System(s) and method(s) for enforcing consistency of value(s) and unit(s) in a vehicular environment
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217753
Implementations described herein relate to determining how an automated assistant should respond to a given spoken utterance received in a vehicular environment to enforce consistency between value(s) and/or unit(s) that are displayed at a given display device of an in-vehicle computing device and value(s) and/or unit(s) that are utilized in executing a given vehicular command or that are provided for presentation to a user in response to a given vehicular request. For example,…
Asynchronous resumption of dialog session(s) between a user and an automated assistant based on intermediate user interaction(s)
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218889
Implementations can receive user input during a dialog session between a user and an automated assistant at a client device of the user and via an automated assistant platform, and in response to determining that the user input requires a user interaction with a non-assistant platform: store a state of the dialog session between the user and the automated assistant, transmit a request to initiate the user interaction to the non-assistant platform that causes an additional client device…
Dynamic resource allocation of cloud instances and enterprise application migration to cloud architecture
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218856
Cloud migration may be performed by identifying applications that are currently operating in the enterprise and performing certain determinations as to whether those applications are proper candidates for the migration to the cloud. One example method of operation may provide identifying at least one application operating on an enterprise network, retrieving current usage data of the at least one application, comparing the current usage data of the at least one application to a threshold…
Availability SLO-aware network optimization
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218808
The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for a network planning and optimization tool that may allow for network capacity planning using key network failures for an arbitrary pair of network topology and demands. Performing network capacity planning with key network failures, instead of using other techniques, may avoid over-building the topology of a network. In particular, key network failures may be generated from the probabilistic failures, and the impact…
Coherent receiver with mixed signal processing
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218707
A receiver system is provided for receiving a coherent Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) encoded signal. The receiver system may include an optical polarization component configured to modulate a polarization of the received coherent PAM encoded signal. The receiver system may further include a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to perform polarization recovery between the received coherent PAM encoded signal and the LO signal using a first control loop, and to perform phase…
Application specific integrated circuit accelerators
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218666
An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip includes: a systolic array of cells; and multiple controllable bus lines configured to convey data among the systolic array of cells, in which the systolic array of cells is arranged in multiple tiles, each tile of the multiple tiles including 1) a corresponding subarray of cells of the systolic array of cells, 2) a corresponding subset of controllable bus lines of the multiple controllable bus lines, and 3) memory coupled to the…
Maintaining a temperature of an electric motor below a threshold temperature while the electric motor is stalled to generate heat
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218615
An electronic apparatus includes an electric motor, driver circuitry to drive the electric motor, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the electric motor, and one or more processors. The one or more processors control the driver circuitry to drive the electric motor according to a predetermined voltage signal to cause the electric motor to stall and generate heat, receive information about the temperature of the electric motor detected by the temperature sensor while the…
Superconducting bump bonds for quantum computing systems
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218091
A quantum computing system can include a first substrate including one or more quantum control devices. The quantum computing system can include a second substrate including one or more quantum circuit elements. The quantum computing system can include one or more tin contact bonds formed on the first substrate and the second substrate. The tin contact bonds can bond the first substrate to the second substrate. The tin contact bonds can be or can include tin, such as a tin alloy.
Audio-visual separation of on-screen sounds based on machine learning models
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217768
Apparatus and methods related to separation of audio sources are provided. The method includes receiving an audio waveform associated with a plurality of video frames. The method includes estimating, by a neural network, one or more audio sources associated with the plurality of video frames. The method includes generating, by the neural network, one or more audio embeddings corresponding to the one or more estimated audio sources. The method includes determining, based on the audio…
Voice to text conversion based on third-party agent content
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217759
Implementations relate to dynamically, and in a context-sensitive manner, biasing voice to text conversion. In some implementations, the biasing of voice to text conversions is performed by a voice to text engine of a local agent, and the biasing is based at least in part on content provided to the local agent by a third-party (3P) agent that is in network communication with the local agent. In some of those implementations, the content includes contextual parameters that are provided by…
Digital signal processor-based continued conversation
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217751
A method includes instructing an always-on first processor to operate in a follow-on query detection mode, and while the always-on first processor operates in the follow-on query detection mode: receiving follow-on audio data captured by the assistant-enabled device; determining, using a voice activity detection (VAD) model executing on the always-on first processor, whether or not the VAD model detects voice activity in the follow-on audio data; performing, using a speaker…
System and method for speech recognition using deep recurrent neural networks
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217743
Deep recurrent neural networks applied to speech recognition. The deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are preferably implemented by stacked long short-term memory bidirectional RNNs. The RNNs are trained using end-to-end training with suitable regularisation.
Detection and/or enrollment of hot commands to trigger responsive action by automated assistant
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217740
Techniques are described herein for detecting and/or enrolling (or commissioning) new “hot commands” that are useable to cause an automated assistant to perform responsive action(s) without having to be first explicitly invoked. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be transitioned from a limited listening state into a full speech recognition state in response to a trigger event. While in the full speech recognition state, the automated assistant may receive and…
Simultaneous acoustic event detection across multiple assistant devices
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217736
Implementations can detect respective audio data that captures an acoustic event at multiple assistant devices in an ecosystem that includes a plurality of assistant devices, process the respective audio data locally at each of the multiple assistant devices to generate respective measures that are associated with the acoustic event using respective event detection models, process the respective measures to determine whether the detected acoustic event is an actual acoustic event, and…
Frequency compensation for a display
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217722
Techniques and apparatuses are described that perform frequency compensation for a display. In aspects, a first uniformity of multiple regions of the display can be measured at a reference frequency. The display can then be driven at a second frequency and a second uniformity of the multiple regions of the display can be measured. The differences between the first and second uniformity can then be used to generate a compensation mask. XYZ domain data from the first and second uniformity…
Odd and even row sequential driving in AMOLED with pentile arrangement
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217698
A display device includes subpixels of a first, second, and third colors, scan lines, and column lines. The subpixels are arranged in an array of rows and columns, with each subpixel in a column being electrically connected to a same column line. Each subpixels in a column is configured for receiving electronic scan signals that control a light output from an emissive element of the subpixel from a scan line and from the column line connected to the subpixel. One or more line drivers…
Under-display sensor operation
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217690
An example device includes a display panel; a fingerprint sensor configured to sense a fingerprint through the display panel; and processing circuitry configured to: responsive to activation of the fingerprint sensor: activate a local high brightness mode by at least increasing an amount of light radiated from a first portion of the display panel that overlies the fingerprint sensor; and temporarily decrease controlled brightness of a second portion of the display panel that is…
Grid-based enrollment for face authentication
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217536
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…
Multi-scale transformer for image analysis
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217382
The technology employs a patch-based multi-scale Transformer (300) that is usable with various imaging applications. This avoids constraints on image fixed input size and predicts the quality effectively on a native resolution image. A native resolution image (304) is transformed into a multi-scale representation (302), enabling the Transformer's self-attention mechanism to capture information on both fine-grained detailed patches and coarse-grained global patches. Spatial embedding…
Media consumption history
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210562
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request that includes a user identifier of a user that submitted a search query and an entity identifier of an entity that is referenced by the search query, identifying a plurality of knowledge elements that are related to the entity, identifying, in a consumption database, one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced by the search query, assigning rank scores…
