Adaptive method for biometrically certified communication
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210600
A recipient communication device and method wherein a user authenticates a message that is being received. The method includes receiving, by a messaging utility of the recipient communication device, a message transmitted from a sender communication device. The messaging utility determines that one of (a) sender authentication of the message and (b) recipient authentication to open the message is required. In response to sender authentication being required, the recipient communication…
Triad sub-pixel arrangements for under display sensors
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213364
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in a display panel. The display panel includes a first area of multiple pixels that has a first density of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and that has an equal representation of LEDs of a first color, a second color, and a third color. Each pixel in the first area has: (i) a first sub-pixel comprising an LED of the first color, (ii) a second sub-pixel comprising an LED of the second color, and (iii) a third…
Dynamically adapting provision of notification output to reduce user distraction and/or mitigate usage of computational resources
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213103
Dynamically adapting provision of notification output to reduce distractions and/or to mitigate usage of computational resources. In some implementations, an automated assistant application predicts a level of engagement for a user and determines, based on the predicted level of engagement (and optionally future predicted level(s) of engagement), provisioning (e.g., whether, when, and/or how) of output that is based on a received notification. For example, the automated assistant…
Controlling impedance matching circuitry
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212348
A system for controlling an impedance matching circuitry can include an antenna, a receiving or transmitting circuitry, an impedance matching circuitry, a circuitry, and a controller. The impedance matching circuitry can be coupled between the antenna and the receiving or transmitting circuitry. The circuitry can be configured to set a value of an impedance of the impedance matching circuitry. The controller can be configured to determine, based on a state of an electronic device, that…
Fusion of acoustic and text representations in RNN-T
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211509
A speech recognition model includes an encoder network, a prediction network, and a joint network. The encoder network is configured to receive a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing an input utterance; and generate, at each of a plurality of output steps, a higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame in the sequence of acoustic frames. The prediction network is configured to: receive a sequence of non-blank symbols output by a final Softmax layer; and…
Selectively implementing role change requests for auxiliary devices that facilitate assistant interactions
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211507
Implementations relate to role change requests that can be delayed and/or implemented according to circumstances associated with an interaction between a user and an automated assistant. A role change request can cause a designation of auxiliary devices (e.g., earbuds and/or any other peripheral devices) to be changed, and at least cause a different auxiliary device to be tasked with directly communicating with a principal device (e.g., a cellular phone). For instance, when an auxiliary…
Conversion path performance measures and reports
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211065
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing conversion path performance measures and reports. In one aspect, user interaction data are obtained, were the user interaction data specify user interactions for a plurality of conversions. User interactions that are associated with each conversion are selected from the user interaction data, where the associated user interactions for each conversion are user interactions with…
Contrastive pre-training for language tasks
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210845
Systems and methods are provided that train a machine-learned language encoding model through the use of a contrastive learning task. In particular, the present disclosure describes a contrastive learning task where the encoder learns to distinguish input tokens from plausible alternatives. In some implementations, on each training example the proposed method masks out some subset (e.g., 15%) of the original input tokens, replaces the masked tokens with samples from a “generator”…
Inverse capacitive touch sensing on a headset
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210703
A headset in the form of glasses for use in creating an augmented reality experience is implemented with a capacitive smart sensor disposed on an inside surface of an arm of the glasses. The capacitive smart sensor can be trained, using a neural network, to identify and distinguish different gestures associated with a touch event on an outside surface of the arm of the glasses. The smart sensor thus transforms the headset into a user input device without adding a touch pad.
Additive and subtractive noise for privacy protection
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210647
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using additive and subtractive noise for preserving the privacy of users. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a first set of genuine user group identifiers that identify user groups that include a user as a member. A second set of user group identifiers is generated for the user by removing zero or more genuine user group identifiers from the first set to generate the second set…
Wearable device
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
D1059182
Methods, systems, and media for determining playlist title coherence and quality
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210567
Methods, systems, and media for determining playlist title coherence and quality are provided. In some embodiments, a method for generating playlist recommendations includes: determining, using a hardware processor, a title of a playlist; generating, using the hardware processor, a byte-level representation of the title based on the title of the playlist; determining, using the hardware processor, an embedded representation of the title based on the byte-level representation;…
Query categorization based on image results
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210564
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for query categorization based on image results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving images from image results responsive to a query, wherein each of the images is associated with an order in the image results and respective user behavior data for the image as a search result for the first query, and associating one or more of the first images with a plurality of annotations based on…
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…
Recognizing polling questions from a conference call discussion
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210549
Systems and methods for recognizing polling questions from a conference call discussion are provided. One or more text strings including a textual form of one or more verbal phrases provided by one or more participants of a conference call are identified. The one or more text strings are provided as input to a trained machine learning model. One or more outputs from the trained machine learning model are obtained. A level of confidence that a verbal phrase of the one or more verbal…
Performing unitary iteration and indexed operations
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210502
Methods, systems and apparatus for performing indexed operations using a unary iteration quantum circuit. In one aspect, a method includes encoding an index value in an index register comprising index qubits; encoding the index value in a control register comprising multiple control qubits; and repeatedly computing and uncomputing the control qubits to perform, conditioned on the state of the control qubits, the operation on one or more target qubits corresponding to the index value,…
Method to detect silent data corruption (SDC) for SIMD compute units
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210402
An aspect of the disclosed technology is a replay unit that enables replaying computations on unused or empty ALU slots. The replay unit may be added on a per lane basis or within a lane in a SIMD unit or device.
Smart-device-based radar system performing location tagging
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210086
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a smart-device-based radar system capable of performing location tagging. The radar system has sufficient spatial resolution to recognize different external environments associated with different locations (e.g., recognize different rooms or different locations within a same room). Using the radar system, the smart device can achieve spatial awareness and automatically activate user-programmed applications or settings associated…
Adaptive and personalized navigation system
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12209877
Adaptive navigation techniques are disclosed that allow navigation systems to learn from a user's personal driving history. As a user drives, models are developed and maintained to learn or otherwise capture the driver's personal driving habits and preferences. Example models include road speed, hazard, favored route, and disfavored route models. Other attributes can be used as well, whether based on the user's personal driving data or driving data aggregated from a number of users. The…
Providing navigational instructions based on contextual data
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12209875
A computing system and method that can be used for a mapping system that can recommend paths for navigational routing to a primary user. In particular, a primary user may be interested in navigational routes that secondary users, who may be the same or different from the primary user, have taken in the past. Even more particularly, the mapping systems described herein can provide improved user navigational services by leveraging the insight that users who have previously been in a…
