 Jan 24
Optical assemblies may include a projector assembly and a waveguide assembly.
Randall Scott Toy, James Schultz, Zhiqiang Liu
Filed: 27 Feb 23
Utility
Metasurface for Far-field Beam Characteristic Control of Micro Light Emitting Diodes
11 Jan 24
A far-field characteristic of light emitted by a micro light emitting diode (μLED) such as a beam shape, a beam orientation, a beam focusing, or a beam polarization is controlled by a metasurface of nanostructures formed on the μLED.
Zhaocheng Liu, Zhaoyu Nie
Filed: 2 Dec 22