LEVERAGING INTERMEDIATE CHECKPOINTS TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF TRAINED DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE MODELS
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240095594
A method includes training a first differentially private (DP) model using a private training set, the private training set including a plurality of training samples, the first DP model satisfying a differential privacy budget, the differential privacy budget defining an amount of information about individual training samples of the private training set that may be revealed by the first DP model. The method also includes, while training the first DP model, generating a plurality of…
AUDIO RENDERING DEVICE AND AUDIO CONFIGURATOR DEVICE FOR AUDIO STREAM SELECTION, AND RELATED METHODS
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240094982
Audio rendering devices comprising at least one audio rendering unit for playing audio streams, processing circuit and a wireless communication unit for establishing wireless links and related method are disclosed. One audio rendering device is configured to receive a remote audio stream prioritization policy comprising one or more lists of associations between audio stream attributes and priority values, update a local audio stream prioritization policy based on the remote audio stream…
Robust Radar-Based Gesture-Recognition by User Equipment
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240094827
Systems and techniques are described for robust radar-based gesture-recognition. A radar system detects radar-based gestures on behalf of application subscribers. A state machine transitions between multiple states based on inertial sensor data. A no-gating state enables the radar system to output radar-based gestures to application subscribers. The state machine also includes a soft-gating state that prevents the radar system from outputting the radar-based gestures to the application…
Resource Manager Integration in Cloud Computing Environments
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240086227
In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual…
SPATIAL ALIASING REDUCTION FOR MULTI-SPEAKER CHANNELS
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240089684
Various arrangements for reducing auditory spatial aliasing for a user are detailed herein. A first delay filter may be set that delays output of a first same audio signal by a first duration to a speaker of a first set of multiple speakers of a device compared to a second speaker of the first set of multiple speakers. A second delay filter may also be set that delays output of a second same audio signal by a second duration to a speaker of a second set of multiple speakers of the device…
Transparent Migration of Virtual Network Functions
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240089207
A method includes identifying a middlebox receiving network flow and communicating with one or more backend virtual machines. The method also includes receiving flow statistics corresponding to the network flow of the middlebox and determining whether the flow statistics satisfy an offload rule. The offload rule indicates when to migrate the network flow from the middlebox to an end host. When the flow statistics satisfy the offload rule, the method also includes migrating the network…
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Transpiler for High-level Languages
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240089085
A method includes obtaining first code in a high-level programming language. The first code represents a first function for performing one or more operations on plaintext. The method also includes converting the first code into an intermediate representation comprising a list of nodes. Each node of the list of nodes includes one or more logical operations. The method also includes converting the intermediate representation into a Boolean intermediate representation that includes a…
ASYNCHRONOUS OPTIMIZATION FOR SEQUENCE TRAINING OF NEURAL NETWORKS
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240087559
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch…
GENERATING DUBBED AUDIO FROM A VIDEO-BASED SOURCE
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240087557
The present disclosure relates to generating and adjusting translated audio from a video-based source. The method includes receiving video data and corresponding audio data in a first language; generating a translated preliminary transcript in a second language; aligning timing windows of portions of the translated preliminary transcript with corresponding segments of the audio data; determining portions of the translated aligned transcript in the second language that exceed a timing…
ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES BASED ON USER INTENT
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240086240
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allocating computing resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving intent data specifying one or more computing services to be hosted by a computing network, requested characteristics of computing resources for use in hosting the computing service, and a priority value for each requested characteristic. A budget constraint is identified for each computing service. Available…
Thermal-Control System for a Security Camera and Associated Security Cameras
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240085766
This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a security camera. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heatsinks and thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivities. The thermal-control system may transfer and spread energy from a high thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the security camera to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the security camera at or below prescribed temperature…
Active Thermal-Control of a Floodlight and Associated Floodlights
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240085011
This document describes techniques directed to active thermal-control of a floodlight and associated floodlights. As described, an example floodlight includes a first heat-transfer subsystem that uses a fully enclosed heat sink to transfer heat from an array of LEDs to a first housing component of the floodlight. The floodlight further includes a second heat-transfer subsystem to transfer heat from one or more PSUs to a second housing component of the floodlight. Described techniques…
Outdoor Camera Assembly
Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number:
20240080538
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor encased in the housing and configured to capture activity of the smart home environment; (3) a wireless radio configured to transmit video frames captured by the image sensor to an electronic device via a remote server; (4) at least one infrared transmitter configured to selectively illuminate the smart home environment; (5) one or more circuit boards encased in…
Assessing Speaker Recognition Performance
Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number:
20240079013
A method for evaluating a verification model includes receiving a first and a second set of verification results where each verification result indicates whether a primary model or an alternative model verifies an identity of a user as a registered user. The method further includes identifying each verification result in the first and second sets that includes a performance metric. The method also includes determining a first score of the primary model based on a number of the…
Grid-Based Enrollment for Face Authentication
Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number:
20240078846
This document describes techniques and systems that enable grid-based enrollment for face authentication. The techniques and systems include overlaying a three-dimensional (3D) tracking window over a preview image of the user's face displayed via a display device. The 3D tracking window includes a plurality of segments, which persist to correspond to an approximate direction that the user's face is facing. Based on the tracking, segments are highlighted to indicate the approximate…
Just-in-Time Containers
Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number:
20240078116
A method for configuring and deploying execution environments for software applications includes receiving a bootstrap execution environment from a data store, the bootstrap execution environment including a software application, the software application including a manifest of dependencies. The method includes executing the bootstrap execution environment and determining whether an enhanced execution environment is available from the data store. When the enhanced execution environment…
Tubular Band with Seamless Lug Integration
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240065424
This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at providing a tubular band with seamless lug integration for wearable devices. In aspects, the tubular band includes an extensible strap formed of interwoven fibers. The strap includes opposing outward-facing edges at opposing longitudinal ends. Each edge defines an opening within which a base section of a coupling device can reside. The coupling device further includes an attachment section, opposite the base section, which…
PROXIMITY AND DIRECTION BASED ELECTRONIC DEVICE PAIRING
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240073642
Various arrangements for establishing a link between two electronic devices are presented herein. A pairing mode may be activated to establish the link. A first electronic wireless device can determine that a distance to a second wireless electronic device meets a distance threshold criterion. In response to the pairing mode being activated and the distance to the second wireless electronic device meeting the distance threshold criterion, a graphic element, such as a glow effect, can be…
DEVICE MESSAGES PROVIDED IN DISPLAYED IMAGE COMPILATIONS BASED ON USER CONTENT
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240070189
Implementations described herein relate to providing device messages in image compilations based on user content. A computer-implemented method includes determining that a playback mode is entered on a device to display one or more image compilations, each image compilation including images for successive display. Message criteria are obtained for device messages, each device message indicating a device function associated with images of the image compilations or of a user image library.…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FUNCTIONALITY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240069644
Features described herein generally relate to enhancing functionality of electronic devices. Particularly, a notification is received from a wearable device that includes a position of the wearable device within an area, a determination is made that the wearable device is located within a predetermined distance from a controllable device, a graphical user interface page that includes buttons is sent to the wearable device, an indication that a button of the buttons has been activated is…
